Yes, I confirm from Wikipedia that Dunham Hall belonged to the Booth family at that time. It was constructed in 1616 by Sir George Booth. William probably started work there early in his career.
Yes, the children of the Tydnock family would be from around the 1590s, while William was born around 1605. Interesting that you mention Gawsworth. The Lea Henshaw you mention is almost certainly the Lea Henshaw of Henshaw Hall, at Henshaw in Siddington. He was the son of Thomas Henshaw and Eleanor Browne, of Henshaw Hall, and was born in 1593 and died in 1631. He had a sister called Ursula. His father, Thomas, was described as "A Captaine in Ireland, slaine at Blackwater, 1598." This battle is also known as the Battle of Yellow Ford, during the O'Neill rebellion, occurring on the same date as Thomas's death, August 14th., 1598. I would very much like to tie up my lineage with those of Henshaw Hall as the lineage would then go back to about 1365. That would be something!
The Debretts report did mention something about the Tydnock Farm family have a connection with Newbold Astbury, located near Congleton.
Hello Colin,
I have done a bit of looking around and re-reading of the Will of Thomas from 1632.
The children were indeed listed in age order in the will. The sons were named first. Now the only one of the names mentioned "en masse" that I can't seem to fit in is Roger Henshaw. I have found a baptism in Gawsworth for a Roger Henshaw dated 1598. However, if the children of Thomas were named in age order, including this Roger, then process of elimination would dictate that this Roger was born around 1606 in Gawsworth, but I haven't found a baptism for him.
These are the children mentioned in the Will of Thomas in the order they were mentioned, and the years they were born which I found on Find My Past, all born in Gawsworth:
Hugh Henshaw - bap 29 June 1595.
John - bap 16 Jan 1596.
William (our William?) bap 1605.
Then we have the list of children in this order mentioned in the will:
"sons and daughters of me the said Thomas Henshaw":
Roger - (born abt. 1606? Buried 1661 in Gawsworth?)
Edward - bap 1607.
Henry - bap 26 Apr 1612.
Thomas - Bap 1625.
Then following on in this order his daughters are named:
Mary - bap 1603.
Emma - bap 2 July 1609.
Ann - bap 27 Dec 1614.
Joan - bap 1619.
Ellen - bap 23 June 1622.
If you notice between the baptism of Ann and Joan Henshaw, there is a space of 5 years.
There are spaces of a few years between some of the others also.
In the meantime I have looked at something on "My Heritage".
They have a Thomas Henshall who was born in 1563 to a William Henshall and Margery (nee Gyll).
It may well be talking of the Thomas of the Will above: They have his date of death as 1632, and it also states that he had 12 children, which the Thomas of our Will had.
It states that he married Joan Garlick in 1581. I can't view where because I do not subscribe to "My Heritage". I doubt very much that this Joan was born in Sheffield, as it states here though. I don't know if there are any trees on "Ancestry" that may relate to this. I found it here:
https://www.myheritage.com/names/thomas_henshallOn Find My Past, there is a record for a burial in 1617 for a Joan Henshaw. I don't subscribe to Find My past, so have been unable to click on it to see more information. But it has come up on a search result here:
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?o=eventyear&d=asc&lastname=henshaw&lastname_variants=true&keywordsplace=gawsworth&yearofbirth=1614&yearofbirth_offset=5&sourcecategory=life%20events%20(bmds)&collection=parish%20burials&sourcecountry=great%20britainNow there may POSSIBLY be something in this, because Thomas had a daughter called Joan baptised in 1619 in Gawsworth, and so possibly being named after his dead wife who was buried in 1617. And before this baptism, the last child of Thomas, named Ann, was baptised five years previously in Gawsworth. Then in 1618, a Thomas Henshall married a Margery Dunbar.
Thank you very much.