Lowe Genealogy

Our line starts with the family of Eystein Glumra the Clatterer/ the Noisy, also called Eystein Ivarsson born ca. 830 in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway was Jarl (Earl) of Oppland and Hedmark in Norway.

This Nordic line ruled the Orkney Islands. Orkney and Shetland were ruled by Norway until 1472. As well as settling on Shetland, the Norsemen colonized Caithness and Sutherland in what is today's Scotland. We see the evidence in the place names. From the Shetlands and Orkneys, the Norsemen travelled on to the Hebrides and from there to the Isle of Man, Cumbria, Wales and, particularly, to Ireland. The Norsemen traded with Ireland and established several towns including Dublin and Cork.
Eystein had three sons as far as I can decipher at this time:

Rognvald I “The Wise” born 830

Sigurd I Earl of the Orkneys born 832

Malahule Eysteinsson, or Haldrick, Malahhulc Eysteinsson Earl of More, born 852.

It is Malahule line we follow for the surname LOWE. He has six sons, the fourth son Richard I De Contentin, was also known as Richard I, De St. Sauveur, Viscount of Cotentin born @ 893.

Richards son Asperling De Vandreuil, who was born in France @ 952, marries Sparta De Senlis and the Lowe line continues with their son Raoul Bayeux born 1022.

Bayeux is a town of Lower Normandy, in France, on the river Aure. It was formerly a very considerable place, and one of the most ancient in Gaul. It suffered much from the incursions of the Normans in the 9th and 10th centuries, and afterwards still more during the wars with the English.

It was taken from Berenger, count of Bessin, by Raoul, who was afterwards duke of Normandy, from which period it became a Norman town. It was taken and burnt by Henry, king of England, during the war which he carried on against his brother Robert, duke of Normandy, and it experienced a similar fate from the English in 1356. It afterwards stood two sieges, one by the English in 1415, and the other by count de Dunois in 1450; and, lastly, it was sacked and pillaged by the Protestants in 1562.

Raoul Bayeux marries Emeburge Ceux, and they have several children. Their son Balso Bayeux was born 930 and married Poppa Of Sulzbach, they have a son Ancitel De Bayeux born 1017 who marries Poppa De Senlis Counte, and they have two sons and one daughter.

Now we start to see the name change more. The particulars of this are still to be traced. One assumes these changes occur due to marriage, conflict, and lands claimed.

Their eldest son known as Alcher was born 1010, his wife is unknown at this time-a guess would be that he married someone within The Fitz Warine/Warren/Lee line who brought with it title and lands. He is the father of Warin Fitz Warine Lee, who married Milletta Peverell Whittington and they had two sons: Warine the Bold/Bald and the more famous Fulk Fitzwarine which brings the family in relation to William the Conqueror.

The Lowe line continues directly with Warine the Bold/Bald who was the first sheriff of Shorpshire. He and his wife Maud Le Vavsur have a son Hugo Fitz Warine and with his son we see the name changes now to De Lega with Hugh De Lega.

William, now called "the Conqueror," had with him Hugh de Lega and Gilbert de Venables, relatives, who fought so valiantly with William that they each were given an estate in Essex (Eastern England). The LEE name was spelled Lee, Lea, Leigh, de Lega and de Lee by this time.

Reginaldus De Lee, Hugo De Lega’s son is found in documents pertaining to Lea Farm. This tenement is adjacent to Hopstone. Reginald de Lega, is mentioned as an Essoignor in a local Suit of 1221, may have been of this place. Richard de la Lee, first Juror for Claverley at the Manorial Inquest of 1255, was undoubtedly so. Again, one Richard de la Lee was eighth Juror of Claverley at the Assizes of 1272.

But this is as much as I can find on Reginaldus De Lee. His son with Reynor is named John De lee. I know John married Matilda Erdington and from their 3 children we follow Thomas De Lee whose second marriage with Johanna Morton gives us Reginald De lee, and it becomes very tangled here for the moment. This area needs a closer look, Thomas De Lee/Lowe Thomas del Lowe, the elder, from whom the Derbyshire families of Lowe derived their descent, and who we assume to have been the younger brother of William del Lowe, appears as a witness to a charter in 1407, and was the father of Geoffrey del Lowe referred to in the proceedings of the Manorial Court of Macclesfield in 1426.

According to an old pedigree, a copy of which is to be found amongst the Wolley MSS. in the British Museum, this Thomas Del Lowe died at Macclesfield at eleven o'clock at night, on the 10th of February, 1415. Geoffrey Del Lowe, his son and heir, is stated on the same authority to have married Margaret, daughter of [Sir Peter?] Legh, of Lyme, in the County of Chester. This marriage is not given in any of the various pedigrees of that family, but there is no particular reason for doubting the accuracy of it.

By a charter, dated at Macclesfield the Saturday next after the feast of St. Kenelm, King and Martyr, in the seventeenth year of the reign of King Henry VI. (this would be in July, 1439), John Rossyndale, the elder, and John Rossyndale the younger, his son and heir, remitted and quit-claimed for ever to Geoffrey del Lowe, of Macclesfield, and his heirs, all their claims and title to certain lands and tenements of Geoffrey del Lowe, situated in "le Dedestrete" in the town of Macclesfield. The witnesses to this charter were Thomas Del Lowe, then Mayor of Macclesfield, Stephen Del Rowe, Alderman, Roger de Falybrome, Thomas Davy, Lawrence Blagg, and many others. Geoffrey Del Lowe is stated to have died at Macclesfield on the Monday in the third week of Lent, 1451, between the hours of six and seven in the morning. His widow survived him for about three years.

Thomas Lowe acquired a considerable estate through his marriage with Joane, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Fawne, of Alderwasley, on the 23rd of November, 1471. By their charter, dated on the Monday next after the Feast of the Purification, in the eleventh year of King Edward the IV. (February, 1472), Thomas Lowe and Joane his wife together granted and confirmed to Lawrence Lowe and George Lowe, brothers of the said Thomas, and to Humphrey Lowe.

Chapel of Witton

Ottiwell Township is situated in the ancient chapelry of Witton, and within the last three centuries at least twenty-five members of this branch of the family have been interred in Witton Church, as appears from the registers. Unfortunately, that church was re-paved some years since, and not a single inscription to the Lowes, or, indeed, any other family, escaped destruction.

Thomas Lowe gives us Geoffrey Lowe 1432 who marries Margaret Leigh.

By a charter dated in 1453, certain lands in Pexall (a small township about three miles from Macclesfield), were granted by John Hough, of Pexall, and Nicholas Hough, of the City of Oxford, to Laurence del Lowe, son of Geoffrey del Lowe, of Macclesfield, who reconveyed the same to George del Lowe, his younger brother. This George, who was living in 1472, as appears from a charter of Thomas del Lowe, his brother, had no male issue, and Margaret, his only daughter and heiress, became the wife of William Swetenham, of Somerford Booths, about 1479, and carried certain lands in Pexall, Bollington, and Macclesfield, into the Swetenham family.

According to a fine old emblazoned pedigree in Somerford Booths Hall, impaling Gules, two wolves passant argent—the ancient arms of Lowe—this Margaret Swetenham was living a widow in 1491.

Previous to 1473, the Lowes had quitted Macclesfield and were seated in the neighbourhood of Northwich, as is seen from a charter, dated September the 1st, 1473 whereby William Coton, of the town of Derby, Peter del Lowe, of Northwyche, John Halyn, "preste" of Wytton, Thomas del Lowe, William del Lowe, and Laurence del Lowe, all of the same place, testified that they were witnesses to a certain charter whereby Thomas Whytington, of Belper, in the County of Derby, and Margery, his wife, granted a messuage and seven acres of land in that place to John Whytington, their eldest son, therefore Thomas del Lowe of this charter became the ancestor of the Lowes of Alderwasley; Laurence del Lowe was ancestor of the Lowes of Denby; and either from Peter or William del Lowe sprang what, so far as can be ascertained, is now the sole existing branch of the family.

Geoffrey and Margaret’s son Lawrence Del Lowe Born 1451 marries for his first wife the heiress of Rossell, of Denby born 1440, and his second wife, co-heiress of Mylton, of Grafton.

Lawrence del Lowe of the Manor of Denby came into his possession; but evidence of this marriage isvague and even her parentage is unknown. His second wife was Alice, daughter and co heiress of William Mylton, of Gratton, in the County of Derby (son of Ranulph de Milneton, or Mylton, of Milton, in Cheshire, by Mary, his wife, daughter and sole heiress of . . . Gratton, of Gratton), and widow of Oliver de Newton, of Newton, in Cheshire, who died in London of the plague in 1452, and was buried in St. Andrew's Church, Holborn.t

Point of note: according to the Journal of the Derbyshire Archeological and Natural History V 1-3, Alice, the daughter and co-heiress of William Mylton, had, with other issue, a son, Richard de Newton, who married Janet, the daughter of Lawrence Lowe, his mother's second husband. We have here sufficient evidence that Lawrence Lowe must have been twice married. It seems more probable that his son and heir was the issue of his first marriage.

Lawrence appears to have embraced the legal profession and became a Sergeant-at-Law. In 1474, he is said to have been in the service of William, Lord Hastings; he became Recorder of the Borough of Nottingham, in or about the year 1480. The fact that he was twice married is sufficiently established, and there can be but little doubt that his first wife was the heiress of the family of Rossell, of Denby, and that through her the chief share must have been honored prior to 1455, for there is a deed of partition, dated in that year, whereby certain lands of William Mylton are divided between John Massey and Margaret his wife, Ralph Browne and Elena his wife, and Lawrence Lowe and Alice his wife; the said Margaret, Elena, and Alice, being the three daughters and co- heiresses of the said William Mylton.

Lawrence Lowe was living in 1484, when a covenant was entered into on the feast day of St. Clement (November the 23rd), in that year, between Henry Kent, Vicar of Horsley, with the consent of Richard, Prior of Lenton, and Lawrence Lowe, of Denby, to have a priest to say daily mass in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin, at Denby; but he was dead in 1491, when Alice, his second wife is described as a widow.

Humphrey Lowe, Esq,, of Denby, the eldest son of Lawrence Lowe, was living in 1516. He was married prior to 1462, to Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Linstone, and had an only daughter and heiress, Mary, who became the wife of William Sacheverell, Esq. The Denby estate, however, devolved upon Vincent Lowe, the second son of Humphrey Lowe, and continued with his descendants.

There is a charter, dated in 1462, whereby Humphrey Lowe, and Margaret, his wife, united with Lawrence Lowe, his father, in granting certain lands in the meadows of Clifton to John Cokayne and Thomas his son.

Park hall

According to Lysons, this Vincent Lowe purchased the manor of Park Hall, in Denby, from Sir Peter Frecheville, about the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII., and settled it upon his younger son, Jasper Lowe, Esq., who succeeded to the Denby estate upon the decease of his elder brother, Vincent, in 1653; and since that time the manors of Denby and Park Hall have continued to be united.

Jasper Lowe died in 1583, having had issue four sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Patrick, who was twenty-one years of age at the time of his father's death, married Jane, daughter of Sir John Harpur, of Swarkestone, and had four children. On the north side of the channel at Denby, there is a mural monument, which from the armorial bearings may be identified as that of Patrick Lowe; but there is no inscription, and as there are no registers belonging to the church extant earlier than the year 1725, the date of his death is unknown.

Patrick Lowe probably left his estates somewhat involved, for in 1627, a Special Act of Parliament (3 Car. I., cap. 13. pr.), was passed to enable his son and successor, Vincent Lowe, of Denbigh, in the county of Derby, Esq., to sell part of his estate for payment of his debts. Vincent Lowe, the only surviving son of Patrick Lowe, was eighteen years of age at the time of St. George's Visitation in 1612, and was living in 1634. He was living in the second year of the reign of King James I., for the tenor bell of Denby Church is inscribed "PATRICKE LOWE, ESQVIRE, ANNO Do. 1604."

Vincent married Anne, daughter of Henry Cavendish, Esq.,of Tutbury, in Staffordshire, by whom he had a son and heir, John Lowe (married to Katherine, daughter of Sir Arthur Pilkington, Bart., of Stanley, in Yorkshire), and nine younger children.

In 1785, upon the death of Richard Lowe, Esq of Denby and Locko Park, the estates devolved upon William Drury, Esq. (grandson of William Drury, Alderman of Nottingham, who married Anne, eldest daughter of John Lowe, Esq., of Denby); and he accordingly assumed the additional name and arms of Lowe, by royal license, July the 10th, 1790. William Drury Ix1we, Esq., died without male issue, July the nth, 1827, leaving Anne, his widow, a life interest in the estates. That lady, whose maiden name was Steer, was baptized at Burton Latimer, in Northampton shire, July the 23rd, 1745, and died at Locko Park, November the 13th, 1848, in her 104th year. Her only daughter and heiress had married Robert Holden, Esq., of Nuthall Temple, in Nottinghamshire, whose eldest son assumed the name and arms of Lowe, by royal license, upon succeeding to the family estates on the decease of his maternal grandmother, the venerable lady above mentioned.

Nuthall Temple

Their third son Colonel Vincent Lowe Esq was an attorney and planter. He immigrated in 1670 to Maryland, USA where he settled on Great Choptank Island in Talbot County, Maryland. He married Elizabeth foster, daughter of Seth Foster and his wife Elizabeth. Vincent served as Attorney general, Surveyor General, member of the Provincial council, member of the Provincial Assembly, justice of the Provincial Court, Board of Deputy Governors, Sheriff of Talbot County.

Colonel Vincent Lowe and Elizabeth Fosters son Vincent Lowe born1720 is more famous for being his sister Jane’s brother. She marries into the well known Calvert Family of Baltimore.

Have not found Vincent’s wife as yet, but they have a son John Henry Lowe born 1745 and seems established either by birth or land ownership in Rockbridge, Virginia.

John Henry marries Margaret. They have Vincent Lowe born 1800; he marries Martha Seybut and has about ten children.

Child number two, William B Lowe marries Anna, then Lucy and has five children in Washing County, Virginia. Of five children, George William Lowe is the first, born 1863 in Rose Hill, Virginia.

George Lowe is sitting on the left. Son James is at the back center.

George marries first Nancy J Sloan born 1857 and they have two children: James Joseph Lowe 1883 and Charles W. Lowe in 1885. Nancy, also known as ‘Nannie’ dies in January 1886. George will marry twice more and have 9 children altogether. George’s last wife Emily Hill dies 7 years after him.

Emily Hill Lowe

The first child, James Joseph Lowe marries Roxie Cunningham, who he meets while working on the railroad in Blount Tennessee and they have three sons and one daughter:
Charles ‘Toby’,
Fred,
Dolph
Juanita

James contracts tuberculosis and they move to California for his health, where Roxie’s sister and husband have a walnut farm. James dies not too long after they move.

Roxie Cunningham Lowe with Charles, Fred, Dolph & Juanita Lowe.

The Barker Line (De Calverhall)

Don, Jack and Tom Lowe are the

24th Great Grandson of Randulph De Calverhall:

Following is the genealogical record of the Barker family of Shropshire, England, from the year 1200 A. D. to the birth in February, 1648, of Samuel Barker, who in March, 1685, settled in New Castle county, Del. This was compiled from data collected through years of careful research by the Rev. William Gibbs Barker, of the Aston Manor branch of the family, who was born in 1811, and died in Philadelphia, 1897

This is a deep rooted English family. The ancestry in America may trace their lineage from four ancestors, all of whom left their English homes in the seventeenth century to try their destiny into the new world.

Samuel Barker, born in 1648, settled in New Castle county, Del., in 1685; Robert Barker and his brother, John Barker (who is sometimes referred to as Francis), settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1626, having come over with the Pilgrims in 1620; and James Barker, of Shropshire, England, born in 1617, -settled in Rhode Island in or about 1634, having crossed on the ship Mary and John.

Samuel Barker was a descendant of John Barker, of Shropshire, England, who married, in 1549, Elizabeth Hill, a sister of Sir Rowland Hill, the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. The two Massachusetts Barkers, Robert and John, were descendants of the same Barker family of Shropshire which Samuel Barker, of Delaware, and James Barker, of Rhode Island, are descended.

The Herald's Visitations of Salap commence the.pedigree of this family, whose name appears to have been originally Coverall or Calverhall, with Richard de Coverall, who married Margaret Pigot, and then pass over the intermediate generations to William Barker, also called Coverall, who married the heiress of the Goulstons of Goulston. The connecting links have been supplied from the Court Rolls of the Manors of Warfield and Claverley, and after about 1560 one begins to find parish church registers. In Domesday Book, Nigellus, a clerk, was lord of the manor of Calverhall or Coverhall, after which it passed into the king's hands, and he gave it to William de Dunstanville, who sublet it under the feudal system to these de Calverhalls.

In the reign of Edward II, the overlord of the manor was Bartholomew de Bercermere. In the civil wars which were incessantly waged, he was seized and hanged. The individuals of his manor probably shared in his disgrace and fall, and two of them appear to have fled southward, for in 1327 two men calling themselves le Bercer and le Smythe are found at Hallon and Hilton in the parish of AYarfield, where they probably followed the callings of shepherd and armorer respectively, and founded the two Warfield families of Barker and Smythe. Tradition averred that this Bercer was William de Calverhall; and his descendants, when after two hundred years they settled again the northern part of the county, at Claverley, Wolvcrton and Coleslrarst, seem to have re assumed the name of Covevf ll as an alias, so that they were known by both names. The name Barker is derived from the old Norman "bercer," which signified the elected herdsman of the village or manor.

. Then follow several generations of the de Calverhalls, among them Roger de Calverhall, until the male line as tenants of the manor of Calverhall became extinct, and the estate descended to Agnes de Calverhall, daughter and heiress, who married Hugh Dod, of Edge, whose family possessed Calverhall Manor until 1850.

But we find in 1327 William le Bercer, at Italian, in Warfield, County Salap. His son Roger le Barker, of Hallon, married Alice, who survived him. He died in 1368,possessed of large estates in Hallon. Roger le Barker left two sons:
I. William, of Hallon, married Margery, daughter of William Whorwood, died in 1411;

II. Robert, of Hallon, whose descendants long lived there. William Barker's son, Henry Barker, of Hallon, married Margery, daughter and heiress of Stephen Lovestick, of Hallan, who survived her husband. Henry Barker obtained land at Hallon from William Whorwood, and died in 1438. He left a son, William Barker, of Hallon, gentleman, who enjoyed great estates there, married Ann, daughter of John Colynson Roulowe, of Rowley, in Warfield, and died in 1480. This William Barker left two sons:

I. George Barker, of Hallon, who married Ellen Cumber, of Kinver, County Staff, and had a daughter, Ann Barker, who was the heiress of the Hallon estate; which estate passed by several heiresses to the Davenport family, which still holds it;

II. John, who married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of William Grene, of Aston Manor, in Claverley, Salap, and died at Aston in 1507, leaving a son, John Barker, of Aston, who married Margaret , and died in 1531; she outlived him, and died in 1538.

Humphrey Barker, son of John and Margaret ( ) Barker, had two sons:

I.Thomas Barker (alias Coverall);

II. William Barker (alias Coverall), who married first Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Goulston, of Goulston Cheswardine; she was buried at Claverley, November 26, 1576; and second, Frances, relict of William Whitmore, of Aston; she died in 1538, before her husband, who was buried at Claverley, October 30, 1590.

The children of William and Margaret (Goulston) Barker were as follows:

I. John, married first to Joyce, daughter of Edward Burton, and second, in 1549, to Elizabeth Hill, sister to Sir Rowland Hill, first Protestant Lord Mayor of London, from which latter marriage the Barkers of Wolverton are descended;

II. William, of Colcharat, County Salap, who married Joan, daughter of William Horne, and from whom the Barkers of Colcharat, Hopton Castle and Fairfield are descended;

III. Randulph, who for killing a man fled out of Shropshire, and from whom the Barkers of Little Over and Vale Royal, Chester, are descended;
IV. Richard.

Richard Barker, of Aston Hall, fourth son of William and Margaret (Goulston) Barker, took the oath of allegiance to James I. He was"buried at Claverley, February 12, 1609. His first marriage was with Joyce, daughter of Richard Colclough, and they had children:

I. William, died young, in 1569;

II. John;

III. Frances, died in 1576;

IV. Joan, born in 1572, died young. Mistress Joyce (Colclough) Barker died, and was buried in Claverley, June 25, 1572. Richard Barker then married Mary, daughter of Thomas Grainger; she died, it appears, without issue, and was buried at Claverley, October 9, 1576. The third marriage of Richard Barker was with Agnes Hatton, of Heathton, November 24, 1578.

Their children were:
I. Richard;

II. Elizabeth, born in 1582, died young;

III. Joan, born in 1584;

IV. Philip, born in 1590, died young;

V. Jane, born in 1591, died young;

VI. Thomas, born in 1595. Mistress Agnes (Hatton) Barker survived her husband eight years, died, and was buried at Claverley, April 30, , 1617. Thomas Barker, as the youngest son, inherited Aston Manor. He married in 1621, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Smythe, of Hilton; Thomas Barker died in 1644, and his wife in 1672; they were the ancestors of the Barkers of Aston Manor. Aston Hall remained in the possession of the Barker family for about three hundred years. It came to John Barker, who died in 1509, with his wife, Elizabeth Grene, the heiress of Aston, and it remained with his descendants until 1748, when Matthias Barker, the heir, sold it. It afterwards passed into the hands of the Bracebridges, and is the original of Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

John Barker, second son of Richard and Joyce (Colclough) Barker, was baptized October 21, 1570. He was church warden at Claverley church in 1620, and was buried there May 11, 1638. He married in 1610 Eleanor, daughter of Nicholas Fregleton; she was baptized at Claverley in 1588, married August 8, 1610, and was buried at Claverley, May 1, 1646. Their son, John Barker, of Aston, was baptized at Claverly, July 11,1611, married Mary , who survived him, and was buried at Claverley, July 28, 1682. They had children:

I. Mary, born in 1636;

II. John, of Nether Hoo, was born in 1641, married in 1700 to Elizabeth Woolryche, and from them are descended the Barkers of Congreve;

III. Frances, born in 1643, died in 1644;

IV. Margerv, born in 1644.

Richard Barker, who died in 1609, had by his wife, Agnes Hatton, a son, Richard Barker, who was baptized October 20, 1579, and buried April 25, 1636. He married Dorothy Whorwood; their children were:

I. Frances, born and died in 1611;

II. Ambrose, baptized August 20,1612, has no known descendants:

III. John Barker, baptized April 21, 1616;

IV. Richard Barker, born in 1625. John Barker, the third of the above named children of Richard and Dorothy (Whorwood) Barker, had several children, as follows: i. Samuel, baptized at Claverley church, Shropshire, England, February 22, 1648, emigrated, it appears, to "New England," Delaware, bought two hundred acres of land on Red Clay Creek, New Castle county, built himself a residence thereon, married and left numerous descendants, died in 1720, and was buried in Old Swedes' churchyard, Wilmington, Del., July 25, 1720 (see church records); ii. Anne, born in 1651, died in 1713; iii. Sarah, born in 1653; iv. Joseph, born in 1656, from whom the Barkers of Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, are descended; v. Jeremiah, born in 1660, has no known descendants.

The oldest Barker family document extant is believed to be one of which the following is a copy. It was written by Elizabeth, widow of Matthias Barker, of Ashton Manor, who died in 1727, aged 45.

"The life of Matthias Barker represented to his children.

"Thy father was a strict observer of the Sabbath, a constant Frequenter of the Ordinances, a diligent Reader of God's "Word; a Reprover of Vice and an Encouragcr of Virtue; a diligent Instructor of his Family; he was much in Praying, Laborious in his Calling, Serviceable to his Neighbors and Faithful to his Friends. In a Word, he was Temperate, Meek, Patient, Peaceable, Humble, Honest, and Heavenly-minded. These and the like Virtues were conspicuous in Thy Father: Go thou and do likewise: Luke 10th, v. 57. Tho' your Father be dead and buried, let his Virtues live in your Practice.

"Altho' your father in the grave be laid,

Tread you his steps; you need not be afraid

But you the heaven of heavens shall see,

And reign with Him to all eternity."

The Hallon Manor, in Warfield, County Salap, the original family seat of the Barker family, was in possession of the Barkers for two hundred and fifty years when the heiress married one of the Wanuertons. It was called Ballon, after a Saxon chief of that name, who fought a battle in the fields below, and crossed the river at the spot now called Hallon's Ford.

With regard to the wives of these Barker ancestors: The Pigots of Willaston were an old Shropshire family, claiming descent from one Roger Picot, who came from Normandy, in 1066; the Whorwoods of Compton and Babbington were a Staffordshire family who afterwards intermarried a good deal with the Barkers. William Whorwood left some lands in Hallon to Henry, son of William Barker; of the Lovesticks of Hallon nothing is known, but Margery was a considerable heiress; the name is probably a corruption from Lestock, the Rowleys of Rowley are an old and renowned Warfield family, their original name being Roulowe. One of Anne's ancestors, Roger de Roulowe, was slain at Evesham,fighting oncof the rebellious barons, but the name was probably Saxon rather than Norman in its origin; the Grenes of Aston; it was by marriage with their heiress that the Barkers obtained most of the Aston estate. The pedigree goes back for several generations, but with no detail; they seem to have been originally Yorkshire folk. The Colcloughs were an old Staffordshire family of consideration; Richard, the father of Joyce, was mayor of Newcastle-under-Tyne in 1478, and married a daughter of the well known Davenport family.

The descendants of Samuel Barker (1685) of New Castle county, Del., as compiled by Jesse J. Barker, of Philadelphia, in 1898, are as follows:

Samuel Barker was baptized in Claverley church, County Salap, England, February 22,1648. To Samuel Barker a grant was made by William Penn, March 27,' 1685, of two hundred acres of land in Christiana hundred, near what is now called Barker's Bridge, Del. This was the old homestead of the Barker family, and remained in their hands until the death of William Barker, about 1840. Samuel Barker, 1, died intestate in July, 17:20, at an advanced age, and was buried in Old Swedes' churchyard, in Wilmington, Del., July 25, 1720. He left four children:

I. Joseph, 2, who died about January, 1755;

II. Daniel, 2, who died about 1750;

III. Mary, 2, married in St. Paul's church, Chester, Pa., September 25, 1706, to William Richardson;

IV. Anna (Mrs. William Hicks). All of these children left descendants.

Joseph Barker, 2, son of Samuel Barker, 1, was married September 27, 1716, in Old Swedes' church, Wilmington, to Johanna Clayton. He died about January 20, 1755, which was the date of probate of his will, leaving three children, but no widow; both his wife and their daughter, Maria, born September 24, 1718, having apparently died before him. The surviving children were:

I. Samuel, 3;

II. Rebecca, 3 (Mrs. Few);

III. Susanna, 3 (Mrs. Edward Carrill), married in Old Swedes' church, Wilmington, in 1744.

Samuel Barker, 3, son of Joseph, 2, and Johanna (Clayton) Barker, was born, it appears, at the old Barker homestead, near Barker's Bridge, New Castle county, Del., March 20, 1721; the birthplace of all his children seems to have been the same. He was baptized in Old Swedes' church, Wilmington, March 21, 1721. He died in 1803; his will was probated October 27 of the same year. Samuel Barker, 3, was married to Rachel, daughter of Jeremiah Ball; she was born July 24, 1732, and survived her husband. He was a vestryman at St. James' church, Stanton, Del., in 1791-92, and in 1801. His children were as follows:

I. Mary, 4, born about 1752, married May 9, 1773, at New Castle, Del., to Mosos McKnight;

II. Joseph, 4, born June 10, 1754, married three times, (1) Mary Collins, (2) Agnes Sipple, (3) Margaret Laws;

III. Esther, 4, (Mrs. Theophilus Evans), born in August, 1757:

IV. Abner, 4, born July 31, 1760, removed to Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1800 married Ellen Scandrett;

V. Jeremiah, 4, born February 22, 1764, married Sally, daughter of Governor Heth, of Virginia;

VI. William, 4, born near Barker's Bridge, Del., served during the war of the Revolution in a Delaware regiment, was in the battle of the Brandywine and other engagements, never married, died about 1840 on the Barker homestead near Stanton, Del.;

VII. Rachel, 4, (Mrs. Joseph Evans), born October 24, 1769;

VIII. Abraham, 4, was a vestryman of St. James' church, Stanton, Del., in 1797, died soon after his father from the kick of a horse;

IX. Jesse.

Jesse Barker, 4, youngest son of Samuel and Rachel (Ball) Barker, was born about 1772, and died unmarried in New York City, July 26, 1852. In early life he left the old homestead, and with his brothers, Abner, Joseph and Jeremiah, went to reside in Pittsburgh, Pa. He and Abner were large and successful merchants there, prospering greatly. Jesse Barker withdrew from the time about 1807 or 1808, and after traveling for a time, settled in Paris, France, where he became a banker and broker in the Bursae, and made a large fortune. In July, 1842, he returned to America, and settled in New York, where his death occurred July 28, 1852, at the age of about eighty years.

Joseph Barker, eldest son of Samuel and Rachel (Ball) Barker, served with distinction in the Revolutionary War; he was captain of the ship General Montgomery (marines), 14 guns, 120 men, in 1776, and of the Artillery in 1777. His burial place is at Barker's Landing, near Magnolia, Del. Mary Collins, to whom Joseph Barker was married February 21, 1779, was born May 25, 1763, daughter of Hon. Thomas Collins, last colonial governor of Delaware; she died December 27, 1793, survived by four of her six children. On February 7, 1797, Joseph Barker married Agnes Sipple, who died November 12, of the same year. The third wife of Captain Barker was Margaret, eldest daughter of Hon. John Laws, formerly judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Sussex county, Del. She was born in 1777, married February 19, 1799, and died August 2, 1819, in the forty-third year of her age. Her remains were interred in the Old Swedes' churchyard, Wilmington.

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