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Stemmata Shirleiana page 333-334 - "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
Shirley, their ancestor, describing himself in his will, 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: ---
Thomas Shirley settled in Laughton
about 1534
son
1. Richard Shirley of Wickersley, yeoman; died 1615.
He died 29 Aug 1615; Will dated Feb 4 1613 at Yorkshire (Archiepiscopal
Registry at York)
married Margaret Linacre Feb 8, 1568. She died 3 May 1618
children
2(i). Ann Shirley chr Jan 6, 1569; Only daughter; She
married Richard Rusby of Laughton
2(ii). Richard Shirley chr Sept 16, 1576; 2nd son;
nothing more known
married Ann Falstone
2(iii). Thomas Shirley of Wickersley born Dec 24, 1570;
Eldest son and heir
married Sarah Eyre in Laughton Yorks on Jan 24, 1616; She
was chr 28 May 1593; daughter of William Eyre, of Bramley, Co.
York, gent. (see Harleian Society, Volume 37)
children
3(i). John Shirley born Feb 24, 1618; eldest son; nothing
more known
married Frances Abdy of Wickersley on 1 Aug 1657
children
"and had issue" (source Harleian Society, Volume
37)
3(ii). Thomas Shirley born Jan 23, 1619; 2nd son; Yeoman
of Wickersley; One of the principle freeholders of Wickersley,
Yorkshire; He died Dec 27, 1667 and is buried in the church of
Wickersley. His will dated 16 Aug 1667.
"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." Extracts from "Education & Socialogical
Changes in Wickersley" a Dissertation by Kenneth Baker (in
Rotherham Library):
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, or and az. 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
"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"
married Eliz. Scargell on April 29, 1657 at Wickersley Yorks;
The banns of marriage were read on 3 occassions: 5 Apr, 12 Apr,
19 Apr prior to the marriage by Wm Beckwith; She was the sister
and co-heir of Robert Scargell, of Sheffield;
children
4(i). Timothy Shirley born about 1660 (he was a minor
in 1667); son and heir; He was a London merchant. He returned
to Yorkshire and died at Rotherham
married Rachel Langford of Rotherham Yorks on Aug 3, 1691.
children
5(i). Samuel Shirley born 27 Jul 1691, chr Aug 3, 1692
at Sheffield, Yorkshire (Non-conformist); Only child; died and
buried 2 August 1714 at St James, Bath Somerset
Samuel Shirley 3 Aug 1692 of Rotherham reg at Sheffield
Yorks son of Timothy Shirley at Upper Presby Chapel at Norfolk
Street in Parish of Sheffield
4(ii). Nathaniel Shirley born Feb 1, 1661 suppose to
have did as an infant
4(iii). Elizabeth Shirley chr May 25, 1664
married John Lee of Sheffield Yorks on Mar 28, 1686
4(iv). Sarah Shirley; born 1658; She died 27 May 1719;
buried with her husband in the churchyard of Wickersley Her descendants were heirs of the Shirley properties
married Robert Wylde of Wickersley, gent. (as his 2nd wife)
on 4 June 1683. His will is dated 1714.Buried in the churchyard
of Wickersley
"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."
3(iii). Richard Shirley ; 3rd son; no info
6 Jan 1719 Mary Shirley chr to John Shirley at Wickersley,
Yorks
12 Jul 1736 Ann Shirley married John Linley at Wickersley,
Yorks
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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