SHAKERLEY of Little Longstone, Derbyshire

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Mark Allen

SHAKERLEY of Little Longstone, Derbyshire

Legg inn av Mark Allen » 23 aug 2005 15:55:02

Hello list

This is my first post to this list, being relatively new to the field having
only recently traced my ancestry back into medieval times, so please be
gentle with me!

Having lurked on here for a while, I can see there's plenty of expertise
amongst you, and would appreciate your comments on what I believe I have
deduced, and what sources are left available to me next.

ANN SHAKERLEY (born circa 1555) is shown in Hunter's "Familae Minorium
Gentium", as being the daughter of THOMAS SHAKERLEY of Longstone.

THOMAS SHAKERLEY appears in the visitations of 1569/1611 but Ann is not
listed amongst his children. I have only seen the combined
pedigrees/transcript of these visitations in the "The Genealogist - A
Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographic, and Heraldic
Research (New Series)" volumes 7 & 8, so am aware that I need to see (at
least) one of the contemporary copies in the British Library.

The above mentioned visitation gives THOMAS's father as ROBERT SHAKERLEY,
and in turn his father is also ROBERT SHAKERLEY. This lineage also agrees
with the one given by Cox in Churches of Derbyshire, but he makes no mention
of his source. Cox also states that ROBERT (or RICHARD) SHAKERLEY bought the
manor of Little Longstone in or soon after 1474.

Sifting through all the SHAKERLEY (and about 20 variant spellings) hits on
the A2A website, it is apparent that ROBERT SHAKERLEY was living in Little
Longstone between at least 1477 and 1507. There is also one earlier mention
in 1444, but this may well be an earlier man.

A2A also tells me that RICHARD SHAKERSLEY was granted the fiefdom of Little
Longstone in 1453. My understanding from this is that RICHARD is likely to
be ROBERT's father, and that he was granted use of the manor, but it was
still owned by one or more knights. Ownership coming to the family in 1474.

The (1453) abstract from the index lists JAMES, LORD AUDLEY, Kt; EDMUND
TRAFFORD Kt; HENRY LANGLEY and GEOFFREY SHAKERSLEY as granting the fiefdom,
which they had from the late JOHN SHAKERSLEY. Again I can only make
assumptions here, but I would guess that JOHN SHAKERSLEY was RICHARD
SHAKERLEY's father, as I understand that fiefdom's were usually inherited in
a similar way to owned land. GEOFFREY would presumably be another close
relation, but I have no way of saying how he was related.

Earlier references in A2A show JOHN SHAKERLEY was living in Little Longstone
between at least 1427 and 1436, and one in 1428 mentions his wife ELIZABETH,
and calls him JOHN DE SHAKERLEY. A number of 19th century sources state that
the family was from a younger branch of the Cheshire family who hailed from
a village of the same name. In your opinion could the use of "DE" in this
reference to JOHN imply that he was the generation that moved to Little
Longstone from Shakerley. The asserion that they were a branch of this
family is supported by their respective arms. SHAKERLEY of Hulme (themselves
originating in the village of Shakerley) have "Argent, a chevron between
three tufts of rushes vert", whilst SHAKERLEY of Little Longstone have
"Argent, a chevron Gules between three tufts of rushed vert, a mullet for
difference", quartered with LEVETT (the elder ROBERT SHAKERLEY married
MARGARET LEVETT).

If you've read this far, thankyou. I would appreciate any feedback along
with any suggestions for how to proceed.

Regards
Mark Allen

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