. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE of BickerstafFe. In 1590 he joined his brothers Lawrence and George in the alienation of the estate to Edward Walmsley, ' younger son of Thomas Walmsley of Showley, esq., who died in 1604 seised of ' Darwyn Hall,' otherwise Banister Hall, which he held of Thomas Langton, kt., in socage, leaving Thomas his son aged nine and a-half Bf^ m years. Thomas married V^ Walmsley. GuUs on a chief ermine t^wo hurts. Frances daughter of Edward Stanley of Moor HaU, by whom he had an only daughter Anne, the wif
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE of BickerstafFe. In 1590 he joined his brothers Lawrence and George in the alienation of the estate to Edward Walmsley, ' younger son of Thomas Walmsley of Showley, esq., who died in 1604 seised of ' Darwyn Hall,' otherwise Banister Hall, which he held of Thomas Langton, kt., in socage, leaving Thomas his son aged nine and a-half Bf^ m years. Thomas married V^ Walmsley. GuUs on a chief ermine t^wo hurts. Frances daughter of Edward Stanley of Moor HaU, by whom he had an only daughter Anne, the wife of RadclifFe Hoghton. She died in 1641 seised of this estate, her uncle Edward Walmsley being her ; In 1649 he obtained the discharge of the estate from seque^tra- tion, he having been in ' the first war' ; his fine was ^^114. In 1655 he petitioned for the discharge of other lands in Walton sequestere 1 for the recusancy of Frances wife of his brother Thomas Walmsley, she being then recently dead.^" He held the hall and demesne in 1662 under a free rent of i%d. to the lord of the honor of ditheroe,'' and died in 1673, when his nephew William W'inckley of Billington succeeded to the estate as eldest surviving son and heir of Thomas Winckley by his wife Rosa- mond eldest daughter of Edward Walmsley the elder. He Isabel daughter of Robert and sister and co-heir of WilHam Elston of Brockholes. Upon his death in 1703 he wa^ succeeded by his eldest surviving son Edward,^- who sold the estate in 1739 to John Atherton of Preston, who devised it by will in 1768 to his son John. The estate was purchased about iSoo by William Assheton of Downham and Cuerdale, whose great-grand- son Mr. Ralph Cockayne Assheton of Downham is the present owner. The south front of the old hall has been rebuilt in brick, but the original exterior remains on the north side. LITTLE M'ALTOy. This estate was probably. Assheton of Down- ham. Argent n mullet pierced Please note that
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