Margery Venebles and Randle Mainwaring my 16th great grandparents on RootsMagic tree

Find A Grave is a questionable source for research, I still agree, but sometimes the site provides some really good information, Margery and Randle’s memorials are an example. Their Find a Grave memorials contain detailed family relationships and images of the couple’s elaborate burial place including sculptures of them, effigies. They are buried at Saint Lawrence Church in Over Peover, Cheshire, England. The whole Mainwaring family has a history at this Saint Lawrence church. This site: http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/peover.html, by Craig Thornber shares several photographs and a lot of information on the church, area and Mainwaring family history.

Margery was born in 1369, Randle in 1363. They married in about 1391, a second marriage for both. They were born and lived in Cheshire, England and had 10 children. There is not much known about Margery. Randle was the 3rd son, and the oldest living son when his dad William died so Randle inherited all the Mainwaring titles and lands. A book, Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph, a family history published in 1934 states that Randle was “lord of Over-Peover and Baddiley”, a king’s servant and a royal archer, a sagittarius de corona.

Sources

• Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford, the book with claims of Randle’s work, at HathiTrust.
• Randle’s find a grave memorial, don’t click any ads or Explore More on Find a Grave.
• Eight sites by Craig Thornber, one site is A SCRAPBOOK OF CHESHIRE, one chapter is OVER PEOVER with Mainwaring details.