Richard Wicksted Of Mickly, gent

[Andrew RM Hayes]

I am trying to find out the relationship between my ancestor William Wickstead of Wrenbury Frith and his "loving kinsman Richard Wicksted of Mickly, gent", who he requested to aid and assist his father-in-law John Daxson in acting as the executor of his 1665 Cheshire will.

Is Mickly in Cheshire?

[PrawnCocktail]

Mickley is on Tyneside, near Prudhoe - but there was Mickle Trafford, just NE of Chester. Could they have meant Mickle Trafford?

[stanmapstone]

He could have been of Mickley Hall about 4 miles south of Nantwich http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=15&lat=53.0229&lon=-2.5408&layers=171&right=BingHyb

Stan

[BumbleB]

AND if you look at the map Stan has provided, then Wrenbury Frith and Mickley Hall are very close to each other.   

[Andrew RM Hayes]

Thank you for your assistance.
Mickley Hall certainly seems worthy of further research.

[Andrew RM Hayes]

I have just noticed that Richard Wickstead of Mickley features on the pedigree of the Wicksteads of Nantwich published in the History of Nantwich. So this would seem to confirm that my Wicksteads were indeed related to those of Nantwich, although none of them feature directly on any of thhe three published pedigrees, based on the Herald's Visitation. It is also suggestive that it states that Richard died at Shrewsbury, where my William (III)'s youngest son was apprenticed to a Richard Wickstead apothecary.