168 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE. 
dyed in childbed upon the first day of July, reg. Regin. Eliz. 39% 1598, in 
w°) time they had Issue 3 sonnes and 5 daughters, viz, Mildred Lowe, Judyth, 
Edward, Rowland, Mary, Anne, John, and the youngest w° died wt her 
mother. And after that the said Anthony married again the 23'@ of January 
followinge and soe lived w*® his latter wife from the 23'¢ of January, 1599, to 
the 23'¢ of June, 1600, in w%' time hee had Issue two sonnes booth at one 
birth, vizt Anthony and Thomas, and then the afforesaid 232 of June, 1600, 
hee departed this life leavinge behinde him 5 children livinge, viz. Judith, 
Edward, Anne and John by the first wife, and Thomas by the second.” 
Mary, the first wife above referred to, was the daughter of 
Rowland Ferne, Esq., of Hognaston; and Elizabeth, the 
second wife, was a Cheshire lady, named Blore. John Lowe,* 
his second son, became ancestor of the Lowes of Owlgreaves. 
From the Inquisition Post Mortem taken at Derby, October 
the 6th, 1601, it appears that at the death of Anthony Lowe, 
Esq., his son and heir, Edward Lowe, was eight years of age 
and more. There is a curious statement in the Wolley MSS., 
apparently taken from a contemporary letter, to the effect that 
‘¢ William Dethicke and Raphe Wigley, sonne to Henry Wigley, 
of Middleton, did fetch Edward Lowe, sonne and heire of 
Anthony Lowe, Esq., from Chelaston, the 23rd of June, in the 
* John Lowe, the youngest son of Anthony Lowe, Esq., of Alderwasley 
by his first marriage, settled first at Hasland, and subsequently at Owlgreaves, 
in the parish of Heanor. He served King Charles I. as captain of a troop of 
horse in the civil wars, and in 1643, was fined £133 6s. 8d. by the Parliament, 
as a Royalist delinquent. In his will, dated November loth, 1657, he names 
his eldest son John, who must have died in his father’s lifetime, for Owlgreaves 
was inherited by his son, Francis, who died in 1684, leaving three sons. 
Francis Lowe, the eldest of these three sons, married Jane, daughter and sole 
heiress of John Middleton, Esq., of Wansley Hall, in Nottinghamshire, but 
died without issue, and was buried at Heanor, May the 9th, 1697. The second 
son, Charles, who succeeded to the Owlgreaves estate on the death of his 
elder brother, was buried at Heanor March the 29th, 1719; he had no male 
issue, and the greater portion of his property devolved upon his three daughters 
and coheiresses. Anthony Lowe, the third son, was a doctor of medicine, and 
died, without male issue, February the 9th, 1729-30, leaving an only daughter 
and heiress, who married, in 1732, John Gorsuch Eccleston, Esq., of Eccles- 
ton, in Lancashire. He resided at the Milne House, Astle, in Cheshire, but 
had no issue. He was buried at Chelford, in that county, where his grave- 
stone, bearing a Latin epitaph, whereon he is described as ‘‘nuper d’ 
Owlgreave in Comte Derbi Mdze' Dr,” yet remains in the churchyard. (See 
Earwaker’s ‘‘ Hast Cheshire,” vol. ii. p. 368.) This branch of the family were 
Roman Catholics, and intermarried with the Eyres, of Newbold ; the Beau- 
monts, of Barrow, and other families who had adhered to the faith of their 
ancestors. 
