Person:Nicholas Curwen (2)

History

I have ventured to incorporate conjecturally the two Curwen pedigrees, given in St. George’s Visitation of Lancashire,* in my pedigree sheet, because I find family names in the main line contemporary with those of the progenitors in the Visitations. I regret that I have not the same clue, slight though it may be, in the case of the Curwens of Myerside Hall, and Cark Hall, in Cartmel, though I entertain no doubt that they were of the same blood. Walter Curwen purchased from Nicholas Gardner and Richard Gardner, his son, the residue of a lease of 81 years of Myerside Hall, which had been granted to them March 17, 1526, by James, Prior of Cartmel. Walter Curwen, by his wife, Elizabeth, had three children, Robert, Nicholas, and Margaret. Robert married Anne Pickering, the heiress of Cark Hall.^† Having no children, and having acquired from the Crown, June 28, 1602, the fee simple of Myerside Hall, and having purchased in 1646 from William Thornburgh, Hampsfield Hall, the ancient seat of that family, he left the whole to his nephew Robert, the son of his sister Margaret and William Rawlinson. There must have been some previous connection between the families of Curwen and Thornburgh, for Edmund Pereson, of Bethome, tanner, in his will dated December 21, 1542, enumerates amongst his debtors “Maistree Curwen when sche was widow at Hampfelll, xls”.^‡ The above-named estates have all descended to Henry Fletch Rigge, Esq., of Wood Broughton, who has favoured me with valuable information.

—taken from: The Curwens of Workington Hall and Kindred Families by W. Jackson, F.S.A. – Read at Workington Hall, June 16th, 1880. Published in 1881.—^S2

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Annales Caermoelenses or Annals of Cartmel, by James Stockdale. Ulverston: Wllliam Kitchin, Printer, Market Street. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1872 - 'Cartmel Parish Registers'
   p. 552.

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2. ↑ The Curwens of Workington Hall ‘and Kindred Families’ by W. Jackson, F.S.A. – Read at Workington Hall, June 16th, 1880. Published in Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archæological Society. Volume V. Editor: Richard S. Ferguson, M.A., L.L.M., F.S.A. 1879-1880. Printed by T. Wilson, Highgate, Kendal, 1881, pp. 181-232 > Art. XXII
   pp. 231-232.

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