4. Edward Watts. 5. Frederick Watts. 6. Catharine, fifth surviving daughter, and co-heir, married to the Rev. Benjamin Jones, of Longney, in the county of Gloucester, rector of Guernsney, in the county of Monmouth, and by him, who d. there in 1831, she, who died there in 1836, had issue, four sons, and three daughters, 1. John-Fowell Jones, in * The issue of Mary and Stansfield Davis were 1. John-Fowell Davis, b. 28th May, 1768, d. 21st August following, buried in Corsham Church. 2. Mary-Anne Davis, sole heiress, m. Francis Adams, esq. of Clifton, eldest son and heir of Shute Adams, esq. by his wife, Frances, daughter of Francis Freeman, esq. of Clifton, and by him, who d. at Clifton, and was buried, at Norton Malreward, she, who d. at Teignmouth, in Devon, 31st December, 1835, and was buried at Norton Malreward, had issue, one son, and four daughters, 1. Francis Adams, esq. of Southmead House, near Clifton, b. in 1791, m. at St. George's Bloomsbury, London, his cousin, Mary, daughter of John Manley, esq. of Hatbrook House, county of Sussex, and of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Mary Shute Adams, daughter of the above Shute Adams, esq. of Clifton, and has issue, one son, and two daughters, 1. Francis Adams, esq. of Clifton, b. there 7th June, 1812, m. at Mellsam Leigh, Somerset, Maria, daughter, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Doctor Crossman, of West Monkton, county of Somerset, of the Reverend John Frederick Doveton, of Ma in that church, she, who d. 3rd January, 1789, and was there buried, had issue, one son, and one daughter.* IV. James, b. at Black-Hall, in August, 1699, d. there unmarried, in October, 1722, aged 23, and buried in Diptford Church. v. Edmond, b. at Black-Hall, in May, 1703, a captain in the royal navy, d. abroad unmarried. 1. Susannah, b. at Black-Hall, in June, 1692, d. unmarried, in October, 1757, and buried in Diptford Church, 8th of that month. 11. Elizabeth, b. at Black-Hall, in February, 1693, m. circa 1716, Arthur Hele, esq. of Stert, in the parish of Diptford, son and heir by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Prowse, esq. of Moore, county of Devon, of Solomon Hele, esq. of Stert, descendant, and heir of the Cornwood branch, of the Hele's of Devon. (See HELE family, BURKE'S Extinct Baronetage), and by him, who was buried in Diptford Church, 29th November, 1737, aged forty-five, had issue, three sons and three daughters, 1. Arthur Hele, esq. of Stert, b. there 5th February, 1718, buried in Diptford Church, 1st October, 1747, unmarried. 111. 2. Solomon Hele, esq. of Stert, b. there in 1720, s. his brother in 1747, m. in 1755, Mary daughter of Bartlett, esq. of St. Mary Church, Exeter, and was buried in Diptford Church, 22nd March, 1797, having issue, one son, and four daughters, 1. Jacob-Bickford Hele, esq. of Stert, only son, and heir b. at Stert, in 1758, d. there unmarried, in July, 1835, aged seventy-eight, the presumed last male heir of his ancient, affluent, and wide spread family, and was buried in Diptford Church, in the vault with his ancestors, where there was but just sufficient room left for his coffin. 1. Susannah Hele, b. at Stert, in August, 1756. 2. Mary-Anne Hele, b. there in 1759, married at Diptford, 11th March, 1794, Nicholas Weeks, esq. of St. Saviour, Dartmouth. 3. Peggy Hele, b. at Stert, in December, 1761, m. at Diptford, 15th April, 1790, Thomas Laskey, esq. of Morley, in Devon. 4. Agnes Hele, b. at Stert, in 1763, m. at Diptford, 17th January, 1787, John Helmer, esq. of Charleton. 3. John Hele, b. at Stert, in October, 1728, buried in Diptford Church, 19th October, 1759, aged thirty-one, unmarried. 1. Margaret Hele, b. at Stert, in 1717. 2. Elizabeth Hele, b. at Stert, in 1729, buried in Diptford Church, 12th November, 1754, aged thirty-three, unmarried. 3. Susannah Hele, b. at Stert, in 1725, buried in Diptford Church, 18th February, 1726, an infant. Anne, b. at Black-Hall, in 1701, d. at Totness, in July, 1772, aged seventy-one, unmarried, and buried in Diptford Church, 29th of that month. William Fowell, d. at Black-Hall, in April, 1714, aged fifty-five, and was buried in Diptford Church, 15th of that month, being succeeded by his eldest son, JOHN FOWELL, esq. of Black-Hall, a magistrate for the county of Devon, b. at Great Torrington, in Devon, in 1683; m. at Diptford Church, 21st October, 1729, Elizabeth, only surviving child and heir, by Mary, his wife, of John Newton, esq. of Crabaton 11. Richard, b. at Black-Hall, 16th May, 1739, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, d. unm. at Calcutta, and there buried. III. Francis, a major in the army of India, Bombay Presidency; b. at Black-Hall, 29th November, 1741: d. at Teignmouth, in Devon, in 1823, unm. and there buried. iv. George, a captain in the army of India, Bengal Presidency; b. at Black-Hall, in 1744; d. in Bengal, unm. 1. Elizabeth, b. at Black-Hall, in August, 1734; d. an infant, and buried in Diptford Church, 22d September. 11. Urania, b. at Black-Hall, in April, 1737; m. in 1769, Philip Goodridge, esq. of South Brent, in Devon, and by him, who was buried with her in Diptford Church, she, who d. in October, 1790, aged fifty-three, and was there buried on the 26th of that month, had issue, four sons and four daughters, 1. John-Fowell Goodridge, lieutenant-colonel of the 62nd regiment of foot; b. at South Brent in January, 1768; m. Mary-Ann, only daughter and heir of John Camden, esq. of London, and of Teignmouth, Devon, and by her, who survives him, had (with a daughter, accidentally burnt to death in Halifax, aged two) a son, John-Camden Goodridge. Colonel Fowell Goodridge died at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, in command of his regiment, and was there buried, having a monument erected by his regiment to his memory. 2. Philip Goodridge, b. at South Brent, in January, 1772; d. unm. 3. George Goodridge, of South Brent, and Ivybridge, in Devon ; b. at South Brent in January, In the pedigree of the Newtons, of Crabaton Court, in the herald's visitation of 1620, their arms "vert two shin bones crossed, argent," are stated to be visible in the Temple Hall window. 1. Betty Goodridge, b. at South 1776; m. Margaret, daughter of The Rev. JOHN-DIGBY FOWELL, of Exeter Philip Moysy, of Round House, College, Oxford, in holy orders, of Blackin the county of Devon, by whom, Hall and Diptford, and rector of Torbrian, who survived him, he had issue. in Devon; b. at Black Hall, 20th January, 4. William Goodridge, a lieutenant 1765, heir at law to his uncle, James Digin the Royal Navy, lost in a by, esq. of Red Hall, who died in August, frigate supposed to have foun- | 1811, s. p. He m. at Harburton, in Devon, dered off the Cape of Good 24th July, 1793, Sarah, second daughter and Hope, at which place she was co-heir (by his wife, Henrietta, daughter last heard of, in a voyage to In- and co-heirt of Kirkham, of the family dia circa 1805. of Kirkham, of Blackdon and Pynhoe, in Devon,) of Peter Knowling, esq. of Washbourne House, or Lower Washbourne, in that parish, whose sister Mary m. Miles Sandys, esq. of West Livington, in Devon, and was mother of the present Sir Edwyn Baynton Sandys, bart, of Misserden Park, in the county of Gloucester, (see BURKE'S Peerage); by her, who d. at Clifton, 31st December, 1813, aged forty-seven, and was buried in the abbey cathedral at Bath, by the side of her husband's mother, and has a monument to her memory in Harburton Church, he had issue, five sons, and four daughters, 2. Elizabeth Goodridge, b. there in 3. Emily Goodridge, m. to Henry 1. Henry Boulton. 1. Juliana Boulton, d. young 4. Urania Goodridge. John Fowell d. at Black-Hall, in November, 1758, aged seventy-five, and was buried in Diptford Church on the 18th of that month, being succeeded by his eldest son, JOHN FOWELL, esq. of Black-Hall and Diptford, and of Portland Place in the city of Bath; b. at Black-Hall, 30th October, 1735. He entered the army in early life, and served in Germany, but retired from it on the death of his father. He m. at Bourne, in Lincolnshire, 28th February, 1763, Mary, eldest surviving daughter, by his wife, the daughter and heiress of Warwick, of Red Hall, in that parish, of James Digby, esq. heir male of the North Luffenham branch of the noble family of Digby; and by her, who d. at Bath, 22d June, 1806, aged seventy-three, and was buried in the abbey cathedral there, where is a monument to her memory, had three sons, 1. JOHN-DIGBY, his heir. II. Francis-Kirkham, b. at Black Hall, IV. James-Digby, b. at Black Hall; d. there an infant, in July, 1805, and buried in Diptford Church, 28th of that month. v. James-Digby, b. at Black Hall, 24th April, 1806; d. suddenly, 26th De Her sister, the other co-heir, Miss Anne Kirkham, d. at Ashprington, at a very advanced age, in 1828, unm., when her property went by will to her great-nephew, Francis-Kirkham Fowell. I. JOHN-DIGBY, his heir. + Isabella-Kirkham Knowling, the eldest daugh11. Newton Digby, a captain in the ter and co-heir, b. in 1761; m. 19th December, Royal Navy; b. at Black-Hall, 30th 1802, her first cousin, the Rev. William Flamank, July, 1768; d. at sea, 30th August, only son of William Flamank, esq. of Newton 1790, aged twenty-two, unm. Bushell, by Sarah, his wife, second and youngest 111. James-Digby, of Essex Street, St. sister of Peter Knowling, esq. of Washbourne, and Clement's Dane, London; b. at Black-dying there, 5th April, 1819, aged fifty-four, s. p., Hall, 1st February, 1772. John Fowell d. at Teignmouth, in Devon, in October, 1821, aged eighty-seven, and was buried in Diptford Church, 2d November, being succeeded by his oldest son and heir, left her share of those estates to her nieces, after her husband. Owing, however, to ill-wording of the instrument, the share of the youngest, SarahKnowling Fowell, was successfully claimed at her death in minority, 4th October, 1828, contrary to the testator's intentions, by the heir at law, her brother, John Digby. cember, 1821, aged fifteen, unm. in 1. Isabella-Digby, b. at Black Hall ; d. II. Henrietta-Digby, b. at Black-Hall; 1. Glanville - John - Hele - Fowell Madras. 3. Isabella - Mary Hele - Fowell Sprye, b. at Prince of Wales' Island, Straits of Malacca. 4. Frances Helen - Hele - Fowell Sprye, b. at Vizagapatam, Northern Division of the Madras Presidency. 5. Sarah Emily Hele Fowell Sprye, b. in Upper Berkeley Street, London. III. Isabella - Georgiana, b. at Black Hall; m. Samuel Crapp, esq. of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the kingdom of France, banker, only surviving child and heir of Benjamin Crapp, esq. of Plymouth, in Devon; as yet s. p. IV. Sarah-Knowling, b. at Black Hall; d. at the vicarage-house, Ugborough, 4th October, 1828, unm. and buried in that church, in the Sprye vault, close adjoining to the vaults of her ancestors of Fowellscombe, the last of whom there buried had been interred just one hundred years before. The Rev. John-Digby Fowell, or his children, was expected to inherit, as heirs his uncle, James Digby, esq. of Red-Hall, at law, the bulk of the large property of and therefore, with his brothers, received the additional name of Digby. This na3. Courtenay-Edward-Hele-Fow-tural expectation the family was permitted ell Sprye, b. at Madras. to entertain up to the death of Mr. Digby, 4. Newton-William- Hele- Fowell who had often expressed a disinclination to Sprye, b. twin with his brother make a will, and the intention that his proCourtenay; d. at Madras, an in-perty should devolve to the right heirs. At fant, and buried at St. Thomas's his decease, however, it was found that by Mount with his brother Glanville. a will made in his last illness, he bequeathed 5. Champernowne - George - Hele- the whole of his greatly accumulated proFowell Sprye, b. at Cheltenham, perty, land and money, away from his nein England; d. there, an infant, phews and great-nephews, the Digby Fowand there buried. ells, to his younger sister, Henrietta, who 1. Henrietta - Anne - Hele- Fowell had then visited him, widow of George Sprye, b. at sea, off the Cape de Pauncefort, esq. of Witham-on-the-Hill, in Verd Islands. the county of Lincoln, whose only surviving child, Philip-Duncombe-Pauncefort Duncombe, esq. of Brick Hill manor, in the county of Bucks, (see BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 74,) succeeded to it on her death intestate, 19th November, 1822. This, the third disastrous loss of a large property, bequeathed to the family by will, or to which they were heirs at law, united to a style of life anticipating succession to, at least, half of the Digby property, to a falling off of income from estates after the war, and to heavy incumbrances, compelled the sale of BlackHall, and Diptford Downe, in 1818. Out of the purchase-money, beside lesser provisions for the younger sons, ten thousand pounds was set aside for the eldest son, on whom had been settled, by her marriage settlement, his mother's half of the estates of her family. He d. in London in 1829, aged 2. Isabella - Mary - Hele - Fowell Madras. + Captain Sprye has devoted considerable time, through many years past, to making collections of the genealogies and histories of the parliamentary families of his native county, Devon, during the period of the civil war and commonwealth. These collections are very extensive and complete, abounding with local and parliamentary history of the period, hitherto unpublished, of a most interesting nature to the county. To them, this work is indebted for valuable information relative to several western families; and we sincerely hope that eventually his labours will be added in print to those of Pole, Prince, and Risdon. FOLJAMBE, GEORGE-SAVILE, esq. of Osberton, in Nottinghamshire, and of Aldwarke, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, b. 4th June, 1800; m. 9th December, 1828, Harriet-Emily-Mary, eldest daughter of Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner, bart. of Nun Appleton, (by Harriet-Elizabeth, his second wife, daughter of Lord Edward Bentinck,) and by her, who died 28th December, 1830, has an only child, FRANCIS-JOHN-SAVILE, b. 9th April, 1830. Mr. Foljambe succeeded to the estates of his grandfather on attaining majority, 4th June, 1821. Lineage. The first of this eminent family on record, SIR THOMAS FOLJAMBE, living in the reigns of HENRY III. and EDWARD I. appears either as witness or principal in many charters, and his position amongst the witnesses, either standing first, or where there are other knights named with him, near the first, shews that he was a man of principal note in his times. In 1272, he was bailiff of the High Peak, in Derbyshire, and at his death, on the Saturday next after the feast of St. Hilary, 11 EDWARD I. he held of the king an oxgang of land by the sergeantry of keeping the king's forests de Campana, which was the style of the forest of the High Peak. His eldest son and heir, SIR THOMAS FOLJAMBE, knt. living 16 EdWARD I. held lands in Tideswell and Wormhill, and by Catherine, his wife, left a son and successor, SIR THOMAS FOLJAMBE, knt. of Tideswell, living 15 EDWARD II. from whom we pass to his descendant,+ |