Robert Hesketh

Personal and Family Information

Robert was born about 1502, the son of Robert Hesketh and Grace Towneley. The place is not known.

He died after 1559. The place is not known.

His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Thomas (c1525-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Full text of "The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;"

The Victoria history of the Counties of England, EDITED BY WILLIAM PAGE, F.S.A., A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE, VOLUME VI, THE VICTORIA HISTORY

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924088434620/cu31924088434620_djvu.txt#:~:text=k%20[Standish]%2C%20211%20Emmott%20[Whalley]%2C%20525%20Euxton,[p]%20115%2C%20[m]%20115%20Thorp%20[Croston]%2C%20104.

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Robert, married to Alice daughter <<<< Robert Hesketh de Hesketh [~1424 - ~1491] with wife Alice Booth and son Thomas. Page continues mixing the two Hesketh lines.

of Robert Booth in 1454,’ died in 1491,° leaving a

son Thomas, who, in default of legitimate issue,‘

bequeathed his manors to his natural son Robert, with <<<< Robert Hesketh de Rufford [~1478 - 1539]. Second son Robert, but heir was Thomas. I don’t see a Robert with heir Robert.

remainders to Charles and Ellen, brother and sister <<<< Robert Hesketh de Rufford [~1478 - 1539]. Siblings Charles and Helene.

Thomas Hesketh appears to have added

very largely to the hereditary possessions of his family,

and died at Ruford on 14 August 1523.° <<<< Thomas Hesketh de Rufford ~1453 - ~1523.

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In 1537 the abbot and convent

demised to Sir Robert Hesketh the mes-

suage, &c., called the Hoimes, with a

fishery in Martin Mere, for sixty-one

years at £6:. rent; ibid. no. git. Two

years later they granted a lease of all

their lands in Tarleton and Sollom to

the same Sir Robert for ninety-nine

years, at £4 10% 84d, a year, which

was ‘the usual rent thereof’; ibid.

no. 412.

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It is noteworthy that there was a street

called St. Marygate in Croston in 1371,

when Richard the Miller gave his wife

Alice for life a burgage in that street,

lying between burgages of John de Croston

and Cecily Primrose ; Towneley MS. BB,

no. 89. Adam de Redeley and Cecily

his wife, daughter of William Primrose,

are named in 1364 3 no. 1634.

The Town Meadow was in 1539 the

free tenement of Sir Robert Hesketh ;

Pal. of Lanc. Writs of Assize, bdle. 18,

Lent, 31 Hen, VIII.

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The Rigbys of Harrock also had land

in Euxton ; Duchy of Lanc, Plead. Ixi,

Ras 3 Plac. de Quo Warr. ,

375. About 1540 the tenants were:

Sir William Molyneux, 75.3 Sir Robert

Hesketh for John’s field, 18d; Sir

William Molyneux for a messuage, lately

John Armetriding’s, with a toft in Char-

nock Richard, 6d.; Kuerden MSS, ȴ,

fol. 834.

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® Land tax returns at Preston.

10 It is mentioned in 1292; Plac. de

Quo Warr. , 375. Some

of the tenants have been named in pre-

ceding notes. The others about 1540

were: Edward Earl of Derby, paying

12d,.; Sir Robert Hesketh, in Berle,

4d.; and some chaplains, probably for

chantry lands, paying 12d, and 6d.;

Kuerden MSS. v, fol. 834. William

Dicconson in 1604 held part of what had

been the Hospitallers’ lands by a rent of

4qd.3 Lancs. Ing. pom. , i, 19.

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After the confiscation of Leyland Hall little is known

of the existence of Roman Catholic worship in the

township,'* but the chapel at Euxton Hall was pro-

bably used. St. Mary’s, near the parish church, was

opened in 1855, and is served by the English Bene-

dictines, the mission having been begun in 1846."

Here is preserved a mediaeval chalice, bearing the

inscription ‘Restore mee to Leyland in Lankeshire.’

It is imagined to have belonged to the parish church

or one of its chantries, and to have been repurchased

or rescued from destruction by Roman Catholics ;

on the opening of St. Mary’s it was ‘restored’

chapel of ease to the parish church, became an in- [inn?]

The vicar of Leyland dependent parish in 1898. presents.

which had descended to Sir Robert

Hesketh in 1541 5 Duchy of Lance, Ing.

p-m. v, no. 163 vii, no. 14. The tenure

was unknown.

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Sir Henry himself deposed that he had

made no estate of any of his manors, &c.,

whereby they should not descend to his

heir-apparent Joan wife of Anthony

Browne, but he had given an annuity of

44 to his son Robert, who also had a

pension from North Meols rectory.

Thomas Farington also had been at

variance with his father, and had en-

deavoured to marry his daughter Alice to

Sir Robert Hesketh’s son, but Sir Henry

. had stopped the match. Robert Faring-

ton was described as ‘of Samlesbury,’

and forty years of age. A decree was in

1544 made in favour of Anthony and

Joan Browne. See Duchy of Lanc.

Plead. Hen. VIII, xiii, B 183 xiv,

F 10; Decrees and Orders, Hen. VIII,

vii, fol. 327.

!Source: The National Archives' catalogue https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/09749e0f-5610-4238-a1f4-602aa34ac7ca

55 - Lancashire Archives

DDCL - Clifton of Lytham

Clifton-with-Salwick.

DDCL 1274 - 1275 - Turbary.

Catalogue description Deed of Licence : Henry of Halsall, esq. & Anne his wife, to John Greyves, John...

Reference: DDCL 1275

Description:

Deed of Licence : Henry of Halsall, esq. & Anne his wife, to John Greyves, John Shyrvyngton, senior, Robert Heskethe, Elizabeth Greyves, widow, Gilbert Wrench, James Shyrvington, Christopher Brewer, James Bretherton, Alis Brayson, widow, Alexander Grayson, John Grayson, John Fyld, Alexander Hogekynson, Henry Hogekynson, William Harryson, jun. & William Moreley, of Assheton, as DDCL 1274 - paying 5/3½ rent. Witn: as DDCL 1274.

Schedule of rents.

Date: 1 May 1559

Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives

Language: English

Notes: 5/3½ = 5 shillings and 3½ pence.

!Source: Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, p. 80. https://johnhoughton.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1567_visitation.pdf

Hesketh of Rufford.

[Hart. MS. fo. 70. Chetham MS. fo. -.]

Arms. - Quarterly o[ five, viz: 1. Argent, on a bend sable, three garbs or; 2. Barry of six, argent and azure, in chief three

lozenges, gules; 3. Argent, a cross flory, sable; 4. Argent, a fess gules; 5. Sable, three mullets, each issuing

from a crescent, argent.

Sir William Heskethe,

knt. |

I

Thomas Heskethe = ... dau. of ...

of Rufforde, ar., | Massy of Rix-

sonne and heire, | ton, co. Lan-

co. Lancaster. | caster, ar.

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Robert Heskethe = Grace, dau. of

of Rufforde, | … Phyton of

sonne and heire. | Gawseworthe,

| co. Chester,

| knt.

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Grace, dau. = Thomas Hesketh = Alice, dau. of Richard, William, ... a dau. … , a dau.

of Sir John | of Rufford, ar. | Christopher 2 sonne. third sonne, maryed to maryed to

Towneley of | | Haworthe, bishop of Rich. Awgh- Sir Henry

Towneley, | | second wyf. Man. ton of the Kyghley of

co. Lancas- | | Myles, co. Ingkippe,

ter, knt. | | Lancaster. co. Lancas-

| | ter, knt

William Hesketh, Sir Robert Hesketh, = Grace, dau. of Charles, Helene,

dyed sans yssue. knt., obiit 1539. | Sir John 3 sonne. maryed to

| Towneley of Laurence

| Towneley,knt.; Towneley of

| obiit 21 Maii, Barnshed,

| 1543· co. Ebor., ar.

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Sir Thomas Hesketb = Alice, dau. of Robert, Jane, Helene, <<<< This Robert.

of Rufford, co. Lan- | Sir J olm Hol- 2 sonne. maryed to maryed to

caster, knt., sonne and | crafte of Hol- Richard Richard Bar-

heire of Sir Robert. | crafte, co. Asheton of ton of Bar-

| Lancaster, knt. Croston, co. ton Rowe,

Lancaster,ar. co. Lancas-

ter, ar.

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Robert Heskett = Mary, dau. of Thomas, Richard, Dorothe. Margarett.

of Rufford, esq., Sir George 2 sonne. 3 sonne.

sonne and heire Stanley of

of Sir Thomas. Crossehall, co.

Lancaster, knt.

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Note: Location Rufford is 4.92 miles from Hesketh Bank, Prston, Lancashire.