Robert Hesketh

Personal and Family Information

Robert was born about 1607, the son of Thomas Hesketh and Susan Powes. The place is not known.

He died after 1651. The place is not known.

His wife was Lucy. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Thomas (c1647-?).

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

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Sir Thomas appears to have had a <<<< Sir Thomas Hesketh ~1506 - ~1588

dispute with his son Robert shortly before <<<< He left out the argument. This Robert ~1535 - >1620

his death, for he complained in 1587 that

divers deeds concerning the manors anu

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marry Mary daughter of Sir George Stanley of Cross

Hall in Lathom,' and who died in 1620, being <<<< Sir Robert died about 1620, and in 1588, when his father died, would have been 53. Thomas Hesketh would be 48, so perhaps, Thomas Stanley is the 50 year old son in 1620.

then succeeded by a son Thomas, fifty years of age.’ <<<< Sir Robert’s brother Thomas born ~1532, could have been 56 in 1588. Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, Hesketh of Rufford.[Hart. MS. fo. 70. Chetham MS. fo. -.]

In the inquisitions for Sir Thomas and Robert the <<<< Per Visitation of Lancashire by Richard St. George, 1613, page 128. Heskayth. [Harl. MS. 1437, fo. 124 b, 125.]: Thomas ~1572 is the first son and heir, 16 years old in 1588.

manor of Rufford was found to be held by a rent

of 55.

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Thomas is stated to have died in 1646 without <<<< Thomas 1572 would be 74 years old at death.

issue, and was succeeded by his brother Robert, who, <<<< Robert ~1574 was the second oldest.

when about eighty years of age, was threatened with <<<< Based on 1652 - 80, Thomas would be born 1572 which does match Thomas.

sequestration by the Parliamentary authorities in

1652, though he protested he had ever been ‘a most

perfect and firm assistant to the utmost of his ability

to the Parliament and their just and honourable

undertakings.’* His son Robert had in 1649 asked <<<< This seems to be meant as a Robert son of Thomas 1572, probably born around 1607.

leave to compound for his estate, his ‘ delinquency ’

being that he had adhered to the forces raised against

the Parliament.‘ A pedigree was recorded in 1664,

showing that the younger Robert’s son and heir, <<<< Robert’s ~1607 son and heir Thomas born ~1647.

Thomas Hesketh, was then seventeen years of age,°

having succeeded to Rufford. The hall in 1666 had

nineteen hearths to be taxed ; it was occupied by John

Molyneux.® The manor has since descended regularly

in the male line to Sir Thomas George Fermor Hesketh, <<<< I have no idea what time is meant by the present in this. Page’s volume is not dated.

bart., the present lord, who resides at Easton Neston,

Northamptonshire.” The estates have recently been

offered for sale and considerable portions have been

disposed of.

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4 Ibid. iii, 204-6. The younger Robert

inherited an estate in Clitheroe after the

death of his uncle George in or before

16513 and it was found that neither <<<< date = 1651.

Robert nor George had been reported for

delinquency, recusancy or like offence.

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Dame Jane Hoghton widow of Robert Hesketh

held Martholme and the Great Harwood estate at

the commencement of the Civil War. In 1647 they

were sequestered for her alleged recusancy, but on

appeal to the barons of the Exchequer she cleared

herself of the charge. Robert Hesketh, jun., brother

and heir of the late Thomas Hesketh, had leased the

lands from her for {£92 6s. sd. perannum. In 1651

her estate was again secured by the County Commis-

sioners on pretence of her delinquency for engaging

with the King of Scots. The year following she

sought to contract for two-thirds of her estate here

and in Tottleworth, worth £67 per annum. Mart-

holme Mill formed part of the sequestered estate.

The weir, being decayed, had been repaired and

raised by the County Committee. In 1651 Robert

Cunliffe of Sparth claimed damages for injury caused

to his land, which lay on the south side of the

weir, by flooding due to the elevation of the

weir. John Molyneux, who had married Lucy

relict of Robert Hesketh, occupied part of Mart- <<<< This Robert [~1607 - > 1651]

holme Hall in 1666, the tenant of the demesne

lands, Widow Mercer, occupying the remainder.

Thomas Hesketh paid land tax in 1788 amount-

ing to £2 19s. 8d. upon lands lying in the higher

division only.”