Thomas Hesketh

Personal and Family Information

Thomas was born about 1606, the son of Thomas Hesketh and Susan Powes. The place is not known.

He died before 1653. The place is not known.

His wife was Katherin. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Thomas (c1625-c1689).

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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In 1626 Thomas Hesketh, his wife,

Thomas and John Hesketh, Robert Squier

and Ellen Mercer were taxed as non-

communicants; Lay Subs. Lancs bdle.

131, no. 317.

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Thomas Hesketh was sheriff in 1629- <<<< Thomas must be associated with service land and a wealthy family. This is best placed as another son of this generation of the Rufford main line.

303; P.R.O. List, 73. He paid £50

in 1631 on declining knighthood ; Misc.

[Rec. Soc. Lancs, and Ches.], i, 222.

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3 Royalist Comp. Papers [Rec. Soc.

Lancs. and Ches.], iii, 209. Katherine

widow of Thomas Hesketh [elder brother

of Robert], being a recusant, asked leave

in 1653 to compound for the sequestered

two-thirds of her estate, a yearly rent-

charge of £40 out of the manor of

Rufford ; ibid. iii, 194.

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There was living in 1635 another

Thomas Hesketh of Rufford, of grossly

immoral life [see Cal. S. P. Dom. 1635-6,

p- 475], who may be the Thomas who in

1655 claimed an estate in Wrightington,

Shevington, &c., as nephew and heir of

Thomas Hesketh, esq. [i.e. the elder

brother of Robert], the rents having been

paid to the elder Thomas's sister Jane,

then lately dead ; Royalist Comp. Papers,

iii, 211.

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