PEDIGREES.

PEDIGREES.
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1	Tancred of Hauteville ; and D'Abitot ; 912-1200	3
2	Musard of Staveley ; 1086-1300	9
3	D'Abetot and De Barley of Barley ; 1207-1500	12
4	Urso D'Abitot, and D'Abetot of Barley (supplied by Revd. S. P. H. Statham) ; 1100-1356	13
5	Barley of Stoke and ,of Barley, Co. Derby, as recorded at the College of Arms (A) ; 1447-1626	16
6	Henry Bartow of Attercliffe and descendants, including the Yorkshire Branch, as recorded at the College of Arms (Bi and B2) ; 1565-1932	16
7	Barlow of Barlow Hall, Co. Lanes. ; 1150-1783	32
8	Gresley of Drakelowe ; and de Longford ; 1020-1200	34
9	Barlow of Fallingbroom and Prestbury, Co. Chester ; connections with the Irish Branch, and with .Archbishop Barlow of Tuam : 1434-1821	32
10	Barlow of Dublin, Ireland (supplied by Mr. Disney Barlow) ; 1699-1910	32
11	Barlow of Torkington, Co. Chester (supplied by Sir John Barlow, Bt.) ; 1664-1930	32
12	Barlow of Albury, Co. Herts., together with Barlow of Bibbesworth ; 1300-1659	48
13	Barlow of Slebetch, Co. Pembroke, as recorded at the College of Arms (C) ; 1535-1800	48
14	Barlow of Barlow Hall, Co. Lancs., and Slebetch, Co. Pembroke, from the Wotton MSS.; 13th century to 1739	45
15	Barley of Barley and of Stoke, Co. Derby, as recorded by Pegge ; 1066-1620	64
16	George Barlow of Sandwich, Mass., U.S.A. ; Barlow of paoe Amenia, N.Y., U.S.A. ; 1635-1799	59
17	Barlow of Co. Staffs. ; Pratt Barlow and Barlow of Madras ; 1650-1923	82
18	Barlow of Co. Sussex ; and of Wells, Co. Gloster : Plate l6	53
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The following are some of the principal authorities (not referred to in B.P.R.) which have been examined recently by the author or on his behalf:

Yorksliire and Lançai,members of the two b;-i

" To ail io wbom ;': -

in Coimtv Lancaster ..

Barlow of Sheffield in

branch of riyßi'r.i'y. ar.,".

Barlow Kl. my ,«n;" -

of the said Thomas Li- ■

And I do hereby de;.:*

and his descendants :..

to my family with a (-.

in witness whereof I

May 1692 and m th'

" This Mr. Crm-.;-.

Barlow by ray penu. -

Then follow the :.:

illustrated, Plate 2.

The following in:::

has been kindly comiT"-

Thomas Barlow or '

of Leeds ar.d his wife

and built Middlethorp-

his wife Maty Chapm:.

Ecldncton in lòq.L ■'"■"

with F.ekkieion':. Tiv .

in 1735 and died in N

Barlow, born 1 748, w:

College, Cirub.. and

was a sister of Co!invi-

ami died in iS.^-2.

France:; Barlow, bort.

distinction ; she nvi'

brilliant yoi:n;; barrV.

married him. He su.

and was created in :

first been die ç'abjcrj _

as to the legality of !.

infancy, Loid _and I... -

Ann, who in Sept., : -

«Stowe MbS 714, pp. I--

pFor this Anthony l!.iil'-v.

Bai-W1, «>e ¡..anca-...:

JA contemporary mmiai. - -

reproduced. Plate -'.

mi nia'.un.- in colours -

Suffolk, iti whose far-/.:.'

bears on th- Kiel: m ;

mi he* was expressly admitted by

:hen living :—*

■j shan -orne. I. Anthony lìarlow* of HarSmv

erebv rmilv .md declare tl.at .Mr. lhoma<

• -r ,-iv i'.-in? Uriütif!" is defended 01 ¡iw«!"

-lasTi.ulow mv ¡ate father and Sir Alexander

■';;■, dir.r lítenme own Mr. - Barlow, iaihcr

■r,-,,,j him on all occasions as their relation.

-in that mv íüiíÍ strum.« Mr- Thomas fiailow

— incd io" b--.it the coat of Arms bcioiicing

-er d:''"eifuce as "f 1'i^ht belonçcili to them,

i'.mto set mv hand and seal^thi, . - - day of

1- ,.f their Mairstv'.s Reign."

for oir Anthony lo siçti, but Mr. 1 bomas

- had a new j-ia:il as fo'J.ov,cth."

the Middlcthorpc Harlow s 1691, as

addition to the Yorkshire Pedigree

: bv Viscount L'llswate.r.

--.orpet was the son of Samuel Bariow

rivimas was born in ihGîj

, ■ litlJ, and died in France in 17 t 3 ;

- lu' married in 169t, was butted at

, to continu a family connection

f-mris was Hi« h Sheriif of Yorks.

. ,_,, ; 'nc i-.tlCl a son Samuel Francis

i-Jucáted at Charterhouse and Christ's

, -o ■ his wife Mary Thornton, who

~^s 'Thornton,: survived her husband

■.ounqo-t daughter, Cecilia Arabella

' b'th,° 170'i, was a young lady ot

;'blv at the York Assemblies, a

i'Paike, fell in love with ¡din and

-, bi-iv.me famous as Baron Parke,

:i Weudcyd.de, this creation having

.,us d>ptKf with the House of Lords

T,-i. bfsid.-'s three sons who died_ m

Vvdaie had three, daughters, Cecilia

-Vd Sir Mat the. v White Ridley, ami

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was the mother of the first Viscount Ridley ; Mary Prisci!.- w.hv

in 1842 married 'he Hon, C. W. George Howard, M.P. :. : has:

Cumberland, and died April 1 1 til, 1879, leaving a son, George i:::ci.

ninth Earl of Carlisle ; and Charlotte Alice, who married V. Ikam

Ixiwther December 17th, 1O53, and was the mother of James V.dliair.

Dowthcr, first Viscount Ullswater,*

Secondly, a copy of tin: important Mower MS. j or Memo: r-.riuir.

has now hern traced and examined in the British Mu-,e;::... .-.tíc

extracts from it are printed below, Chap. III. '1 his '■'. i-.vt-r

Memorandum,! and other contemporary documents, ck ---.i:.:.¡v

establish the close famiiv co linee tion of flic barlows of Sti ■■■. - Hal

(which lies about ten miles west from the village of Barlow, over. ..<. ti-

the River Derwent-see. Plate 21) and tlie Barlows of Barlow. Tri-:

lawsuit of Barlow ;■. Evie, the originad record oí which tr.e -.■;-; o:

has four.ri at the Record Office, confirms and anralikes the .!>.-.■.:■::

Chronicle : in th<' decree in that case, d;ited July 7th, :■ ". rr-.î.

Cour!, which must liave had access to documents and deech n: . ■:.:'':

available, made ¡he important declaration that U:e estates .1: . -t. ,v,

had been in the possess 1011 of the Barlow ancestors " Jur ir.t .:--'■ -'J

f.uf i.urJftd ¿¡ais .;■;■'.' beíkr.''

Georgi: Harlow of Stoke (d. 1543) had a son Henry v, : v. a;

admitted to lands at Eckinglon in the year 1538. There r.>- -T'"::;

grounds, whidi aie ronsidered i'ully at a later stage, ¡or ic.-."" " :;, .:.■:

this Her.ry Bario1.1." oi Stoke and of Eckington with the Henry : -.r. ■'.■,

of Attcrcliffc mentioned above, and these, it accepted, won!'- cr:z..i¡.

a défini;:: eh.un o¡ connection for ihe ¡iese end ants oi Henry o: _■.;'."::-

c'iffe iiack to Norman times.J

Thirdly, progrès has \icc:\ made, as will be described b- "■'.', it:

demonstrating link; between various other br.siKr.es, e.ti., !.---.■,--*;

the Lanc-ishh'e, &.'• C hediire a:id ;h.e Irish branches, and ah." 7 ■'■. - '*::

d:e Bariows of b:ebech in Pembrokeshire and the lie: :" -" .:-

branch ; tlie latter bore arms somewhat ¡ike the Derbyshire 1..".."■•"-

but the Slebech arms were quite ddhrciit (see Caap. IX , .-..::'.=

Roger Barlow of Slebeeh proves to be an historic c;:"-".t "-".:

of no little distinction : fio made die voyage up the Da P.;_: : .v:v-.:

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with Sebastian Cabot in 1527, and wrote on his return Cf~^p':ia

Barlow, die MS. of which can be inspected at the British M_-euTn,

A paper on this important early contribution to the çeogre7:1 y ol

the New World was read before the Royal Geographical >:ci;ty

by a learned authority, Professor E. G. R, Taylor, on April iiz.d,

10,20, and the Gt^yaphia itself, edited by her, has now been puedshed

by the Hakluyt Society.

Lastly, much further information is now available as :j ehe

D'Abitots, who, in accordance with old tradition, are provine -o be

tl¡e original Barlow stovk : for I.ysons* long ago .stated that " 'r.crc

is reason for supposing " that the Barleys were descended from a yrunzer

son of the D'Abitot iamiiy.

As will be shown below, the D'Abitot connection is now cor..".-rn:-J.

the descent (as the result of the investigation by the Revd. i >\ H.

Statham of Derbyshire Domesday Families': being traced c.-ec-iy

from the great Ursu D'Abitot. At Easter, 1331, the author i".i -".is

sister, Mi-=s E. Barlow, vidtcd St. Jean D'Abitot and Tar.::"."_'.ie

Castle, die original hoire of the D'Abitots near Havre (see C:.it>. I.

h-elow), and the Havre Munkîpal library irai found to ■:::\i2.in

much interesting information relating to the D'Abitot fami:-,, beh

in Normandy and in England.

In addition, there is evidence of ties linking the Alb:ra: 'v.t.o

were probably blood kin with the D'Abito:*) and the La:::-,srire

Barlows, of Barlow Hall, Choriton-cum-Hardy.f

The probability of such a linked origin for the I.ancaih::: and

Derbyshire branches of Barlow, through the Aibinis ar.c their

connections the D'Abitots. as well as thio.:ü.h an 01 ¡.-.ho"': ". -\c

Derbyshire De Barleys, is elaborated below, Chap. V.

In any case, it is a ¡aatter oi satisLic;o:y achieveme;:: .: -.-je

Derbyshire and Yorkshire branches can now, subject to :_.: cue

uncertain link of Henry of Stoke or Attenuile, make, çoïz ::.-.-ir

descent from the famous Norman baron, Urso D'Abitot.

PEDIGREE No. io.

BARLOW OF DUBLIN, IRELAND.

Supplied by Mr. Disney Barlow, of Loughborough.

See Pedigree jYo. g.

William Barlow.

Officer of the Army of Charlea I. in Ireland.

Sir J amo Barlow.

Sheriff of Dublin 1609-1700, Lord Mayor i7i4-'5 •

knighted while Lord Mayor : marrd. Mary WUcocks :

bur. St. Werburghs June [6th, 1716 : will proved

July 13th, 1716.

William Barlow of Dublin. Will proved February 14.Ü1, 1726: marrd. Elizabeth,

daughter of Jacob Peppard of Drogbeda : her will proved

November itìth, 1727.

John Barlow of Dunlin. Will proved March 14th, 1783 : marrd. Arme, daughter

of Maurice Warren of riilrainy, Co. Carlow : marriage

licence December 12th, 1735, adm. July 17th, 1753.

James Bar!

William Barlow.

Thomas Disney Barlow

Solicitor, Gt. Georges Street, Dublin, and Sibyl Hill,

Raheny, Co. Dublin : B. 1748 : D. June 25th, 1825 :

marrd. Elizabeth, daughter of Surgeon-General William

Ruttori : marriage licence January toth, 1787.

Clerk in Holy Orders, sometime Vicar of Carlingford and

Rector of Creggan : B. Februarv ¿qth, 1792: D. at

Sackvillc Street, Dublin, April 12th. 1871 : marrd.

Catherine, daughter of Thomas Disney of Rock Lodge,

Co. Meath, Esquire : brother of John Barlow, Director

and Governor of Bank of Ireland, and of General Maurice

Barlow.

Clerk in Holv Orders, B.A..T.C.D. : B.June 151h, 1838:

D. December 26th, 1925 : marrd. Letiua Amelia McClean,

daughter of — McClean of Cloghogue, Co. Armagh :

brother of James William Barlow, Professor and Vice

Provost, Trinity College, Dublin.

Disney Charles Barlow. The Chace, Woodhouse Eaves, near Loughborough :

B. June 23rd, 1880 : marrd. Ethel Mabel, daughter of

Alfred Sexton, D.L., of Dublin.

Walter Nevile Disney Barlow,

4/7th Dragoon Guards :

B. July nth, 1907.

John Robert Brian Barlow,

New College, Oxford :

B. November 30th, igio.

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gives all his lands in the vili of Barlow ? Where did he come from ?

It is important to notice that even at this early period he is described

as " de Barlow."

From the early holdings of land in Chorlton and Withington

outlined above, it seems that the two great Derbyshire families, both

Norman by descent, de Haversage and de Longford, between 1150

and i"^o acquired lands, or possibly sent out younger sons, to settle

on Merseyside : towards die end of that period Thomas de Barlow*

also appears, holding land in close proximity ; presumably he took

his name from some well-established local village or community ;

the name of Barlow for a vili on Merseyside was, so iar as we can

judge from the contemporary deeds, only just coming into use, and

in any case appears there to have been of origin too recent to be used

as a patronymic for a family of prominence such as the de Barleys

evidently were.

The ancient Norman family of D'Abitot, according to the evi-

dence, had been settled in Barleie in Derbyshire from Norman times.

About 1200-1250 they were dropping the clan title of D'Abitot and

assume the territorial one of de Barley ; and it seems not improbable

that, like the de Hathersages and the de Longfords, about the same

date the D'Abitots de Barley sent a younger son to setde on Mersey-

side.

According to die Pegge Pedigree (No. 15 below), in early post-

Norman times both the de Hathersages and the de Longfords inter-

married with the Derbyshire de Barleys; and, though Pegge is

inaccurate in detail, his pedigree in this matter, as m the case of the

D'Abitot connection, very probably had historic foundation.f if the

" Albini of Seile " named in the early undated deed above mentioned

indicates Seile in South Derbyshire, this in itself suggests a connection

with the de Longfords, for Seile and Gresley, from which the de

Grcsleys take their name, are villages only two or three miles apart,

and a branch of the de Grcsleys became die de Longfords ; see Gresley

pedigree, No. 8.

The personal names in the Derbyshire and Lancashire branches

support diis connection. Alexander and Amicia came to the

Lancashire branch probably through the early Albini hnk, but

Robert, Roger, Thomas, Humphrey and William for the men, and

Agnes, Alice, Margaret and Elizabeth for the -women, are continually

in use as favourite personal names in both branches—the Lancashire

and the Derbyshire.

•Rändle Holmes in his summary of 1653 appears always to spell the name even in

the earliest deeds as "de Barlow" and not "de Barley, but he probably

adopted the spelling of the name in use when he wrote.

tSee Booker, Didsbiay, pp. 121 and 245.

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PEDIGREE No. 8.

GRF.SLEY PEDIGREE.

From Sir Falconer Madan's Grtsltys of Draktlowc, pp. S-st.

Roger I. de Toeni (1020-1040)

of Conches.

Raiph II. de Toeni

or (ie Conches.

Ralph ill. de Toeni

or de Conches.

Robert de Stafford

held large English estates, 1086, including

8x manors in Stafford: became a monk of

Evesham.

Nicholas =

Maud, dr. of

Earl of Chester.

Nigel de Stafford

?D. 1 ¡15.

Called also Nigel

de Gresley.

Robert = Avi ce

D. circa 1176.

William de Gresley,

William Fits-Nigel.

D. probably 1166.

Robert de Gresley.

Nicholas = Margaret dc

Fitz-Nigel

Gresley.

Hence Gresleys of

Drakelowe.

Bubendon

(part of

Longford)

who owned

land at

Longford.

William.

This branch soon dropped

the name of dc Gresiey and

assumed that of de Long-

ford.

It is true that Anthony Barlow, on the grant of the Middlethorpe

Arms in 1691, refers to his Sheffield relatives as a " younger branch " ;*

this phrase looks like a slightly patronising family flourish on Anthony's

part, but, in any case, this claim, made 400 years after the settlement

on Merseyside, can have little value as evidence of the seniority of

the Lancashire branch.

It is true also that the Lancashire arms are quite different from

those of the Derbyshire family, but it is possible that the Lancashire

Barlows may (on the analogy of what happened in other similar

casesj), when they took over lands on Merseyside frorrt Alexander

Albini, have taken with the land the Albini emblem of the eagle

displayed.

*Stowe MSS., 714, pp. 174 and 175: above, Introduction.

}See Madan, Grtsleys of Drakeloiut, p. sos, for instances of families taking over the

arms of their territorial lords, e.g., de Gresleys assumed the arms of their lords

the de Ferrers ; and see Earwaltcr, E, Chtshin, Vol. I., p. 41 ; and Chap.

IX., Aims.

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Holmes* summary contains two documents of especial interest :

first, a settlement of 1336 made after a suit brought at York which

gives several contemporary seeps in the pedigree and refers to half

the manor of Chorlton, which tends to confirm the suggestion mat

the manor was held originally in equal moieties by de Tra.Tord and

de Barlow : and, second, a certificate of Lichfield, dated 1397, which

recites several important relationships about a century earlier. It

mentions Thomas de Barlow " who at that time (tunc) was sole lord

of Barlow," and that he was the son of Robert de Barlow and Roger (I)

and Thomas were his sons, of whom the former had a son Roger (II.) :

on the deeds i» Holmes' summary, and especially on these two

documents (namely the Yorkshire Settlement and the Lichfield Certi-

ficate), the author's sketch pedigree No. 7 (which differs materially

from that given by Booker, p. 294, and by Baines) is based. The

Lichfield document clearly does not refer to contemporary steps in

the pedigree, but to the history of the family a century earlier, as is

indicated by the use of the word " tunc," " at that period," and as

so read confirms generally the pedigree given.

A third deed from Holmes's collection requires mention, namely

that of 7 Ed. III. 1333-4,* f°r m t^e margin is a rough sketch, the

earliest record known, of the double-headed eagle as the arms of

Barlow Co. Lanes. The sketch, which was probably taken from the

seal of the deed, is reproduced below ; Plate 26.

It is also worth noting that the connections of the several families

of Eyre of Co. Derby {e.g., of Hope, Padley, etc.) with both the Derby-

shire and the Lancashire Barlows were numerous. *

As shown by the pedigree (No. 7) the later descents can be traced

with fair certainty down to Thomas, d. i773j who was the last male

heir seated at Barlow, and whose executors sold Barlow Hall in

August, 1785, under Act of Parliament, to the Egerton family of

Tatton-t

The Lancashire antiquary, Mr. George Esdaile§ of Rusholme,

while demolishing the pedigree given in Baines,|| advanced the theory

that probably there were two parallel pedigTees or descents, one

associated with Barlow Hall and the other (as indicated by the

Wotton extract) associated eventually with Slebetch. The Lancashire

pedigree as tentatively worked out by the author (Pedigree No. 7)

indicates a similar dual line of descent, and the references in the

Wotton pedigree to marriages with Worsley and Entwistle correspond

•Booker, Didsburji, p. 251.

^Harl. Fam. Min. Gtnt., Eyre, p. 543, Tor connection of Eyre with Reddish and with

Barlow. The Longfords also intermarried wich eh: Reddish family ; see Booker,

p. 113.

XBooker, p. 231.

\Tke Advtrtisir for Kov, ist, 1889: he quotes the HtraliTs Visitation of Lanes., by

Benalt, in 1553 ; Had. MSS. 207Ö ; Chttham Soc. Publiai., 1876.

IIBaines Lancashire, Vol. II., p. 236.

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with die author's sketch pedigree given herewith. Again, in a deed

of 1390, given in Holmes's collection, a James Barlow is a witness,

which also answers to the James Barlow appearing about the same

time in the Slebetch or Wot ton pedigree." On the other hand, the

Wotton MSS. is clearly in error in crediting the marriage of Margaret

Barlow with die Earl of Derby in 1559 to the Slebetch line, for we

know from the windows placed in Barlow Hall in 1574, and from

other sources, that this distinguished marriage must be assigned

to the Barlow Hall family. Further research in family and other

muniment rooms is required to clear up these issues. The name is

still fairiy common round Manchester ; see conclusion to Chap. VI.

THE CHESHIRE AND THE IRISH LINES.

Fallibroome, about a mile south-west of Frestbury, is not noticed

in Domesday, but we know from recitals in a deed of 1438 that about

1200 it was granted to Sir Richard Fitton by Hugh Kevelioc Earl

of Chester,! anc* this deed of 1438 traces descent of the manor down

to two heiresses—.Alice, who married Sir Edmund Trafford, and

Douce, the wife of Robert Booth. In 1421, the estates were divided

between these two co-heiresses, and Fallibroome passed to the Booths

of Dunham Massey ; in an inquisition on the death of Sir William

Booth, Knt., in 1477, it was found that, inter alia, he had :—

" 1 messuage called le Fallii g brome with 80 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow

in Falyngbrome held of die Prince as Earl of Chester," etc.

Sir William Booth died in 1477 having settled lands in Wilmslow

on his wife Matilda ; she married as her second husband Sir William

Brereton, and died 1489, leaving William Booth her heir.J

The connection of the Barlows with Fallibroome appears to begin

in 1527; nine years earlier, namely, in .1518, lands in Dunham

Massey were conveyed by Sir John Stanley, Knt., to Sir W. Booth,

subject to a reserved rent of 17s. lold. ;§ and in 1527 Sir John's son,

John Stanley, together with Alexander Barlow and others, were made

trustees of this reserved rent, which was devoted to an obit and mass,

as prescribed in Sir John's will.

»Booker, Didibmy, p. 252. A Hugh de Barlow makes 3 grant oflands ¡n Withington

in 1401 ; op. cit., p. 252. This may be identical with the Huçh de Barlow

lo whom Richard de Mascye de Sale made a grant of lands in. Sale in 1382 ;

Ormerod, Chishire, Vol. I., p. 563 ; but Hugh does not so far appear in either

line of Lanes, descent.

fEarwaker, £. Cheshire, Vol. I-, p. 43 ; B.P.R., p. 12.

*0p. cil., Vol. I., p. 54.

\Op. at.. Vol. I., p. 24S, footnoie ; B.P.R., pp. 5 and too. From Mr. Disney

Barlow's researches it appears probable that already, in 1518, Alexander Barlow

was a tenant of William Booth. 3ir William Booth, in 1618, sold Fallibroome

in lots, and three Barlow families ieem to have bought portions. In the 16th

century, the Barlows and tin: Booths were related bv marriage ; sec Diet. -Vat.

Biogr., ¡ub. lit. Edward Barlow alias Booth; and note at end oi Chap. II. above.