James
Tyldesley 1719-1765
James Tyldesley was the
son and heir of Edward
Tyldesley. Born in 1719, he married
Sarah Hayne on 11 December 1739. They had seven
children: Thomas born 1741, Jane born 1742, Edward
born 1744, Ann Catharine born 1746, Charles born
1747, James born 1749 and Henry born 1752. The family
lived at Holcroft Hall
In 1745 James Tyldesley
took up arms for Bonnie Prince Charlie - as did
Francis Townley, whose brother Richard Townley had
been tried alongside Edward Tyldesley after
the Rebellion of 1715. Ormerod relates a local tradition
of James Tyldesley riding into Leigh, at the head
of some of Prince Charles's adherents in the irruption
of 1745.
James Tyldesley died in 1765, and Holcroft Hall was then
sold.
References
Jacobitism and the English people 1688-1788, Paul Kléber
Monod, 1989.
Tracts Relating to Military Proceedings in Lancashire
during the Great Civil War, George Ormerod (Editor),
1844