George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, The History of the Church and Manor of Wigan… (1888)
“ Richard Gerrard was a younger son of William Gerrard, of Ince, in the parish of Wigan, gent., and younger brother of Thomas Gerrard of the same place, and of James Gerrard of Astley, from whom the Lords Gerrard of Bromley in Staffordshire descended. ”
George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, The History of the Church and Manor of Wigan… (1888)
“ Dioc, vice Simon Byron, clk., deceased, in the King's gift by the minority of Henry, son and heir of John Byron. [3] He rebuilt or restored the church of Grappenhall in Cheshire in 1539, and his arms, azure, a lion rampant ermine, crowned or, [4] may still be seen in some very old glass in one of the windows of the old rectory house there. ”
