A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



with the other Gerard lands until the sixteenth 



Cen in ry i' 5 65 Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn sold his 

 moiety to Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton ; * and the 

 latter's grandson, Sir Richard, purchased the other 

 moiety in 1596 from Thomas Stanley alias Halsall, 

 upon whom it had been conferred by his father, 

 Henry, earl of Derby.* The Molyneux family thus 

 acquired the whole of the manor, and it has since 

 descended in the same way as Sefton, the earl of 

 Sefton being the present lord. 4 



Ingew.iith gave a surname to a resident family, 

 of which few particulars can be given. 4 A branch 

 of the Norris family settled here in the fifteenth 

 century ; 6 as also a branch of the Torbocks.' 

 William Fazakerley was a freeholder in l6oo, 8 and 

 his grandson William in 1628 contributed to the 

 subsidy. 9 The Tatlocks of Kirkby appear on the 

 recusant roll of 1 64 1. 10 Thomas Barker had his 

 lands sequestered for recusancy by the Common- 

 wealth." In 1717 James Harrison of Grange, 

 Thomas Tatlock, and William Sheppard as ' papists ' 



&c. in Kirkby and Me 

 of the manor of Kirkby. 



This moiety of Kirkby, with other 

 estates, had been settled upon Joan Hal- 

 sail, daughter of Robert Halsall, until her 

 son Thomas should attain 24 years of age, 

 when he should come into possession, with 

 remainder to his heirs male ; Croxteth 

 D. P. iii, I. The sale to Sir Richard 

 Molyneux was made in consideration of 

 1,160 paid; ibid. P. iii, 2, 3. 



4 The Molyneux family were already 

 landowners in Kirkby. In 1501 they 

 purchased from William Leyland, son and 

 heir of John Leyland, land in Avanes- 

 sergh, which had descended to the vendor 

 from William de Leyland, who had mar- 

 ried Margery, daughter of Adam de Snels- 

 ton by his wife Margery, in the time of 

 Edward II ; ibid, ii, 2. In 1548 Sir Wil- 

 liam Molyneux's estate, described as 

 3 messuages, 50 acres of land, &c., was 

 said to be held of the heirs of Adam 

 Snelston in socage by the service of one 

 barbed arrow ; it was worth 471. $d. per 

 annum clear ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p. m. 

 ix, n. 2. 



In 1623 the manor was said to be held 

 by the tenth part of a knight's fee ; Lanes. 

 Inq. f. m. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 iii, 390. 



Robert de Ingewaith was one of the 

 principal contributors to the subsidy in 



of all her rights in the same lands, which 

 Thomas had by her father's grant, 1439 ; 



(d) Grant by the feoffees to Thomas Tor- 

 bock, son of John, and Ellen his wife, 

 1537 ; (e) Surrender by Ellen, widow of 

 Thomas Torbock of Halsall, of her life 



Ji!? 



Fine between Anthony Maghull, plaint 

 and Richard Worsley and Alice his wife, 

 and John Worsley and Anne his wife, 

 deforciants, regarding lands at Kirkby, 

 1591. 



Isabel daughter and heir of John 

 Heath, and widow of John Fleetwood 

 of Kirkby, occurs temp. Hen. VIII; 

 Croxteth D. 



8 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 



Nicholas Fazakerley, son and heir of 

 William Fazakerley and Elizabeth his 

 wife, sold a burgage in Dale Street, Liver- 

 pool, to John Crosse in 1473 ; Nicholas 

 was living in 1491 ; Crosse D. (Trans. 

 Hist. Soc.}, n. 153-5, 161. 



9 Norris D. (B.M.). William Faza- 

 kerley of Kirkby held 28 acres in Walton 

 in 1639 ; Charley Sur-v. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 53. 



The family recorded a pedigree at the 

 Visit, of 1664, beginning with the Wil- 

 liam Fazakerley of 1 600 ; he was fol- 

 lowed by a son Nicholas who died about 



54 



For the Radcliffe-Fazakerley 

 see Dugdale, Visit, p. 238. 



Gregson says : 'John Nicholas Fazaker- 

 ley, M.P. for the city of Lincoln, 

 descended from Counsellor Fazakerley 

 (contemporary with the late Sir Thomat 

 Bootle of Lathom House), is of this family, 

 and until lately had many estates in the 

 hundred of West Derby and other parts of 

 the county ' ; Fragments (ed. Harland), 

 141. A deed of 1808 relating to his 

 estates is enrolled in the Common Pleas, 

 Trinity, 48 Geo. Ill, R. 94. 



>0 trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xiv, 238. 

 There are but few names for this town- 

 ship, but they include Ellen Fazakerley, 

 widow ; Anne Norris, widow, and Dorothy 

 Norris. 



" In 1651, Margery Barker, his widow, 

 petitioned for the removal of the seques- 

 tration of the two-thirds of the tenement, 

 which was leasehold under Lord Molyneux. 

 Margery and her two children were ' con- 

 ton certified that Thomas Barker, recusant, 

 had been buried at Walton in the family 

 grave, ' in the evening, as Papists used to 

 do ' ; Royalist Comf. P. i, 1 34-7. 



The estates of Edward Torbock and 

 Lawrence Stananought of Kirkby were 

 confiscated and sold by the Parliament 

 in 1652; Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 



