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The following information is contained in the Cheshire Life Magazine, dated June 1961.
Arms of Worth:
Argent a cross raguly couped sable.
The shield is silver or white and the black notched cross has its limbs cut off short of the edges of the shield.
If so, you may be related to a family who took its name from the Township of Worth in the Parish of Prestbury. About 1225, Stockport was made a free borough and among the witnesses to the charter was Henry de Worth, and in 1250 Robert de Worth granted lands to St. Werburgh Abbey. Thomas de Worth was living in 1288 and in 1291 he witnessed a deed relating to Handforth Mill. His son Henry was living in 1311 and is mentioned in legal documents in 1318 and 1327. He was succeeded by his son Thomas who died about 1362.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century the Worths were in possession of Titherington, probably through marriage with an heiress of the Titherington family. Robert de Worth, possibly a brother of Henry, was living in 1335 and he had a son Robert of Titherington who was a juror at the enquiries which followed the death of Richard de Vernon in 1362 and Joan de Vernon in 1388. Robert was succeeded by his son Thomas who died in 1408 aged thirty-nine. He owned the manor of Tyderynton and a fulling mill at Macclesfield. Two further generations named Thomas followed, the second serving as Mayor of Macclesfield in 1497-8.
Four generations later, Philip Worth registered his pedigree at the Visitation of 1580, but his descendant, Peter of Titherington who was a delinquent in 1648, refused to enter his pedigree at the 1664 Visitation. He was “disclaimed” at the Market Cross in Chester on July 28th 1664 and died in Macclesfield jail in 1674. His brother Jasper was slain at Shrewsbury. Peter had a son Samuel who died at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1675 and left a son John the last of the Worths, who had occupied the Manor of Tytherington for over three hundred years.
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