Worden 2017 England Trip Guide Book
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Worden 2017 England Trip Guide Book J. Schuerman Copyright 2017 Cover Picture: Downham Lancashire, Looking north to Hollin’s Farm Peter Barr [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 1 I. Manchester ............................................................................................................................................. 2 II. Radcliffe ............................................................................................................................................... 5 William de Radeclive ............................................................................................................................ 5 Richard Radcliffe .................................................................................................................................. 6 The Great William ................................................................................................................................ 7 Sir James de Radcliffe—The Tempests Appear ................................................................................... 8 Radcliffe Tower .................................................................................................................................... 9 Radcliffe Church ................................................................................................................................... 9 III. Worthingtons and Wordens .............................................................................................................. 12 Werden ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Clayton ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Farington—Leyland ............................................................................................................................ 13 Peter Werden (Worden) I .................................................................................................................... 14 The Worthingtons ............................................................................................................................... 15 A Manuscript of our ancestor Isabel (Worthington) Werden ............................................................. 17 The Places of the Wordens and Worthingtons .................................................................................... 19 IV. Samlesbury........................................................................................................................................ 25 Samlesbury Hall .................................................................................................................................. 26 V. Mittons, Bayleys, and Sherburnes ..................................................................................................... 27 VI. The Talbots ....................................................................................................................................... 34 Talbots of Bashall ............................................................................................................................... 34 VII. Clitheroe—the de Lacys .................................................................................................................. 40 Clitheroe Castle ................................................................................................................................... 41 Two descents of the Lacys to Peter Worden I ..................................................................................... 44 VIII. The Tempests ................................................................................................................................. 45 The Places of the Tempests ................................................................................................................. 51 Hellifield Peel and Long Preston ........................................................................................................ 55 IX. The Hamertons, Knolls, and Arches ................................................................................................. 56 X. Downham ........................................................................................................................................... 60 XI. The Harringtons ............................................................................................................................... 62 XII. Morecambe Bay and Cockersand Abbey ........................................................................................ 67 XIII. Lancaster ....................................................................................................................................... 68 Map of the places we will visit ............................................................................................................... 69 Churches ................................................................................................................................................. 70 Castles ..................................................................................................................................................... 72 Shields ..................................................................................................................................................... 73 Timeline .................................................................................................................................................. 76 Glossary of Medieval Genealogy ............................................................................................................ 78 Kings and Queens of England ................................................................................................................. 83 Tempest, Holand, Talbot, Sherburne, Harington, Mowbray, Banaster Relationships in the 1300s........ 85 Introduction This tour concerns primarily places of our ancestors in the latter medieval period, that is, from about 1250 to 1620, although we will also touch on earlier ancestors. The tour will be concerned primarily with "gentry" ancestors of Peter Worden I in Lancashire and Yorkshire. By "gentry" I mean lower upper class and upper middle class individuals who were not royalty or aristocracy (nobles, dukes, earls, etc.). These "gentry" were, however, sometimes "lords" in that they controlled large estates. We are descended from a number of royals and nobles but we will not focus on visiting their places, with a couple of exceptions. Many of the ancestors whose places we will visit were knights (some were knights, some were lords, and some were both) so could be addressed as "Sir." (Members of the clergy were also often addressed as "Sir.") The ancestors whose places we will visit had some things in common. Up until 1529, when Henry VIII established the English church, they were all Catholic. After that most of them continued to be Catholic, sometimes openly, sometimes surreptitiously, as was the case with most of the inhabitants of the northwest of England. They also intermarried, sometimes with fairly close cousins. The church prohibited intermarriage within certain “degrees” but couples could petition the Pope for a dispensation to marry and this happened with some of our ancestors. Later I show a diagram of some of those interrelationships. We will be visiting parts of Lancashire and North Yorkshire. The trip begins in Manchester and on the second day we will travel north and west, to Radcliffe then through places of the Worthngtons and Werdens ending the day in Hurst Green. The drive from Preston to Hurst Green follows the River Ribble, which we will be close to much of our trip. The Ribble runs into the Irish Sea after skirting the south side of Preston. In the Hurst Green area two other rivers join the Ribble, the Hodder from the north and the Calder from the south. The site is quite idyllic, on the east looms Pendle Hill, a favorite of walkers and home of the Pendle Hill witches, some years before our Salem witches. On the west is Long Ridge. This is also Tolkien country, if you want to skip the tour one day, you can walk the Tolkien Trail (http://www.visitlancashire.com/things-to-do/the-tolkien-trail-in-the-footsteps-of-j-r-r-tolkien-p583810). This is also the southern end of the Forest of Bowland, a forest with very few trees. On the fourth day we will travel north and east into North Yorkshire to the town of Skipton which is in the ancient Craven district. This is the southern end of the Yorkshire Dales, a district of high rolling hills primarily occupied by sheep. On the fifth day we travel north and west to Cartmel in the county of Cumbria, once a part of Lancashire. This is the south end of Lake District, a picturesque area of lakes and beautiful mountains. After Cartmel we travel to Morcambe Bay, a desolate expanse of sand on the Irish Sea and the location of the ruins of Cockersand Abbey. Much of the material below is from articles I have written for Wordens Past but a lot of it is new. In some of this I have not included much documentation. I do have sources for almost everything I say, so if you want me to provide them, I can. 1 I. Manchester Manchester is