UNKNOWN2

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UNKNOWN2 was born about 1450, the daughter of unknown parents. The place is not known.

Her husband was Hugh Hesketh, who she married in ABT 1485. The place has not been found. Their only known child was Robert (c1487-?).

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BirthABT 1450

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 Hesketh

and Elizabeth his wife were tenants of

half the manor of Croston, &c., in 1486 ;

Final Conc. iii, 142. Hugh Hesketh was

the feoffee. In 1487 Thurstan Hall and

Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co-heir of

William Fleming, agreed to abide the

award of Thomas Earl of Derby and others

as to their disputes with Thomas son and

heir-apparent of Robert Hesketh, con-

cerning manors, messuages, lands, &c., in

Wath, Clifton, Rathmell and Dalton in

Yorkshire, also in Croston, Mawdesley

and Longton in Lancashire ; Towneley

MS. RR, no. 622. The wife, as Elizabeth

Fleming, had shortly before this ratified

the estate of Hugh Hesketh son of Robert

and brother of Thomas in the moiety of

the manor of Croston, and lands, &c., in

Croston, Mawdesley and Longton; no. 636.

Hugh Hesketh in 1490 and 1498 re- <<<< Hugh active 1498.

leased his right in the same to Thomas

Hesketh 3 no. 621,637. See Final Cone.

iii, 1523 also Dep. Keeper’s Rep. xl, App.

540, 543. The Halls retained the York-

shire manors.

Sir Thomas’s will is in Add. MS. <<<< Actually these sons from the father of Thomas 1453 - 1523, Robert 1427 - 1490.

32104, no, 1. He gave lands in Mawdes-

ley to his second son Thomas; in

Becconsall to his third son Richard; in

Rufford to his bastard son Hugh Hesketh,

who had a son Robert 3 and in Croston <<<< Hugh’s son Robert born about 1487.

and Wrightington to another bastard son <<<< Hugh’s bastard son Thomas born by 1469. Thus, Hugh must be born by about 1451.

Thomas.

Sir Thomas’s younger sons Thomas <<<< Actually these sons from the father of Thomas 1453 - 1523, Robert 1427 - 1490.

and Richard are noticed in the Dict. Nat.

Biog., the former as a botanist, the latter

as executed for inciting Ferdinando Earl

of Derby to assert his title to the throne.

For Thomas see also Pa/. Notebook, v, 7.