WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



de Aintree's daughters, Margery de Wedacre and 

 Alice. 1 



Some minor grants occur. 8 



In 1387 it was found that 

 Sir Thomas Nevill, son of Sir 

 Robert Nevill of Hornby, held 

 the manor of Aintree " of the 

 lord of Downholland by knight's 

 service and a rent of 8/. id. ; 

 that Sir Thomas was dead, 

 and his heir was his daughter 

 Margaret, then four years of 

 age.' As she died without issue 

 the descendants of Sir Thomas's 

 sisters became his heirs. Thus 

 Aintree came to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John 





SEFTON 



Harrington, who married John Stanley, whose heirs 

 Anne, wife of John Swift ; Joan, wife of 

 Thomas Halsall and afterwards of John Osbaldeston ; 

 and Thomas Grimshaw of Clayton-le-Moors and 

 their descendants quickly divided and sold the inheri- 

 tance. 6 A rent of 12 from Aintree descended from 

 another of Sir Thomas's sisters to Sir Christopher 

 Danby. 6 The Molyneux family of Sefton purchased 

 all or the greater part ; and the manor of Aintree 

 has from the sixteenth century descended with 

 Sefton. 7 



John Bower, a freeholder, contributed to the sub- 

 sidy of l6z8. 8 Richard Lathom, gentleman, of 

 Aintree, was indicted as a recusant in 1678.' Among 

 the ' Papists ' who registered estates in 1717 were 

 Thomas Fleetwood and John Boyer of Aintree. 10 



