William Pendarves, knt. of Pendarves, but had no issue. 3. Charles Perceval, married at St. Michael's, Bristol, 5th May, 1717, Anne Chowne. He died before 1764, having had issue, James, bapt. 20th February, 1717, buried 6th March, same year. William, bapt. 13th February, James, bapt. 19th December, John Perceval was s. by his eldest son, JOHN PERCEVAL, esq. by Catherine, his wife, (she was buried at Wexford the 27th January, 1740, stated in the registry to be his widow,) and left issue, 1. JOHN, his heir. 11. Robert, b. about 1690, settled at Ardeavan, in the county of Wexford, m. in Dublin, Anne, daughter of Patterson, and had issue an only child, Mary, baptized at Wexford, 1st June, 1715. His wife was buried at Wexford, 9th July, 1717, and he died August, 1771, his will bear ing date the 5th of April of that year. John Perceval was s. by his eldest son, JOHN PERCEVAL, esq. who was baptized at St. Michans, Dublin, 1st May, 1684, and having lived some time at Kilcoole, in the county of Wicklow, he removed to Wexford, where he m. 8th July, 1710, Frances, eldest daughter of Edward Gregg, esq. by whom (who was baptized at Wexford, 18th February, 1691, and was buried there, April, 1735,) he had issue, J. WILLIAM, baptized at Wexford, 24th November, 1712, from whom descended the Percevals, of Ballytramon, in the county of Wexford. William Perceval's grandson's daughter, Julianna, (an only child,) conveyed by her will, which was proved in the prerogative court, Dublin, 21st July, 1827, the property of this branch to her mother's family, the Kings of Mackmine in the county of Wexford. 11. Edward, of Garrygibbon, in the county of Wexford, baptized at Wexford, 17th October, 1714, m. in Dublin, Jane, sister of William Charlton, esq. His will was proved in Dublin, 6th April, 1773, and his wife's in Wexford, 29th April, 1775. They were both buried at Wexford, having had issue, 1. Frances, wife of Samuel Waddy, unm. 11. Mary. III. Frances. IV. Agnata. John Perceval was a burgess of the corporation of Wexford, and was to have filled the office of mayor the year he died, which happened on the 4th of March, 1736, his will is dated 23rd February in that year, and was proved in Dublin, 1st July, 1737. The third son, JOHN PERCEVAL, baptized at Wexford, 30th April, 1719, being invited by his relative, Joseph Perceval, of Stapleton, near Bristol, went to England, about 1761 or 2, with the expectation of being united to Elizabeth, his only child, but not being disposed to form an alliance with that lady, he proceeded to London, where marrying Martha Martin, (whose mother was one of the maids of honour to King GEORGE II.'s Queen Consort, and from whom she enjoyed a pension for life,) he settled and had issue, 1. EDWARD, his heir. II. John, b. in London, 1766, d. 1769, buried at Ardcolm, in the county of Wexford. 1. Anne, wife of Edward Wheeler, esq. of Barntown, in the county of Wex ford. John Perceval died in London about 1768, (and his widow remarried with a clergyman named Leneka, by whom she had one son and a daughter,) and was s. by his surviving son, EDWARD PERCEVAL, esq. of Barntown, b. in London, 1st September, 1763, (and at his father's death, placed under care of his uncle William, of Ballytramon, who died 15th December, 1785, leaving him by his will, which was proved in Dublin, 26th August, 1786, considerable property). He was appointed by Charles, Earl of Ely, on the 4th May, 1793, deputy governor of the county of Wexford; captain lieutenant in the county militia, 23rd June, 1794; high sheriff of the county in 1798; a magistrate for the same, 3rd October of that year; and again captain in the county regiment 1st October, 1805. In the unfortunate year 1798, having seen his family safe into Milford Haven, he was put on board the mail packet, then going out of the harbour for Waterford, and landing at Duncannon Fort, joined the army assembled there, with which he continued until the suppression of the rebellion, and on the 29th June, 1799, he was presented by the corporation of Wex ford with a gold medal, bearing the following inscription : "On the 29th June, 1799, this medal was voted by the corporation of Wexford, to Edward Perceval, esq. first lieutenant of the Wexford Yeoman Cavalry, for his great gallantry in attending his captain, James Boyd, esq. who at the head of his lieutenant and eight privates of his troop, was the first to enter the town, on the 21st June, 1798, then in the possession of the rebels, and thereby relieving many of the loyal inhabitants, who expected a general massacre. "EBENEZER JACOB, Mayor." Mr. Perceval married at Wexford, 31st October, 1788, Mary, daughter of Robert Woodcock, esq. of Killowen, in the same same county, and relict of Ralph Evans, esq. uncle of John, sixth and present Baron Carbery, by whom (who d. 8th and was buried 10th November, 1803, at Wexford,) he had issue, 1. JAMES, his heir, now of Barntown House. 11. Edward, b. at Grange, 9th June, 1792, baptized at Killinick, 17th same month, an officer in the navy, who had passed for his lieutenancy, when he was killed 6th Jan. 1813, boarding an enemy's vessel in the Adriatic, and was buried on one of the small islands called Li Brioni, off the cape of Istria; his captain, the present Earl Cadogan, and officers of the Havanna frigate, caused a handsome monument to be erected to his memory in the church of St. Iberius, in Wexford, bearing the following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Mr. Edward Perceval, late Masters-Mate in the Royal Navy, who fell gallantly fighting in his country's cause, in an attack upon an enemy of far superior force, in a boat belonging to His Majesty's frigate, Havannah, Captain The Honourable George Cadogan, on the 6th January, 1813, on the coast of Istria, aged 21 years. "His amiable heart and noble disposition, secured him the friendship and esteem of all who knew him, whilst his public conduct ever entitled him to the approbation of those officers with whom he served, in testimony whereof, the Captain and Officers of the Havannah have erected this monument to his memory, as a sincere tribute to departed worth, as well as of their admiration of the heroic manner in which he fell." 1. Charles-John, b. at Grange, 8th September, 1793, bapt. 13th of the following month, at Killinick, a midshipman on board the Stately, 64 guns, Captain Parker, died unmar ried in the naval hospital of Great Yarmouth, in 1808, where he is buried. IV. Frederick-William, b. at Grange, 8th March, 1795, an ensign in the Wexford militia, died unmarried at Barntown House, in January, 1814, and was buried in Wexford, 18th of the same month. v. George, b. at Grange, 25th June, 1796, baptized at Killinick, 17th November following, buried in Wexford, 5th December, 1801. vi. Robert, b. at Grange, 10th November, 1797, and baptized as an adult in Killurin parish, in the county of Wexford, settled at Great Hayestown, in the same county. He m. at Wexford, 4th July, 1829, Sarah, eldest daughter of William Harvey, esq. of Killiane lodge, in the same county, and dying 19th October, 1836, was buried in Wexford, 23rd of the same month, having had issue, 1. Anne-Maria, d. 1st and buried 4. Anne. VII. Nelson, b. at Grange, 15th December, 1799, baptized with his brother Robert, died 5th July, 1821, unm. and buried 7th of the same month at Wexford. His will, dated 21st April, of the same year, was proved in Dublin. 1. Jane, baptized at Wexford, 9th September, 1789, buried there 27th August, 1790. Edward Perceval died at Wexford, 21st October, 1809, where he was buried. His will, dated 29th March, 1809, was proved in Dublin, 29th November, of the same year. His eldest son is the present JAMES PERCEVAL, of Barntown House. Arms Argent, on a chief indented gules, three crosses pattee or. Crest-A thistle proper. The several branches of this family have the unusual privilege of bearing supporters to their arms, as is evident from the ensuing authority, copied from the original entry from the Office of Arms, London. "This is to certify all whom it may concern, glass windows in the house of Weston, in the that it appears from the ancient paintings in the county of Somerset, that the family of Perceval, of the line of Weston, of which the Earl of Egmont is the chief, have borne and used for supporters to their arms, two eagles sable, as depicted Seat-Barntown House,* three miles west from Wexford, on the river Slaney. plied the fort of Carrig with provisions, one mile distant: hence the name of the townland. Giraldus Cambrensis states, anno 1170, that the men of Wexford, determined to build a fort to "Fitz Stephen justly dreading the instability of keep them in perpetual awe. He chose for his situation a place called Carrig, about two miles distant from the town, defended on two sides by a precipice, and on the other by a deep navigable river." The ruins of the fort are to be seen at this day, and there is a tower or square castle called Fitz Stephen's tower, on the opposite side of the Slaney still in good preservation. NICHOLSON, OF ROUNDHAY PARK. NICHOLSON, STEPHEN, esq. of Roundhay Park, in the county of York, born January, 1779, m. 1st December, 1807, Sarah, second daughter of Matthew Rhodes, esq. of Campfield, near Leeds. Mr. Nicholson succeeded 8th February, 1833, on the decease of Elizabeth, relict of his brother, Thomas Nicholson, esq. to the entailed estates of Roundhay Park and Chapel-Allerton. Lineage. WILLIAM NICHOLSON, (whose grandfather came from Northumberland in 1680, and settled in Yorkshire,) married first, in 1761, Hannah, daughter of Mr. Slater, of Craven, by whom he had a son THOMAS; and secondly, Grace, daughter of John Whitaker, by whom he had issue, STEPHEN, b. in 1779. William Nicholson Phillips, M.A. of Cambridge, a magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, assumed by royal licence, dated 13th October, 1827, the surname of his maternal uncle, Stephen Nicholson, esq. He was b. 12th Dec. 1803, m. 2nd October, 1827, Martha, third and youngest daughter and co-heiress of Abram Rhodes, esq. of Roundhay and Wold, Newton Hall, in the county of York, and has issue, Thomas, b. 18th September, 1829. Rhodes, b. 19th July, 1830. Stephen, b. 10th November, 1831. Albert-Henry, b. 16th July, 1833. Emily, b. 5th January, 1836. Hannah. William Nicholson died in 1812, and was succeeded by his eldest son, THOMAS NICHOLSON, esq. of Roundhay Park, a banker in Leeds and London, to whom the township of Roundhay is primarily indebted for the erection of a church, school-house, and alms houses, which have been built and endowed in furtherance of his benevolent intention by his brother, Stephen Nicholson, esq. Thomas Nicholson m. Elizabeth, daughter of William Jackson, of London, merchant, but dying the 14th January, 1821, without issue, was succeeded by his brother, the present STEPHEN NICHOLSON, esq. of Roundhay Park. Arms-Barry of six erminois and gules, on a chief azure a cross patée argent, between two suns in splendour. Crest-On a branch of a tree fessways proper, a lion's head erased at the neck or, and charged with a cross patée gules. Motto-Providentia Dei. Estates-At Roundhay, Chapel-Allerton, and Shadwell, in Yorkshire. Seat-Roundhay Park. COLLINS, OF BETTERTON. COLLINS, The Reverend JOHN FERDINANDO, of Betterton, in the county of Berks, b. 15th October, 1812, m. 30th September, 1836, Sarah, daughter of John Hawthorn, esq. of Glenluce, in the county of Wigton, and late of the island of Jamaica, and has issue, JOHN-FERDINANDO, b. 12th July, 1837. Mr. Collins succeeded to the estates of his father on attaining his majority. Lineage. The family of Collins is of great antiquity in the county of Berks, but appears to have come originally from the county of Salop; for in Doomsday Book, the name is found as possessing property in the hundred of Hodnet, in that county. The family have held the estate of Betterton from the reign of HENRY VI. descending from father to son, to the present time. Whether they were inhabitants of these parts previous to HENRY VI. is not exactly known; but in an old family record, written by John Collins, the seventh in descent, (living 1640,) we find the following account, entitled, "To the memory of posterity the history of the family of Collins of Betterton. "John, Lord Strange, of Knocking, in Shropshire, for want of issue, as the manner of the times was, for the health of his soul, gave to the Priory of Poughley, the Manor of West Betterton, in the time of Henry VI. at which time the ancestor of this family, Thomas Collins, was possessed of it, (as lessee) the first in descent. If he was the first Collins settled here originally is not known, then he may be supposed to have ascended out of Shropshire, and tenant in some sort to Lord Strange, of Knocking, in Shropshire, where in the Hundred of Hodnet, the family of Collins is recorded in Domesday. But the common report of the country was that this family is much ancienter in this place of Betterton, and I am induced to believe so, because there are no vestigia mentioning of any preceding family." THOMAS COLLINS, of Betterton, temp. HENRY VI. had a son, JOHN COLLINS, b. 1st HENRY VII. Of this gentleman it is recorded in a lease now in the possession of the family, that in the time of HENRY VII. a lease for forty years was granted by the Prior of Poughley to himself and Joan his wife: he had issue, JOHN COLLINS, b. 13th HENRY VIII. to whom and his wife Joan, daughter of Coxedge, of Ginge, in the county of Berks, the second lease of Betterton was granted in the time of HENRY VIII. of whom nothing is so much remarkable, as that he was a Wickliffe, and persecuted for his religion, and it is supposed some of his predecessors were, as appears ex Reg. Epis. Lincoln. By his wife, Joan, he had issue, JOHN COLLINS, b. 1 MARY, who it appears likewise suffered for his religion, and had his lease sold over his head, to one William Cottesford, of Ludgershall, who sold it again to the said John for the sum of | £100. as appears by a lease now extant. He m. Joan, daughter of - Blagrove, of Elton, in the county of Berks, and had an only son, JOHN COLLINS, b. temp. ELIZABETH, who m. Joan, daughter of Richard Smallbone, esq. of Steventon, in the county of Berks, and was s. by his son, JOHN COLLINS, b. 1609, who by his industry considerably enlarged his property, and left good portions to his children. He m. Maria, daughter of Richard Dew, csq. of Harwell, in the county of Berks, and had a son and successor, JOHN COLLINS, b. 1640, who m. first, Ann, daughter of Charles Fetyplace, esq. of Earls Court, Lambourne, in the county of Berks, and by that lady (who by the death of her brothers, finally became the heiress of a branch of the Fetyplace family) he had issue, 1. John, b. 27th September, 1664, d. young. H. CHARLES, his heir. III. Jonathan. iv. John, died young. v. Richard, d. s. p. VI. Thomas. 1. Ann. He m. secondly, Elizabeth, widow of Richard VIII. John. IX. James. x. Thomas. 11. Mary. The eldest surviving son, CHARLES COLLINS, of Pembroke College, Oxford, and of the Middle Temple, justice of the peace of the county of Berks, b. 13th June, 1666, heir after the death of his brother, m. first, Ann, eldest daughter of John Head, esq. of Hodcut, in the county of Berks, and had, with four sons who died before him s. p., two daughters, viz. Charlotte, m. John Saunders, esq. of Woolston, in the county of Berks, and had issue, John Saunders. Ann. Martha. Frances, m. Richard Hartend, esq. and had issue, Richard Hartend. Charles Hartend. Charles Collins m. secondly, Elizabeth Coghill, of Bletchington, but had no issue; and thirdly, Ann, eldest daughter of Ferdinando White, esq. of Fryers Court, in the county of Berks, and by her had issue, FERDINANDO, his heir. Charles, died without issue. The eldest surviving son, FERDINANDO COLLINS, esq. justice of the peace for the county of Berks, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, m. Katherine, daughter of Boote, esq. of Deuciss, since called Belmon, in the county of Berks, and had issue, Ferdinando, b. 28th February, 1746, d. s. p. JOHN, heir to his father. Ann, m. to Francis Brownsword Bullock, esq. of the county of Warwick, and had two sons, Francis and Ferdinando, both deceased, and four daughters, Ann, Catharine, Sarah, and Mary. Katharine, m. Isaac Pickering, esq. of 1. Berwick Pickering. The only surviving son and heir, THE REV. JOHN COLLINS, of Betterton, vicar of Cheshunt, b. 6th July, 1753, m. Martha, daughter of James Smith, esq. of Rotterdam and Hammersmith, and had issue, JOHN-FERDINANDO, his heir. Katharine, m. to the Rev. Giles Daubeney, of Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts, and has had issue, Giles-Warren Daubeney,deceased. Charles-Joseph Daubeney. Anna-Maria, m. to the Rev. Benjamin Rose-Louisa Morland. Mr. Collins died 17th March, 1826, and was s. by his son, the present REV. JOHN-FERDINANDO COLLINS, of Betterton, Arms-Vert, a griffin passant or, a chief |