Person:Christopher Crackenthorpe (1)

History

This Crackenthorpe family was living in Newbiggin since Robert de Crackenthorp married Emma de Newbiggin in about 1331 (5 Edward III). And the manor house called 'Newbiggin Hall', was built in 1533 by Christopher Crackenthorp – the great, great, great grandfather of Richard Crackenthorpe, who would inherit it on the death of his father - another Christopher Crackenthorpe - in 1669.

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"17. Richard Crackenthorp esquire, second son and heir of Christopher. He married to his first wife Mary daughter of Sir Christopher Dalton of Acornbank knight ; and by her had issue, (1) Henry, who died young. (2) Christopher, who succeeded his father. (3) John. (4) Thomas, whose posterity, after failure of issue male from his brother Christopher, succeeded to the inheritance in tail male. (5) William. (6) Mary. (7) Barbara.—To his second wife he married Lettice daughter of one Lowgher, a clergyman in Staffordshire, and relict of Thomas Denton of warnell esquire ; and by her had (8) George. (9) James. (10) Richard. (11) Francis. (12) Lettice.

"In confirmation of the above account, there is in the family a long scroll of escutcheons, beginnining with arms of Newbiggin single, (supposing the arms of Newbiggin and Crackenthorp to have been the same, which we have shewn, neverthless, to be somewhat doubtful) then, Newbiggin impaling Wharton, Blennerhasset, Barton, Vaux, Wackerfield, Thelkeld, Grimston,Brisco, Blencow, Sandford, Leyburn, Musgrave, Blenkinsop, Pickering, Bellingham, Fetherston, and Dalton. It seems to have been drawn about the time of Dugdale's visitation, which was in the year 1664.

"18. Christopher Crackenthorp esquire, second son and heir of Richard. He married Anne daughter of Robert Rawlinson of Cark-hall in Cartmell in the county of Lancaster esquire. He was of the age of 32 at the time of Dugdale's visitation aforesaid. He left issue, (1) Richard. (2) Robert. (3) Christopher, of the six clerks office, who married a daughter of Sir William Glyn of Broadlane in the county of Flint baronet, and died without issue. (4) Mary.

"19. Richard Crackenthorp esquire, son and heir of Christopher, married Deborah eldest daughter and coheir of Samuel Mottram of Thorp hall in the county of Lincoln esquire; and had issue, (1) Mottram. (2) Henry, who died an infant. (3) Deborah, who died unmarried. (4) Anne, now widow of Adam Askew of Newcastle upon Tyne, M. D. who after the death of her brothers and sister without issue, remaineth heir general of the Crackenthorp family, but by the intail on the male issue was excluded from the inheritance. ...."

—taken from: 'Parish of Newbiggin' in History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. Published in 1777—^S1

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} ‘Parish of Newbiggin’ in History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, 1777
   Vol. 1, pp. 366, 368-370.

   « ...
   7. Robert de Newbiggin, who married Emma a daughter of Threlkeld; and in the 10 Ed. 2. made a settlement of his estate, to him and his wife Emma during their lives and to the heirs of their bodies, remainder to his own right heirs. This Robert was the last of the male line of the name de Newbiggin, having only a daughter,
   
   8. Emma de Newbiggin, who about the 5 Ed. 3. was married to Robert de Crackenthorp, supposed by the reverend Thomas Machel to have been a younger brother of the Machels of Crackenthorp, who thereupon took the arms of Newbiggin, as was usual on the marriage of heiresses. ...
   ...
   14. Christopher Crackenthorp of Newbiggin esquire, son and heir of John, married a daughter of Blenkinsop of Helbeck.
   In the 25 Hen. 8. he built the hall or manor-house at Newbiggin as appears by this inscription, cut in stone over the hall door:
   Chriftofer Crakenthorp men did me call,
   Who in my tyme did builde this hall,
   And framed it as you may fee,
   One thousand five hundred thirty and three.
   .... »
   ‘Parish of Newbiggin’ in History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. by Joseph Nicolson, Esq; and Richard. Burn, LL.D., in two volumes, London: printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. MDCCLXXVII. (1777), Vol. I., pp. 364-372 > pp.366,368-370 > Accessed on: books.google.co.uk

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, New series, Vol. 28, 1984
   p. 72.

   « ... Richard Crackenthorp, had inherited Newbiggin Hall (NY 629 286) in 1669,²⁰ ....
   Fn. 20. The family had lived there since the 13th century. R.S. Boumphrey, C.R. Hudleston and J. Hughes, An Armorial for Westmorland..., C.W.A.A. Soc, 1975, 87. (Hereafter AWL)
   .... »
   Accessed on: books.google.co.uk