A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



purchased by Samuel Clowes in 1775.^' The 

 Chetham third " had already come into the hands 

 of the Clowes family/^ whose descendants retain 

 their estate in Kersal. 



The Kenyon third was about the year 1660 alien- 

 ated to the Byroms of Manchester/* whose line 

 terminated in the death of Miss Eleanora Atherton 



on 12 September 1870. It 

 had one famous holder — 

 John Byrom of "Kersal, Jaco- 

 bite, hymn-writer, and short- 

 hand inventor ; he was born 

 in 1692, educated at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, of which 



division ; Earwaker MSS. In 1702 Samuel 

 Chetham of Turton and Henry Green- 

 halgh leased their parts of the mill for 

 99 years to Edward Byrom of Manchester, 

 linen-draper ; the parties had lately made 

 a brick-kiln ; ibid. 



In 1704 land called Dauntcsey'sWarth 

 was sold by Christopher Dauntesey and 

 others to Henry Greenhalgh ; Piccope's 

 notes. Another piece of this land, called 

 Gooden's Warth, was in 1703 sold by 

 Thomas Gooden of Little Bolton (in 

 Eccles) to Otho Holland of Pendleton ; 

 Manch. Free Lib. D. no. 53. The fields 

 took their name from a ford across the 

 Irwell to Whit Lane in Pendleton. 



The Dauntesey interest in Kersal, in- 

 dicated by the last paragraph, arose from 

 a 2 1 -years' lease in 1539 from Henry 

 VIII to John Wood, one of his ' Ois- 

 tringers,* of the site of Kersal cell and 

 its lands, including Redstone pasture, 

 Danerode meadow, with sufficient house- 

 bote, firebote, &c. to be taken from 

 the king's woods adjacent ; a rent of 

 j^ii 6s. %d. was to be paid ; Agecroft D. 

 no, 109. The lease was at once trans- 

 ferred to Robert Langley of Agecroft ; 

 ibid. no. 110. Disputes arose between 

 the lessee and the owners in 1560 — 

 James Chetham, Edward Siddall, and 

 George Kenyon — which were submitted 

 to arbitration ; ibid. no. 126, 



83 The Greenhalgh estate in Kersal 

 appears to have come into the hands of 

 the Hopwoods of Hopwood by a fore- 

 closure, and was in 1775 sold as the 

 'lands, messuages, and tenements late be- 

 longing to Anne Greenhalgh' to Joseph 

 Matthews, who at once sold them to 

 Samuel and John Clowes for ^^4,260, as 

 'one undivided third part of the manor 

 or lordship of Kersal, and the whole of 

 the capital messuage called Kersal Hall, 

 with the appurtenances belonging,* with 

 third parts of the moor and mill. Samuel 

 Clowes at the same time conveyed a 

 moiety of an undivided third part of the 

 manor to Elizabeth widow of John 

 Byrom, M.A, j Piccope's notes. 



^^ See the accounts of Crumpsall and 

 Turton for this family. James Chetham 

 died in 1571, holding a messuage in 

 Kersal, a third part of the water-mill, 

 and various other lands, &c. ; also of the 

 third part of a rent of 141. ^. from Ash- 

 ton under Lyne ; and six messuages or 

 burgages in Manchester. A settlement 

 made in 1567 of Kersal Hall, &c., is re- 

 cited in the inquisition, which states that 

 Kersal and the rent from Ashton were 

 held of the queen by the third part of the 

 fourth part of a knight's fee and a rent 

 of 1 31. yearly. Henry the son and heir 

 was twenty-eight years of age 5 Duchy of 

 Lane. Inq, p.m. xiii, ig. For Henry 

 Chetham's inquisition, showing the same 

 estate, see Lanes. Jnq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, a. He was suc- 

 ceeded by his son James, who from 1613 

 to 1619 made further purchases in Ker- 

 sal ; Clowes D. 



^^ This was agreed upon by the parti- 

 tion of 1772 between the sisters and co- 

 heirs of Edward Chetham of Nuthurst ; 

 Mary the wife of Samuel Clowes re- 



ceived the third part of Kersal, together 

 with Broughton ; Axon, Chetham Gen, 

 (Chet. Soc), 63. To this was added a 

 moiety of the third part purchased in 

 1775, as above stated, so that a moiety 

 of Kersal descended like Broughton. 



^2 No record of the transfer has been 

 seen, but Edward Byrom, who died in 

 1668, was the earliest described as 'of 

 Kersal.' 



For this family see the Byrom Pedigrees, 

 with notes by Canon Raines (Chet. Soc. 

 xliv). The earliest known member of it 

 is Alice widow of Ralph Byrom, whose 

 will (1524) mentions her sons Adam, 

 Robert (a priest), Ralph and Thomas ; 

 Piccope, Wills, ii, 180. Adam Byrom of 

 Salford died 25 July 1558, holding twelve 

 burgages, &c., in Salford, houses and lands 

 in Little Lever, Bolton le Moors, Man- 

 chester, and Ardwick ; the tenements in 

 Salford were held of the queen as of her 

 duchy in free burgage by a rent of zis. 3^/. 

 and the burgage in Manchester of the 

 executors of Lord La Warre, The heir 

 was his grandson Ralph, son and heir of 

 George son of Adam, then three years of 

 age ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xi, 65. 

 Adam's will is printed in Piccope, fVills 

 (Chet. Soc), i, 44 ; it mentions his three 

 sons, George, Henry, and Adam. George 

 Byrom was living in 1554, when he pur- 

 chased a house in Manchester from Adam 

 Holland ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. i, 9. He 

 died very soon after his father, before 

 Mar. 1559; ibid, i, 43. The inventory 

 of his goods is preserved at Chester. 

 Margaret Byrom, daughter of George, was 

 a victim of witchcraft 5 Byrom Fed. 23. 



Ralph Byrom, the heir, came of age in 

 1577 ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. i, 183, 187. 

 He died in 1598, holding much the same 

 estate as his grandfather, and leaving a 

 son and heir Ralph, twenty years of age ; 

 Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. xvii, 71 5 see 

 also Wills (Chet. Soc. new ser.), i, 206. 

 Ralph died at Salford the year after his 

 father, without issue ; his brother Adam, 

 fourteen years of age, was the heir ; 

 Duchy of Lane Inq. p.m. xvii, 39. 



There are numerous references to 

 Adam Byrom in the Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. 

 (see ii, 141, 152), from which it appears 

 that he came of age in 1608 (ii, 234). 

 He recorded a pedigree in 161 3, showing 

 that he married a daughter of Edmund 

 Prestwich of Hulme, and had then four 

 children — Adam, Ralph, Ellen, and Mar- 

 garet ; Visit, of 1613 (Chet. Soc), 35. In 

 161 9 he sold a messuage in Hanging 

 Ditch, Manchester ; Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 

 II ; and in 1641 conveyed all his lands 

 in Manchester to his son Adam ; ibid, iii, 

 333, The younger Adam died about this 

 time, and the father in 1644 at Chester ; 

 a younger son, John, an active Royalist, 

 succeeding. His estates were sequestered 

 in 1646, but he compounded in 1651, 

 paying a fine of ;^20i 5 in 1661 he was 

 described as 'that worthy and valiant 

 gentleman Major John Byrom, whose 

 fidelity hath been sufficiently testified by 

 his great sufi^erings in his Majesty's 

 service*; Ct. Leet Rec. iv, 282 and 

 note ; Royalist Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 267. He recorded 



220 



a pedigree in 



1664, having g^^^j^ of Manchester, 



then by his ^ ^ che-veron he- 



wife Mary f_ ,. j,^j„.j,^„ 



RadchfFe of ^^^^ ^ ^^„^^^ ^^„-^_ 

 Foxdenton a 

 son Adam, 



nine years of age ; Dugdale, J^isil. 68. 

 John Byrom died in 1678 and his son in 

 1684, when the heirs at law were John's 

 sister Penelope Hey, and his nieces Mar- 

 garet Ainsworth and Elizabeth Jenkinson ; 

 Byrom Fed. 26, 27. The estate was pur- 

 chased in 1703 by Edward Byrom of 

 Kersal ; ibid. 39. 



The Kersal family decended from 

 Henry younger son of Adam Byrom of 

 Salford (1558) already mentioned; 

 Henry's will, dated and proved in 1558, is 

 printed in Piccope, Willi, ii, 113; his 

 brother Adam and sons Robert and 

 Lawrence are named in it. The son 

 Lawrence (wrongly called son of Adam) 

 heads the visitation pedigree ; see Lanes, 

 and Ches, Antiq, Notes, ii, 140, and Byrom 

 Fed. 30, 31. Robert Byrom of Salford 

 held burgages there of the queen by a rent 

 of 55. ^d, a year 5 he died in 1586, leaving 

 his brother Lawrence as heir ; ibid, xiv, 45. 



Edward the son of Lawrence comes 

 intonoteabout 1620, and in i626purchased 

 lands in Hanging Ditch ; Manch. Ct. Leet 

 Rec.va, 112. He adhered to the Parlia- 

 ment's side in the Civil War; Byrom Fed. 

 32 ; CMl TVar Tracts (Chet. Soc), 233. 

 One of his sons, John, was accidentally 

 killed in 1642 while serving with the 

 Parliamentary forces, and the eldest son, 

 William, was active on the same side, 

 being a member of the Manchester 

 classis ; Byrom Fed. 33 ; Ct. Leet Rec. 

 iv, 14, 282. William jnarried Rebecca 

 daughter of Captain John Beswick, and 

 left issue ; he recorded a pedigree in 

 1664 ; Dugdale, Visit. 67. For his will 

 sec Byrom Fed. 34. 



It was his younger brother Edward 

 who acquired Kersal ; his will is given 

 in Byrom Fed. 37. For his widow see 

 ibid. 37, 38 ; by her second marriage she 

 was an ancestor of the Clowes family. 

 He is frequently mentioned in the Ct. 

 Leet Rec. and dying in 1688 left two 

 sons, Edward of Kersal, who purchased 

 the estate of the Byroms of Salford, and 

 Joseph, who acquired that of the Byroms 

 of Byrom. Edward's son was the John 

 Byrom noticed in the text ; he married 

 his cousin, Elizabeth daughter of Joseph 

 Byrom, and their son Edward by the will 

 of his uncle Edward (son and heir of 

 Joseph) received Byrom Hall. Edward 

 Byrom the younger was a banker in 

 Manchester, residing in Quay Street, and 

 built and endowed St. John's Church 

 there. Ann, his daughter, married Henry 

 Atherton, and their daughters and co- 

 heirs were Eleanora, unmarried, and 

 Lucy wife of Richard Willis of Halsnead, 

 who had no issue. Miss Atherton founded 

 and endowed Holy Trinity Church, 

 Hulme, founded an almshouse at Prescot 

 in memory of her sister Mrs. Willis, and 

 in other ways showed herself pious and 

 munificent. She was also a liberal patron 

 of the Chetham Society. 



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