. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY. through an heiress to the Shireburnes of Stonyhurst, and was sold by Thomas Weld to the Rev. John Hargreaves, who built the house in 1796 and from whom it passed to his nephew, the above-named John Hargreaves, high sheriff of the county in 1825.*^ He died in 1854, leaving two daughters as co-heirs. Eleanor Mary, the elder, married the Rev. William Thursby ; their son, John Hardy Thursby, was created a baronet in 1887, and at his death in 1901 was succeeded by his son Sir John Ormerod Scarlett Thursb
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. BLACKBURN HUNDRED WHALLEY. through an heiress to the Shireburnes of Stonyhurst, and was sold by Thomas Weld to the Rev. John Hargreaves, who built the house in 1796 and from whom it passed to his nephew, the above-named John Hargreaves, high sheriff of the county in 1825.*^ He died in 1854, leaving two daughters as co-heirs. Eleanor Mary, the elder, married the Rev. William Thursby ; their son, John Hardy Thursby, was created a baronet in 1887, and at his death in 1901 was succeeded by his son Sir John Ormerod Scarlett Thursby, the present owner of Bank Hall. The younger daughter, Charlotte Anne, married General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, a Balaclava hero,^' but there was no issue of the marriage. BANK HOUSE was formerly the property of a branch of the Halstead family,*^ but was in 1732 sold to the trustees of the rectory ; the house was for a long time used as the parsonage,^' but has dis- appeared. The site is now occupied by the County Court House. Dancer House, or Danes House, for several centuries the home of the Folds family,^* was taken down in 1886, the site being occupied by a factory. It stood on the north side of the town, and was a small two-story gabled gritstone building F-shaped in plan, probably of 16th-century date,*'" Thursby, barrnet. Argent a chcveron bc- tiveen three lions ram- pant sable. the shorter arm forming the porch, which went up the full height of the building. The plan in the main followed the old arrangement of house-place or hall with through passage ; the windows were of the usual low square-headed muUioned type and the roofs were covered with stone slates. Fulledge, another yeoman's estate, belonged at one time to the family of Ingham ; over the entrance were the initials and date f(\ 1576.'" The site is now occupied by a council school. ROTLE was not styled a manor. It is named with Filly Close in 1324.*^ and again in 1340*' and 1418. In the last-named y
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