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History

The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster 1906-1914 8 volumes   The history of the parish of Rochdale in the county of Lancaster, Henry Fishwick. Rochdale 1889   A Lancashire Family, 19: Holt of Standish and the city of London, Marion Holledge, from Lancashire Family History and Heraldy Society included pedigree, 16-18thc.- magazine of Lancs vol 9 Feb 88, P19-28. No 1.   Holt of Standish, from Lancashire Family History Society Magazine, V9 Nov 1988   Sir John Holt: likely descent of a 17th century Lord Chief Justice from Grizlehurst Holts Marion Holledge p 18-21   William Holt , the Jesuit priest p 208-209 Dictionary of National Biography   The Lancashire Gentry and the Great Rebellion 1640-60 by B G Blackwood, Chetham Society TS25 p21, 37, 48, 49, 60, 61, 68, 69, 84, 85, 86, 87, 92, 93, 98, 99, 104, 105, 114, 128, 129, 148, 149   David 'Quaker' Holt, p39-43, The Manchester Genealogist, M and LFHS   Ancestry of Chief Justice Holt, p155-156, Herald and Genealogist, edited by John Gough Nichols, volume the second, 1865   The Royalist Composition Papers, County of Lancaster AD1643-1660 vol III G-H edited J H Stanning MA, The Record Society volume XXIX, 1896   A history of the original parish of Whalley and Honour of Clitheroe in the counties of Lancaster and York (Chetham's 4/1045) p.254, 454-458 Thomas Dunham Whitaker 3rd ed. 1818.   This History of the county Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Edward Baines Senior. The biographical department by W R Whatton with the addition of John Harland and the Rev: Brooke Hereford. New, revised and enlarged edition, with the family pedigree (omitted in the 2nd Edition) corrected throughout. Edited by James Corston 1888 --1893 5.v (Chetham's 4/921) volume III   A brief history of the Holts inhabiting Stubley Hall, near Littleborough and Castleton Hall, south of Rochdale, for nearly 3 centuries. Family History Society of Cheshire journal 8(3)., 1979 p12-15   Notitia Cestriensis of historical notices of the diocese of Chester, Rev Francis Gastrell. Rev F R Raines 1845 vol II part 1 p 10-11, 16-17, 30-31, 36-37, 42-43, 80-81, 96-97, 100-105, 122123, 126-129, 132-133, 136-137, 142-143, 156-157 Chetham Society publication   Lancashire Inquisitions, The Record Society, vol 1, vol 2 vol 3   Sir John Holt, Ref.: Stuart England by J P Kenyon, Penguin Books Ltd, London 1978 p.257-258, 305, 312   Lancashire 1855 Slater's Directory CD, 586-587   1822 Trade Directory of Principal Cities and London Bankers CD, Stepping Stones.   Lancashire 1824/25 Baines Directory CD. History, directory and gazetteer of the county Palatine of Lancaster by Edward Baines vol II   The History of Lancashire 1825 by J Corry Vol I and II   Pigot's Directory Pigot and Co. CD Lancashire 1828/9   Forty Miles Around Mancester, Aikin 1795 CD   The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancashire Baines 1868 CD   Return of Owners of Land 1873 Lancashire CD   Lewis's Directory of Manchester and Salford - 1788 CD   Old and New Rochdale and it's People by William Robertson 1881 CD   The Journal of Nicholas Assheton volume 14 first series, The Chetham Society   A Guide to Legendary Britain by Jennifer Westwood,1985 p261-263   A Picture of Manchester by Joseph Aston, 1816   The World Book of Holts,1988, Burke's Peerage   J A Green, Heywood Notes and queries March 1905-1909 4v reprinted from the 'Heywood Advertiser' 1905-1908 (Chetham's 4/983) Volume I p135-142, 148-152,190-194 Holts of Ashworth Hall, The Holts of Grizlehurst: vol 2 p 9-12 The Holts of Grizelhurst; a notable judge: vol 3 50-56 Thomas Holt of Gristlehurst and vol 4 p 7,17,27,72 ,178-181 Bridge Hall and the Holts   The Concise Dictionary of National Biography part 1 fron the beginning to 1900. Oxford University Press.p. 634-635   The Concise Dictionary of National Biography part 1 fron the beginning to 1900. Oxford University Press.p. 634-635   David Holt's Victorian Walks by Greater Manchester County Records Office   Modern English Biography by Frederic Boase Volume 1, 1892   Who Was Who a companion to Who's Who Adam and Charles Black, London vol 1 - vol 5 (1897 - 1960)   The Book of Dignities Joseph Hayden and Horace Ockerby third edition , 1894   The Knights of England, WMA Shaw published 1906 volume   Chambers biographical dictionary magnus magnusson p. 727   Collier's Encyclopedia vol 4, p 156   The Holts of Ashworth, The History of Ashworth near Rochdale, by HD Clayton p5-9, 30-31   Miscellany that includes two works: (1) The book of the abbot of Cobermere 1289-1529, and (2) The Exchequer lay subsidy roll of Robert de Shireburn and John de Radcliffe, taxers and collectors in the county of Lancaster, AD 1332. P83-85. The Record Society, 1896   Lancashire and Cheshire Funeral Certificates volume VI p. 74-75 The Record Society   The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster published by George Routledge, London, 1854   The Book of Bacup By K.F.Bowden 1994   Lancashire Leaders: Social and Political by Ernest Gaskell approx 1907   Wrigley's Rochdale Household Almanack 1902   The Story of Littleborough by John Street   In Olden Days, Lancashire Legends by Rev.G.R.Oakley   Final Concords of the County of Lancashire, from the orginal chirographs, or feet or fines preserved in the public records office. Part 2 (volume XLVI 46), 3 (volume L 50) and 4 (volume LX 60).Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire Edited by William Farrar for The Record Society 1903   NS 71 The survey of the manor of Rochdale in the county of Lancaster, parcel of the possessions of the rt. worshipful Sir Robert Heath, knt., his majesty's attorney-general, made in 1626 (ed. Henry Fishwick, 1913).Chetham Society   Lord Burghley's Map of Lancashire 1590, 210-211 published Catholic Record Society Vol 4 (1907) edited J. Gillow   The Last Days of the Lancashire Monasteries and the Pilgramage of Grace by Christopher Haigh 1969 Chetham Society vol XVII - Third Series   Historical Publication - studies and documents 14. The disolution of the monasteries by Joyce Youings pub. 1971   The Manchester Genealogist p. 214 an early census 1552   Odyssey of an Edwardian Liberal the Political Diary of Richard Durning Holt, edited by David J Dutton, The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire   Blue Funnel line, a brief history, web   National Portrait Gallery, Sir John Holt   A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics by Joseph Gillow Vol III   History of Ribchester 1890 Tom Smith and Jonathan Short   History of Blackburn 1877 W A Abram   The High Sheriffs of Lancashire 1129-1947, web   Emily Sarah Holt, an evangelical novel by R. Cecil   England in the reigns of James II and William III by David Ogg 1984   Monarchy and Revolution, The Engligh State in the 1680s by J .R.Weston 1972   The Century of Revolution 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill 1969   Who’s Who in Stuart Britain by C.P.Hill 1988   Herald’s of England by Sir Anthony Wagner 1967   The English Jesuits From Campion to Martindale by Bernard Basset, S.J   The Reformation and the English People by J.J.Scarisbrick   The Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench by a Gentleman of the Inner Temple, London 1764.   Burrows, Constance Holt of Tottington: from a family bible Journal of Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society 10 (4) 1989 28-9 Includes pedigree 15-20th c   Our Men of the Blue Funnel Line from Internet: www.cartar.com/papers/blue_funnel_line/the_blue_funnel_line.htm   Blue Funnel to China Merseyside Maritime Museum from Internet www.nmgm.org.uk/maritime/bluefunnel/index.html   The Holt Line by Barbara Helen Holt   The Owens Manuscript by John Owen volume 10 page 42, volume 12 page 1-41, volume 45 page 252 and volume 79 page 567 and 585   Holt Family deeds index for the coal mines in Castleton, Butterworth and Walsden 1584-1889 (ref DDX409) held at Lancashire Records Office.   Greater Manchester County Record Office E22 Holt family of Manchester boxes   "Mersey" magazine of the mersey dock board staffs guild vol IV the holt family p83-85   Annals of Rochdale 1898 Robert D Mattley   Memorials of Bygone Manchester   Kill the witch BBC History Magazine vol 6 No 5 May 2005   Manchester directories 1834,1836, 1832, 1830, 1804

Probate and Wills

Probate Acts, Anno 1652, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Commonwealth Probates vol II p 88, 301 (1652-3) 1911 J and GF Matthews. Abstracts of Probate Acts in the PCC   Probate Acts, Anno 1652, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Commonwealth Probates vol 4 p 230 (1645-49) 1911 J and GF Matthews. Abstracts of Probate Acts in the PCC   Wills in the public records office, A list of wills, administration etc in the PRO, London 12-19th century. Magna Carta book co. 1968.   Index to PCC wills 750-1800 p 99 H-M Pub. Society of Genealogists, 1988.   Lancaster and Chester Wills and inventories from the Ecclesiastical court of Chester, Picope, series 3 Chetham Society, vol XXXIII p14-16, 52-54,90, 100-101   Lancaster and Chester Wills and inventories from the Ecclesiastical court of Chester, Picope, series 3, Chetham Society, vol LI p 87-89, 113-114, 136-138, 170-174   Lancaster and Chester Wills, and inventories from the Ecclesiastical court of Chester, Picope, series 3 Chetham Society, vol LIV p203, 223-224, 204-205, 268-272   PCC Wills index (1717-1845) English Origins indexs

Alumni

Alumni Orgienses, University of Oxford 1887, 1715-1886, Joseph Foster, vol I and II late Series p682-683   Alumni Orgienses, University of Oxford 1891, 1500-1714, Joseph Foster, vol I and II early Series p736-738   Alumni Cantabrigienses, University of Cambridge 1922, Part 1 from the earliest times to 1751, volume II, Dabbs-Juxton   Alumni Cantabrigienses, University of Cambridge 1947, Part 12 from 1752-1900, volume III, Gabb-Justamond

Palatine Note-books

The Palatine Note-book vol 1 for the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire April 1881 p71   The Palatine Note-book vol 1 for the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire august 1881 p139, 146-148   The Palatine Note-book vol 1 for the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire Dec 1881 p202-205   The Palatine Note-book vol 1 for the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire October 1881 p184   The Cheshire and Lancashire Palatine note-book, 4, Jan 1885 p 236-239 Gregg and the Holt Families brief pedigree 17-18thc.

Holt Name

Topographical surnames p188-190, 195, 207, surnames in Salford Hundred, after 1500 p405-407, 409, 444, 447 English Surname Series IV. The surnames of Lancashire by Richard Mckinley pub 1981   Holt town names registration districts, grid ref., p 363, 364 population 1981   Homes of Family Names, Lancashire p234-249   An Anglo Saxon dictionary based on the manuscript collection of the late Joseph Bosworth DDFRS p551   The Holt Family History and Genealogy page, web holt.org   A dictionary of Mottoes, L G Pine   Elvin's handbook of Mottoes, C N Elvin

Maps and Houses

A Brief outline of the Holt family (Holts of Rochdale) , complied by Walter Stott   The Holte, Holt Hall Raines Manuscript vol 1 p 214   1910 Ordinance Survey map of Stubley New Hall   1851 Ordinance Survey map of Gristlehurst and Ashworth   Old Map of Lancashire 1610   Rochdale Observer 17-11-93 The Glory that was once Castleton Hall   Rochdale Observer Old Buildings Round Rochdale 19-6-26 XCVI (96) Grizelhurst Farm   Rochdale Observer Old Buildings Round Rochdale 10-1-25 XXV (25) Ashworth Hall   Rochdale Observer Old Buildings Round Rochdale 19-9-25 LX (60) Castleton Hall   Rochdale Observer 21-6-00 It's hall over now for Stubley   Balderstone Hall Estate, The Old Mill by the Stream, Mansion for Sale by H M Haynes   DE Balderston II By Hannah Haynes and David A Tipper.The Balderstone Hall Estate page 5-7, 15   Bridge Hall Mills by Martin Tillmanns page 6-7   Cronton Origin and history , web   little mitton hall, online-homes.co.uk   Old Ordnance Survey Maps , Heap Bridge 1908   The History of Mitton Hall by Mitton Hall Country house hotel   Bury’s Oldest House Found in Heywood Heywood Advertiser 10 April 1959   Bury’s Oldest Domestic Building Heywoood Advertiser 8 May 1959   Flagstones may be from Grislehurst Hall Bury Times 22 March 1958   Lancashire Sketches by Edwin Waugh published by John Heywood 1852   Bury Archaeological Group excavations of Gristlehurst Hall   The Grand Old Mansion, The Holtes and Their Successors at Aston Hall 1618-1864 by Oliver Fairclough   Aston Hall A general Guide by Oliver Fairclough   Rochdale Observer 16-8-69 homes of Today. The hall where a room lay hidden   Round and about by George Drake Stubley Hall and the girl from the East   Rochdale Observer G S Flecter 1953 Stubley Hall, Littleborough   Lancashire magazine The spectre of old Stubley Hall nov/dec 1994   Property Market Stubley Old Hall   Lancashire Life April 1967 A hidden room of beauty   Grade II stubley Old Hall Littleborough district building entry   Village Life Can be better living Rochdale Roundabout by H C Collins   Rochdale Observer 15-7-1972 A straight line A traffic caused by cows   Rochdale Observer 10-8-1918 Park for Lowerplace Balderstone Hall estate purchases   Rochdale Household Almanack 1919 Balderstone Hall Estate   Heywood Notes and Queries vol4 part 47   Brian Meadowcroft Rochdale sites and Monuments Book Balderstone Halls   Sale of Balderstone new Hall   A Guide to the Country Houses of the North-West, John Martin Robinson 1991   Historical Middleton   Rochdale Retrospect R P Taylor   Hyde F.E. Blue Funnel: a history of Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpoolfrom 1865-1914

Visitations and Pedigrees

Knights of Edward 1 p 236-237 Harlein Society's publication, 1929   Le Neve's pedigrees of knights p 336-337, Harlein Society's publication, 1873   Holt of Gristlehurst, Raines MSS vol 12 p.268   Holt of Stubley, Raines MSS vol3 p. 303   Thomas Benalt. The visitation of Lancaster and a part of Cheshire made in the 24 year of the reign of king Henry VIII AD1533. Edited by William Langton 1876-1882 2v. (4/1088 Chetham Society publication. v. 98,110) 78 pp53-54   William Flower, The visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1567. Edited by F R Raines 1870 (4/1091 Chetham Society, v.OS81)   Richard St. George, The visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1613. p. 39, 91 Edited. F R Raines 1871 (4/1101 Chetham Society,v.OS82)   Sir William Dugdale,knight, Norroy king of arms. The visitation of the county Palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1664-5 Edited by F.R. Raines 1872-1873 3v. (4/1090 Chetham Society,v. 84,85,88) 150   Visitation of the county of Suffolke, Holt Pedigree, from Lennard's copy of the 1561 visitation, Collinge Pedigree Harl MS 890, Holt Pedigree visitation of London 1633-4 p47, 49   The Visitation of the County of Oxford 1566 taken by William Harvey Clarencieux p.173   The Visitation of London 1568 taken by H Stanford p.27 and 121   The Visitation of Surrey 1662-8 taken by Sr Edward Bysshe kt Flarenceux p.39   The Visitation of Suffolk 1561 taken by William Harvey Clarencieux p.52   Holt Family (Castleton Hall) p.262 H Brierley's Record Book   Catalogue of the heralds visitations in British Museum 1825   Formation of the Coat of Arms, The British Library, Harl 891 p 96v, 100v, Har; 1437, p 38, 92, Harl 1468 p 62-62v, 102V, Harl 1549 p 7v, 59v-60, Harl 2076, p 12v-13, Harl 2086 p 17v-18, 24v, Harl 6159 p 44   Walfords's County families of the UK (1904)   Robert Holt Leigh by Tom Ferber Dissertation   Lee's Heraldica Lancastria p. 200

Lineage and Heraldry

An Index to printed pedigrees contained in county and local histories , the heralds visitations and in the more important genealogical collections by Charles Bridger p 13-15, 44-47, 64-65, 104-105, 134-137, 234-236   The Knights of England - WMA - pub 1907 vol 1   Index to the Pedigress by G W Marshall 1866   Holt of Aston, John Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. 1841   Holt of Orleton Hall formerly of Mount Mascal. Burke's Landed Gentry, p 307-8   Holt of Parramatta and Rockhampton, p 251-2, Burke's Colonial Gentry   Holt lineage p.327 Burke's family records by Ashworth P Burke, 1897 pub. Harrison and sons   The Bigland Pedigree Index, 1990, Sir Ralph Bigland, Garter King of Arms p 124   A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1 John Burke p 273-274   The general armory of England, Scotland and Wales, Sir B Burke 1884   Heraldry in Lancaster Castle , web   Burke's Landed Gentry 1906 p 842-845, 1828-1829   Burke's Landed Gentry 1894 p 980-981   Burke's Landed Gentry 1921p915-917, 1907-1908   Index to Fairbairn's book of crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol 1 Holt p244, Fairbairns Crest.   Holt of Chetham, p.1276 Peerage and Baronetage   The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Sir Bernard Burke, 1884   V and HV Rolland's illustration to the armorial general by J B Rietstap

Witchcraft

Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 25 Knowledge in Depth, p96   The discovery of witches in answer to several queries lately delivered to the judges of assize for the county of Norfolk by Mathew Hopkins witch-finder, 1837   Cassell, Dictionary of Witchcraft David Pickering 1996   Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England, a regional and comparative study, Alan Macfarlane 1970   The Encyclopdia of Witchraft and Demonology Rossell Hope Robbins 1959   Volume VIII English Historical Documents 1660-1714 ed. Andrew Browning 1953 p 172-173   Sir John Holt (1642-1710) a biographical sketch with especial reference to his witchcraft trials - Redgrave Park. web