Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Probably John was the John recorded in the Padiham register as baptized 29 February 1674/5.
Date of Burial: 6 February 1738/9.
Place of Burial: Newchurch in Pendle, Lancashire.
See the Commentary section.
Relationships
Father: uncertain.
See the Commentary section. Probably he was William Hargreaves.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Jane.
John names his wife Jane in his will. It is not certain that she was the mother of John’s children.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. All the children except for James below are mentioned in John’s will.)
James Hargreaves (baptized 21 March 1699/1700 in Padiham - buried 21 May 1705 in Padiham)
Richard Hargreaves (baptized 28 December 1702 in Padiham) married Mary Hargreaves 2 February 1729/30 in Padiham.
Grace Hargreaves married John Walmersley 7 October 1725 in Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire.
Elizabeth Hargreaves (baptized 14 April 1706 in Padiham) married John Wilkinson 27 June 1725 in Padiham.
John Hargreaves (baptized 30 June 1708 in Padiham - buried 14 January 1777 in Wheatley Lane Inghamite Chapel) married Mary Walsh 21 October 1739 in Padiham.
Christopher Hargreaves (baptized 17 February 1711/12 in Padiham - buried 3 October 1791 in the Wheatley Lane Inghamite chapel in Fence, Pendle, Lancashire) married Martha Whittaker 1 December 1739 in Burnley.
Robert Hargreaves (baptized 25 April 1714 in Padiham) married Mary Tattersall 2 June 1739 in Padiham.
Mary Hargreaves (buried 11 March 1741/2 in Padiham) married James Haworth 10 December 1730 in Padiham.
Evidence
from the Padiham St Leonard bishop’s transcripts:
[1674 February]
John Son of William Hargreaves de Pendle bapt 29th
from the Colne St Bartholomew parish register:
[1699 January]
31 John’es Hargreave paup[er] de Pendle et Elizabeth Ingham de Baraford
from the Padiham St Leonard parish register:
[1699 March]
James son of Jo: Hargreaves west close bapt: the 21
[1702 December]
Rich: son of Jo: Hargreaves of Pendle bapt: the 28th
[1705 May]
James son of Jon: Hargreaves of Pendle bury’d the same day [21st]
[1706 April]
Elizab: d: of Jo: Hargreaves of Pendle shoemaker bapt: the 14
[1708 June]
John son of John Hargreaves of Pendle baptizd 30th
[1711 February]
Christopher son of Jon: Hargreaves of Pendle Bapt: the 17th
[1714 April]
Robert son of Jon Hargreaves of Pendle Bapt: the 25th
from the Newchurch in Pendle parish register:
[1738 February]
John Hargreaves Buried February the 6th
[1742 February]
Feb:y 21:st Buried Jane Hargraves of Higham widdow
Lancashire Archives DDX 900/168
Copy of court roll of the Halmot Court of the manor of Ightenhill held at Higham admitting John Hargreaves of Higham, to a messuage called Brownhouse and its gardens and lands called Brownhouse Ing, le Lower Intack, le Lower Ing, and Fearnhurst and one other parcel called le mean Ing Dole in Cabbidge meadow head on the west side of Brown Croft at Barley-booth in the Forest of Pendle, surrendered by Thomas Smith and Ellen his wife, for the life of T.S.
Fine: 5s. 3¾d.
Rent: 5s. 3¾d. per annum
Followed by a copy of the admittance of Thomas Smith to the same on the surrender of John Hargreaves
Fine: 5s. 3¾d.
1704 11 May adjorned to 30 May
John’s will:
In the name of God Amen The first day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred Thirty and eight I John Hargreaves of Height within Higham Booth in the Forest of Pendle and County of Lanc.r yeom’ being sick of Body bur of perfect mind and memory Do make and ordaine my last Will and Testament in man[n]er and form following first I com[m]itt my soule into the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be buryed at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as to such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to Bless me with I do hereby dispose of the same in man[n]er and form Following first it is my will and mind that my just debts (if aney) be paid my Funerall Expences and probate of this my last will be discharged, and whereas by surrender under the hand of William Tattersall late of Cophurst he did lett to farm all that messuage lands and premisses under such yearly rent and performing such covenants as are sett forth in the sd sorrender unto me the said John Hargreaves the Testator and so forth, I do hereby give and bequeath the said Tenement and the benefitt of farming the same unto Jane my beloved wife and Christopher my son during the years yet to com and unexpired as by the sd surender may apeare Asoe I give and bequeath unto the said Jane my wife and Christopher my son all and every my Household goods Husbandry gears and quick goods of what nature and kind soever they be and I do hearby give and bequeath unto John Hargreaves and Richard Hargreaves my sonns each the sum of six pounds a peece and unto my son Robert the sum of eight pounds and unto Grace Walmlsey and Mary Haworth my daughters the sum of six pounds a peece each and unto Mary Jane and Ann Wilkinson my Grandaughters the sum of twenty shillings a peece when the shall respectively attaine the age of eighteen years and if aney of my grandaughters aforesaid hapen to dye before they shall attaine the said age then it is my will and mind that such part shall be paid to the survivor of them provided always and nevertheless It is my will and mind that if it happen that Jane my wife shall depart this life and not haveing expended in her nessessary maintainance and supplyes all such part of my personall estate as is hereby by me given unto her, then it is my will and mind that such part shall be equally divided to and amoungest Richard John & Robert Hargreaves my sonns and Grace Walmsley and Mary Haworth my daughters and I do hereby nominate and apoint Christopher my son and Jane my Wife Executor and Executrix of this my last will and Testament In wittnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the day and year aboue written
John Hargreaves
his X marks [seal]
Sealed signed published and declared by the Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us
Will. Tattersall
James Hunter
Tho: Grimshaw
[Proved 15 May 1739]
The will of John’s son John:
In the name of God Amen, I John Hargreaves (the elder) of Higham in the Forest of Pendle and County of Lancaster Yeoman being of sound and disposeing mind and Memory (Praised be God for the same) Do make and Declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say, First it is my Will and mind that all my Just Debts, Funeral Expences, and Charges of proving this my last Will, be paid and Discharged by my Executrix and Executors herein after named out of my Personal Estate. Also it is my Will and mind, and I do hereby Give and Bequeath unto my son John Hargreaves the sum of Five Pounds to be paid him by my said Executrix and Executors our of my said Personal Estate, at the end of Twelve Months next after my Decease, which said Legacy of Five pounds with what herein after I shall Give him, or that he may be intitled to under this my said Will, and what I have heretofore Given, or setled upon him, is all the portion I ever Intend him. Also I Give and Bequeath unto my son Jonathan Hargreaves the sum of Five Pounds, to be paid him by my said Executrix and Executors out of my said Personal Estate, at the end of twelve months next after my Decease, which said Legacy of Five pounds, with what hereinafter I shall Give him, or that he may be Intitled to unto this my said Will, and what I have heretofore Given Or setled upon him, is all the portion I ever Intend him. And whereas I am now possessed of, Interested in, Or otherwise well Intitled to all that one Messuage, or Dwelling House, One Barn and other Buildings with the Lnds and Hereditaments thereunto belonging, lying and being in the Salwick near Preston In the said County of Lancaster, by one Indenture of Demise, or Lease, Granted me from Thomas Clifton of Lytham Hall in the said County of Lancaster Esquire for the term of Two lives, both which are now in being. Under the Rents and Covenants therein Reserved and Contained; Now therefore it is my Will and mind, and I do hereby Give Devise and Bequeath unto my Son James Hargreaves his Heirs Exeuctors Adm.rs and Assigns (Or according to the Nature of the tenure thereof) All my Tenant Right Estate and Interest which I now have of in and to all the aforesaid Leasehold Messuage Farm or Tenements situate at Salwich aforesaid; But in Case my said Son James Hargreaves shall happen to die without legal Issue of his body, Then and in such Case I do hereby Give and Bequeath the said premisses and every part thereof to my said Son Jonathan Hargreaves his Heirs Ex.rs Adm.rs. and Assigns (Or according to the tenure or nature thereof) Also I Give and Bequeath unto my said son James Hargreaves the sum of One Hundred Pounds, to be paid him by my said Executrix and Executors out of my said personal Estate at the end of Twelve Months next after my decease. Also it is my Will and Mind, and I do hereby Give and Devise to my said son Jonathan Hargreaves and James Roberts of Northwood in the parish of Whaley and to their Heirs for ever, Or to the Survivor of them and his Heirs of Ever, All that Copyhold Messuage Farm or Tenement comonly called and known by the name of Sharps Tenement, situate lying and being in Wheatley Carr in the Forest of Pendle aforesaid, with all and every the Lands Grounds Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise Appertaining, now in the possession of John Hargreaves my Son, or his Undertenants, And also the Reversion and Inheritance of all that Messuage or Dwelling House, together with the Chapel, or Meeting House, with the Stable, Chapel Yard, Lands, Grounds and Appurtenances to the same belonging, now in the Possession of the Trustees for the said Chapel or Meetinghouse, and situate lying and being at, or near Wheatley Carr aforesaid, and all which two last named Messages or Tenements and Premisses are in the whole of the Yearly Rent to the Lords and Ladies of the said Forest of Sixteen Shillings and Eightpence. [and being of the Copyhold tenure have already surrendred the same to the use of my last Will] To hold the same unto them the said Jonathan Hargreaves and James Roberts and their Heirs for Ever, Or to the Survivor of them and his Heirs for Ever, Upon Trust and Confidence Nevertheless, that imediately after my Decease, they the said Jonathan Hargreaves and James Roberts, and their Heirs, Or the Survivor of them and his Heirs, shall vend sell and Dispose of the said Messuage Farm or Tenement called Sharps Tenement with the Appurtenances, As also the said Reversion and Inheritance of the said Messuage or Dwellinghouse, Stable, Chapel Yard, and the Lands Grounds and Appurtenances to the same belonging to the best benefit and Advantage, and for the best price, or profit they may, or can, and out of the Monies Arising by the sale of the said Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments, and from the Rents and Profits until such Sale, they the said Jonathan Hargreaves and James Roberts shall well and truly pay, Or Cause to be paid unto my Son Joseph Hargreaves three full parts thereof, when he shall attain his age of Twenty One Years, and until that period of time, I do hereby Order and direct that my said Trustees, or the Survivor of them, shall place out the same at Interest upon the best Security they can or may get for the same, and pay and apply the same as it becomes due for and towards his maintenance and Education. And also well and truly pay, or cause to be paid unto my Son William Hargreaves the fourth part, or remainder of such Rents, and purchase Money, or Money to arise as aforesaid, within One Kalendar Month next after the time they shall or may happen to Receive the purchase Money for the said premisses. Also it is my Will and mind and I do hereby Give and Devise unto my son Joshua Hargreaves and his Heirs and assigns for Ever, All that One Messuage or Tenement commonly called or known by the name of the Newhouse, or Sagar Hill, with the Barn Buildings Lands Grounds Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the same belonging, Or in any wise appertaining situate lying and being in Highambooth aforesaid, and now in the tenure or Occupation of me the said John Hargreaves and Richard Hargreaves our Assigns, Or Undertenants, and of the yearly Rent to the Lords and Ladies of the said Forest of three shillings, and being of the Copyhold tenure, have also surrendred the same to the use of my last Will, Subject nevertheless to such a Charge as I shall hereafter charge the same, or some part thereof with all. Also I do hereby Give and Bequeath unto my said Son Joshua Hargreaves the sum of Two Hundred pounds to be paid him by my Executrix and Executors when he shall attain his age of Twenty one years out of my said personal Estate, and the Interest in the mean time to be paid and applyed towards his maintenance and Education, Also I give and Bequeath unto my son Robert Hargreaves the sum of Three hundred pounds, to be paid him by my said Executrix and Executors out of my said Personal Estate at the end of Twelve Months next after my Decease. Also it is my Will and mind, and I do hereby order charge and direct that Mary my Loving Wife shall have hold and Enjoy for and during the term of her natural life, and that free and clear from the Payment of any Rent Taxes Or Assessments whatsoever, One Bay of the Building adjoining the East End of the house at Sagar Hill aforesaid hereinbefore Devised to my said Son Joshua, for her to live and Reside in (if she pleases) after my Decease, which said priviledge with the Legacies or Bequests herein after Given and Bequeathed her, with the Dowry she will or may be Intitled to out of the herein before mentioned Estates already by me Devised, shall be in full Lieu and Satisfaction of all her Dower, or thirds she might have, or otherwise claim of into or out of all, Or any of my said Copyhold, Freehold, Leasehold, or personal Estates, or any of them. Also I do hereby Give and Bequeath unto Mary my said Wife and to my son Joshua Hargreaves their Executors Administrators and Assigns, All my Tenant Right, Estate, Interest, and term to come; of in and to all that Messuage Farm or Tenement situate in Higham aforesaid, now in my possession, and which I hold by Lease under the Trustees of the Curacy of Burnley in the said County of Lancaster, And also all my Household Goods, and Husbandry Gears, Hay, Corn, Quick Goods, and Cattle which I shall or may have in my Custody, or possession, or otherwise belonging to me at the time of my Decease, Equally between them share and share alike. Also I Give and Bequeath to my said Sons Jonathan Robert and Joshua Hargreaves (equally amongst them) all my Tools and Implements belonging my Trade I now follow, and which may belong to me at the time of my Decease. And it is my Will and mind; and I do hereby declare that no Leasehold premisses herein before Devised, or Bequeathed shall be called or Deemed personalty. And as to for and concening all the Rest Residue and Remainder of my Personal Estate of what kind or naturesoever (after payment thereout of all my Just Debts Legacies and Funeral Expences by my Executrix and Executors as aforesaid) I Give and Bequeath the same and every part thereof to my said Sons John Jonathan James Robert William Joshua and Joseph Hargreaves their Executors Adminstrators and assigns for Ever equally amongst them share and share alike; Provided always nevertheless, and it is my Will and mind, that if any of my said Sons John Jonathan James Robert William Joshua and Joseph shall happen to die before any of their attaining their Respective Ages of Twenty One Years, or time or times their said pecuniary Legacies shall become payable by virtue of this my Will, or their shares of the Remainder of my said Personal Estate without Legal Issue, That then and in such Case, I do hereby Direct and appoint such pecuniary Legacy or Legacies, share of shares of the Remainder of the said Personal Estate of him or them so dying to be and be equally paid and divided amongst all my sons then living, share and share alike, to such of them as shall or may happen to be under the Age of Twenty One Years, when, and as soon, as he shall attain his Age of Twenty one Years, and the Interest of such Share or Shares to be paid and applyed to his, or their Maintenance or Education, till he or they Respectively attain his of their Age of Twenty One Years. And I do hereby Declare that my said Trustees shall and may keep and Retain in so much money as they or either of them shall pay or Expend in the sale of the said Trust premisses out of the said Trust premisses, or purchase Money, or what they or either of them shall pay, or lay out inthe Execution of the Trust hereby in them Reposed, nor that my said Trustees, or either of them, shall not be answerable or accountable one for the other, Or for the acts or Deeds of the other, But each only for his own act and Deed. And that either of them shall not be answerable for any more Money than htey shall severally and respectively actually Receive, nor for any Less, but such as shall happen thro’ their wilful neglect and Default. And I do hereby Ordain and appoint my Loving Wife Mary my said Son Jonathan and James Roberts to have the Government and Tuition of such of my Children as shall or may happen to be under age at the time of my Decease during their respective minorities. And Lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said Wife Mary, said son Jonathan and James Roberts Joint Executrix and Executors of this my last Will and Tenement [sic]; Hereby Revokeing and making void all former, or other Wills by me at any time heretofore made, allowing and Confirming this only to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof, I the said John Hargreaves have to this my Last Will and Testament contained in four sheets of paper, to the first three sheets of paper set my hand and to the fourth my hand and seal this Twenty seventh Day of May In the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy six.
John Hargreaves [seal]
Signed Sealed published and Declared by the said John Hargreaves the Testator, as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto, in the presence of the said Testator; and in the presence of each other
Priscilla Green
James Green
Rich.d Shaw
[Proved 26 April 1777]
Commentary
John’s burial:
The John of this page made his will 1 February 1738/9 and it was proved 15 May 1739. Another John Hargreaves, also of Higham, made his will 2 April 1739 and it was proved 31 October 1739. One of these Johns was buried in Newchurch in Pendle 6 February 1738/9 and the other was buried 13 April 1739 in Colne (abode “Higham Church”). The 6 February burial is impossible for the “other” John, and the widow of the John of this page was buried in 1743 in Newchurch, so the 6 February burial must belong to the John of this page.
John’s parentage.
John’s burial:
The John of this page made his will 1 February 1738/9 and it was proved 15 May 1739. Another John Hargreaves, also of Higham, made his will 2 April 1739 and it was proved 31 October 1739. One of these Johns was buried in Newchurch in Pendle 6 February 1738/9 and the other was buried 13 April 1739 in Colne (abode “Higham Church”). The 6 February burial is impossible for the “other” John, and the widow of the John of this page was buried in 1743 in Newchurch, so the 6 February burial must belong to the John of this page.
John’s parentage.
Whitaker (chart after p. 12) gives John’s father as John. I am not certain what evidence he was basing this on, but a John Hargreaves senr of Higham was buried in Padiham 22 January 1709/10, which is plausibly the father of the John of this page. He also states that the elder John was a son of Robert the son of John Hargreaves of Higham and his wife Isabel. He seems to be basing this on the 1679 will of Robert’s brother James, which I have not yet seen.
However, it is fairly clear that there is some evidence of which Whitaker was not aware, which may impact this construction. First, Whitaker shows no awareness that Robert was baptized 14 February 1638/9 (in Padiham), which makes his construction chronologically tight, as Robert’s alleged grandson had a child baptized in 1699. Second, Robert Hargreaves went to Cambridge. He was ordained a deacon at Lincoln in 1662 and a priest at Peterborough in 1663. Venn (p. 307) is unsure, but he shows that Robert probably had a son John in about 1674. Probably this is the son baptized in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1674 to Robert Hargreaves of Pendle. This would account for the son of Robert named John who apparently shows up in the 1679 will of Robert’s brother James, but it would make it very unlikely that Robert was the grandfather of the John of this page.
I think it is likely that the John of this page was in fact the son of Robert’s brother William, who does not appear in Whitaker’s pedigree but who does appear in Robert’s father’s will. William Hargreaves of Pendle had a son John baptized in Padiham in 1675.
Here are the entries from Venn:
HARGRAVES, ROBERT. Adm. sizar (age 19) at St John's, Feb. 3, 1657-8. S. of John, deceased, of Higham, High Booth in Whalley, Lanes. B. there. School, Burnley (Mr Aspden). Matric. 1658; B.A. 1661-2; M.A. 1665. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Oct. 15, 1662; priest (Peterb.) Sept. 20, 1663. Perhaps minister at Paston, Northants., and father of John (1691-2).
HARGREAVES, JOHN. Adm. sizar (age 17) at St John's, Feb. 24, 1691-2. S. of Robert (? 1657-8), clerk. B. at Paston, Northants. School, Peterborough (Mr Waring). Matric 1692; B.A. 1695-6; M.A. 1699. Fellow, 1700-8. Ord. priest (Peterb.) Sept. 20, 1702. C. of Walgrave, Northants.
I think the following 1714 fine (Lancashire Archives DDX 6/11) probably involves the son of Robert (John Hargreaves, rector of Islip) and the son of William (John Hargreaves of Higham, i.e. the John Hargreaves of this page). The Kerchiefe is mentioned in the 1777 will of John Hargreaves, the son of the John Hargreaves of this page.
13 May 1714
Admission in the Halmot Court of the Forrest of Pendle infra the Manor of Ightenhill
Before Thomas Sclater, gent, deputy steward for Elizabeth, Countess of Montagu: fine: 4/-: John Hargreaves of Higham to John Hartley of Whitelee, mercer, at the request of John Hargreaves, rector of Islip, co. Northampton, by James Whalley of Sparth, gent. trustee -- the Fence Barne & 16ac land in Higham Booth at rent of 2/9 per year; part of a house, garden, & small close called the Kerchiefe late in the tenure of Nicholas Houghton; part of a barn late in the tenure of Robert Brennand at 2d rent; half a house late in the tenure of Widow Grymshaw at 1d rent; all now in the tenure of John Hartley, James Rishton, John Shaw, Richard Anderson, & Elizabeth Green --
References
Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives. [Digital images at Ancestry.com.]
Venn, John. Alumni Cantabrigienses pt. 1, v. 2.(Cambridge University Press, 1922).
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. An History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe. [4th ed., revised and enlarged by John Gough Nichols and Ponsonby A. Lyons] Volume 2. 1876.
Will of John Hargreaves of Heigham. Made 1651 and proved 1663 in the Consistory Court of Chester. FHL Film #004424006 image 57 and following, of 638.
Will of John Hargreaves of Height, Higham Booth, yeoman. Proved 1739 in the Consistory Court of Chester. FHL Film # 004426548 image 392 of 509.
Will of John Hargreaves of Higham, yeoman. Proved 1739 in the Consistory Court of Chester. FHL Film # 004426548 image 402 of 509.
Will of John Hargreaves (the elder) of Higham in the Forest of Pendle and County of Lancaster, yeoman. Proved 1777 in the Consistory Court of Lancaster. [Digital images on FamilySearch.org Film #04422446, images 144-149 of 569.]