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Thomas Shirley of Wickersley, Yorkshire Thomas Shirley settled in Laughton about 1534 son 1. Richard born____ died 1615 He lived Wickersley, York Co. England. He married Margaret Linacre Feb 8, 1568.
Note from Betty Shirley...Looking at page 333-334 of Stemmata Shirleiana I find the following info for this family. "The Shirleys of Yorkshire were originally, as tradition affirms, from Shirley in Derbyshire (*1), in which county, at Mill Town, in the parish of Chapel-en-le Frith, the representative of the family (*2), possessed property in the year 1841. They settled at Laughton about the year 1534, but appear to have been merely yeomen, Richard Shire, their ancestor, describing himself in his will, (*3), dated February 4, 1613, as "Richard Shirle of Wickersley, yeoman." About the beginning of the seventeenth century, as appears from the parish registers, they were seated at Wickersley, in the county of York. The Shirleys of Wickersley are thus noticed in Hunter's South Yorkshire: --- In the middle aisle of Wickersley church is the gravestone of Thomas Shirley, of Wickersley, who died Aug 19, and was buried the 21st of the same month, 1667. This stone has a shield of arms, Paly of six pieces for Shirley, which are repeated on the door of a pew near to the place, impaling a saltier, which is intended for Scargel, his wife being the sister of Robert Scargel, of Sheffield. Shirley was one of the principal freeholders of this manor; he was the son of Thomas Shirley and Sarah Eyre, (daughter of William Eyre, of Bramley, Co. York, gent.; married at Laughton in 1616,) and grandfather to Thomas Wylde, who inherited the greater part of the lands of Shirley, and died at Wickersley in 1756. (*4) *1. In All Saints' church, Hertford, was the following inscription to a Mr. John Shirley, who claimed connexion with the same county. "Here underneith lies interred the body of John Sherley, gent., of this parish, and of Susan his wife, which John descended from the antient and worthy family of the Sherleys of Derbyshire and of Lancashire, and he died 11th Sept 1621; and which said Susan deceased the 18th of June, 1623, leaving issue between them John and Elizabeth, now living." Clutterbuck's History of Herts, vol ii page 165. *2. Mr. Aldred of Rotherham *3. Archiepiscopal Registry at York *4. The gravestone of Thomas Shirley,
mentioned by Hunter, is no longer to be seen at Wickersley. It
was covered over in 1834, when the church, with the exception
of the tower, was rebuilt from the ground. The old house of the
Shirleys, in the same village, has been also of late pulled down,
and another built on its site
Extracts from "Education & Socialogical Changes in Wickersley" a Dissertation by Kenneth Baker (in Rotherham Library): "One of the principal proprietiors of Wickersley in the first half of the 17th century was Thomas Shirley, son of Thomas & Sarah (formerly Sarah Eyre of Bramley). He was married to Elizabeth Scargill of Sheffield on 29/5/1657 at Wickersley." "The greater part of the Shirley Estates descended to his Grandson Thomas Wylde, a prominent member and liberal supporter of the Rotherham Meeting House. His name appears in the first deed book of 1704." [Rotherham Library have a book "The Old Meeting House and its Ministers by William Blazeby" which charts the history of that building - a non-conformist chapel. This book mentions Thomas Wylde at great length, and even includes a pedigree of a couple of generations of his descendents.]
email received from: David Lindley david@zillion.plus.com My own interest in the Shirley name has only just begun. You see, my 6x Great Grandfather married into the family in 1736. His bride was Ann Shirley, presumably a local lass in Wickersley (Yorkshire) where they married. He (John Lindley) was the local schoolteacher, though as yet I know nothing more about either of them before the marriage. Curiously, they called their first-born son Shirley Lindley, and Shirley (as a middle name at least) was still being used by male descendents over a hundred and thirty years later.
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