Catholicism and the Gillibrands
Argent two swords in saltire sable hilted or.A pedigree was again recorded in 1664, (fn. 78) and Chorley Hall descended to John Gillibrand and Thomas his son, who in 1717 registered their estates as 'Papists.' The father, who, as above stated, purchased a moiety of the manor, was living at Astley Hall, which he had in right of his wife. (fn. 79) He died in 1732, and his will recites the settlement of the moiety of the manor of Chorley made on the marriage of his son Thomas with Alice Westby, and directs that it should go to his grandson Thomas, with remainder to another grandson Richard. (fn. 80) Thomas Gillibrand the son of John had five sons and three daughters. His will, dated 1733, mentions various of them, including a daughter Jane, who had married John Hawarden of Lower House in Widnes and had a son Thomas. (fn. 81) Two of the five sons, Richard (d. 1774) and William (d. 1779), became Jesuit priests; the latter, on the death of his elder brother Thomas in 1775, succeeded to the estate and lived at Chorley till his death. (fn. 82) His nephew, the above-named Thomas Hawarden, succeeded and took the surname of Gillibrand. The house had become known as Gillibrand Hall, but the owner in 1783 assured Dorning Rasbotham that it was rightly called Chorley Hall. (fn. 83) He did not long enjoy his estate, dying in 1787 (fn. 84) ; his son Thomas, (fn. 85) who purchased the other moiety of the manor and became sole lord, died in 1828, and left a son and heir Henry Hawarden Gillibrand, who in 1815 took the name of Fazakerley.
He fought a duel at Chorley in 1832 with T. B. Crosse of Shaw Hill, but neither party was injured. (fn. 86) His son Henry having died without issue, the inheritance went to a daughter Matilda Harriet, who in 1863 married Jocelyn Tate Westby, afterwards Fazakerley-Westby, of Mowbreck. The later generations of the family were Protestants. As already stated, the manor was sold in 1874, and in 1881 the hall, with 250 acres of park and woodland, was purchased by the late Henry Rawcliffe, to whom has succeeded his son Mr. Augustus Walter Rawcliffe. Lower Chorley Hall was taken down in 1807–8 and a large edifice was built by Thomas Gillibrand in its place
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"The Buckleys occur from the beginning of the 15th century, when James Chetham married Eleanor daughter of Ellis Buckley; Clowes D. no. 102.
An estate in 1346 held by William the Parson (alias Pereston) by a rent of 12d. and 13d. for castle ward, was a century later held by James Buckley, by the same services; Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146; Duchy of Lanc. Knights' Fees, bdle. 2, no. 20.
In 1463 the feoffees of Thomas Chadderton granted lands in Crompton to Bernard Buckley; Clowes D. The wife of Robert Buckley of Whitfield contributed to the subsidy of 1526 for 'goods'; Shaw, Oldham, 16. Lawrence Buckley in 1564 purchased from Edmund Trafford and Elizabeth his wife two messuages, two dovecotes, &c in Crompton and Butterworth; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 26, m. 43. John Chetham in 1565–6 sold land in Whitfield to William Buckley; Clowes D. In 1590 a settlement was made of three messuages, &c., in Crompton and other places, by James Buckley and Elizabeth his wife ; Pal. of Lanc Feet of F. bdle. 52, m. 83.
James Buckley died in 1608, holding nine messuages and lands in Whitfield of the king as of the dissolved priory of St. John of Jerusalem in socage by 3d. rent; his son and heir George was over thirty years of age ; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs, and Ches.), i, 145. James Buckley, who died in 1627, had the same or a similar holding in Whitfield and land in Butterworth held by a ginger root; James, his son and heir, was five years of age; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. xxvii, 51.
Another James Buckley died in September 1638 holding a messuage and lands in Whitfield as above, and a cottage, &c also of the king, by the 200th part of a knight's fee. James, the son and heir, was seventeen years of age. A settlement made in 1637 is recited in the inquisition; ibid, xxviii, 72. James Buckley was in ward to the king in 1641; Shaw, Oldham, 92. James Buckley of Whitfield occurs in 1673 and 1681, and was buried at Oldham, 24 January 1699–1700; John Buckley is named in 1708; ibid. In 1713 the estate was sold by James Buckley to John Lever of Alkrington and was afterwards (in 1849) in severalties; Raines, in Notitia Cestr. ii, 115. In the Clegg Pedigree (1840) the succession is given as —Lawrence Buckley, s. James, s. George, s. James, s. James, s. James, who died in 1726, leaving his sisters as heirs.
From: 'The parish of Prestwich with Oldham: Crompton', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911), pp. 108-12. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53008&strquery=Lancashire%20Shaw%20Crompton. Date accessed: 01 May 2007.
It's sad in a way, actually.