Sir John Davenport

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Mary-Ann Cook who writes:
Sir John Davenport, Knight, 1617, being High Sherriffe of the County, and performing his service and duty to his excellent Majestie here in his Highness progresses, at the taking leave in the confines of the County his Majesty not onely gave him thanks for his attendance, but of his Royal benighnity called him to come near him and bestowed upon him the degree of Knighhood, and graced him with a pleasant princely farewell: "You shall carry me this token to your wife;" graciously so meant by his Majesty: but the Gentlewoman having indeed before that attained to a better Ladiship, being gone to her Lord and Saviour in Heaven.
County Cheshire historian Webb wrote in 1656, Part II, p. 81 of The Vale Royall of England.

John married Elizabeth Wilbraham. (Elizabeth Wilbraham was born circa 1555 in Nantwich, Cheshire England and died on 10 Aug 1615 in Swettenham, Cheshire England.)