TOWNLEY FAMILY TREE

HUSBAND     Sir  John  TOWNELEY         "Sheriff  of  Lancashire"
Born                 31 Jul 1473           in     Townley Hall;  Lancashire;  ENG   
Married            02 Aug 1490     in     Whalley;  Lancashire;  ENG      
Died                 05 Mar 1540      in     Townley Hall;  Lancashire;  ENG
Burial               
Father              Richard TOWNELEY
Mother            Lady Joanne "Jane" SOUTHWORTH          

WIFE               Isabel  PILKINGTON
Born                1474                      in     Blackburn;  Lancashire;  ENG     
Died                1522                       in     Habergham Eaves;  Lancashire;  ENG
Burial            
Father              Robert PILKINGTON
Mother            Alice Bernard

CHILDREN
1  Female        Helen TOWNELEY
Born                1490                in     Whalley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Married           1506                in     
Died                1529                in     ENG
Burial        
Spouse            Robert  NEVILLE

2  Female        Jane  (Joan)  TOWNELEY
Born                 1494                  in     Townley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Married                                       in     
Died                                            in     ENG
Burial        
Spouse(s)        Ralph  SHUTTLEWORTH  /  Thomas  SHERBURNE  /  William  DUTTON

3  Male              Richard TOWNELEY             
Born                   1499                in     Burnley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Married                                      in     
Died                    1556               in     Burnley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Burial        
Spouse              Elizabeth  FOLJAMBE

4  Male               Charles  TOWNELEY             
Born                    1502               in     Burnley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Married               1525               in     Townley;  Lancashire;  ENG     
Died                    1539               in     Burnley;  Lancashire;  ENG
Burial        
Spouse              Elizabeth  KAYE

5  Female          Elizabeth  TOWNELEY
Born                   1502                in     ENG
Married                                       in     
Died                                            in     ENG
Burial        
Spouse             

6  Female          Grace  TOWNELEY
Born                   1505                   in     Lancashire;  ENG
Married                                          in     
Died                   28 May 1543     in     Lancashire;  ENG
Burial        
Spouse            Robert HESKETH  /  Lawrence HABERGHAM

7  Female        Margaret  TOWNELEY
Born                 1512                                          in     ENG
Married            after 28 May 1543                in     
Died                                                                   in     ENG
Burial        
Spouse            Lawrence  HABERGHAM

NOTES
CHILDREN
Grace Towneley  -  After the death in 1539 of her first husband, Robert Hesketh, Grace married Laurence
Habergham of Habergham, in Lancashire about 1543.  She died a few months after this marriage.  A brass
plate from the church of St. Mary the Virgin at Rufford, Lancashire records the burial of Sir Robert Hesketh
and his wife Grace.
Margaret Towneley  -  Laurence Habergham married Margaret after the death of his wife Grace.  Margaret
Towneley was the illegitimate daughter by Sir John Towneley by his marriage to Jennet Ingham.  The marriage
was never recognized because of her lower rank.

Sir John Townley - fought in an English army that invaded Scotland and was knighted on 30 Sep 1497;  probably
at Ayton when the peace treaty was signed after the Perkin Warbeck skirmishes.  He established the 1100 acre,
Hapton Park making it the second largest in Lancashire.  Sir John Towneley is also known to have had several
illegitimate children by his mistress Jennett Ingham
1532 - High Sheriff of Lancashire. The High Sheriff of Lancashire is an ancient officer, now largely ceremonial,
granted to Lancashire, a county in North West England.  High Shrievalties  are the oldest secular titles under
the Crown, in England and Wales.  The High Sheriff of  Lancashire is the representative of the monarch in the
county, and is the "Keeper of The Queen's Peace" in the county, executing judgements of the High Court 
through an Under Sheriff.