162 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAM’LY OF LOWE. # 
elder, were brothers (and the supposition is really immaterial) the 
. 
Assuming that William del Lowe and Thomas del Lowe, the 
earlier descents of the family would be as follows :—- 
Sandee del Lowe= 
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William del Lowe, =Elena, niece of Thomas del Lowe,=...... . 
of Macclesfield; | Roger le Mulner ; of Macclesfield ; 
living 1392 ; dead | a widow in 1398. died in 1415. 
in 1398. | 
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Thomas del Lowe, =Matilda. John del Lowe; Geoffrey del Lowe, = Margaret, 
an Alderman of living in 1407. of Macclesfield ; dau. of - 
Macclesfield ; born died in 1451. Sir Peter 
in 1376; living in Legh, of 
1448-9. | Lyme. 
HR 
Peter. Thomas, azcestor William. Lawrence, ancestor George, 
of the Lowes of of the Lowes of ob. s. p. m. 
Alderwasley. Denby and Locko. 
The above-named Thomas Lowe (for it should be remarked 
that from about this time the family wrote their name simply Lowe 
without the prefix), acquired a considerable estate through his 
marriage with Joane, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas 
Fawne, of Alderwasley, which, according to the old pedigree 
previously quoted, was solemnised on the 23rd of November, 
1471. By their charter, dated on the Monday next after the Feast 
of the Purification, in the eleventh year of King Edward the IV. 
(February, 1472), Thomas Lowe and Joane his wife together 
granted and confirmed to Lawrence Lowe and George Lowe, 
brothers of the said ‘Thomas, and to Humphrey Lowe, Ottiwell 
township is situated in the ancient chapelry of Witton, and within the last 
three centuries at least twenty-five members of this branch of the family have 
been interred in Witton Church, as appears from the registers. Unfortunately, 
that church was re-paved some years since, and not a single inscription to the 
Lowes, or, indeed, any other family, escaped destruction. Robert Lowe, a 
younger son of John Lowe, of Hartford, purchased the impropriate rectory and 
perpetual advowson of Middlewich from Lord Brereton in 1663, and settled at 
Newton Hall, near that place, which is-still in the possession of his descendants — 
in the female line ; whilst from John Lowe, his younger brother, are descended 
the Lowes, of Highfield, in Nottinghamshire, now represented by Edward 
Joseph Lowe, Esq.. J.P., and D.L., of Highfield, and of Shirenewton Hall, 
in the County of Monmouth. Vide Ormerod’s ‘‘ History of Cheshire,” 2nd 
edit., vol. iii, p 182; and Burke’s ‘‘ Landed Gentry,” 6th edit , vol- ii , p. 99%. 
