According to Threlfall’s GMC26,851 “JAMES HEALD of Mobberley, Cheshire, was probably born about 1565. He married in February 1590/91, Joan Strettell of Mobberley. Joan was buried in March 1592/3 about three months after the birth of their daughter, no doubt from complications of childbirth.

“Five years after the loss of his first wife, James Heald remarried, in February 1597/8, to Elizabeth Hill of Bowdon, which is the next parish on the north.

“James Heald ‘of the Milne, householder’, was buried in February 1626/7. The widow Heald who was buried 4 December 1640 at Mobberley may have been James’s widow, Elizabeth, but probably not.

“Of his eight recorded children, only two outlived him, and one of those, Anne, died three months after her father. Only John, the youngest, survived to marry and have a family.”