'Lacy3'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Lacy of Beverley, Lacy of Folketon, Lacy of Halifax, Lacy of Melton Mowbray

                               
Foster identifies the arms of this family as "Sa., a cheron between 3 stags' heads cabossed argent".
John Lacy of Folketon
1. Richard Lacy of Folketon (a 1296)
  m. Juliana (sister of Ranulph de Folketon)
  A. Richard Lacy
  i. Edmund Lacy (a 1336)
  a. John Lacy of Folketon (a 1385)
  (1) Peter Lacy (a 1406)
  (A) Walter Lacy
  (i) Thomas Lacy
  (a) William Lacy
  ((1)) Thomas Lacy of Folketon (a 1507)
  m. _ Gower (dau of Sir Thomas Gower of Stitnam)
((A)) Robert Lacy of Folketon
  m. Elizabeth Layton (dau of _ Layton of Sproxton)
((i)) Bryan Lacy of Folketon
  m. Elizabeth Conyers (dau of Gregory Conyers of Whitby)
  ((a)) Robert Lacy of Folketon in Dickering (a 1584)
  m. (before 09.08.1582) Katherine Thirkeld (dau/coheir of Marmaduke Thirkeld of Esthorpe)
  (((1))) John Lacy of Folketon (dsp 1604?)
  (((2))) Barbara Lacy (b c1584)
  (((3))) Mary Lacy (d 04.05.1649)
  m. William St. Quintin of Harpham
  (((4))) Everell Lacy
  m. Herbert St. Quintin (brother of William)
  ((b)) Ann Lacy
  m. John Aislaby
  ((c)) Margaret Lacy
  m. John Dobson of Newcastle
  ((d)) Barbara Lacy
  m. Allen Russell of London
  ((e)) Ellinor Lacy
  m. John Wolfe of Scarborough
  ((f)) Mary Lacy
  m. Anthony Harrison of Flixton
  ((g)) Jane Lacy
  m. John Whalley of Scarborough
  ((ii)) Robert Lacy of Scarborough
  ((a))+ issue - John, Petronell
  ((iii)) Ralph Lacy of Preston, Lancashire (priest)
  ((B)) Lancelot Lacy of Sherborne in Pickering
  The following comes from Visitation (Foster, Yorkshire, 1612, 'Lacy of Beverley').
  m. _ Moreton
  ((i)) Thomas Lacy of Beverley
  m. Ann Whitehouse (dau of William Whitehouse of Barnby)
  ((a)) Thomas Lacy of Beverley (a 1612)
  m. Elizabeth Francis (dau of Richard Francis of Beckingham)
  (((1)))+ issue (a 1612) - William, Thomas
  ((b)) William Lacy
  m. Elizabeth (Newby or of Newby)
  (((1))) Benedict Lacy
  (2)+ other issue - Alice, Elizabeth

 

 

Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Argent, six pellets, 3.2.1.".
Richard Lacy of Halifax, Yorkshire
m. Margaret Ruskin (dau/coheir of Jasper Ruskin of Melton Mowbray)
1. Seth Lacy
  m. Isabell Farrer (dau of Henry Farrer of Halifax)
  A. William Lacy of Melton Mowbray (a 1563)
  m. Anne Digbie (dau of John Digbie of Welby)
  i. John Lacy (dsp)
  ii. Henry Lacy (dsp)
  m. Anna Travers (m2. _ Maxe of Sussex)
  iii. Margaret Lacy
  m1. (07.08.1602) Philip Serjant of London
  m2. _ Lacy of Market Deeping, Lincolnshire
  B. Elizabeth Lacy
  m1. Thomas Frearche
  m2. John Elwood
2. Leonard Lacy
  m. Jane Musten
  A.+ issue - Seth, Thomas (d infant?), Thomas, Elizabeth
3. John Lacy
  m. Elizabeth Levesey
  A. Matthew Lacy of Melton
  m. Dorothy Waltham
  i.+ issue - Philip, Anne
  B. William Lacy
  m. _ Hebbe of Loughborough
  i. John Lacy
  C.+ other issue - Faith, Isabel, Modwen
Lower down the page on which the above is shown, under the heading 'Pedigree of another Branch of Lacy, of Melton Mowbray", and shown by Nichols as having the same arms as above but with a crescent for difference, is the following family. To avoid losing sight of that information, we speculate that it was connected to the above as follows.
4. ?? Lacy
  A. Hugo Lacy ("who came out of Yorkshire")
  m. Elizabeth Noell of Ilcot
  i. Andrew Lacy of Melton Mowbray
  m. Elizabeth Willcocks (dau of Richard Willcocks of Barwell)
  a. Elizabehth Lacy
  m. John Stanbridge of Southwark (vintner)
  b.+ other issue (a 1619) - William (\b c1609), Henry (b c1612), Jane, Anne, Mary

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 08.05.19) : Visitation (Foster, Yorkshire, 1584 with additions, 'Lacy of Folketon')
(2) For lower section (uploaded 26.02.23) : 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 2, part 1, 1795, 'Pedigree of Ruskin and Lacy, of Melton Mowbray', p264)
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