'Wettenhall1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Wettenhall (Whettenhall, Wetenall or Wetnal) of Copnal (Coppenhall), Wetenal of Hankelow, Wettenhall of Wettenhall

                               
Ormerod ('Wettenhall of Wettenhall') identifies the arms of this family as "Vert, a crosse engrailed Ermine" and adds that its "Ancient arms" were "Vert, a bend Ermine".
Gilbert de Wetenhale
1. ?? de Wetenhale
  A. John de Wetenhale of Wetenhale (a 1249, 1268)
  i. Sir John de Wetenhale (a 1312, 1317)
  m. Agnes Arderne (dau of Sir John Arderne)
a. Sir John Wettenhall of Wettenhall
  m. Maude Fulleshurst (dau of Robert Fulleshurst)
  (1) Mabella Wettenhall (dsp)
  m. Richard Grosvenor of Budworth
  (2) Catherine Wettenhall (dsp)
  m. Sir Adam Hartley
  (3) Ellena Wettenhall
  m. Henry Arderne of Dorfold
  (4) Margery Wettenhallyy
  m. Geoffrey de Bromhale
  (5) Margaret Wettenhall
  m. Sir Adam de Bostock
  (6) Elizabeth Wettenhall
  m. Sir Richard de Manley
  (7)+ other issue (d young) - Richard, John
  b. Robert Wetenal or Wettenhall (a 1333, 1344) - continued just below
  m. Amicia de Alpraham (dau/coheir of Mathew de Alpraham)

 

 

Robert Wetenal or Wettenhall (a 1333, 1344) - continued just above
m. Amicia de Alpraham (dau/coheir of Mathew de Alpraham)
1. John de Wetenhal (a 1344, 1369)
  m. Alice Wrenbury (a 1396, dau/coheir of John de Wrenbury)
  A. John Wetenhal (a 1421, escheator of Cheshire)
  m. Joan le Mercer (a 1405, 1454, dau/coheir of Robert le Mercer)
  i. Adam Wetenal (a 1453)
  m. Anne (a 1453)
  a. John Wetenal (d 1498-9)
m. Maude Fowleshurst (a 1494, dau of Robert Fowleshurst)
  (1) Roger Wetenal (Whettenhall or Wetnal) of Copnal (Copenhall or Coppenhall) (d 1572-3) the first mentioned by Visitation (Cheshire, 1580 & 1613)
  m. Isabell Maisterson (a 1600, sister of Thomas Maisterson or Masterson of Nantwich)
  (A) Thomas Wetenal (Whettenhall or) Wetnal of Copnal (b c1553, a 1572)
m. Isabella (Elizabeth?) Mainwaring (dau of Charles Mainwaring of Croxton by Isabell (sb Helen?), dau of Hugh Brereton of the Peele)
  (i) Roger Wetenal (Whettenhall or Wetnal) (bpt 01.12.1512)
  m. Ellen Alexander (dau/coheir of John Alexander of Wistaston)
  (a) John Wetenal (Whettenhall or Wetnal) (bpt 06.01.1578, dvp) the first mentioned by Visitation (Cheshire, 1663)
m. Elizabeth Oldfield (dau of Philip Oldfield of Bradwall)
  ((1)) John Wetenal of Hankelow, Cheshire (bpt 04.06.1606-7, a 1663)
  m1. (c04.1621) Elizabeth Salmon (dau/heir of Ralph Salmon, son of ?? of Coole)
  ((A)) Nathaniel Wetenal of Hankelow (b c1640, a 09.1663)
  Ormerod reports that Nathaniel "gave his estates to Gabriel Wettenhall".
  ((B)) Dorothy Wetenal
m. William Cotton of Bellaport
  m2. Elizabeth Unton (dau of Thomas Unton of Drayton)
  ((2)) Mary Wetenal
  m. George Salmon of Wildeheath
  ((3))+ other issue (d young) - Philip, Ellen
  (b) Anne Wetenal (bur 03.10.1624)
  m. Thomas Oldfield of Bradwall
  (c) Ellen Wetenal shown by Ormerod & Visitation (1613) of this generation, by Visitation (1580) a generation earlier
  m. William Wood of Nantwich
  (ii) Charles Wetenal
  m. Elizabeth Bull of Canterbury
  (iii) Thomas Wetenal
  m. Maria Church (dau of Edward Church of Nantwich)
  (iv) Isabell Wetenal mentioned by Visitation (1580) but not by Ormerod
  m. _ Salade of Brerihurst by Mow
  (v) Elizabeth Wetenal mentioned by Visitation (1613) but not by Ormerod
  m. _ Ball
  (vi)+ other issue - John, Anne (d unm) mentioned by Visitation (1580) but not by Ormerod
  (2) Anne Wetenal shown by Ormerod of this generation, by Visitation (1580) a generation later
  m. Reginald Wright of Wich Malbank

Main source(s): Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 3 (1819), 'Wettenhall of Hankelow', p251+) with input/support for the upper section from Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 2 (1819), 'Wettenhall of Wettenhall', p106) and some input/support for the lower section from Visitation (Cheshire, 1580, 'Wetnall of Coppenhall, vulgo Copnall'), Visitation (Cheshire, 1613, 'Wettenhall of Coppenhall'), Visitation (Cheshire, 1663, 'Wettenhall of Hankelow')
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