Oliver Heywood (abt. 1556 - abt. 1628)

Born about 1556 in Little Lever, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Husband of Alice (Hulton) Heywood — married about 1591 in Little Lever, Lancashire, England

Descendants

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Biography

This profile is part of the Haywood Name Study.

Of Little Lever, in Bolton parish. A carpenter.

Described by his grandson as "carnall, but very civil". Apparently his sin was practising archery on Sunday afternoons, "wch they judged an harmles recreation".

Found God at 60, after which he would spend whole days in his room praying.

Married Alice Hulton, sister of Adam Hulton of Breightmet. They had 4 sons and 1 daughter:

• John, bp ?20 Apr 1592, pres. bur 13 Aug 1592
• Mary, bp 19 Apr 1601
• Richard
• Thomas, bur 20 Feb 1600/1
• John, bp 22 Jan 1603

Research Notes

Several other men with the name Heywood were baptizing their children at Bolton in the 1585-1610 period, and mostly living at Little Lever: John, Robert, Richard and Thomas. They could be brothers of Oliver, and/or cousins. No earlier registers survive.

Sources

• Oliver Heywood's Diaries, Vol 1 of 4, pages 18-9. See also pages 75-6.

• Pedigree chart: in The Whole Works of Oliver Heywood, Vol 1 of 5, page 507. Also at Google Books.
• Hunter, Joseph: F.M.G., Vol 1 of 4, page 61, Heywood.
• Pedigree: in Diaries, Vol 1 of 4, page 3.
• Bolton parish register, in Diaries, Vol 1, pages 125-7.

Wife's pedigree