The Breretons of Cheshire, England

FOURTH LORD BRERETON (? - 1718)
The Breretons of Cheshire
Brereton-Tipping connection
Copyright © B. F. Brereton-Goodwin 2001 (brereton.faye@gmail.com) January 2013 (website edition)
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As a young man John Brereton joined the army and served abroad. He became the Fourth Lord Brereton upon
the death of his father, in 1679.
John married Mary Tipping, the daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping of Oxford County late if life and died without
issue, in 1718.
FIFTH LORD BRERETON (? - 1722)
When John Brereton the 4 th Lord of Brereton died without issue, the title would have gone to his brother William
Brereton. However, as William had already died the next in line was a younger sibling Francis Brereton. He was
32 years of age when he became the fifth Lord Brereton. Francis died a bachelor in 1722 and was buried at
Brereton April 11, 1722; consequently, the title of Lord Brereton of Leighlin.
Jane Brereton-Holte (? - 1648)
According to Ormerod the property then passed to the Holtes of Aston in Warwickshire, in right of Jane Brereton, wife of
Sir Robert Holte, daughter of Sir William Brereton, and great-aunt, and finally heir of Lord Francis. Jane had died in 1648.
Consequently her Brereton property transferred to her son.
Under the complicated will of Sir Lister Holte, who died October 12th 1769, the manors of Brereton and Aston
with other estates were settled on his brother Sir Charles Holte for the remainder of his life, remainder to issue
male, remainder Heneage Legge, Esq. with similar remainder, remainder to Lewis Bagot, clerk (successively
Bishop of Norwich and St. Asaph) who died without issue, remainder to Wriothesley Digby Esq., remainder to
Sir Lister Holte.
Sir Charles Holte left only one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, representative of the families of Holte and Brereton,
and of the eldest line of the Egerton family. She and her husband Abraham Bracebridge held leases of Brereton
Hall and associated properties and of other parcels of the estate.
On the death of Sir Charles Holte, his daughter was ultimately heir of Heneage Legge who succeeded on the
death of Sir Charles Holte to the estates comprehended in the will of Sir Lister.
THE HOLTE FAMILY OF ASHTON HALL
Bracebridge connection
Sir Thomas Holte took a cleever, and hytt his cook with the same cleever upon the headde, and clave his headde, that one
syde thereof fell upon of his shoulders, and the other syde on the other shoulder and this I will verifie to be trewe - so said
the scandalmonger of a bygone age. The particulars of proceeding against this slander are recorded in the Plea
Rolls (5 James I, Easter Term, roll 462). Sir Thomas Holte (1571-1654) was married to a woman named Grace
who bore him eighteen children, nine survived.
The Sir Thomas Holte (1571-1654) of the cleaver case was the founder of an Elizabethan mansion, Aston Hall,
Birmingham, County of Warwickshire. This residence, originally built in the country, is now within the confines
55 St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, England has a long history- people having been coming to worship at St Martin's for
over 800 years.