Family and Education
2nd s. of Sir William Atherton† (d.1389) of Atherton by his 1st w. Joan, sis. and coh. of Ralph Mobberley of Mobberley, Cheshire. m. by 1377, Joan, da. and h. of Adam Bickerstaffe (fl.1377) of Bickerstaffe in Ormskirk, Lancs., at least 3s. Kntd. c. Aug. 1400.DL42/15, ff. 90-90v, 100, 157v; VCH Lancs. iii. 277, 436; Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxxvii. 57-60.
Offices Held
Bailiff of the duchy of Lancaster hundred of West Derby, Lancs. 18 Sept. 1399–d.
Collector of a tax, Lancs. Nov. 1404, Dec. 1407.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Atherton, Lancs.
Aderton, Athirton, Hatherton
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
ATHERTON, Sir Nicholas (-d.1420)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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