. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE branch of the Gerards, described as * of Brindle' ^*; and probably by sale to the later Gerards of Ince, and has descended with the Westwood ; Nothing definite can be stated about the descent of BICKERSHJIV, foimeily called a ; In the 16th century it was owned by the Holcrofts, and sold by them to Richard Ashton in 1599/® Ralph Ashton about thirty years later sold it to Frances widow of Robert Dukinfield of Dukinfield near Stockport.^* It descended in this family until 1760, wh
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE branch of the Gerards, described as * of Brindle' ^*; and probably by sale to the later Gerards of Ince, and has descended with the Westwood ; Nothing definite can be stated about the descent of BICKERSHJIV, foimeily called a ; In the 16th century it was owned by the Holcrofts, and sold by them to Richard Ashton in 1599/® Ralph Ashton about thirty years later sold it to Frances widow of Robert Dukinfield of Dukinfield near Stockport.^* It descended in this family until 1760, when it was sold to Richard Clayton of Adlington ; and it was again sold in 1790 to Edward Ackers of Newton, surgeon. The trustees of Abraham Ackers, who died in 1864, are the owners ; it is leased to the Abram Coal Company.*^ A branch of the Culcheths were long seated in ; The inquisition taken after the death of John Culcheth in 1586 shows that he had held lands in Abram of Thomas Abram by a rent of id., and in Hindley of John Culcheth of Culcheth by a rent of 6*^." A pedigree was recorded in 1664," but the family afterwards migrated to War- wickshire, and in 1750 sold the property.** Adam Bolton,** John Occle- shaw, John Southworth, Roger Culcheth, Cecily Ashton, and Nicholas Huyton, were the landowners contributing to a subsidy collected about 1556.*^ The Corless,*^ Lithgoe,*^ and. Culcheth. Argent an eagle sable preying up' on a child swaddled gules. Leyland** families were long resident here. A plot of land in Park Lane, known as the Morris Dancers' ground, is popularly supposed to be held by them on condition that a morris dance be celebrated there once in twenty ; true heir; ibid, iii, 124, 125. At the same time John Ashton and Richard his son alleged their title to Bamfurlong against Richard, Cecily, and Anne Ashton, Roger Anderton, Gilbert Lee, Gilbert Houghton, and Ralph Anderton \ Ducatus Lane, (Rec. Com.), ii, 114. John Ashton of Bamf
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