Elizabeth, Joseph, and two other children. 1. Elizabeth, baptized 10th May, 1682, 3. Martha, b. 4th May, 1688, d. 2nd The fourth but eldest surviving son, THOMAS ROSE, of Charlestown, South Carolina, America, settled there about the year 1700, he m. first, 1704, Elizabeth, only child of Bennet, of A. K. B. plantation, situated between Ashley and Cooper rivers, near Charlestown, (he was a physician, and came from Thame, in Oxfordshire, and was descended from Hugo Bennet, high-sheriff for Oxfordshire in the reign of King HENRY VI. and ancestor of Lord Tankerville.) By this lady Mr. Rose had issue, 1. RICHARD, b. 10th October, 1705, as 2. Thomas, m. Elizabeth, issue, Thomas and Elizabeth. and had 1. Sabina, m. to Robert Ladson; she d. children. 2. Margaret. 3. RICHARD, b. 4th August, 1740, as hereafter. 4. James, b. 25th August, 1742, m. Frances Benwell, of Eton. He d. 27th June, 1776, s. p. ; his widow m. John Allnut, esq. of Wallingford, and had a son, John Allnut. 1. Elizabeth, b. 14th June, 1734, d. unmarried, 20th January, 1815. 2. Anne, b. 20th July, 1736, d. 30th September, 1746. The eldest son to survive, RICHARD ROSE, of Abingdon, made three voyages to Bombay and China (before he was nineteen), in the Sandwich, East Indiaman, Captain Joddrel; in 1759, he entered as midshipman in the Aurora frigate, then blockading Commodore Thurot's squadron at Dunkirk. In March, 1760, he removed to the America of 60 guns, Captain Haldane, and joined Admiral Stevens's fleet that was blockading Pondicherry; on the 6th Oct. he commanded one of the boats that cut out the Balleine and Hermione French frigates, which were moored close to the walls of Pondicherry; and was in the dreadful hurricane of the 1st July, 1761, when the Sunderland of 60 guns, Captain the Hon. Robert Colville, the Duke de Acquetaine of 64 guns, Sir William Hewett, and the Queenborough of 50 guns, foundered, five and bilged. After leaving the America he sail were dismasted, and five driven ashore had the misfortune to be shipwrecked three times, and being tired of the sea-service, on the 14th February, 1764, entered as a vo 3. Elizabeth, m.Samuel Stocks, leaving lunteer in the army then engaged in the a son, Samuel Stocks. He m. secondly, and had a son, Francis, who left three sons and a daughter. Mr. Rose (whose will is dated 20th October, 1733) died the 5th December following, and was s. by his son, RICHARD ROSE, of Abingdon, who, being adopted as heir to his uncle Richard Rose, of Abingdon, came from Charlestown in the year 1714, to reside with him, the rest of the family remained in America, where some of their descendants are still living in great respectability. He m. at Sunningwell, near Abingdon, 12th October, 1731, Elizabeth Allen (his first cousin), only child of William Allen, of Grove, and his wife Elizabeth Rose. He was an active intelligent magistrate, and being very popular, was elected and served the office of mayor of Abingdon nine times. His wife d. 1st September, 1742; and he himself d. 14th January, 1784, having had issue, 1. Richard, b. 19th October, 1732, d. siege of Madura, and on the 20th of March was appointed ensign in the East India Company's European regiment; on the 26th June carried the colours at the storming of Madura, when the troops were repulsed with the loss of 32 officers and 550 privates, killed and wounded; on the 13th October Madura surrendered, and the next day, Consibe, the governor, was hanged. On the 26th November, 1765, Mr. Rose was made lieutenant, and on the 5th June, 1766, m. at Fort St. Davids, Cuddalore, Agnes Cleland, dau. of John Cleland, esq. of Whithorn, in Scotland, and of Margaret Murdoch his wife (see pedigree of Cleland). On 30th December, 1766, he was severely wounded in the head by a musket ball, in attempting to storm the fort of Colocunda. On the 11th February, 1767, he commanded the storming party at Fort Panjalum Cutchy, and was shot through the left wrist, by which wound he was confined six months. On the 26th September he was in the great battle against the combined forces of the soubah of the Decan, and Hyder-naig, king of Mysore, consisting of 100,000 men, horse and foot, in which they were defeated by 1,800 Europeans and nine battalions of Sepoys, with the loss of all their guns, 50 in number. On the 12th February, 1768, he was at the capture of Fort Tingariticuttah; on the 19th, at the storming of a strong fort called Darampurg; on the 28th, at the capture of Wambenellore; on the 20th March, at the fall of fort Sealem, and on the 5th April, was mortally wounded at Attoor, in an attempt to storm that place, and d. at Tritchinoply, 7th June, 1768 (will dated 13th September, 1767),* leaving_an only child, James Dowsett Rose, b. at Fort St. Davids, Cuddalore, 24th March, 1767, who afterwards took the additional surname of Cleland, and is the present JAMES-DOWSETT ROSE-CLELAND, esq. of Rath-Gael. *In the centre aisle of St. Helens Church, Abingdon, Berks, there is a monument to his memory, with the following inscription: Το the memory of Mr. Richard Rose, late an Officer in the service of the Hon. East India Company, who died June 7th, 1768, aged 28, of a wound received at the siege of Attoor, a Fortress in India, April 5th of the same year. This Monument, of his son's merit, and his own loss, was erected by his afflicted father. Blest by nature with a most sweet disposition, he was a dutiful son, a most affectionate husband, Arms-Az. a hare saliant, arg. with a hunting horn round its neck, vert, garnished gu. for CLELAND. Sa. on a pale, arg. three roses gu. seeded and slipt ppr. for Rose. Quartering the arms of ALLEN, BENNET, MURDOCH, and CLEALAND. Crests-A hawk on a left-hand glove, ppr. for CLELAND. A rose, gu. seeded and slipt Ppr. between two wings, erm. for Rose. Motto-For sport. Estates-In the counties of Down, Antrim, and Berks. Seat-Rath-Gael House, Bangor, in the county of Down, Ireland. and tender parent. The excruciating tortures occasioned by a desperate wound, and the lingering and painful consequences it gradually brought on He sustained with the most perfect patience, beloved and respected, lamented and regretted, to whom he was related WHATTON, OF LEICESTERSHIRE. WHATTON, HENRY-WATKINSON, esq. of Loughborough Parks, in the county of Leicester, succeeded his father in 1815; m. Anne, daughter of Walter Daniel, esq. of Hassall Hall, in the palatinate of Chester, a branch of the Daniels of Tabley, with whom he acquired a moiety of the manor of Hassall, Hassall Hall, with the demesne and other lands. Lineage. SIR WILLIAM DE WATONE, "Dominus Willielmus de Watuna," was Lord of Watone in the Vale, in Nottinghamshire, tempore HEN. I. where he had a strong castellated mansion (the only vestige of which is an elevated mound encompassed by a fosse) with jurisdiction over the lordship, and the vills, and hamlets adjoining; he was the son of Robert, who took the surname of De Watone, a younger son of Gautier de Tirel, Seigneur de Poix, in Picardy. Robert came over to England with the Duke of Normandy, and fought under his banner at the battle of Hastings, and at the time of the survey held Watone under Gislebert de Gand. Sir William, who was a benefactor to the priory of Blythe, had two sons, 1, Robert de Watton, Lord of Watton in the Vale, whose daughter and heiress, Adeline, m. first, William de Heriz, and secondly, Adam de Newmarche, to whom she carried the manor in frankmarriage; and 2, Walter de Wathon. The second son, WALTER DE WATHON, Lord of Holesworde and Haslacton, ratione fratriagii, a knight of the second crusade, had two sons and a daughter 1, RICHARD (Sir), his heir; 2, Robert, whose son, Allan, was a witness to the grant of Margaret de Quincie, Countess of Winchester, of lands in Long Whatton, in Leicestershire, to Brian Fitzwilliam, her forester, temp. HEN. III.; 3, Isabel, who married a French knight, who succeeded to the manor of Haslacton and took the surname. The elder son, SIR RICHARD DE WATTON, of Whatton in III. Bartholomew, Lord of Ridley in IV. Brian, Rector of Desford in Leices- v. Robert, who, with the Prior of Wymondley in Hertfordshire, held the manor of Beeston in Nottinghamshire. The second son, SIR JOHN DE WATTON, high sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex, 25 and 26 HEN. III., Lord of Rokeburne in the county of Southampton m. Ella, second dau. and coheir of John, Lord Biset, Baron of CombeBiset in Wiltshire, and of East Bridgeford near Whatton in the Vale, 25 HEN. III., by Alice his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas, Lord Basset, Baron of Heddingdon in Oxfordshire and Philippa his wife, daughter and co-heiress of William de Malbanc, Baron of Nantwich, in Cheshire; which Lord Basset was the second son and heir of Thomas, Lord Basset, Baron of Hedingdon, temp. HENRY II., and Alice his wife, dau. and co-heiress of Walter de Dunstanville, Baron of Castlecombe, in Wilt His son, Sir Richard de Whatton, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had four sons and a daughter, Agnes, m. to Sir John de Brabazon: Robert, Roger, John, and Richard, upon whom he entailed lands at Whatton in the Vale, 3 EDWARD II. Robert, the eldest, had a son and heir, John, and he and Margery, his wife, levied a fine, 9 HENRY IV. of the same lands. shire, by Ursula his wife, dau. and co-heiress of Reginald Fitz-henry, Earl of Cornwall and Baron of Castlecombe, temp. HEN. I. Sir Sir John, who had a third part of the baronial estate of Biset, charged his paternal bearing with three besants: by Ella, his wife, he had two daughters: Cecilia, married to....... De Pierreponte, and Philippa to Sampson de Strelleye, and four sons: 1, John; 2, Sir Richard; 3, Roger; and 4, Henry; whose son, Richard, settled by fine, 3 Edw. III., lands on Henry, his son, and Margaret the daughter of Hugh Saunsfaile. John, surnamed Biset, the eldest son of Sir John and Ella, had a daughter and heiress, Margaret, who carried the Biset estate in marriage to the family of Romsey, and whose lineage, in a few generations afterwards, became entirely extinct. Richard de Whatton, the second son of Sir John and Ella, a commissioner of array in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, 9 EDWARD II., was summoned in the same reign to attend the King against his rebellious Barons at that time in arms; hence the castles and possessions of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, their chief, who was beheaded at Pontefract, were committed to his custody, after which Sir Richard departed this life s. p., and was interred in the church of Whatton in the Vale; an engraving of his, effigy, in chain mail, cross legged, with sword, mantle, helmet, and shield, and on it his bearing: a bend, between six cross crosslets, charged with three besants, is given by Stothard in his monumental effigies of Great Britain; in the circumference of his tomb this legend; "Priez pur l'alme de Sire Richard Whatton Chivaler." The third son of Sir John and Ella his wife, ROGER DE WHATTON, Lord of Scarrington, near Whatton in the Vale, 27 EDw. I. married Joan, relict of Robert Moryn, of Moryn Hall, and daughter and co-heiress of Oliver de Lovetot, Lord of Kercolston, lineal heir of Robert, the fourth son of Nigel, Lord Lovetot, by whom he had a daughter, Maude, who married into the baronial family of D'Ayencourt, and a son and heir, RICHARD DE WHATTON, Lord of Scarrington, who sealed with a bend, between six cross crosslets, charged with three besants; by Agnes his wife, daughter and heiress of John le Palmer of Algathorpe, and sister and heiress of Hugh de Stapleford of Stapleford, he had two sons and four daughters, 1. JOHN.† ↑ John de Whatton, the eldest son and heir, Lord of Scarrington, and his brother, Sir Richard, each married into a distinct branch of the family of Beler, hereafter spoken of. John married one of the Belers of Leicestershire, and impaled: Party per pale, gules and sable, a lion rampant argent within a bordure ingrailed sable; she brought him the manors of Wapenbury and Eathorpe, in War SIR RICHARD DE WHATTON, of Whatton in the Vale, 44 EDWARD III. m. Alice, eldest daughter, and ultimately heiress of Thomas Beler, (the second and youngest son of the first Lord Beler, of Criche), by Margaret de Ryvers, the younger, his wife, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard de Ryvers, of Ryvers Hall, (second son and heir of Lord de Ryvers, who died seised of the Hundred of Ongar, 5 EDWARD II.) and Matilda de Heriz, his second wife, the daughter and heiress of Sir John de Heriz, whereupon Sir Richard de Whatton acquired an interest in the manors of Widmerpool, Gunnelveston, South Winfield, and Tibshelf, under the settlement of Sir John de Heriz, whose bearing appears to have been: Azure three hedgehogs or, 2 and 1, with a fox for his crest, and two for his supporters; Sir Richard by Alice his wife had three sons and a daughter, 1. JOHN (Sir), of whom hereafter. 11. Robert of Mountsorrell, whose dau. and heiress, Margaret, m. Robert Farnham, of the Upper Hall, Quorndon. III. Hugh, Privy Councillor to King 1. Alice, who m. Sir John Woodford, The eldest son, SIR JOHN DE WHATTON, of Whatton in the Vale, and of Long Whatton, in Leicestershire, 12 HENRY IV. m. Mellicent, daughter of the Lady Eleonora de Newmarche, "Domina de Whatton in comitatu Nottinghamiæ," by her former husband, Thomas de wickshire. By her he had with two daughters, Alice, who died s. p. and Margaret, a son and heir, Robert de Whatton, Lord of Scarrington, who succeeded to the family estates, but dying s. p. was succeeded by his sister and heiress, Margaret de Whatton, "Domina de Scarrington," who married Sir William Bagot, of Baginton Castle, in Warwickshire, temp. HENRY IV. and had a son, Thomas Bagot, who died young, and a daughter, Isabel Bagot, his heiress, who married Thomas Stafford, of Pipe, in Staffordshire, by whom she had a son and heir, Richard Stafford, five years of age, 4 HENRY VI. who died young, whereupon the manors of Wapenbury and Eathorpe reverted to the family of Beler, of the county of Leicester. Baginton Castle was memorable on the occasion of a joust between the Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk, 20 RICHARD II., the former nobleman being entertained there with great magnificence; whence he proceeded, on the morning of the contest, mounted upon his white courser and armed at all points, to Coventry, the place of trial. Malveysyn. Sir John impaled: Gules, three bendlets argent, and had issue three sons and a daughter, 1. John, Prior of Ulvescrofte, 6 ED- 11. Robert, of whom presently. Robert, were feoffees with Sir Thomas 1. Margaret, Domina de Scarrington, who m. Sir Thomas de Rempston, of Rempston in Nottinghamshire, knight of the Garter, Constable of the Tower, Admiral of the West parts, temp. HENRY IV. by whom she had issue. Sir Thomas de Rempston carried: argent a chevron sable with a mullet pierced in the dexter point sable, and impaled the shield of Whatton. Lady Rempston succeeded to the manor of Scarrington, and the lands and rents at Whatton in the Vale, Bingham, Kercolston, Wyverton, Titheby, Kniveton, Aslacton, and, by grant from Lady Bagot, her cousin, and which ultimately passed from the Rempston's to the families of Cheyne, Stapleton, and William, Lord Vaux, of Harrowdon. ROBERT DE WHATTON, of Long Whatton, 9 HENRY V., second son and heir of Sir John, married Catharine Leke, of Nottingham, and had issue; 1, John; 2, Thomas, of Mountsorrell, 6 HENRY VI; 3, Richard; 4, Philip; and 5, Agnes. On his tomb, on a brass plate, in Long Whatton church, these arms: quarterly, His eldest son, JOHN WHATTON, of Long Whatton, Member of Parliament for Leicestershire, 38 HENRY VI., m. Margaret, daughter of Thomas, son of Sir Robert Woodford, Lord of Ashby Folville, son of Sir Robert Woodford, knight banneret, one of the heroes of Agincourt, by Isabel, his wife, daughter of Sir William Neville, Lord of Rolleston, a descendant, in the direct line of Maldred Fitz Crinan, an eminent Thane, and Algith, his wife, heiress of Raby, grand-daughter of ETHELRED II. King of England. This John Whatton was at the battle of Bosworth-field, in which contest the two Kendalls, his companions in arms, were slain; his bearing was the same as his father's, quartered with De Herizss', and in Melton church, single, impaling: Woodford's shield; he had issue by Margaret, his wife: 1, Robert, born, 14 EDWARD IV.; 2, Geoffrey, born 16 EDWARD IV., who had a good moated mansion at Mapplewell, in the forest of Charnwode; 3, William; 4, Elizabeth; 5, Ambrose; and 6, Mary. William, the third son, was the progenitor of a younger branch of the family, which came to and resided at Long Whatton: this William had a son, Robert, whose son, Robert, by Margaret, his wife, had seven children, the eldest of whom, George, was born 16th August, 1555, and died in 1587, leaving two daughters and co-heiresses, Anne, and Elizabeth, who m. William Eyre, of Belton. ROBERT WHATTON, of Long Whatton, the eldest son and heir of John and Margaret his wife, m. a daughter of William Kendall, of Smithesby Hall, in Derbyshire, and the Twycross in Leicestershire, he was grandson of John, son of Thomas Kendall and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Richard Fitzherbert, with whom he had the manor of Twycross: Robert Whatton bore the same shield of arms as his father, quartered with De Herizss', and impaled: gules a fess checky or and azure between three eagles displayed or, Kendall, and by her had a son and heir, ROBERT WHATTON, of Long Whatton, 21 HENRY VII., and of Wykin Hall, Leicestershire, who m. Margaret, the niece of Alice Curteys, of Raunstone, in Leicestershire; this Robert Whatton died at Long Whatton, and was interred there 10th March, 1554, leaving by Margaret his only wife, who survived him, one daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, JOHN WHATTON, of Thurnby and Raunstone, who m. Sence Penburye of Loseby, in Leicestershire, the grand-daughter of Elizabeth Penburye, of Northamptonshire, sometime the wife of William Waryn, and the daughter of William Ashby,* of Loseby Hall, and Agnes his wife, the daughter of Sir Richard Illingworth, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. By Sence Penburye his wife he had two sons, 1. WILLIAM, of whom hereafter. 11. JOHN, of Raunstone, and of the *The lineage of William Ashby is deduced as follows: he was the son of Thomas, grandson of Richard de Ashby, of Loseby, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of John Burdett, of Loseby, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Roger de la Zouch, of Lubbesthorpe in Leicestershire, grandson of Roger, second son of Sir Eudo de la Zouch, of Haryngworth, in Northamptonshire, and Millicent his wife, sister and co-heiress of George de Cantilupe, Baron of Abergavenny, which Sir Eudo was the second son of Sir Alan de la Zouch, baron of Ashby de la Zouch, constable of the Tower, and Helen his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincie, Earl of Winchester, and Helen his wife, which Roger was the son of Saier de Quincie, Earl of Winchester, and Margaret his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Bellomonte, surnamed Blanchmaines, Earl of Leicester, son of Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester, son of Robert, Earl of Meillant and Leicester and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Hugh, Comte de Vermandois, son of HENRY I. King of France. Helen the wife of Roger de Quincie was the daughter and coheiress of Alan, Lord of Galloway, constable of Scotland, and Margaret his wife, daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, son of DAVID I., King of Scotland, son of MALCOLM III., King of Scotland, and MARY, the Queen, the daughter of EDMUND II., King of England. |