John Lowe was the eldest son of John Lowe of Denby (1616-1659) and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Arthur Pilkington, Baronet, of Stanley, Yorkshire. He had three younger brothers and three younger sisters. He was a magistrate for the county of Derby. John Lowe was the first member of the family known to have mined the coal seams under the family's property in Denby. ... He married Mary Stead, and had: [Vincent, Mary, Charles, Anne, Priscilla, Dorothy]
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Title deeds, settlements, estate and legal papers relating to John Lowe's ownership of his estates are part of the Drury-Lowe papers held in Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham