A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



with the other Gerard lands until the sixteenth 

 century.' 



In 1565 Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn sold his 

 moiety to Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton ; * and the 

 latter's grandson, Sir Richard, purchased the other 

 moiety in 1 596 from Thomas Stanley alias Halsall, 

 upon whom it had been conferred by his father, 

 Henrj-, earl of Derby.' The Molyneux family thus 

 acquired the whole of the manor, and it has since 

 descended in the same way as Sefton, the earl ot 

 Sefton being the present lord.* 



Ingcw.iith gave a surn.ime to a resident family, 

 of which few particulars can be given.' A branch 

 of the Norris family settled here in the fifteenth 

 century ;' as also a branch of the Torbocks.' 

 William Fazakerley was a freeholder in 1600,' and 

 his grandson William in 1628 contributed to the 

 subsidy.' The Tatlocks of Kirkby appear on the 

 recusant roll of 1641.'° Thomas Barker had his 

 lands sequestered for recusancy by the Common- 

 wealth." In 1 7 1 7 James Harrison of Grange, 

 Thomas Tatlock, and William Sheppard as ' papists ' 



In the following year William Gerard 

 and Maud his wife demanded, against 

 Henry de Bootle and others, the moiety 

 of 3 messuages, 4 oxgangs of land, &c., 

 in Kirkby, as the right of Isabel wife of 

 Robert de Ncvill, which John de Byron 

 gave to Robert de Byron and the heirs of 

 his body, and which after Robert's death 

 ought to descend to the said Maud and 

 Isabel, daughters and heirs of the said 

 Robert; De Banc R. 251, m. 160. It 

 does not appear that the Nevills shared 

 Robert de Byron's lands in Kirkby as they 

 did in Melling. 



The pedigree of the Gcrards in Helsby's 

 Ormerod, Cbei. ii, 131, needs correction 

 at this point. 



• To the aid 1 346-5 5 Maud Gerard and 

 Ralph de Beetham contributed for the 

 fifth part of a fee in Kirkby ; FcuJ. Aids, 

 iii, 86. They were still holding it at the 

 duke of Lancaster's death in 1361 ; 

 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, ist Nos. n. 

 122. 



Sir Thomas Gerard, who died in 1416, 

 held a moiety of Kirkby by knight's ser- 

 vice and 2cA/. ^ year j it was then worth 

 20 marks ; Lanes. Inf. f. m. (Chet. Soc), 



i, 123. 



In 1430 John Gerard and Thomas de 

 Beetham held the fifth part of a fee here ; 

 Dods. MSS. Ixxxvii, fol. 58*. 



Sir Peter Gerard, who died in 1447, 

 held lands in Kirkby ; Towneley MS. DD, 

 n. 1465. 



' Pal.ofLaoc. FeetofF. bdle. l-.m.;;, 

 the premises are described as 40 messuages, 

 Al-., a mill, a dovecote, 1,000 acres of land, 

 &c, in Kirkby and Melling, and a moiety 

 of the manor of Kirkby. 



' This moiety of Kirkby, with other 

 estates, had been settled upon Joan Hal- 

 sall, daughter of Robert Halsall, until her 

 son Thomas should attain 24 years of age, 

 when he should come into possession, with 

 remainder to his heirs male ; Croxteth 

 D. P. iii, I. The sale to Sir Richard 

 Molyneux was made in consideration of 

 ,^1,160 paid ; ibid. P. iii, 2, 3. 



* The .Molyneux family were already 

 landowners in Kirkby. In 1501 they 

 purchased from William Leyland, son and 

 heir of John Leyland, land in Avanes- 

 sergh, which had descended to the vendor 

 from William de Leyland, who had mar- 

 ried M.irjcri-, daughter of Adam de Snels- 

 too by his wife Marger)-, in the time of 

 Edward II ; ibid, ii,- 2. In 154S Sir Wil- 

 liam Molyneux's estate, described as 

 ; messuages, 50 acres of land, &c., was 

 said to be held of the heirs of Adam 

 Snelston in socage by the ser\'ice of one 

 barbed arrow ; it was worth 471. 41/. per 

 annum clear ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p. m. 

 ix, n. 2. 



In 1623 the manor was said to be held 

 by the tenth part of a knight's fee ; Lanes. 

 h:j. p. m. (Rec Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 iii, 390. 



' Robert de Ingcwaith was one of the 

 principal contributors to the subsidv in 



1332 ; Exc/i. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 22. In 1305 Robert de Byron, 

 Richard de Ingewaith, and Robert and 

 William his sons, and a large number of 

 others were summoned to answer William 

 de Walton respecting certain oaks and 

 other trees which they had cut down and 

 carried away, and other * enormous 

 damage ' done. Richard de Ingewaith 

 replied that there was a wood lying between 

 Kirkby and Walton in which he should 

 have housebote and heybote, and that he 

 had done no trespass; Cur. Reg. R. 181, 

 m. 20 J. 



^ John Norris had lands in Garston, 

 which John Norris of Kirkby, his son, 

 sold in 1451 to Thomas Lathom of 

 Knowsley ; Norris D. (B. M.), n. 

 903-8. 



Robert Norris, yeoman, in 1651, peti- 

 tioned the Parliament for the restoration 

 of his estate, which had been sequestered 

 because he had joined the king's forces in 

 the first war. He took the National 

 Covenant and Negative Oath, and was 

 restored ; Royalist Comf. P. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iv, 225. 



' The following deeds relating to this 

 property are now in the possession of 

 Mr. Robert Gladstone, jun., of Woolton : 

 (a) Grant by Robert de Byron to Simon 

 son of Alan, of land in Buteriscroft and 

 Bredlendshead, which Roger son of the 

 chaplain formerly held ; (i) Refeoffment 

 by John Fleetwood, with remainder to his 

 daughter Agnes, 1438 ; (c) Quitclaim by 

 Agnes, daughter of John Fleetwood of 

 Kirkby, to Thomas Torbock of Kirkby, 

 of all her rights in the same lands, which 

 Thomas had by her father's grant, 1439 ; 

 Sir William Torbock was a witness ; 

 (</) Grant by the feoffees to Thomas Tor- 

 bock, son of John, and Ellen his wife, 

 I?'" ; (e) Surrender by Ellen, widow of 

 Thomas Torbock of Halsall, of her life 

 interest to her son George, 1 546 ; (/) 

 Fine between Anthony MaghuU, plaintiff, 

 and Richard Worsley and Alice his wife, 

 and John Worsley and Anne his wife, 

 deforciants, regarding lands at Kirkby, 

 1591. 



Isabel daughter and heir of John 

 Heath, and widow of John Fleetwood 

 of Kirkby, occurs temp. Hen. VIII • 

 Croxteth D. ' 



8 Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), i, 



Nicholas Fazakerley, son and heir of 

 William Fazakerley and Elizabeth his 

 wife, sold a burgage in Dale Street, Liver- 

 pool, to John Crosse in 1473 ; Nicholas 

 was living in 1491 ; Crosse D. {rrans. 

 Hist. Soc), jr. 153-5, 161. 



9 Norris D. (B.M.). William Faza- 

 kerley of Kirkby held 28 acres in Walton 

 in 1639 ; Charley Surv. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches.), 53. 



■The family recorded a pedigree at the 

 Visit, of 1664, beginning with the Wil- 

 liam Fazakerley of 1 600 ; he was fol- 

 lowed by a son Nicholas who died about 



54 



1620, and a grandson William, who died 

 in 1654. He had several children ; 

 Nicholas, the eldest, was 44 years of age 

 in 1664, and appears to have had no 

 children, the heir being his nephew 

 William, son of Thomas, aged 6 years 

 at the Visit., and living in 1677 ; Dug- 

 dale, yisit. (Chet. Soc), 109 ; will of 

 N. Fazakerley at Chest., dated 1677, 

 proved 1680. The remainders were to 

 his brother Edward's sons, Nicholas, 

 Thomas, Edward, and then to his brother 

 Henry's. In the will of his widow, Eliza- 

 beth (dated 1697), this nephew is called 

 'of Altcar' — a branch of the family re- 

 sided at Hill House in Altcar about this 

 time — and William Fazakerley as 'of 

 Prescot, gent.* 



This may indicate the parentage of 

 Nicholas Fazakerley of Prescot, a noted 

 local conveyancer of the first part of the 

 eighteenth century, whose father's name 

 was Henry. He represented Preston in 

 six Parliaments between 1732 and his 

 death in 1767 ; Pink and Beavan, 

 Pari. Rep. of Lanes. 163-4; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. 



His great-grandson, John Nicholas 

 Fazakerley, ' of Prescot,' was member for 

 Lincoln in 1812 and later years ; Members 

 of Par. (Blue Book), ii, 261, &c. He was 

 the son of John Fazakerley of Wasing, 

 Berks, and entered Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford, in 1 805, aged seventeen ; Foster, 

 Alumni Oxon. According to Burke, Z,anrf«i 

 Gentry (4th ed. 1868), he was a grandson 

 of Alexander Radcliffe of Leigh, who 

 assumed the surname of Fazakerley, 

 For the Radcliffe-Fazakerley connexion 

 see Dugdale, Visit, p. 238. 



Grcgson says : ' John Nicholas Fazaker- 

 ley, M.P. for the city of Lincoln, 

 descended from Counsellor Fazakerley 

 (contemporary with the late Sir Thomas 

 Bootle of Lathom House), is of this family, 

 and until lately had many estates in the 

 hundred of West Derby and other parts of 

 the county ' ; Fragments (ed. Harland), 

 141. A deed of 1808 relating to his 

 estates is enrolled in the Common Pleas, 

 Trinity, 48 Geo. Ill, R. 94. 



" Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xiv, 238. 

 There are but few names for this town- 

 ship, but they include Ellen Fazakerley, 

 widow ; Anne Norris, widow, and Dorothy 

 Norris. 



" In 1 65 1, Margery Barker, his widow, 

 petitioned for the removal of the seques- 

 tration of the two-thirds of the tenement, 

 which was leasehold under Lord Molyneux. 

 Margery and her two children were ' con- 

 formable Protestants.' The vicar of Wal- 

 ton certified that Thomas Barker, recusant, 

 had been buried at Walton in the family 

 grave, ' in the evening, as Papists used to 

 do ' ; Royalist Comp. P. i, 1 34-7. 



The estates of Edward Torbock and 

 Lawrence Stananought of Kirkby were 

 confiscated and sold by the Parliament 

 in 1652 ; Index of Royalists (Index Soc), 

 44- 



