II. Sir CHARLES ASGILL, Bart. then a captain of the first regiment of guards, and served with much reputation in the American war, and had nearly been hanged for a spy; but by the interposition of maternal tenderness with the French court, he escaped the vindictive justice of the colonists-GENT. MAG. P. 841, 1788. He married, Aug. 28, 1790, Jemima-Sophia, daughter of admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, Knt. ARMS-Parted, per fess, argent, and vert, a pale counterchanged in each piece, of the first, a lion's head erased, gules. CREST-A sphynx, with wings endorsed, ar. crined, or. Some of the family were buried in St. Bartholomew Church Yard, behind the Royal Exchange, London, with inscriptions. 273. HESKETH, of Rufford, Lancashire. Created Baronet, May 5, 1761. THIS family very probably derive their surname from the lordship of Heskaythe, in Lancashire, of which they have been possessed many ages. 1, Robert de Heskaythe left one son, 2, William de Heskaythe, who married Annabella, daughter and heiress of Sir Rowland Stafford, Knt. by whom he had one son, 3, William Heskaythe, who married Elbota, daughter and heiress of Richard de Tottleworth, by whom he had three sons; 1, Sir William; 2, Adam, who married Maud, daughter of William Fleming, Bishop of Bath; and 3, John, of whom there is no farther mention. 4, Sir William Heskaythe, Knt. was lord of Heskaythe and Beconsaw, and married, 4 Edw. I. Dame Maude, daughter and coheiress of Richard de Fitton, lord of Fitton (whose arms being argent, on a bend, sable, three garbs, or, were afterwards used by the Heskeths as their proper armorial ensigns), by whom he had two sons; 1, Thomas: 2, Adam, whose son and heir, William, dwelt at Rufford, where he died. 5, Thomas de Heskay the was lord of Rufford, &c. and married Alis, daughter of Warin de Bisham, lord of Bisham, by whom he had four sons; 1, Robert, who died S. P. 2, Sir John; 3, Robert *; and 4, Richard: and one daughter Margaret, wife of Richard Nowell. 6, Sir John de Heskaythe, Knt. succeeded to the family estates, and married Alice, daughter and heiress of Edmund Fitton (with whom he had half the lordship of Rufford), by whom he had one son, 7, Sir John de Heskaythe, lord of Rufford, Heskaythe, Beconsaw, Great Harwood, and Tottleworth, was living in 1355, and married Mariella, daughter and coheiress of Twenge, alias Doddingsels, of Kendal, in Westmoreland, by whom he had Thomas, of whom hereafter, and William, who had lands in Beconsaw, 23 Edw. III. 8, Thomas de Heskaythe, lord of Heskaythe, &c. married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Banaster, baron of Newton, lord of Walton, and son of Sir Thomas Banaster, who was one of the knights of the most noble order of the garter, temp. Rich. II. by whom he had three sons; 1, Robert, who died 1 Hen. IV. S. P.; 2, Nicholas; and 3, Gilbert, who married, and had issue. 9, Nicholas Heskaythe, Esq. was heir to his brother Robert, and married Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Minshull, by whom he left an only son, 10, Sir Thomas Heskaythe, Knt. lord of Rufford, &c. who married Sibill, daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Lawrence, Knt. by whom he had three sons; 1, Hugh, who left no legitimate issue; 2, Thomas; and 3, Nicholas. 11, Thomas, married Margaret, daughter of Hamond Maseye, of Ryxton, Esq. by whom he had ten sons; 1, Robert; 2, William, a chaplain, who died S. P.; 3, Thomas; 4, John, a priest; 5, Hugh; 6, William, who married two wives, and left issue; 7, Geoffry; 8, Richard; 9, Henry; and 10, Nicholas, a priest. 12, Robert, the eldest son, and heir to the lordships of Heskaythe, Rufford, &c. married Alice, third daughter of Sir Robert Booth, Knt. and of DunhamMassey, in Cheshire (ancestor to the late Earl of Warrington, and late Lord Delamer); after her husband's death, she professed chastity, and died 1494, leaving three sons and three daughters; 1, Sir Richard, attorney-general to Henry VIII. and died 1520; 2, Thomas; and 3, Hugh, who was bishop of the Isle of Man. The daughters were, 1, Margaret, wife of Henry, son and heir of Richard Keightley, Esq.; 2, Doyce, of John, son and heir of Roger Nowell, of Reade, Esq.; and 3, Alice, of Sir Richard Aughton, Knt. lord of Meales, in Lancashire. 13, Thomas Heskaythe, Esq. was lord of Heskaythe and Rufford, and died * It was no uncommon thing in former ages to have two children of the same christian name. Aug. 14, 1523. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Fleming, baron of 14, Sir Robert Heskaythe, Knt. who married Grace, daughter of Sit John Townley, of Townley, in Lancashire, Knt. and died Feb. 8, 1539, leaving two sons, Sir Thomas, and Robert, who had several children, and two daughters, Ellen, wife of Richard Barton, of Barton; and Jane, of Richard Asheton, of Crofton, in Lancashire, Esqrs. 15, Sir Thomas Heskaythe, Knt. was lord of Rufford, Holmes, Holmeswood, Howick, Beconshawe, Martholme, and Harwood. He served the office of highsheriff of the county of Lancaster, 5 Eliz. and served his sovereign in Scotland at the siege of Leith, where he was much wounded, and had his ensign struck out of his hand, which he recovered again: he greatly repaired the house at Martholme and Holmeswood, and the chapel of Rufford. He married Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft, Knt. by whom he had three sons and two daughters; 1, Robert; 2, Thomas; 3, Richard; 4, Dorothy, wife of Henry, Esq.; and 5, Margaret, of Nicholas Shillicombe, of the Field, Esq. Sir Thomas died at Rufford, 1587, and was succeeded by his son, 16, Robert, who was justice of the peace, and of the quorum, lord of Rufford, &c. He married first, Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir George Stanley, knightmarshal in Ireland, (which Sir George was son and heir of Sir James Stanley, Knt. second son of George, Lord Stanley and Strange, by Joan, daughter and heiress of John, Lord Strange, of Knocking, and of his wife Jacquet, eldest daughter and coheiress of Richard, Lord Woodville, and Earl of Rivers, sister to Elizabeth, queen to Edward IV. and mother to Queen Elizabeth, mother to Henry VIII.), by which marriage the Heskeths became allied to the royal and many noble families. This Robert married 2dly, Blanch, daughter and coheiress of Henry Twyford, of Kenwick, Esq. by whom he had no issue, but by the former he had five sons and three daughters; 1, Thomas, who was twice married, but left no issue; 2, Robert, of whom hereafter; 3, Henry, who died without issue; 4, George, who married Jane, widow of Shireburne (a younger brother of Shireburne, of Stonyhurst), by whom he had one son Robert; 5, Robert, who married Mary, daughter of Hadock, of Pheasantford, Esq. by whom he had a son Robert. 17, Robert Hesketh, Esq. was heir to his father and brother, and married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Standish, Esq. (by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Adam Hawarden, of Woston, in Lancashire, Esq.); he died Jan. 1653, leaving one son, 18, Robert, who died in his father's life-time, having married Lucy, daughter of Alexander Rigby, of Middleton, in Goosenarge, Esq. (afterwards wife of John, son and heir of Sir Francis Molineux, of Tevershall, in Nottinghamshire, Bart.) by whom he had two sons; 1, Alexander, who died young; 2, Thomas and two daughters, Lucy, who died an infant, and Margaret, who died unmarried. 19, Thomas Hesketh, Esq. was heir to his father and grandfather. He married Sidney, only surviving daughter of Sir Richard Grosvenor, of Eaton, in Cheshire, Bart. (ancestor to the present Earl Grosvenor), by his wife Sidney, daughter o Sir Roger Mostyn, of Mostyn, in Flintshire, Bart. by whom he had two sons, Robert, and Thomas, of whom hereafter; Robert married Elizabeth, daughter of William Spencer, of Ashton, in Lancashire, Esq. (sister to Colonel Spencer, who was second husband to Sidney, widow of the above-named Hesketh, Esq.) but had an only daughter Elizabeth, wife of Sir Edward Stanley, of Bickerstaff, in Lancashire, Bart. at that time heir expectant to, and finally possessed of the title, Earl of Derby. Jane, daughter of Thomas and Sidney, was wife, first, of Henry, second son of Sir Robert Brooke, of Norton, in Cheshire, Bart.; secondly, of Hugh, son of John Warren, of Poynton, in the same county, but died without issue. 20, Thomas, second son of Thomas, was heir to his father and brother, and married Anne, fifth daughter of Sir Reginald Graham, of Norton Conyers, in the county of York, Bart. by whom he had one son, 21, Thomas Hesketh, Esq. lord of Hesketh, Rufford, Holmes and Holmeswood, Martholme, Great Harwood, Howicke, Betton, &c. was one of the representatives for the town of Preston in the sixth parliament of Great Britain, and married Martha, only daughter of James St. Amand, of St. Paul, Covent Garden, London, Esq. (by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Juxton, of Little Compton, in Gloucestershire, Bart.) by whom he had four sons; 1, Robert; 2, Thomas, who both died infants; 3, Sir Thomas, of whom hereafter; and 4, Robert, successor to his brother. I. THOMAS HESKETH, Esq. the eldest surviving son, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, by letters-patent, May 5, 1761, with limitation to his heirs male, and in default of such issue, to Robert, his brother, and the male issue of his body lawfully begotten; which Sir Thomas married Harriet, daughter and coheiress of Ashley Cowper, Esq. and died without issue, March 4, 1778, and was succeeded by his brother, II. Sir ROBERT HESKETH, Bart. who assumed the name of Juxton. He was born April 23, 1728, and married at Preston, in Lancashire, April 19, 1748, Sarah, daughter of William Plumbe, of Waverstree, in Lancashire, Esq. by whom he had issue; 1, Thomas; 2, Anne, born Feb. 28, 1748-9; 3, Robert, born July 23, 1751; and 4, -, wife, in 1801, of E. Pierson, merchant, at Liverpool. Sir Robert died Dec. 30, 1796, and was succeeded by his son, III. Sir THOMAS HESKETH, Bart. ARMS-Argent, an eagle displayed, with two heads, proper. SEATS-At Rufford, &c. in Lancashire. |