Hugh de Standish, of Duxbury

Hugh STANDISH , of Duxbury was born ABT 1267 in Duxbury, Chorley, Lancashire, England, and died AFT 1315. He was the son of Robert Haydock and his wife.

From Jim Weber's Rootsweb database

He married about 1305 to Alice MOLYNEUX was born ABT 1270 [SIC: under age in 1306, so born about 1292] in Sefton, West Derby, Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of Richard de MOLYNEUX , of Sefton, Esq and 3. Emma DONNE. [SIC: dates wrong to be their daughter]

Their child

1. Richard STANDISH , of Duxbury b: ABT 1305 in Duxbury, Chorley, Lancashire, England Marriage 1 Clemency b: ABT 1314

disputed origins

From The Manor of Duxbury at Myles Standish info

The Standish family of the Pele on the Manor of Duxbury are descended from Alicea Standish (sister of Jordan Standish - Lord of the Manor of Standish) and her husband Hugh de Haydock. Their son Robert de Haydock was the Rector of Standish from 1275 to 1301. The Standish family papers from that period of time do not indicate the name of Robert's wife but they do very clearly name his children Hugh, Nicholas, Matilda. The Standish family papers clearly show that the son of Robert de Haydock was Hugh de Haydock who founded the Standish family of the Pele Tower upon the Manor of Duxbury. Hugh de Haydock de Standish dropped the de Haydock from his name in the year 1315 and was known thereafter as Hugh de Standish

The Standish Deeds refer to Hugh de Haydock in his childhood as the son of Robert de Haydock Rector of Standish, they then refer to him in his teenage years as Hugh de Haydock de Standish.

1303. Hugh de Haydock de Standish purchased land in Duxbury in the year 1303 and constructed a Pele tower upon it. From 1315 the Standish of Duxbury deeds refer to him as Hugh de Standish. Hugh de Haydock had dropped his family surname of Haydock and adopted his grandmothers maiden name of Standish. Hugh Standish then passed on his new surname to his descendants who became Lords of the Manor of Duxbury and from 1300 to 1620 lived in the Pele Tower at Duxbury In 1620 and 1820 they built the first and second Duxbury Halls. The last male of the line to be passed the Standish surname from Hugh was Sir Frank Standish who died in 1812. Hugh passed the surname Standish to all his descendants right down to the year 1812, but he also passed to those descendants his DNA profile from the Male line of Haydock of Haydock a denominator that Hugh could not change.

Among Kuerdens abstracts are several referring to Hugh son of Robert de Haydock, Rector of Standish, and the identity of Hugh de Haydock and Hugh de Standish is  established by grants from Robert son of William de Worthington to Hugh de Haydock in 1299, by Hugh de Haydock to William son of William de Worthington and Mabel his wife in the same year, and by William son of William de Worthington to Hugh de Standish of ˜what he held of him in 1304; Kuerden MSS. ii, fol. 145b.

Alice daughter of Richardde Molyneux of Sefton was in 1306 contracted in marriage to Hugh de Standish,she being under age; Croxteth D. Genl. i, 5.

The lands assigned to her were in1334 released by her son Richard de Standish; ibid. X, i, 6. William son of Hugh de Standish was a plaintiff regarding the same in 1332; De Banco R. 291, m. 185.

From http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/standish01.htm

1. Thurston de Standish a 02.1221 had issue:

B. Hugh de Standish m 1306 Alice Molyneux dau of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton

Children

• i. William de Standish d young
• ii. Richard de Standish of Duxbury a 1336

  ---

From http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/standish01.htm

1. Thurston de Standish a 02.1221 had issue:

B. Hugh de Standish m 1306 Alice Molyneux dau of Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton

Children

• i. William de Standish d young
• ii. Richard de Standish of Duxbury a 1336

  ---

From https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/mm4fz/molyneux01.php (membership to view)

• (i) Richard Molyneux of Sefton (a 1232, d c1320?) m. Emma Donne
  • (d) Alicia Molyneux probably the Alice who married .. m. (1306) Hugh de Standish

    ---

• Molineux of Sefton from Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire 1664-65 link Alicia, 3rd daughter of Richard Molineux and Emma Donne

_______

'Townships: Duxbury', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 208-213. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp208-213 [accessed 31 January 2018].

The manor of DUXBURY was a member of the fee of Penwortham and the whole or a part of it was included in the five plough-lands granted by Warine Bussell to Randle son of Roger de Marsey about 1150, (fn. 3) and in 1288 was held in thirds by Adam de Duxbury, Roger de Bolton and Ellis de Tonge, each paying William de Ferrers a rent of 14d. (fn. 4) In 1227 Roger de Bolton, acting in concert with Ellis de Tonge, had granted to Siward de Duxbury one plough-land there at a yearly rent of 6s. 4d., out of which Roger agreed to pay 3s. 4d. due to the chief lords. (fn. 5) Siward was probably lord of the other third of the manor, so that he thereby acquired the whole.

Adam de Duxbury in 1246 joined in the demand of the lords of Standish, Duxbury and Adlington that William de Ferrers, who had inherited the Marsey estates, should acquit them of the services claimed by the guardians of the Earl of Lincoln's lands. (fn. 6) Perhaps it was another Adam, who, as above stated, was in possession in 1288, and who was succeeded by a son Henry. (fn. 7) Henry son of Henry de Duxbury was lord of the place about 1300, (fn. 8) but seems to have parted with his rights to Hugh de Standish, of the household of Robert de Holand, one of the Earl of Lancaster's principal officials. Henry de Duxbury had taken part in Adam Banastre's rising in 1315 and suffered imprisonment in consequence, becoming indebted to Standish under stress of these circumstances. (fn. 9)

In this way—though the story is not clear—the manor appears to have been acquired by the Standish family, (fn. 10) whose descendants continued to hold it until about twenty years ago. Jordan, lord of the adjacent Standish, is said to have had a brother Hugh, who must have died about 1280, (fn. 11) and the Hugh de Standish of Duxbury seems to have been the son of Robert de Haydock, rector of Standish in the last decade of the 13th century. (fn. 12) In 1300 Hugh acquired a share of the manor of Heapey, (fn. 13) and various other manors and lands increased the family's estates from time to time. Hugh de Standish (fn. 14) was succeeded by a son William, (fn. 15) whose brother Richard followed (fn. 16); and Hugh, the son of Richard, was in possession of the manor in the time of Edward III and Richard II. (fn. 17) He is, perhaps, the Hugh de Standish whose will of 1421 is preserved by Kuerden, his son Christopher being a supervisor. (fn. 18) In 1396 a feoffment was made to Christopher son of Hugh de Standish and Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming. (fn. 19)