Hesketh was born about 1272 in Kent, England, the son of William “Walter” Hawkins, de Northwood, de Hokeswod, de Flegh, Hogekins, Hesketh and Maud [Matilda] Fitton.
He died after 1349. The place is not known.
His wife was Alice de Byspham. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their three known children were Gilbert (c1290-?), John (c1292-<1345) and Hugh (c1297->1378).
William “Walter” Hawkins, de Northwood, de Hokeswod, de Flegh, Hogekins, Hesketh | John Hawkins [Hotchkiss], de Northwod, de Hoxwode, de Flegh, de Hawkinge | + | ||||||
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| Death | AFT 1349 |
Note 1
!Stylename: Hawkins, Captain Thomas, of Newcastle [~1276 - ?]
!Note: How the Early Hawkins Inheritance Likely Worked
John and his son William held land from Hawkeswood, Shropshire to Hawkinge, Kent and in between.
They gained more land through service at Dover Castle.
Dover Castle assigned them Hawkinge, apparently so they could prepare it for the church.
Nash was part of Hawkinge but stayed with the family.
Their land included properties in Warwickshire and Hereford and Wiltshire and Kent and apparently Huntingdonshire.
A. Children of John. In 1303 John and William went to Shropshire to clear up their interest in Hawkeswood and other land in and near Shropshire.
1. William was John's main heir aside from the following. In Lancashire, William's surname was known as Hesketh and he was identified as a knight. He married Mawde Fitton whose
Lancashire holdings became the basis of the Hesketh line.
2. John and William sold their portion of Hawkeswood and other Shropshire land to Hugh le Mon who was also John's son and the father of the Hotchkiss line.
3. Warren who was also John's son, and father of the Hill line, was likely setup with his feoffment of nearby Neenton. The later lifetime lease in 1328
only confirmed this arrangement.
4. Simon, John's younger son, received land in Huntingdonshire.
B. Children of William
1. Also on that 1303 trip, John, William's 2nd son, born about 1272, was apparently put in charge of land in Warwickshire and nearby counties. He also
inherited much of Rufford in Lancashire.
2. Thomas was sent into royal service while still young. Most Lancashire properties such as Great Harwood and Rufford eventually came under his line. <<<<
3. Sir Andrew, as the first born, would be the main heir in Kent.
4. Stephen stayed with Andrew and later received York land himself. He likely received other lands which he passed to his own sons, including land in
Becconsall and Hesketh in Lancashire.
C. Children of Andrew from his first wife. Andrew's first wife likely brought York land into the family.
1. Nicholas received the main York land.
2. Henry received land in Nottinghamshire and in Norfolk.
3. Andrew II also received York land.
4. Roger came of age after Joan married Andrew. Andrew held Devon land through Joan and shared part of it with Roger.
5. Alexander received small pieces of land in Kent.
D. Children of John from his second wife Joan, who most likely brought lands from Devon and Cornwall with her dowry.
The Nash Estate became the family home after Hawkinge Manor was given to the church.
After Andrew died in 1321 Joan held Nash for her life, and was thus called Joan of Nash.
She apparently had the ability to distribute portions of the remaining property to her children as they came of age.
1. When Joan died Nash and the remaining lands, mostly in Kent and nearby counties, passed to her first son John I of Nash.
2. Margery was given a small York estate at age 2 1/2. Stephen was her guardian and added more land to her share when he died.
4. When Joan died the rest of the Devon land went to Sir Richard, alias Hankeford. He likely also received more in knight's service.
!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9702497
C - Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Division within C - Records of the Petty Bag Office
C 241 - Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple
C 241/74 - Description available at other catalogue level
Catalogue description Debtor: William Rybaud of Howick of Northumberland. Creditor: Sir Richard de Horsley,...
Reference: C 241/74/307
Description:
Debtor: William Rybaud of Howick of Northumberland.
Creditor: Sir Richard de Horsley, lately Sheriff of Northumberland.
Amount: £33 6s. 8d, on account of a loan.
Before whom: Nicholas le Scott, Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Gilbert Hawkin, Clerk.
First term: 20/05/1311
Last term: 20/05/1311
Writ to: Sheriff of [Northumberland]
Sent by: Nicholas le Scott, Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Gilbert Hawkin, Clerk.
Endorsement: Northumbr' Coram Rege.
Date: 1311 Oct 2
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record
Language: Latin
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
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SC - Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled Special Collections
SC 8 - Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 - PETITIONS TO THE KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT; AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/73 - 3601-3650. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item level.
Catalogue description Petitioners: Ermynrode of Stralsund, merchant of Eastland. Name[s]: Ermynrode ...
Reference: SC 8/73/3606
Description:
Petitioners: Ermynrode of Stralsund, merchant of Eastland.
Name[s]: Ermynrode
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Ermynrode requests letters to Haukyn commanding him to deliver his goods to him, and that he be able to go wherever he wishes. He was wrecked and all his goods arrested by Lord Percy by virtue of an order to arrest all alien merchants. He successfully applied to the king for their restoration but Haukyn has arrested them at sea near Holy Island.
Nature of endorsement: Let it be ordered by writ to Haukyn that he certify in Chancery if he took the goods, which goods, for what reason, and what value, and when this certification has been returned into Chancery, let justice be done.
Places mentioned: Stralleson [Stralsund], [Germany]; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [Northumberland]; Holy Island [Lindisfarne], [Northumberland].
People mentioned: Lord Percy; Thomas Haukyn of Newcastle.
Note: The petition can be dated to c. 1327 by the letters of safe-conduct granted to the petitioner [CPR 1327-30, p.40].
Date: [c. 1327]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 7382
Legal status: Public Record[s]
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:
Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, [Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961], pp.244-5 [no.217] [full edition of petition]
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, [Public Record Office, 1891], p.40 [letters of protection and safe-conduct to do business within England]
!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9335447
SC - Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly entitled Special Collections
SC 8 - Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
Subseries within SC 8 - PETITIONS TO THE KING; TO THE KING AND COUNCIL; TO THE COUNCIL; TO THE PARLIAMENT; AND THE LIKE.
SC 8/238 - 11852-11900. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item level.
Catalogue description Petitioners: Richard Lescot [Scot], Thomas de Bromton, John de Galeweye, Thomas de...
Reference: SC 8/238/11886B
Description:
Petitioners: Richard Lescot [Scot], Thomas de Bromton, John de Galeweye, Thomas de Galeweye, Robert Hert, Thomas Gategangge, Thomas Haukyn, Hugh Rabas, Adam de Holiensyde, Roger de Felton.
Name[s]: Lescot [Scot]; de Bromton; de Galeweye; de Galeweye; Hert; Gategangge; Haukyn; Rabas; de Holiensyde; de Felton, Richard; Thomas; John; Thomas; Robert; Thomas; Thomas; Hugh; Adam; Roger
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: The petitioners state that a commission has gone out of Chancery to John de Fennewek and others to arrest them and put them in prison in Nottingham for the death of Roger Lubaud and John Lubaud. They state that they are not guilty of this felony, and were not indicted or appealed of this act. They ask for certain justices to be appointed to inquire into the felony, and that they might be put to answer according to what it found by the inquisition, so that they are not adjudged as felons or put to death or disinherited without response.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned: John de Fennewek; Roger Lubaud; John Lubaud.
Note: Formerly enclosed with no.27 in C 81/1330, which is dated 30 August 10 Edward III [1336].CPR 1334-8 p.297 is dated 6 June 1336, pp.295-296 is dated 12 June 1336, p.296 is dated 28 June 1336, and pp.357-358 is dated 3 August 1336.
Date: [1336]
Related material:
For the secret seal warrant with which this petition was originally sent to the chancery see no.27 in C 81/1330 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4060646
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record[s]
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, [Public Record Office, 1895], p.297 [appointment of John de Fennewek and others to arrest the petitioners] & pp.295-296 [two commissions to John de Fennewek and others on this matter] & p.296 [mandate to re-arrest the petitioners, wrongly released on bail] & pp.357-358 [appointment of people to arrest a bailiff of Newcastle, who has allowed Richard Lescot to escape]
Image: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9335447#imageViewerLink
Note: They were brought back for trial - nothing about conviction.
!Source: The National Archives' 143 - Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
MS 3279 - Lyttleton family [Viscount Cobham] of Frankley, later of Hagley Hall
CHARTERS
Catalogue description Appointment by Julian de Bondon of Hales Oweyn of Thomas Haukyns of Hales Oweyn as attorney to deliver possession of two plots of land to John Broun [Brown]. Dated at Hales Oweyn, Thursday next before the Feast of St. James the Apostle 23 Edw. III.
Reference: MS 3279/351192
Title: Appointment by Julian de Bondon of Hales Oweyn of Thomas Haukyns of Hales Oweyn as attorney to deliver possession of two plots of land to John Broun [Brown]. Dated at Hales Oweyn, Thursday next before the Feast of St. James the Apostle 23 Edw. III.
Date: [23 July 1349]
Held by: Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Notes: Halesowen, Strattfordshire.
!Source: Visitation of Lancashire by Richard St. George, 1613, page 128. https://johnhoughton.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1613_visitation.pdf
Heskayth.
[Harl. MS. 1437, fo. 124 b, 125.].
Arms. — The first twelve quarterings of the shield described at fo. 110.
Entered.
Richard Heskayth. Richard de Stafford.
= =
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William de Heskaith = Annabell, dau. and
| heir of Rich:
___________|
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Robert Heskaith. = ….. Richard, de Totleworth, = Isabell, dau. and coheir
| in right of his wife. | of Rich: Lo: of
| | Totleworth.
_________| ________________________________|
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William Hesketh = Elbora, dau. and sole heire
| of Rich: and Isabell.
|
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: The [above] earlier part of this visitation chart [before Sir William & Maude] appears to have been based on actual names of earlier Hesekth records,
>>>>> but without any knownledge of how they were actually related. Also the wives in that portion don’t appear to have been real.
>>>>>
| Rich: Fitton, = ….
| lord of |
| Great Har- |
| wood and |
| Martholme. |
________________|_________________ ___________________ |_______________________
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John Adam de Sir William Heskayth, = Mawde, dau. and Elyza., dau. and Anabyll, dau. and <<<< Sir William
Heskaith. Heskaith. knt., lo. of Heskayth | co heire of coheire, wife to coh: wife to
and Betonsaw, | Rich: Fytton. Roger Nowell, Edmond Leghe,
4 Ed. 1.[1275/6] | Lo. of Read. Lo: of Croston.
|__________________
|
Thomas de Heskayth. = Alice, dau. of ... <<<< Captain Thomas
Come chose soit a totez gentz per ceste En- | Warren de Byspham,
denture qe de debatez qe furent Entre John de ___________| Lo. of Byspham.
Heskaith et Adam Nowell des tentz en graunt |
Harwod qe furent apres Ie Mort William Fitton Sir John de Heskaith, = Alice, sole dau. and
de sou heritage despartez entre sez treiz soeures knt. | heire to Edm: Fytton
et heires et lour barons, et cestasavoir Entre ___________| Lo. of halfe Rufford.
William de Heskaith et maude sa femme, Ed- |
mond de Legh et Amabilia sa femme, Roger Sir William de Heskayth, = Marcella, dau. and
Nowell, et Elizabeth sa femme. Lan du raigne knt., anno 29 Ed. 3. | coheire of Thwenge
le roy fitz au tres noble roy Edward disim et [1355/6] | of Kendall,
vint'. ______________| co. Westmerland.
|
Seal of Arms,-a wheatsheaf- Thomas Heskalth, = Margaret, dau. and
Signed, SIGILLVM : IOHANNIS : HESKETH: esq. | coheire of Tho:
| Banester, Baron of
__________________________________________________| Newton.
|
Nicholas Heskayth, = Margaret, dau. and coheire of . . .
esq. | Mynshull, obiit at Rufford, 5 H. 5·
[page 129] |
Sir Thomas Heskaith, = Sibill, dau. and coheire of Sir
knt., obiit 38 H. 6. | Robert Lawrance, knt., 5 H. 5.
_______________|
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Tho : Heskaith, = Margaret, dau. to
Esq., Lo. of | Hamon Massy
Heskaith. | of Rixton.
____________|
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Robert Heskaith, = Alice, dau. of Sir Robert Booth knt
Lo. of Heskaith, | lo: of Dunham Massye; after her hus-
obilt. 1490. _| band's death she professed chastitye.
|
Grace, dau. of = Thomas Heskaith, = Elyza., dau. and Drawing of a seal of arms, viz.-
Jo : Townley esq., obiit 1523. | sole heir of a fess engrailed between 3 fla-
of Townley. | William Fleminge, mingos [?J heads erased, ---;
| Baron of Wath, and helmet and mantling surmounted
______| lo. of Croston. by a flamingo's [?J head couped,
| wings erect, for crest.
Sir Robert Heskaith, = Grace, dau. of
knt. | Sir John Townley
| of Townley, knt.
_________________________________|___________________________
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Sir Thomas Heskaith = Alice, dau. of Elynor, wife to Jane
knt. Lo. of Rufford, | Sir John Holcrofte Robert Barton
High Shenff of Lanc., | of Holcrofte, knt. of Barton Row.
anno 5 of Q. Elizab: |
obiit 1587. |_______________
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Blanche, dau. and = Robert Heskaith, = Marye, dau. of
coheire of Hen: esg., lo. of Hes- | Sir George Stanley, knt.,
Twyford of Ken- kaith, Rufford, | Marshall in Ireland
wick, co. Salop, Holmes and | sister and heire to '
2 Wife, s.p. Holmewood Mart- | Hen: Stanlye, esq.,
holme, Great Har- | of the Croshall,
wood, Hougwick | 1 wife.
and Beconsawe, |
now living, 1613. |
_____________________________________________________________|_______________________
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John, Robert, 2. Thomas Heskaith, = Susan, dau. of Holcrofte, I dau., Jane, wife to
mar. the Henry, 3. sonne and heire, Th . .. Powes, wife to Lawrans William Reynalds.
dau. of… George, 4. ætat. 41 annor. co. Salop. Royston, after to
Haydock. 1613. Roger Dodsworth, Mary, wife to Rich:
= Chancelor of Barton, and after to
| York. Thomas Stanley,
Robert. and hath issue by
both