Walker family of Gawthorpe Hall

[ellerydesign]

Does anyone have any information of the Walker family who bought Gawthorpe Hall in 1596 (by Anthony Walker).

I'm trying to identify that a Frances Lowther (born and bap. Ingleton 1612, daughter of William Lowther of Ingleton), married "a Mr Walker of Gawthorpe".

I can find barely anything online, except the following:

The Walkers were an old local family, and had been living at Bingley from at least the time of Edward III. They gradually acquiring property at Bingley before Anthony Walker purchased Gawthorpe Hall in 1596. He probably built the that the present Gawthorpe Hall. Anthony married in 1580 Agnes Wooller, in 1580 (possibly a connection of the William Wooller, who in 1597 left 50 for the purchase of an estate in Bingley for the benefit of the poor).

There was also an Anthony Walker, of Gilstead, clerke, who died in 1607. The Walkers were living at Gawthorpe Hall in 1634, and they sold the estate and manor to Henry Currer (grandson of Hugh Currer, of Marley), who resided at Gawthorpe in 1654, if not up to its sale in 1668. To confuse things this Henry Currer was probably the 2nd husband of Frances sister Eleanor Lowther, widow of William Newby.

If anyone can help I'd be grateful.

[AlanBoyd]

This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?

Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?

[KGarrad]

This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?

Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?

Gawthorpe Hall was a pre-cursor to Harewood House.
https://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/remains-of-gawthorpe-hall-discovered-in-yorkshire/

[LizzieL]

This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?

Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?

Gawthorpe Hall was a pre-cursor to Harewood House.
https://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/remains-of-gawthorpe-hall-discovered-in-yorkshire/

That article has this paragraph

Gawthorpe Hall was built by the Gascoigne family in the 13th century. It was acquired by the 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, in 1614, and several modifications and additions were made before its sale to Sir John Cutler, in 1656. The medieval manor house again changed hands in 1738 to Henry Lascelles, a wealthy trader with business interests in the West Indies, and was inherited in 1753 by its final owner, Edwin Lascelles.

Doesn't match with what OP said

"There was also an Anthony Walker, of Gilstead, clerke, who died in 1607. The Walkers were living at Gawthorpe Hall in 1634, and they sold the estate and manor to Henry Currer (grandson of Hugh Currer, of Marley), who resided at Gawthorpe in 1654, if not up to its sale in 1668. "

There is a Gawthorpe on the outskirts of Ossett. Maybe that had a Hall once, but now disappeared.

[LizzieL]

Here it is near Bingley
now under a new development

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=53.85736&lon=-1.83667&layers=168&b=1

[LizzieL]

Maybe the building is still there, just most of the land developed. Not clear from the aerial overlay

[LizzieL]

This could be it
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8570313,-1.834466,3a,75y,343.88h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP7JOoeizU3-k3cDNP3-uw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

sorry about long link, usually when I try shrinking I manage to delete it

[LizzieL]

Listed building

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101199532-gawthorpe-hall-including-south-wing-gawthorpe-hall-bingley#.ZLpDfHbMLIU

[LizzieL]

more description here
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1199532?section=official-list-entry