ALLIX, OF WILLOUGHBY. ALLIX, CHARLES, esq. of Willoughby Hall, in the county of Lincoln, b. in 1783, m. in 1809, Mary-Elizabeth, second daughter of William Hammond, esq. of St. Albans Court, Kent, (see p. 132) Charles-Hammond, a lieutenant in the Grenadier William-Kent. Wager Townley. Mary-Catherine-Elizabeth. Caroline-Isabella. Louisa-Margaret. Emily-Persis. Mr. Allix, who is in the commission of the peace, and a deputy lieutenant for Lincolnshire, succeeded his father in November, 1795. Lineage. This family was founded in England by the celebrated divine, and dying in 1717, left (with a younger son, William, who died unmarried) his successor, DOCTOR PETER ALLIX, of Alençon, in Normandy, who was at the head of the Protestant church in France, and on the revocation of the edict of Nants, refusing to conform, although tendered a bishopric, and even an archbishopric, was banished the kingdom. It is stated that after he had departed from Paris the Government issued a lettre de cachet, and dispatched a messenger to bring back the refractory churchman to the Bastile, and that he had only just embarked at Calais when the messenger arrived there. He reached England, however, in safety, and was complimented with the degree of Doctor of Divinity by both the Universities. The Doctor applied himself immediately to the study of the English language, and soon attained therein an extraordinary degree of perfection. In 1690, he was appointed treasurer of the church of Salisbury, and he produced works of so much utility, that he acquired within a very short time as high a reputation here, as he had previously enjoyed in his native country. He was consulted by the most eminent scholars on the most abstruse subjects, and his genius was acknowledged by those whom the world esteemed not only the ablest butter chief point a mullet. the most impartial judges. His sermons mark the orator-his works the scholar-and his entire life, zeal for the Protestant religion. This eminent divine espoused Made-purchased in 1712. moiselle Grand, of Berne, in Switzerland, THE VERY REV. PETER ALLIX, rector of Shudy Camps, in Cambridgeshire, and Dean of Ely, who married Miss Elizabeth Wager, niece and co-heir of Admiral Sir Charles Wager, first lord of the Admiralty, temp. King GEORGE I. and was s. by his son, CHARLES ALLIX, esq. of Swaffham, in the county of Cambridge, who m. Miss Greene, daughter of the Right Rev. Doctor Greene, bishop of Ely, and had issue-CHARLES WAGER, his heir, John Peter, and Jane, who died in 1794. He was s. by his eldest son, THE REV. CHARLES-WAGER ALLIX, of Willoughby Hall. This gentleman espoused Catherine, second daughter of Richard Townley, esq. of Belfield, in the county of Lancaster, and had issue, CHARLES, his heir. Richard-Wager. Catherine-Anne. Margaret-Elizabeth, m. to the Rev. George Yate, rector of Wrockwardine, in the county of Salop. Mr. Allix d. in November, 1795, and was s. by his elder son, the present CHARLES ALLIX, esq. of Willoughby Hall. Arms-A wolf's head erased; in the dex Crest-A wolf's head erased. Estates At Willoughby and Marsh Chapel, in Lincolnshire, which property was Seat-Willoughby Hall, near Grantham. CLUDDE, OF ORLETON. CLUDDE, EDWARD, esq. of Orleton, in the county of Salop, m. 6th May, 1828, Catherine-Harriett, only daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir William Cockburn, bart. of Cockburn and Ryslaw, and has issue, ANNA-MARIA. Mr. Cludde succeeded his father in 1829, and is a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county of Salop. Lineage. the estate, to avoid the necessity of taking the oaths to government, to which, after the revolution, he had an invincible repugnance. The colonel fell at the battle of Landen, in 1693, leaving, by his wife, Beatrice, daughter of Wrottesley Prince, esq. and relict of Robert Bretton, esq. a son and successor, WILLIAM CLUDDE, esq. of Orleton, then in infancy. This gentleman, who enjoyed the estates for seventy-two years, and was a magistrate for forty, served the office of sheriff of Salop in 1723. He m. Martha, daughter and heiress of Peter Langley, esq. of Burcot, by whom he left, with two daughters, an only surviving son, EDWARD CLUDDE, esq. of Orleton, who d. unmarried, and was s. by his nephew, WILLIAM PEMBERTON, esq. of Wrockwardine, (eldest son of EDWARD PEMBERTON, esq. of Wrockwardine, by his wife, MARTHA CLUDDE, sister of the last proprietor of Or The CLUDDES, or CLUYDDES claim Saxon origin, and at a very remote period possessed property in Shropshire. In the reign of HENRY I. they were seated on the lands of Cluddeley, and in the third year of ED-leton). This gentleman, Lieut. Col. of the WARD III. they acquired, in marriage with the heiress of ORLETON, that estate, which has ever since remained their principal residence. WILLIAM CLUDDE, esq. of Orleton, was ancestor in the fourth degree of EDWARD CLUDDE, esq. of Orleton, who wedded Anne, co-heiress of William Beyst, esq. and had two sons, Thomas and Edward, by the elder of whom, THOMAS CLUDDE, esq. of Orleton, he was succeeded. This gentleman wedded, in 1591, the only child and heiress of John Coston, esq. of Coston, by whom he left an only daughter, BEATRICE, heiress of Coston, who espoused Coningsby Freeman, esq. of Neen Solers. Mr. Cludde, who is said to have served with reputation in Ireland, and to have been offered the honor of knighthood, was s. at Orleton, by his brother, Colonel CHARLES CLUDDE, of the guards, to whom his elder brother, EDWARD, who was admitted of Grays Inn in 1664, and died in October, 1721, made over his interest in South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, assumed, upon inheriting, by act of parliament, in compliance with the testamentary injunction of his uncle, Edward, the surname and arms of CLUDDE only. He m. in 1781, Anna Maria, daughter of Edward Jeffreys, esq. of Shrewsbury, and had issue, EDWARD, his heir. William, a captain of Dragoons, who d. in 1809. Anna-Maria. Harriett, m. in 1807, to William Lacon Childe, esq. of Kinlet Park, in the county of Salop. Col. Cludde, who united in his person the representation of the very ancient families of Cludde, Orleton, and Pemberton, was sheriff of Shropshire in 1814. He d. 25th August, 1829, and was s. by his only surviving son, the present EDWARD CLUDDE, esq. of Orleton and Wrockwardine. "In whatever capacity," says a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, Mr. Cludde acted, whether civil or military, or as a private gentleman, he evinced a firmness and persuasiveness, which commanded and obtained esteem." Arms-Ermine, a fret sa. quartering the ensigns of ORLETON. Crest-An eagle with wings expanded ppr. preying on a coney arg. Estates Orleton, Wrockwardine, Bur cot, Cluddley, &c., in Shropshire; Stringwern, in the county of Montgomery Seats Orleton and Wrockwardine, bo.. in Shropshire. GURNEY, OF KESWICK. GURNEY, HUDSON, esq. of Keswick, in the county of Norfolk, fellow of the Royal Society, and vice-president of the Antiquarian Society, b. 19th January, 1775, m. in 1809, Margaret, daughter of the late Robert Barday, esq. of Wry, Kincardineshire, M.P. for that county, by Sarah, daughter of James Allardice, of Allardice, and heiress of Wie to the Earls of Airth and Menteith. Mr. Gurney was elected member of parliament for Shaftesbury, in 1812, and for Newtown, Hants, in 1816, and in six successive parliaments. Jan. 1847. Lineage. The name of GURNEY or GOURNAY is derived from the town of Gournay in Normandy. HUGH DE GOURNAY, Lord of Gournay and the adjacent territory of Le Brai, was one of the Norman Barons who commanded at the Battle of Mortimer against the French in 1054. He came over to England with DUKE WILLIAM, and was present at the Battle of Hastings. HUGH, his son, held manors in Essex at the survey, and GERARD DE GOURNAY, Son of the latter, married Editha, daughter of William de Warren, first Earl of Warren, by GUNDRED,* daughter of the CONQUEROR, and possessed great estates in Norfolk. These Norman Barons of Gournay deduced their lineage from EUDES, a follower of Rollo, to whom that chieftain assigned the fortress of Gournay, when he divided Neustria among his dependants; they continued to BURKE'S Extinct and Dormant Peerage. retain these Norman fiefs until the reign of JOHN, when they were seized upon by PHILIP-AUGUSTUS; and another Hugh de Gournay then in possession, retired into England, and died in 1223, leaving a son, HUGH, whose only daughter, JULIA DE GOURNAY, espoused William, Lord Bardolph, of Wirmegay, in Norfolk ; and thus the elder male line of the Norman Gournays became extinct.† Two younger branches of the family continued, however, to exist after this period. The one which was the most distinguished was seated at Barew-Gurney and Inglishcombe, in Somersetshire, as early as the survey, and retaining the name of Gournay, through two female descents, added to their territory the estates of the Harpetrees and other considerable families, and became powerful feudal barons in the West of England. The most generally known of this family of the Gournays were Sir Thomas de Gournay, one of the murderers of EDWARD II. and his son, Sir Matthew de Gournay, frequently mentioned by Froissart, who died in 1406, at the advanced age of ninety-six, after having assisted at all the great battles of EDWARD III. and the Black Prince. This gallant veteran appears to have been the last male of the Somersetshire Gurneys.‡ The other younger branch of the Norman Gourneys held certain manors in Norfolk, as mesne lords under the Barons of Gour + The arms of this family are said to have been of pure sable; but paly of six or and azure has been attributed to them, apparently without sufficient authority. This branch bore for arms, paly of six or and azure. y, the capital tenants, by whom they fere subenfeoffed. Of this line was SIR WILLIAM DE GOURNAY, knt. lord of the manor of Runhall, in Norfolk, temp. HENRY II. and of Swathings in Hardingham and Hingham, whose son, MATTHEW DE GOURNAY, obtained from Hameline Plantagenet, Earl of Warren, that nobleman's kinswoman, Rose de Burnham or de Warren, in marriage, and with her the manor of Harpley came to the Norfolk Gurneys. The grandson of this marriage, SIR JOHN DE GURNEY, was in arms against HENRY III. at the Battles of Lewes and Evesham, but having received a pardon, attended Prince EDWARD (EDWARD I.) in 1270 to the Holy Land. This Sir John de Gurney bore for arms, argent a cross engrailed gules;" a coat borne by his descendants ever since: from him sprang 66 SIR JOHN GURNEY, was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, in the 1st of HENRY IV. and was one of the knights of the shire for the former county in the parliament held at Coventry, anno 1404. He had no children, and was therefore succeeded by his nephew, whose grandson, WILLIAM GURNEY, is frequently mentioned in the Paston Letters. Their descendant, ANTHONY GURNEY, lived in the reign of HENRY VIII. He m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Lovel, and one of the co-heirs of the Lords Mortimer, of Attleborough. The family continued at Great Ellingham and West Barsham until the year 1661, when it became extinct in the elder male line, and the estates devolved to co-heiresses. From a younger branch of the West Barsham line descended JOHN GOURNEY OR GURNEY, of Norwich, merchant, b. in 1655, who embraced the tenets of the Quakers. This gentleman died in 1721, leaving, with two younger sons, JOHN, whose descendants in the male line became EXTINCT, on the death of Bartlett Gurney, esq. of Coltishall, in Norfolk, in 1802. JOSEPH, of whose line we are about to treat. JOHN GURNEY, esq. of Keswick, who espoused Elizabeth Kett, (lineally descended from the Norfolk rebel, temp. EDWARD VI.) and had issue, Mr. 1. RICHARD, his heir. II. John, of Earlham, near Norwich, 1. JOHN, who m. his cousin, Eliza- 3. Joseph-John, of Earlham, who 4. Daniel, of North Runcton, in III. Joseph, of Lakenham Grove, near Gurney died in 1770, and was s. by his eldest son, RICHARD GURNEY, esq. of Keswick. This gentleman espoused, first, Agatha, daughter and heiress of David Barclay, esq. of Youngsbury, in Herts, by whom he had issue, HUDSON, his heir. Agatha, m. to Sampson Hanbury, esq. of Poles, in Herts. He m. secondly, Rachel, daughter of Osgood Hanbury, esq. of Oldfield Grange, in Essex, and had other issue, RICHARD-HANBURY, M.P. for the city of Norwich, in 1818, and in several Elizabeth, m. to her cousin, John Gur- Mr. Gurney died in 1811, and was s. by his elder son, the present HUDSON GURNEY, esq. of Keswick. Arms--Argent a cross engrailed gu. Crests-First, on a chapeau gu. turned up ermine, a fish in pale, with its head downwards; second, a wrestling collar or. Estates-In Norfolk. Town Residence-St. James's Square. Seat-Keswick, near Norwich. RUGGLES-BRISE, OF SPAINS HALL. BRISE-RUGGLES, JOHN, esq. of Spains Hall, in Essex, and of Clare, in the 蛋 county of Suffolk, b. 11th July, 1782, m. in January, SAMUEL-BRISE, b. 29th December, 1825. This gentleman, who succeeded to the Spains Hall estate Fourth or fifth in descent from Lineage. THOMAS ROGYLL, RUGGLE, or RUGGLES,* the name appearing variously spelt at different periods, of Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, whose will was proved, 21st June, 1547, sprang JOHN RUGGLE, OR RUGGLES, who appears to have been the first of the family that settled at Bocking, in Essex, and died in June, 1702, leaving issue, by Mary Swift, his wife, five sons and daughters, whereof * WILLIAM RUGGLE, brother of this Thomas, was grandfather of THOMAS RUGGLE, a substantial clothier of GEORGE RUGGLE, born at Lavenham, And Mary, b. in 1667, m. Samuel Crackenthorp. Sarah, b. in 1687, m. William Rankin, of Saffron Walden. THOMAS RUGGLES, of Bocking, became an opulent manufacturer and clothier, and purchased in 1721, Wakes Hall, in Belchamp, with other estates. He wedded twice; by his first wife, Rose, he had, with other issue, 1. JOHN, who m. Amy, daughter of Mr. 2. THOMAS, of whom presently. JOHN RUGGLES, esq. of Spains |