Thomas Hesketh

Personal and Family Information

Thomas was born about 1395, the son of Thomas Hesketh and Sybil. The place is not known.

He died on 18 DEC 1438. The place is not known.

His wife was Margaret Massye. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their eleven known children were Robert (c1415-c1491), William (c1416-c1431), Margery (c1417-?), Thomas (1418-?), John (c1419-?), Hugh (c1421-?), William (c1422-?), Geoffrey (c1424-?), Richard (c1426-c1511), Henry (c1428-?) and Nicholas (c1430-?).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Note: Now because of the Massye sisters, the “of Hesketh” and “of Rufford” lines are much closer cousins.

!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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In 1445 Thomas Hesketh was exempted

from serving on juries, &c.; ibid. x,

App. 538

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Thomas Hesketh on his tomb at Rufford

is stated to have died 18 Dec. 143

—the present inscription

is a faulty copy of the old one. Hus <<<< Probably means 18 Dec 1438

wife's name was Margaret and they had <<<< Thomas Hesketh de Hesketh’s wife is Margaret Massye.

eleven children ; Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. <<<< Already have 5 sons: Robert, William, Thomas, John Hough. If Geoffrey goes with these and we have 5 unknown daughters, e match.

814. Letters dimissory for the ordina-

tin of Geotirey, one of the sons, were <<<< Say Geoffrey was 21 at ordination, he would be born in 1425.

given by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1446 ;

Add. MS. 32104, no. 1407.

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The church of ST. M./R? is situated

CHURCH onthe east side of the village and is a

modern building of red brick and stone

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The building having no pretensions to antiquity is

itself uninteresting and architecturally it has little of

the appearance of a village church. It contains,

however, an alabaster slab and other fragments

belonging to the first church and some fittings

from the 18th-century structure. The slab is to

the memory of Thomas Hesketh [d. 1458] and <<<< 1438

Margaret his wife and is 6 ft. long by 3 ft. wide and

6 in. thick. It was until lately in the floor of the

nave lying north and south, in four pieces, but was

removed to the Hesketh chapel in 1907. It has

incised on it the figure of a man in armour with his

lady and underneath the figures of eleven children,

together with the coat of arms of Hesketh. ‘The

inscription runs round the slab, ‘Domine miserere

animabus Thome Hesketh et Margerie | uxoris ejus <<<< Thomas Hesketh de Hesketh

qui quidem Thomas | obijt xviij die mensis Decembris

a? d™ meccclviij: a litera dominicali.” At the

bottom are the names of eleven children—Robert,

William, Margery, Thomas, John, Hugh, William, <<<< Only one daughter?

Geoffrey, Richard, Henry and Nicholas.

!Source: Visitation of Lancashire by Richard St. George, 1613, page 22. https://johnhoughton.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1613_visitation.pdf

Hesketh.

[Hart. MS. 1437 fo. 23.]

Entred.

Thomas Hesketh = Margaret, dau. of <<<< Thomas

of Hesketh, esq' | Hamon Massye

| of Rixton.

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Robert Hesketh, = Alice, dau. of William Thomas John Hugh William Hesketh, = …. .

sonne and heire. Sir Robert 2 sonne. 3 sonne. 4 sonne. 5 sonne. 6 sonne. |

Booth. [died 1st] |

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Ann, dau. and = Barthollmew Hesketh. = ........... .

coheire of | | ……….. .

William Clif- | | first wife.

ton, second | _______________

wife. | |

| George Hesketh.

Gabriell Hesketh = Jane, dau. of

of Aughton. | Sir Henry Hal-

| sail of Halsall,

| knt.

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Bartholmew Hesketh, = Margaret, dau. Sir Thomas, 2. Cutbert,3. Richard, 4.

sonne and heire. | to Sir John

| Sowthworth,

| knt.

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| |

Gabriell Hesketh = Jane, dau. of Henry, 2.

of Awghton, | Hen. Stanley

sonne and heire, | of BickerslOI1,

living 1613. | esq.

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Barthollmew Hesketh, = Ann, dan. of Sir

sonne and heire, ætat. Cuthbert Halsall

II annor. 1613. of Halsall, knt.

[aged 2]