Chapter XIX Old Houses and Old Families Spotland

CHAPTER XIX . Oft 3ousea and bid Samif es.-'4rotfand . HEALEY HALL. ANDS "assarted" out of the wastes of this part of Spotland were at a very early period known as Heleya, or Heley, and gave their name to a family long resident there. Some- time in the twelfth century Dolphin de Heleya was living here ; he had three sons-Henry, Adam and Andrew. John, the son of Henry, had issue two sons, Andrew and Adam ; he died about the year 1272, seised of a messuage at Heleya.l Adam, the son of Dolphin, confirmed to his brother Henry lands in Castleton early in the next century, and his name as a witness appears frequently in charters relating to lands in Whitworth about 1238, as do also those of Adam the son of William de Heleya, William the son of Peter de Heleya, and Henry de Heleya.2 In 1273 Henry de Merlond granted land to John de Heleya, on the marriage of Amicia his daughter to Andrew the son of John de Heleya .3 There was also then living Richard the son of Anketillus de Heleya, who granted a bovate of land in Heleya to Stanlawe ; probably it was the same Anketillus the son of Andrew chaplain of Rochdale, who by deed without date confirmed to his brother Clement a bovate of land in Heleya and an " assart " which his brother Alexander had " assarted." There was also Robert, son of Anketillus, who granted to Stanlawe lands in Heleya which he had from his father, Clement de Heleya.4 Sometime before the close of the thirteenth century [c . 1280], Hawisia the daughter of Henry de Heleya, widow, quit-claimed Richard de Heleya ' Original Deeds .-See Coucher Book of Whalley, p . 597, and Dugd . Mon ., i ., 86o, 9OO . 'Coucher Book of Whalley, pp . 579, 662, 673 . 3Coucher Book, p . 6r : . 4 Do. 781, 782- 61 48 2 HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCHDALE. of the fourth part of a bovate of land in Heleya which had descended to her from her father. , In 1332 Robert de Heghlegh and Geoffrey de Heghlegh paid subsidy in Spotland, and Adam de Heghlegh in Hun- dersfield . There was also a Geoffrey de Heghley whose widow Agnes, in 1344, granted her lands in Butterworth to Sir John Byron [p . 32]. The history of the Heley family of Heley after this is obscure, but it is pretty certain that in the fifteenth century these estates had gone to the Chadwicks. In 1626 Jordan Chadwick claimed to hold Healey Hall and the lands belonging thereto by a charter without date, whereby Richard de Heley gave to John de Heley all his lands in Heley, except half a bovate out of which Henry the son of William de Heley had a reserved rental.2 In 1587 Thomas Heley was defendant in a case before the Duchy Court, Francis Holt of Grizzlehurst being the plaintiff . Thomas Heley claimed to hold in fee the messuage (in Spotland) wherein he dwelt, and forty acres of land ; on the other hand Francis Holt alleged that the disputed premises were held of him by "homage, fealty, escuage 3 and sute," and the yearly rent of two shillings.4 In 1626 some of the Healeys however still remained in the hamlet, amongst others Thomas Healey, who by deed dated 8th May, 6 Jac . [r6o8], granted a messuage and thirty acres of land in Healey to trustees for the use of his son John, who held the same in 1626 . Thomas Healey in 1557 conveyed to trustees a large house and lands in Healey to the use of his eldest son Robert and Elizabeth his wife, and in default of heirs to Thomas Healey of Lower Healey, who had possession in 1626 .5 [See Healey of Bank House .] The estates of the Healeys of Healey are said to have gone by marriage in the fourteenth century of a daughter and heiress of that family with Alexander Okeden, whose descendant Alice, daughter of Adam Okeden, married John Chadwick, son of Jordan Chad- wick, who was a younger brother of Henry Chadwick of Chadwick, the marriage settlement being dated loth February, I Richard Ill . [1485] ; the authority for this is the pedigree drawn up by Corry in his History of Lancashire, 6 which has been reprinted so often that its repetition here ' Coucher Book of Whalley, p. 791 . 2 Manor Survey, 1626. o A tenure obliging the tenant to follow his landlord to the wars . ' Manor Survey . s Duchy Pleadings, Eli. cii ., H. ig. ° London, 1835. This pedigree has been copied in its entirety by Baines and Forster, anal finds a place in the "Reports of the Estate of Sir Andrew Chadwick" (London, i88i), in each case without addition or correction . OLD HOUSES AND OLD FAMILIES-SPOTLAND . 483 is unnecessary ; and moreover, as the charters which are said to prove it are not now accessible (if they are in existence), its authenticity cannot be vouched for. Jordan Chadwick married Ellinore, the daughter and heiress of Christopher Kershagh of Town House [see p . 443], the marriage settlement being dated the 14th September, 1454. His son, John Chadwick, died in 1498, seised of lands in Spotland and other parts of the parish ; his son and heir was Thomas Chadwick, then ten years' old . On the 26th July, Henry VII. [1501], the wardship of his lands was granted to James Stanley, clerk ;' at the age of nine years he was contracted to marry Grace Radcliffe, but upon the case being investigated [23rd September, 1511] before the Dean of Blackburn, the contract was annulled before consummation .5 He afterwards married Catherine, daughter of James Bucley of Bucley . In 1523 he appears on a Subsidy Roll . The date of his death is unknown, but a John Chadwick of Healey, gent., was buried at Rochdale 3oth January, 1615-16, who according to Corry was his son, aged one hundred and three years ; the probability is that he was his grandson. At all events the printed version of the pedigree is wrong, for if it is correct that this centenarian (?) married in 1551 Agnes, the daughter of James Heawood, it is beyond dispute that in 159o his then wife was called Ann' and not Agnes. This is shown by the will of Elizabeth Chadwick of Healey, "spynster" (according to pedigree she married Arthur Bentley), dated loth June, 1590,' in which she leaves legacies to her brother, John Chadwick of Healey, and his "now" wife Ann, to her brother Robert, "son and heir of John," her brother Thomas, her cousin Charles Chadwick, Jordan son of Robert Chadwick, Marie and Margaret Chadwick, her brother-in-law Arthur Bentley, and to his children Ann, Elizabeth, Marie and Michael Bentley, to James, Robert, and Ann Marland of Marland, to Richard and Marie, children of Richard Entwisle . Thomas Chadwick, one of the younger sons of John Chadwick, left a will (which was unknown to Corry), dated 4th June, 16ii,s in which he describes himself as of Healey, yeoman, and left £3 6s. 8d. to the poor of Rochdale, to be laid out in land at the discretion of those of his friends who attended his funeral ; to his father, "Mr. John Chadwick of Healey," a night gowne ; to his brother, Dr. Charles Chadwick, rector of Woodham Ferrers in Essex, all his freehold and copyhold lands, and to his nephew, Richard Entwisle, a silver bowl. The eldest son' of John Chadwicke was Robert Chadwick of Healey Hall, who married Alice, daughter of Alexander Butterworth of Belfield (marriage settlement 22nd October,) 1581) . He is said to have re-built Healey Hall in 1618 . He was buried in Rochdale Church, 19th October, 1625, and his wife 8th December, 1628. He had three sons and four daughters : Inq. Post Mort,-Duchy Pleadings, iii ., 42. ' Duchy Records, E Class, xi., If en. VII ., fol . 28 x. 3 Chet. Soc ., v ., 45, new series. 4The Rochdale Church Registers merely record 24th April, 1604, "Bur . vx' John Chadwick, gent." 3 Proved at Chester 25th October, same year. She was bur. 2nd August. 6 Do. „ j615- 7 His other sons were (r) Charles, rector of Woodham Ferrets in Essex, he died unmarried in 1627 ; (2) Dr . John Chadwick, rector of Darfield, Yorks ., he died S.P., his widow married Robert Dickson [see P. 2711 ; (3) Thomas ; (4) Jordan.' 48 4 HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ROCHDALE. (1) Jordan ; of whom presently . (2) John ; rector of Standish, from whom descended the Chadwicks of Taunton in Lancashire ; his son, John Chadwick, registered a pedigree' of four generations in 1 6 6 4-5- (3) Charles ; died S .P. (4) Mary ; wife of Robert Wroe of Unsworth . (5) Grace ; married Richard Entwisle of Foxholes. (6) Margaret ; wife of the Rev. Anthony Uxley, parson of Longford in Derbyshire. Jordan Chadwick, the eldest son of Robert Chadwick, was baptized at Rochdale, 17th December, 1587- He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Matthews of Oldham . He lived at Healey Hall, and in 1631 he was fined ten pounds for refusing the order of knighthood.' He was buried at Rochdale, 11th November, x634 . He held at the time of his decease in fee a house, gardens and eighty acres of land in Healey ; he also held a house and land in Tunnicliffe, and lands called Harper's Road in Spotland, which latter formerly belonged to Charles Holt, gentleman, deceased, that he held of the King as part of the Duchy, land in Healey was held of Thomas Holt, Esq .' He had issue three sons (1) John ; of whom presently. (2) Charles Chadwick ; D.D., of Emmanuel College, who owned (and possibly for a time lived at) Starring in Hundersfield .

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