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b. c. 1601, 1st s. of Roger Kirkby of Kirkby Ireleth, and Jane, da. of Edward Rigby of Burgh, Lancs.H.S. Cowper, ‘The Kirkbys of Kirkby-in-Furness’, Trans. Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. n.s. vi. 97; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxv), 169. m. (settlement 1622), Agnes (d. 18 Mar. 1685), da. of Sir John Lowther† of Lowther, Westmld. 5s. 8da. (1 d.v.p.).Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DLONS/L/4/1/31; Cowper, ‘Kirkbys of Kirkby-in-Furness’, 97, 111; Vis. Lancs. ed. Raines, 169; Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxxvi), 44. suc. fa. 1627;Vis. Lancs. ed. Raines, 169. d. 2 Nov. 1643.Regs. of Lamplugh ed. F. Haswell (Penrith, 1936), 143.
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Local: commr. Forced Loan, Lancs. 1627.C193/12/2, f. 30. J.p. 1628–d.Lancs. RO, QSC/38; D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 65. Commr. repair of St Paul’s Cathedral, 29 Sept. 1632;Lancs. RO, DDN/1/64, f. 82. sewers, 16 Feb. 1633.C181/4, f. 130v. Capt. militia horse by 1636–?SP16/337/81i, f. 168. Sheriff, 1637–10 Nov. 1638.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 73. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. disarming recusants, 30 Aug. 1641;LJ iv. 385a. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 11 June 1642.Farington Pprs. ed. S.M. Farington (Chetham Soc. o.s. xxxix), 76.

Civic: freeman, Wigan by Mar. 1640–d.Sinclair, Wigan, i. 216.

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KIRKBYE, Roger (c.1601-43), of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancs.
: of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancs.
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Commons 1640-1660
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KIRKBYE, Roger (c.1601-43), of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancs.

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Estates
in 1632, assessed at £25 for distraint of knighthood.J.P. Earwaker, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Chas. I’ (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xii), 220. In about 1643, Kirkby manor, hall and demesne lands were valued at £508 p.a.Lancs. RO, DDCA/14/4/1. In 1646, family estate inc. manors of Kirkby Ireleth and Ulverston and rectory of Hawkshead, Lancs., and rents issuing out of manor of Bolton, Cumb. – in all, valued at £386 p.a. minus annuities charged on estate of £106 p.a.Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. Stanning, 43-4. In 1660, family estate valued at £1,500 p.a.Cowper, ‘Kirkbys of Kirkby-in-Furness’, 117.
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