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of Bowden which he had of the gift, &c., of Agnes late wife of 

 Wm. Hobson." 



Now, unless the Kyrkes in the above Deeds be a side branch 

 only of the owners of Whitehough, it is a little difficult to 

 reconcile the genealogical information derived from them with 

 the pedigrees of the Kyrke family as shown in vol. ii. of this 

 Journal and in vol. iii. of the Reliqiiary. In the charters before 

 us, we gather that in 1432 Thomasi Kyrke, senior, was in 

 possession of land situated in Whitehough, and that- two years 

 later he was succeeded by his son Thurstan ; Roger and Ralph 

 being the only other sons who are mentioned. 



The first in the published pedigree of Kyrke, of Whitehough, is 

 Edward Kyrke, whose son and successor is also' Edward, and who 

 is himself succeeded by another Edward — his son. Now, the 

 first Edward, if the pedigree be correct, would in 1434 have been 

 not only born buf probably married, as his daughter Elizabeth, 

 eventually (according to the Leicestershire V isitations) his sole 

 heir, married Richard Salusbury, of Newton Burland, Co. 

 Leicester, in 1450.* It is Just possible, though most improb- 

 able, that her father was a son of the above Thurstan, but it 

 is not possible, as stated in the pedigree, that her brother 

 Edward carried on the line, if as appears she was her 

 father's sole heir. Nor is it probable that Elizabeth, wife to 

 William Bradshaw, one of the attesting witnesses to the deed of 

 1434, was daughter of that same Edward. The Derbyshire 

 Visitations give no Christian name to the father of Elizabeth 

 Bradshaw, and it seems more than likely that she was daughter 

 of Thomas and sister of Thurstan Kyrke. 



Reliquary, vol. vi., p. 213. 



