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Families covered: Byrom of Byrom, Byrom of Lowton, Byrom of Parr

                               
It has understood that the following family took its name from Byrom which is in the township of Lowton in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire.
Henry de Byrom (a 1325) probably father of ...
1. Thomas de Byrom (a 1376) probably father of ...
  A. Simon de Byrom (a 1383, 1400)
  i. Thomas de Byrom (a 1414, 1422)
  a. Henry de Byrom (a 1422, 1439)
  m. (c1422) Lucy de Parr (dau/coheir of Henry de Parr son of John)
(1) John Byrom of Byrom (d 1467)
  m. (mcrt 1437) Margaret Lever (dau of William Lever of Great Lever) wife of John, presumed mother of ...
  (A) Henry Byrom of Byrom (a 1506)
m. Constance Abram (dau/coheir of Gilbert Abram or Aldburgham (son/heir of John) by Margaret, sister/coheir of Robert Boydell heir of Alan de Boydell son of Helto of Doddleston)
  (i) Thomas Byrom of Byrom (b c1481, d by 1526)
  m. Margaret Leyland (dau of Sir William Leyland of Morleys, widow of Thomas Parr of Parr)
  (a) Henry Byrom of Byrom (b 1504, a 1553) - continued below
  m1. Elizabeth Langton (dau of Ralph Langton of Newton)
m2. (1529) Elizabeth Bold (dau of Sir Richard Bold of Bold)
  (b) John Byrom of Parr (bur 20.01.1585)
  (ii) Raufe Byrom of Salford possibly of this generation
  m. Alice Starky of Pennington (a 01.1523-4)
  (iii)+ other issue - Constance, Elizabeth, Lucy, Agnes
  (B)+ other issue - Thomas, Simon (rector of Grappenhall)
  (2) Raphe Byrom (a 1455, prebendary of Lichfield)
  b. Richard Byrom (3rd son) we speculate that this may possibly have been the Richard Byram of Byram who was father of ...
  (1) Margaret Byrom or Byram
  m. Robert Asshehurst (a 1460)
  c.+ other issue - Thurstan, Thomas (rector of Grappenhall)
  B. Alicia de Byrom
  m. Geoffrey de Bradshagh

 

 

Henry Byrom of Byrom (b 1504, a 1553) - continued above
m1. Elizabeth Langton (dau of Ralph Langton of Newton (by Elizabeth, dau of Christopher Southworth of Salmesbury), m1/div Nicholas Banastre of Altham)
1. Thomas Byrom of Byrom (dsp after 11.1559)
  m. Mary Langton (dau of Sir Thomas Langton by Elizabeth, dau of Sir Edward Stanley of Hornby, Lord Montague)
2. Margaret Byrom (a 12.1559)
m. _ Aston of Acton
m2. (1529) Elizabeth Bold (dau of Sir Richard Bold of Bold by Margaret, dau of Sir Thomas Butler of Bewsey)
3. John Byrom of Byrom & Parr Hall (d before 25.07.1593)
  m. Mildred (a 1592, widow) VCH reports that John m c1559 Margaret (widow of Thomas Parr)
  A. Henry Byrom of Byrom & Parr Hall (d 1613)
m. Katharine Gerard (bur 26.03.1614, dau of William Gerard of Ince by Jane, dau of Sir Richard Osbaldeston of Osbaldeston)
  i. John Byrom of Byrom (dvp c1611 (probably not 1614))
  m. (c09.1607) Isabel Nowell (bpt 18.02.1592, dau of Roger Nowell of Rede)
  a. Henry Byrom of Byrom (b 1608, d Keynton 23.10.1642, Major)
  m1. Winifred Holt (dau of Francis Holt of Grilsehurst by Katherine, dau of William Assheton of Clegg Hall)
  (1) Samuel Byrom of Byrom (bpt 31.08.1634, 5th son)
m. Margery Venables (dau of George Venables of Agden)
  (A) John Byrom of Byrom & Parr Hall (b c1659, bur 03.03.1695/6)
  m. Elizabeth Otway (a 02.1737, dau of Sir John Otway of Ingmere Hall, m2. Major Robert Hedges of Chester, m3. ?? Hamilton)
  (i) Samuel Byrom, last of Byrom (b c1685?)
  VCH reports that Samuel, "a spendthrift", sold Byrom to Joseph Byrom of Manchester whose dau Elizabeth m. her cousin, "the celebrated" John Byrom of Kersal.
  (ii) Elizabeth Byrom (b 04.11.1683)
m. _ Gouldbourne of Chester
  (iii)+ other issue - Catherine (b 10.05.1687), Margaret (d young), 2 others (d young)
  (B) Henry Byrom of Westleigh (b c1660)
  m. Katharine Brotherton (dau of John Brotherton of Hey Hall by Jane (widow of Rev. Wright of North Meols))
  (2)+ other issue - John (d infant), James (b c1628, bur 03.01.1679, "a lunatique"), Henry (bpt 10.08.1629, d young), Adam (a 1664, "a lunatique"), Edward, Isabel
  m2. Isabella (Elizabeth) Gresebroke (dau of (Rowland) Gresebroke (Gresbroke) of Shenston, widow of William Bard or Burd of North Kelsey)
  b. Mary Byrom (bpt 13.12.1610)
  m. Richard Banastre of Altham (d 28.05.1663)
  c.+ other issue - John, Elizabeth (bpt 25.11.1609, d unm), Isabel
  ii. Atherton Byrom of Lawton, Lancashire (3rd son)
  m. _ Hinckes of King's Bromley (bur 17.03.1649)
  a.+ issue - John (a 1664), Elizabeth (d unm 09.03.1685), Isabel
  iii. Catherine Byrom
  m. _ Rolleston (of family of Rolleston)
  iv. Margaret Byrom
  m. Richard Sherbourne of Newton
  v.+ other issue - Richard (d unm), Dorothy, Anne (bur 19.04.1626)
  B. Elizabeth Byrom (a 1592)
  m. (1576) Robert Hindley of Hindley
4. Henry Byrom of Lowton (a 1591)
  The following comes from various web sites.
  A. Henry Byrom
  i.+ issue - Henry, Richard of Sutton, Thomas of Parr, Frances, Margaret
  B. Peter Byrom
  m. Margery Parr
  i.+ issue - Peter, Henry
  C. John Byrom of Prescot
  i.+ issue - Henry of Eccleston, Thomas of Prescot, William, Margaret
  D. Nicholas Byrom of Moore
  m. Margaret Latchford (dau of John Latchford)
  i.+ issue - John, Simon, Jane, Ann, Elizabeth
  E. William Byrom
  m. Ellen
  i.+ issue - William, John, Alice
5. Peter Byrom of Westleigh, Lancashire
  m. Catherine
  A.+ issue (a 1591) - Henry, Thomas, John
6. Richard Byrom of Middleton in Winwick (dsp before 31.07.1591)
  m. Elizabeth

Main source(s): 'The Byrom Pedigrees' by Rev. F.R. Raines with some support from Visitation (Dugdale, Lancashire, 1664, Byrom of Byrom), VCH (Lancashire, vol 4, Townships: Lowton)
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