A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



been a descendant of Aymory the Walker, who appears 

 to have been a Crosse also.'" The Marklands were 

 prominent up to the beginning of the 1 8th century."" 

 A number of deeds concerning the Marsh family have 

 been preserved by Kuerden.'" Other surnames were 

 derived from various trades carried on here."" In 

 few cases can any connected account be given of 

 them. 



By an inquisition taken in 1 323 it was found that 

 one William de Marclan had held two messuages and 

 two acres of land and half an acre of meadow in 

 Wigan of the rector by the service of i id. yearly, and 

 other lands in Shevington of Margaret Banastre. He 

 granted them to feoffees, who in turn granted a moiety 

 to Robert de Holand. The last-named at Christmas 

 1317 assigned an annual rent of 29/. 6d. out of his 



life) ; to Imayne daughter of Hugh and 

 Katherine ; to William and to Gilbert, 

 brothers of Hugh ; ibid. GG, no. 2356. 

 These are not heard of again. 



From all this it appears that Katherine, 

 who was a daughter of Adam son of 

 Matthew de Kenyon (Crosse D. no. 56), 

 was four times married : (i) to John son 

 of Aymory, about 1366 ; (2) to William, 

 son of Adam de Liverpool, who died in 

 1383 (ibid. no. 77) ; (3) to Hugh del 

 Crosse, who died about 1392 ; and (4) to 

 Thomas de Hough, of Thornton Hough 

 in Wirral, who died in 1409 ; see Ormerod, 

 Ches, (ed. Helsby), ii, 549, 550 (from p. 

 576 it appears that Thomas had a pre- 

 vious wife, also named Katherine). She 

 had issue by the three earlier marriages. 

 She was still living in 1417 ; Crosse D. 

 no. 126. The pedigree recorded in 1567 

 Vhit. (Chet. Soc. 107) gives her yet 

 another husband, William de Houghton, 

 the first of all ; but this may be an 

 error. 



102 Adam del Crosse, who heads the 

 pedigree, had another son William, who 

 may have been the William del Crosse 

 already mentioned in 1277. In 1292 

 William son of William the Tailor of 

 Wigan claimed a tenement from William 

 son of Adam del Crosse on a plea of mort 

 d'ancestor ; Assize R, 408, m. 46 d. 

 This William married Emma daughter 

 of Thomas de Ince. The widow in 13 16 

 released to John del Crosse all her right 

 in her husband's lands in Ormskirk ; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 2384. 



There seems, however, to have been 

 another of the name, for in 1331 Isolda 

 widow of William de Cros complained 

 that she had been deprived of 40J. rent 

 from a messuage and 60 acres in Wigan ; 

 Assize R. 1404, m. 18 d. 



In 1329 Aymory the Walker, son of 

 William del Crosse, granted to feoffees all 

 his lands in Wigan ; these were regranted 

 forty years later, with remainders to 

 William, John, Henry, and Thurstan, 

 sons of Aymory ; Towneley MS. GG, 

 no. 2513, 2556. 



An Aymory the Walker appears as 

 early as 1 309, when William the Frere 

 granted him half a burgage next to the 

 half-burgage he already held ; ibid. GG, 

 no. 2588. In 1316 he had a grant from 

 Richard de Ince ; ibid. GG, no. 2654. 

 In 1 345 Lora widow of Robert de Leyland 

 granted to Aymory the Walker land called 

 the Souracre ( * Sowrykarr ' ) in Wigan j 

 ibid. GG, no. 2544 ; and in the same 

 year he is named in De Banco R. 344, m. 

 432. 



Before 1 347 John son of Aymory had 

 acquired land near Standishgate from Adam 

 son of John Dickson, whose divorced wife 

 in that year released all claim to it ; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 2568. A little 

 later he purchased land in Liverpool from 

 Adam son of Richard de Liverpool ; ibid. 

 GG, no. 2576. In 1347 William son of 

 Aymory granted to Thomas son of Henry 

 Fairwood a toft lyingin the Wirchinbank; 

 ibid. GG, no. 2604. In July 1359 Wil- 

 liam son of Aymory the Walker and 



Isobel his wife were non-suited in a 

 claim against Agnes, widow of Aymory ; 

 Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 7, m. 3 d. 

 William had a son Aymory, who about 

 1380 made a feoffment of his lands in 

 Wigan; ibid. GG, no. 2567, 2534. In 

 1388 Aymory the Walker leased the 

 Priestsacre in Botlingiield to Richard de 

 Longshaw 5 Crosse D. no. 96. 



John son of the elder Aymory in or 

 about 1366 married the above-named 

 Katherine daughter of Adam de Kenyon ; 

 Crosse D. no. 56 5 see also Towneley MS. 

 GG, no. 2550. He died in 1369, leaving 

 three sods by her, Richard, Nicholas, and 

 Thurstan ; Crosse D. no. 66. In 1377 

 Robert de Picton, cousin and heir of 

 Robert Barret of Liverpool, released to 

 William son of Adam de Liverpool, 

 Katherine his wife, and Richard son of 

 John Aymorysnn of Wigan, all actions ; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 2713. 



It is uncertain whether the Richard 

 del Crosse who followed Hugh was the 

 latter's son or the Richard son of John 

 Aymoryson and Katherine born about 

 1367. The latter is the statement in the 

 Vhit, of 1567, and has probabilities in its 

 favour. The charters state Richard 

 del Crosse to have been the son of 

 Katherine, but do not name his father, 

 and he is not named in the remainders to 

 Hugh's feoflment of 1395. Richard del 

 Crosse first occurs in the charters in 

 1400—1 (when, if he were son of Hugh, 

 he could not have been of full age) ; 

 Towneley MS. GG, no. 2526 ; Crosse D. 

 no. 96. On the other hand, in a writ 

 excusing him from serving on juries, 

 dated 1445, ^^ ^' said to be over sixty 

 years of age, while Richard the son of 

 John and Katherine would have been 

 nearly eighty years of age ; Towneley 

 MS. GG, no. 2286. In 1423-4 Richard 

 Aymory son of Henry Aymoryson (i.e. 

 son of Aymory son of William) released 

 to his * cousin ' Richard del Crosse all his 

 right in land which had belonged to 

 Aymory the Walker, son of William, son 

 of Aymory de Wigan ; Towneley MS. 

 GG, no. 25 1 1. 



Richard del Crosse prospered. He was 

 receiver for Lady Lovell (ibid. GG, no. 

 2199) j and acquired lands in Liverpool 

 and Chorley at the beginning of the 15th 

 century. Settling in the former town he 

 and his successors had little further direct 

 connexion with Wigan. A schedule of 

 lands in Wigan included in the marriage 

 settlement of John Crosse and Alice 

 Moore in 1566 is printed in Crosse D. 

 no. 224. Some of these were sold in 

 1591 and later years ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 53, m. 13, &c. For a com- 

 plaint by John Crosse regarding trespass 

 on his lands at Wigan see Local Glean. 

 Lanes, and Ches. ii, 203. 



108 A pedigree was recorded at the Visit. 

 of 1664 (Chet. Soc), 193. A descendant 

 acquired Foxholes in Rochdale by marriage 

 with an Entwisle heiress ; Fishwick, 

 Rochdale, 411, The surname is derived 

 from Markland in Pemberton. Adam 

 son of Richard de Marklaii(d) attested 



a charter dated about 1280 ; Matthew 

 and Henry one in 1323 ; Crosse D. no. 



13. 34- 



John and Matthew Markland occur in 

 the time of Richard II, and John son of 

 Matthew Markland in 141 3 ; Kuerden 

 MSS. ii, fol. 253. John Markland of 

 Wigan, mercer, occurs in 1443 and 1445 ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 5, m. i ; 7, m. 2, 

 6 d. Alexander son of Matthew Mark- 

 land was one of the receivers of the per- 

 secuted priests in 1586 ; Bridgeman, 

 IVigan Ch. 166, quoting Harl. MS. 360. 

 Ralph Markland, as a landowner, contri- 

 buted to the subsidy in 1628 ; Norris D. 

 (B.M.). 



Captain Gerard Markland had served 

 in a regiment of horse raised for the 

 Parliament, but disbanded in 1648, after 

 which he applied for arrears of pay. He 

 may be the alderman Gerard Markland 

 who left ;£s to the poor of Wigan ; Cat. 

 of Com, for Compounding, i, 173 ; Bridge- 

 man, Wigan Ch. J 16. A short letter of 

 his is printed in Hist. MSS. Com. Ref, 

 xiv, App. iv, 62. 



"^ Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 253. Grants 

 of land were made to Roger del Marsh by 

 Richard son of Adam son of Orm de 

 Wigan and by Adam son of Roger son 

 of Orm de Wigan in 1322 and 1336. In 

 1323-4 John son of Robert del Marsh 

 granted his inheritance to John del Marsh 

 and Roger his brother. 



John son of Roger del Marsh gave 

 land in Scholefield to Robert de Lai- 

 thwaite and Anabel his wife. 



In 1398-9 Adam del Marsh received 

 from the feoffees the lands he had granted 

 them with remainders to Roger his son 

 by his first wife ; this seems to have been 

 upon the occasion of his later marriage 

 with Joan, daughter of Hugh de Win- 

 stanley. 



Deeds of the time of Hen. VI show 

 the succession ; Roger — s. William, who 

 married Isabel — s. Robert, whose wife 

 was Margaret. 



In the time of Hen. VIII the lands of 

 this family appear to have been sold to 

 Thomas Hesketh. 



^0= The following occur in the 14th 

 and 15 th centuries : Baxter, Bowwright, 

 Carpenter, Ironmonger, Litster, Lorimer, 

 Potter, Skinner, Tanner, Teinturer, 

 Walker, and Wright. 



Three minor families occur in the Visi- 

 tations. The Rigbys of Wigan and Peel 

 in Little Hulton recorded a pedigree in 

 1613 ; Visit. (Chet. Soc), 65. In 1664 

 Colonel William Daniell of Wigan re- 

 corded a pedigree ; Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. 

 Soc), 95. Also the Pennington family ; 

 ibid. 232. David de Pennington and 

 Margery his wife occur in pleas of 1374 ; 

 De Banco R. 455, m. 424 d. ; 457, m. 

 341. Margery afterwards married Richard 

 del Ford, and in 1384 a settlement by 

 fine was made between them and John 

 de Swinley and Alice his wife concerning 

 the latter's inheritance ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 2, m. 27. 



For the Baldwins of Wigan lee Fal. 

 Note Bk, i, 54. 



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