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ASTELL, OF EVERTON.

ASTELL, WILLIAM, esq. of Everton House, in the county of Huntingdon, a deputylieutenant for Bedfordshire, and representative, for many years, of the borough of Bridgewater in parliament, b. 13th October, 1774, m. in July, 1800, Sarah, only dau. of John Harvey, esq. of Ickwellbury, in Beds., and of Finningley Park, in the county of York, and has issue,

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RICHARD-WILLIAM, a captain in the grenadier guards. John-Harvey, of the Hon. East India Company's factory, at Canton.

Henry-Godfrey.
Charles-Edward.

Sarah.

Louisa.

Caroline, m. to Thomas Quintin, esq. jun. of Hatley
Park, in the county of Cambridge.
Harriett.

This gentleman, whose patronymic was THORNTON, assumed, by sign manual, in 1807, the surname and arms of ASTELL. Mr. Astell is colonel of the Royal East India Volunteers, a director of the East India Company, and has frequently filled the chair of the court of Directors.

Lineage.

The family of THORNTON, whence Mr. Astell derives paternally, was settled at a remote period in the county of York.

THE REV. ROBERT THORNTON, M.A. rector of Birkin, in that shire, was eminently distinguished during the civil conflicts of the reign of CHARLES I. for his loyalty to his king and attachment to the church of England. His great and manifold privations in those distressing times are fully related in "Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy." Mr. Thornton, who was removed from his rectory during the Protectorate, but reinstated at the Restoration, died in 1665, and lies interred in the church of Birkin, where a monument is erected to his memory. His

son,

THE REV. ROBERT THORNTON, A. M. rector of Birkin, "who," as the inscription on his tomb relates, "having lived happily about forty-five years with his wife, Mrs. Clare Thornton, a virtuous charitable and hospitable house-keeper, by whom he had nine children, buried her 3rd December, 1696, aged 65 years, and himself was laid with her, 2nd February, 1697, in the 74th year of his age." Mr. Thornton had issue, JOHN.

William, in holy orders, A.M. rector of Birkin, who died in 1718.

Margaret, m. to the Rev. Robert Banks, M.A. prebendary of Stillington. Elizabeth, d. unm.

The elder son,

JOHN THORNTON, esq. merchant in Hull, erected the monument in Birkin church to the memory of his ancestors, with the following inscription:

"En Filium, Patrem, Avum, hujus Ecclesiae, successivè Rectores, Quorum in societate amænitas, facilisque accessus, in amicitiâ fides, in Pauperes munificentia, in omnes Hospitalitas, studiumque pacis ita suis Delectos reddiderunt Parochianis ut nomen Thorntonianum bene audiat.

He espoused Jane, daughter of John Field, esq. of Kingston-upon-Hull, by Sarah, daughter of Robert Wood, esq. of Monk Bretton, in Yorkshire, and d. in 1731, having had issue,

I. ROBERT, of London and Clapham, one of the directors of the bank, who m. Miss Hannah Swynocke, and left at his decease in 1747, with four daughters, an only son,

JOHN, of Clapham, who m. Lucy, daughter and heir of Samuel Watson, esq. by Margaret, his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Hoghton, bt. of Hoghton Tower, and died in 1790, leaving issue,

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111. John, who m. Pentecost, daughter of Ezekiel Hall, esq. and died vitâ patris in 1729.

IV. GODFREY, of whom presently. v. William, of Kingston-on-Hull, merchant, who left at his death in 1782, two daughters, his co-heirs,

Jane, m. to John Porter, esq. Sarah, m. to Robert Thornton, esq. of Kensington. vi. Sarah, who m. William Wilberforce, esq. of Kingston-on-Hull, merchant, and had issue,

Robert Wilberforce, of Kingstonon-Hull, father of WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, esq. the benevolent advocate for the abolition of the nefarious traffic in slaves, and formerly M. P. for Yorkshire. William Wilberforce, who

m.

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ASTELL, esq. of Everton, and had with other children, who d. young,

WILLIAM, of London and Clapham, b. in
1733, who assumed by sign manual in
1777,the surname and arms of ASTELL.
He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Robert
Thornton, esq. but died s. p. in 1801.
Robert, of Kensington, who m. first,
Sarah, daughter and co-heir of Wil-
liam Thornton, esq. and secondly,
Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph War-
ner, esq. but died s. p. in 1803.
GODFREY.

Charles, both d. unm.
John,

Mr. Thornton died in 1751. His third son, GODFREY THORNTON, esq. of Mogerhanger House, in Bedfordshire, a bank director, espoused Jane, daughter and co-heir of Stephen Peter Godin, esq. of Culland's grove, Middlesex, and had issue,

I. STEPHEN, of Mogerhanger House, a bank director, b. in 1767, who m. Mary, daughter of Thomas Littledale, esq. of Rotterdam, and has issue, GODFREY, b. in 1795, lieutenant

colonel in the grenadier guards, who m. first, his cousin, Miss Dixon, and secondly, Sophia, daughter of Brise Pearse, esq. of Woodford. Charles, d. unm.

Stephen-Edward, m. the daughter
of John Campbell, esq. of Blun-
ham in Beds.

Edmund, deceased.
George, in holy orders.
William, capt. gren. gds.
Harry.
Edward.
Mary.

II. William, the present WILLIAM AS-
TELL, esq. of Everton.

III. Claude-George, who m. Frances,
daughter of Samuel Smith, esq. of
Woodhall Park, Herts, M.P.
IV. Anna-Maria, m. to Thomas Vigne,
esq. of Woodford.

v. Almeria, m. to William Phillimore, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, barrister at law. Arms-Quarterly; first and fourth, Gu. a lion passant per pale or, and arg. between four cross crosslets of the last, for ASTELL. Second, Arg. on a chev. gu. between three trees ppr. three crosses patee fitchee, arg. for THORNTON. Third, for GODIN.

Crests-First, A cross crosslet or, entwined with a serpent vert. Second, A lion's head erased purpure, round the neck

a coronet or.

Motto-Sub cruce glorior.

Estates-In the counties of Bedford, Northampton, and Surrey.

Town Residence-4, Portland Place.
Seat-Everton House.

DELAFIELD, OF FIELDSTON.

DELAFIELD, JOSEPH, esq. of Camden Hill, in the county of Middlesex, b. 14th

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May, 1749, m. 4th January, 1790, Frances, second daughter of the late Hervey Christian Combe, esq. of Cobham Park, in Surrey, one of the members of parliament, for many years, for the city of London, by whom he has had issue,

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This family derives its descent from the COUNTS DE LA FELD, the once powerful proprietors of the demesnes and castle near Colmar, of which the latter still bears their name. These Lords had large possessions in Alsace and Loraine, and are frequently mentioned in the wars of those countries. The Croix d'or of La Feld, their ancient badge, is still the coat armour of the house immediately before us.

It is probable that HUBERTUS DE LA FELD was the first of his race that emigrated to England; and that he came over amongst the crowd of foreigners who attended the conqueror hither, his name appearing enrolled as the owner of lands in the county of Lancaster, in the third of WILLIAM I. The name of JOHN DE LA FELD Occurs in the 12th of HENRY I. as a proprietor in the counties of Lancaster and Bucks; of ROBERT DE LA FELD, without a date, and of JOHN DE LA FELD, in the 38th and 43rd of HENRY III. The last mentioned person,

JOHN DE LA FELD, witnessed two deeds in the same years on the marriages of his son and daughter, viz.

JOHN, of whom presently.

Norman D'Arcy, of Nocton, in the county of Lincoln, and had issue, PHILIP D'ARCY, who was summoned to parliament as LORD D'ARCY, in 1299.

The son,

JOHN (Sir), D'Arcy, a very distinguished personage in the reigns EDWARD I., EDWARD II., and EDWARD III. In the two latter he was JUSTICE OF IRELAND, and was summoned to parliament as a BARON in 1332. He m. first, Emeline, dau. and co-heir of Walter Heron, of Hedleston, in Northumberland, and secondly, Joane, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and widow of Thomas Earl of Kildare. the first, he had three sons, and by the second, a son William, and a daughter ELIZABETH, m. to James, EARL of ORMONDE, surnamed the noble Earl.

By

Robert D'Arcy, of Starlingburgh, in the county of Lincoln.

JOHN DE LA FELD, espoused in the 38th of

ELIZABETH, who m. (43d HENRY III.) HENRY III. Elizabeth Fitzwarine, (whose

father was Lord Warden of the Marches in | by whom (who wedded secondly, Thomas the North,) and had three sons, JOHN, Ro- | Luttrell, esq. of Luttrelstown, ancestor of bert or Hubert, and Nicholas, of whom, the the Earls of Carhampton) he had a son, eldest,

JOHN DE LA FELD, married in the 15th of EDWARD I. Maude, daughter and heir of Montacute, by whom he had two sons,

ROBERT, or HUBERT,

JOHN, Canon of the abbey church, at Hereford.

The elder

ROBERT (or HUBERT) DE LA FELD, wedded in the 11th of EDWARD II. his cousin, the daughter and heir of Fulke Fitzwarine, and was s. by his son,

JOHN DE LA FELD, who espoused in the 23d of EDWARD III. Margaret de Tyringham, and had three sons, THOMAS, Robert, and Nicholas. The eldest,

THOMAS DE LA FELD, wedded in the 45th EDWARD III. Elizabeth, his kinswoman, daughter of Thomas Butler, second son of Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, and great-greatgranddaughter of Elizabeth De la Feld, wife of Norman D'Arcy. He fell soon after his marriage in the French wars, and leaving no issue, was s. by his brother,

ROBERT DE LA FELD, who m. in the 51st of EDWARD III. Elinor Butler, sister of his brother's wife, and co-heir with her of their father the Hon Thomas Butler. By this lady he had, with a daughter Anne, abbess of a convent at Lancaster, a son and successor,

ROBERT DE LA FELD, who wedded 12th of HENRY IV. Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Reginald de Grey, and was s. by his

son,

SIR THOMAS DE LA FELD, who wrote himself of Ailesbury in England, and of the Lordships of Fieldston and Culduffe, in the county of Kildare, in Ireland. This gentleman m. in the 16th HENRY VI. Katherine, only daughter of Sir Thomas de Rochfort,

By Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of John D'Arcy, by Joane, only, or as some assert eldest daughter and co-heir of John Fitzwarine, son and heir of William Fitzwarine, summoned to parliament 16th EDWARD III. as Lord Fitz Warine. In Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage there is an evident mistake regarding this Lord Fitz Warine and his descendants, who are confounded with those of Robert, Lord Fitzpayne. Lord Fitzwarine left an only son, Ivo or JOHN FITZWARINE, who was with the Earl of Buckingham at the siege of Nantz, and after that, in 9th Ric. II. with the Duke of Lancaster in his naval expedition for the recovery of the inheritance of Constance, his wife, heir to the kingdom of Castile. His daughter, JOANE, m. John D'Arcy, by whom she had an only child, the above-mentioned ELIZABETH D'ARCY, who wedded Sir Thomas de Rochfort.

SIR JOHN DELAFELD, who wedded, in the 35th of HENRY VI. Elizabeth Hankford, sister of Sir Richard Hankford,† and had issue,

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SIR THOMAS DELAFIELD, m. in the 21st of EDWARD IV. Margaret, daughter and heir of Ralph Howard (descended from the Howards of Fersfield), and had a son, JOHN, and a daughter, Isabel; which John having removed with the court to Calais in 1500, on account of a great pestilence then raging in England, and not returning for several years, it was supposed by his family that he had perished; and ISABEL, his only sister, being married to Gerald Fitzgerald, of Alloone (descended from Maurice, first Knight of Kerry, and son of John, fourth Lord of Offaley), took the lordship of Culduffe into that family, for which the Fitzgeralds of Alloone quartered the arms of Delafield. She had issue, Bartholomew Fitzgerald, married to Anne Aylmer; and Alison Fitzgerald, m. to Gerald Aylmer, ancestor to the Lords Aylmer. In some years afterwards,

JOHN DELAFIELD returned, after a long absence, to the great joy of his family, and married Thomasine, the "faire daughter" of Sir Thomas Dillon, ancestor of the Earls of Roscommon. He had two sons, Gerald, the younger, married Elinor Plunket, of the Killeen family, and the elder,

+ Sir Richard Hankford's only daughter and heiress, ANNE HANKFORD (niece of Lady Delafeld), espoused Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde, and had two daughters, namely,

ANNE BUTLER, m. to Sir James St. Leger. MARGARET BUTLER, m. to Sir William Boleyne, K.B. their son,

SIR THOMAS BOLEYNE, was created Viscount Rochford, and Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde. He was father

of

ANNE BOLEYNE, the unhappy queen consort of HENRY VIII.

cessor.

SIR THOMAS DELAFIELD, became his sucThis gentleman espoused Margaret Fleming, grandaughter of the Lord Slane, and was s. by his son,

PATRICK DELAFIELD, who wedded in 1563, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cusack, esq. of Gerardstown, and his wife, the Hon. Anne St. Lawrence, daughter of Nicholas, sixteenth Lord Howth, and was s. by his son,

JOHN DELAFIELD. This gentleman married Anne de la Bere, co-heir of her brother, who was a younger branch of the De❘ la Beres of Gloucestershire. He had two sons,

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JOHN DELAFIELD, esq. m. in 1610, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Thomas Hampden, son of John Hampden, of Hampden, in Bucks, and had four sons, JOHN, William, James, and Thomas. The eldest,

JOHN DELAFIELD, esq. espoused, in 1636, Elizabeth Brooke, and was father of

JOHN DELAFIELD, esq. born 1637. This gentleman, having entered into foreign service, participated in the triumphs of Prince EUGENE of Savoy, and at the glorious engagement of Zenta, against the Turks, led on by the grand vizier in person, having taken a standard from the infidels, was created, a COUNT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE in 1697. Count Delafield left issue, I. JOHN.

II. Leopold, a count of the holy Roman
Empire, who married and settled
abroad. His grandson,

Count LEOPOLD DELAFIELD, Wedded
a daughter of Count Goltz, and

had a son,

Count LEOPOLD DELAFIELD, who
was shot in a duel at Paris

in 1817.

III. Theophilus.

The eldest son,

John Delafield, esq. b. in 1692, who wedded Sarah, daughter of James Goodwin, esq. and had three sons and a daughter,

viz.

JOHN.
Thomas.
Joseph.

Mary, m. to E. Unsworth, esq.

The eldest son,

John Delafield, esq. espoused Martha, daughter of John Dele, esq. of Aylesbury, Bucks, and had issue,

JOHN, settled abroad, a count of the holy Roman Empire, as inherited from his great-great-grandfather, JOHN. Count Delafield m. Mary, daughter of George Tollemache, esq. and has, with younger children, a

son,

JOHN, who m. first, Mary, daughter and heiress of John Roberts, esq. of Whitchurch, in the county of Bucks; and secondly, his cousin, Miss Elizabeth Tollemache.

JOSEPH, the present Joseph Delafield, esq. of Camden Hill.

William, died unmarried.

Martha, m. to Thomas Arnold, esq. of Slatwoods, in the Isle of Wight, and has issue,

Thomas Arnold, in holy orders, who m. Mary, daughter of Penrose, esq.

Lydia Arnold, m. to Richard, present Earl of Cavan.

Mary, died unmarried.

The

Arms-Sable, a cross patonce or. escutcheon borne on the breast of the imperial eagle of Germany, as granted in the German patent: supported by two lions arg. and surmounted by the coronet of a count of the holy Roman Empire.

Crest-A dove displayed, holding in its beak an olive branch, ppr.

Mottoes Insignia fortunæ paria; and Fest, signifying pim, said to have been

JOHN DELAFIELD, esq. b. in 1656, married Mary, daughter of James Heanage or Head-given after the battle of ZENTA. age, and was s. by his son,

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QUARTERINGS.

FITZWARINE.

MONTACUTE.

BUTLER.

GREY.
HOWARD.

HAMPDEN, &c.

Town Residence-Bryanstone Square.
Seat-Camden Hill, Middlesex.

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