denby old hall and its owners. 1 3 



The Lowe Family. 



Lawrence Lowe, Esq., Sergeant-at-Law and a retainer of 

 William, Lord Hastings, married the heiress of the last de Rossel, 

 and thus became possessed of the ancient manor. 



Their son, Humphrey, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas 

 Cokaine, of Ashbourn, and had issue Clement and Vincent. 



Vincent, who married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Cokaine, 

 of Ashbourn, became heir of his brother Clement, who left 

 no male issue. This Vincent purchased the estate of Park 

 Hall, and thus re-united the two parts of the old manor. Of 

 his children, Francis, Jasper, Anthony, George, Jane and Anne. 

 Francis inherited Denby, but dying without issue, was succeeded 

 by Jasper. 



Jasper, who had inherited the Park Hall estate, thus became 

 owner of the whole of the Denby properties. He married 

 Dorothy, daughter of William Sacheverell, of Stanton, and was 

 succeeded by his eldest son, Patrick, who appears in the 

 Muster Roll for 1599-1600 as "Patrick Lowe of Denby 

 esquire."* Patrick married Jane, daughter of Sir John Harpur, 

 of Swarkstone, and had issue Vincent, who married Anne 

 Cavendish, and is described under Denby in the Roll of Free- 

 holders for 1633 as " Vincencius Lowe Armigcr : ' ; and Isabel, 

 who married Sir John Zouch, of Codnor. 



WlLMOT. 



In 4 Charles I., Robert Wilmot, of Chaddesden, purchased 

 from the above-mentioned Vincent Lowe and others " all that 

 pasture ground lying in Denby, called Denby Parke, enclosed 

 with a pale/' and by indenture of feoffment, dated Aug. 2nd, 

 4 Charles I., it was conveyed to him in fee. At that time the 

 title " park " was more than a mere name surviving from 

 ancient times, as deer still grazed and were hunted on the 

 estate, and it had the reputation and privileges of a park. The 

 messuage house was the keeper's lodge, and the keeper in 

 Patrick Lowe's time (possibly the last of the keepers) was a 

 man named Nicholas Ottiwell. 



*Vol. XVII., p. 40, of this Journal. 



