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A History of the County of Lancaster
… 2,100 acres of land, to Mr. William Hesketh Lever, of Thornton Hough in Wirral. Mr. Lever laid out about 360 acres …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Southworth married Rosamond daughter of William Lister of Thornton-in-Craven, esq., and soon after his succession sold …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… from Liverpool to Ormskirk; at Sefton Town the road to Thornton and Great Crosby branches off. The Leeds and … The next step is unknown; but in 13956 Richard de Eves of Thornton gave to Henry Boys the 6 acres called Pepperfield, … 10 ploughlands seem to have been made up thus: Sefton, 6; Thornton, 1; half Down Litherland, 1; Cuerden, 2. Farrer, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Abram of Tarbock, yeoman, registered an estate here and at Thornton as a 'Papist;' he had sons Richard and John; Engl. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… c. 1230, 1335. Thornham appears to have been called Thornton also. It measures about 1 miles from north to south, … There were also Fittons there and at Snipe Lache in Thornton. In 1330 John de Stakull and Agnes his wife released …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Thornton THORNTON Torentun, Dom. Bk.; Torrenton, 1226; Thorinton, 1258; Thornton, 1297. Steinol, 1176; Stanhol, 1200; Stainhol, 1226 … elsewhere in the present work. 1a In the remaining part of Thornton the original village occupies the southeast portion …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Thornton THORNTON Torentun, Dom. Bk.; Thorinton, 1212; Thorinton, Thornton, and Thorneton, 1292. This township has an area of … Cross. An ancient sundial on a stone pillar stands on Thornton Green; close to it are the stocks. 2 The wakes are …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… be the original of Ferndean Manor in Jane Eyre, and in the Thornton edition of that work an illustration of Wycoller …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Eggergarth, Halsall, half of Barton, and two-thirds of Thornton in the hundred of West Derby; and Becconsall, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 1879; the representatives of the late Mrs. Mary Thornton are patrons. St. Catherine's, Edge Hill, was erected …