126 THE OWNERS OF SHALLCROSS. 



walking with dogs, in a blue coat. There is another, said to 

 be his father. Dying s.p., and buried at Somersall January 12th, 

 1803," the last male of his branch of his own family, he 

 bequeathed all his estate to his nephew, Rev. Simon Jacson 

 {infra), who sold this estate to Alleyne FitzHerbert, Lord 

 St. Helens, in 18 10. 



II. — Anne FitzHerbert, whose descendants through her 

 eventually became the heirs of Somersal. She was born 

 January i8th, 1719-20, and married, November 20th, 1749, at 

 Somersall, Simon Jacson {gu. a fesse between three sheldrakes, 

 arg.), nephew of Dr. Roger Jacson and Frances Shallcross, 

 his wife {supra). He became Rector of Bebington, i^Si'll' 

 and was of Shallcross Hall, and Rector of Tarporley, 1778-87, 

 and of Somersall. His wife died August 3rd, 1795, aged 

 75 years, " spent in the constant exercise of every Christian and 

 social virtue " (Miss Jacson's Diary). He died in 1808. 

 Descendants of their children, coheirs of the old Shallcross 

 family still survive, and some are entitled tO' quarter the Shall- 

 cross arms. 



(3) Devolution of the Estate. — In 1794 the Shallcross estate 

 passed out of the Jacson family, and was sold to Foster Bower, 

 Esq., Recorder of Chester, who in 1793 had purchased the 

 Overton Hall estate, sold in 1733 by John Shallcross or his 

 representatives. 



The fortunes of the Shallcross estate, after its sale, may 

 be briefly traced. Foster Bower left a brother, John Bower, 

 of Manchester, who married in 1775 Frances Jodrell, of 

 Yeardsley Hall, bom 1752. He assumed his wife's surname 

 and arms, in compliance with the will of her grandfather, whose 

 heiress she was, which John Bower Jodrell, on the demise 

 of his brother, Foster Bower, himself succeeded to the Shallcross 

 estate; and, dying in 1796, was succeeded in bgth these estates, 

 including Henbury, co. Chester, which he purchased, and where 

 he chiefly resided, by his son, Francis Jodrell, of Shallcross 



For some of these dntes I am indebted to Rev. R. H. C. Fit/Herbert. 



