Anne Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe Hall

Anne Grimshaw was the fifth child of Thomas and Margaret (Harrington) Grimshaw of Clayton Hall. In 1540 she married Hugh Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe, located about four miles northeast of Clayton Hall. The descendants of Hugh and Anne (Grimshaw) Shuttleworth comprise one of the more distinguished family lines of Lancashire. Gawthorpe Hall, a significant historical landmark in the region, was built by the sons of Hugh and Anne between 1600 and 1604.

Anne was a member of the earliest known Grimshaw family line. As shown in the descendant chart in Whitaker2 (v. II), Anne was in the llth generation after Walter Grimshaw, the originator of this ancient line of Grimshaws