CATON, OF BINBROOK. CATON, The Reverend RICHARD - BEWLEY, of Binbrook, in the county of Lincoln, A.M. b. in 1774, formerly an officer in the 12th Light Dragoons, served in the campaign in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, afterwards major in the 3rd Royal Lincoln Militia, m. Eliza, youngest daughter of Redmond Power,* esq. of Whitefort, in the county of Tipperary, and has issue, 1. RICHARD-REDMOND, b. 21 August, 1806, m. 23 June, 1831, Anna-Maria, only daughter of the Rev. John Rideout, rector of Woodmancote, in the county of Sussex, (by Frances, youngest daughter of Sir Harry Goring, bart. of Highden, in the county of Sussex,) and has issue, Redmond-Rideout-Bewley, b. 1 October, 1833. Frances-Eliza. Georgiana-Maria. II. Thurston-Bewley, m. at Paris, 18 July, 1835, MarieLouise-Esther, daughter of Colonel de St. Rose, late chef de l'état major à Paris, officier de la légion d'honneur, et chevalier de St. Louis. 1. Maria-Eliza, m. 2 December, 1831, Richard-Henry John-Charlton Kinchant, b. 27 May, 1834. II. Catherine-Georgiana, d. an infant. Lineage. The family of De Catton or Caton, was originally seated in the county of Norfolk, where the name appears to be of great antiquity, and is presumed to have been derived from the village of Catton near Norwich. At the time of the Survey there were two villages so designated in the county, the one situated in the hundred of Blofield, the other in the hundred of Taverham, and in Doomsday book spelt Catun and Catuna. The first was granted to Eudo, sewer or steward of the Conqueror's household, as part of his fees. WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR had the capital manor of the second village, and William de Noyers was his steward. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and here stood the effigies of Pater Robert de Catton, prior of Norwich in 1526. § Venerabilis ac religiosus in | Christo Pater, Robertus de Catton, prior The name of Power is to be found in Battel Abbey Roll. Sir Roger Le Poer, or Power, was one of the 200 valiant knights who accompanied Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, to Ireland, and founder of the family in the co. Waterford, ennobled in the Earls of Tyrone. Seven years after the conquest of that country, viz. 1172, we find Hugh de Lacy and Robert Le Power, lords justices, or governors of Ireland, a fact sufficiently indicative of the high rank and influence of the family at that period. The late Richard Power, esq. of Clashmore House, co. Waterford, Mrs. Caton's uncle (who m. Eliza, daughter of Shapland Carew, esq. of Castleborough, co. Wexford) was a representative for that county during several years, in the Irish Parliament, previously to the Union. It was afterwards represented, during many successive parliaments, by his eldest son, the late Richard Shapland Power, esq. of Clashmore (who m. his cousin Dorothy, daughter of Robert Shapland Carew, esq. of Castleborough, father of Lord Carew, and whose only surviving child, Elizabeth Anne Power, was m. in September, 1835, to Francis Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon,) and also by his younger son, Robert Power, esq. until 1832, when he withdrew from the representation. + Vide BURKE's Baronetage. In the Index Villarum, printed 1590, we find many villages of the name in England; two in Norfolk, four in Yorkshire, one in Lancashire, as also in Derbyshire and Devonshire. Who bore for arms, gules, an ounce, or cat of the mountain argent, spotted sable, between three annulets argent. "In foord, in ham, in leg, and tun, "The most of English surnames run." "Though the name hedge do anciently belong to our language, yet we also used sometimes for the same thing the name of tun. In Netherlands they call it a tuyn, and in some parts of England they will say hedging and tyning. Our ancestors in time of war, to defend themselves from being spoiled, would, instead of a palisado as now used, cast a ditch and make a strong hedge about the houses, and the houses so environed about with tunes or hedges, got the name of tunes annexed to them, as Cotetun, now Cotton; Northtun, now Norton; Southtun, now Sutton." The word Catun bears nearly a similar meaning, and most probably had its origin after the above manner. The name has been variously spelt at different periods as Catun, Caiton, Katon, Catton, Caton, according to the fancy of the bearer, or the rude orthography of the times, as may be seen in some of the older authors and historical writers of counties. The name is not unfrequent in Yorkshire and Lancashire.* The first recorded are REINALD and HUGH DE CATON, gent., who were witnesses to a grant of land by Anfridi de Canci, or Chauncy, A.D. 1134. ALANUS, son of Helias de Catton, founded the Benedictine nunnery of Wilberfosse, and gave all his land in Catton to the nunnery, A.D. 1150. It is thus mentioned by Dugdale in his Monasticon Anglicanum. "Alanus de Catton, filius Heliæ fundator; dedit eis, totam terram quæ pertinet ad foedum unum cum prato super Derwent Catton. Testes donat: Gulielmus filius Tofti, Robertus Beverle," &c. WILLIAM, son of Henry de Caton, gave two parts of the mill, with two ox gangs of land in Bulford, to the monks of Rieval Abbey, A.D. 1172. RICHARD DE CATON, of Rillington, gave land to Yeddingham Nunnery, A.D. 1200. JOHN DE CATON, and Roger his son, were witnesses to grants of land in the neighbourhood of the town of Caton, A.D. 1216. EUSTACHIUS FITZ-JOHN CATON gave two carucates of land in Caton, to the monks of Fountain Abbey; and Nicholas de Caton gave the right of a dam for a pool in Caton, A.D. 1237. ROBERT DE CAITUN, or Caton, gave land to Whitby Abbey, and sold three ox gangs of land which Durand his brother and lord had given him, and who confirmed the same as lord of the see. WILLIAM DE KATON, or Caton, gave one moiety of Rillington, confirmed by Pope Gregory 9th, to the abbey of Byland; he also gave the homage of Thomas de Crohun, for lands in Ledbriston, to the priory of Burlington, A.D. 1277. WALTER DE CATTON, born at Catton, by Norwich, in 1304, was prior of the convent of Grey Friars, and became a man of great fame for his manifold learning and exemplary virtues; he was an excellent philosopher and divine, a great mathematician, condemned judiciary astrology. In process of time his reputation spread so far that he was called to the papal court at Avignon, where the Pope made him his penitentiary, and took him for his confessor. De eo Lelandus sic scribit: Gualterus Cattonus sectæ Chordigeræ initiatus, philosophiam et sacras literas apprime coluit, quo nominem et famam non emorituram sibi peperit, monumenta ingenii non infelicia reliquit, "Commentarios in sententiarum libros," et libellum "De paupertate evangelicâ,' ""Adversus astrologos" "Resolutiones Quæstionum," tandem Papæ penitentiarius evasit et Avinioni fatis concessit, A.D. 1343, uti habit Minoritarum regis co. Norfolk, who m. 3rd October, 1592, HENRY, baptized 13th Sept. 1593, bu- PETER, b. 8th, and baptized 15th May, THOMAS CATON, of Thorpe Abbots, who by his wife, Ann*, had a son, Henry, baptized at Brockdish, in Norfolk, 24th February, 1628, who d. when young. Thomas was buried in the family vault at Thorpe Abbots, 28th August, 1670, being his birth-day, and 73rd year of his age. His wife, whom he only survived a few days, was buried in the same vault, 19th August, 1670. He was succeeded by his brother, PETER CATON, of Thorpe Abbots, who married Ann, only daughter of Constable, esq. and had issue, 1. Henry, baptized 2nd February, 1630, II. THOMAS, who succeeded him, bap- Mary, baptized 26th Dec. 1699. He was the author of a small work, *This lady's name is supposed to have been "Nelson." + This family can be traced for several centuries in the county of Norfolk; Robert Wygh, or Wythe, was rector of St. Mary's, Cranwich, Norfolk, A.D. 1349. Dame Alice Wythe was buried in the monastery of White Friars, A.D. 1361. Sir Jeffery Wythe, knt. was buried in the chancel of Beeston church, in 1373. bound with a translation; it is relative to the sect of Quakers, of which he appears to have become a member, and was printed in the year 1660; he also published in 1689, a "Journal of his own Life.” 1. Dorothy, m. 22nd Feb. 1663, John Dalling, of Bungay, esq. (and from whom it is presumed the present bart. derives.) The eldest surviving son, THOMAS CATON, of Thorpe Abbots, m. Susanna, daughter of Stedman, esq. of Lynn, by whom he had issue, JOHN, baptized 22nd May, 1668. Thomas, b. 1675, buried in the church Ann, buried 2nd November, 1699. Thomas Caton was buried in the family vault, 23rd November, 1705, and s. by his Mr. Thurston died, leaving two daughters, the one married as above, the other to Virtue, esq. In his will, which was proved July, 1783, he leaves his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk, to the family of Virtue; and on failure of issue Sibilla, relict of Sir John Wythe (m. 2dly in male, to Thurston John Caton, conditionally on HENRY the IV. reign, to Sir W. Calthorpe) leaves their assuming the name and arms of Mott. The by her will, which was proved Oct. 6th, 1421, a property is now in possession of Mr. Virtue's black vestment of baldekin, with orfreys of red descendant, John Thurston Mott, esq. of Barvelvet, with the arms of Wythe, for a priest;ningham Hall, Norfolk. (See family of MOTT.) with a missal, a cup, and a patten to the church of Beeston by Smalburgh, where she lies buried by her first husband. The above Sir W. Calthorpe, by his first wife, had Sir John, who m. Ann, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wythe This family derive from Thurston of Thetford, co. Norfolk, who with Ralph his son were mintmasters there at the conquest, and had the same arms as borne at the present day by his descendants. By this marriage the family also of Weston Market, co. Suffolk, by whom | by King JOHN; a supposition in some meahe had (with a daughter, Susannah, who m. sure borne out by the family crest: viz. a 28th September, 1763, the Rev. Charles monk's head habited in a cowl. Chauncy, rector of Ayot St. Peter, Hertfordshire, and d. 8th July, 1825, aged 83, leaving issue †) a son and successor, Eliza, m. to Benjamin Borrell, esq. of Mr. Caton died 13th June, 1782, and was s. RICHARD BEWLEY, esq. of Binbrook, co. Lincoln, b. 1676, married a daughter of Goodhand, esq. of Binbrook, and had issue, RICHARD. Hannah, d. unmarried, 30th March, 1797. Mr. Bewley's death is thus recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine for Jan. 1751: "Died, on the 17th of January, Richard Bewley, esq. one of the oldest fox hunters in England. One thing is very remarkable of him returning home, some years since, from the briskest chase he had followed that season, and enlarging in praise of his horse, said he performed wonderfully for his age, which he said, with his mother's and his own, made above 200 years," the common distich of the time was, The mother, the horse, and he, Made up ten score years and three." by his eldest son, the present Family of Bewley. The name of this family is said to have been originally spelt Beaulieu, and tradition derives it from the monastery of Beaulieu or Bewley, in the New Forest, founded became allied to the ancient and highly respectable family of Mott. In the church of St. Clements' Burnam Overy, is a gravestone in memory of Mary Mott, daughter of Robert Blyford of Burnham Overy, gent., by Ann his wife; she had two husbands, John Thurston, esq. by whom she lieth, and had a son John surviving. By her second husband, Edmund Mott, M.D., who lieth entombed in New Walsingham church, she had issue, Edmund, Mary, and John, who only survived. She died 24th May, 1702, aged 40. In the church of St. Mary, Walsingham Parva, on an altar tomb is this inscription: "Sileant Galeni (si qui sint superstites) nostrates posthac artem Ratcliffii despondeant, cohors erubescat medica, en arte lassus, en vita functus simul, hic jacet noster Esculapius, Edmundus Mott, qui obiit 3 die Feb. A.D. 1699, ætat. suæ 40." It bears these arms :-sable, a crescent argent for Mott, impaling sable, three bugle horns or, stringed azure, for Thurston.-Vide Bloomfield's History of Norfolk. Descended from Sir Henry Chauncy, knt. serjeant at law, and the celebrated author of the History of Hertfordshire. The family of Chauncy, or, as originally spelt, de Canci, are of Norman origin; their pedigree commences with Anfridi de Canci, in 1134, and is traced in a direct line to the present period. See Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, 1821. RICHARD BEWLEY, who m. Margaret, daughter of F. Hawksmore §, esq. of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (a family now become extinct), by whom he had issue, Margaret Hawksmore, m. 1st to Thurston John Caton, esq. of Thorpe Abbots, co. Norfolk, and left issue, as already stated. 2dly, to Lieut.Col. Adams, 66th foot, who died of Elizabeth, only daughter of the Rev. Charles Chauncy, m. J. Montague Poore, esq. of Wedhampton, co. Wilts. The family of Goodhand had been of long standing in the county of Lincoln, and was possessed of great affluence. Their pedigree is inserted in the Harleian MSS. vol. iii. codex 5845, and 5874. There still exists some very old china and plate, with the arms of Bewley impaling those of Goodhand; viz. checky, arg. and gu. on a fesse az. three left hand gauntlets of the first. Crest, an armed arm embowed proper, holding a sword arg. hilt and pomel or. From William Hawksmore, esq. younger brother to Mrs. Bewley, the family of Caton became possessed of property in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, the latter called Little Treswell, since alienated. The Hawksmores were long seated at Treswell in Nottinghamshire, and had ample possessions in that county. By marriages with the ancient families of Eastland of Lincolnshire, and Machell of Yorkshire, they inherited estates in both counties. Eastland Hawksmore, esq. descended from the eldest branch, who d. at Gainsborough, 18th March, 1732, without issue, willed his property to two nieces, one married to Thomas Waterhouse, esq., the other to James Dealtry, esq. See family of WELLS, of Grebby Hall, Lincolnshire, vol. ii. p. 516. wounds received at the battle of Ta- Margaret Hannah. Georgiana, m. April, 1817, to Lieu- John George Herbert, acci- Catherine Georgiana. William Bewley Meek, esq. Mr. Bewley died 16th September, 1794, aged 80; with him the family in the male branch became extinct. Arms.-1st and 4th, party per fess gules and az. two lynxes, or cats o'mountain passant, argent, spotted sable; on a canton or, a cross crosslet fitchée of the fourth; 2nd and 3rd quarterly gules and vair, a bend or, thereon an annulet and crescent, quartering the ensigns of Thurston, Goodhand, Hawksmore, Bewley.† Crest Out of an embattlement ppr. charged with three cross crosslets fitchee sa. John Tuffnell, colonel in the army, a saracen's head, quarter faced, ppr. wreathm. Ann, relict of Admiral Tho-ed round the temples or and gules. mas Shirley. William Tuffnell. Inclosed I have sent you a drawing of the lid of a very old tankard belonging to Mr. Bewley, of this town (Lincoln). The same gentleman has also a set of apostles' spoons, and of ancient pebble hafted knives. The diameter of the lid (considering the angular parts as filled up) is 6 inches, and the depth of the tankard is 54 inches. It holds two wine quarts. The shape of it is not cylindrical, but fluted in the sides like four pillars joined together, to correspond with the angular parts of the lid. The flower work on the lid is not chased, but rather indented, particularly the outlines, which are deeply impressed in the silver, and appear raised in the inside of the Motto-Catus metuit foveam lupus. Estates-Binbrook, Lincolnshire; Howden, Yorkshire. tankard; the sides are also profusely ornamented HODGSON-HINDE, OF ELSWICK HOUSE. HINDE-HODGSON, JOHN, esq. of Elswick House and Stelling Hall, in North umberland, and of Norham Castle in the county of Durham, b. 30th July, 1806, m. 31st January, 1833, Isabella, eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Anthony Compton, esq. of Carham Hall, in Northumberland. This gentleman, whose patronymic is HODGSON, assumed by sign manual in 1836, in compliance with the testamentary injunction of Miss Elizabeth Archer Hinde, the additional surname of HINDE. He succeeded his father, 12th July, 1820; is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Northumberland, and has been representative for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the four Parliaments of WILLIAM IV. |