LOWES OF
HALTWHISTLE
A
pedigree in Hodgson’s History of Northumberland shows Susan, wife of
John Maughan, as a daughter of William Lowes, a county keeper, and mentions a
will of William dated 23 October 1732, which I have not found.[1]
However, the will
of John Lowes of Whitshields in Haltwhistle, written
in 1709, names “my Daughter Susan Maughan”. John is shown as a brother of
William Lowes in the pedigree in Hodgson’s History but William was
evidently John’s son. John’s will nominates his son William and the latter’s
son John as executors, with the associated bond giving their residences in
December 1710 as Ridley Hall and Whitshields
respectively.[2]
A letter of November 1710 from Edward Blackett addressed to “Mr Wm Lowes Counterey Keeper at Ridley Hall” refers to the tenancy of Whitshields and states “you cannot Certainely
Imagine that I will let whitsheals farme for the same rent I lett itt to your father for I had much rather have your sonne for my tenant then any
other”.[3]
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LOWES
JOHN
LOWES of Whitshields, Haltwhistle, Northumberland,
yeoman, was buried on 3 November 1709 at Beltingham.[4]
Children
of John Lowes:[5]
i WILLIAM LOWES of Ridley Hall,
Haltwhistle, county keeper,[6] d
27 May 1735, bur 30 May 1735, Haltwhistle.[7]
ii SUSAN
LOWES, bur 3 May 1728, Haydon Bridge;[8] m
12 Jul 1696, Haydon Bridge, JOHN MAUGHAN[9]
(see here).
iii GEORGE
LOWES of Bellister and Grandy’s Knowe, Haltwhistle,
bur 23 Jul 1738, Beltingham;[10] m
MARGARET.[11]
[2] Durham University, DPRI/1/1710/L7, DPRI/3/1710/B182/1-2.
[3] Transcription of Northumberland Archives, ZBL 189, at Dukesfield Smelters and Carriers Project. There is also another letter of 1709 with an unclear reference to an uncle of William Lowes: “when I was at Newcastle Mr Alderman Ridley came and paid me his Tythe Rent and I gave him a Copy of the Same Rect. which he Shew’d me you had given him the Year before, he paid me likewise £4, for an <Alrena> for yr Uncle <Saunderson. Brown>, and I gave him a note to Mr Steward Barnes”.
[4] Haltwhistle parish register abstracts; Northumberland Burials (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[5] Durham University, DPRI/1/1710/L7, DPRI/3/1710/B182/1-2.
[6] See Joanna Bath, “County Keeping, Corruption, and the Courts in the Early-Eighteenth-Century Borders: the Feud of William Charlton and William Lowes”, Northern History, 40.1(2003):113-27.
[10] Whitfield parish register abstracts; Durham University, DPR/I/1/1740/L6/1-2. There was a George Lowes of Wooes or Woolhouse in Haltwhistle whose will was proved in 1720. However, the George who was a son of John of Whitshields was left the tenement Grandy’s Knowe in his father’s will and therefore appears to have been the George Lowes of Grandy’s Knowe whose will was written in 1738. Additionally, the latter George’s son Nicholas seems to have been a first cousin of Edward Lowes, with Edward being a son of William Lowes, the county keeper. Edward was evidently also the brother-in-law of Nicholas, having married the latter’s sister Margaret (see the will of William Lowes, Durham University, DPR/I/1/1770/L8/1).
[11] The record of the baptism of George’s daughter Elizabeth on 19 Aug 1697 at Haltwhistle names the mother as Margaret: Northumberland Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).