ROSE CLELAND, OF RATH-GAEL. CLELAND-ROSE, JAMES-DOWSETT, esq. of Rath-Gael House, in the county of Down, b. at Fort St. Davids, Cuddalore, in the East Indies, 24th March, 1767, s. his father, 7th June, 1768, and to the property of his paternal grandfather, Richard Rose, esq. of Abingdon, Berks, 14th Jan. 1784, and in compliance with the testamentary injunction of his cousin, Patrick Clealand, esq. of Ballymagee, in the county of Down, (to whose Irish estates he succeeded, 5th December, 1785), assumed the additional surname and arms of Cleland (his mother's name). He m. first, 14th August, 1790, Sarah, only child of William-Eaton Andrews, esq. of London,* and by that lady, who d. 2nd October, 1830, had a son and daughter, viz. I. WILLIAM-NICHOLSON, b. 18th June, 1794, d. 20th No- II. Elizabeth-Hawkins, m. 3rd September, 1829, For- 1. James-Vernon-Rose Gregg, b. 31st July, 1832. 2. John-William Gregg, b. 14th August, 1834. 1. Sarah-Andrews Gregg. He wedded, secondly, 10th December, 1832, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of WilliamNicholson Steele-Nicholson, esq. of Ballow House, and Isabella Hancock his wife (see vol. iii. p. 357), and by her has two other sons and a daughter, III. James-Blackwood, b. 30th January, 1835. IV. Richard, b. 1st May, 1836. v. Agnes-Elizabeth. Mr. Rose Cleland, is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Down. He commanded the Newtown Ards Yeomen Infantry at the battle of Saintfield, 9th June, 1798; in August following, raised the Rath-Gael Yeomen Infantry, and received repeated thanks from the government for his services; he also served the office of highsheriff for the county of Down in 1805, and presided at the contested election for that county, between Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, and Colonel John Meade, which lasted twenty-one days. Lineage. The family of Cleland (formerly spelt | Earl Malcolm Lennox, Lord William DougKneland) is of great antiquity in Scotland. | las, Sir John Graham, Sir Neil Campbell, Their coat of Arms, tradition states, was acquired by their being hereditary foresters to the ancient Earls of Douglas. JAMES CLELAND, of that Ilk, in the county of Lanark, ancestor of the Clelands of that Ilk and of several other families of the same surname,† joined his cousin Sir William Wallace in the year 1296, for the relief of his country against the English, along with the following noblemen and gentlemen, viz. By his wife, Anne, daughter of William Hawkins, esq. of Abingdon, and his wife Henrietta Baker. + Viz. Clelands, of Faskine, Monkland, and Gartness, which last family ended (about the year Sir Christopher Seaton, Sir John Ramsey, Sir Francis Barclay, Andrew Murray, William Oliphant, Hugh Hay, Robert Boyd, John Johnstoun, Adam Gordon, Robert Keith, Ronald Crawford, jun. James Crawford, William Crawford, Adam Wallace, Roger Kilpatrick, Simon Frazer, Alexander Frazer, Robert Lauder, Scrimeger, Alexander Auchinlech, Ruthven, Richard Lundie, Arthur Bisset, James Lindsay, Robert 1670,) in an heiress, Anne, daughter of George Cleland, esq. of Gartness, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Hamilton, of Wishaw : she m. George Weir, of Blackwood (see pedigree of Vere, of Blackwood, vol. iii. p. 320)." Lindsay, William Ker, Edward Little, Ro- | bert Rutherford, Thomas Halliday, John Tinto, Walter Newbigging, Gerdan Baird, Guthrie, Adam Currie, Hugh Dundas, John Scot, Stephen Ireland, Mr. John Blair, Mr. Thomas Gray, &c. &c. with their friends and servants, as in Mr. Blair's History. He was present at, and assisted Sir William Wallace in most of his exploits, particularly in taking prisoner Thomas of Longueville, commonly called the Red Rover; Blind Harry in his History of Wallace, in enumerating the friends of Wallace, he says: "Kneland was yar, ner cusyng to Wallace, Syne baid with hym in mony perelowss place." And in relating the battle at sea with "The Red Reffayr," Wallace says: "Kneland, cusyng, cum tak ze ster in hand, Her on ye wail ner by ye I sall stand." After the death of Sir William Wallace he firmly supported the cause of King ROBERT the Bruce, and for his loyalty and good services that king gave to him several lands in the Barony of Calder, in West Lothian. WILLIAM CLELAND, of that Ilk, was fifth in descent from the above James Cleland, and in the reign of King JAMES III. of Scotland, about the year 1462, m. Jean Somerville, daughter of William de Somerville, second Lord Somerville, by his wife Janet Mowat, daughter of Sir John Mowat, of Stenhouse. His son and successor, ALEXANDER CLELAND, of that Ilk, was killed on the 9th September, 1513, at the fatal battle of Flodden, along with his cousin William Cleland, of Faskine, fighting valiantly in defence of their king, JAMES IV. of Scotland. To a charter of the date 1498, This Janet Muirhead, who, for her great beauty was commonly called, "The Fair Maid," or, The Bonny Lass of Lechbrunach," was daughter of Sir William Muirhead, of Lauchop, by his wife Dame Jane Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay, of Locharret, ancestor of the Lords of Yester, and of the Earls and Marquises of Tweeddale, was married "de facto," privately, "sed non de jure secundum canones," to Gavin Hamilton, son of Sir James Hamilton, of Cadyow, and brother-germain to James, first Lord Hamilton. The marriage, they say, was private, and the parties, "inter grados a jure prohibitos," within the degrees of consanguinity, prohibited by the canons or laws of the church; and a previous dispensation had not been obtained by them from the pope before the marriage, and the children so procreate, "ex occulto et clandestino matrimonio," were looked on as spurious. However, this lady bore five sons, and after that he left off cohabiting with the gentlewoman, he went into orders, and came to be provost of the collegiate church at Bothwell, of the Earl of Douglas's patronage. He does not, indeed, call his children his own sons, when he dispones the lands of Orbieston to the eldest, Mr. Robert Hamilton, whom he there was appended a seal of this Alexander, upon which was a Hare, saliant, with a hunting horn about his neck. He left issue, JAMES, his heir. Elizabeth, m. John Roberton, of Earnoch, son of Robert Roberton, and Margaret, daughter of John Hamilton, of Torrence. The son and successor, JAMES CLELAND, of that Ilk, an eminent man in the time of King James V. whom he frequently attended at hunting, m. a daughter of Hepburn, of Bonnytoun, descended from the Earl of Bothwell, by whom he had his son and successor, ALEXANDER CLELAND, of that Ilk, eminent for his loyalty to Queen MARY, m. Margaret, daughter of Alexander Hamilton, of Haggs, son of John Hamilton, of Orbieston, third son, but heir and representative of Gavin Hamilton, by his wife Janet Muirhead. His son and successor, WILLIAM CLELAND, of that Ilk, m. first, a sister of Walter Stewart, first Lord Blantyre, and daughter of Sir John Stewart, by his wife Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, of Cardonald, by whom he had his son and successor, ALEXANDER. He m. secondly, Mary Somerville, daughter of Sir James Somerville, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Archibald Hamilton, of Raplock, and had issue, ALEXANDER CLELAND, of that Ilk, who m. a sister of John Hamilton, first Lord of Bargany, and daughter of Sir John Hamilton, of Bargany, by her he had several sons, the eldest of whom sold the lands of Cleland to a cousin of his own name.† JOHN CLELAND, of Laird Braes, in the designates "Cancellario Glasguen, and rector of Campsie; and then to Thomas Hamilton, canon of Dunkeld; and failing him, to John Hamilton, their carnal brother; and failing him, to Archibald and Gavin Hamilton, all brothers to one another, in the year 1468, which charter was afterwards confirmed under the great seal, in the public archives. Of John Hamilton, the first layman in the charter, are descended the Hamiltons of Orbiston, Hagg, Bothwellhaugh, Innermadden, Aikenhead in Monkland, Fergusly, Kilbrackmont, Monkland, Dalziel, Neilsland, &c. &c. + Major William Cleland, great-grandson of the last mentioned Alexander Cleland, of that Ilk, was one of the commissioners of the customs in Scotland, and carried the principal arms of the family, as a tessera of his blood and primogeniture, viz. Az. a hare saliant, arg. with a hunting horn, vert, hanging about his neck, garnished gu. supported by two greyhounds ppr. Crest-A falcon standing upon a left-hand glove ppr. Motto over the Crest Non sibi;" sometimes, " For sport." Motto to the Arms-" Je pense a qui pense plus." Major Cleland's sister m. Thomas Hamilton, of Newton, she d. in 1733. (See pedigree of Gray, of Carntyne, vol. iii. p. 11). parish of Zeswalt, was either the second or third son of the above Alexander Cleland, and was b. about the year 1623. In consequence of some disagreement with his elder brother, he retired in disgust to a small property, called "Laird Braes," in the parish of Zeswalt, and county of Wigton, and about the year 1651, m. Katharine Ross, descended from the Rosses of Henning. He d. in 1683, leaving by his said wife, his son and successor, JAMES CLELAND, of Laird Braes, b. in 1652, m. in 1690, Agnes Innes, who was b. in 1670, and descended from the Inneses of Benwall, she d. in 1711, and he d. in 1717, leaving issue, JOHN, b. 1692. 1812. The son and heir, JOHN CLELAND, of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire, Scotland, was appointed factor to James, fifth Earl of Galloway, and in 1731, m. Margaret Murdoch, only child of Murdoch, provost of Whithorn, descended from the Murdochs of Cumlodden, she was b. in 1701, and d. 21st September, 1747; he died 10th August, 1747, and had issue by her, 1. William, b. 1732, d. in infancy. 111. John, b. 1738, d. in infancy. 1. Katharine, b. 1732, d. in infancy. II. Agnes, b. 4th September, 1740, m. first, at Fort St. David's, in the East Indies, 5th June, 1766, to lieutenant Richard Rose, of the East India Company's European Regiment, who d. at Trichinopoly, 7th June, 1768, of wounds received at the siege of Altoor, by whom she had an only child, There is a tomb, close to the church at Whithorn, with the following inscription: "Here lyeth the remains of Mr. John Cleland, factor to the Earl of Galloway, who departed this life the 10th of August, 1747, aged 55 years; and Margaret Murdoch his spouse, on the 21st September, 1747, aged 39 years; as also Katharine, William, John, and Margaret Cleland, their children." + Mr. James Cleland, of Newtown Ards, the last of the name in the male line, was descended by marriage from Cedric, King of the West Saxons; Charlemagne ; Alfred the Great; Capet, King of France; Rollo, Duke of Normandy; Baldwin, the first Earl of Flanders; Siward, Earl of Northumberland; William the Conqueror; Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland; Hugh Keviloch, Earl of Chester; Walleran, Earl of Mellent; Roger de Bellamont, Lord of Pont Audemar; Gualtier de Somerville; Rudolph de Guadar, Earl of the East JAMES-DOWSETT ROSE, who after wards assumed the additional surname of CLELAND, b. 24th March, 1767. She m. secondly, in 1774, to William Nicholson, esq. of Ballow House (see vol. iii. p. 358), and d. 11th July, 1775, (and was buried at Bangor, Ireland,) without having issue by him. III. Margaret, b. 1742, d. in infancy.* The son and successor, JAMES CLELAND, of Newtown Ards, in the county of Down, Ireland, m. in 1770, Sarah, only child of Captain Patrick Baird (brother to William Baird, of Newbyth, and James Baird, esq. of London, and uncle to General Sir David Baird). +He d. at Newtown Ards, 14th May, 1777, s. p.; will dated 5th May, 1775. His widow d. and was buried at Abingdon, Berks, 7th December, 1787; will dated 23rd November, 1787. Mr. Cleland was succeeded by his nephew the present JAMES DOWSETT ROSE - CLELAND, esq. of Rath-Gael. Family of Clealand, of Ballymagee. A branch of the Scottish family of Cleland, of that Ilk. Patrick, William, and Andrew & Clealand, who it is supposed were sons of the last Alexander Cleland, of that Ilk, and brother to John Cleland, of Laird Braes, as their descendants always acknowledged each other as cousins. They settled in Ireland about the year 1645, and changed the spelling of the name in consequence (as it is believed) of disagreement with the elder brother, who sold the estates of Cleland. The eldest son, PATRICK CLEALAND, of Bangor, in the county of Down, Ireland, b. about 1625, m. Janet, second daughter of John Blackwood, esq. provost of Bangor (ancestor of James Stevenson Blackwood, first Lord Angles; Hugh de Grantmesnil, great steward of England; Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick; the families of Burgundy, Brigenburg; Valois, Vermandois, and Auberie; Norman de Leslie, ancestor of the Earls of Rothes; William Ross, Earl of Ross; Adam Gordon, Lord Gordon; Gilbert Graham, Earl of Strathern; Sir Robert Keith, ancestor of the Earl Marischals of Scotland; Sir James Douglas, Earl of Dalkeith; Sir Alexander Livingston, ancestor of the Earls of Linlithgow; William de Hay, ancestor of Lord Hay; Alexander Stewart, Lord Darnley; Alexander Stewart, high steward of Scotland; James Douglas, ancestor of the Earls of Morton; Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell; Sir John Hamilton, ancestor of the Lords Bargany; Sir John Herring; Sir John Mowat; &c. &c. as set forth in a pedigree in the possession of the present Mr. Rose Cleland. He left a son, William, of whom nothing is } Dufferin and Claneboye). He d. about the year 1682, and his will is dated 31st May, 1679, by her he left issue, JOHN, b. 1665, his heir. JOHN CLEALAND, esq.* provost of Bangor, m. Mary Taggart, of Glenwhirry, in the county of Antrim, b. 1675. He d. 20th January, 1714, and by her, who died 28th May, 1742, he left issue, PATRICK, b. 1701, his heir. A daughter, m. William Henderson (commonly called Laird Henderson); of Ballyvernon, near Bangor, and left issue. A daughter, m. her first cousin, John Taggart, of Glenwhirry, and left issue. The only son, PATRICK CLEALAND, esq. of Ballymagee, near Bangor, was appointed by commission, dated 15th March, 1757, a lieutenant, in Captain James Crawford's, of Crawfordsburn, company, of the county of Down Militia Foot, commanded by Alexander Stewart, esq. (father of Robert Stewart, first Marquis of Londonderry.) He m. about 1745, Mary, relict of William Nicholson, esq. of Ballow, (see pedigree of Nicholson of Ballow) and daughter of Hugh Whyte, esq. of Ballyree (by his second wife Anne, eldest daughter of Alexander Hamilton, esq. of Ballyvernon, and his wife Isabel, eldest daughter of John Blackwood, esq. provost of Bangor, ancestor of the present Lord Dufferin). By her, who d. 29th October, 1787, he had several children, none of whom survived infancy. He d. 5th December, resident at Family of Rose, of Abingdon, Berks. The family of Rose was Abingdon, in Berkshire, for three hundred and sixty-two years, viz. from the year 1428, to 1790, but originally derived from HENRY ROSE, of Great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, who served the office of high bailiff for that town, in 1299, 1301, 1305, and 1307. In the same year, Henricus Rose, burgess, was returned for Great Yarmouth to Parliament at Northampton, in fifteen days of Saint Michael, 13th October, 1 EDWARD II. He was bailiff again in 1309. To a deed dated 2nd November, 1700, there is a seal appended of this John Cleland, upon which is a hare saliant, with a hunting born in dexter chef, and a rose on the sinister base. Crest A hare courant. In 1310, Henricus Rose de Yernemuth, appointed one of the collectors in the port of Yarmouth, of the new customs upon wines, granted by the merchants of Acquitane, commission tested at Northampton, 2nd August, 4 EDWARD II. In 1311, Henricus Rose, appointed as the deputy of Walterus de Waldeshof, chief botiller in the port of Yarmouth, and its members; commission, or writ of assistance, tested at Berwick-uponTweed, 23rd January, 4 EDWARD II. In 1316 Henricus Rose certified, pursuant to writ tested at Clipston, 5th March, as one of the lords of the township of Stalham, and of Bourgh, Billockly, and Bastwich, in the county of Norfolk, 9 EDWARD II. In 1319, Henricus Rose, one of the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. In 1322, Henricus Rose, burgess, returned for Great Yarmouth, Parliament at York, in three weeks of Easter, 2nd May, 15 EDWARD II. In 1324, Henricus Rose, was one of the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth, 17 EDWARD II. He died about the year 1325, leaving a son, RICHARD ROSE, of Great Yarmouth, who in the year 1329, the 3rd of EDWARD III. prosecuted six men of Garleston, for taking away, by force, herrings and other goods, his property, to the amount of £20; and in 1330, he again prosecuted five other men of Garleston, for carrying away his vessel, by force and arms, value £10. He was living in 1335. His son, HENRY ROSE, of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire,settled there about the year 1340. He was living in the year 1365. His son, JOHN ROSE, of High Wycombe, d. about the year 1390, leaving a son, RICHARD ROSE, of High Wycombe, who removed to Abingdon, Berks, a short time before his death, which was about the year 1428. His son, HUGO ROSE, de Abendon, took the oath of allegiance along with the other gentry of Berkshire, in the 12 HENRY VI., before Robert, Bishop of Sarum, and William Loval, chevalier, the commissioners appointed for that purpose; he m. Sarah, daughter of Thomas Whyhkam, who was high sheriff of Berkshire in the year 1413, 1 HENRY V. He d. about the year 1445, leaving a son, JOHN ROSE, of Abingdon, b. 1438, m. 1485, Mary, daughter of John Hyde,† of South Denchworth, by his wife, Alice Lidyard, daughter of John Lidyard, of Benham, who was high sheriff of Berkshire in the year 1445, 23 HENRY VI. He d. in the year 1492, his son, RICHARD ROSE, of Abingdon, b. 1487, m. 26th November, 1539, Elizabeth Bostosk, + This John Hyde was fifth in descent from Roger de la Hyde, of Hanney, near Wantage, Berks, who was living in 1920, 5 HENRY III. of Fitzharris House, Abingdon, a descendant | 1674, Elizabeth Basket, descended from Joof the ancient family of the Bostocks of hannis Basket, who was high sheriff for Cheshire. He was buried at St. Helens, Berkshire in the year 1500, 15 HENRY VII. Abingdon, 24th August, 1550; and his widow He d. 28th February, 1711, she d. 19th at the same place, 5th September, 1555, April, 1719, leaving issue, leaving a son, RICHARD ROSE, of Abingdon, b. 30th March, 1541, m. 20th May, 1574, to Elizabeth Mayott, of Abingdon. He d. 12th June, 1603, his wife 28th May, 1598, and were both buried in St. Helens' Church, Abingdon. Their son, THOMAS ROSE, of Abingdon, baptized at St. Helens, 31st January, 1577, m. 17th February, 1612, Susanna Hulcot, of Abingdon, who was descended from Johannis de Hulcot, of Barcot, high sheriff of Berkshire, in 1233, 17 HENRY III. and from Johannis de Hulcot, of Barcot, high sheriff of Berkshire in 1384, 7 RICHARD II.; also from Ricardus de Hulcot, who swore allegiance to King HENRY VI. in the 12th year of his reign, anno 1433, along with Hugo Rose, and the other gentlemen of Berkshire. He d. 23rd September, 1642, and was buried with his wife, who d. 29th March, 1640, in St. Helens' Church, leaving a son, RICHARD ROSE, of Abingdon, baptized at St. Helens, 5th November, 1616. He was a zealous royalist, and materially injured his family by the sums he advanced for the service of King CHARLES I. while the royal army occupied Abingdon; on the king's troops evacuating that town in May, 1644, it was immediately garrisoned by the Parliament forces, from whom he suffered severely, both in person and property; he m. 5th August, 1642, Ann, daughter of John Jones, esq. of Worcester, and sister of Dr. Walter Jones, rector of Sunningwell (near Abingdon), and prebend of Westminster; she d. 18th May, 1663. He d. 22nd June, 1657, and were both buried at St. Helens, leaving a son, RICHARD ROSE,* of Abingdon, baptized at St. Helens, 26th March, 1645, who m. in * Mr. Rose was a strenuous supporter of the protestant interest, and was dismissed, with many others, from the corporation of Abingdon, by the following "Order of Council, dated December 24th, 1687," signed at the top," James Rex," and at the bottom, "By his majesty's command, Sunderland," and directed. on the outside, To our trusty and well-beloved Mayor, Alderman, and Corporation of our Borough of Abingdon, in our County of Berks." "To remove (we having by our Order in Council thought fit) George Winchurst, John Claxton, Robert Selwood, John Payne, and Robert Blackaller, from being aldermen of the borough of Abingdon; George Drew, from being bailiffe and common councillman; Richard Ely, from being chamberlain and common councillman; Michael Rawlins, Thomas Pickett, Thomas Bayley, Edward Allen, Richard Rose, John Aynger, John Wicklow, from being common councillmen; John 1. Richard, baptized 27th August, 1675, m. Frances Webb, but d. s. p. 8th January, 1730, his widow surviving until 3rd October, 1752. 2. Edward, b. 1677, d. 19th June, 1690. 3. John, baptized 2nd November, 1678. d. 1679. 4. THOMAS, b. 1680, of whom hereafter. 5. John, baptized 11th May, 1683, d. 2nd August, 1683. 6. James, baptized 4th August, 1686, m. 24th April, 1712, Mary Holmes, by whom he had issue, Elizabeth. Edward, m. first, Sarah Webb, of Mapledurham, by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth. He m. secondly, Elizabeth Hancock, of Long Wittenham, and had issue, 1. James, b. at Abingdon, 1st July, 1776, m. Anne, by whom he had, James, b. at London. Elizabeth, b. at Abingdon, d. in infancy. 2. George, b. at Abingdon, who was well known on the turf, and having lost a large sum of money at Newmarket, cut his throat: d. s. p. 3. Richard, b. at Abingdon, m. Belcher, and had issue, Richard, Elizabeth, Mary, and Ann. 1. Anne, b. at Abingdon, m. Hewett, of Long Witten ham, by whom she had issue, Mary, Ann, Dinah, And to Woodley, from being serjeant at mace. will and require you forthwith to elect and admit, Thomas Hulcotts, Charles Hughes, sen. John Fountain, John Stevenson, and Robert Payne, to be aldermen; Mark Hawkins, to be bailiffe and common councillman; Richard Smith, Richard Pleydell, Charles Hughes, jun. Robert Aldworth, John Herne, William Davis, and John Tull, to be common councillman; Edward Straynge, to be serjeant at mace. In the room of the persons above mentioned, without administering unto them any oath or oaths, but the usual oath for the execution of their respective places, with which we are pleased to dispense in this behalf, and for so doing, this shall be your warrant." The above order will show to what a height of despotism the ministry, in the reign of the unhappy JAMES II. had arrived, before the nation was roused to force that deluded prince to abdicate the throne. |