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Sally's 11-great Grandparents?:
of Chelmarsh, Shrops
Child of
Thomas Lawrence est 1500:
1. Thomas Lawrence 1539 - 1593 of Chelmarsh,
Shrops and Chelsea, Middlesex
married Martha Cage
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Chelmarsh
"The two most notable buildings are the church and Chelmarsh Hall. The church was first endowed by Hugh De Mortimer in 1345 and the main part of the church dates from this time with later additions and modifications. The screen and the lychgate were carved by a local carving class at the end of the 19th century.
Chelmarsh Hall
Chelmarsh Hall was formerly a granary and was granted to monks in 1379 by Edmund Mortimer, the Earl of March. It was thought to once be connected to the church by an underground passageway. The Hall is now mainly Victorian with some late medieval doors and windows and fragments of a timber roof.
Sally's
12-great Grandparents?:
of Chelmarsh, Shrops
Child of Thomas
Lawrence est 1470
1. Thomas Lawrence est 1500 of
Chelmarsh, Shrops
Schuyler Lawrence indicates that Thomas Lawrence of Chelmarsh may have been the son of Arthur. Nichols' The Herald and Genealogist indicates that Thomas Lawrence, the goldsmith, was the son of Thomas of Chelmarsh near Bridgenorth and was probably born there, where also Thomas' grandfather resided. This would make three generations of Thomas Lawrences and makes the generations better align. Therefore, Thomas Lawrence of Chelmarsh was the son of this Thomas and Thomas, the goldsmith, the grandson.
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Sally's 1
3-great Grandparents?:
of Priors Court, Gloucestershire
Arthur
Lawrence, Esq., was seated at Priors Court, Gloucestershire.
In Extinct
and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, it is
stated that the second son of Sir Robert Lawence and Margaret Holden of
Lancashire was Thomas Lawrence who was the father of Arthur Lawrence and
that Arthur was the ancestor of John Lawrence, esq., of Delaford in Iver,
Bucks, and of Chelsea, Middlesex, who was created a Baronet in 1628.
Children of Arthur Lawrence:
1. Thomas Lawrence ca 1470 -
2. Savacre Lawrence
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Sally's 14-great Grandparents?:
and Mabilla Redmain
of Yealand Redmayne
Thomas Lawrence was sheriff of Lancashire from 11th to 23rd Henry VI (1433-1445).
Thomas
Lawrence was a Member of Parliament in 1435.
In 1439, in addition to the
estate in Yealand, he received lands in Natland, Westmoreland, from his
father.
In 1443 Thomas Lawrence complained of various outrages, Thomas
Beetham and others came to kill him and they set his house on fire.
Children of Thomas
Lawrence and Mabilla Redmain:
1. John Lawrence died before 1479
2. Edmund Lawrence 1439 - 20 Jan 1485/86
3. Robert Lawrence
4. William Lawrence
5. Richard Lawrence
6. James Lawrence
7. Arthur Lawrence
Esq. of Priors Court, Glocestershire ca 1445 -
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Sally's 1
5-great Grandparents?:
and Margaret Holden |
her parents
of Ashton Hall, Lancashire, England
14 century
Ashton Hall, Lancashire, England
side view . .photo by Paul
E Lawrence 2000
The 3rd Squire of Ashton: He was Knight of the Shire in 1403, 1406, and 1414.
Children of Sir
Robert Lawrence and Margaret Holden:
1. Robert Lawrence Jr [not knighted] died 1450
married 1st Amphibilis Longford dau of
Edward Longford
married 2nd Agnes Croft
2. Thomas Lawrence ca
1410 - of Yealand, Redmayne
3. William Lawrence
4. Edmund Lawrence
5. Sibyl Lawrence
6. Ann Lawrence
In 1402 he was a
commissioner to arrest sedition mongers. In 1403 he assembled knights and
yeomen in Lancashire and brought them to the king to fight against the Earl
of Northumbland in Scotland.
Robert Lawrence was escheator of the county in
1404 and later complained of disseisin in 1407, and it was alleged against
him that Edmund had left no heir. He was made a knight and had a son and
heir of the same name.
He not only inherited his father's lands and
manors, but added to those estates in Ireland and the manors of Southworth
and Dillicar in Co. Westmoreland.
A considerable contingent from Lancaster
accompanied Henry V in 1415 on a campaign that ended at Agincourt during the
Hundred Years' War. John Lord Harcourt, bannert, took two knights,
twenty-seven men-at-arms, and ninety archers; seven knights, James de
Harrington, Richard de Kighley, Ralph de Stavely, Nicholas de Longford,
William Botiller, John Southworth, and Richard de Radcliffe, and two
esquires, John Stanley and Robert Laurence each served with fifty archers. A
History of Lancaste Golf Club also states that Robert Lawrence fought
against the French at Agincourt in 1415.6
In 1419 he was a commissioner to raise a loan
for the King and in 1421 commissioner to bring 400 archers to France during
the Hundred Years' War.
He was knighted in 1417 or 1437 according to
Schuyler Lawrence. I believe it probably was 1417 as he is
referred to as Sir Robert Lawrence in 1426.
Nicholas Hesketh died in 1416 leaving a son
and heir Thomas who was ten years old. Later it appears that Sir Robert
Lawrence was guardian. Thomas Hesketh died in 1458 and it is usually said
that he married Sir Robert's daughter, Sibyl.
In 1426 Sir Robert agreed to pay Maud
Wyresdale of Bolton 10s a year for her life for the fourth part of the
lordship of Bolton with lands, etc. In 1429, Robert complained that the men
of Bolton had trespassed on his closes at Carnforth.
Walter Strickland, receiver of the lordship of
Kendal in 1439 accounted for £6 13s. 4d. of the arrears of Sir Robert
Lawrence, late farmer of Ashton and Carnforth.
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Sally's 1
6-great Grandparents?:
and Agnes de Washington |
her parents
of Ashton Hall, Lancashire, England
14 century
Ashton Hall, Lancashire, England
front
view ..photo by Paul E Lawrence 2000
The 2nd Squire of Ashton -- probably the builder of Ashton Hall
Edmund Lawrence married first Alice de Cuerdale. They had
no issue
and their marriage
ended is a divorce.
Edmund Lawrence then married Agnes de Washington.
Children of Edmund Lawrence and Agnes de
Washington:
1. Sir Robert Lawrence ca 1371 - 08 Sept 1439
2. James Lawrence no issue
3. William Lawrence no issue
4. John Lawrence of Skerton and Heysham died after 1432
In 1534, John Brockholes of Claughton
said he heard John Lawrence, a blind man, say that Edmund, his great grandfather
married Robert's Washington's daughter and heir.
Edmund's second wife, Agnes, daughter and heiress
of Robert de Washington, Lord of the manor of Scotforth, brought him other lands
and also, notably, moities of the manors of Carnforth and Carleton.
Edmund had
no issue by his first wife, Alice, and the marriage terminated in a divorce.
Edmund was the second Squire of Ashton. In 1338 he
held, with his parents, the Stapleton part of the manor of Ashton for life.
In 1345, he had been commissioned with his uncle
William to investigate wastes in the manor of Wyresdale. In 1348, John Franceys
dismised certain of this lands, etc., to Edmund for life at the rent of a rose
for six years and then 100s. Agnes, the daughter of John Franceys married
Lambert de Wyresdale and they quit-claimed to Edmund in 1366.8
In 1350 Edmund held burgages in Pennystreet,
Lancaster.
In 1357 he made a feoffment of lands in Lancaster,
Skerton, Ellel, Ashton, and Preeshall and in 1373 it was found that he held for
life three plough-lands of Thomas de Stapleton by a rent of 20 marks. In 1358 he
was pardoned, after paying 100 shillings, for acquiring a life interest in the
Irish Manors of Baliogary, Lough and Casterling without license.
Also in 1358 he held land in Preesall. In 1361 he was pardoned,
for service in France, of taking 200 in silver from John Darcy's house.
He was Knight of the Shire in 1362 when he and
Matthew de Rixton being deputies of the sheriff, concealed the election writ and
returned themselves as knights of the shire. This return was later quashed.
In 1363 was receiver of Queen Philippa's monies in
Ireland. In 1367 he was attorney in England for the Prior of St. Mary's,
Lancaster. In 1368 he was commissioner of Array to choose 100 archers in
Lancashire.
In 1373 he held for life three plough-lands of
Thomas de Stapleton by a rent of 20 marks. In 1375 he released his life interest
in the Irish Manors and in that of Dunmow.
In 1376, he held for life fisheries and ridings in
Ashton together with a fourth part of the manor, of the heirs of Thomas de
Thweng, deceased, by rent of 13s. 4d.
In 1378 he purchased all the rights of Thomas de
Molyneux in the marriage of Richard, son of Sir William de Moylneux of Sefton.
In 1381/2, evidently shortly before Edmund's
death, John de Oxcliffe granted an estate in Overton to Edmund. John de Oxcliffe
had held the estate as trustee, given him in 1374, from Adam, son of William de
Lancaster, that William held in the right of his wife Blanche.
Edmund held ten burgages, two messuages, 30 acres
of land, etc., by a rent of 6s. 8d. of the duke in free burgage at his death in
1381. His son Robert was 10 years old. His will names Agnes his wife, Robert his
son and heir, and other children. What holding was retained in Ashton is not
clear, but in the reigns of Henry IV and Henry VI certain lands, in later times
called 'Lawrence lands,' were demised to the family by the Methams. The trustees
of Edmund granted to his son John, lands in Skerton and Heysham.
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Sally's 1
7-great Grandparents?:
and Elizabeth Holt |
her parents
of Ashton Manor, Lancashire, England
Lawrence Arms
John Lawrence married Elizabeth Holt of Stabley, Lancs.
The first Squire of Ashton Manor
was John
Lawrence and the first to use the surname Lawrence.
John Lawrence was a
Member of Parliament in 1301 for Lancaster
14th
century Ashton
Hall, Lancashire, England
back view . .
photos by Paul
E Lawrence 2000
Children of John Lawrence and Elizabeth Holt:
1. Edmund Lawrence ca 1310 - 1381
married 1st Alice de Cuerdale no
issue
and their
marriage ended is a divorce
married 2nd Agnes de Washington
2. John Lawrence of Lancaster
married Emma ?
Richard, son of William the Cook, gave lands to
Thomas, son of Richard de Stainall in 1315-16. This same Richard also gave
land to John Lawrence and his wife Elizabeth.
In 1323 John Lawrence held 30 acres in Skerton by a rent of 6s. 8d.
In 1331, John made a complaint of trespass on
his fishery at Ashton.
John in conjunction with Elizabeth his wife and Edmund their son held the
Stapleton part of Ashton manor in 1338 for life.
The family then or a little later obtained, apparently by marriage, the
estate of the Gentyl and Washington families in Carleton, Scotforth, and
elsewhere.
Also in 1331, he was holding lands in
Lancaster and Lentworth from Robert de Holland.
Between 1318 and 1325 he was a juror in at
least eight inquests.
In 1337, John Lawrence of Ashton obtained land
in Stodday on Netherbaiske Brook from Robert son of Thomas son of Roger de
Stodagh
In 1346 he was a partner in a farm belonging
to the Cockersand Abbey Estate and at an inquest was
holding additional lands in Lancaster from the Earl.
In 1346 he was paying the Earl 10d. annually for the harrowing,
reaping, etc., due from 32 acres in Skerton.
Also in 1346, he held a half plough-land in
Amounderness Hundred by the service of two crossbows.
In 1347 John gave to John the Frereson and
Joan his wife (who had sons John and Edmund) a burgage in St. Mary-gate upon
Caldkeld Bank and was master of the manor of Ashton by a yearly fee of £22.
In 1348 he was holding 5 acres in Skerton and Hackensall from the Duke
and was a partner with his nephew, John Lawrence of Lancaster, in the
milnfield in Lancaster.
In 1347 John Lawrence held the Coucy moieties
of Ashton and Scotforth at a rent of £22.
In 1348-50, William de Heaton made a claim for
messuages, etc., in Lonsdale against Thomas son of Marmaduke de Thweng, John
Lawrence of Ashton, William de Washington, and Robert de Haldleghes.
According to the Imperial Gazetteer of England, Ashton Hall is the seat in the township of Ashton-with-Stoddy, Lancashire, between the Preston and Lancaster railway and the estuary of the Lune, about 2 and 3/4 miles south of Lancaster. Ownership of Ashton Hall eventually passed by marriage to the Dukes of Hamilton. It currently is the headquarters of the Lancaster Golf Club.
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Sally's 1
8-great Grandparents?:
of Lancashire, England
Children
of Lawrence de Lancaster:
1. John Lawrence ca 1270 - aft 1348
2. William Lawrence of Ribbleton died by 1356
3. Alice Lawrence of Lancaster dsp
in a suit in 1292 and 1302 Lawrence de
Lancaster sets forth his claim to 30 acres of land in Skerton.
He was the brother and heir of John, son of Thomas, son of Roger de
Lancaster.
Lawrence complained that John le Gentyl and Agnes his wife were
making waste in lands of his held as Agnes' dower.
In 1323 the Millfield contained 20 acres and was held by
tenants William and Randle le Gentyl, John and Alice Lawrence, and others.
In 1297 he held 30 acres in Skerton by a rent
of 6s 8d which he had obtained from Nicholas Gentyl in 1292 who had held the
land as trustee for Lawrence's brother John who had enfeoffed Nicholas.
Also in 1297 there were three free tenants of Lune Mill,
Lawrence son of Thomas de Lancaster, the Abbot of Furness, and Alan de
Parles.
In 1317 Lawrence son of Thomas de Lancaster
granted lands in Skerton, Ashton, Brantbreck, Grisehead, &c. to his son
John Lawrence and Elizabeth his wife.
From this time on Lawrence was used as the family name.
Lawrence de Lancaster's three children, John,
William, and Alice definitely were using the surname Lawrence. At various
times in early records it was spelled Laurens, Laurenz, or Laurence.
. . . by Paul E Lawrence
Sally's 1
9-great Grandparents?:
of Lancashire, England
[According to H G Somberby this generation was
James Lawrence married about 1252 Mitilda de Washington dau of John de
Washington]
Children of Thomas de
Lancaster:
1. John de Lancaster - died bef 1292 no
issue
married about 1283 Margaret Chesford dau of Walter
Chesford
2. Lawrence de Lancaster ca 1245 - 1317
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
Sally's
20-great Grandparents?:
of Lancashire, England
The de Lancasters were barons of Kendel.
Child of Roger de
Lancaster:
1. Thomas de Lancaster ca 1220 - 1285
The first mention of the family is in a suit in
1292 where Lawrence de Lancaster of Ashton sets forth his claim to 30
acres of land in Skerton. This suit mentions the first three generations
of the family beginning with this Roger de Lancaster and it appears that
they were of a family long settled in the nearby town of Lancaster.
the evidence strongly suggests that
the Lawrences of Ashton Hall descend from Roger de Lancaster. The question
remains whether this Roger de Lancaster was is some way related to the Sir
Robert Lawrence of the Crusades. There appears to be evidence that this
Sir Robert existed. But he is referred to as Robert Lawrence and surnames
generally did not come into use until the late 1200s or early 1300s and
John Lawrence, the first Squire of Ashton Hall is the first to use the
Lawrence surname having taken it from the given name of his father
Lawrence de Lancaster. . . . by Paul
E Lawrence
[According to H G Somberby this generation was
Sir Robert Lawrence b 1185/90; married about 1215 dau of Trafford, Esq of
Lancashire]
Perhaps the Roger de Lancaster
mention in Schuyler’s manuscript was a descendant of the Sir Robert Lawrence
or de Lancaster of the Crusades.
The Arms given in the College of Arms is the Arms that is used by this Lawrence
Family.
see Paul E Lawrence's web-site
?Sally's 21-great grandparents
Robert de
Lancaster
or Sir Robert Lawrence
According to H G Somberby this generation was
Sir Robert Lawrence b 1155/60 - 1216 who had arms [a cross raguley, gules]
conferred upon him by Richard Coeur of Lion, for his bravery in scaling the
walls of Acre in 1191.
According to this genealogy, the Lawrences of
Ashton Hall are descended from a Robert Lawrence born about 1150 A.D., or about
1155/60 A.D., depending on the writer, in the vicinity of Lancaster, England.
One source indicates that his father also was named Robert and worked as a
silversmith for the Lord of Lancaster Castle. Lancaster Castle was established
about 1100 A.D. on the remains of three Roman forts and today is a prison.
Somberby's account of the Lawrences may have been drawn from Fosbroke's History
of Gloucestershire. This work also is cited in Nichols' The Herald and
Genealogist where the lineage is quoted from Sir Robert Lawrence, knighted on
the Crusade to John Lawrence who married a Holt as shown in the table below.
Nichols goes on to say "What the value of the above may be, unattested by
evidences, I must leave your Correspondents to determine."
Robert Lawrence joined the Third Crusades in
1187 A.D. led by Richard Coeur de Lion.
He traveled by ship first to Cyprus and
then to what is now present day Palestine.
There he took part in the siege of
Acre.
One version indicates that he scaled the walls of Acre with four other men
and opened the gates to the armies of the Crusades.
Another version indicates
that he was the first to raise the flag of the Crusades on a Palestine hill
during the siege of Acre.
For his deeds he was knighted by King Richard in 1191
A.D. and was given Ashton Hall.
Another writer indicates that he was created a
Knight-Banneret
(a military Knighthood and the highest grade in the Middle Ages)
and was allow to bear for Arms, "Agent, a cross ragulée gules," a red
cross of trunks of trees having pieces like couped boughs projecting from the
side in a slanting direction, on a silver shield.
This Arms is registered with
the College of Arms in London, England.
Sir Robert Lawrence also is referred to Robert
de Lancaster in some texts.
This probably is more accurate as surnames did not
come into common use until the late 1200s or early 1300s.
One source indicates that within
the halls of Ashton Manor is a silver cup adorned with the motif of Roman armies
and the Roman General, Julius Agricola who was born in the year 40 A.D.
Legend
indicates that General Agricola arrived in Lancaster in the year 89 A.D. where
he and his armies built the first wooden fort upon a hill where Lancaster Castle
stands.
During his stay, he met and fell in love with a young British girl by
whom he had a son.
He was unable to take the girl and child with him when he
returned to Italy where he had a large estate, wife, and children. He gave the
cup to the girl as a legacy.
The son supposedly became the first silversmith in
a long line of silversmiths and, according to legend, was the direct ancestor of
the above Robert Lawrence.
No basis for the legend appear in existing records
but no doubt the thousands of Romans marching through England left some genetic
connections behind.
Sir Robert Lawrence existence is proven by the recording of his knighthood in the College of Arms and his being mentioned in the French scribe’s rendition of the "Intinerarium", a day by day account of the Third Crusades.by Paul E Lawrence
much from compilation by Paul
E Lawrence -- used
here with his permission
He follows the arguments on a manuscript
written by Schuyler Lawrence
Sources and Ref: see Paul
Lawrence's web-site
for additional information on our ancestors in England.
Pedigree of Lawrence by H.
G. Somerby, Esq.
Genealogical Memoir of the Family of John Lawrence, of Watertown, 1636
The Descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton, Massachusetts by Robert
Means Lawrence
A Genealogical History of the Families of Paulet (or Pawlett), Berewe (or
Barrow), Lawrence, and Parker by Charles A. H. Franklyn
The Schuyler Lawrence Manuscripts
The Victoria History of Lancashire by the University of London, Institute of
Historical Research
The Herald and Genealogist Vols. II, IV, and VIII edited by John Gough Nichols
Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland
by John Burke, Esq. and John Bernard Burke, Esq