John Greenhalgh (1597 – 1651) Captian & Governor of the Isle of Man (1640 – 1651)
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Compiled and Edited by Howard Gilbert Wood, Teignmouth, England 10 Feb 2018 A volume of work to reflect some of the highlights of our GREENHALGH familily, long ago, in England. This is a work that will be expanding, so please seek further versions in the future. Howard Gilbert Wood of Teignmouth 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS JOHN GREENHALGH (1597 – 1651) CAPTIAN & GOVERNOR OF THE ISLE OF MAN (1640 – 1651) JOHN GREENHALGH King’s Feodary and Bailiff (early 1500’s) JOHN GREENHALGH, MAGISTRATE FOR THE COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE – 1616 THOMAS GREENHALGH (1633 – 1696) Captian, High Sheriff, & Magistate (presiding over witchcraft trials) WILLIAM GREENHALGH ESQ High Sheriff of Lancashire County in 1729 JAMES GREENHALGH Mayor of Bolton (1877 – 1878) JOHN THOMAS GREENHALGH (b.1886) World War One Veteran MISCELLANEOUS GREENHALGH WAR VETERANS Nepoleonic Wars GREENHALGH CASTLE (1490 – 1650) RAMBLES AROUND BURY BRANDLESOME HALL ESTATE, “ORDER”, AND GREENHALGH COAT OF ARMS PEDIGREE OF THE GREENHALGHS OF BRANDLESOME ; OUR GREENHALGH FAMILY PEDIGREE 3 APPENDIX BOOKS: “Historical Notes: Greenhalgh Family” (1877) “Memoranda of the Greenhalgh Family” (1897) “Life and Works of Frederic Greenhalge: Governor of Massachusetts” (1897) “The Victoria History of the Counties of England – Lanc.” “Historical Account of the Isle of Man…” “The Stanley Papers” “Time-honoured Lancaster, Historical Notes on the Ancient Borough…” “The Great Civil War in Lancashire” “The Royalist Composition Papers” WILLS, INQUISTS &C : Anne Langley Greenhalgh (D.1566) Elenor Langley (D.1532) MOTHER OF ANNE LANGLELY GREENHALGH Robert Holt (D.1554) FATHER-IN-LAW TO JOHN GREENHALGH Thomas Greenhalgh (D.1609), INQUISITION, BOLTON, LANC., ENG. Seizure of John Greenhalgh’s Estate Court perceedings, during the times of Henry VII, VIII MISCELLANEOUS TID-BITS A Poem Written to Describe how the Mother of Edward Greenhalgh, Swayed the Jury’s Decision – Not Guilty of Murder. “Church of the All Souls” Financed by Nathaniel and Thomas Greenhalgh (1885) Villiage of Greenhalgh, Lancashire, England – HOLT & GREENHALGH FAMILIES – Interconnectedness 4 JOHN GREENHALGH, ESQUIRE, 1587 – 1651 Governor of the ISLE OF MAN, UK 1640 - 1651. Son of Thomas Greenhalgh, of Brandlesome Hall, in the Photo online link parish of Bury, Lancashire, by Mary, daughter of Robert Holte of Ashworth Hall in the same parish, was born before 1587 (his parents were married in 1585). His father dying in 1599 his mother married Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton, Lancashire, by whom Greenhalgh was brought up. He ws well educated and travelled abroad. On the death of his grandfather, John Greenhalgh, he succeeded to Brandlesome Hall, was on the Commission of Peace for and deputy-lieutenant of the county of Lancashire, and was appointed Governor of the Isle of Man by the Earl of Derby in 1640. In 1642 he was discharged as a royalist from the Commission of the Peace by order of the House of Commons. He fought under the Earl of Derby at the head of three hundred Manxmen at the Battle of Wigan Lane in August 1651, greatly distinguished himself at Worcester, when he saved the colours from capture by tearing them from the 5 standard and wrapping them round his person, was severely wounded in a subsequent affair with Major Edge, when the Earl of Derby was taken prisoner, but made good his escape to the Isle of Man, and there died of his wounds, and was buried at Malow, 19 Sept. 1651. His estates were confiscated. Greenhalgh married thrice: first, 30 Jan. 1608-09, Alice, daughter of the Rev. William Massey, rector of Wilmslow, Cheshire; secondly, Mary, daughter of William Assheton of Clegg Hall, Lancashire; and thirdly, Alice, daughter of George Chadderton of Lees, near Oldham. He had issue three sons and three daughters. “THIS celebrated gentleman, who maintained tranquillity in the Isle of Man during a very unsettled period, as governor under James, seventh Earl of Derby. "The Earl of Derby's character of Captain Greenhalgh, and his reasons for his choice of him as governor—First, that he was a gentleman well born, and such usually scorn a base action. Secondly, that he has a good estate of his own, and therefore need not borrow of another, which hath been a fault in this country; for when governors have wanted, and been forced to be beholding to those who may be the greatest offenders against the Lord and country, in 6 such case the borrower becomes servant to the lender, to the stoppage, if not the perversion, of justice. Next, he was a deputy-lieutenant and justice of peace for his own country; he governed his own affairs well, and therefore was the more likely to do mine so; he hath been approved prudent and valiant, and, as such, fitter to be trusted; in fine, he is such that I thank God for him, and charge you to love him as a friend.” The beheading of the Earl of Derby, “John, otherwise Captain Greenhalgh, the 11th of Brandlesome, governor of the Isle of- Man, and, as set down elsewhere, the "personal friend”, of James, the seventh Earl of Derby, had a son John, who attended that unfortunate nobleman all through the exciting period connected with the trial at Chester on the 10th, condemnation, mournful journey on the James Stanley, the 7th Earl of Derby 14th, and execution at Bolton, October 15th, 1651, at the instance of Parliament, in those perilous and unhappy times.” 7 In the Holt Family History ONLINE LINK “In subsequent documents the Holts were spoken as residing in Ashworth. Sir Richard Assheton, born in 1557, and who was three times sheriff of Lancashire, married for his second wife Mary, daughter of Robert Holt, and relict of Thomas Greenhalgh, of Brandlesholme. The latter left at his death, in 1598, a son, John Greenhalgh, one of the executors of his step- father, “a prudent and sagacious though at this time a young man.” John Greenhalgh was one of the executors under the will of Sir Nicholas Assheton,and was also present at his death, which took place in 1617. There was some display of feeling at the death of the knight, “some likeness of those present falling out.” As Nicholas Assheton says in his records; but John Greenhalgh interposed with kindly counsel, and peace ensued. This genial man was afterwards appointed by the deceased knight’s successor as his executor, along with Richard Assheton’s grandfather, Robert Holt. On the application of Thomas Holt, a dispensation was granted John Greenhalgh, by the Court if Chester, for, his marriage with Alice [she being 13 years old], daughter of the Rev. William Massie, of Wilmslow, and is dated January 30th, 1608 9. Greenhalgh then had a 8 residence at Middleton. This lady was buried at the Bury Parish Church on January 4th 1620, her infant son having been buried there in May of the same year. John Greenhalgh was married again in the same year at Ashworth Chapel, the date being December 8th, his new spouse being Mary daughter of Wm. Assheton, of Clegg and widow of Richard Holt. Note: Some history have John Greenhalgh being born in 1697, but with that date, he would have been 12-13 years old himself. Other history has John being born in 1687, which would make hime 22-23 when getting married. 9 JOHN GREENHALGH The King's Feodary and Bailiff, Early 1500’s ONLINE LINK 10 1519-20 11 12 13 14 15 1526-27 16 17 18 JOHN GREENHALGH (D.1674) Minister, and Head School Master John Greenhalgh was master at the churchyard school for some time before 1645 and was styled curate when the great oath was taken in the church in February 1641. One of his pupils was James Livesey, who went to Cambridge direct from the school. Livesey became a puritan and was minister at Chowbent chapel, 1652-8, when he became vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire and died there in 1682. Greenhalgh made his will in his own death year of 1674 and today when read it casts a mellow light upon that tenuous social relationship of master and scholar maintained by these two townsmen, who were once at Leigh Free School. Greenhalgh gave all his library and manuscripts to Humphrey the son of Livesey and £30 to be divided between his seven children. To Livesey himself he gave a substantial sum of £200. Thomas Crompton minister of God's word at Astley received 50s. legacy and both these were named executors. Greenhalgh and Livesey came from Bury and John Whitaker of that place was the principal beneficiary of this erstwhile master of Leigh school. Greenhalgh died 19 at Great Budworth, attracted there, no doubt, by the forces of mutual interest, which Livesey and he had shared a whole life through. In subsequent documents the Holts were spoken as residing in Ashworth. Sir Richard Assheton, born in 1557, and who was three times sheriff of Lancashire, married for his second wife Mary, daughter of Robert Holt, and relict of Thomas Greenhalgh, of Brandlesholme. The latter left at his death, in 1598, a son, John Greenhalgh, one of the executors of his step-father, “a prudent and sagacious though at this time a young man.” John Greenhalgh was one of the executors under the will of Sir Nicholas Assheton, and was also present at his death, which took place in 1617. There was some display of feeling at the death of the 20 knight, “some likeness of those present falling out.” As Nicholas Assheton says in his records; but John Greenhalgh interposed with kindly counsel, and peace ensued. This genial man was afterwards appointed by the deceased knight’s successor as his executor, along with Richard Assheton’s grandfather, Robert Holt.