People: Holford, Phillip

Sex

Male

Parish

Great Budworth

Marital Status

Unknown

Remarks

Phillip Holford was the son of Robert Holford and his wife, Margery.  He was probably the second of their sons, John being his older brother.

The family were in dispute about their landholdings and Margery’s will and during her lifetime she expressed concern that ‘hyr sonnes shuld the one kyll the other abowt yt’.

Following Margery’s death by September 1541 a cause relating to the validity of her will was brought in the Chester Consistory Court against Phillip, Urian and Katherine Holford. One of the deponents in this cause was Sir Thomas Egerton, probably chaplain at the chapel of Lower Peover, and godfather to one of Phillip’s children. He was said to be at loggerheads with Brian Holford, one of Phillip’s brothers.

Sources 

The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580, ed. J. Paul Rylands (The Harleian Society, 18, 1882), p. 125.

Depositions in the cause concerning the will of Margery Holford dec’d:
CALS EDC 2/2, pp. 394-398, 412-413.

Causes

EDC 5/1/11 – defendant