A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



married Ellen de Walton and claimed her father's 

 manor, obtaining a third part, emerges in the first 

 quarter of the fifteenth century ; l and later, Thomas 

 son and heir of Roger. 8 The visitations of 1613 and 

 1664 place on record a few generations. 3 The family 

 adhered to the Roman Catholic faith at the Reforma- 

 tion,* and to the king's side in the civil war, Nicholas 

 Fazakerley losing his life in the cause at Liverpool in 

 1 643.* The family estates were sold by the Parlia- 

 ment,' though probably much was recovered. Spellow 

 and the third part of Walton manor were alienated 

 about 1726.' Fazakerley, however, was retained or 

 recovered, and in the eighteenth century the family is 

 stated to have conformed to the Established Church. 



The estates passed to John Hawarden, who took 

 the name of Fazakerley, 8 and afterwards to Henry 

 Gillibrand, of Chorley, who took the name of 

 Hawarden Fazakerley ; his son Henry dying childless, 

 the daughters succeeded. The eldest, Matilda, married 

 in 1863 Jocelyn Tate Westby, of Mowbreck, who as- 

 sumed the name of Fazakerley-Westby. 9 The manor 

 of Fazakerley, however, had been sold about 1820. In 

 1825 the hall was the residence of Richard Bullin, 

 nephew of Thomas Leyland, of the adjacent Walton 

 Hall ; 10 these properties have since descended together. 



The Molyneux family of Sefton " claimed a manor 

 here in virtue of their holding ; other families of the 

 fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries which may be 



His brother Thomas, who 

 1629, aged 1 8, under the same aliai, 

 stated that he was ' born and brought up 

 in Lancashire, his parents were of high 

 family and always Catholics. His friends 

 were likewise of the upper class, some 

 being Catholics and some heretics. He 

 had made his humanities at St. Omer's 

 for five years.' He was made priest and 

 returned to England in 1636, being buried 



,87 io,.ioi4, charged with six guineas 

 to his sister Anne ; Estcourt and Payne, 

 Engl. Cath. Non-jurors, 112. 



At the beginning of 1723 Robert Faza- 

 kerley of Liverpool, and Robert Fazakerley, 

 merchant, his son and heir-apparent, mort- 

 gaged Spellow House and lands for 800 

 to Mary Richmond, widow; and in 1726 

 and 1727 Robert, the son, and Sarah, the 

 widow, of the elder Robert Fazakerley, 



30 



West Derby. 



10 Baines, Lanes. Dir. ii, 713. 



" See the account of Walton. The 

 Molyneux holding was obtained chiefly by 

 purchase from the Bullock family. In 

 1321 Robert Bullock granted all his lands 

 in Walton and Fazakerley to William his 

 son ; another son Richard is mentioned ; 

 Croxteth O.K.. i. Alan de Whike granted 

 in 1323 part of his land in Hey in Faza- 



