Geoffrey was born about 1424, the son of Thomas Hesketh and Margaret Massye. The place is not known.
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| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
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| Birth | ABT 1424 |
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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10 Raines, Chantries , 152.
He is called Geoffrey Hesketh in a <<<< Children, even infants, were often listed in deeds, which might be grandted for life. That would mean Geoffrey had to be born by 1424/25.
deed of 1424-5 in Towneley MS. HH,
no.1712. He occurs in 1425 and 1429; <<<< I think the “He” Page refers to here and in this series of several paragrahs is the vicars of Blackburn, who’s story he seems to be telling. If he is listed here he should be a vicar of Blackburn.
Lancs. Ing. p.m. , ii, 46 ; Dep.
Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 30.
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In 1451 the Bishop of Lichfield sent
word to the vicar of Blackburn that he
had received the Peter’s pence which had
been in arrears in Blackburn parish, by
the hands of William Starkie and Henry
Grimshaw; Towneley MS. DD, no.
1638.
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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, he matches.
814. Letters dimissory for the ordina- <<<< Letters dimissory = permission to be ordained elsewhere.
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.