Middlemore Family Genealogy

Egerton.-The Egertons are one of the oldest and best-known Cheshire families, and are said to descend from a common ancestor with the houses of Cholmondeley and Delamere. Their remote ancestor Philip, surnamed Goch, a descendant of the Barons de Malpas, purchased the manor of Egerton from Wion de Egerton, and became known by the name of his lordship. He was Sheriff of Cheshire in 23-24 Edward I. The Egertons of Wrynehill, from whom Anne Middlemore came, were a branch of this ancient family, and descended from Sir John Hawkeston of Wrinehill, one of the four squires who served so notably under Sir James de Audley at Poictiers, and were rewarded by him with the lands granted to him by the Prince of Wales. These Egertons, perhaps, used the arms of Hawkeston, Ermine, a fess gules fretty or ; for this coat, impaled by Middlemore, was formerly in Edgbaston church.