A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



neux of Cunscough. 1 On the accession of Charles I 

 Thomas Wolfall received a general pardon, chiefly 

 required perhaps for recusancy, the family being adher- 

 ents of the Roman Catholic religion. 2 He had two sons, 

 William and Thomas, and four daughters, and the 

 estates descended to his great-grandson William Wol- 

 fall, 3 born in 1643. This William mortgaged the 

 estates in 1674, and he and his wife Mary, daughter 

 of Thomas Carus, both died at the beginning of 

 1686, leaving three sons, Richard, William, and 

 Henry, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. 

 Richard Wolfall made other mortgages in 1688 and 

 1 694 ; he married Anne, daughter and heir of Edward 

 Stanley of Moor Hall, but on his dying childless in 

 1718* the estates passed in succession to his brothers 

 William, who died in 1720, and Henry. 5 Henry's 

 son and heir William " in 1 744 sold lands in Wolfall 

 to the earl of Derby, and in 1755, after many mort- 

 gages, sold the manor of Wolfall, Wolfall Hall, half 

 the manor of Huyton, &c., to Thomas Seel of Liver- 

 pool, 7 whose descendant and heir, as above stated, sold 

 Wolfall to the earl of Derby in 1828. 



Another estate in Huyton, but not considered 

 manorial, was Deyne or DAM HOUSE* which in 

 1 664 was held by Thomas Wolfall, son of Thomas 

 Wolfall, also of the Dam House, who was, as stated, 



the younger son of Thomas Wolfall of Wolfall. 9 

 This estate had previously been held, at least for 

 a time, by the Tyldesley family, as to whom deeds pre- 

 served by Kuerden supply much information. 10 



Nicholas Tyldesley occurs in Elizabeth's reign." 

 A feoffment of the property was made, the remainders 

 being to Michael, Thomas, George, William, and 

 Francis, brothers of Nicholas, and to Anthony 

 Tyldesley." Nicholas Tyldesley died in 1 603 holding 

 lands and rents in Huyton and Wolfall (Dam) of 

 William earl of Derby ; Henry his son and heir was 

 twenty-six years of age. 13 His son Henry is men- 

 tioned in various bonds, and he and his sister or 

 daughter Ellen occur in 1627, about which time he 

 appears to have sold Dam House. 14 



The Red Hazels, already mentioned as part of the 

 lands of Burscough Priory, became the property of the 

 Ogles of Whiston, from whom it passed by marriage 

 to the Cases ; one of the latter sold it to Joseph 

 Birch, created a baronet in 1831, whose son Sir 

 Thomas Birch, M.P. for Liverpool 1847-52, after- 

 wards lived there. 15 



The Mossocks of Allerton and Cunscough, as heirs 

 of John Norris of Woolton (who was also described 

 as ' of Roby ' or ' of Huyton ' ), held lands here in the 

 fifteenth century. The title was derived from grants 



