People: Cuverden, Thomas

Sex

Male

Marital Status

Married

Spouse Name

Elizabeth Orrell

Occupation Status

Gentleman

Remarks

Career: Thomas Cuverden was the son of Edmond Kewrden and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Ainsworth of Penwortham. He married Elizabeth the daughter of James Orell of Turton.

Little is known of his life, but in 1879 his will was listed under the name of Thomas Cuerden [or Cuverden] of Cuerden as being enrolled in the ‘enrollment books in the bishop’s registry, Chester’. The will is dated 1558 and was proved in 1560, so presumably he died between those years.

His son, John Cuerden of Cuerden, left goods valued at the substantial sum of £1,025 9s 6d in 1601.

Sources:

J. P. Earwaker (ed.), An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester 1545-1620 (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 2, 1879), p. xiii

R. Sharpe France, ‘An Inventory of the Goods of John Cuerden of Cuerden, 1601’, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 91 (1939), pp. 193-204. Available online: https://www.hslc.org.uk/journal/vol-91-1939/

F. R. Raines (ed.), The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1567 by William Flower, Esq, (Chetham Society, old series, 81, 1870), p. 69

Causes

EDC 5/12/2 – Thomas Cuverden contra Richard Sherley