Thomas Hesketh “Dalrymple”

Personal and Family Information

Thomas was born about 1772, the son of Thomas Hesketh but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.

He died in 1842. 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 (c1793-1843).

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.

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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Settlements of the manors of Rufford,

Hesketh, Martholme, &c., are indicated

as follows :—1696, Robert Hesketh in <<<< Final settlement by Robert; precedes transfer to son Thomas.

Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 237, m. 52 ;

1703, Thomas Hesketh, Pal, of Lanc. <<<< Settlement under Thomas; after son Thomas’s birth.

Plea R. 477, m. 63 1723, Thomas <<<< Settlement under Thomas; after birth of grandson Thomas [son of 1st Baronet].

Hesketh, ibid. §11,m. 5; 1748, Thomas <<<< Settlement under Thomas; age related change.

Hesketh, ibid. 569, m. 8d.3 1798, Sir <<<< Settlement under Thomas “Dalrymple” 3rd Baronet after death of Robert 2nd Baronet.

T. D. Hesketh, ibid. Lent Assizes, 38

Geo. III, R. 7.

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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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The manor of Shevington occurs as late

as 1798 in a settlement of the estates of

Sir T. D. Hesketh; Pal. of Lance.

Plea R. Lent Assizes, 38 Geo. III, no. 7.

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The landowners contribut-

ing to the subsidy of 1542-3

were Nicholas Worthington

and Alexander Catterall”? ;

Peter Catterall is named in

1564.'% The freeholders re-

corded in 1600 were Alexander

Woodward, Roger Bimson and Nicholas Worthing-

ton.* Edward Prescott of Shevington had his

leasehold estate sequestered by the Parliament for

«delinquency ’ during the Civil War.'* The principal

landowners in 1798 were Edward Standish, William

Dicconson, Edward Holt and Sir Thomas Hesketh.'*

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The house was abandoned asa residence about 1798.

After that date it was ‘ for a time occupied by a tenant

farmer, and the banqueting hall used as a village

school,’ * until it was repaired and refitted in 1821

for the reception of the eldest son of Sir Thomas

Dalrymple Hesketh, who lived there till his succession

to the estates in 1842.

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The new hall is a plain two-story brick building

painted white with classic colonnade, erected in the

18th century, some time before 1763,° but very much

enlarged in 1798-9 by the addition on the north side

of what is now the main part of the house, with

classic portico and large entrance hall. Some of the

spout heads bear the initials of Sir Thomas Dalrymple

Hesketh and the date 1811, and one is dated 1822.

Architecturally the building is without interest.