. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. In 1852 it was purchased from the trustees of Hugh Hornby by Thomas Miller, one of the great cotton manufacturers of Preston,80 who resided at Singleton and did much for the material improvement of the district. Dying on 24 June 1865, he was followed by his son, Mr. Thomas Horrocks Miller, the present lord of the manor, who resides at Singleton Park, having built the mansion there. He also owns the Avenham LITTLE SINGLETON, as half a plough-land, was, as above stated, granted in The holders adopted the
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. In 1852 it was purchased from the trustees of Hugh Hornby by Thomas Miller, one of the great cotton manufacturers of Preston,80 who resided at Singleton and did much for the material improvement of the district. Dying on 24 June 1865, he was followed by his son, Mr. Thomas Horrocks Miller, the present lord of the manor, who resides at Singleton Park, having built the mansion there. He also owns the Avenham LITTLE SINGLETON, as half a plough-land, was, as above stated, granted in The holders adopted the local surname, but their principal manor was Broughton in Preston, with which Little Singleton descended to the heirs and representatives of the Balderston On the partition in 1565 it was assigned to the Earl of ; In 1602 it was sold by Alice Countess of Derby and the heirs of Ferdinando the fifth earl to William Hesketh of Little Poulton,85 who was probably already the occupier. The manor-house, known as MAINS, thencefor- ward became the chief residence of this branch of the Lancaster. England differenced <with a label of KIRKHAM Heskeths. George Hesketh, who has already occurred in the account of Aughton as half-brother of Gabriel son of Bartholomew Hesketh,86 had a considerable estate in the town of Kirkham and the neighbourhood, and in 1566 was described as of Rossall. He died in 1571, and was succeeded by his son William, aged ; This William died at Mains in 1622, but as nothing is said in the in- quisition as to his holding land in Little Singleton, the purchaser in 1602 may have been his son William, aged sixty at his father's William died in 1623 holding the manor of Little Singleton, and was succeeded by his son Pedigrees were recorded in 1613 and The family were distinguished by their fidelity to Roman Catholicism even in the days of In the Civil War it was a matter of course that the
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