Above: The Leghs of West Hall, High Legh Click on the map to open a scalable pdf map in a new window Source: Sir Peter Leycester's 'Pedigrees of Cheshire', Cheshire Archives

The 1912 research of Mary Agnes Crompton suggested that Simon dela Legh, by taking the name dela Legh de Crompton, had lands in Crompton and was the progenitor of the Driffield line. Doubt has been caste up on this assumption; there being several individual families taking the name de Crompton. So far, Leycester is the only documentary evidence of a Simon de Legh. Even then, the only additional data to Simon's line is his son Robert: which doesn't match with Ormerod's 'Parentelia' or evidence from The Victoria History of the County of Lancashire.

There is, above Simon's name, the folio index Lib:C.fo.264.233. This folio reference does not, at this time, appear in Cheshire Archives paper index of Leycester's work. If this Simon was the progenitor of the family then this contradicts JR Crompton's tree which descends from Hamon. However in the spine of Leycester's tome is Hamon, brother of the Gilbert shown above and therefore uncle to Simon. Right: The Pedigree of Hamon de Legh of West Hall Source: Sir Peter Leycester's 'Pedigrees of Cheshire', Cheshire Archives

Ormerod describes his source as being a corrected version of Leycester. It is therefore possible that the Hamon shown above and calculated to Leycester-generation 3 should be attributed to the Hamon in Ormerod-generation 4. The William shown above would therefore be Hamon's older brother Sir William.

Source:

Ormerod, History of the County Palatine Vol. II, 1882 (Accessed: 13 March 2020)

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