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Baron Elizabeth [Female]

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Duxbury Elizabeth [Female] b. 1602 Great Harwood - d. BEF 1653 Newchurch in Pendle

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Already had an estate in Twiston when she married
Possible Burial in 1642 Newchurch-in Pendle

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Duxbury Lawrence [Male] b. 1604 Great Harwood - d. JAN 1674/75 Pendle

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LAWRENCE DUXBURY OF DEANE 1604-1673
Following the sudden death of his father, Lawrence DUXBURY of Downham married Anne PUDSAY of Bolton by Bowland in 1628 (Paves Yorkshire Marriage Licences). After the death of Anne in 1639 (buried at Padiham as the wife of Lawrence of Deane (LPRS) and with a will indexed, but not extant, as Anne DUXBURY of Woodhouse (L&CRS)), he married Mabel, baptised 1619, the daughter of William PRESTON of Preston, gent., by licence 10 September 1640 (Chetham Soc.Vol.85 Old Series). Numerous children were sired and baptised at Padiham (LPRS).

Despite being survived by some 10 sons, Lawrence is not a patriarch of DUXBURY of East Lancashire. The continuing local lines seem to stem from the contemporary families of Rishton and Darwen, while such descendants of Deane as can be identified are found in London and Northamptonshire.

Lawrence was Church Warden for Padiham in 1628 and 1672 (LPRS); held copyhold land in 1662 at Goldshaw, Higham, Clayton le Moors and Twiston (CCR); and was assessed at 6d for 1 room and 10 places in Padiham (LPRS).

A Chancery Court case of 1666 gives details of a dispute between Lawrence and his brother Nicholas (his junior by 16 years). Acting as the responsible elder brother, following the death of his father, Lawrence accompanied Nicholas to London circa 1634 and paid for him to be apprenticed to a Mister WALMESLEY. After two years Nicholas is in trouble with his Master and Lawrence has to return to London to buy him out and re-apprentice him, this time to Mister FIELDS, a hosier of Fleet Street.

When Nicholas finished his apprenticeship he returned to Pendle, circa 1642, and, acting very much as the prodigal son, went to live with Ellen DUXBURY, his mother. Ellen had considerable substance in her own right from the customary third portion of her late husband's estate. The Clitheroe Court Rolls (Farrer) record 1662 Rentals for land at Goldshaw:
Lawrence DUXBURY gent Ł1-1s-5d and Ellen DUXBURY widow 10s-8d

In 1649 Mrs Ellena DUXBURIE de Goldshawbooth, widow, surrendered a messuage in which Lucia SMITH and Thomas HAUGHTON dwell and closes called Stainscombe, Spout-hill, Ringstones, Murgeon etc in Goldshawbooth to the use of Nicholas DUXBURY her younger son for life (Laycock).

Lawrence, who stood to inherit the land as his father's heir when his mother dies, becomes increasingly worried about the extent to which Nicholas is taking control and creaming off the proceeds of Ellen's estate for his own use. His 1666 Chancery submission continues by saying that Nicholas began to treat the land as his own, pretending to be his mother's agent. Ellen by this time is a very old woman and in her dotage. She is either unable or unwilling to firmly arbitrate between her sons. It is at the time of her death that Lawrence asks the Court for confirmation that the estates are his. Presumably he wins the judgement as Woodhouse is later known to be in the possession of his son William.

No burial record or will has been found for Lawrence DUXBURY of Deane, but the recently indexed records for the Chancery Court of the Palatinate of Lancaster fill the void (PRO: PL6 & PL7). It appears that Lawrence died some time around 1673/74 and appointed his children Ellis, Peter, Isabell and Mary as his executors. The estate, as well as Deane, consisted of land at Clayton, Witton and Livesey. Although it passed to William as the eldest son, the revenues were meant to fund legacies to the widowed Mabel and provide for all the children. In 1686 however, Andrew DUXBURY, one of the younger sons of Lawrence, complained that the legacies had not been met because the executors were falsely claiming that the revenues had been swallowed up by the testators debts and were therefore insufficient.

Whatever the truth of the economy of the DUXBURY estates they remain in the ownership of the family until at least 1800. The descent of ownership is detailed in The History of Clayton le Moors (Chetham Soc. Vol.85 Old Series) with reference to Deeds and Wills, some of which have not yet been independently checked.

From Enid Briggs
‘eldest son’ bpt 1604 [Laycock’s transcripts but not Online Parish Clerk]
gentleman
1628: of Downham, exor of father’s will
1628: Churchwarden of Padiham for Pendle area
m (1) Ann Pudsay of Bolton-by-Bowland 1628; she was dau of William & Elizabeth (née Bannister) Pudsay, William gentleman of Bolton Hall, Bolton-by-Bowland - Ann bur 1.5.1639 Padiham
1630-32 of Pendle, then of Dean
1639: exor of sister Ann’s will
m (2) Mabel Preston of Preston (probably Long Preston) between 1639 &1641 dau of William & Ann Preston of (Long) Preston (Mabel or Isabel??)
beneficiary of mother ELLEN’s 1653 will, 40/-
1657: witness to Richard Bulcock’s marriage
1660/1 Poll Tax: Lawrence, Mabel & ch William, Ann & Ellen assessed (rest too young)
1662: Newchurch: John Robinson paid the largest rent; the next were Christopher Hartley, Lawrence Duxbury and Nicholas Stevenson
1662-3: land in Clayton-le-Moors, Twiston, Goldshaw & Higham Booth
1663/4 Hearth Tax: assessed for 4 hearths at Higham (Dean)
1671: beneficiary of will of Richard Waddington of Whalley (Ł106)
will dated 1.12.1674 mentions Richard Bulcock of Foothouse Yate (nephew), Thomas Osbaldeston; freehold lands, messuages, buildings, cottages, tenements, hereditements, rents etc. in Clayton, Witton, Livesey & Grindleton. Rooms in the house at Dean: Great Chamber with 3 pairs of bedstocks, the Kitchen Chamber, the Buttery Chamber, the Hall, the Parlour, the Parlour Chamber. Six fire irons or grates to remain as heirlooms at Dean for ever.
Family: wife Mabel, son Peter, seven daughters Elizabeth, Ann, Ellin, Isabel, Mary, Lettice, Mabel, sons James, Edmund, Andrew, Alexander, Lawrence (2nd son), John, Ellis (3rd son), William; Lawrence son of William.
Son Peter ‘to enjoy all free rents in Grindleton called Duxbury rents’ & other buildings there, and a coal mine in Padiham;
William – coal mine in Clayton
until my daughter Elizabeth shall be conformable to the holy Catholicke Church of England and renounces and forsake that Superstitiouse and Idolatrous Church of Rome she receive no part nor portion of the profits aforesaid but that seventh part shall be equally divided among the other six sisters’.
exors Peter, Ellis, Isabel, Mary wits John Grimshaw, Nicholas Grimshaw, John Halstead
bur 20.1.1675 Padiham, ‘of Pendle’
probate 21.4.1675

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Duxbury Lawrence [Male] b. BEF 1550 - d. 8 SEP 1619 Twiston

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Gt Harwood Parish records

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LAWRENCE DUXBURY of GREAT HARWOOD - MID 16th CENTURY
Lawrence DUCKESBURIE gent. was assessed for lands in Harwood Magna to a Subsidy in 1570, by his first wife Agnes (who died in May 1594).

He had a daughter Elizabeth baptised at Whalley 26 November 1568. His eldest son and heir Nicholas is thought to be the one baptised at Great Harwood 19 August 1579 but no parent is recorded. It is possible that some of the other unattributed baptisms are also children of Lawrence, viz: Grace 1576, Alexander 1582, Jenet 1584, Grace 1587, Mary 1590 and/or Lawrence who was buried in 1621, but there are other families in the area who could also claim them.

In 1576 Lawrence DUCKESBURIE, the father, was engaged in a law suit with Thomas WALMESLEY Esq. (Abram).

At Twiston, near Downham, in 1575, Edward BRADDYLL bought four messuages etc. from Myles ASPINALL and others. This estate was sold to Lawrence DUXBURY in 1579. In 1581 John RIDING of Oswaldtwistle sold lands to Lawrence DUXBURY of Great Harwood in the former township (VCH).

In about 1593 Lawrence gave 20s to Blackburn Grammar School Stock. He occurs again as a freeholder in 1600, and was taxed for his lands to a Subsidy in 1610 (Abram).

The Manor Court Rolls for the Honour of Clitheroe record a Rental in 1608/09 at Goldshaw for Nicholas DUXBURY in the sum of Ł1-14-7d (Farrer). Lawrence by this time would be an old man and must have already surrendered his estates to his married son. The status of son Nicholas as a landholder is supported by a survey of Padiham in 1617 which shows him to hold "one house of three bays and a little garden" and in the Allotment of Commons also at Padiham where he receives 22 falls in 1618 and 15 falls in 1620 (Farrer).

Lawrence DUXBURY was buried 10 September 1619 at Great Harwood. His second wife Elizabeth had died in 1597 (Abram). At the Inquisition following his death (Chetham Society Vol.16), he is found to be seised in fee (ie principal tenant of the Lord of the Manor) of 6 messuages, 4 cottages, 6 gardens, 6 orchards, 30 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood, 20 acres of heath and briar, 30 acres of moor and 30 acres of moss in Twiston and of 1 messuage, 2 cottages, 9 acres of land, meadow and pasture in Clayton.

The Twiston estate is sub-let; one half to Henry & Elizabeth DEANE for the term of their lives from 1601/2, and the other half to Margaret and Dorothy SPENCER or their assigns for 21 years from the expiration of a previous 21 year lease granted to Richard SPENCER in 1584/5. The Clayton estate is sub-let to Nicholas WADDINGTON and his assigns for 21 years from 1610/11. The reversion in all cases is to Lawrence DUXBURY and his heirs for ever.

The 1619 Inquisition names Lawrence's eldest son and heir as "Nicholas DUXBURY age 37" (ie born 1582, three years after the date of 1579 in the Great Harwood registers).

Ray Aspden 1999

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Duxbury Margaret [Female] b. 1606 Great Harwood

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m ...........Crosdale (poss of Waddington)
by 1639 has daughter [sister Ann’s will]
beneficiary of mother’s 1653 will

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Duxbury Nicholas [Male] b. 1608 Great Harwood - d. 1609 Gt Harwood

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Duxbury Joanna [Female] b. 1612 Great Harwood

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not mentioned in sister Ann’s 1639 will

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Duxbury Ann [Female] b. 1613 Great Harwood - d. Woodhouse

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will 20.1.1639 mentions brothers & sisters Nicholas, John , Isabel, Ellen, Mary,
ELIZABETH her children & her husband JENKIN BULCOCK, Margaret & her daughter, Lawrence, his son Lawrence & his other children; mother ELLEN, Lawrence Robinson.
Exors: ELLEN & Lawrence.
Witnesses: Edward Rad....., Lawrence Duxbury, ELLEN/Ellen Duxbury & Henry ...?...

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Duxbury Ellen [Female] b. 1616 Padiham - d. BET 1639 AND 1653

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1639: mentioned in sister Ann’s will but not in ELLEN’s 1653 will;
assumption died 1639-1653

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Duxbury Nicholas [Male] b. 1618 Padiham - d. 1697 Manor House, Heyhouses

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NICHOLAS DUXBURY OF HEYHOUSES
Nicholas DUXBURY, brother of Lawrence, is probably the one of Heyhouses who has two daughters baptised at Padiham; Ellen in 1676 and Martha, who died in infancy, in 1678. The History of Clayton le Moors has the further information that Nicholas DUXBURY married Dorothy WEBSTER, spinster of Whalley, by licence 17 January 1666/7 and sired a daughter Ellen who married John COCKSHOTT, yeoman of Simonstone, in 1695 at Altham.

The Administration of 1698 granted to his son in law John COCKSHOTT "of Heyhouses" is accompanied by an Inventory of effects valued at Ł136 (WCW) which mentions the "Fairies Chamber in the old Manor House at Heigh-Houses" (Laycock).

will 20.1.1639 mentions brothers & sisters Nicholas, John , Isabel, Ellen, Mary, ELIZABETH her children & her husband JENKIN BULCOCK, Margaret & her daughter, Lawrence, his son Lawrence & his other children; mother ELLEN, Lawrence Robinson.
Exors: ELLEN & Lawrence.
Witnesses: Edward Rad....., Lawrence Duxbury, ELLEN/Ellen Duxbury & Henry ...?...

1668: appraiser of JENKIN’s inventory

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Duxbury John [Male] b. 1621 Padiham - d. BET 1639 AND 1649

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Mentioned in Ann's Will 1639 Died before 1649

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Duxbury James [Male] b. 1623 Padiham - d. DEC 1624 Padiham

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Duxbury Maria [Female] b. 1627 Padiham - d. AFT 1639

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Mentioned as Mary in sister's Ann's will in 1639

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Duxbury Isabel [Female] b. 1609 Great Harwood - d. BEF 1653

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Agnes [Female] d. 1594 Gt Harwood

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Gt Harwood Parish records

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Pudsay Ann [Female] bp. 11 NOV 1610 Bolton-by-Bowland - d. 1639 Padiham

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Preston Isabel [Female] bp. 4 SEP 1619 Preston

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Suggestion that she might have been Mabel rather than Isabel

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Duxbury Elizabeth [Female] b. ABT JUL 1628 Padiham - d. BEF JUL 1629

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Duxbury Nicholas [Male] b. BEF 1632 Padiham - d. FEB 1631/32 Padiham

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Duxbury William [Male] b. 2 JAN 1634/35 Padiham - d. 6 JUN 1720

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of Deane
1657: prob witness to marriage of cousin WILLIAM BULCOCK & ELIZABETH HARGREAVES
1660/1 Poll Tax: still at home with father & stepmother
m Martha Habersham 1662 NP [Boyd]
1662/3: land in Clayton-le-Moors
1674: mentioned in father’s will, also son Lawrence
d June 1720

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