ROBERT GARNEYSE, of Laxfield, by charter without date, but about the time of King JOHN, granted to the monks of the neighbouring abbey of Sibton, in the county of Suffolk, thirty acres of land in Laxfield. WILLIAM, son of Robert Garneyse, of Laxfield, by charter, also without date, but about the time of HENRY III., confirmed his father's gift to the monks of Sibton. THOMAS GARNEYSE, another son of Robert, granted to the church of Sibton, a rent charge of 8d. per annum, issuing out of lands in Dennington, county of Suffolk. He was living 24 HENRY III., 1239. RICHARD-GARNEYSE, son of the last mentioned William, about the beginning of the reign of EDWARD I., gave a messuage in Stradbroc, to Alice, daughter of William de Redsball. From this time, the name continually occurs in records relating to Laxfield and its vicinity, but no connected pedigree of the family has hitherto been traced to a period earlier than the reign of EDWARD III., when the name of ROBERT GARNEYS, of Heveningham, in the county of Suffolk, very frequently occurs. He was probably the first of his family who acquired the manor of Ros Hall, in the parish of Beccles, in the same county, and dying on the 14th May, 1411, 12 HENRY IV., left by Catharine Brooke, his wife, (who d. 1405) two sons, PETER, his heir. William, of Gelderton, in the county of Norfolk. He m. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Ralph Bigot, knt. of Stockton, in the same county, (representative of a younger branch of the earls of Norfolk, of that name), by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co Silvester died before the first coronation of King HENRY II., 19th December, 1154, seized of one-third of a knight's fee in Kenton and its vicinity in the county of Suffolk, and Alice his niece, wife of Ivo de Kenton, was found by inquisition. 30th October, 6 RICHARD I. 1194, to be his heir. Geoffry, son of Silvester de Kenetune, gave lands in the town of Walpole, county of Suffolk to Geoffry de Bleis, temp. King Jonn. Sir Ivo de Keneton claimed free warren in his manor of Kenton, 14 EDWARD I., was knight of the shire for the county of Suffolk, 18 EDWARD I., 1290, and summoned to perform military service against the Scots. 29 EDWARD I., 1301 He d. before 7 EDWARD II. 1313, and Sir Nigel de Kenton, was his son and heir, and aged 40 years and upwards 2nd January, 1313. He was chief arrayor of the hundred of Loes, in the county of Suffolk, 24th April, 19 EDWARD II. 1526, and by his wife Matilda, he had issue, besides Robert, John, and Thomas, Ivo de Kenton, his eldest son and heir, on whom his father on his marriage with Agnes, daughter of Adam Tastard, of Cransfield, county of Suffolk, anno 8 EDWARD III. 1334-5, settled the manor of Kenton, &c. in tail. He had a second wife, Mar. PETER GARNEYS, esq. of Ros Hall, m. Anne, daughter and co-heir of Sir Ralph Ramsay, knt. of Kenton Hall, in Suffolk, with whom he obtained the manor of Kenton, which thenceforth became the principal residence of the family. He d. in 1451, having devised his manor of Ros Hall to his second son Edmund, in whose posterity it continued several generations. The eldest son, THOMAS GARNEYS, esq. of Kenton Hall, m. Margaret daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Frauncis, knt. of Gifford's Hall, in Wykhambrook, in the county of Suffolk, by whom (who after his death m. Thomas Peyton, esq. of Isleham, in Cambridgeshire) he had three sons, Thomas, who d. young and unm. Richard, of Mendlesham, in the county who d. 18th Dec. 1553, leaving by Ursula, his wife, dau. of Thomas Berney, of Redham, in Norfolk, RICHARD GARNEYS, esq. of Boy garet, who was living a widow, 29 EDWARD III. Ivo de Kenton, son and heir of the last Ivo, d. before 44 EDWARD III. 1370, seized inter alia, of the manor of Kenton, and had issue, Robert de Kenton, who was under age at his father's death, and was living, 3 RICHARD II. 1379. Alice de Kenton, (probably sister and) heir of Robert, m. Sir Roger Wyllasham, knt. who was knight of the shire for Norfolk, 6 RICHARD II. 1382, and d. 1383. Alice de Wyllasham, their sole daughter and heir, m. Sir Ralph Ramsay, knt. sheriff of Suffolk, 9 HENRY IV. They were both living 18 RICHARD II., and were succeeded in their estates of Kenton, by Ann, their daughter and co-heir, who m. Peter Garneys, of Beccles, esq. as stated in the text. Hence the manor of Kenton descended to Wentworth Garneys, esq. the last heir male of this family, and on his death the greater part of it became the property of Lady Colt, his eldest surviving sister and co-heir, by whose grandchildren, Mary, wife of John Bond, esq. of Grange, county of Dorset, and Mary-Alice, wife of John Westbrook, esq. of Forrest Hall, in Essex, it was sold in 1772, and 1774. land Hall, who built the present Garneys, esq. of Headenham, in Normansion house there. He marfolk, who d. s. p. and inherited in 1808. ried Margery, daughter of James CHARLES GARNEYS, esq. of Kenton and Tyrrell, esq. of Columbine Hall, Boyland Halls, eldest son and heir of in Suffolk, and dying s. p. 3rd Nicholas, was sheriff of Norfolk in 1652, January, 1586, was succeeded in and married Elizabeth, daughter of John his estates, by virtue of a settle-Wentworth, esq. of Somerleyton, in the counment previously executed by him, ty of Suffolk, and sole heir of her brother, by his kinsman, Nicholas Gar- Sir John Wentworth, knt. of the same place. neys, esq. of Kenton Hall. He d. 30th Jan. 1657, and was s. by his son, The abovementioned Thomas Garneys, of Kenton Hall, died 12th December, 1458, and was succeeded by his eldest son, JOHN GARNEYS, esq. of Kenton Hall, who was born in 1454. He espoused Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Sulyard, knt. of Wetherden Hall, in Suffolk, chief justice of England, anno 2 RICHARD. III. and d. 11th June, 1524, and his widow, 2nd April, 1539. ROBERT GARNEYS, esq. of Kenton Hall, eldest son and heir of John, succeeded to the estates at the decease of his father, and married Anne, second daughter and co-heir of Thomas Bacon, esq. of Baconsthorp, in the county of Norfolk, who d. in 1558, and by whom he had, besides other children, JOHN, of Spexall, in Suffolk, his eldest son, who died v. p. leaving by Anne, his wife, daughter of Thomas Rookwood, esq. of Eurton, in the same county, amongst other children, THOMAS, who s. his grandfather. NICHOLAS, of whom hereafter. Margaret, m. first, Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford, and secondly, John, Lord Willoughby, of Parham. Robert Garneys aforesaid died 2nd August, 1556, and was s. at Kenton by his grandson, THOMAS GARNEYS, esq. of Kenton Hall, eldest son of John Garneys, esq. of Spexall, who, as before stated, died v. p. His wife was Frances, daughter of Sir John Sulyard, knt. of Wetherden Hall aforesaid, by whom he had an only child and heir, ELIZABETH GARNEYS, who was three years old at her father's death. She married Philip Strelly, esq. of Strelly, in Nottinghamshire, who d. 4 JAMES I. On the decease of Thomas Garneys, esq. without issue male, which occurred on the 20th December, 1566, the Kenton estates devolved, by virtue of an entail, on his brother, NICHOLAS GARNEYS, esq. who also, as before stated, succeeded to the estates of his kinsman, Richard Garneys, of Boyland Hall. He resided chiefly at Redesham Hall, in Suffolk, and was high sheriff of that county, 1592, 34 ELIZABETH. By his wife, Ann, daughter of Thomas Cleve, esq. of Stokesby, in Norfolk, he had issue, of which CHARLES, the eldest son, succeeded his father at Kenton and Boyland Halls, and Cleve. His sixth son, m. Ann, daughter of John Jolly, of Southwold, and was ancestor of Char es JOHN GARNEYS, esq. of Boyland Hall aforesaid, and of Somerleyton Hall and Kenton Hall, in Suffolk, whose estates were greatly augmented by the acquisition of those of his mother's family. He was twice married. By his first wife, Ann, daughter of William Rugg, of Felmingham, in Norfolk, he had issue, THOMAS, who succeeded his father in the Somerleyton estates, which he sold, and d. s. p. Ann, who d. unm. 29th March, 1668. The second wife of Mr. John Garneys, was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Soame, knt. of Throcking, in Hertfordshire, by whom he had issue, J. WENTWORTH, to whom his father gave the Boyland and Kenton estates. 11. Elizabeth, d. unm. 13th March, 1675. III. Mary, who on the death of her brother s. p. obtained the chief part of his Suffolk estates: she married. in 1679, William Shipman, esq. of London, by whom she had an only child, Thomas Shipman, esq. who d. unm. 7th May, 1723, and secondly, Sir William Dutton Colt, knt. envoy at the court of Hanover, who died 30th August, 1693, and dying herself in 1726, was s. in her share of the Garneys estates, by her two daughters and co-heirs (see Bond, of Grange, vol. i. p. 242.) IV. MARGARET, eventually co-heir of her brother, married Sir William Gostlin, knt. and died 23rd January, 1723, leaving issue. v. MARTHA, of whom hereafter. The son and successor, WENTWORTH GARNEYS, esq. of Boyland Hall, married first, Ann, daughter of Sir Charles Gaudy, knt. of Crows Hall, in Suffolk, who died 7th September, 1681; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Abdy, bart. of Felix Hall, in Essex, but d. s. p. in 1711-12, when his estates became divided between Mary and Margaret, his two surviving sisters, and the issue of Martha, his other sister, who died in his lifetime. MARTHA, fourth surviving daughter of John Garneys, esq. and sister of Wentworth Garneys, espoused Robert Raworth, esq. of London, and dying 22nd August, 1694, left JOHN RAWORTH, esq. who succeeded his maternal uncle at Boyland Hall, and by Ann, his wife, daughter of Caleb Frienfield, had an only child and heir, ELIZABETH RAWORTH, b. 1st August, 1725, m. 9th February, 1746, to William Drake, esq. of Shardeloes, in the county of Bucks, M.P. for Ammersham, in the same county, who was b. 12th May, 1724, and died 8th Aug. 1796. She d. 4th Feb. 1757, leaving WILLIAM DRAKE, esq. her son and heir, who was also sometime M.P. for Ammersham. By Rachel - Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Jeremiah Ives, esq. of Norwich, who d. 4th August, 1781, he had two daughters and co-heirs, viz. RACHEL-IVES DRAKE, m. 17th October, 1801, George Irby, Lord Boston. EMILY-IVES DRAKE, who inherited the Boyland Hall estate, and married, as before stated, the present ADMIRAL IRBY, of Boyland Hall. Arms Of Irby, arg. fretty sa. on a canton gu. a chaplet or. Crest-A saracen's head ppr. Seat-Boyland Hall, near Long Stratton, in the county of Norfolk, which according to Blomefield, in his history of that county, "hath been a grand house," but has since been greatly modernised. RUXTON-FITZHERBERT, OF BLACK CASTLE. FITZHERBERT-RUXTON, RICHARD, esq. of Black Castle, in the county of Meath, b. 3rd August, 1775; m. 10th January, 1807, Elizabeth-Selina, third daughter of Sir Robert Staples, bart. of Donmore, in the Queen's County, by the Hon. Jane Vesey, sister of the late Viscount De Vesci. This gentleman succeeded his father, John Ruxton, esq. in July, 1825, and his uncle, Samuel Ruxton Fitzherbert, esq. in March, 1826. Lineage. This is a branch of the Fitzherberts of Swinnerton, in the county of Stafford, a family of high antiquity, founded in England by Herbert, a Norman knight, whose name appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey, WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, esq. of Norbury and Swinnerton, named in 1660, amongst the intended knights of the Royal Oak, and at the period representative of the family, m. Anne, daughter of Sir Basil Brooke, knt. of Madeley, in Staffordshire, and had issue, 1. BAZIL, of Norbury, in Derbyshire, and of Swinnerton, in Staffordshire, ancestor of the present THOMAS FITZHERBERT, esq. of Norbury and Swinnerton, (see vol. i. p. 78.) II. THOMAS, of whom presently. The second son, THOMAS FITZHERBERT, esq. settled in Ireland, and was of Shercock, in the county of Cavan. That estate eventually passed with LETITIA FITZHERBERT, heiress of her brother William Fitzherbert, esq. m. to her husband JOHN RUXTON, esq. of Ardee, in the county of Louth. The issue of the marriage were three sous and two daughters, viz. WILLIAM RUXTON, of Ardee House, who ditional surname of FITZHERBERT, The second son, JOHN RUXTON, esq. of Black Castle in the county of Meath, m. in 1770, Margaret, daughter of Richard Edgeworth, esq. of Edgeworthstown, in the county of Longford, by Rachel-Jane Lovell, his wife, grandaughter of Sir Salathiel Lovell, of Harleston, in Northamptonshire, (see families of LOVELL, and EDGEWORTH,) and had issue, FITZHERBERT, capt. in the 63rd regt. d. in 1799. RICHARD, heir to his father. Mr. Ruxton died in July, 1825, aged eighty, Arms-Ar. a chief vaire or and gu. over all a bend sa. quarterly with RUXTON. Crests-A dexter arm armed and gauntlet ppr. for Fitzherbert, 2. for RUXTON. Motto-Ung je serviray. Estates-In the county of Meath. ATKINS, OF FIRVILLE. ATKINS, ROBERT, esq. of Firville, in the county of Cork, b. 21st January, 1775; m. first, 31st December, 1798, Charlotte, second daughter and co-heir of Philip Going, esq. of Monaquil, in the county of Tipperary, by Grace, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bernard, esq. of Castle Bernard, in the King's county, by whom, who d. in 1812, he has had issue, Robert, b. 2nd May, 1802, d. at Kinsale, in 1812. ROBERT. Maria. Mr. Philip-Going Atkins inherited Monaquil upon the Hastings, b. 5th March, 1807, on whom the properties of Thomas, b. 2nd April, 1808, Lieutenant 19th regiment of John-Bennett-Robert, b. 30th October, 1812, in holy orders, curate of Mallow, on him Drumdowna is settled. Charlotte-Elizabeth. Mr. Atkins wedded secondly, 31st October, 1816, Catherine, daughter (and co-heir on the demise, s. p. in February, 1829, of her brother John-Frederick Ridley, esq. of Hawthorn, near Mallow) of John Ridley, esq. of Hawthorn, in the county of Durham, but by her has no issue. ROBERT GOING, esq. of Tullymoylan, in the county of Tipperary, (of a family which emigrated to Ireland, in the seventeenth century) m. a sister or niece of General Johnstone, of the county of Cork, and had issue, John, d. unm. ROBERT, of Traverston Hall, in the county of Tipperary, m. Margaret, daughter of Thomas Maunsell, esq. M.P. for Kilmallock, (see vol. i. p. 308) and had a son, THOMAS GOING, esq. now of Traverston Hall, m. to Miss Powell. James, of Besbill, in the county of Clare. Thomas, of Coolrea, in the county of Cork, d. s. p. Richard, of Birdhill, in Tipperary, a magistrate for that county, m. Miss Shirley, and had issue, Philip, of Monaquil, in the county of Tipperary, for many years in the commission of the peace, m. Grace, daughter of Thomas Bernard, esq. of Castle Bernard, in the King's County, and had issue, Thomas, of Santa Cruz, in Tipperary, m. his first cousin Rebecca, daughter of his uncle Richard Going, esq. but d. v. p. without issue, leaving his sisters his co-heirs. Mary, m. to her cousin, John Bennett, esq. of Viewmount, in the county of Carlow, and d. s. p. Charlotte, m. to Robert Atkins, esq. Jemima-Matilda, m. to Sir Amyrald Dancer, bart, and has issue. Lineage. RICHARD ATKINS, esq. the first of the | to him as a loyal subject, when Sir Peter family who settled in Ireland, of ancient Yorkshire descent, obtained a grant of lands in the county of Kerry, between the years 1640, and 1660, which he soon afterwards alienated, having determined to return to England. For which, his native country, he had set out accompanied by his wife, but the lady, whose family were settled in Kerry, desirous of remaining amongst her relatives, had influence enough to persuade him, when sojourning for a night at a small village between Mallow and Buttevant, to purchase several debentures, which were confirmed The Atkins family of Yorkshire were of the ancient family of Atkins in Monmouthshire, and at the period of which we are now treating, were rather numerous, in the former county, the following persons were all allied to Mr. Atkins, but in what degree is not now known, viz. Sir Jonathan Atkins, knt. of Yorkshire, (Governor of Guernsey) m. Mary, daughter of Sir William Howard, and sister of Charles Howard, first Earl of Carlisle. (See COLLINS' Peerage.) Sir Jonathan Atkins knt. of Yorkshire, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Baker, knt. of Sissinghurst, in Kent, councillor of state to HENRY VIII., EDWARD VI., and of Queens MARY and ELIZABETH; she was the widow of William, eldest son of Sir Edmund Anderson, bart. of Broughton. Sir Jonathan Atkins, knt. of a Yorkshire family, was governor of Barbadoes, in 1663, and was recalled in 1667. Jonathan Atkins, of Hinderskill, Yorkshire, was one of those persons who compounded for their estates in 1665; see the List of those persons who did so, he compounded for £70. Redding is a small village in the parish of Tawston, in Yorkshire, and situated between Harrowgate and Knaresborough, and near Fountain Abbey. Samuel Atkins, of Yorkshire, was tried with several other gentlemen, and acquitted, as not being accessory to Sir Edmondsbury Godfrey's murder, see page 369 of Kennett's History of England, vol. iii. Of the Atkins family in England at this period, were the following, Courthope, was governor of Munster, about 1660. The East and West Creaghkerries were the lands so acquired, and were named Fountainville by Mr. Atkins, they are situated in the barony of Fermoy, and county of Cork, midway between Mallow, Buttevant, and Doneraile. This Richard was second son of Atkins, of Bredding,* in Yorkshire, although his descendants settled in Ireland have invariably borne the arms of the Atkins of Yelverton, in Norfolk. He married a daughter of Fuller, esq.t of the Sand banks, in the county of Kerry, (her 11. A son, of whom there are no further particulars in the pedigree. III. Sir Edward Atkines, of Saperton-Hall, Gloucestershire, Baron of the Exchequer, a very loyal person, who left two sons, viz. 1. Sir Robert, chief Baron of the Exchequer, and chief justice of the common pleas, b. 1621, d. 1691, and left issue, inter alios, Sir Robert, M.P., K.B, differed in politics from his father, d. 1712, and by a sister of Lord Carteret, had issue, only daughters. 2. Sir Edward, lord chief baron, who left issue, Sir Richard. Richard Atkins, esq. s. his grandfather, and by his first wife had issue, 1. Richard Atkins, esq. deputy lieutenant for Gloucestershire, d. 1667, or 77, unm. By his second wife, he had children, but no further Sir Thomas Atkins (son of John of King's account is given of them in Atkins' GloucesterLynn, in Norfolk) knt. alderman of Norwich, after-shire, or in the biographical dictionaries. wards an alderman of London, Sheriff of London In the Remembrancer's Office, Dublin, Robert in 1637, and lord mayor in 1645: he was M.P. for the said city, from 1647 to 1658, and colonel of the city militia: he left a son, Atkins is stated to have got a grant of lands in Kerry, called Balliswallagh, in the barony of Moquinily, consisting of several acres, dated March, 22nd, 1667, and were confirmed to him in the 22nd of CHARLES II. 1670, and at 26-14, amongst the adjudications, he had a further grant of lands in the said county, altogether consisting of nearly 500 Acres. In 1729, Robert Atkins also got Gortard, in West Carberry granted to him, he was of Thomas, of Windsor, Berkshire, in 1657. In Sommer's Tracts, Alderman Thomas Atkins' speech is mentioned, which he delivered on Thursday, January 7th, 1649, at the solemn thanksgiving to Cromwell, &c. and at pages 582, and at 589, vol. iv. is given the following account of alderman Atkins, He was a busy stickler for inde-Ballyghadown, in the said county. pendency and republicanism, and the principal tool by which the Rump Parliament managed the common council of London, his speeches are to be found at the aforesaid pages. The Hosanah by + The Fuller family was one of great respectability and opulence; the Sandbanks is in the district of Toragh, and the family continued there 'till they sold a great deal of their property to Sir |