Younger branches: Wilbraham Baron Skelmersdale 1828; and Wilbraham of Rode, in this county, both descended from Randle, younger brother of Roger Wilbraham, of Nantwich, who died in 1754. Wilbraham of Dorfold, sold in 1754, but existing at Falmouth in 1818, was sprung from the youngest son of Richard Wilbraham, of Nantwich, who died in 1612. See Ormerod, ii. 65; iii. 31, 184, 199. ARMS.--_Argent, three bends wavy azure_. The Dorfold branch bore for distinction _a canton gules_. Additional coat, granted by Flower, temp. Eliz.; _Azure, two bars argent, on a canton of the first a wolf's head erased of the second_. Present Representative, George Fortescue Wilbraham, Esq. LEGH OF EAST HALL, IN HIGH LEGH. [Illustration] Efward de Lega, who appears from his name to have been of Saxon origin, and who lived at or near the period of the Conquest, was the patriarch of this ancient family, of which the principal male line failed in the time of Edward IV. Thomas Legh, of Northwood, in the same parish of High-Legh, the ancestor of the present family, succeeded after a long litigation as the next heir male in the reign of Henry VIII. See Ormerod, i. 358. ARMS.--Allowed 1566. _Argent, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure_. Present Representative, George Cornwall Legh, Esq. M.P. for North Cheshire. LEIGH OF WEST HALL, IN HIGH LEGH. [Illustration] Descended from Richard de Lymme, younger son of Hugh de Lymme, which Richard in the latter part of the thirteenth century married Agnes, daughter and sole heir of Richard de Legh, great-grandson of Hamon de Legh, the first mentioned in the pedigree. Richard de Lymme had issue Thomas de Legh, of West Hall, living in 1305. Younger branches: Leigh (called Trafford), of Oughtrington, in this county, descended from John second son of Richard Leigh, of West Hall, who died in 1486; for whom see Ormerod, i. 439. Leigh of Leatherlake House in Surrey, descended from Thomas second son of the Rev. Peter Leigh of West Hall, who died in 1719; and Leigh of South Carolina, Baronet 1773, descended from Peter third son of the same Rev. Peter Leigh. See Ormerod, i. 350. ARMS.--_Allowed 1563. Or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure_. For four descents after the match with Agnes de Legh, her descendants used the coat of Lymme, _Gules, a pale fusillé argent_, conclusive evidence of the descent of this family from Richard de Lymme, and not from William de Venables, another husband of Agnes de Legh. Indeed, in the Visitation of 1566, this coat of Lymme was allowed to Leigh of West Hall; but in 1584 both the East and West Hall families claimed the lion rampant gules. In 1663 the arms were settled as at present. Present Representative, Egerton Leigh, Esq. ALDERSEY OF ALDERSEY, IN THE PARISH OF CODDINGTON.