A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



married Ellen de Walton and claimed her father's 

 manor, obtaining a third part, emerges in the first 

 quarter of the fifteenth century ; * and later, Thomas 

 son and heir of Roger.' The visitations of 1613 and 

 1664 place on record a few generations.^ The family 

 adhered to the Roman Catholic faith at the Reforma- 

 tion,* and to the king's side in the civil war, Nicholas 

 Fazakerley losing his life in the cause at Liverpool in 

 1643.* The family estates were sold by the Parlia- 

 ment,* though probably much was recovered. Spellow 

 and the third part of Walton manor were alienated 

 about 1726/ Fazakerley, however, was retained or 

 recovered, and in the eighteenth century the family is 

 stated to have conformed to the Established Church, 



The estates passed to John Hawarden, who took 

 the name of Fazakerlcv,* and afterwards to Henry 

 Gillibrand, of Chorlev, who took the name of 

 Hawarden Fazakerley ; his son Henry dying childless, 

 the daughters succeeded. The eldest, Matilda, married 

 in 1863 Jocelyn Tate Westby, of Mowbrcck, who as- 

 sumed the name of Fazakerley- Westby.* The manor 

 of Fazakerley, however, had been sold about 1820. In 

 1825 the hall was the residence of Richard BuUin, 

 nephew of Thomas Leyland, of the adjacent Walton 

 Hall ; *" these properties have since descended together. 



The Molyneux family of Sefton " claimed a manor 

 here in virtue of their holding ; other families of the 

 fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries which may be 



1 See the account of Walton. Robert 

 dc Fazakerley occurs as a witness to local 

 charters. In 141 1, when Thomas dc 

 Fazakerley made a feoffment of certain 

 lands in the township both Robert and 

 John de Fazakerley attested ; Harl. MS. 

 2042, fol. 159. 



In a suit of 1593 the descent is thus 

 given : Roger Fazakerley, son and heir of 

 Ellen, daughter of Robert de Walton — s. 

 Thomas — s. Nicholas — s. Roger — s. Ro- 

 bert (defendant) ; Pal. of Lane, Plea R, 

 273, m. 23. 



^ In 1476, Thomas son and heir of the 

 late Roger Fazakerley of West Derby re- 

 leased to William son of John Lightwood 

 of Tattenhall alt his right to the lands 

 of John Cropper within the lordship of 

 Fazakerley ; Harl. MS. 2042, fol. 159. 



Nicholas Fazakerley was reckoned 

 among the gentry of the hundred in 1512. 



« Printed by the Chet. Soc. ; ^/"j. of 

 1613, p. 78; Vis. of 1664-5, P' '°^' 

 The succession given is : Roger, Robert, 

 Nicholas, Robert (died 5 April, 1643), 

 Nicholas (aged 11 in 161 3, and died Oct. 

 164^), Nicholas (aged 28 in 1664), who 

 married Wioefride, daughter of Edward 

 Tarleton of Aigburth. 



The only inquisition remaining is that 

 concerning Robert, the second in this 

 descent. He died 13 Feb. 1589-90, his 

 son and heir Nicholas being then thirty- 

 seven years of age. The manor of Walton 

 and Fazakerley was held of Henry earl of 

 Derby in free socage ; viz. by fealty and 

 the yearly rent of 20J. ; thus Fazakerley 

 was not accounted a separate manor ; the 

 rent is the due proportion of the old 

 thanage rent of Walton. There were also 

 lands in West Derby, the family being 

 sometimes called *of West Derby,' held 

 ■o( the queen by a rent of 421. ; and in 

 Bedford, Pembcrton, Wigan, and Liver- 

 pool ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p. m. rv, 

 «. 20. 



Nicholas Fazakerley the son made a 

 settlement of his estates in 1595 \ Pal. of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 57, m. 104. He 

 was buried at Walton 19 March, 161 1— 12. 



A settlement of Robert Fazakerley's 

 manor of Fazakerley and other lands was 

 made by fine in 16^2 ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 ■of F, bdlc. 119, m. 39. 



* Nichobs Fazakerley, under the alias 

 of Ashtoo, was admitted to the English 

 College at Rome in 162-^, giving his age 

 as 23 ; he left for England in 1626. 

 His brother Thomas, who entered in 

 1629, aged 18, under the same aliasy 

 stated that he was *bom and brought up 

 in Lancashire, his parents were of high 

 family and always Catholics. His friends 

 were likewise of the upper class, some 

 being Catholics and some heretics. He 

 had made his humanities at St, Omer's 

 for five years.* He was made priest and 

 returned to England in 1636, being buried 



at the Harkirk in 1665 ; Foley, Rec. S. J. 

 vi, 302, 320. 



^ This statement Is quoted by Bishop 

 Challoner and Mr. Gillow from Lord 

 Castlemain*s Catb. Apology. Liverpool 

 was captured by the Parliamentarians 

 about the end of April or beginning of 

 May, 1643 (Picton, Memorialsj i, 90) ^ 

 and it will be seen from the dates given 

 at the visit, that Robert Fazakerley died 

 before this date, and Nicholas after it. 



^ The lands both of Robert and Nicholas 

 Fazakerley, deceased, were confiscated for 

 treason by the Act of 1652 ; Index of 

 Royalists (Index Soc), 42. 



Petitions were made on behalf of 

 Nicholas Fazakerley, the heir, described as 

 of Spellow House, being then about sixteen 

 years of age 5 as also on behalf of Cathe- 

 rine his mother, Anne the widow of 

 Robert his grandfather, and Margaret, an 

 unmarried sister of Robert. Roger Brcres 

 of Walton, who had married a daughter of 

 Robert Fazakerley, deposed that Nicholas 

 and his brothers Robert and Richard were 

 all dead ; Robert the father had died at 

 Chester about 1643, Nicholas at Liverpool 

 within a year after, Robert the younger in 

 the Indies, and Richard in Ireland about 

 1642. A settlement of December, 1638, 

 in relation to the marriage of Nicholas 

 son of Robert was made of the capital 

 messuage called Fazakerley Hall ; and 

 Spellow House, and all the manors and 

 lands of Robert Fazakerley in Fazakerley, 

 Walton, Liverpool, and Wigan, including 

 Spellow mill j a considerable number of 

 field names are given. The Books of 

 Seizure of Convicted Recusants were pro- 

 duced, and showed that Robert Fazaker- 

 ley's estates were under sequestration 

 for recusancy and delinquency. Robert's 

 estate at Spellow House and Diglake was 

 farmed. Anne Fazakerley, widow, peti- 

 tioned for a third part of the unsequestered 

 third of her husband's estate, which had 

 been seized. Margaret Fazakerley, in 

 virtue of a deed of 1609, had a right to 

 an annuity of ^^24 out of her father's 

 estate, but being a popish recusant it was 

 ordered that she should only have a third 

 part of it, the other two parts being dis- 

 posed of for the public use. The docu- 

 ments are given in Royalist Comp. P. (Rec. 

 Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), ii, 295-313. 



^ In 1 7 17 Robert Fazakerley of Wal- 

 ton registered an estate at Liverpool, 

 Fazakerley, &c., of the annual value of 

 j^i87 los. lofi., charged with six guineas 

 to his sister Anne 5 Estcourt and Payne, 

 En^L Cath. Non-jurors^ 112. 



At the b^inning of 1723 Robert Faza- 

 kerley of Liverpool, and Robert Fazakerley, 

 merchant, his son and heir-apparent, mort- 

 gaged Spellow House and lands for ^^800 

 to Mary Richmond, widow ; and in 1726 

 and 1727 Robert, the son, and Sarah, the 

 widow, of the elder Robert Fazakerley, 



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were concerned in deeds regarding the 

 fatlier's lands ; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), 

 iii, 22Z, 196, 232, quoting 8th and 9th 

 Rolls of Geo. I, and 1st and 2nd of Geo. II 

 at Preston. 



^ Robert Fazakerley, the younger, by 

 his will dated i Oct. 1730, left the estates 

 to John, eldest son of Bryan Hawarden, 

 late of Liverpool, mariner, deceased, and 

 his heirs male ; with remainders to William 

 Hawarden, brother of John ; to the heirs 

 male of Mary, sister of the testator and 

 wife of Edward Barrett ; to Ellen, daughter 

 of Nicholas Fazakerley, deceased ; and to 

 Robert Webster, son of Dorothy, daughter 

 of Nicholas Fazakerley. John Hawarden 

 was to take the name of Fazakerley j 

 Piccope MSS. ii, 3 ; iii, 196, 242, 240, 

 quoting from Roman Catholic deeds en- 

 rolled at Preston. 



From the Ormskirk Registers it appears 

 that John Hawarden Fazakerley, gent, in 

 Sept. 1748, married Anne Parr of Orms- 

 kirk, by licence ; a son Robert was buried 

 I June, 1 75 1. The curious marriage 

 covenant is in Piccope MSS, iii, 354, 



In Ormskirk church is a laudatory 

 epitaph commemorating Anne, widow of 

 John Hawarden Fazakerley, erected in 

 1 800 by her son Samuel Hawarden Faza- 

 kerley of Fazakerley. 



' Gillow, BM. Diet, of Engl. Cath. ii, 



^32. ^33- 



These GiUibrands were of the same 

 family, Thomas Hawarden, who died in 

 1787, having taken the surname of Gilli- 

 brand. His grandson Henry took the 

 name of Fazakerley in 18 14 pursuant to 

 the will of Samuel Hawarden Fazakerley; 

 Piccope MSS. Pedigrees, ii, 339. 



Some deeds of a minor family are given 

 by Kuerden, ii, fol. 228A. In 15 13 

 Richard, son and heir of Peter Fazakerley 

 of Fazakerley, enfeoffed Nicholas Faza- 

 kerley of West Derby and others of all 

 his lands ; at the same time he seems to 

 have married Ellen, daughter of Richard 

 Rose of West Derby. He left five daugh- 

 ters coheirs to his capital messuage called 

 Stockley and lands in Fazakerley ; they 

 were : Ellen, wife of Richard Longworth ; 

 Alice, wife of James Walker ; Katherine : 

 Margaret, wife of William Wolfall ; and 

 Grace, wife of Richard Stockley. 



There was also a family known as 

 'Fazakerley of the Clock house,' from 

 their residence on the border of Croxteth 

 Park, now part of the sewage farm of 

 West Derby. 



'" Baines, Lanes. Dir. ii, 713. 



" See the account of Walton. The 

 Molyneux holding was obtained chiefly by 

 purchase from the Bullock family. In 

 1 321 Robert Bullock granted all his lands 

 in Walton and Fazakerley to William his 

 son ; another son Richard is mentioned ; 

 Croxteth D.K. I. Alan dc Whike granted 

 m 1323 part of his land in Hey in Faza- 



