Roger Mainwaring (judge)

[2] Roger came to Ireland in 1569 in the entourage of Sir Edward Fitton, the elder, his future father-in-law, who had been appointed Lord President of Connaught.

[1] In 1576 he was one of the numerous highly-placed Irish officials appointed by the Queen to a commission to "make an inquisition in several counties for concealed lands of monasteries and attainted persons".

[2] He was married twice: firstly in 1571 to one of the daughters of Sir Edward Fitton and Ann Warburton, who seems to have died young without issue; and secondly before 1577 to Margaret Maisterson, daughter of Sir Thomas Maisterson of Nantwich and Ferns, head of a prosperous family from Nantwich, and a relative of Roger through his mother Margery Mainwaring.

His eldest son Richard (born at his grandfather's home, Ferns Castle, County Wexford, in 1577), succeeded to most of his father's estates, although the family's "chief mansion house" at Nantwich, as well as the Irish lands, were left to Roger's widow Margaret for her lifetime.

[1] His daughter, the younger Margaret, who seems to have been his eventual heiress, married Sir Edward Dod of Edge Hall, Prebendary of Chester, the head of an ancient Cheshire family, and had issue.