Is Your Name Massey?

If your name is Massey, or Massie, you could be descended from a junior branch of Massey of Puddington. Hugh de Mascy who was living in 1390, married Agnes, the heiress of Nicholas Bold, of Coddington, near Broxton. Their son, William, of Coddington, born 1372, purchased the Manor of Coddington from Sir Philip Boteler.

William’s grandson, also William, married Alice Crewe who, when she became widowed, claimed the dower of the estates.

William and Alice had two sons, Robert of Coddington and John of Broxton.
Robert’s eldest son was Roger who married Elizabeth Brereton and who, in 1542, made a deed of settlement of considerable lands and property on himself for life and the remainder on his eldest son, John.

Roger died in 1549 and John succeeded. He was married to Mary, heiress of Edwards Hughes, and they had two sons, John of Coddington and William of London.

John married Anne Grosvenor, of Eaton, and had a family of eleven sons and seven daughters.
John’s second son, Roger, succeeded to the estate at Coddington. Other sons settled in London.
Roger’s grandson, Thomas of Coddington, succeeded in 1770 at the age of thirty-two. His son, Richard, Lord of the Manor of Coddington, became rector of Aldford.


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