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FREER, OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON.

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FREER, JOHN-BRANSTON, esq. of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, b. 18th June, 1797, m. 1st February, 1820, ElizabethMary, elder daughter of William Richard Topp, esq. capt. 14th regiment of foot, by Mary-Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Bowyer Leftwich Wynn, esq.† and has issue,

I. JOHN-BOWYER-WYNN.

11. William-Richard.

III. Henry-Leftwich.

1. Isabella-Elizabeth-Mary.
II. Maria-Eliza.

III. Caroline-Leigh.

IV. Mary.

v. Jessie.

Mr. Freer, who is a magistrate and deputy-lieut. for Warwickshire, succeeded his father 3rd July, 1816.

Lineage.

JOHN FREER, esq. of Oakham, in the county of Rutland, who died in 1806, and was buried in the family vault at Oakham, left by Ann, his wife, a son and successor,

lady married secondly, Captain Peach. Mr. Freer died at Clifton, 3rd July, 1816, leaving by his second wife, an only son, the present JOHN BRANSTON FREER, esq. of Stratford-upon-Avon.

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JOHN FREER, esq. of Weston House, in the county of Rutland, who served as high sheriff of that county in 1779. He m. first in 1775, Mary, only child of John Ridling-phins naiant ppr. ton, esq. of Edith Weston; secondly in 1795, Anne, only child of John Briggs, esq. of Highbury Place, Islington, and thirdly in 1814, Jane, daughter of Boyle Vandeleur, esq. of Ennis, in the county of Clare, which

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Estates-In the counties of Leicester,
Derby, Stafford, Chester, and Warwick.
Seat-Stratford-upon-Avon.

EDGEWORTH, OF EDGEWORTHSTOWN.

EDGEWORTH, LOVELL, esq. of Edgeworthstown, in the county of Longford, b. 30th June, 1776, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for that county, and high sheriff in 1819.

Captain Topp descended from the Topps of Tormarton, in the county of Gloucester, a family raised to the degree of baronet by CHARLES II. For a full account of their descent, see BURKE's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies.

+ Bowyer Leftwich Wynn, esq. who m. 1st December, 1761, Mary White, grandaughter of Lord Leigh, was son and heir of Ellis Wynn, esq. by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Leftwich Oldfield, esq. (whose ancestor, Hugo de Malbane, founded the abbey of Combermere,) and grandaughter of Sir William Bowyer, bart. of Knypersley Hall. (See also BURKE'S Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies).

Lineage.

The Edgeworths, originally, it is said, established at Edgeworth, now called Edgeware, in Middlesex, settled in Ireland in the reign of ELIZABETH, about the year 1583.

castle and had set fire to it, they plundered it completely; but they were persuaded to extinguish the fire from reverence for the picture of Jane Edgeworth. Her portrait was painted on the wainscoat, with a cross hanging from her neck and a rosary in her hands. Being a Catholic and having founded a religious house, she was considered as a saint. The only son of Capt. Edgeworth was then an infant, lying in his cradle. One of the rebels seized the child by the leg and was in the act of swinging him round to dash his brains out against the corner of the castle wall, when an Irish servant of the lowest order stopped his hand, claiming the right of killing the little heretic himself, and swearing that a sudden death would be too to the throat in a bog hole and leave him for good for him; that he would plunge him up the crows to peck his eyes out. Snatching the child from his comrade he ran off with the mud; but when the rebels had retired, it to a neighbouring bog and thrust it into this man, who had only pretended to join them, went back to the bog for the boy, preserved his life, and contriving to hide him ried him actually through the midst of the in a paunier under eggs and chickens, carrebel "This camp, safely to Dublin." faithful servant's name," continues Mr. Edgeworth, was Bryan Ferrat. His last deScendant died within my memory, after having lived and been supported always under my father's protection. My father heard this from Lady Edgeworth, his grandby story mother, and also from a man of one hundred and seven years of age, one Bryan Simpson, who was present at the attack of Cranallagh Castle, and by whom the facts were circumstantially detailed.”

ROGER EDGEWORTH, a monk, who wrote a sermon against the Reformers, being smitten, like his master HENRY VIII. with the bright eyes of beauty, like him, after having been a defender of the Catholic faith, re

formed and married. His sons, Edward and Francis, went to Ireland, probably under the patronage of Essex and Cecil, as those names have continued Christian names in the family ever since. The elder son,

THE RIGHT REV. EDWARD EDGEWORTH, who was beneficed by Queen ELIZABETH, became Bishop of Down and Connor in 1593. He died without issue, and was s. his brother,

FRANCIS EDGEWORTH, clerk of the hanaper in 1619, who m. Jane, daughter of Sir Edmond Tuite, knt. of Sonna, in Westmeath, and had by her (who founded a religious house in Dublin,) a son and heir,

CAPTAIN JOHN EDGEWORTH, of Cranallagh Castle, in the county of Longford, who m. first, the daughter of Sir Hugh Cullum, of Derbyshire, by whom he had a son, JOHN,

his heir.

"Before the Irish rebellion broke out

in 1641, (we quote Edgeworth's Memoirs,)
Capt. Edgeworth, not aware of the immediate
danger, left his wife and infant in the castle
of Cranallagh, while he was summoned to a
distance by some military duty. During his
absence the rebels rose, attacked the castle,
set fire to it at night, and dragged the lady
out, literally naked. She escaped from their
hands and hid herself under a furze bush,
till they had dispersed.
She then made
her way to Dublin, thence to England, and
to her father's house in Derbyshire. After
the rebels had forced this lady out of the

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Captain Edgeworth, (his first wife dying in a few years after her return to Derbyshire,) m. secondly, Mrs. Bridgman, widow of Edward Bridgman, esq. brother to Sir Orlando Bridgman, the lord keeper, and went back with her to Ireland. He was s. by his son,

SIR JOHN EDGEWORTH, knighted by CHARLES II. who m. the only daughter and heir of Edward Bridgman, esq. acquired with her an estate in Lancashire, besides a considerable fortune in money, and had eight sons, of whom the eldest, FRANCIS, S. to the paternal estate in Longford; the second, Robert, was ancestor of the EDgeworths OF KILSHREWLY (see page 755); and the fifth, Essex, had a son the celebrated Abbé Edgeworth, who styled himself, from the estate his branch of the family possessed, Monsieur de Firmont. The eldest,

COL. FRANCIS EDGEWORTH, of Edgeworths

town, raised a regiment for WILLIAM III. and became so zealous a loyalist, as to acquire the nickname of "Protestant Frank." He married successively several wives. One of whom, an English lady, was a widow Bradstone, who by her first husband had a daughter, Miss Bradstone, wife of Mr. Pakenham, and mother of the first Lord Longford. By this lady Col. Edgeworth left a son and successor,

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Edgeworthstown, born at Bath in 1744, the late celebrated writer on Education and Inventions. This distinguished person m. first, Anna-Maria, daughter of Paul Elers,* esq. of Black Bourton, in the county of Oxford, and had by her, one son and three daughters,

Richard, b. in May, 1765, died in 1796.

who

*The family of Elers was long settled in the northern parts of Lower Saxony, where many RICHARD EDGEWORTH, esq. of Edge- places preserve memorials of it in the names they worthstown, under the guardianship of Mr. bear, as Elersdorf, Elerswolf, &c. In Hamburg, Pakenham, who advised him to go to the some hereditary posts of honour and distinction Temple at eighteen, instead of going to were long annexed to the family, and we find Adcollege. This prudent counsel Mr. Edge-miral Elers commanding the fleet of that great worth followed, and by application to busi- commercial place, at a time when the navy of the ness, and by making himself master of his Hanseatic League was one of the most consideraown affairs, he recovered a considerable ble in Europe. The admiral married a lady of the part of his estate which had been unjustly royal house of Baden, and had by her a son, detained from him by some of his own fa- becoming involved in a long and expensive lawmily. 'He told me," says his late distin- suit, to establish his right to certain honours and guished son, "a singular detection of fraud privileges, which in the aulic council of the empire in one of the suits in which he was engaged: settled at Amsterdam, and married a wealthy merwas given against him, left Germany in disgust, a deed was produced against him, which was chant's daughter there. He was employed on witnessed by a very old man who was several embassies, and enjoyed the friendship and brought to give evidence. His venerable confidence of the illustrious John Philip Schoenaspect prepossessed the court strongly in burn, Elector of Mentz, who, together with the favour of his veracity; he said that he was Queen of Sweden, the famous Christiana, was an ancient servant of the Edgeworth family, sponsor to his son, John Philip Elers, named after and had been accustomed to transcribe the elector. The family subsequently settled in papers for the gentleman who had executed England, where, in 1700, the deed. He began by declaring that he had foreseen from the particular circumstances of the case, which went to disinherit the heir of the family, that the transaction might hereafter be brought into dispute; he had therefore, he said, privately put a sixpence under the seal of the deed, which would appear, if the seal were broken. The seal was broken in open court, and the sixpence was found to be dated five years subsequent to the date of the deed! The deed being thus proved a forgery, my father gained his suit." Mr. Edgeworth m. in 1732, Rachel-Jane, dau. of Samuel Lovell, esq. a Welsh judge, son of Sir Salathiel Lovell, knt. of Harleston, in the county of Northampton, one of the barons of the Exchequer, (see vol. iii. p. 76) and had to survive childhood, two sons and two daughters, viz.

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PAUL ELERS was born. He was educated at

Oxford, and adopted the profession of a barrister.
He m. Mary, daughter and heir of Anthony Hun-
Oxford, a lineal descendant of the great house of
gerford, esq. of Bourton Place, in the county of
Hungerford, and had issue,

PAUL GEORGE, lieut. 70th regiment, m. about
1772, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of John
Debonnaire, esq. of Bromley, and had issue,
1. HUNGERFORD-RICHARD, an officer of
rank in the 43rd regiment, d. s. p. in
Spain, in 1811.

2. GEORGE, formerly captain 12th regi

ment.

3. Edward, lieut. R. N. died in 1814, leaving by Eliza Younghusband, his wife, (who m. secondly, Capt. Charles Napier, R. N.) two sons and two daughters, viz. Edward-HungerfordDelaval, capt. 46th regiment; CharlesGeorge, lieut. R.N.; Eliza, m. to Peter Cherry, esq. captain of cavalry E. I. company's service; and Georgiana, widow of the Rev. Mr. Henville of Hampshire.

Anna-Maria, m. to Richard-Lovell Edge-
worth, esq. as in the text.

Louisa, m. to the Rev. Alexander Colston, of
Filkins Hall, Oxfordshire.

Diana, m. to the Rev. Richard Welshman, of
Northamptonshire.

Charlotte, m. to the Rev. John Kirby, of
Northamptonshire.

Rachael, m. to Captain John Hopkins, R.M.
killed on board the Bellerophon at the Nile.
Amelia, m. to Mr. Baldey, R.N.
Jane, d. unm.

MARIA, the distinguished novelist, so celebrated and so popular for her faithful delineations of the manners and customs of Ireland, b. 1st January, 1767.

Emmeline, m. in 1802, to John King, esq. and has issue, Zoe and PsycheEmmeline.

Anna-Maria, m. in 1794, to Dr. Beddoes, and died in 1824, leaving Thomas Lovell, Charles-Henry, AnnaFrances-Emily, and Mary-Eliza, who died in 1833.

He m. secondly in 1773, Honora, daughter of Edward Sneyd, esq. of Lichfield, youngest son of Ralph Sneyd, esq. of Bishton, in the county of Stafford, and by her had issue,

LOVELL, who succeeded to the estates.
Honora, who died in 1790.

He m. thirdly, 25th December, 1780, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Sneyd, esq. of Lichfield, and had by her, (who d. in 1797,) five sons and four daughters, viz.

Henry, b. 15th September, 1782, d. in

1813. Charles-Sneyd, b. 30th October, 1786, m. 2nd September, 1813, Henrica, daughter of John Broadhurst, esq. of Foston, in the county of Derby. William, b. 28th April, 1788, died in 1790.

Thomas-Day, b. 25th October, 1789, d. in 1792.

William, b. 27th January, 1794, died
in 1829.

Elizabeth, died in 1800.
Charlotte, died in 1807.
Sophia, d. in 1785.
Honora.

He m. fourthly, Frances-Anne, daughter of the Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, and had by her two sons and four daughters, namely, Francis-Beaufort, b. 5th October, 1809,

m. in 1831, Rosa Florentina Erolles,
and had a son, who died in 1833.
Michael-Pakenham, b. 24th May, 1812.
Frances-Maria, m. in 1829, to Lestock
P. Wilson, esq. of London.
Harriet, m. in 1826, to the Rev. Rich-
ard Butler.

Sophia, m. in 1824, to Barry Fox, esq.
and has issue, Maxwell-William-
Waller, Mary-Anne, and Charlotte.
Lucy-Jane.

Mr. Edgeworth died 13th June, 1817, and was s. by his son, the present LOVELL EDGEWORTH, esq. of Edgeworthstown.

Arms-Party per chev. gu. and or, three martlets counterchanged, quartering Shuckborough, Bridgeman, and Lovell.

Crest-On a ducal coroneta pelican feeding her young, or.

Motto-Constans contraria spernit.
Estates-In the county of Longford.
Seat-Edgeworthstown.

EDGEWORTH, OF KILSHREWLY.

EDGEWORTH, THOMAS-NEWCOMEN, esq. of Kilshrewly, in the county of Longford, b. 30th April, 1778, m. first, 1st January, 1806, Mary-Anne, only child of John Steele, esq. of Carricklane, in the county of Armagh, by Catherine, his wife, daughter of Robert Stuart, esq. of Hanslong, and secondly, 14th April, 1834, Mary, daughter of Thomas Montgomery esq. of the city of Dublin. By the former, who died in 1832, he has surviving issue,

JOHN-ESSEX-EDWARD, b. 25th September, 1814.
George-Thomas-Henry, b. 4th August, 1816.
James-Bridgeman, b. 9th July, 1823.

Catherine-Jemima.

Cecilia.
Elizabeth.

Major Edgeworth, who succeeded his elder brother in 1795, served the office of high sheriff of the county of Longford in 1814 and 1815. He was for a time lieutenant of marines, and during several years major in the royal Limerick county militia.

Lineage.

ROBERT EDGEWORTH, esq. (second son of Sir John Edgeworth, knt. see p. 753,) m. Catherine, only child of Sir Edward Tyrrell, bart. of Lynn, in the county of Westmeath, by Eleanor, his wife, daughter of Sir Dudley Loftus, knt. of Killyan, (and Cecilia, his wife, daughter of the learned Sir James Ware, auditor general of Ireland). By this lady Mr. Edgeworth had issue, EDWARD, Packington, and other children. To the second son, Packington, Mr. Edgeworth, displeased at the marriage of his eldest son with a Catholic, left the estate of Sir Edward Tyrrell, which had been restored, and with Packington's descendants part of it still continues. The eldest son,

EDWARD EDGEWORTH, esq. of Kilshrewly, inherited, under marriage settlement, the family estate. Hem. in 1717, Mary, daughter of John Hussey, esq. of Courtown, in the county of Kildare, and had two sons, Robert and Newcomen. The elder died unm. The younger,

NEWCOMEN EDGEWORTH, esq. of Kilshrewly, m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Henry Edgeworth, of Lessard, in the county of Longford, which lady d. s. p. and secondly, Mary, only daughter of Lau

Sir Edward Tyrrell was attainted in 1688, by King WILLIAM, and had his estates forfeited, but they were restored to Sir Edward's son-in-law, Robert Edgeworth.

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STANSFELD, OF BURLEY WOOD.

(Representing Wolrich, of Suffolk.)

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STANSFELD, THOMAS-WOLRICH, esq. of Burley Wood, in the county of York, b. 11th March, 1779, m. in 1820, Anne, eldest dau. of Rawdon Briggs, esq. of Savile Green, Halifax, and sister of Rawdon Briggs, esq. jun. late .M.P. for that borough, and has issue,

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Mr. Stansfeld, who was captain-lieutenant 4th West York militia in 1799, and lieutenant-colonel of the Leeds local militia in 1808, succeeded his father in 1818.

Whose mother was of the family of Rawden, of Rawden, in the county of York, descended from Paulinus de Roden, a Norman grantee of the Conqueror, and ancestor of the marquess of Hastings the present owner of the estate.

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