Albert, who, to distinguish him from his own son, was called "Senex" or "old Albert." He lived temp. Stephen and Henry II. (?1135-?1166), and married Agnes or Matilda, daughter of William Fitz-Nigel, baron of Halton and Widnes, and constable of Chester, with whom he acquired lands in the upper bailiwick of the barony of Mamecestre, including Raynford (a chapelry of the parish of Prescot), Childwall, Cuerdley (a township in Prescot parish), and the townships of Allerton, Garston and Hale, all in the parish of Childwall, near Liverpool. Amongst his grants of land according to the Testa de Nevill were -- to Orme Fitz-Ailward or Eward (with his youngest child Emma in marriage), one knight's fee in Dalton, Parbold and Wrightington; also for ten shillings yearly one carve of land in Eston (i.e. Orme-Eston, or Urmston). To Henry Fitz-Seward, one carve in Flixton for ten shillings yearly. To Ulric of Mamecestre, four oxgangs of his demesne for five shillings yearly (long held by the grantee's descendants); to Robert Bracebrigge two oxgangs of his demesne in Mamecestre, for four shillings yearly. To the church of Mamecestre, in alms, four oxgangs of his demesne, supposed to be the site of the Old Parsonage, in Deansgate. To the abbey of Swineshead, in alms, one croft, named Wythacres. He is supposed to have died in or before 1166, and was succeeded by his son...
