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Some Account of the family of Lowe, of 
Alverwasley and Denby, tw the County 
of Derby, and elsewhere. 
By Major A. E. Lawson Lowe, F.S.A. 
YJHE Lowes of Alderwasley and the 
|) Lowes of Denby, once two of 
the leading families in Derby- 
shire, were of Cheshire origin, and are 
stated to have sprung from two brothers, 
both of whom married Derbyshire _heir- 
esses in the latter part of the fifteenth 
century. 
A number of charters recently * brought to light have done 
much to elucidate the earlier descents of the family, and have 
sufficiently proved that portion of the pedigree which has 
hitherto been looked upon as. obscure if not altogether 
fallacious.t : 
* For much of the information contained in the first portion of this paper 
the writer is indebted to J. P. Earwaker, Esq., F.S.A., the historian of “ East 
Cheshire,” by whom many of the above-mentioned charters were first brought 
to his notice. 
+ An old emblazoned pedigree in the possession of the Hurt family, entitled 
**Stemmata et propagationes antique familie dignissimi viri Edwardi Lowe 
de Alderwasley in Comitatu Darbiz, Armigeri,” commences with Thomas, 
who died in 1415, and was the father of Geoffrey, whose son married the 
eldest co-heiress of Fawne, and settled at Alderwasley. The authority for 
this was evidently unknown to Adam Wolley, the Derbyshire antiquary, who 
added the following note to his copy of the pedigree: ‘‘ These two first 
descents are not proved by any evidences in Mr. Hurt’s possession ;” and it 
is quite clear that no such proof was forthcoming at the time of the Visitations, 
for the pedigrees of the Lowes of Alderwasley, given by the heralds, are not 
carried back beyond Thomas Lowe; who married the co-heiress of Fawne. 
