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It would appear that these two families, both from the Whalley area, may hold the key to identifying which part of the Crombleholme family the Rev Richard Cromleholme [Cro0475] thus his son Samuel Cromleholme [Cro0479] descend from.
The connection is a little narrow at present and arises from the letter* below to Roger Kenyon regarding the possibility of Samuel Cromleholme [Cro0479] taking his own "kinsman" Elisha Chew into his care and educating him at St Pauls School in London where Samuel was Highmaster.
The relationship is illustrated by Samuel's remark recorded in this letter..........He gave us, order to remember his love to the boy's mother".
Unfortunately Samuel Cromleholme [Cro0479] died in July 1672 but his wife Mary (nee Bury) [Cro0480] remembered Elisha Chew in the probate and gives him £15 to "finish his wish"
From Samuel's probate :
Item - This accomptant desirath that the said Samuel Cromleholme did while he lived in his lifetime keep in his
house one Elisha Chew his kinsman being a youth about thirteen yeras of age who he sent for to come unto him out
of Lancashire, and did declare in his lifetime that he would plan him Out in the world to some .... ?, and that he dying
before he did the same this accomptant finish his wish ? did plan him out which cost her fifteen pounds £ xv
To date, no trace of Elisha Chew's birth (c.1659) or what happened to him (having presumably finished his education at St Pauls School) has been found.
* The letter : (From the Kenyon Archive )
Roger Kenyon (1627 - 1698) (from Judges Lodgings Museum of Lancaster)
Samuel Cromleholme [Cro0479] received Elisha Chew into his school shortly before his death in 1672. Interestingly, Samuel's wife Mary (nee Bury) [Cro0480] notes in the probate that ...."he sent for to come unto him out of Lancashire" . Elisha Chew was taken to Samuel Cromleholme by three gentlemen (Dr Frankland, Thomas Greenfield & William Clayton) and their meeting is fortunately described in the letter above written by Thomas Greenfield to Roger Kenyon in Lancashire.
Roger Kenyon (junior) (c1627-1698)
Roger Kenyon (junior) (c1627-1698)
He was the eldest son of Roger Kenyon of Parkhead near Blackburn, Lancashire. The family had been settled in Lancashire since the C13th. Earlier in 1608, Roger Kenyon (senior) had drawn up the maps in connection with the disputes relating to the Leagram Deer Park and featured several Crombleholme properties (see Deer park section) He died in 1635 holding two messuages in Whalley and others in Dinckley and Billington. His heir was his son Roger aged 9. A certificate of the arms of Roger Kenyon was given in 1649 (Source : Cal S P Dom 1649-50 p65)
Roger Kenyon's (junior) mother was Jane, the daughter of Richard Assheton of Chadderton in Lancashire. He completed his education at Grays Inn, London in 1650 presumably as a lawyer. The Kenyon family were staunch Royalists during the Civil War but he married into a Parliamentarian family when he married Alice daughter and heir of George Rigby of Peel Hall on 17th June 1657.
He moved into Peel Hall with his new wife and lived there until he died. He managed to resolve long running disputes relating to his wife's family and he soon became a key player in local and Tory politics.
He was a busy man and held a number of posts :
Clerk of the Peace Lancs 1663 to 1698
Bailiff of Clitheroe in 1671
Receiver of Duchy of Lancaster 1680-93 of forfeitures of popish recusants
Burgess of Wigan - 1684
Chamberlain of Chester by 1688
MP for Clitheroe in 1690 - 1695.
Commissioner of lands given for superstitious uses in Lancashire 1689
Governor of Isle of Man - 1691 to 93
Deputy Warden of the Mint - 1695 - 1698.
The Chew Family :
The Chew Family :
1595 - Edward Chew son of Edward Chew baptised at Whalley (Source : Whalley Par reg)
1599 - 27th March : Thomas Chew base son of Robert Chew baptised at Burnley (Source : Burnley Par Reg 1562-1653)
1600 - 30th September : Ricus Chew fillies Rici Chew baptised at Whalley (Source : Whalley Par reg)
1605 - 2nd March : Nicholas son of John Chew of Colne Lancs (IGI)
There is a marriage between the Crombleholme & Chew families :
1618 - 25th May : Robert Chew married Elizabeth Crombleholme [Cro00650] spinster of the parish of Blackburn Lancs; Bondsman Richard Giles at Blackburn. (Source LRS No 56 - p59 Diocese of Chester Marriage licences = 16th May 1616-24 Vol II) Marriage CFI Blackburn
They had three sons* : Richard born 1619; Edward and Robert.
The eldest son Richard Chew b1619 died about 1664 leaving a son Richard b 1654 who in turn died in Nov 1721 and was buried at Whalley Abbey.
Elizabeth Crombleholme [Cro0418 ???] may be daughter of Robert Crombleholme [Cro0420] baptised at Whalley on 26th April 1595 ? Marriage bond and allegation for marriage - may be LCRS Vol 54 (not seen) (MP letter 14/8/2012)
Elisha Chew is noted by Mary C [480] in her husband Samuel's Cromleholme's [479] probate as being about 13 years old in 1672 giving his birth date of c.1659.
Elizabeth C [418 ?? ] above could be a sister of Samuel's father Rev Richard C [475] ?? who was born c1592 with perhaps Elisha Chew being a grandchild of Elizabeth Chew (nee Crombleholme) [418] and thus a second cousin to Samuel C ?
or ..........He may have been a son of any of the three brothers* noted below ?
Robert Chewe of Potter Ford over the Calder (river) below Whalley Abbey rebuilt that house in 1562 and was living in 1575. His son Edward also of Potter Ford in turn had a son Robert.
1667 : Will of Robert Chew of Potterton in Billington (not seen) (no children found of Robert & Elis after 1618 - may have been early non conformists. Biblical names like Elisha were favourites of NC parents (MP letter 14/8/2012)
Extract of Will :
SR 9 : 1653 Robert Crombleholme [Cro0039] of Aighton (Tailor) [ref Brent 394* - Commonwealth period]
(Copy of will* not obtained but transcribed by my dear friend Marjorie Pollard in 1981)
Will made 24th June 1652 He died : Administration granted September 1653
Burial at discretion of executors; Executor : Roger Wynkley of Horrocks in Aighton.
Witnesses : Thomas Wynkley, Edward Wynkley & Edmund Wynkley.
Bequests : To brother John C £20; To William & Richard sons of John £5 each.
To elder daughter of John C : 50s; Younger daughter of John : £3
To George C & 2 of the daughters of the late brother William C £3 each
To John C one other of the sons of late brother William 50s.
To Margaret his sister £5 - Roger Parker his brother in law not gainsay (deny) this.
To children of Roger Wynkley of Horrocks Aighton (Thomas, Edward, Mary, Alice & Eliz) 40s each.
To Katherine, now wife of said Thomas Wynkley and Roger his son £5 each
To William Burns 40s; to Eliz his wife & children Thomas & Jane 5s each.
To Richard Hill & Ellen his wife 45s each.
To William Grigson his godson 5s; To John, Agnes & Mary children of Lawrence Wilkinson deceased 5s each.
To William & Ann Gerrard 5s each; To Mary Hayurst 5s;
To William Chewe 45s.
Samuel C's [479] relationship with Elisha Chew when resolved, may assist in locating his father's (Rev Richard Cromleholme [475]) family in Lancashire. The Chew family were landowners near Whalley / Wilpshire in Lancashire with the Kenyon Family being the local gentry family of the area in the C17th.
1718 - 21st March : Assignment of Lease : Thurston Tomlinson of Wiswall and Barton Shuttleworth of Worston, gents. to Obadiah Chew of Whalley gent. - closes called Higher Shippen Croft and Shaw Wood - part of Wiswall Hall estate leased by Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stonyhurst, bart 8th Sept 1708 for £450 to TT ; for lives of TT, Mary his wife & john their son.
(Source : Lancs CRO Parker Family of Browsholme -Ref DDB/54/1)
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