More on Sir Thomas - including his funeral procession

It seems people are reading so I'll keep going, its a good exercise for me. If I can collate it all into an e-book who knows it might prove a way of people connecting.

On with Sir Thomas, with the Stoke on Trent origins reinforced:

The following is taken from “History of the Borough of Stoke upon Trent”By John Ward, London 1843 page 195.

It appears from our account of the Burslem Family... that the issue of Thomas Burslem, who in 1590 married Mary Ford, were two daughters, one of whom married Gilbert Wedgewood (interesting now that Waterford Crystal is...! JC), and the other, William Colclough. The latter Gentleman was a collateral branch of the ancient family of Colclough, of the Parish of Wolstanton; of which Sir Thomas Colclough, Knight, Lord of the Manor of Hanley, and the owner of considerable property in this neighbourhood, was in 1620 the principal representative. 

William Colclough, who married Catherine Burslem, was for many years seated at the Overhouse, Burslem, part of her paternal property, he was Constable of the manor of Tunstall in 1620, and registered in 1657 as occupier of the Overhouse in the Church wardens Roll of Burslem, and died there in 1662. His Only son John, died in 1665-6,and left by his Will, five pounds per annum, to the poor of Burslem, charged upon part of his estate, called Broadfield, in the Parish of Wolstanton.

Note: Broadfield is contiguous to Colclough Lane. John Colclough of Broadfield,

was amerced for default, at Tunstall Court,4. James 1st. He might be the father of William or his elder brother.

In 1623 Sir Thomas Colclough is inscribed as one of the Church wardens, or rebuilders of part of Wolstanton Church. 

He is first named along with Sir Rowland Cotton, Sir William Bowyer, Knights, Ralphe Sneyd, Thomas Crompton, Junior, John Brett Esquires, and other Copyholders of the Manor of Newcastle under Lyme, as defendants in a suit commenced for King James 1st, by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of which notice will be taken hereafter. We believe his seat was at ‘Colclough” in Oldcot, a name still preserved in a house and estate of the late Mr. Thomas Tunstall, the approach to which, from the Turnpike Road, is along Colclough Lane. The late Mr. Tunstall, who died in 1838, at the venerable age of 89, was accustomed to talk of Sir Thomas Colclough, and his Coach and six black horses as matters of Tradition, received from his grandfather. Sir Thomas removed to Ireland, and was buried at Tintern Abbey in County Wexford, with great pomp in 1624, aged 60. See below for his funeral procession, well a list anyway! JC

The Manor, or Lordship of Hanley is a Dependency of Newcastle, not being held in capite, but as a subordinate fief by grand sergeanty, as shewn by the extracts from the Testa de Neville, given in a preceding Chapter, and by the presentment at the Court of Survey of the Manor of Newcastle in 1615. The first mention of Hanley occurs in Testa de Neville, when the vill was holden by William de Hanley in fee farm, at the rent of six shillings, payable at the New Castle, and by the service of Castle guard; the same individual likewise held three virgates of land in Hanley, and paid for the same yearly, seven shillings of ancient right; i.e. from the Conquest of England, as the preceding entry expressed.

In 1615 the Lordship of Hanley was holden by Sir Thomas Colclough, Knight, under the honor of Lancaster, at the rent of twelve shillings and four pence, so that we must either suppose the service of Castle Guard, when no longer required to have been commuted for the advanced rent of six shillings and four pence, or that the two ancient rents of six shilling, and seven shillings had been consolidated, and an abatement of eight pence made for some cause. We are unable to trace the title of the Manor down from William de Hanley to Sir Thomas Colclough, but deem it probable that it had been for a long period holden by the Ancestry of Sir Thomas Colclough, who were seated in the neighbouring parish of Wolstanton as far back at least, as to the reign of Edward the Third, and had large possessions there. The spot from which they took their name, was in Oldcot as we have before intimated; and as appears by the survey of 1615. Sir Thomas held a Copyhold estate in Wolstanton, consisting of three messuages and seventy six customary acres, equal to 228 Statute Acres, and comprising nearly a third of the whole Township, lying immediately under the village, commencing at Fowley bridge on the highway leading to Shelton, extending along the brook-course which divides the parish of Wolstanton from Stoke and Burslem as far probably as Longbridge (now Longport) and westwardly up to Wolstanton Marsh and the High fields, for which property, being the largest then holden by any individual copyholder, the ancient customary rent was £2. 8 11 1⁄2 only, or about sevenpence the customary acre.

Of Sir Thomas’s property in Hanley we have no particular account, but as three virgates of land were held in fee farm in ancient times, this and the subsequently appropriated wastes probably constituted the Lords proper Demesne. The Situation of the Manor House is still preserved in the name of the Old Hall, which adheres to a Manufactory erected near its site, now the property of Charles Meigh Esqr. Adjoining the Bucknell Road. The father of Sir Thomas Colclough was Sir Anthony, who settled in Ireland in the reign of Henry viii, and obtained from Queen Elizabeth a grant of the site of the dissolved Abbey of Tintern, in the County of Wexford, part of the buildings of which he converted into a family mansion, where his descendants still remain seated. The dignity of a Baronet was conferred on his grand son, Sir Adam in 1628, but expired with his grandson Sir Caesar on 1687 for want of male descendants. The pedigree of the Colcloughs which follows has been compiled with great care, and we deem it worthy of being introduced here, from the antiquity, high respectability, and local connection of the family. One branch of it remained seated in this County, at Delphe House, in the vicinity of Cheadle, long after the senior line had disposed of their Staffordshire Estates, and became located in Ireland – this branch is traced down to the present time, and is now represented by three co-heiresses of the late Thomas Swinnerton, Esqr, of Butterton Hall. (here follows the Pedigree, which being embodied elsewhere, need not be repeated) The descendants of Sir Thomas Colclough by his second lady, Elinor, daughter of Dudley Bagnall, Esqr., through their son Dudley Colclough, now enjoy the mansion of Tintern Abbey, where are many family portraits, and in the neighbouring Church are several interesting monuments...

Many of which were tragically, in all senses of the word destroyed JC

Funeral Entries, Ulster Office, Dublin Castle. For Sir Thomas Colclough

Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern, in the County of Wexford Knight deceased the 23rd August 1624 had to his 1st wife Martha, daughter of Adam Loftus, some time Lord Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, by whom he left issue Adam, John, and Richard, also Anne,1st wife of Nicholas Bagenal, of Idrone, after to Thomas Butler of Cloughgrennan, Martha to John, eldest sonne of Sir John Pigotte of the Diesarte, in Leix, Knight. Jane to John Owgan in Wales, Esqr., Mary to Sir Nicholas Walsh, the younger, Knight, and Elinor to Brian Kavanagh of Poulmonty. Sir Thomas Colclough's second wife was Elinor, daughter of Dudley Bagnall, 2nd sonne of Sir Nicholas Bagenall Knight, sometime Marshall of the Armie in Ireland, by whom he had issue, Dudley, .... and Mable. He was interred in the Church in Tintern the 23rd September 1624.

Funeral Procession.

The Poor.

Two Footmen

Edward Coates, with the Standard.

Nicholas Loftus’s and Patrick Sarsfield men,

Captain Butler, and John Pigotts men,

Sir Thomas Loftus’s and Sir Adam Loftus’s men,

The Lord Bishop of Ferns men,

The Guidon by John Griffin,

Servants of Mr. Adam Colclough )

Servants of Lady Colclough, ) 14 in all.

Servants of the Defunct )

The Pennon, by Anthony Colclough, (nephew)

Walter Roach and John Allen ye Son,

John Allen ye Father and Peter Sarsfield,

John Pigott and Captain Butler,

Dudley Colclough and Anthony Colclough, children,

Mr. Mathew Lee, (Preacher),

Thomas Ramme, Lord Bishop of Ferns,

The Crest by John Colclough,)

Sword by Richard Colclough ) Sons

Target, by Nicholas Loftus,

Albon Leveret, Athlone, with Coate,

Daniel Molyneux, Ulster King at Arms,

-The Corpse-

Sir Adam Loftus, Knight, Rathfarnham, one of the Privy Council, Chief Mourner alone.

Sir Thomas Loftus and Sir Robert Pigott,

Sir Nicholas Walsh,and Adam Colclough heir to the defunct,

Robert Trunstalle and Sir Hugh Douffe, with Staves,

Eleanor, widow of Sir Thomas Colclough, and after Countess of Fingal, died, Nov

1632. Issue by Sir Thomas, Dudley - and Mabel.