Molyneux family of Sefton, later Viscounts and Earls of Sefton, later Viscounts Molyneux and Earls of Sefton
Dates: sixteenth to twentieth centuries
Biography
The Molyneux family was a major landowning family in the Sefton and Aintree area. Its Aintree estate is documented on a 1769 plan, and local historical material states that the family retained Aintree land until the 1930s.
Notes / Sources
The evidence supports extensive estate ownership, not necessarily sole ownership of every parcel or continuous ownership of the incorporeal manorial title.
Research sources:
- Aintree Village Parish Council, Parish History; Sefton Council heritage assessment citing the 1769 Molyneux, Earls of Sefton, estate plan of Aintree. — https://aintreevillageparishcouncil.gov.uk/the-parish/parish-history/
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