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Roger de Davenport died after 1291.

He received "a moiety of the whole vill of Withington, and the services, reliefs and ward of John de Withington and Richard, son of Lawrence, and Roger de Toft, and the moiety of Tunsted, and the moiety of Wultroke (Wheltrough) which Henry de Weverham held, and all Butleigh." He eshcanged lands in Marton for lands in Bramhall and Hillcroft and became influential in the norther part of the Hundred of Macclesfield, so that he was able to make extensive grants to other members of his own family. (Carl Boyer, 3rd, " Medieval
English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2001, p. 79.

Mary Salmon died before 1301.

Robert Salmon was born in Wythington, Macclesfield Hundred, Cheshire, England.

Vivian de Davenport was born before 1190. He died in 1260. He was buried in Tytherington Chantry, Prestbury Church.

He was Richard's successor as Lord of Davenport and Marton in Cheshire, England. Sometime between 1217 and 1226 the Earl of Chester and Lincoln granted him the hereditary offices of the Sergeant of the Peace for the Hundred and Grand Forester of the Forests of Macclesfield in exchange for Vivian's land, called Wilewic in Macclesfield Park. The exchange may have been involuntary, but the authority to keep the Earl's peace was valuable with a good base income. The Grand Seargeant had the power of life and death, without delay and without appeal. A typical payment for delivering the head of a felon to Chester castle was 1 shilling. The heads were taken independently of the judicial system. A robber roll in possession of the Davenports at Capesthorne records the execution of 120 thieves, robbers, murderers, and cutpurses. (Carl Boyer, 3rd, "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2001, p. 78.

Richard was appointed supreme foresters of the earl's forests of Leek and Macclesfield, Cheshire, sometime between 1153 and 1181.

As a dowry she brought with her half of Marton, in Prestbury parish, which her mother had had as her marriage portion. According to Domesday, one-half of Marton was held by Earl Hugh of Cyfeiliog (Hugh of Kevelioc, Earl of Chester), and the other half by Hugh Fitz Norman. Marton, in the Hundred of Macclesfield, was fou miles west of Congleton and four miles northeast of Davenport.

He was born in the period from 1086 to 1100 and was living in 1154. Davenport is about five miles west of Congleton, Cheshire, about 25 miles from the City of Chester. Located on the river Dane, Davenport was well established by 920 A.D. and perhaps founded by Scandinavian merchants. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, it was held by Gilbert de Venables, Baron of Kinderton. (Carl Boyer, 3rd, " Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2001, p. 77.)

He was styled knight in 20 Edward I (1291-1292). He was seneschal to Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln and constable of Cheshire. In 1292 he had lands in Adwick, near Doncaster in Yorkshire, and in Wath, near Adwick.

In addition to Nether Tabley, Margaret fbrought to her husband the manors of Wethale and Hield, both in Aston nigh Great Budworth in Cheshire.