A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 





ceased to reside at Huyton. 1 Richard Molyneux of 

 New Hall did not long enjoy the Huyton estates, 

 dying in February 1734. His widow lived on till 

 1790. Their only son Richard died unmarried a 

 fortnight after his father, leaving his sister Frances sole 

 heir. She married in 1745 Thomas Seel of Liver- 

 pool, and by him had four daughters.* The eldest, 

 Amelia Maria, married Owen Wynne of Llanseck in 

 Denbighshire, but died childless ; 3 the two youngest 

 daughters, Margaret and Alice, died unmarried in 

 1819 and 1797, and the second daughter Frances 

 was thus eventually sole heir. Thomas Seel the father 

 had increased the estates by purchasing from William 

 Wolfall the manor of Wolfall in Huyton, and entailed 

 the estate on his grandson. 



This grandson was Thomas Unsworth, son of 

 Frances Seel by Thomas Unsworth, whose father, a 



SE.L. Per fesse potent 

 counter-potent pean and 

 azure three ivol-ves' heads 

 erased counterchanged. 



Liverpool merchant, had purchased a moiety of the 

 manor of Maghull, including the manor house. 

 Thomas the heir in 1814 assumed the name and arms 

 of Molyneux-Seel in accordance with his grandfather's 

 will, and on his aunt Margaret's death took possession 

 of Hurst House, and the estate and manor of Huyton 

 Hey. 4 He had a son and heir, Edmund Thomas, 

 born in Paris in 1824, and still surviving, also two 

 other sons, Charles William and Henry Harrington. 



He sold Wolfall to the earl of Derby about 1828 and 

 died at Huyton Hey in 1 88 1. Most of the remain- 

 ing family estates have also been sold, but Huyton Hey 

 remains in the family. 5 The house so called, now a 

 farm-house, is still occupied. The site of a moated 

 hall is adjacent. 



The Harringtons after the Reformation appear to 

 have adhered to the Roman Catholic religion, but to 

 have avoided convictions for recusancy, probably by 

 occasional attendances at church in Elizabeth's reign. 

 Thus, in 1590, 'Harrington of Harrington in Huy- 

 ton parish, esquire,' was returned among others who 

 showed ' some degree of conformity, yet (were) in 

 general note of evil affection in religion.' 6 In 1641 

 Robert Harrington 7 and his wife for this reason paid 

 to the subsidy. 8 As one of the more notable recu- 

 sants in Lancashire, John Harrington was in 1680 

 marked for banishment by the Parliament. 9 Their 

 alliances were with the Roman Catholic families of 

 the district, and their successors Molyneux, Seel, 

 and Unsworth have been of the same faith. 



WOLFALL 10 was another manor in Huyton," of 

 which mention has already been 

 made. Robert son of Henry 

 de Lathom, who died in 1 198, 

 granted it to a Robert son of 

 Richard for a rent of I zd. pay- 

 able at St. Bartholomew." It 

 is possible that it reverted to 

 the grantor, for his own younger 

 son, Richard de Knowsley, ap- 

 pears to have settled there, and 

 to have had sons who took 

 Wolfall as a surname. Thus 

 Richard de Wolfall, son of 

 Richard de Knowsley, granted 

 land called Huyton Rawe to 



Henry de Huyton. 13 In 1245 Richard de Wolfall 

 granted to Burscough Priory his millpool in Wolfall. 14 

 Several sons are mentioned Richard, John, William, 



Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 270, . I. 

 s are named as the Hache, 

 iddle of the wood, Stock- 

 boundary, also the assart 

 i and Sewardsgate. In 1284 

 Richard del Bury, son of Robert de Wol- 

 : his brother Adam all his right in 

 which his brother John had in 

 ; ibid. No. 4. 



;h a large number of Wolfall 

 have been preserved by Kuerden 

 lume cited, a satisfactory pedigree 

 >e constructed from them. The 

 ition of the son of Richard de 

 :y, brother of Adam de Huyton, 

 he first Richard de Wolfall has been 

 as least objectionable, 

 d. v, fol. 138*. a. 94, ii ; fol. 



Burscough Reg. fol. 44. He is de- 

 as Richard de Knowsley, son of 

 son of Henry and Amabel his wife. 

 d de Wolfall was one of the collec- 

 >r the Gascon scutage in 124x5 

 Inj. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 ies.), 146. 



ls Richard, Adam, and William, brothers, 

 to an early (1230-64) 

 ter ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 

 Robert de Wolfall was another. 

 Richard de Huyton, Adam, and Wil- 

 liam (his) brothers,' also occur ; ibid. 



WOLFALL OK WOL- 



bends gules and an ermine 

 tail between them. 



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