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PETER ILBERT, b. in 1616, married in 1646, Katherine, daughter of Henry Dotin, esq. of Slapton, and dying in 1691, left three sons, of whom the eldest (the only one who married),

WILLIAM ILBERT, esq. wedded in 1668, Mary, daughter of Henry Luscombe, esq. of Rattery, and died in 1679, leaving, with other issue, of whom Katherine m. in 1695, John Tinkham, a son and successor,

WILLIAM ILBERT, esq. major of the Devon militia, commanded by Sir Francis Drake. This gentleman m. first, Jane, daughter and heiress of Osborne, esq. of Crebar, in Devonshire, by whom he had a son, WILLIAM, his heir, and a daughter, Jane. He wedded, secondly, in 1719, Catherine, daughter of Jonathan Elford, esq. of Bickham, but by her had no issue. Major Ilbert was succeeded by his son,

WILLIAM ILBERT, esq. of Bowringsleigh, in Devon, who m. in 1734, Bridget, sixth daughter of Sir William Courtenay, of Powderham Castle, by the Lady Anne Bertie, his wife, daughter of James, first Earl of Abingdon, and had issue,

WILLIAM, his heir.

William-Elford, twin with William, colonel of the South Devon militia. Henry, b. in 1740, d. in 1741. Peregrine, twin with Henry, d. in 1740.

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Molton.

The eldest son,

WILLIAM-ROOPE, successor to his uncle.

Peregrine-Arthur, in holy orders, b. 18th April, 1810.

Bridget-Mary, m. to Francis Cross,
esq. of Great Duryard, in the county
of Devon, d. in 1834.

Frances, m.to James Somerville Fownes,
now Somerville, esq. of Dinder House,
in Somersetshire, d. in 1824.
Sophia-Maria, m. to Robert John Har-
rison, esq. of Caer Howel, in the
county of Montgomery, d. in 1836.
Augusta, m. to John Lort Phillips, esq.
of Haverfordwest, in the county of
Pembroke.

Mr. Ilbert was succeeded at his decease by his eldest son,

THE REV. ROOPE ILBERT, of Bowringsleigh, rector of Stockleigh Pomeroy and Cheriton Bishop, in the county of Devon, b. in 1763, who d. in 1823, and was succeeded by his next brother,

PETER ILBERT, esq. of Bowringsleigh and Horswell House, captain in the North Devon militia, b. in 1765, who d. without issue in 1825, when the estates and representative of the family devolved on his nephew the present WILLIAM ROOPE ILBERT, esq. of Bowringsleigh and Horswell House.

Arms-Quarterly: 1st and 4th or, two chevronells engrailed vert between three roses gu. seeded and barbed ppr. for ILBERT; 2nd arg. a lion rampant per fess gu. and vert, between seven pheons az. for ROOPE; 3rd, quarterly, erm. and az. over all a cross or charged with five annulets sa. for OSBORNE.

Crest-A cock pheasant arg. combed and wattled gu.

Motto-Nulla rosa sine spinis.
Estates-In Devonshire.

WILLIAM ILBERT, esq. of Bowringsleigh, succeeded his father in 1751, and served the office of sheriff for Devonshire, in 1768. He m. in 1761, Frances, daughter and sole heiress of William Roope, esq. of Horswell House, both in the county of Devon.

House, in that county, and had issue,

William-Roope, R.N. born in 1762,
drowned in Torbay, 1781.
ROOPE, heir to his father.

Perigrine, in holy orders, fellow of Ba-
liol College, Oxford, archdeacon of
Barnstaple, and rector of Farringdon,
in Devon, b. in 1674, d. in 1805.
PETER, Successor to his brother Roope.
Willoughby, in the East India Com-
pany's naval service, b. in 1773, d.

in 1795. Courtenay, captain royal artillery, b. in 1780, who m. in 1804, Anne, daughter of Geoffry Taylor, esq. of Sevenoaks, in Kent, and died at Valenciennes in 1816, leaving surviving issue, two

sons,

Seats

Bowringsleigh and Horswell

Family of Roope.

The pedigree of ROOPE was entered in the College of Arms, 11th October, 1600.

RICHARD ROOPE, son and heir of William Roope, married a daughter of Peter de Compton, and had two sons; JOHN, his heir, and William, who m. Johanna, daughter of Robert Putt, of Norton, in Devon, and left issue. The elder son,

JOHN ROOPE, father of

WILLIAM ROOPE, who left by his wife, a daughter of - Mathews, two sons, Mathew and James, of whom the elder,

MATHEW ROOPE, m. first, a daughter of Sweet, esq. of Trayne, in Devonshire, and

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MATHEW ROOPE, esq. m. Joan, daughter of Adam Stroude, of Innerton, in Ugborough, and had a son and successor,

JOHN ROOPE, esq. of Horswell, b. in 1663, who m. Frances, daughter of Andrew Cholwich, esq. of Oldston and Cholwich Town, in Devonshire, and had two sons and three daughters; viz. JOHN, b. in 1694, d. s. p. and WILLIAM, his heir; Frances, Joan, and Elizabeth. The second son,

WILLIAM ROOPE, esq. of Horswell, married Mary, daughter of Alexander Wills, of Kingsbridge, and had an only daughter and heiress, FRANCES, m. as already stated, to WILLIAM ILBERT, esq. of Bowringsleigh.

BRANDRETH, OF STUBLACH.

BRANDRETH, JOSEPH PILKINGTON, M. D. of Stublach, in the county palatine of Chester, b. 8th September, 1781, m. 28th June, 1810, Alice, daughter and co-heir of William Harper, esq. of Davenham Hall, in the same shire, and has issue,

WILLIAM-HARPER, in holy orders, b. 16th September, 1812.

Frederick-William, in the Scots Fusileer Guards, b. 16th September, 1812.
Edward-Lyall, b. 4th February, 1823.

Charles, b. 20th March, 1826.

Catharine, m. George, eldest son of James Loch, esq. of Drylaw, in the county of
Edinburgh, and M.P. for Kirkwall.

Helen.

Mary-Elizabeth.

Lineage.

EDWARD BRANDRETH, second son of John Brandreth, of Weeford and Lees, born in 1645, died in 1702, leaving two surviving sons, Obadiah, b. in 1678, who d. unm. in 1750, and

THOMAS BRANDRETH, of Lees, in Cheshire, born in 1686, who d. in 1730, and was succeeded by his son,

The descendants of the eldest son retained the name of Brandreth, but assumed the arms of the family into which they married.

THOMAS BRANDRETH, esq. of Lees, who married Mary Robinson, and was father of JOSEPH BRANDRETH, esq. M.D. who married, in 1780, Catharine, daughter of John Pilkington, esq. of Anderton, in Lancashire, and had issue,

JOSEPH-PILKINGTON, his heir.
Thomas-Shaw, b. 24th July, 1788, m.
4th February, 1822, Harriet, daugh-
ter of Ashton Byrom, esq. of Fair-
view, Toxteth Park, Lancashire, and
has issue.

Mary, m. to Benjamin Gaskell, esq. of
Thornes House, in Yorkshire.
Catharine, m. to Edward Rowe Lyall,
archdeacon of Colchester.
The eldest son is the present JOSEPH-PIL-
KINGTON BRANDRETH, M.D. of Stublach.

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NICOLAS, OF EAST LOOE.

NICOLAS, JOHN-HARRIS, esq. of East Looe, in the county of Cornwall, b. 22nd

November, 1758, m. 21st May, 1787, Margaret, youngest daughter of John Blake, esq. by Ann, his wife, daughter and co-heir of William Busvargus, esq. of Busvargus, in Cornwall, and has issue,

1. JOHN-TOUP, b. 22nd February, 1788, a post-
captain R.N. companion of the most honour-
able military Order of the Bath, knight of
the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and
knight commander of the royal and military
Order of St. Ferdinand, and of Merit of the
Two Sicilies. Captain Toup Nicolas m. 1st
August, 1818, Frances-Anna, daughter of
Nicholas Were, esq. of Landcox, near Wel-
lington, in the county of Somerset, and has
had

BUSVARGUS-TOUP, b. 8th October, 1819.
Wyndham, b. 8th April, 1823, d. at the
Chateau de Nechoat, in Brittany, 2nd
August, 1828.

Were-Giffard-de-Rosmadec, b. 11th Feb-
ruary, 1825.

Beville-Granville, b. in Brittany, 28th
October, 1829.

Granville-Toup, b. 15th August, 1832.
Frances-Anna-Renée-de-Rosmadec.

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Blanche.
Maud-Beville.

11. Paul-Harris, b. 1st March, 1790, a retired officer of the Royal Marines, in which corps he distinguished himself on board the " Belleisle," of 74 guns, in the battle of Trafalgar; and subsequently on board the " Amazon" and "Armide" frigates. He m. Ann Morcoumbe, and has issue,

John-Harris-Toup.

Ann-Morcoumbe.

III. William-Keigwin, b. 23rd April, 1792, lieutenant in the navy, who was distin-
guished during the late war, whilst belonging to his majesty's ship the " Defiance,"
of 74 guns, in various actions with the enemy, and particularly whilst first lieu-
tenant of the "Pilot" brig, of 18 guns and 120 men, when she engaged and de-
feated, near Toulon, the French ship of war "La Legère," of 28 guns and 300
men, on the 17th June, 1815, in which action he was wounded.

IV. Nicholas-Harris (Sir), b. 10th March, 1799, chancellor of the most distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George, and senior knight commander of the same
Order, knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, barrister-at-law. This
gentleman, previous to adopting the profession of the law, served as a midship-
man in the navy from 1809 to 1815, when he was promoted to the rank of lieu-
tenant, having been often honourably mentioned in the Gazette, as being gal-
lantly employed in the boats of the "Pilot" on the coasts of Naples and Calabria.
He m. in 1822, Sarah, daughter of John Davison, esq. and has issue,
Nicholas-Harris.

Percy.

Sarah-Florence.

Grace.
Helen-Renée.

Philippa.

Sir Harris is the author of many valuable works connected with the History and Peerage of England. A late number of the Quarterly Review (April, 1836), in its comments on one of these, "The Scrope and Grosvenor Roll," thus concludes its remarks: "Meantime his (Sir Harris Nicolas's) efforts for the reform of the Society of Antiquaries and the Record Commission, in which last he is, we hope,

still most usefully engaged-an Augean stable requiring the labours of such an Hercules have been enough alone to afford full occupation to any ordinary man, in addition to his professional engagements. And this indefatigable antiquary and historian, whose writings are no less masterly and profound, than they are numerous and interesting, was, we believe, a lieutenant of the navy at the close of the war!" He died in Augus st.1848

v. Charles-Henry, b. 15th April, 1801, married and has issue.

Captain Nicolas, who served throughout the American War, retired in the year 1814 from the royal navy with the rank of commander.

Lineage.

The family of NICOLAS, of CORNWALL, was originally of BRITTANY, in which province their ancestors possessed the Seigneuries of KERVIZIOU, near LANNION; of QUINQUISALIOU, near CARHAIX; of PLESSIX, of LA TOUCHE, of CLAYE, and of CHAMPS-GERAULT in the vicinity of RENNES; and also of CLERMONT, near NANTES; and they were ennobled before the 14th century.

The representative of the second branch, whose immediate ancestor is stated to be Jean Nicolas Seigneur des Champs-Gérault, being of the protestant faith, emigrated from France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, and settled at Looe, in Cornwall, where he became the founder of that part of this ancient family now domiciled in England.

Nobility of his Extraction. He married Jeanne Martin, Dame des Champs-Gérault. Their son, Jean Nicolas, Seigneur des Champs-Gérault, &c. was counsellor in the court of accounts at Rennes. He married Nicole le Vayer, Dame de Claye, near Rennes. Their only child, Jeane Nicolas, Chevalier, Seigneur, de Claye, des ChampsGerault, de la Touch, de Plessix, &c. was first president of the court of requests of Brittany: by his marriage with the Marquise Pepin-du-Frettay, he had three sons; the eldest, Germain, Seigneure de Claye, married Renée de Chenu, daughter and heiress of René de Chenu, Seigneur de Clermont, de Chenu, &c. near Nantes; gentleman of the bed-chamber to the Prince of Conde. This branch became extinct in The following abridged statement of their the male line, in 1725, when the only daughgenealogy, is extracted from the translation ter and heiress of Germain Nicolas, Seigneur of a certified pedigree, received from the de Claye, and de Clermont, married the "Bureau de la Noblesse," at Paris, soon Marquis de la Bourdonnaye, Seigneur de after the peace; and the statements con- Lire; their granddaughter and representatained in this document have been, in all the tive is the present Vicomtesse D'Allonville, principal points, most satisfactorily con- Dame de Claye, wife of the Vicounte D'Alfirmed by subsequent researches in the ar-lonville, late one of the aides-de-camp of chives of Rennes, of Lannion, of Cartraix, the Dauphin. and other places in Brittany, near to which the ancestors of the present family formerly resided. It is likewise partly taken from the 15th volume of the " Nobiliaire Universel de France," in which work upon the ancient French Nobility, the pedigree of Nicolas is, in the last edition, continued down to the existing branch in England, which it in

cludes.

The pedigree commences with Oliver Nicolas, Chevalier, mentioned in the year, 1336, with the title of "Messire," (which style was only applied to persons of noble descent), and who distinguished himself in the wars of his time; his son, Jean Nicolas, Seigneur de Kerviziou, was one of the Lords of Brittany, who ratified the treaty of peace of Guerrande, concluded between CHARLES V. of France, and the Duke of Brittany, on the 28th April, 1381.

Jean Nicolas's fifth lineal descendant was YVON NICOLAS, Seigneur de Kerviziou, de Quinquisaliou, and la Touche, in 1543; whose grandson, Jean Nicolas, Seigneur de Kerviziou, de la Touche, &c. obtained, in the year 1614, letters of recognizance of the

JEAN NICOLAS, the second son, Chevalier, des Champs-Gérault, was with his brother, Germaine Nicolas, Seigneure de Claye, on the reformation of the nobility of Brittany, in 1669, recognized noblesse of an ancient extraction, and of the quality of Chevaliers, by an act of the chamber of reformation of Brittany, on the 20th August, 1669. Jean Nicolas married Marie Renée de Rosmadec, daughter of Sebastian, Marquis de Rosmadec, Count de Chapelles, Baron de Molac, de Juch, de Penhoüet, &c. Lieutenant du Roi of the Province of Brittany, and Governor of Nantes; by Renée de Kergournadech de Kercoent; and by her had

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rough of East Looe, married Elizabeth Mellow, and had one child,

PAUL NICOLAS, (the name at this period, 1750, became corrupted to the English mode of writing the christian name of Nicholas, but the ancient manner of spelling it was resumed by Captain Toup Nicolas, and his brothers, with permission, on obtaining the pedigree of their ancestry from France,) an alderman of both the boroughs of East and West Looe, who married Martha Harris, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas Harris, of East Looe, a younger brother of John Harris, esq. of Manadan, in the county of Devon, and by her had three sons,

I. PAUL-HARRIS, an alderman of East
Looe, who died in 1788, leaving a
son, Nicholas-Harris, who died in
1806, captain of the royal artillery.
11. Nicholas-Harris, b. in 1755, captain
in the 44th regiment, who served with
reputation in the American war, and
was severely wounded at Bunker's
Hill. About the year 1788, he sold
out of the army, and in 1799 became
major of the Royal Cornwall Fencible
Dragoons. He d. s. p. in 1816.
III. JOHN-HARRIS, the present repre-
sentative of the family.

Crest-A wolf's head erased, or; issuing from a coronet of the nobility of Brittany, as over the arms.

Supporters-On the dexter side, a lion regardant, or; langued gules; on the sinister, a syren, proper.

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Motto-Issuing from the coronet, EN BON ESPOIR."

Previous to obtaining the attested documents from France, with the genealogy of their ancestors, the representative of the family in England, Captain John-Harris Nicolas, received a grant of arms from the Heralds' College, in the year 1816; as follows:

"Gironny of eight, argent and azure, an eagle displayed erminois: On a chief, wavy (in allusion to the services of Captain Nicolas, and Captain Toup Nicolas) ermine, a trident, or, surmounted in saltire of a flagstaff, proper, thereon, hoisted, a pennant gules, both passing through a chaplet of laurel, vert."

Crest-A demi-eagle, sable, wings elevated, erminois, each charged with a cross, couped, gules, issuing from a naval crown,

or.

And, on the 16th of October, 1816, Captain Toup Nicolas received the following augmentation to the above crest: "The word ' PILOT,' inscribed on the rim of the naval crown, to be borne by him and his descendants, in commemoration of his distinguished services in his majesty's sloop Pilot, on the East and West coasts of Calabria, during the years 1810, 1811, and

Arms-The ancient arms of the family of Nicolas, Seigneurs de Claye, de ChampsGérault, &c. and which were confirmed to the present branch, are gu. on a fess arg. between three wolves' heads erased, or; three martlets, sa. surmounted with an escutcheon, bearing the arms of DE ROSMA-1812; and also in allusion to the gallant DEC, viz.

1st Quarter. De Rosmadec.

2nd Quarter. De Montmorency.

3rd Quarter. De Rohan.

4th Quarter. De Kergournadec, and over all an escutcheon, with the arms of BOURBON-VENDOME.

action fought near Toulon, between his majesty's said sloop, and the French national ship La Legère, of twenty-eight guns, and three hundred men, on the 17th of June, 1815."

WERE, OF WELLINGTON AND POOLE.

WERE, ROBERT, esq. formerly of Runnington Manor, near Wellington, and now

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of Poole, representative of this ancient family, m. Mary-Ann, daughter of Thomas Morris, esq. and has issue,

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