The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . rnby suit, however,dragged on to 1743. ( 13 ) BIRK BECKS OF HORNBY. The two most prominent families of the Birkbecks were those of Hornbyand Orton ; the former were descended from THOMAS BYRKEBEKE of Carlisle, who is said to have beenGovernor of that city, but I can find no good authority for this, althoughhe was certainly a man of some position ; indeed from Machells account,written in the latter half of the seventeenth century (vide p. 35), it wouldappear that his ancestors had for at least five generations married into veryleading familie
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . rnby suit, however,dragged on to 1743. ( 13 ) BIRK BECKS OF HORNBY. The two most prominent families of the Birkbecks were those of Hornbyand Orton ; the former were descended from THOMAS BYRKEBEKE of Carlisle, who is said to have beenGovernor of that city, but I can find no good authority for this, althoughhe was certainly a man of some position ; indeed from Machells account,written in the latter half of the seventeenth century (vide p. 35), it wouldappear that his ancestors had for at least five generations married into veryleading families in Westmorland, and probably that Thomas Byrkebekehimself had married a daughter of Lancaster of Sockbrldge, a descendant ofIvo de Talebois, who was granted the Barony of Kendal by William theConqueror. William de Talebois, by licence of Henry II., took the nameof de Lancastre. Sockbridge was near Hornby. The cut shews a lions head instead of the boars head in the base ;the quarterings of the second and third are those of Lancaster of The cut is taken from the History of Galnford, in which parish his grand-son Henry owned Headlam [vide p. 22). 14 THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. Thomas Byrkebeke owned lands in the city of Carlisle, includingthe Manor of Bochardby, as well as a property in the parish of KirkbyThore. The grant of the arms to him in 151 5 [vidt p. 2) is the earliestnotice of his name I have discovered and, as before stated, this is saidto have been for his brave defence against the Scots. He is mentionedas one of the captains in Sir Thomas CliiFords retinue in the names ofthe persons who went into Scotland at this last raid in 1523 ; he was absent in the names of all the gentlemen within the shyre ofWestmland 1526 ;* and he was one of the jury on Lord Dacrestrial at Carlisle 1534. From a copy of a charter in the Bodleian it would appear that ThomasByrkebeke had before 1528 purchased, in conjunction with Christopherand James Crackenthorp, a pr
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