WEST DERBY HUNDRED 



descendant Abraham Crompton died at Skerton in 

 1822, having dispersed most of the Walton estate. 1 



The Fazakerleys' third part 



descended in that family until ____^_ , 

 the eighteenth century, when 

 it was sold to James, tenth earl 

 of Derby, and has since de- 

 scended with the earldom. 8 



In 1328 Richard de North- 

 brook granted his capital mes- 

 suage at Northbrook in Walton 

 to Thomas, son of Richard de 

 Molyneux of Sefton, 3 and in 

 1382 Hugh de Ince of Wigan Argenti 

 released all his claim in the between thre 

 same place to Thomas de 

 Molyneux of Cuerdale." This 



and other lands granted to younger branches of the 

 Sefton family 5 appear to have been purchased by 

 the head of the family, and were acquired in the fif- 

 teenth century by Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton, 

 with other small holdings in Walton. 6 These were 

 afterwards reputed a manor. 7 



NEW SHAM with its fouroxgangs of land, was part 

 of the original grant to Waldeve de Walton, as already 



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WALTON 



stated. 8 In the inquest taken after the death of John 

 Bolton of Newsham in 1 6 1 3 , it was found that he held 

 a messuage, with 30 acres of land, &c., of the 

 king in socage, and that Robert Bolton his son 

 was his next heir. 9 Robert Bolton died 1 8 October, 

 1630, his son and heir John being only sixteen years of 

 age. 10 The family appear to have adhered to the Roman 

 church or reverted to it, for in 1717 John Bolton 

 of Newsham within Walton, registered his entailed 

 estate as a ' Papist.' " Ten years later it is men- 

 tioned that his daughter had married a Mr. Moly- 

 neux." It was, perhaps, in this way that the estate 

 came into the possession of a family named Moly- 

 neux, one of whom, Thomas Molyneux, held it 

 a century ago and built the present Newsham house. 

 ' In 1 846, owing to commercial reverses, the estate 

 was offered for sale and purchased by the Corpora- 

 tion of Liverpool for the sum of 80,000 ' ; 13 an 

 adjacent estate was also acquired, and eventually 

 both were laid out as public parks, Newsham House 

 being fitted up as a residence for the judges. Queen 

 Victoria resided there during her visit to Liverpool 

 in 1886. 



SPELLOW gave its name to the family who re- 

 sided there in the fourteenth century ; u afterwards 



