Richard Lancaster (abt. 1476 - 1535)

Born about 1476 in Rainhill, Lancashire, England [uncertain]

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Descendants

Biography

According to a 1567 visitation, Richard Lancaster of Raynhill was the son and heir of Thomas Lancaster of Raynhill and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Ireland of the Hutt. ^[1][2]

His wife, was said to be Alice, daughter of Rauf Ecclestone of Ecclestone, and they were reported to have had the following children:

• Richard Lancaster, son and heir, married Jane, daughter of Bartholomew Hesketh of Rufford, armiger.
• Margaret, married Richard Curwen.
• Elizabeth, married Robert Cowley of Wymerall (modern editor thinks this is Windell)
• Helene, married to Thomas Bolton of Liverpool.

The VCH article for Rainhill, where Richard's family held one of the (part) manors says:

Richard Lancaster, son and heir of Thomas, in 1526 joined with Thomas Gerard, lord of the other portion of Rainhill, in renouncing a claim to a pasture called the Copped Holt, which they acknowledged to be within Whiston, not in Rainhill. Richard was then fifty years of age, and 'calling to his remembrance the short time of this transitory life, and fearing the eternal damnation of his soul,' he repudiated the 'feigned and false title' which had been set up; Ogle R. He died in 1535, and the subsequent inquest shows that he had held the moiety of the manor of John Eccleston by fealty and a rent of 18d.; a messuage in Rainhill of the king, by a rent of 8d. paid to the bailiff of West Derby; also lands in Euxton and in Appleton; his son and heir Richard Lancaster, married to Alice daughter of Bartholomew Hesketh in 1530, was seventeen years of age in 1538; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. vii, n. 11. Licence of entry, without proof of age, was granted to Richard son and heir of Richard Lancaster, 20 Nov. 1543; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, App. 555.

Sources

1. ↑ The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster. 1567. William Flower. p118. Lancaster of Rainhill - Richard Lancaster of Raynhill
2. ↑ British History Online – Townships: Rainhill – Footnotes: fn.17 Cited as: 'Townships: Rainhill', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 368-371. British History Online

• Flower's Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster in 1567, published in series: Remains, historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. 81 (1870). See p.118
• 'Townships: Rainhill', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 368-371. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp368-371 [accessed 11 October 2020].