That's very interesting, I would think she was a younger Henry's widow, I can't see a widow who was an heiress marrying down!
There are Bannisters at every turn in Lancashire, mine are decended from the Bannisters of Parkhill and I have various notes from my great aunt's research linking with Bannisters of Altham, Colne Hall, Little Marsden (and the Townleys) but it's all unverified.
I have a publication from Parkhill which is now the Pendle Heritage Centre which has a family tree, but not my little bit of it. Sir Roger Bannister is descended from my lot too, but I've never discovered how.
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