'Grimshaw01'
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Families covered: Grimshaw (Grymshawe) of Clayton
| Dugdale spells the family name as "Grymshawe" whilst Whitaker spells it as "Grimshaw". We follow the latter as that version is much more common nowadays. | |||||||||||||||
| Walter de Grimshaw = Walter Grymshawe | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Henry Grimshaw (a 1283) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | Adam Grimshaw (a 1313) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Adam Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Henry Grimshaw (a 1317) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Adam Grimshaw (d by 1368) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Cicely de Clayton (dau/heir of Henry de Clayton son of John son (by Isabella) of Philip son of Henry de Clayton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Henry Grimshaw of Clayton (d 1409) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Johanna Shuttleworth (dau of John Shuttleworth) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Robert Grimshaw of Clayton (a 1454) | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | Hugh Grimshaw (b 1441, dvpsp?) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Henry Grimshaw (b c1442) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Isabel Rishton (dau of Richard or Henry Rishton of Rishton) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Henry Grimshaw of Clayton (b 1467, d 1507) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice Tempest (dau of Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Thomas Grimshaw of Clayton (d 1539) | ||||||||||||||
| Dugdale identifies Thomas's wife as Margaret, dau/heir of Sir John Harrington of Horrneby Castle, but (noting that she was the coheir of her mother) Whitaker identifies her as ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Stanley (dau of John Stanley of Melling, natural son of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, by Elizabeth, dau of Sir John Harrington of Hornby) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Richard Grimshaw of Clayton (b c1509, d 1575) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Cudworth (dau of John Cudworth of Oldham) | |||||||||||||||
| ((B)) | Anne Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1540) Hugh Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe (b 1504, bur 26.12.1596) | |||||||||||||||
| ((C)) | Alice Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Holden (son of Ralph of Chageley) | |||||||||||||||
| ((D)) | Isabel Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Utred Morley of Braddyll | |||||||||||||||
| ((E))+ | other issue - Henry, Nicholas, Ralph | ||||||||||||||
| p. Margaret (or Amalia) | |||||||||||||||
| ((H))+ | other issue - Richard, Henry | ||||||||||||||
| ((2))+ | other issue - Walter, Richard | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Nicholas Grimshaw (a 1481) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Katherine Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| (2)+ | other issue - Richard, John, Agnes | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Matilda Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. John de Mawdesley | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Richard Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue (a 1292) - Richard, Adam, William | ||||||||||||||
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| Richard Grimshaw of Clayton (b c1509, d 1575) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Cudworth (dau of John Cudworth of Oldham) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Grimshaw of Clayton (d 1586-7) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Catterall (dau/coheir of Thomas Catterall & Mytton) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Nicholas Grimshaw of Clayton (b c1573, d 1642) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Helen Rishworth (d 1661, dau of Robert Rishworth or Rushworth of Riddleston Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Grimshaw of Clayton (b 1613-4, d 08.03.1662, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Colthurst (d 24.07.1661, dau/coheir of Abraham Colthurst of Burnley) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Richard Grimshaw of Clayton (b 1627-8, a 03.1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Tempest (dau of Stephen Tempest of Broughton) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Susan Grimshaw (b 1658, d 1727) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Ralph Shuttleworth (son of Nicholas of Clitheroe son of Richard of Gawthorpe) | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Nicholas Grimshaw (a 1642 in Preston) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | John Grimshaw (d 1663) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Janet Cunliffe (b c1615, d 16.12.1663, dau of Robert Cunliffe, sister/coheir of Christopher of Sparth) | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Mary Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Heywood of Urmston | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Rebecca Heywood, heiress of Grimshaw & Clayton (d 1772) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Lomax of Pilsworth & Burnshaw (Beaconshaw) Tower (d 1771) | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Helen Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Clarkson of Cowhill | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Thomas Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane (widow of William Dudell of Longridge) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Robert Grimshaw (a 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Hall (dau of Francis Hall of Sherbourne) | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Jane Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Eyves of Fishwick | |||||||||||||||
| v. | Anne Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| Dugdale identifies Anne's wife as Richard Heye but Whitaker identifies her as ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. W. Key of Ripon | |||||||||||||||
| vi. | Elizabeth Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Tempest (son of Sir Stephen of Broughton) | |||||||||||||||
| vii. | Catherine Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Squire of Harwood | |||||||||||||||
| viii. | Eleanor Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Towneley of Hurstwood (b 1598-9, a 05.1664) | |||||||||||||||
| ix.+ | other issue - Thomas (d young), Nicohlas, Mary, Margaret | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Andrew Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane or Anne Halsted (dau of Thomas Halsted of High Halsted) | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Richard Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Nutter (dau of James Nutter of Burnley) | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Henry Grimshaw omitted by Whitaker | ||||||||||||||
| E. | Margaret Grimshaw named Joane by Dugdale with separate Margaret | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Hesketh | |||||||||||||||
| F. | Anne Grimshaw | ||||||||||||||
| m. Simon Haydock of Hesandforth or Fessantford | |||||||||||||||
| 2.+ | other issue - John, Henry, Nicholas, Raphe, Margery, Elizabeth, Anne | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) the pedigree on 'Clayton-les-Moores' within vol II of 'An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe', originally by Thomas Dunham Whitaker (1818), continued & completed by Rev. Ponsonby A. Lyons (1876)
(2) Visitation (Dugdale, Lancashire, 1664-5, Grymeshawe of Clayton-in-the Moors)
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