Middlemore Family Genealogy

Chetwynd - This family was of considerable antiquity in Staffordshire. Sir Philip Chetwind, knight, had a son, William Chetwind, of Ingestre in the reign of Richard II. His descendant, Thomas Chetwind, of Ingestre, who died 3-4 Philip and Mary, married Jane, daughter and heir of Sir John Dalton, knight, of Salter's Hall, Newport (? Salop), and was father of that John Chetwynd, esquire, who married Margery Middlemore. The Chetwynds are now represented by the Earls of Shrewsbury and Talbot, whose principal seat is at Ingestre Hall, which moreover gives to the earldom the minor title of Viscount Ingestre. The arms of are, Azure a chevron between three mullets or. The monument of John Chetwind, now in Grendon church, against the north wall of the chancel, but formerly at Ingestre, bears the following inscription "Here lieth the bodies of John Chetwind of Ingistrent, within the Countie of Stafford Esquire and Margerie his second wife, which John did take to his first wife Marie Meverell, of the bolde in the said countie, and had yssue by the said Marie one sonne named William, and after the decease of Marie the same John tooke to wife the said Margerie which was the eldest daughter of Robarte Middelmore of Edgbaston Co Warwicke Esq , and had yssue by the said Margerie 5 sonnes vid: Walter, Robert, Thomas, Edward and Philipe, who died Ao dni 1592 Aprilis 15 and Margery 20 December 1602."