Re: Leeswood
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In reply to:
Leeswood
8/02/01
Thank you so much for your poetic renderings on an otherwise dreary morning.The visual concepts of a pig at the dinner table are delightful.
My research tends not to focus so much on the individuals themselves, but in looking at the big picture, if we cannot connect from one end, then I take someone more recent to back in to the ancestry and find out if there really is a connection from one group to the other.
As the premise of Shropshire de Eytons connected to co. Denbigh or Flint de Eytons seemed to be of concern to some, I thought perhaps if I could show that the descendants by whatever name may have been known by a name more familiar to our earlier 11/12th century searches, possibly connecting by female line through marriage or inheritance.If this logic follows and if the ancestry for Leeswood, its family and locale could be shown to have originated with the original "de Legh" family, then if for no other reason than Matilda [Legh], wife and then widow of William de Eyton,daughter of Leonard Legh, having with her second husband Walter de Pedwardine one-third of two-thirds of two carucates in Eyton in Wyldmore as Matilda's dower, would be a connection between Shropshire and Leeswood descendants. I'm sure there are others as well as we continue to back into some of the interrelated families, but I would think this works.