Thomas Lathom, Of Parbold

"Lathom (Parbold and Allerton, co. Lancaster). Same Arms as Lathom, of Lathom. Crest - An oak branch fesseways truncated and leaved ppr. thereon an eagle".

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"The estates descended (fn. 15) to Thomas Lathom, who died in 1597, (fn. 16) and his son Richard, who died in 1602, leaving as heir a son Thomas, fifteen years old. (fn. 17) Thomas died in 1623 holding Parbold and the fourth part of Wrightington as before, together with another fourth part recently bought of Roger Kirkby; his heir was his son Richard, only five months old."

From: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53093

At this point there is some obscurity, perhaps due to illegitimate succession.

William is said to have had a son William, whose son Richard was father of the Thomas named in the text; Piccope MS. Pedigrees (Chet. Lib.), ii, p. 37. William Lathom was described as 'a great man in those parts' in 1527; Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 148.

Richard Lathom was in possession in 1546, when he purchased two gardens, &c., in Parbold and Wrightington from Richard Banastre; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 12, m. 170. See also Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), i, 182, 222. He was still living in 1567, when he claimed from Richard Stopford and others suit to the halmote court; ibid. ii, 348, 353.

Thomas Lathom was a defendant in 1578; ibid. iii, 69. He and Isabel his wife sold land in Walton in 1577; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 39, m. 83.

John Lathom of London claimed the manors of Allerton, Parbold and Wrightington (one-fourth) and various lands as son and heir of Robert brother and heir of William son and heir of Robert.

This last must be the Robert who died in 1516, so that at the date given for the petition John Lathom must have been a very aged man. He asserted that various deeds came into the hands of Richard Lathom of Parbold, who wrongfully entered and took the profits. See Duchy of Lanc. Plead. cciii, L 16.

From: http://genforum.genealogy.com/travers/messages/478.html:

"I found an error in the problematic pedigree of the Travers family of Nateby.

Agnes Lathom, born circa 1563, is often given in pedigrees as the daughter of Thomas Lathom of Parbold and Anne Eversfield (abbreviated as Ersfield).

This cannot be true:

The Thomas Lathom, who married Anne Eversfield, was 15 years old in 1602 according to his father's portmortem inquisition (Richard Lathom d. 1602).

Therefore Thomas Lathom was born in the year 1587 (he was born 24 years after his alleged daughter Agnes).

Also, Thomas Lathom's first wife: Anne Eversfield was born after 1583 (the date of her parents' marriage) and her grandfather, Sir John Eversfield of Worth, names her as a minor under 18 in his will dated 1594. This proves that Anne Eversfield was born at least 20 years after Agnes Lathom's birth. How can a daughter be 20 years older than her own father and mother?

Another item of note is the Lathoms of Parbold pedigree in Sir William Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire. Recorded in 1664, it lists Anne Eversfield as having died without issue - no children! The individual who related this information to Dugdale was Richard Lathom, son of Thomas Lathom by his second wife, Elizabeth Preston. It's doubtful Richard Lathom was completely ignorant of the existence of a half-sister by his father's first wife.

We know for a fact that William Travers (1563-1627) did marry an Agnes Lathom who was the daughter of a "Tho. Lathom of Parbold" on the 25th of January in 1584 because he tells us so himself in a pedigree he compiled for Richard St. George, the King's Herald, in 1613.

This leaves only one Thomas Lathom of Parbold as a possible candidate for Agnes' father: the Thomas Lathom born circa 1526 who married Isabel Standish. This Thomas Lathom (who was the grandfather of the Thomas who married Anne Eversfield) is the right age to be the father of Agnes Lathom - it is extremely improbable that it could be anyone else.

So Agnes Lathom was the aunt of the Thomas Lathom who married Anne Eversfield - NOT his daughter."