General Notes

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Of Adlington prior to the Norman Conquest we know very little, except that it was held by the Saxon Earl Edwin, not as a place of residence, but as a hunting lodge in the Forest of Macclesfield. After the Conquest it passed to Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and the nephew of William the Conqueror. As "Edulvinstane" it is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.
Early in the thirteenth century it was granted to a family named "de Corona". Four generations of this family lived at Adlington, Thomas and Ellen de Corona being the children of the third generation. Thomas married, but his son predeceased him without issue. Ellen married John de Legh of Booths and in the year 1315 Thomas de Corona granted Adlington to his sister Ellen and her husband for their lives, with remainder to Robert de Legh their second son and his heirs for ever. The Legh family has lived at Adlington since this date.
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Adlington Hall is on the site of a hunting lodge which predates the Norman Conquest. Two huge oak tree, still rooted in the ground, remain from the lodge and can be seen in the Great Hall. At the Conquest the lodge came in to the possession of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. In the early 13th century the hall was granted to the de Coruna family who held it for four generations before running out of male heirs. Eleanor the daughter of Sir William de Baggilegh was the heiress (see the addtions and corrections in Ormerod's History of Cheshire). She married John de Legh of Booths and their son, Robert de Legh eventually succeeded to the hall and estate. The hall has remained in the same family ever since, albeit with succession through the female line at the 18th century, in 1888 when it went through two females, in 1940, and again in 1992.
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1. Sir William Venables, Knight, of Bradwall, 2nd son of Sir William Venables, Baron of Kinderton, alive in 1300.
+ Agnes, daughter and heiress of Richard de Legh of the West Hall, High Legh. (Her first husband had been Richard de Lymme and her son with him became Thomas de Legh of West Hall). William Venables and Agnes had a son John.
* 2. John de Legh of "Bothes" eldest son of William Venables, purchaser of Knutsford Booths some time before 28 Edw. I. (1300). He was known to be living in 1338.
+ Ellena, dau. of Sir William de Baggilegh and sister and coheir of John de Baggilegh and heir of her kinsman, Thomas de Corona. She was born in 1288.
* 3. Sir John de Legh of Knutsford Booths, Knight, eldest son and heir.
+ 1st wife of Sir John was Maude, daughter of Sir John Arderne of Aldford.
+ 2nd wife of Sir John was Isabel, (Note the main section on this family in Ormerod's Cheshire has Isabel as sister and co-heiress of John Baggilegh of Baggilegh but the corrections in the appendix state that her affiliation is unknown and the Baggilegh connection is placed in the previous generation where Ellena's description is changed to daughter of Sir William Baggilegh from daughter of Thomas de Corona.)
* 3. Robert de Legh, ancestor of the Leghs of Adlington, Annesley, Eggington, Lyme Birch, Ridge, Rushall, Longbarrow, Adlestrop, Stoneleigh, Newnham Regis and Stockwell. Living 10 Edw. II. (1317) and 1338.