Sir James Foljambe died 26th September, 1558, and lies buried at Chesterfield, where a monument is erected to his memory. His son by his second wife, FRANCIS FOLJAMBE, esq. of Aldwark, m. Frances, daughter of Thomas Burdett, esq. of Birthwaite, and relict of Francis Wortley, esq. of Wortley, by whom he left at his decease, in 1600, a son, 1. FRANCIS FOLJAMBE, esq. of Walton and Aldwark, sheriff of Derbyshire in 1633, who was created a BARONET in 1622. This gentleman advanced the family in honours, but he weakened it by his extravagance. In the family history he is described as "a man of a profuse temper and excessive hospitality." He sold Walton and several other estates. Sir Francis m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wray, of Glentworth, by whom he had an only daughter and heir, FRANCES, m. first to Sir Christopher Wray, and secondly, to John Troutbeck, M.D. She died issueless. He wedded secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Reresby, but by her, (whom. secondly, Edward Horner, esq. of Mells, thirdly, Sir William Monson, Viscount Castlemaine, and fourthly, Sir Adam Felton, bart. of Playford,) had no issue. He died at Bath, 17th December, 1640, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. The family of Forster, or Foster, is of great antiquity in the county of Northumberland, and from Thomas Forster, a younger son of Anthony Forster, by Thomasine, daughter of Sir Edward Bray, descended the branch of the Forsters long seated at Aldermaston, in the county of Berks. The son or grandson of this Thomas married the daughter and heir of Harpden, of Harpden, in the county of Oxon, and from him descended HUMPHRY FORSTER, of Harpden, who married Alice, the daughter of Thomas Honor, of Honor, in the county of Oxon, by whom he had issue, SIR HUMPHRY FORSTER, knt. of Harpden, who m. Sir Stephen Popham, and Sir John Popham the chief justice, were descended from the same common ancestor in the time of HENRY III. Sir Stephen was sheriff of Hants in the 6th and 19th of HENRY VI. He left four daughters his co-heirs. His grandfather married Sibill, the second daughter and co-heir of Laurence St. Martin, by Sibilla, daughter and heir of Sir John Lorty, which coats of arms are in consequence introduced in the windows at Aldermaston, as is also the coat of Zouche, of Dean, in consequence of another ancestor having married the daughter and heir of Olivia de Zouch. (Vide p. 196, vol. ii. BURKE'S Commoners.) + Anthony Forster, of Cumnor in Berks, so celebrated in the history of Leicester and Amy Robsart, was, as his monumental inscription shows, no relation to this family. Alice, daughter and co-heir of Sir Stephen Popham,' knt. and dying in 1500, left issue, SIR GEORGE FORSTER, K.B. of Aldermaston in the county of Berks, jure uxoris, sheriff of Berks, in 1516, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Delamere, of Aldermaston, eldest son of Sir Thomas Delamere, knt. and by her, who died 7th December, 1526, left at his decease, in 1533, a son and heir, SIR HUMPHRY FORSTER, knt. of Aldermaston, she riff, 1532 and 45, married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil liam, Lord Sandys, of the Vine, and had issue, WILLIAM. Elizabeth, m. George Covert, of Sussex. Margaret, m. Anthony Elmes, of Bowlneday, in Sir Humphry died in 1555, and was succeeded by his The descent of the Aldermaston property has never been distinctly traced, but there would appear to have been four generations of Richards, beginning with Richard the grantee, temp. HENRY I. and terminating in a dang ter and heir, married to a Delamere, perhaps Sir Peser Delamere, and father or grandfather of Sir Thomas Del mere, knight of the holy sepulchre, and sheriff of Berk in 1473. He died in 1490, and being buried at St. Bridget's Sion, left by Elizabeth, his wife, a grandaughter and be Elizabeth, the wife of Sir George Forster. He had a a younger son, George, to whose son, John Delamere, Es zabeth Forster was in 1507 proved heir. Her mother was Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Da rell, of Littlecote. She remarried Sir Edward Huser ford, of Farley, son of Walter, Lord Hungerford. He married Anne, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, knt. of Sidmanton, in the county of Hants, and by her, who died 12th October, 1673, had issue, Humphry, died s. p. WILLIAM his heir who d. v. p. in 1660. He m. HUMPHRY, Successor to his grandfather. John, killed in a duel, 1683, aged twenty-five. Anne, d. 12th January, 1664. ELIZABETH, m. William Pert, of Essex, and secondly, Henry Kelsey, and had issue by her first husband, Elizabeth Pert, who married first, Wil- William, bapt. 7th October, 1712, in Charlotte, bapt. 31st March, 1709, in Lady Stawell died in 1748. Frances, bapt. 1600. Anne, bapt. 1619, d. 16th May, 1638. Mary, d. 9th September, 1638. Bridget, d. 29th May, 1637. Margery, bapt. 1623. Margaret, bapt. 1626, m. Sir George Pratt, knt. of Coleshill, in the county of Berks, and had issue. Sophia, bapt. 1632, m. Laurence Halstead, esq. and had issue. Sir Humphry died in 1663, aged sixty-eight, and was succeeded by his grandson, II. SIR HUMPHRY FORSTER, bart. of Aldermaston, sheriff of Berks, 1704, who m. Judith, daughter and coheir of Sir Humphrey Winch, bart. of Haines, in the County of Bedford, and by her (who d. 1720) had issue, HUMPHRY, d. 1682. William, d. 1683, aged seven. Rebecca, d. 1676, aged two. Lineage. ........ I. SIR REGINALD FORSTER, of East Greenwich in Kent, who devoted himself zealously to the royal cause during the civil wars, and expended a large fortune in the service of his unhappy master, was rewarded by a BARONETCY shortly after the restoration. Hem. Blandina, daughter of John Acton, goldsmith, of London, and dying circa 1684, was s. by his son, II. SIR REGINALD FORSTER, who married first, Miss Nash, of Greenwich, an heiress, and secondly, a Warwickshire lady, also an heiress, but died without male issue, at Stratford on Avon, subsequently to the year 1696, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. FORSTER, OF STOKESLY. CREATED 18th Sept. 1649.-EXTINCT before 1714. Lineage. 1. RICHARD FORSTER, esq. of Stokesly, in the county of York, who was raised to the degree of BARONET in 1649, married Joan Midleton, of Leighton, in Lancashire, and left at his decease, 17th January, 1661, a son and successor, 11. SIR RICHARD FORSTER, of Stokesly, who m. Clare, daughter of Anthony Meynell, of North Kilvington, in Yorkshire, and left (with a daughter, Mary, m. to Collingwood, of Hetton-in-the-Hole, in the county of Durham) a son, III. SIR RICHARD FORSTER, of Stokesly, at whose decease, unm. before 1714, the BARONETCY became EX TINCT. This was a branch of the ancient stock of Fortescue of Devon, established by SIR RICHARD LE FORTE, one of the companions in arms of the Conqueror. See BURKE'S History of the Commoners, vol. ii. p. 541. LEWIS FORTESCUE, esq. (youngest son of John Fortescue, esq. of Spirelston, and lineal descendant of William Fortescue, of Winston, the common ancestor of all the branches of the family) having been bred to the bar, was successively one of the readers of the Middle Temple, sergeant-at-law, and a baron of the exchequer. He was raised to the bench about the close of HENRY VIIIth's reign. He m. ELIZABETH, daughter and heiress of JOHN FORTESCUE, esq. of FALLAPIT, by whom he acquired that estate, and had a son and successor, JOHN FORTESCUE, esq. of Fallapit, b. in 1525, m. Honoria, daughter of Edmund Speccott, esq. of Thornbury, and by her (who d. in 1606, aged seventy-eight) | left at his decease, in 1595, a son and successor, EDMUND FORTESCUE, esq. of Fallapit, b. in 1552, who m. Mary, daughter of Henry Champernowne, esq. of Modbury, and sister of Sir Richard Champernowne, knt. by whom (who d. in 1611) he had issue (to survive infancy) viz. 1. JOHN, his heir. II. Francis, b. in 1587. III. Nicholas, b. in 1596. 1. Honor, b. in 1583, m. to Humphrey Prideaux, esq. of Soldon, in the county of Devon. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. i. p. 204.) 11. Elizabeth, born in 1584, married to John Nycholls, esq. Edmund Fortescue, who was sheriff for the county of Devon in 1623, d. in 1624, and was s. by his eldest son, JOHN FORTESCUE, esq. of Fallapit, who m. Sarah, daughter of Sir Edmund Prideaux, bart. of Netherton, by whom (who d. in 1628, aged forty-four) he had issue, 1. Maria, b. in 1611, who m. Richard Wise, of Tot ness. 11. Bridget, b. in 1619. John Fortescue died in 1649, aged sixty-three, and was s. by his son, SIR EDMUND FORTESCUE, knt. of Fallapit, b. in 1610, of whom Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, makes the following mention: "This gentleman having served King CHARLES I. with great courage, cost, and fidelity, as a justice of the peace, high sheriff of the county, and a brave commander in the wars, making as bonourable articles for the surrender of Charles Fort, at Salcombe, Devon, whereof he was governor, as could be demanded; upon the fall of that king and his cause, fled beyond sea, and died in Holland." He was interred at Delph, where there was a monument erected to his memory. He m. Jane Southcote, of MohoonOttery, and by that lady (who died in 1642) had John, d. in infancy. EDMUND, heir. Jane, who d. in 1641. Catherine, m. to Thomas Glanville, esq. Maria, m, to George Southcote, esq. of Buckland. Sir Edmund was s. at his decease by his son, SIR EDMUND FORTESCUE, knt. of Fallapit, who was created a BARONET 31st March, 1664. This gentleman m. Margery, daughter of Henry, fifth Lord Sandys, of the Vine, and left (with two daughters, Jane, married to William Coleman, esq. and Sarah, who died unmarried, in 1685, aged twenty-one) a son and suc cessor, SIR SANDYS FORTESCUE, bart. of Fallapit, b. in 1660 who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Lenthall, kat of Basingsleigh, and having no son, but one only daughter, Elizabeth, the title became EXTINCT at his decease in 1682, and the estates passed to (the son of his grand uncle, Peter) his cousin, EDMUND FORTESCUE, esq. who m. Mary, daughter of Sampson Wyse, esq. of Dittisham, and by her, who died in 1722, had issue, 1. MARY, m, to the Right Hon. William Fortescue, of Buckland Filleigh, master of the rolls, and dying in 1710, aged twenty-ont, left an only daughter and heir, MARY, m. to John Spooner, esq. but died without surviving issue, when Fal lapit reverted to her aunt. II. ELIZABETH, d. in 1768, aged seventy-three. III. SARAH, d. in 1703, aged five. IV. DOROTHY, m. to Thomas Bury, esq. son of Sir Thomas Bury, knt. of Exeter, and dying in 1733, aged thirty four, left (with a younger daughter, Dorothy Bury, who died unm. in 1792, aged sixty-two,) an el der daughter, CATHERINE BURY, m. to the Rev. Na THANIEL WELLS, rector of East Alling ton, in Devon, and had (with four younger sons, and six daughters, se BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 543.) EDMUND WELLS, who inherited Fat LAPIT from his great aunt, Eliza beth Fortescue, and assumed the surname and arms of FORTESCUE His grandson is the present WH LIAM BLUNDELL FORTESCUE, esq. of Fallapit. v. GRACE, d. unm. in 1743-4. Arms-Az. a bend engr. arg. cotised or. FORTESCUE, of wood. CREATED 29th Jan. 1666-7.-EXTINCT in 1686. Lineage. This was another branch of the great house of FORTESCUE, descended from SIR HENRY FORTESCUE, chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in Ireland, by Joan, his first wife, heiress of Wood, in Devonshire. The male line of the original Fortescues, of Wood, failed, and the representation and estate were conveyed by a female heir, ELIZABETH FORTESCUE, to her husband Lewis FORTESCUE, esq. of Preston, represen tative of another branch of the family. His direct descendant, 1. PETER FORTESCUE, esq. of Wood, was created a BARONET in 1666-7. He married first, Bridget, daughter of Sir John Eliot, of Port Eliot, in Cornwall; and secondly, Amy, daughter of Peter Courtenay, esq. of St. Michael, in the same county, and relict of Sir Peter Courtenay, knt. but as he left no male issue at his decease in 1686, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. This Anglo-Saxon family, traced on proofs for nine descents in the Visitation of 1620, is of very great antiquity, and is considered to have existed at Fowellscombe, in the parish of Ugborough, Devon, previously to the Conquest. (See BURKE's Commoners, vol. iv.) JOHN DE VOCHIL, or DE FOGHILL, son and heir of ROGER, stated to have derived his descent from another John by the daughter and heiress of Coome, lived In the thirteenth century, and m. the daughter and heiress of TREVAZE, of Trevaze, in Cornwall, which manor remained with their descendants until the diVision of the estates of the elder branch of the family, in 1712, between the sisters of the last baronet. Their great-great-grandson and heir (through daughters and heiresses of WALLRONDE, HALLVELL, and, of Harburtonford, all in Devon), was WILLIAM FOUBEL, esq. of Fouhelscombe, M. P. for Totness, 33 HENRY VI. (1455.) He married Elinor, youngest daughter, by his wife, Margaret, eldest daughter and sole heir of William Stighul, of Devon of Sir Walter Reynell, knt. Lord of Trumpington and Bad This Thomas Fowbill, of Fowhillscombe, m. secondly, Mawde, daughter of -- Bevyll, of Cornwall, by whom he bad three sons, Thomas, Robert, and William, one of whom, it is considered, originated the London branch of the family, a descendant of which is supposed to have lingham, in Cambridgeshire, and of Malston, in Devon, ancestor of the Reynells, of that place, and of Ogwell, and of the Reynells, baronets. (See BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage, and Commoners, vol. iv.) This William Fouhel, M. P. for Totness, died 23rd March, 1507, and his wife, Elinor, the 9th of April, the same year, and as appears by inscription on a brass plate in their vault, were interred in the Fowell aisle of the church of Ugborough. Their son and heir, SIR RICHARD FOWHIL, knt. of Fowhilscombe, m. first, Blanch, daughter and co-heir of Hayes of Devon; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Edgcombe, knt. sheriff of Devon in 1487. By the former he had issue, THOMAS, his heir, and JOANE, married, first, to Sir Philip Courtenay, knt. of Loughter, second son of Sir Philip Courtenay, knt. of Molland, both in Devon, and had by him an only daughter, Elizabeth Courtenay, married to Sir William She wedded, secondly, Humphrey Prideaux, esq. of Thoughborough and Adeston, in Devon, ancestor, by her of the present Sir Edmund Prideaux, bart. of Netherton, in that county. (See BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage.) The son and heir, THOMAS FOWHILL, of Fowhillscombe, married Maria, eldest daughter, by his wife, Joane, daughter and coheir of Richard Whitley, esq. of Efford, of Richard Halse, esq. of Kenedon, both in Devon, and dying in 1544, was s. by his son and heir,* RICHARD FOWHILL, esq. of Fowhillscombe, who m. 27th January, 1541, Grace, second daughter, by his wife, Jane, daughter of Nicholas Dillon, esq. of Chimwell, in Devon, of John Somaster, esq. of Paynsford, in that county, and had issue three sons and one daughter, I. ARTHUR, his heir. 11. William, of Blackhall and Diptford Down, in the adjoining parishes of North Huish and Diptford, b. at Fowellscombe in 1556, and m. Agnes, eldest daughter, by Anne, daughter of John Bligh, esq. of Bodmin, in Cornwall, of William Achym, esq. of Plenynth, or Plynt, in that county. His grandson and heir, RICHARD FOWELL, of Black hall and Diptford, m. in 1655, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Hele, bart. of Fleet Damarell, in Devon, M. P. sheriff of Devon, 1636, and co-heir of her brothers, Sir Samuel and Sir Henry Hele, barts.; on the death of the latter of whom, in 1677, s. p. that title (for which see that family, page 251), expired. Their son and heir, WILLIAM FOWELL, esq. of Black Hall and Diptford, born at Blackhall in 1659, became, at the decease of Sir John Fowell, the third baronet, in 1692, heir male of the family. He died in April, 1714, aged fifty-five, leaving issue by his wife, Susannah, daughter of John Smyth, esq. of Tavistock, in Devon, been JOSEPH FOWELL, esq. of London, the successful Russia merchant, whose only daughter and heiress, Sarah, m. Isaac Buxton, esq. and was grandmother of JOHN FOWELL BUXTON, esq. late M. P. for Weymouth, the philanthropic advocate of slave emancipation. 1. JOHN, his heir, b. in 1683, continuator of the Black Hall branch.* 2. Richard, M. A. fellow of Exeter College, Oxon, rector of Hilperton, and vicar of Corsham, in Wilts, b. at Black Hall, in October, 1695, m. in November, 1723, Anne, daughter of James Harris, esq. of the Close, in Salisbury, of the noble family of Harris, now Earls of Malmesbury, and died in 1750, aged fifty-five, leaving issue, of whom JOHN FOWELL, his son and heir, fellow of Exeter College, Oxon, D. D. rector of Bishopsbourne, &c. in Kent, and co-chaplain with Bishop Porteus to Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, left issue, by his wife, Susannah, daughter of Thomas Alkin, esq. of Canterbury, an only daughter and heir, ULIANA-MARGARET-FOWELL, born at Bishopsbourne, 27th June, 1778, m. 23rd April, 1796, John Charles Tufnell, esq. of Bath, a major in the army, and lieutenantcolonel of the Middlesex militia, second son of George Foster Tufnell, esq. of Islington, in the county of Middlesex, by his wife, Mary, daughter of John Farhill, esq. (see BURKE'S Commoners) and has, with other issue, a son, JOHN - CHARLES FOWELL TUFNELL, in holy orders, m. and has issue. Fowell of Black Hall. JOHN FOWELL, esq. of Black Hall and Diptford, b. in 1683, m. 21st October, 1729, Elizabeth, only surviving child and heir of John Newton, esq. of Crabaton Court, in Devon, and dying in November, 1758, aged seventyfive, was s. by his son and heir, JOHN FOWELL, esq. of Black Hall and Diptford, b. at Blackhall, 30th October, 1735, who m. 28th February, 1763, Mary, eldest surviving daughter, and eventual senior co-heir, by his wife, the daughter and heiress of Warwick, of James Digby, esq. of Red Hall, in the county of Lincoln, heir male of the North Luffenham branch of the noble family of Digby (see BURKE'S Peerage and Commoners, vol. iv.), and was s. at his decease, in 1820, aged eighty-seven, by his son and heir, THE REV. JOHN DIGBY FOWELL, in holy orders, of Black Hall and Diptford, rector of Torbrian, in Devon, b. at Black Hall, 20th January, 1765. He m. 24th July, 1793, Sarah, second daughter and co-heir, by his wife, Isabella, daughter and co-heir of Kirkham, of Peter Knowling, esq. of Washbourne House, in Devon (whose sister, Mary, m. Miles Sandys, esq. of West Lyvingston, in Devon, and was mother of the present Sir Edwyn Baynton Sandys, bart.), and d. in 1829, aged sixty-four, leaving surviving issue, JOHN-DIGBY, born at Black Hall, 29th January, 1796, m. 12th August, 1819, Frances, only daughter of Samuel Cumming, esq. of Totness, in Devon. Francis Kirkham, b. at Black Hall, 18th July, 1798, m. in 1830, Anne, second daughter, by Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Charles Coxwell, esq. of Ablington House, in the county of Gloucester, of Richard Estcourt Cresswell, esq. of Pinkney Park and Bi 1. Elizabeth, b. in February, 1693, m. 1716, Arthur Hele, esq. of Stert, in Devon, eldest son and heir, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of J. Prowse, esq. of Moore, in Devon, of Solomon Hele, esq. of Stert, and had issue. III. John, barrister-at-law, town-clerk of Plymouth, b. at Fowellscombe in 1557, m. Anne, daughter, by his wife, Agnes, one of the three daus. and co-heirs of John Servington, esq. of Tavistock, in Devon, of John Croker, esq. of Lyneham, in that county, and had issue three sons, of whom EDMOND, eldest son and heir, M. P. for Tavistock, 1640 and 1658-9, and for Plymouth, 1672, was ancestor, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Barker, of Sunning, in Berkshire, knt. M. P. for that place, of the Fowells of Stoke Damarell, in Devon, and of Harewood and Letchley, in Cornwall. 1. Elizabeth, m. Edward Harris, esq. of Cornworthy Priory, in Devon, and bad issue, Sir Thomas Harris, knt. serjeant-at-law, M. P. for Callington, Bossiney, and Truro, temp. Quere ELIZABETH, and father, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Pomeroye, esq. of Devon, of Sir Edward Harris, knt. of Cornworthy Priory, chief justice of Munster, in Ireland. ARTHUR FOWELL, esq. of Fowellscombe, b. in 150, married 13th September, 1574, Maria, only daughter by his wife Agnes, daughter of John Southcote, esq. of Bovey Tracey, in Devon, of Richard Reynell, esą, of East Ogwell, in that county, M. P. for Ashburton, and sheriff of Devon, 1585, lineal descendant and beir of the above named Sir Walter Reynell, knt. Lerd of Trumpington, and by her, who survived him, and married secondly, Sir Edmond Prideaux, bart. of Netherton, in Devon, had issue, 1. Richard, b. March, 1580, d. January, 1500. berry, in that county, formerly M. P. for Ciren cester. William-Newton, b. at Black Hall, 5th June, 1803, a lieutenant R. N. Henrietta-Digby, b. at Black Hall, m. Richard Samuel Sprye, a captain in the Indian army, Madras Presidency, and in 1833, deputy judge-advocategeneral of its Northern Division, I second surviving son, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Sampson Crapp, esq. of Trevollard House, in Cornwall, of the Rev. John Sprye, vicar of Ugborough, in Devon, (see BURKE'S Commoners, vol. iv.) and has surviving issue, of five sons and five daughters, Reynell-Richard-Hele-Fowell Sprye. Isabella-Georgiana, b. at Black Hall, m. Samwel Crapp, esq. of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the kingdom of France, banker, only surviving child and beir of Benjamin Crapp, esq. of Plymouth, in Devon. Sarah-Knowling, b. at Black Hall, d. at the Vicarage, Ugborough, in October, 1829, unm. and buried in that church, in the Sprye vault. Captain Sprye has been many years collecting materials for a history of the parliamentary families of his native county, Devon, at the interesting period of the Civil War and Commonwealth; and to his collection this work is considerably indebted for valuable assistance in Devonshire families. |