Married Mary Pulleyn at St. Helen's Church, Sandal Magna, on June 18, 1604.
In 1620 he sold land at Dewsbury and Thornhill to his kinswoman, Lady Anne Wentworth Savile. In 1623 Luke and Mary were recorded as recusants in the parish of Sandal Magna, and Mary's name appeared again on a 1624 list. In 1625 described as "Luke Bretton, gent. of Walton cum Bretton" he was fined £12 for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He died testate with his will recorded at York [W.61.2.]
His eldest son, Capt John Bretton, husband of Dorothy Percy, lived for a while at Pontefract before removing to St. Giles in the Fields, London by 1659, and in 1662 sold the remainder of the family's estate at West Bretton.
The younger sons of Luke and Mary Bretton either went to Doaui for their studies or worked as stewards for Catholic gentry families. Two of these scions were apparently close to the family of his kinsman Francis Burdet (1578-1637), esquire, of Little Bretton. One being Francis Bretton, who even used the alias of Burdet when in Douai; the other being William Bretton of Hoylandswaine who immigrated with his family to Maryland immediately after the death of Francis Burdet in 1637. Hoylandswaine was adjacent to Little Bretton, a manor belonging to the Burdet family, both in the parish of High Hoyland in South Yorkshire. William Bretton named the manor patented to him in Maryland in 1640 Little Bretton. Another son, Luke Bretton, was a steward to Sir George Heneage of Lincolnshire.
In 1620 he sold land at Dewsbury and Thornhill to his kinswoman, Lady Anne Wentworth Savile. In 1623 Luke and Mary were recorded as recusants in the parish of Sandal Magna, and Mary's name appeared again on a 1624 list. In 1625 described as "Luke Bretton, gent. of Walton cum Bretton" he was fined £12 for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He died testate with his will recorded at York [W.61.2.]
His eldest son, Capt John Bretton, husband of Dorothy Percy, lived for a while at Pontefract before removing to St. Giles in the Fields, London by 1659, and in 1662 sold the remainder of the family's estate at West Bretton.
The younger sons of Luke and Mary Bretton either went to Doaui for their studies or worked as stewards for Catholic gentry families. Two of these scions were apparently close to the family of his kinsman Francis Burdet (1578-1637), esquire, of Little Bretton. One being Francis Bretton, who even used the alias of Burdet when in Douai; the other being William Bretton of Hoylandswaine who immigrated with his family to Maryland immediately after the death of Francis Burdet in 1637. Hoylandswaine was adjacent to Little Bretton, a manor belonging to the Burdet family, both in the parish of High Hoyland in South Yorkshire. William Bretton named the manor patented to him in Maryland in 1640 Little Bretton. Another son, Luke Bretton, was a steward to Sir George Heneage of Lincolnshire.
Married Mary Pulleyn at St. Helen's Church, Sandal Magna, on June 18, 1604.
In 1620 he sold land at Dewsbury and Thornhill to his kinswoman, Lady Anne Wentworth Savile. In 1623 Luke and Mary were recorded as recusants in the parish of Sandal Magna, and Mary's name appeared again on a 1624 list. In 1625 described as "Luke Bretton, gent. of Walton cum Bretton" he was fined £12 for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He died testate with his will recorded at York [W.61.2.]
His eldest son, Capt John Bretton, husband of Dorothy Percy, lived for a while at Pontefract before removing to St. Giles in the Fields, London by 1659, and in 1662 sold the remainder of the family's estate at West Bretton.
The younger sons of Luke and Mary Bretton either went to Doaui for their studies or worked as stewards for Catholic gentry families. Two of these scions were apparently close to the family of his kinsman Francis Burdet (1578-1637), esquire, of Little Bretton. One being Francis Bretton, who even used the alias of Burdet when in Douai; the other being William Bretton of Hoylandswaine who immigrated with his family to Maryland immediately after the death of Francis Burdet in 1637. Hoylandswaine was adjacent to Little Bretton, a manor belonging to the Burdet family, both in the parish of High Hoyland in South Yorkshire. William Bretton named the manor patented to him in Maryland in 1640 Little Bretton. Another son, Luke Bretton, was a steward to Sir George Heneage of Lincolnshire.
In 1620 he sold land at Dewsbury and Thornhill to his kinswoman, Lady Anne Wentworth Savile. In 1623 Luke and Mary were recorded as recusants in the parish of Sandal Magna, and Mary's name appeared again on a 1624 list. In 1625 described as "Luke Bretton, gent. of Walton cum Bretton" he was fined £12 for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He died testate with his will recorded at York [W.61.2.]
His eldest son, Capt John Bretton, husband of Dorothy Percy, lived for a while at Pontefract before removing to St. Giles in the Fields, London by 1659, and in 1662 sold the remainder of the family's estate at West Bretton.
The younger sons of Luke and Mary Bretton either went to Doaui for their studies or worked as stewards for Catholic gentry families. Two of these scions were apparently close to the family of his kinsman Francis Burdet (1578-1637), esquire, of Little Bretton. One being Francis Bretton, who even used the alias of Burdet when in Douai; the other being William Bretton of Hoylandswaine who immigrated with his family to Maryland immediately after the death of Francis Burdet in 1637. Hoylandswaine was adjacent to Little Bretton, a manor belonging to the Burdet family, both in the parish of High Hoyland in South Yorkshire. William Bretton named the manor patented to him in Maryland in 1640 Little Bretton. Another son, Luke Bretton, was a steward to Sir George Heneage of Lincolnshire.
