John Kirkby

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ⁷⁷⁵
"The vaccary of Lowgill, with which Ivah, formerly Ivetho or Ivo, seems to have been joined, was held by a younger branch of the Tatham family, and passed to Urswick and Kirkby of Upper Rawcliffe. Robert de Urswick in 1376 obtained a grant of free warren for his demesne lands in Tatham, Cansfield and Upper Rawcliffe. [*]

* Deeds concerning it are in Dods. MSS. cxlix. John son of Sir John de Tatham gave his brother Robert the vaccary called Lowgill; [fol. 91b] Sarah widow of Sir John in 1319 released to Robert de Tatham her son all her right (by dower) in the same [ibid]. Edmund de Dacre granted for life to Robert de Tatham in 1323-4 a vaccary in Tatham Fell (in monte de Tatham) called Ewardsclough, as it was inclosed and dyked [fol. 91]. Afterwards he released all his right in it [fol. 92]. Robert de Tatham twenty years later gave Lowgill to John de Urswick, rector of Tatham, probably as trustee [ibid]. At the same time he gave Ewardsclough to his daughter Sarah and her issue [ibid]. She married Adam de Urswick (d. 1361), and so the inheritance in Tatham, Hornby, Cantsfield, Wray, Kellet, &c., descended to Kirkby. In 1334 Isabel widow of Adam de Urswick claimed dower in a messuage in Tatham against John de Roeburndale [De Banco R. 297, m. 219 d]. John son of Roger Kirkby of Upper Rawcliffe held land in Tatham in 1438 in right of his wife Ellen daughter of Sir Robert de Urswick and Margaret his wife [Towneley MS. C 8, 13, K 37. See also Final Conc. iii, 133].

Victoria County History, A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume 8, The Parish of Tatham, pp. 217-225

• Background Information: ⁷⁷⁵
John, a younger son of Sir Richard Kirkby of Kirkby Ireleth, who married Ellen Urswick.

Sir Robert de Urswick and Margaret his wife two daughters, Joan wife of Richard de Kirkby and Ellen wife of Roger de Kirkby.

Victoria County History, A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume 7, Townships: Upper Rawcliffe and Tarnacre, pp. 267-273

John married Ellen Urswick, daughter of Sir Robert Urswick Knight and Margaret Southworth.⁷⁷⁵ (Ellen Urswick was born in Lancashire, England.)