Genealogy & Family History
Hawkesworth of Hawkesworth
Catherine Lister, daughter of Sir Richard Hawksworth of Hawksworth,was the first wife of John Bright(d.1688) of Carbrook and Badsworth. They married in 1645. Catherine died in 1663. They had one surviving child Catherine who married Sir. Henry Liddell.
John Hawksworth of Bridge House was a lead merchant who in 1716 acquired Stumperlow Hall. During the greatest part of the eighteenth century, Stumperlow Hall was the estate and residence of the family of John Hawksworth.
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