There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Fleetwood family, an old Lancashire family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1614 and built the Grade I listed Wootton Lodge at Ellastone[1] The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1780.

[2] The Fleetwood Baronetcy, of Rossall Hall in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1838 for Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, of Rossall Hall, a politician and landowner.

He was a descendant of the youngest son of William Fleetwood of Hesketh through the female line, a grandson of Margaret Fleetwood, heiress of Rossall who married Roger Hesketh in 1733.

Following his inheritance of the Rossall estate he assumed the additional surname of Fleetwood in 1831.