1. John de Myddelmore, named in the Warwickshire Visitation of 1619 as the ancestor of all the Middlemores, Who may have been the son, but at anyrate was undoubtedly the kinsman and successor of William de Middelmore, who held lands
in Solihull in 1331. He himself is probably that John Middlemore who is named in the subsidy roll for Studley and Solihull in 1327, and if so it may be presumed that he was born in the latter years of the thirteenth century. As we have already seen, a John de Middlemore is mentioned in various legal
transactions from 1332 to 1343. He is attorney for Ralph de Perham in a dispute relating to lands in Longdon, and
Figure 6 Key pedigree C. The Middlemores of Edgbaston
again in 1333 he was attorney for John de Blaunkfront, while in 1333 he was directed to arrest and lodge certain criminals in Worcester gaol. In 1336 he was appointed a commissioner in an inquest relating to lands of the Abbot of Bordesley. As John de Midelmore he occurs as witness to a deed about 1339. From these circumstances it seems probable that John Middlemore was connected with the legal profession. It seems probable that his wife was that Letice who granted to John Middlemore, their son and heir, premises in Solihull and Tanworth, in 1343 It may be inferred that at this date John de Middlemore the elder was dead, and that he left two, perhaps four, sons
- John Middlemore, son and heir, living in 1343, of whom we hear nothing more.
- Henry Middlemore, of whom next (2).
- Walter, living in 1333
- Richard Middelmore, priest, instituted chaplain on 6 June, 1374, of the chantry of Overe, near Gloucester, to which he was presented by Katherine de Berkele, lady of Wotton.