John Lancaster

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Neil Streeter notes

• fact. During the Commonwealth he was a Royalist and was convicted of treason and delinquency and all his estates were confiscated in 1653 by a parliamentary committe. The property was sold 16 May 1654 to John Sumpter of Midhurst, Essex for over 600 pounds. On 3 May1658 it was brought by Henry Lawton and others of Rainhill for 450 pounds and settled in trust for the Lancasters on 12 Sept 1661. The charges of recusancy could not be escaped. In 1668 John Lancaster and his wife Jane, with Thomas their son were convicted of this offence and part of the estate had to be sold to pay the fines, the fines continued and the family became impoverished to the extent that they had to take employment and trade as a means of livelyhood. By 1805 this branch of the family had died out in Rainhill.

John married Elizabeth Ditchfield, daughter of Edward Ditchfield of Ditton Hall and Unknown. (Elizabeth Ditchfield was born circa 1610 in England UK.)