Edward Tyldesley, of Myerscough, was the father of Major-General Sir Thomas Tyldesley, knt., who so greatly distinguished himself, by his fidelity and valour, in the wars between King and Parliament. In those sanguinary and calamitous struggles he served under the standard of royalty. He was slain at the battle of Wigan-lane in 1651; and as a mark of esteem for his many virtues and gallant deeds a monument was erected, near the spot where he fell, in 1679, by Alexander Rigby, of Layton Hall, High Sheriff for the county of Lancaster. The monument was inscribed as under:— “An high Act of Gratitude, which conveys the Memory of SIR THOMAS TYLDESLEY To posterity, Who served King Charles the First as Lieutenant-Colonel at Edge-Hill Battle, After raising regiments of Horse, Foot, and Dragoons, and for The desperate storming of Burton on Trent, over a bridge of 36 arches, RECEIVED THE HONOUR OF KNIGHTHOOD. He afterwards served in all the wars in great command, Was Governor of Litchfield, And followed the fortune of the Crown through the Three Kingdoms, And never compounded with the Rebels though strongly invested; And on the 25th of August, A.D. 1651, was here slain, Commanding as Major-General under the Earl of Derby, To whom the grateful erector, Alexander Rigby, Esq., was Cornet; And when he was High Sheriff of this county, A.D. 1679, Placed the high obligation on the whole Family of the Tyldesleys, To follow the noble example of their Loyal Ancestor.” Sir Thomas Tyldesley married Frances, daughter of Ralph Standish, of Standish, and had issue—Edward, born in 1635; Thomas, born in 1642; Ralph, born in 1644; Bridget, who became the wife of Henry Blundell, of Ince Blundell; Elizabeth; Frances, wife of Thomas Stanley, of Great Eccleston; Anne, who was abbess of the English nuns at Paris in 1721; Dorothy; Mary, wife of Richard Crane; and Margaret.