A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



neux of Cunscough.' On the accession of Charles I 

 Thomas Wolfall received a general pardon, chiefly 

 required perhaps for recusancy, the family being adher- 

 ents of the Roman Catholic religion.' He had two sons, 

 William and Thomas, and four daughters, and the 

 estates descended to his great-grandson William Wol- 

 fall,' bom in 1643. This William mortgaged the 

 estates in 1674, and he and his wife Mary, daughter 

 of Thomas Carus, both died at the beginning of 

 1686, leaving three sons, Richard, William, and 

 Henry, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. 

 Richard Wolfall made other mortgages in 1688 and 

 1694 ; he married Anne, daughter and heir of Edward 

 Stanley of Moor Hall, but on his dying childless in 

 1718' the estates passed in succession to his brothers 

 William, who died in 1720, and Henrj'.' Henry's 

 son and heir William ' in 1 744 sold lands in Wolfall 

 to the earl of Derby, and in 1755, after many mort- 

 gages, sold the manor of Wolfall, Wolfall Hall, half 

 the manor of Huyton, &c., to Thomas Seel of Liver- 

 pool,' whose descendant and heir, as above stated, sold 

 Wolfall to the earl of Derby in 1828. 



Another estate in Huyton, but not considered 

 manorial, was Deyne or DJM HOUSE,' which in 

 1664 was held by Thomas Wolfall, son of Thomas 

 Wolfall, also of the Dam House, who was, as stated. 



the younger son of Thomas Wolfall of \\'olfaIl.' 

 This estate had previously been held, at least for 

 a time, by the Tyldeslcy family, as to whom deeds pre- 

 served by Kuerden supply much information. 



Nicholas Tyldesley occurs in Elizabeth's reign." 

 A feoffment of the property was made, the remainders 

 being to Michael, Thomas, George, William, and 

 Francis, brothers of Nicholas, and to Anthony 

 Tyldesley." Nicholas Tyldesley died in 1603 holding 

 lands and rents in Huyton and Wolfall (Dam) of 

 William earl of Derby ; Henry his son and heir was 

 twenty-six years of age." His son Henry is men- 

 tioned in various bonds, and he and his sister or 

 daughter Ellen occur in 1627, about which time he 

 appears to have sold Dam House.'* 



The Red Hazels, already mentioned as part of the 

 lands of Burscough Priory, became the property of the 

 Ogles of Whiston, from whom it passed by marriage 

 to the Cases ; one of the latter sold it to Joseph 

 Birch, created a baronet in 1 83 1, whose son Sir 

 Thomas Birch, M.P. for Liverpool 1847-52, after- 

 wards lived there." 



The Mossocks of Allerton and Cunscough, as heirs 

 of John Norris of Woolton (who was also described 

 as ' of Roby ' or ' of Huyton ' ), held lands here in the 

 fifteenth century. The title was derived from grants 



* Kuerden, loc. cit. n. 45, 169, 91^, 

 167. The untrustworthy pedigree printed 

 in the /'u:/. of 1664 (Chet. Sec), 337, 

 begins with this marriage. Thomas 

 Wolfall paid ^^lo on refusing knighthood 

 in 1631 ; Mite. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 2H. 



* Kuerden, loc. cit. n. 155. Mary wife of 

 Thomas Wolfall is in the recusant roll of 

 1 64 1 J Trans. Hht. Soc. (New Ser.), xiv, 

 242. William Wolfall was marked for 

 banishment in 1680 ; Cavalier's Note 

 Book, 167. 



' For the pedigree see Piccope MSS. 

 (Chet. Lib.), ii, 289. In 1650 William 

 Wolfall, aged eight, great-grandson of 

 Thomas Woir.ill, prayed for the discharge 

 of the estate, sequestered for delinquency. 

 The great-grandfather had just died, at 

 the age of eighty, and by an entail of 

 1 624 his estate should now descend to the 

 petitioner ; Ca/. Com. Jor Comp. iv, 2579. 

 Richard Wolfall, father of William, is 

 stated to ha\e been killed fighting for 

 Chas. I in 1643 at Newbury ; Castlemain, 

 Calh. Afol. (quoted by Challoncr). 



■* He had registered his estate as a 

 * Papist* in 1717, the value given being 

 £l(>z ', Engl. Catb, Non-jurors, 112. 



' Another brother Thomas, a secular 

 priest, served at Alt Grange 1704-20. 



* He was vouchee in a recovery of the 

 manor in 1737; Pal. of Lane. Plea R. 

 544, m. 5 d. 



^ The following notes are from the 

 Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 200, Ac, 

 abstracting deeds enrolled at Preston; — 



Geo. I, R. 3. — 7 May, 1720 ; Richard 

 Wolfall dead (he had married Anne Stan- 

 ley) ; brothers William and Henry living. 



Ibid. R. 7.-25 Aug. 1-22; Henry 

 was now the only survivor ; tile three 

 were sons of William WolfalL 



Ibid. R. 10. — 8 Oct. 1720; Will of 

 William Wolfall. His manors to his 

 brother Henry, with remainder to William 

 son of Henry; mentions his sisters Eliz- 

 abeth, and Margaret (wife of John 

 Brounwell), and Frances daughter of 

 Henry. 



Geo. II, R. 7.— WiUiam WolfaU living 

 17 March, 1736-7. 



Ibid. R. 18. — 1744 ; the earl of Derby 

 buys land in Wolfall from William Wol- 

 fall, eldest son and heir of Henry Wol- 

 fall of Wolfall (Frances the widow of 

 Henry). 



Ibid. R. 19. — 1745; mortgage of Wol- 

 fall to John Brownell of Liverpool. 



Ibid. R. 26. — 1752; sale by William 

 Wolfall to Jonathan Case. 



Ibid. R. 27. — 28 May, 1753; mortgage 

 of manor of Wolfall by William Wol- 

 fall to Thomas Seel of Liverpool, for 



;^2,000. 



Ibid. R. 28. — 17 June, 1755 ; after a 

 sale Thomas Seel, as highest bidder, was 

 purchaser of Wolfall. 



** In 1348 Gilbert de Gorsuch and his 

 wife Marger)' with Richard del Dam and 

 his wife Alice claimed land from Henry 

 son of Roger de Wolfall ; De Banc. R. 

 356, m. 511. 



' Dugdale, yisil. 337. 



**• The earliest mentioned. In the time 

 of Richard II, is Lawrence Tyldesley of 

 Wolfall, to whom Richard de Hulme 

 of Liverpool, son and heir of Margery, 

 daughter of Adam del Birches, granted 

 7 acres which had descended to him after 

 the death of his mother ; Kuerden, loc. 

 cit. n. 90, 93. 



His son James in the next reign made 

 a feoffment of his lands in Huyton and 

 Wolfall to the vicar of Walton and 

 another ; ibid. n. 85, 97. His son 

 Lawrence followed him before 1436, in 

 in which year Randle de Tyldesley, vicar 

 of Frodsham [1435-55], transferred to 

 him ' Hopkjn acre in Huyton, in the 

 place called Rolaw.' In another deed 

 Randle is joined with Joan, lately wife of 

 Lawrence Tyldesley, and Emota his 

 daughter. The younger Lawrence occurs 

 as late as 1458 ; ibid. n. %j, 92, 86. A 

 marriage between Thomas son of Lawrence 

 Tyldesley and Janet daughter of John 

 Birkhead of Wigan was arranged in 1458 ; 

 Hindley D. 28. 



Thomas Stanley in 1460 gave to Ralph 

 Tyldesley and Margery his wife land 

 which Thomas (? Tyldesley) had held 

 of him by knight's service, to be held till 

 Richard son of Thomas should come to 



full age ; Kuerden, loc. cit. «. 146. This 

 Richard son of Thomas Tyldesley occurs 

 in the reign of Henry VII j he bought 

 Mand called Erber' from the Wolfalls ; 

 ibid. n. 75, 96, loi, 50. 



His son Nicholas (Piccope, IVills, i, 

 30) succeeded, being contemporary with 

 Hen. VIII, and Edw. VI. In 1512-13 

 he granted to George Lathom half of 

 Kilncroft ; in the next year to Ralph 

 Ireland of Lydiate lands in Huyton to the 

 use of himself (Nicholas) and his son and 

 heir John. In 1544-5 Nicholas made 

 another feoffment of his lands, and in 

 1553 he and his son John, who had land 

 at Highhurst, made an agreement as to 

 division with Thomas Wolfall ; Kuerden, 

 loc. cit. n. 98, &c. He seems to have 

 died about 1558, in which year his wife 

 Ellen released Dam House to Thomas 

 Wolfall ; ibid. n. 1 54. 



"In 1558-9 a settlement of the 

 ' manor ' of Dam was effected by Nicholas 

 Tyldesley ; Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 

 21, m. 146 ; see also 32, m. 64. 



^'^ Kuerden, loc. cit. n. 114. Anthony 

 Tyldesley is mentioned in these trans- 

 actions in 1560-1 and in 1566-7. In 

 the latter year Thomas Tyldesley of 

 Wigan was also brought in ; ibid. n. 84, 

 38. Michael Tyldesley of Huyton, and 

 Isabel his wife (daughter and co-heir of 

 . . . Wolfall), in 1594 sold a house in 

 Huyton to Christopher Kenrick of Rain- 

 ford ; ibid. n. 37, III, see also PaL of 

 Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 51, m. 266. 



^ Kuerden, loc. cit. n. 150, 94, By 

 his will he left ^^iz to his brother 

 Francis. 



" Ibid. n. 104, &c. A fine of 1605-6 

 seems to show that he sold to Thomas 

 Wolfall at that time ; Pal. of Lane. Feet 

 of F. bdle. 68, n. 4. His wife's name 

 was Alice. It was afterwards held by 

 John Lathom, whose property was con- 

 fiscated by the Parliament, and bought by 

 Thomas Wolfall, 1653 ; Royalist Comf. P. 

 iv, 68. 



" Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iv, 7. For 

 pedigrees of the Case family see Dugdale, 

 yi!,i. (Chet. Soc), 70 ; and Gregson, 

 Fragments (ed. Harland), 176. 



