Person:Richard Lechmere (1)

living during the reign of HENRY VI "The earliest recorded ancestor of the Lechmere's is 'Reginald de Lechmere de Hanlee,' father of Adam de Lechmere de Hanlee; they are mentioned in a deed without date of which there is a note in the college of arms: this must have been about the period of Edward I, after which time motives were generally dated. A manuscript of Dr. Thomas, quoted by Nash in his "History of Worchestershire" (vol. I, p. 560), observes of Lechmeres: 'This family came out of the Low Countries, served under William the conqueror, and obtained lands in Hanley, call from them Lechmere's place and Lechmere's field; Lech is a branch of the Rhine, which parts from it at Wyke, in the problems of Utrecht, and running westward folds into the Maes before you come to Rotterdam.' "Hanley and the House of Lechmere by Evelyn Philip Shirley. I don't know if this pertains to our part of the family.