Roger de Mesnilwarin

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Roger de Mesnilwarin, son of William, gave one third of nether Tabley to Chester abbey about the time of henry II. He was the father of Ralph and Robert Mainwaring. Son Robert, married a woman named Ellen and possessed lands in Winnington and Barnton. Sir Ralph, son of Roger de Mesnilwarin, married Amicia, daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, the Earl of Chester.

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, pp. 226 & 229

• Background Information. ⁷²⁰
Roger, son of William, son of Roger de Mensilgarin or Mesilwarin, had two sons. His second son, Robert, was given lands in Wynnington and Barnton. Robert added to his estates by purchasing the Manor of Rostherne, a moiety of the ville of Tatton, which in the next generation passed by a daughter in marriage to William de Mascy, a nephew of Hamon, Baron of Dunham-Massey. William was the first of the line of Mascy, Lords of Rostherne, which ended about the time Edward IV was king of England. At this time, Joan, the only daughter and heir of Sir Geoffrey de Massey conveyed the estates in marriage to the son and heir of Sir William Stanley of Holt castle.

~County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, p. 363