MAINWARING

Ranulphus de Mesnilwarren was the name of the Norman adventurer thus recorded on the Battle Roll. He received the grant of fifteen lordships, including Over Peover, and founded the family of Mainwaring, so distinguished in the annals of Cheshire. The chief line, that of Peover, was rained to a baronetcy at the Restoration in 1660, but the title became extinct at the death, in 1797, of the late Sir Henry Mainwaring, who devised his estates to his uterine brother, Thomas Wetenhal, Esq. The present male representative of this ancient house is Captain ROWLAND Mainwaring, R.N., of Whitmore- hall, co. Stafford.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll).