• General Notes

  By the lease in 1332 from Richard Erneys, John le Norreys further improved his position. (fn. 28) He died shortly afterwards, his son Alan succeeding.
  
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  Note Norreys: mean could derive from north, lived north or northerner (noreis/norreis)
  Event: Note 1 Norreys: mean could derive from nurse (norrice)
  Event: Note 2 12th Century a Robert le Noris on the 1297 Yorkshire Subsidy Roll
  Note: The date of the marriage is fixed approximately by suits (1276-8) brought by Alan le Norreys and his wife Margery and by Nicholaa de Haselwell against Thurston de Holland, of Hale, concerning boundaries; and by the indenture as to a mill in Speke made in 1282 between Robert Erneys and Joan his wife on one side, and Alan le Norreys, Margery his wife, John le Norreys and Nicholaa his wife, on the other. Robert Erneys was Sheriff of Chester in 1280. He became Lord of Speke by right of his wife Joan, the daughter of Sir William Molyneux of Sefton, descendant and heir of Adam des Molines and Annota Gernet, Mesne Lord of Speke under Lord Gernet, whose family held Speke at the time of William the Conqueror. In 1310 Richard the son of Roger le Molyneux granted to John le Norreys son of Alan le Norreys a portion of his land in Speke. In 1314 Richard Erneys, the son of Robert Erneys and Joan de Molyneux, along with his mother Joan, made an exchange of lands in Speke with John le Norreys and his wife Nicholaa. Nicholaa was granted from her father one half plough-land in Speke, which amounted to one-fourth of the whole vill of Speke, and which moved into the Norreys family upon her marriage to John le Norreys. Upon the death of Patrick le Norreys (111.136.1), son of Alan le Norreys, the nephew of this John le Norreys of Speke, another Alan le Norreys (111.138.1, of Formby) claimed a messuage and 3 oxgangs of land at Formby, Lancashire, as his right as kinsman and heir. John le Norreys appeared in court and was affirmed by the jury. Patrick le Norreys had in fact granted to his uncle John, son of Alan le Norreys, all his "lands and tenements, homages, rents and services of free men and natives and their sequel and chattels, mills and sites of mills." John le Norreys thus became the sole owner of the Haselwell share of the manor of Speke. About the same time a division of lands in Formby was made between Thomas de Beetham and John le Norreys. In 1318 Alan (111.138.1) the son of Henry le Norreys demanded against John le Norreys of Speke a messuage, 6 oxgangs of land, etc. in Larbreck, which William Blundell had given to Alan son of Alan le Norreys and his issue, with reversion to Henry le Norreys, Alan's father. Patrick, son of Alan son of Alan le Norreys, had died without issue. John le Norreys alleged that Patrick had granted him 2 oxgangs of land, and the jury gave a verdict for the Alan son of Henry le Norreys for the other 4. The 6 oxgangs show that the tenement was a moiety of Larbreck. In about 1325-30 Alan the son of Henry le Norreys claimed from John le Norreys the son of Alan le Norreys and Richard de Molyneux of Sefton three messuages, 20 acres of land, and other tenements, including a third of the mill at Hale near Speke. John le Norreys failed to appear and was non-suited. John le Norreys was summoned to the great council at Westminster in 1324. Alan the son of Henry le Norreys in 1329 claimed land in Larbreck against Richard son of William de Molyneux and John son of Alan le Norreys. In 1331 Alan did not appear to prosecute his claim to 12 messuages held by John the son of Alan le Norreys. There may have been some surrender by John, since the Norreys of Speke had no further connections to lands in Larbreck. In 1332 the same Richard Erneys as noted earlier in this paragraph granted his manor of Speke to John le Norreys for life, by the service of a rose yearly for the first four years, and afterwards for 40 marks. John le Norreys of Speke was one of the contributors to the subsidy being raised by the King in 1332 to fight the Scottish. John le Norreys was murdered shortly after 1332. In 1341 William Nicholasson was outlawed for the murder of John le Norreys of West Derby. William was later restored, however. At the end of 1339 Richard Erneys granted to Alan le Norreys, son and successor of John, and to Alan's sons Alan and Hugh for life all his lands in Speke, and the rents of the free tenants and tenants at will, by the yearly service of a rose for four years and 40 pounds in silver afterwards. This charter renewed the covenant that Richard Erneys had made with John le Norreys in 1332. The sons of John le Norreys were Alan and William.
  
  

Details of John's family with Nichola de Hasewell