Biography

Elizabeth Harrington was born in 1403.  She was also known as Percival.[1]

She was the daughter and heiress of Sir James Harrington (1375-1417), Esquire, of Westby Lane; and Ellen Urswick (born about 1364-), widow of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton.

Elizabeth married around 1420 to William Norreys of Speke, Lancashire (-died after 1453). He was the son of Sir Henry Norreys of Speke and Alice Ernys.

William Norreys and Perceval had a large family and was succeeded by his son Thomas. They had four sons:

1. Thomas, his heir,
2. John,
3. William, and
4. Richard; and daughters
5. Catherine, m. to Robert Grosvenor, esq. of Eaton
6. Agnes, m. to John Bunbury, esq. of Cheshire
7. Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Gerrarde of the Ynnce, co. Lancaster, gent.
8. Margaret, m. to Robert Lathom, esq. of Parbold
9. Beatrice, m. to John Irelande of Lydiate
10. Jane, m. William Worthington of Worthington
11. ... a dau. marryed to John Yeuvance [Evans] of Hawarden, co. Flynt.

Background Information. 923

Wiiliam le Norreys was the son of Sir Henry Norreys, knight of Speke. He was married in abt 1416, Elizabeth Harrington, daughter and heiress of Sir James Harrington, Esquire of Westby Lane. On 24 Jun 1416 John Totby, rector of Sefton, and William Merser, chaplain, granted to William, son of Henry le Norreys, knight, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of James Harrington, knight, and their heirs the messuages, lands, tenants, rents and services which the grantors had by gift of Sir Henry Norreys (William's father) in Lydiate, Formby, Ines, Botull, Wlaton, Hale, Garston, and Speke.

Notes

1.  Burke's Commoners identifies William's wife as Perceval, daughter of John Harrington, but Ormerod and The Visitation of Cheshire, 1567, identifies her as Elizabeth.

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Norris of Speake, (Vis. of Lancs., 1567)

References

•  http://web.archive.org/web/20010425214410/http://www.geocities.com/...
•  http://cybergata.com/roots/5220.htm
• ~Steven Norris, The "le Norreys" Family in England from 1135 to 1650
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1105.htm...