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Families covered: Bamford of Bamford, Bamford of Tarleton Bridge
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First displayed: 20.05.13Last updated: 20.05.13
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Adam Bamford of Bamford, Lancashire
m. Catherine Holt (dau of _ Holt of Ashworth) ## see here ##
1. Thomas Bamford
m. Jennett Butterworth
  A. Adam Bamford
  m. Jane Holcrofte (dau of ?? Holcrofte of Hurst)
  i. William Bamford
  m. Joane Shepherd
  a. William Bamford of Bamford (a 1613)
  m. Jane Dokenfield (dau of William Dokenfield of Dokenfield)
(1) William Bamford of Bamford (b c1596, a 1613, dsp)
  b. Samuel Bamford of Bamford (dsp 10.06.1629)
  m. Anne Holt (dau of Robert Holt of Ashworth)
  c. ?? Bamford
  (1) William Bamford of Mawdesley, later of Bamford (d 1643)
  m. Jane Butterworth (dau of William Butterworth of Belfield)
  (A) William Bamford of Bamford (b 1638-9, a 1673, dsp?)
  (B) Samuel Bamford of Bamford (a 09.1664)
  m. Susan Lomax of Bury name found on a web site, possibly mother of ...
(i) ?? Bamford
  Uncertain on number of intervening generations
  (a) ?? Bamford
  ((1)) William Bamford of Bamford (d 1761)
  m. Margaret Davenport (dau of Edward Davenport of Stockport) mother of Margaret, presumed also of ...
  ((A)) Anne Bamford of Bamford (a 1779, dsp)
  VCH reports that Anne devised the estate in 1779 "to a distant kinsman", William Bamford of Tarleton Bridge (see below).
  ((B)) Margaret Bamford (dsp) probably of this generation
  m1. George Bamforth of The High House (dsp 30.05.1739)
  m2. John Senior of High House
  ((C)) daughter (dsp)

 

 

William Bamford of Tarleton Bridge name found on a web site as father of ...
1. William Bamford of Tarleton Bridge, later of Bamford, Sheriff of Lancashire (dspm 1806)
  This is possibly the William Bamford of Bamford who married ...
  m. Anne Blackburne (dau of Thomas Blackburne of Orford Hall) born in 1750s?
  The Bamford estates passed to Robert Hesketh, who assumed the name Bamford, by right of his wife, _ Nicholson, presumably through an entail relating to an earlier daughter of the family.
  A. Anne Bamford (d 1861) possibly of this generation
  m. (13.04.1811) John Ireland Blackburne of Orford Hall (b 1783, cousin)
  B. Mary Bamford (dsp 05.09.1847) possibly of this generation
  m. (05.10.1829) Sir Robert Pigot, 4th Bart of Patshul (b 1801, d 01.06.1891)

Main source(s): Visitation (Richard St. George, Lancashire, 1613, Bamford), Visitation (Dugdale, Lancashire, 1664, Bamford of Bamford) with a little input/support from VCH (Lancashire, vol 5, Townships: Heap).
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