English Recusant Families

Roman Catholic recusant families The recusant Howard family, some of whose members are known as Fitzalan-Howard, the Dukes of Norfolk, the highest-ranking non-royal family in England and hereditary holders of the title of Earl Marshal, is the most prominent Catholic family in England. Recusancy was historically focused in Northern England, particularly Lancashire and Cumbria. The Acton (also known as Dalberg-Acton and Lyon-Dalberg-Acton) family is another well-known recusant family.

Other recusant families include(d) the following families (or branches thereof):

• Ainscough
• Anderton (of Lockstock, Lancs)
• Anne (of Frickley, Yorks)
• Arden
• Arrowsmith
• Arundell
• Aston (of Tixall, Staffs; since the 1620s)
• Babington (of Dethick)
• Babbington (of Rampton, Notts)
• Baynes
• Bedingfeld/Bedingfield (later Paston-Bedingfeld)
• Belson (of Stokenchurch and Kingston Blount, Oxon)
• Berkeley (of Spetchley, Wychavon, Worcs)
• Binks (of Finchingfield, Braintree, Essex)
• Blount (of Mamble, Sodington, Worcs)
• Blundell (of Crosby Hall, Little Crosby, Lancs)
• Browne (later Browne-Mostyn; Viscounts Montagu)
• Butler
• Cary
• Coats/Coates (of Auchendrane, Maybole, Ayr)
• Chamberlin (of Shiburn and Calre, Oxfordshire)
• Charlton (of Hesleyside)
• Chichester (of Calverleigh Court, Calverleigh, Devon)
• Chichester-Constable (of Burton Constable Hall)
• Cholmeley (of Brandsby Hall, Brandsby, North Yorks)
• Clavering (of Callaly)
• Barons Clifford (of Chudleigh; since 1673)
• Clifton (of Lytham Hall, Lytham, Lancs)
• Barons Codrington (of Dodington, Glos.)
• Constable-Maxwell (formerly Haggerston; later Constable Maxwell-Scott)
• Constable-Maxwell-Stuart (of Traquair, Scottish Borders)
• Curson (of Waterperry with Thomley, Oxon)
• Dalton (of Thurnham Hall, Thurnham, Lancs)
• Davey
• De Hoghton (of Hoghton Tower, Hoghton, Lancs)
• De Lisle (or Lisle)
• Viscounts De Salis
• De Trafford (or Trafford)
• Dixie (of Market Bosworth, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leics)
• Dormer (of Wyng, also spelled Wenge, Bucks)
• Drummond (Earls of Perth; since 1685)
• Drury
• Elder
• Englefield (of Whiteknights Manor)
• Errington
• Eyre
• Eyston
• Fairfax
• Fenwick
• Fermor (of Tusmore, Oxon)
• Ferrers (of Baddesley Clinton, Warwick, Warks)
• Fettiplace (of Swyncombe, Oxon)
• Finch (of Mawdesley, Lancs)
• Fitzherbert (of Swynnerton, Stafford, Staffs)
• Fitzherbert-Brockholes
• Forcer (of County Durham)
• Fortescue
• Fortescue-Turville
• Furnivall
• Gage (of Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk)
• Garnet/Garnett
• Gascoigne (of Parlington, Aberford, Yorks)
• Geddes (of Tynet), Gerard (of Bryn, Wigan)
• Gillibrand
• Gillow
• Glover
• Gradell/Gradwell (of Ulnes Walton, Chorley, Lancs)
• Green (of Slackend)
• Greenwood (of Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxon)
• Harrison (of Glaisdale and Egton, North Yorkshire)
• Hattersley
• Hawarden
• Haydock (of Preston, Lancs)
• Heneage (of Hainton Hall, Hainton, East Lindsey, Lincs)
• Herbert
• Hesketh
• Hildesley (also spelled Hilsley or Ilsley)
• Hodson
• Holden
• Holman
• Hornyold
• Huddleston
• Hunloke (of Wingerworth, Chesterfield, Derbys)
• Hyde (of Hyde End, Great Missenden, Bucks)
• Inchbald
• Jerningham (of Costessey Hall, Cossey, Norfolk)
• Kitson (of Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk)
• Langdale (of Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk)
• Lawson (of Brough Hall)
• Layton, Leigh (of West Hall)
• Lenthall (of Great and Little Haseley, Oxon)
• Leslie (of Balquhain)
• Levett-Screvener (of Sibton Abbey, Yoxford, Suffolk)
• Lightbound
• Lomax
• MacDonnell (or McDonnell; of Tulloch)
• MacIsaac (of South Uist)
• MacLean (of Cuttlebrae)
• Mannock
• Marwood
• Mattingly
• Maxwell (Earls of Nithsdale/Lord Herries of Terregles)
• Middleton (of Stockeld Park, Wetherby, North Yorks)
• Milner
• Mockler-Barrett
• More
• Murdoch (of Windsoer)
• Nelson (of Fairhurst Hall, Wrightington, West Lancs)
• Neville (of Nevill Holt, Harborough, Leics)
• Palmes (of Naburn)
• Percy
• Perkins (of Ufton Court, Berks)
• Petre
• Barons Plowden (of Plowden, Shropshire)
• Pollen (also known as Pulleine and Pulleyn)
• Postlethwaite/Postlewhite
• Poyntz (of Leighland, Somerset)
• Powell (of Forest Hill and Sanford, Oxon)
• Radclyffe (Earls of Derwentwater; see below)
• Redlingfield
• Riddell
• Rokewode/Rookwood (of Coldham Hall, Stanningfield, Suffolk)
• Roper
• Scarisbrick
• Salvin (of Croxdale, Durham)
• Scrope (of Bolton)
• Selby (of Biddlestone, Norfolk)
• Simeon (of Chilworth, Oxon)
• Sheldon (of Beoley, Worcs)
• Sherburn/Shireburn
• Southcote/Southcott
• Southwell
• Barons Stafford (since the 12th Baron)
• Stanley-Massey (of Hooton, Cheshire)
• Stapleton (Barons Beaumont)
• Barons Stonor
• Storth (of Letwell, Yorks)
• Barons Stourton
• Barons Strickland (of Sizergh, Cumbria)
• Street
• Stuckley/Stucley (of Affeton Castle, Devon)
• Stutsbury (Souldern, Oxfordshire)
• Sulyard
• Sutton
• Swarbrick
• Swindlehurst/Swinglehurst
• Talbot
• Tasburgh (of Bodney, Norfolk)
• Tempest (of Broughton)
• Thimelby
• Throckmorton
• Thwing (of Kilton Castle, North Yorks)
• Tichbourne
• Towneley
• Trappes-Lomax (Trappes of Nidd Hall, North Yorks)
• Tresham (of Rushton)
• Turner
• Vavasour (of Hazlewood Castle, North Yorks)
• Wakeman (of Beckford)
• Walmesley
• Ward
• Waterton (of Walton)
• Weedon (Souldern, Oxon)
• Weld
• Weld-Blundell
• Whitgreaves (of Moseley Old Hall, Fordhouses, West Midlands)
• Widdrington
• Wilson
• Wiseman (of Wimbish)
• Wolfe (of Thames, Oxon)
• Wollascott (of Woolhampton Manor)
• Wolseley (of Wolseley Park, Colwich, Staffs)
• Yates (of Buckland Manor)
• Young (of Kingerby Hall, West Lindsey, Lincs)

The will of a William Latewise who died in 1603 in Goosnargh – part of the parish of Kirkham – states he was "of Culcheth in the parish of Winwick". One of those preparing his inventory in 1608 was John Sterrope, possibly his son-in-law. Around this time the area around Goosnargh was home to several Catholic families – Beesley, Hesketh, Keighley, Marsden, and Threlfall. Records show that various members of the Latewysse (of Goosnargh) family were fined for recusancy. In Wales, the few recusant families include Mostyn (of Mostyn), Herbert (of Treowen), Morgan (of Llantarnam) and, most notably, the Vaughan family (of Courtfield, near Ross-on-Wye; the family of Herbert Cardinal Vaughan).[citation needed]