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ton Park, Derbyshire, and had by her, who
died 3rd May, 1790, and was buried at
Bushbury, three sons and three daughters,
Henry-Francis, b. 14th
October, 1781.
John-Joseph, b. 20th
February, 1783.

who both
pre-
deceased their
father unm.

GEORGE-THOMAS, successor to his father.
Isabella-Ann, d. in infancy.

Penelope-Mary, d. unm. 7th Nov. 1823.
Mary-Ann, d. uum.

Mr. Whitgreave died 19th January, 1816,
was buried in Bushbury Church, and suc- |
ceeded by his only surviving son, the pre-
sent GEORGE-THOMAS WHITGREAVE, esq. of
Moseley, Court.

Arms-Az. on a cross, quarterly pierced or, four chev. gu.

Crest-Out of a ducal coronet gu. a demiantelope or.

the king, and the bedstead on which he slept, are still to be seen.

** In No. 1439, Harl. MSS. occurs the following statement:

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Humfrey Count de Staff. et de Perche Seigneur de Tunbrigg et de Caux, a tous ceux qui cestes presentes lettres verront ou orront salutes: Saches que nous considerans lez merites qui deivent estre attribues a toutes personnes issues de bone lieu et exersantez bones meures et vertues eux con

dues antes termis d'onneur et gentilese
ycelle, a consideration a nous amove d'aug-
menter en honneur et noblesse noble home
Robert Whitgreve, lui avoir donne et donons
par cestes presentes pour memory d'onneur
perpetuell, au portre set armes ensigne de
noblesse, un escue, de azure, a quatre points
d'or, quatre cheverons de gules; et lui de
partire as autres persones nobles de son
linage en descent avecques les differences

Motto-Regem defendere victum.
Estates-In the counties of Stafford and de descent au dit blazon, et pour de tout

Derby.

armoyor et revestire son dit blazon et en honneur le reparer avous avecque celui

Town Residence-29, Eaton Square. Seat-Moseley Court, near Wolverhamp-ordeine et attribue Helme et Timbre, ceston. The present Mr. Whitgreave having purchased, during his father's life, the Northycote estate, adjoining that of Moseley, erected thereon Moseley Court, now the residence of the family. Moseley Hall, the house in which King CHARLES was saved, is still in the state it was, when it afforded an asylum to his majesty. The hiding place of

tass a voyr le Helme ove Mantle de bloy, furre d'ermines, au une coronne un demy antelope d'or: et pour ceste notre lettre patente de dit donne verifier, en tesmoigne la nous fait seeler de seele de nos properes armes, le XIII jour d'August l'an du reigne le Roy Henry le Sisme 1428 puis le conquest vindisme."

IRBY, OF BOYLAND HALL.

IRBY, THE HONOURABLE REAR-ADMIRAL FREDERICK-PAUL, of Boyland Hall, in the county of Norfolk, b. in 1779, m. first Emily Ives, youngest daughter and co-heir of William Drake, esq. of Amersham, Bucks, and has by her a son, Frederick-William, b. in 1806.

He m. secondly, Frances, second daughter of Ich abod Wright, esq. of Mapperley Hall, Notts, and has by that lady several children, viz.

Charles-Paul, b. in 1818.
Edward, b. in 1821.

Mountjoy-Henry-John, b. in 1828.

Frances-Harriet.

Margaret-Amelia.
Adeline-Paula.

Lineage.

For the genealogy of Admiral Irby, (who is younger brother of the present Lord Boston) we refer to BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage; but as the estate of Boyland Hall, together with others in the county of Norfolk, was acquired by him in marriage with his first wife, and inherited by her from the family of Garney's, we shall here give some account of that ancient family.

The first of the name, which we have met with on record, is Robert Garnoise, who is there stated to have "held many lands in Chembenhall, in the county of Suffolk" 6 RICHARD I. 1194. This is probably the same place as that now called Chipenhall, in the immediate vicinity of Laxfield, at which latter place the family seems for many ages to have resided,

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 Redshall.

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 JOHN.

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 L., 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.

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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.
JOHN.

Richard, of Mendlesham, in the county
of Suffolk, who m. Elizabeth, daugh-
ter and heir of William Toppesfield,
esq. of Gislingham, in the same
county. He was the first of this fa-
mily who possessed BOYLAND Hall,
which he purchased, and dying 14th
May, 1515, was succeeded by his son,
JOHNGARNEYS, esq. of Boyland Hall,

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 mansion house there. He married Margery, daughter of James Tyrrell, esq. of Columbine Hall, in Suffolk, and dying s. p. 3rd January, 1586, was succeeded in his estates, by virtue of a settlement previously executed by him, by his kinsman, Nicholas Garneys, esq. of Kenton Hall. 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

Garneys, esq. of Headenham, in Norfolk, who d. s. p. and inherited in 1808. CHARLES GARNEYS, esq. of Kenton and Boyland Halls, eldest son and heir of Nicholas, was sheriff of Norfolk in 1652, and married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wentworth, esq. of Somerleyton, in the county of Suffolk, and sole heir of her brother, Sir John Wentworth, knt. of the same place. He d. 30th Jan. 1657, and was s. by his son,

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,

1. 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.
Motto-Honor fidelitatis proemium.
For arms of Garneys, see vol. i. 243.
Estates-In Norfolk.

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.

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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
m. Miss Anne Upton, of Dublin.
JOHN RUXTON, of whom presently.
SAMUEL RUXTON, who assumed the ad-

ditional surname of FITZHERBERT,
and was of Swinnerton, in Meath.
He m. 1785, Mary, daughter of Gen.
Haviland, of Penn, in Buckingham-
shire, and died in March, 1826.
Mary Ruxton, m. to James Corry, esq.
of the county of Monaghan.
Anne Ruxton, d. unm.

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FITZHERBERT, capt. in the 63rd regt. d.

in 1799.

RICHARD, heir to his father.
Sophia.
Margaret.

Mr. Ruxton died in July, 1825, aged eighty,
and was s. by his son, who has assumed the
additional surname of FITZHERBERT, and is
the present RICHARD RUXTON FITZHERBERT,
esq. of Black Castle.

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.
Seat-Black Castle, near Navan.

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.
PHILIP-GOING, in holy orders, resident at Ashton Place,
near Cork, b. 21st June, 1804, m. in August, 1830, Jane,
second daughter of the late Rowland Morrison, esq. of
Cork, and has issue,

ROBERT.
Philip.

Maria.

Mr. Philip-Going Atkins inherited Monaquil upou the
demise of his grandmother in March, 1836

Hastings, b. 5th March, 1807, on whom the properties of
Coolrea, and Garry Kennedy, are entailed.

Thomas, b. 2nd April, 1808, Lieutenant 19th regiment of
foot, drowned at Demarara, in 1827.

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.

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