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Families covered: Maleverer (Mauliverer) of Letwell

                               
Foster identifies the arms of the following family as "Sable, three greyhounds cursant argent".
John Maleverer of Letwell, Yorkshire (a temp Henry VII who r. 1485-1509)
m. Alice
1. Robert Maleverer of Letwell (d 1534-5)
  m. Elizabeth Portington (dau of John (sb Thomas?) Portington of Barnby Don)
  There is some confusion over the identify of Elizabeth and/or her husband. FMG (vol 2, MS220, 'Cressy', p524) identifies the wife of Hugh Cressy of Letwell & Barnby Don as Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Portington of Barnby Don, widow of Nicholas Malever of Letwell. Their eldest son was b c1541.
  A. Nicholas Maleverer of Letwell (b c1532)
m1. _ Parke (dsp)
  m2. (Elizabeth) Rolston (dau of James Rolston) ## see here ##
  i. John Maleverer of Letwell (a 1612)
  m. Margaret Lewis (dau of John Lewis of Marr)
  a. John Maleverer or Mauliverer of Fetwell (b c1610)
  John is the last mentioned by Foster. We presume that he was John who is the first mentioned by Thoresby.
  m. Dorcas Matthew (dau of John Mathew)
(1) Nicholas Mauliverer 'of Letwell'
  m. Fines Jackson (dau of Sir John Jackson)
  (A) John Mauliverer (dsp)
  (2) Margaret Mauliverer
  m. Richard Beaumont
  (3) Dorcas Mauliverer
  m. Robert Dyneley
  (4) Jane Mauliverer
  m1. John Creek (Crooke?) (minister)
  m2. (10/20.05.1690) Joseph Wadsworth of Flanshaw (dsp)
(5) Mary Mauliverer
  m. Samuel Boyse
  (6)+ other issue - John, Elizabeth
  b. Thomas Maleverer
  c. Sarah Mauleverer (d 04.1665) probably of this generation
  m. (30.09.1630) Gabriel Hemsworth of Briggate, Leeds (d before 1665, Major)
  ii. Nicholas Maleverer
  m. (09.11.1585) (Elizabeth) Wombwell (dau/(co)heir of (Thomas) Wombwell of Thundercliff Grange)
  iii. Lionel Maleverer
  iv. Frances Maleverer
  m. John Banister
  iv. Susan Mauleverer possibly of this generation, sb one later?
  m. Gervas Ricard (b c1590, a 1612)
  B. Margaret Malevere

Main source(s): Visitation (Foster, Yorkshire, 1612, 'Maleverer of Letwell'), 'Ducatus Leodiensis' (Ralph Thoresby, 1715, p254)
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