Thomas Hesketh

Personal and Family Information

Thomas was born about 1723, the son of Thomas Hesketh but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.

He died in 1781. 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 (c1772-1842).

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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Thomas, d. c. 1689 ~s. Robert, d. c.

1697 -bro. Thomas, d. c, 1721 —s. Thomas,

M.P. for Preston, 1722-73 d. 1735 -s.

Thomas, sheriff, 1754~-5 ; first bart. 1761;

d. 1778 —bro, Robert [who took the sur-

name of Juxon for himself only], second

bart., d. 1796 —s. Thomas, d. 1781 —s. <<<< Not baronet because Robert outlived him.

Thomas Dalrymple, third bart.; sheriff

1801-23; d. 1842 -s. Thomas Henry,

fourth bart., d. 1843 -s. Thomas George,

fifth bart., who assumed the surname

Fermor before Hesketh, and represented

Preston in Parliament as a Conservative

from 1862 till his death in 1872 -s.

Thomas Henry, sixth bart.; d. 1896

-bro. Thomas George, seventh bart., b.

1849.

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Thomas Hesketh paid land tax in 1788 amount-

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

division only.”

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His son Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, bart.,

sold his two-thirds of the manor in 1818 to Richard

Grimshaw Lomax, whose father James Lomax,

who died in 1792, had, it is believed, purchased

the Nowells’ third part of the manor in or about

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