Person:Isabella de Pilkington (1)

Alleged Marriage with the elder Thomas de Lathom

George Ormerod in Miscellanea Palatina argued that Isabel married the father of the Thomas de Lathom given here, and that another Isabel de Pilkington, the daughter of another Roger de Pilkington, married his son Thomas (given here). He based this on an Inquistion Post Mortem whose date is stated by the Victoria County History cited below to be in error: "There is certainly a mistake in the date of the first cited inquest; as it stands this inquiry, alleged to be taken on 3 July, 1383, is immediately followed by another into the lands of John Kekewich, who died six months later. The first date should be 3 July, 1384, and the inquest certainly relates to the younger Thomas. This clears away the alleged double Lathom-Pilkington marriage. As the regnal year for Richard II began on 22 June the error of carrying the seventh year a week or so later is easily explained."

1. ↑ Pilkington, John. History of the Pilkington family of Lancashire and its branches, from 1066 to 1600. (Liverpool: Priv. print. for the author by C. Tinling & Co., 1912)
   page 44.
2. ↑ Farrer, William, and John Brownbill. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster. (London: A. Constable, 1906-1914)
   Volume 3 page 251.

   In Footnote 9, a reasonable explanation is offered for how this alleged marriage is based on a dating error.

3.   Ormerod, George. Miscellanea Palatina: consisting of genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families and of a memoir on the Cheshire Domesday roll. (London: T. Richards], 1851)
   pages 64 and 65.
4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on approx/estimated birth years of her husbands, children, and siblings.