A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Shacklock,^^ and another part of the estate to the Bow- 

 kers.** The Shacklocks held possession of the hall for 

 more than a century ; *° in 1 664 it was sold to Edward 

 Chetham/^ The family name is commemorated by 

 Shacklock or Shakerley Green. The Bowkers' name 

 is preserved in Bowker Hall on the border of Black- 

 ley/* Another family, the Lightbownes, have a 

 similar memorial ;** they succeeded the Jepsons. 



HOUGH HALL was long the residence of a family 

 named Halgh or Hough;" the last of the line, 

 Captain Robert Hough, took the king's side in the 

 Civil War and had his estate sequestered.*" It was 

 purchased in 1685 by James Lightbowne, and soon 

 afterwards passed to the Minshulls of Chorlton. In 

 or soon after 1774 it was purchased by Samuel 

 Taylor/® by whose representative it was sold about 



a** Clowes D. WiUiam Radcliffe of 

 Ordsall seems to have released his claim 

 to the Shacklocks ; ibid. From the same 

 deeds it appears that the Earl of Sussex 

 had in 1543 made a lease of land in 

 Moston to Adam Shacklock. 



There was some family disputing over 

 the acquisition. In 1542. Robert and 

 Thomas Shacklock complained that in the 

 preceding year the Earl of Sussex had 

 made a lease to them, but Richard Shack- 

 lock the elder and his sons, Adam, Hugh, 

 and Ellis, had expelled the plaintiffs. The 

 latter seem to have established their case, 

 but in 1544, after the death of Richard 

 Shacklock, they complained that forcible 

 entry had again been made, this time by 

 Margaret widow of Richard, Ellis her 

 son, and others ; Duchy of Lane. Plead. 

 Hen. VIII, XV, S I, S 12. 



59 Clowes D. To Geoffrey and Oliver 

 Bowker John Reddish sold 26 acres of his 

 purchase, and to Nicholas Bowker he sold 

 20 acres. 



"•^ Thomas Shacklock died at the end 

 of 1570, leaving a son and heir Robert, 

 of full age ; Manch. Ct, Leet Rec. i, 137 ; 

 an abstract of his will is printed in the 

 notes. 



Robert Shacklock died in 1588, leaving 

 Edward as son and heir, of full age ; ibid. 

 ii, 31, For fines referring to his proper- 

 ties see Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 35, 

 m. 158 ; 49, m. 191. 



Edward Shacklock died in i6i8, 

 leaving a son and heir John, of full age ; 

 Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 19. The 

 inquisition taken after his death, em- 

 bodying his will (see Booker, op. cit. 

 181), is preserved among the Clowes D. ; 

 his wife was Alice Cudworth, and his son 

 John was twenty-two years of age. In 

 1 62 1 an Adam Shacklock and Adam his 

 son and heir appear ; ibid. 



John Shacklock the elder made a feoff- 

 ment of Howgate and other lands in 

 1628, the remainders being to his son and 

 heir John the younger, Edward a younger 

 son, and Daniel brother of John the elder ; 

 ibid. John the younger died before 1649, 

 when Edward is described as son and heir 

 apparent ; ibid, A further feoffment or 

 mortgage was made in 1655 by John 

 Shacklock, Mary his wife, and Edward 

 then his only son. Daughters Elizabeth 

 and Mary are mentioned ; ibid. 



Edward Shacklock died in or before 

 1666, leaving his sister Mary as his heir, 

 ibid. 



The will of Thomas Shacklock of 

 Moston, a * cousin ' of the Edward who 

 died in 1618, is printed by Booker(op. cit. 

 179); he left sons Robert, Oswald, and 

 Henry. 



^1 Clowes D. Margaret the widow of 

 Edward Shacklock had a claim for ;^5oo 

 against the estate ; but Edward Chetham, 

 the purchaser, refused to discharge it until 

 certain deeds were given up to him. In 

 1669 the ;^5oo was paid. 



^2 Oliver Bowker, ' late of Moston,' 

 died in 1565* leaving a son and heir 

 Edward, of lawful age ; Manch. Ct, Leet 

 Rec. i, 93. Edward Bowker purchased 



a messuage and land in Moston from 

 George Bowker in 1567 ; Pal. of Lane. 

 Feet of F. bdle. 29, m. 25. He died 

 20 Mar. 1585-6, leaving a son Geoffrey, 

 then eighteen years old ; his messuage and 

 lands in Moston were held of John Lacy ; 

 Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. i, 258 ; ii, 32 ; Inq. 

 p.m. in Clowes D. 



Nicholas Bowker of Harpurhcy and 

 Jane his wife in 1572 sold lands in 

 Moston to Robert Shacklock ; Clowes D, ; 

 Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 34, m. 63. 



^3 See Booker, op. cit. 163-79; a 

 pedigree is given. The family began 

 with James Lightbowne, a successful 

 tradesman of Manchester, who in 161 5 

 purchased a house in (Old) Millgate ; 

 Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. ii, 305. He died in 

 1621, leaving a son John under age ; ibid, 

 iii, 47, where a full abstract of his will is 

 printed. The son became a bencher of 

 Gray's Inn, and recorded a pedigree in 

 1664, arms having been granted to him 

 and his brother James in 1662. He died 

 in 1667, when his estates went to his 

 daughter Elizabeth, wife of Francis 

 Lindley, also of Gray's Inn. His will 

 with tiie inventory is printed in Booker's 

 work, 162-8; in his 'study* were 

 law books valued at ^^22 and divinity 

 books at ^18. Elizabeth Lindley left a 

 daughter and ultimate heir also named 

 Elizabeth, who married George Pigot of 

 Preston ; their son Thomas died without 

 issue ; ibid, 174, 



It was John's younger brother James 

 Lightbowne, aged fifty in 1664, who by 

 his marriage with Jane, daughter and heir 

 of Adam Jepson of Moston, acquired the 

 estate in the township since known by his 

 name. 



The Jepsons can be traced back to a 

 Ralph Jepson of Moston, who died in 

 1560 or 1561, leaving a son Nicholas of 

 full age, as his heir ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. 

 i, 61, Nicholas died in 1595, leaving a 

 son and heir Robert of full age ; ibid, ii, 

 104. His will is printed by Booker, op, 

 cit, 189-91. Contemporary with him 

 was a Ralph Jepson of Manchester, often 

 named in the records. Robert Jepson did 

 not long survive his father, dying in 1601, 

 leaving a son and heir Adam, nine years 

 old. He held two messuages and lands, 

 &c., in Moston of Sir N. Mosley in socage, 

 by a rent of i SJ. His will is recited in 

 the inquisition ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xviii, II ; Ct. Leet Rec. ii, 174. Adam 

 came of age in 1619; ibid, iii, 19. He 

 died in 1632 leaving seven daughters, the 

 eldest about twelve years old. His will 

 is printed by Booker (191-3) ; the 

 inventory of his goods, valued at ;^6io, 

 mentions the shop at Manchester and the 

 Yarn chamber. 



In 1656 the Manchester jury found 

 * that Mr. James Lightbowne is possessed 

 of certain lands situate and lying in 

 Moston, which was given by the last will 

 and testament of Adam Jepson of Moston 

 to his daughter Jane, now wife to Mr. 

 James Lightbowne,' and he was summoned 

 to do his suit and service ; he had also 

 purchased lands in Moston from Lawrence 



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Lomax and Richard Ashworth ; Ct. Leet 

 Rec. iv, 168, 169. He was a woollen 

 draper in Manchester and the friend of 

 Henry Newcome ; Newcome, Autohiog, 

 (Chet. See), i, 144. By his will (Booker, 

 168-71) he left his estate in Moston, 

 except Street Fold, to his eldest son James, 

 who was also to have the chambers in 

 Gray's Inn. Another son, Samuel, was to 

 have the house in Manchester (Ct. Leet 

 Rec. vi, 53), and the walk mill, &c., in 

 Blackley j other sons and daughters were 

 provided for, 



James, aged eighteen in 1 664, in which 

 year he succeeded his father, matriculated 

 at Oxford in 1662 and became a barrister 

 and bencher of Gray's Inn; Foster, 

 Alumni. He was steward of the Man- 

 chester Court in 1681 {Ct. Lett. Rec. vi, 

 128), and a feoffee of the Grammar 

 School in 1696; Booker, op. cit. 172. 

 In 1679 he married Elizabeth Hough 

 (Chester, Lond. Marriage Lie.) and dying 

 in or before 1699 left a son James, who 

 died in 1738 without issue, his heir being 

 his sister Elizabeth, wife of John lUing- 

 worth of Manchester ; Piccope, MS. 

 Pedigrees (Chet. Lib.), i, 359. 



In 1759 it was bequeathed by Elizabeth 

 Illingworth, widow, to her daughter 

 Zenobia Ann, widow of Benjamin Bowker, 

 after whose death it was to go to three 

 granddaughters, Ann, Elizabeth, and 

 Maria Bowker. These, or their heirs, in 

 1800 joined in the sale of the estate to 

 Samuel Taylor, whose grandson Samuel 

 in 1 83 1 and 1848 sold Bluestone House 

 Farm and Lightbowne Hall to Joseph 

 Bleakley of Ardwick. 



*^ The name was usually spelt Halgh, 

 For an account of this family see Booker, 

 op. cit. 184-8. Valentine Halgh in 

 16 1 3 purchased lands in Moston of 

 Richard Assheton of Middleton ; Manch. 

 Ct. Leet Rec. ii, 285. An indenture of 

 161 1 between the parties is recited in a 

 deed of 1646 in Harland't transcripts. 



^* Robert Halgh, son and heir apparent 

 of Valentine, in 1629 conveyed to Robert 

 Maden of Hopwood certain fields in 

 Moston ; Booker, op. cit. 1 84, He com- 

 pounded in 1648 (when he claimed the 

 benefit of the Truro articles of 1646) and 

 again in 1653 ; Cal. of Com. for Com- 

 pounding, 111,1836; iv, 3124; Royalitt 

 Comp. Papers (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches,), 

 iii, 171, 263, His will, dated 1678, 

 bequeathed all his lands in Moston to his 

 putative son John Dawson alias Halgh, 

 The will was proved in 1685, and in the 

 same year James Lightbowne was in 

 possession of the estate. He did not re- 

 tain it long, the Minshulls of Chorlton 

 owning it in the 1 8th century, and it was 

 sold in 1774 ; Booker, op. cit. i86, 187. 



<' The purchaser by his will of i8oi 

 bequeathed his lands in Moston and 

 Blackley to his wife Mary for her life, 

 and then to his son Samuel Taylor. The 

 younger Samuel died in 1820, and was 

 succeeded by his son Samuel Taylor of 

 Eccleston, who dying in 1881 was followed 

 by his grandson Samuel Taylor of Birk- 

 dault near Ulverston. 



