. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE tance to Alice, who married Henry son of Henry son of Richard de Glazebrook, whereupon he obtained the surname of Byrom.*® The family improved its position by later marriages, and about 1420 Henry de Byrom married Lucy a daughter and co-heir of Henry son of John de ; His grandson Henry married Constance daughter and co-heir of Gilbert Abram, and one of the heirs of the Boydells of Grap- penhall ; by this considerable lands in Cheshire were acquired, together with the advowson of Grappen- The
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE tance to Alice, who married Henry son of Henry son of Richard de Glazebrook, whereupon he obtained the surname of Byrom.*® The family improved its position by later marriages, and about 1420 Henry de Byrom married Lucy a daughter and co-heir of Henry son of John de ; His grandson Henry married Constance daughter and co-heir of Gilbert Abram, and one of the heirs of the Boydells of Grap- penhall ; by this considerable lands in Cheshire were acquired, together with the advowson of Grappen- The family continued to prosper. Henry Byrom, living in 1553,'^ married successively daughters of Ralph Langton and Sir Richard Bold, and his eldest son Thomas ^° married a daughter of Sir Thomas Langton, but dying without issue the manor of Byrom passed to his younger brother John, who about 1559 married Margaret widow of Thomas Parr.*^ He acquired much of the Parr inheritance, and Parr Hall became the chief seat of the Byroms. John Byrom was in 1590 among the ' more usual comers to church,' but not a com- municant ;" Mary the wife of his son and heir Henry was at the same time a 'recusant and indicted there- of.' '' John Byrom died in 1592 OT 1593, holding the manor of Byrom and various lands, windmills, &c., in Lowton, Golborne, and Abram, of Thomas Langton, in socage, by a rent of 4/. 7^^. ; he also held the manor of Parr, and lands there and in other town-. Byrom of Byrom. Argent a che'ueron be- tween three hedgehogs sable. ^* An account of the Byrom families by Canon Raines will be found in the Chatham Society's edition of John By- rom's Correspondence (old ser. xliv) ; and supplementary matter in Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Notesy ii, 26, gi, 154. The descendants of Thurstan de Hol- land are not clearly ascertained. He ap- pears to have had three sons by Juliana daughter of John Gillibrand—Thurstan, Adam, and Simon. He is not usually called their father, but made gr
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