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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Charles Singleton. The mother of Sir Edward Stanley, of Bickerstaffe, afterwards Earl of Derby, was a daughter of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… See also the accounts of Much Woolton for Norreys, and of Bickerstaffe for Mossock. It would appear from a suit of 1352 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… succeeded him, and Sir Nicholas Atherton, knt., lord of Bickerstaffe in right of his wife Joan, daughter and heir of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Bickerstaffe BICKERSTAFFE Bikerstat, Bikersteth, Bikerstath, xiii cent.; Bykyrstath, 1529; Bickerstaffe, xvi cent. Bickerstaffe may be described as an …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… lands in Crookhurst were in 1461 held by Henry Atherton of Bickerstaffe, and descended with this estate; ibid. ii, 668; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the estates of Edward, Earl of Derby, the first of the Bickerstaffe line, in 1747; Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 567, m. 3. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… manor of Chipping has descended through the Stanleys of Bickerstaffe to the Earl of Derby. 26 No courts are held. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hesketh by a rent of 8 s. 4 d.; also lands in Rainford and Bickerstaffe. His son Henry came of age in 1593. 49 The … of Thomas de Croston made a grant of lands in Rainford and Bickerstaffe; Kuerden MSS. vi, fol. 71. A year later the … and Sibyl his wife in 1447 received messuages and lands in Bickerstaffe and Rainford; ibid. fol. 73. Edward Croston and …