Memorials of four old families

Hawarden of Cheshire and Lancashire, who also had left the latter, his
native county, about the same time ; by her he had issue
i. THOMAS, his heir, b. 1501 d. 1565.
2. Christopher of Beechefield, b. 1 508 d. 1 569, of whom afterwards.
3. Laurence d.s.p.
4. A daughter, m. Robt. Conie of Basingthorpe, merchant of the
Staple.
This John Hawarden was a younger son of Hawarden of Wolston,
who again was a cadet of Hawarden of Hawarden, Co. Flint. John
Hawarden removed about the year 1477 to Rutlandshire, where he married
and settled at Thistleton. His only son, Robert, died without issue, and
his daughter, Anne, born about 1480, married William Wimberley of South
Witham.
The pedigree of the Hawardens is given in Had. MS., No. 1987, being
the Herald's visitation of Lancashire, Ao. 1567, 9th Queen Elizabeth.
Their arms were Arg. guttee sa, a fesse nebulee of the second.
It is worthy of note that about the same time that William Wimberley
migrated to Lincolnshire, and John Hawarden to Rutlandshire, the
Newtons, of the family to which Sir Isaac Newton belonged, sent younger
sons to Basingthorpe and Westby ; Harington of Aldingham sent sons to
Exton, Rutlandshire, and Waltham, Lincolnshire ; the Coneys of the Hall,
Coney, Lancashire, to Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire ; and the Welds and
Cholmleys of Cheshire to Lincolnshire. The Wimberleys intermarried
with the Hawardens, the Coneys, and the Welds.
William Wimberley, who fought at Bosworth, had an uncle Thomas,
who was Abbot of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, from 6th April, 1463. to 21st
August, 1499, when he died. Vide Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum,
vol. V., p. 529.
He had also a younger brother, Thomas, who was Rector of Pebmarsh,
in the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, from 28th September, 15 17, to 17th
June, 1 55 1. Vide Newcourt's Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale
Londinense, vol. II., p. 465.
WILLIAM died about the year 1525, leaving by his wife Anne
Hawarden issue as above stated.
The pedigree of his son, Thomas Wimberley, and his descendants,
down to the year 1634, is to be found in Had. MS., 1174, p. 50, and that
of Christopher, his second son, designed of Beechefield, and his descendants,
also brought down to the year 1634, and attested by Bevill Wimberley in
the visitation book of the Co. of Lincoln, in the Heralds' College, London.