Claim: Walter Calverley (eldest son of  William Calverley) murdered two of his sons, William and Walter.
Evidence: Walter Calverley was the eldest son and heir of William Calverley (d.1572) by his wife, Katherine Thorneholme, daughter of John Thorneholme of Haysthorpe, Yorkshire. In a drunken frenzy, he rushed at his two eldest children, William and Walter, the former four years old and the latter 18 months (baptised at Calverley on 4 October 1603) and killed them both; at the same time he stabbed his wife, but not fatally.