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the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 16th May, 1705.

Judith, m. to Henry Long, esq. of Barrow, in Suffolk.

Lettice, not eighteen in 1642. Richard Moseley died in 1642, was buried at Owsden, 11th June, and s. by his son, HUMPHREY MOSELEY, esq. of Owsden, whose will dated 5th August, 1663, was proved in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 26th October following, left by Lucy, his wife, four sons and a daughter, namely,

RICHARD, his heir.
Humphrey, living in 1716.
John, living in 1663.

THOMAS, born at Owsden, will dated
17th July, 1727, proved 21st August,
1734. Hem. 11th June, 1689, Judith,
sister of John Cory, esq. of the city
of London, and dying at Richmond,
Surrey, left issue,

THOMAS, of whom presently as in-
heritor of Owsden.
John, of Richmond, in Surrey, lord

of the manor of Wyverston, in
Suffolk, purchased from the
bishop of Bangor. He died s. p.
15th Nov. 1775, aged seventy-
five.

Judith, b. 25th November, 1691.
Lucy, d. 1st March, 1692.
Elizabeth, of Richmond, Surrey,
d. unm.

Lucy.

Hannah, b. 5th November, 1706.

The eldest son,

RICHARD MOSELEY, esq. of Owsden, m. Mary, daughter of — Cooke, esq. of London, lord of the manor of Tosstock, in Suffolk, and by her, who was buried at Owsden, 29th October, 1716, had issue,

WILLIAM COOKE, his heir, died without issue.

RICHARD, bapt. at Owsden, 16th Jan. 1688, successor to his brother, died without issue.

Stephen Cooke, bapt. at Owsden, 26th July, 1694, of Bromley, in Kent, and of Tosstock Place, in Suffolk, died s. p. in 1730, without issue.

Sarah, bapt. at Owsden, 19th February, 1684, m. at Owsden, 14th November, 1700, to George Goodday, esq. of Fornham All Saints, in Suffolk, and had issue,

George Goodday, of Fornham All

Saints, sheriff of Suffolk in 1751,
d. s. p.

SARAH GOODDAY, m. to her cousin,
THOMAS MOSELEY.

Mr. Moseley died in 1717, was buried at
Owsden, 2nd September, and s. by his son,

WILLIAM COOKE MOSELEY, esq. of Owsden, bapt. there 4th April, 1686, who died without issue and was s. by his brother,

RICHARD MOSELEY, esq. of Owsden, at whose decease also issueless, in 1748, the representation of the family passed to his cousin,

THOMAS MOSELEY, esq. son of his uncle Thomas. This gentleman, born in Thames Street, London, 20th July, 1690, m. his kinswoman Sarah, only daughter and eventual heir of George Goodday, esq. of Fornham All Saints, in Suffolk, and by her, who died 11th February, 1754, aged fifty-one, had issue,

WILLIAM, his heir.

Richard, in holy orders, rector of Drinkestone, in Suffolk, m. Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Farnham Ray, of Bradford St. George, in the same county, but died s. p. 5th December, 1803, aged sixty-four.

Mr. Moseley, who served as high sheriff of Suffolk in 1761, died 8th December, 1776, aged eighty-six, and was s. by his son,

WILLIAM MOSELEY, esq. of Owsden and Fornham All Saints, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Abraham Cocksedge, esq. of Drinkestone, in Suffolk, and by her, who was buried at Fornham, 5th July, 1802, had issue,

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WICKHAM, OF HORSINGTON.

WICKHAM, JAMES ANTHONY, esq. of North Hill House, Frome, Somerset

shire, lieutenant-colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry
cavalry, b. in 1768, succeeded his father, 1791, m. in
1800, Marianne, daughter and heir of Hill Dawe, esq. of
Bridgewater, and by her, who died in 1834, has issue,

JAMES-WHALLEY-DAWE-THOMAS, captain in the North
Somerset yeomanry cavalry, who m. in 1834, Lucy Ma-
tilda, daughter of William Leader, esq.
Francis-Dawe, barrister-at-law.

Hill-Dawe, M.A. in holy orders.

Edmund-Dawe, M.A. in holy orders, m. in 1836, Emma,
only child of Archdale Palmer, of Cheam Park, Sur-
rey.

Mary-Agnes, m. in 1827, to Colonel William Fawcett,
14th regiment of foot, and has issue.
Caroline, d. unm.
Susan-Ann.

Lineage.

This family is supposed to be descended from John Wycomb, of Bristol, who represented that city in parliament, 1346. Several of its members, who spelt their names Wicomb, Wickham, and Wykeham indifferently, anciently filled the office of sheriff of Bristol, and Theobald Wickham was high sheriff for Somerset in 1393.

WIKEHAM, m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Sylver, who in the year 1453, purchased of Sir Theobald Gorge, houses and lands in Horsington and South Cheriton, which had belonged to Thomas Tragin, who held them of William de Newmarch, or de Novo Mercatu, as written in the original deed still extant, and to whose ancestor they were granted by WILLIAM the Conqueror.

JOHN WYKEHAM, who in 1536, possessed lands in Milborn Port, was the issue of this marriage. He married Cecilia, who was living at Horsington in 1561, and had a

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son,

John, in holy orders, rector of Horsington, who m. Margaret, daughter of William Provis, of Shepton Mallet, and dying in 1783, aged fifty-three, left issue, 1. William Provis, in holy or

ders, m. Annabella, daughter of Stevens Totton, esq. barrister-at-law, and has

issue,

Provis-Trelawney, rector of Shepton Mallet, m.

Mariann, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Coney, of Batcombe. Thomas Provis, m. Sarah, daughter of Hussey Glascow, esq. Annabella, m. to James Bennett, esq. of Cadbury.

Caroline Wentworth. 2. John, of Batcombe, bapt. 1771, in the commission of the peace, m. Catherine, daughter of Major Brigdale, and has three sons, Henry, Edward, and Thomas.

3. Anna-Maria, m.' to the Rev. William Coney, and died in 1807, leaving issue.

IV. Richard, of Sherborne, who m. Mrs. Mary Ludwell, widow, and had a

son,

Thomas, rector of Shepton Mallet and vicar of Castle Cary, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph George, gent. of Croscombe, and died in 1786, leaving issue, Thomas, vicar of Yatton, in the commission of the peace, d. unm. in 1829. Elizabeth, d. unm. in 1837, aged seventy-two. Frances, died unm. in 1836. The eldest son,

JAMES WICKHAM, esq. of Frome, espoused Anne, daughter of William Barton, and had John Wickham, rector of Horsington, bapt. in 1717, died 1788, and

JAMES WICKHAM, esq. of Frome, bapt. in 1721, who m. Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Whalley, D.D. Master of Peter House, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, and had issue,

JAMES-ANTHONY, his heir.

Thomas Whalley, rector of Horsington,
m. Mary, daughter of James Bennett,
esq. of Cadbury, high sheriff of So-
mersetshire in 1799, and has three
daughters.

Francis, lieut. R. N. died in 1796, s. p.
Elizabeth-Mary, died in 1823, unm.
Anne, died unm. in 1797.

Frances, m. to the Rev. Edward Edgell, rector of West Alvington, Devon, now of East Hill, Somersetshire, and died in 1810, leaving two daughters. Mr. Wickham died in 1791, and was s. by his son, the present JAMES ANTHONY WICKHAM, esq. of North Hill House.

Arms-Arg. two chevrons sa. between three roses gu. seeded or, barbed, vert. Crest-A bull's head sa. armed or, charged on the neck with two chevrons, arg. Motto "Manners mayketh man." Estates-In Somerset and Dorset. Seat-North Hill House, Frome.

CALDWELL, OF LINLEY WOOD.

CALDWELL, JAMES-STAMFORD, esq. of Linley Wood, in the county of Stafford, M.A. of the University of Cambridge, and a barrister-at-law; author of a "Treatise of the Law of Arbitration," and other works, succeeded his father, James Caldwell, esq. who died January 16th, 1838.

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Lineage.

JAMES CALDWELL, esq. who was for many years a magistrate and deputy lieutenant

for the county of Stafford, and Recorder of Newcastle-under-Lyme, m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress (with a sister Hannah, who d. unm.) of Thomas Stamford, esq. of Derby, by Hannah, his wife, eldest daughter of John Crompton, esq. of Chorley Hall, in the county of Lancaster, which property was acquired by that branch of the Crompton family soon after the Rebellion in 1715. Mrs. Stamford was cousin to Samuel Crompton,* esq. of Derby, and to Henry Coape, esq. of Duffield, of whose personal estate †

* For a full account of the Crompton family, see vol. iii. p. 689.

+ The landed property devolved on the Sherbrooke family.

a share fell to the Caldwells. By this lady, who d. 9th April 1831, Mr. Caldwell had issue, 1. JAMES-STAMFORD, his heir.

1. Hannah-Eliza, m. to W. Stanley
Roscoe, esq. eldest son of William
Roscoe, esq. at one time M.P. for
Liverpool, and author of the Life of
Lorenzo de Medici, &c. and has
issue,

William-Caldwell Roscoe.
Arthur Roscoe.

Thomas-Stamford Roscoe.
Francis-James Roscoe.

Elizabeth-Jane Roscoe.
Anne-Mary Roscoe.

11. Mary, d. unm.

III. Anne, m. Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, esq. and has issue,

Martin-William-James Marsh.

Eliza-Louisa Marsh.

Frances-Mary Marsh.

Georgiana-Amelia Marsh.

Rosamond-Jane Marsh.

Mary-Emma Marsh.
Hannah-Adelaide Marsh.

IV. Margaret-Emma, m. Henry Holland, M.D. of Lower Brook Street, London, and left issue,

Henry-Thurston Holland. Francis-James Holland. Emila-Mary Holland. v. Catherine-Louisa, d. unm. vi. Frances, d. unm.

Arms-Quarterly; 1st and 4th, Party per pale az. and sa. three cold wells proper, in base a stag's head arg. for CALDWELL: 2nd and 3rd arg. three bars az. on a canton gu. a gauntlet or. grasping a broken sword arg. | hilt and pomel sa. for STAMFORD. Crest-A lion couchant az. Motto-Niti, facere, experiri.

Estates-In Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire.

Seat-Linley Wood, in the county of Stafford.

MAC BRAIRE, OF TWEEDHILL AND BROADMEADOWS.

MAC BRAIRE, JOHN-JOSEPH, esq. of Tweedhill and Broadmeadows, in the county of Berwick, a magistrate and a deputy lieutenant for that shire, b. 3rd June, 1801, m. 4th August, 1831, Caroline-Abigail, daughter of Benjamin Gott, esq. of Armley House, Yorkshire, and has issue, an only son, JAMES, b. 12th May, 1832. He succeeded his father in 1832.

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Lineage.

The name of Mac Braire, or Mac Briar, is one of some antiquity in Dumfriesshire, and the adjoining counties on the south-west border of Scotland.

Since the middle of the last century, the present family has represented the Mac Brairs of Netherwood, frequently alluded to in old local histories, and described in books of heraldry, as “an ancient family in

Dumfriesshire," who were supposed, originally, to have emigrated to the South of Scotland from the county of Aberdeen, a highland origin, which the name itself indicates.†

The Netherwood family settled and possessed considerable landed property in Dumfriesshire, prior to the year 1400, which appears by family deeds and papers, as well as by the earlier records of that country; and besides their original estate on the river Neth, in the immediate vicinity of the town of Dumfries, different branches of the family were land owners in other parts of the country, and in Galloway, and the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. They appear to have intermarried with the Maxwells, Johnstons, and other families of distinction in the district, and to have long had great influence in the burgh of Dumfries, of

See Nesbit B. 308; Ogilvies' Manuscript, &c.

+ The spelling of the name is various, Mac Braire, Mac Briar, Macbryere, Mack Brie, Mackbray, &c.

which the head of the family was provost from time to time.

The estate of Netherwood descended in regular succession for many generations, down to the year 1740, when it was in the possession of Archibald Mac Braire, the last proprietor of the name, whose affairs becoming embarrassed, he was compelled to alienate the entire of the landed property which had been so long in his family, and shortly after that period, the direct line of the Netherwood family became extinct.

ROBERT MAC BRAIRE, settled in Edinburgh as a merchant, about the year 1560, and he and his successors for four generations continued to reside there.

1. JAMES.
II. Robert.
III. Frederick.
IV. Arthur.
The eldest son,

*

JAMES MAC BRAIRE, settled as a merchant in the island of Newfoundland. In 1794-5, at the breaking out of the French revolutionary war, he quitted business, and having raised, at his own expense, above one hundred men for a fencible regiment, then forming for the defence of the North The present family are the immediate de- American colonies, joined it as captain, scendants of Robert, son of Thomas Mac and served for several years. On his reBraire, of Newark, who was a younger bro-giment being disbanded, at the peace of ther of the Laird of Netherwood, in the Amiens, he returned to Newfoundland, early part of the 16th century. and afterwards was called upon to fill several important public situations in the town of St. John's. He finally in 1817, retired to his native country, and soon afterwards purchased the estates of Tweedhill and Broadmeadows, both in Berwickshire, and was thus the means of restoring his family and name to the place which they had held for centuries amongst the landed proprietors in the South of Scotland. He married (10th May, 1793) Elizabeth, only daughter of Joseph Bower, esq. a merchant and broker in Bristol, son of James Bower, esq. barristerat-law, of the same city, and had an only surviving son, the present JOHN JOSEPH MAC BRAIRE, esq. of Tweedhill and Broadmeadows.

ROBERT MACBRAIRE, (great-grandson of the above Robert,) eldest son of John MacBraire, merchant and burgess in Edinburgh, settled in Glasgow, and married (25th November, 1715) Margaret, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Pettigrew, minister of the parish of Meikle Govan, Renfrewshire, a well known personage, as an author and wit of the day, and left issue,

1. John, who died in infancy.
II. James.

III. Robert.

IV. Thomas.

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The following incidents in the life of one of the family, who seems to have taken a part in public affairs at the time of the Reformation, are alluded to by several writers.

John Mac Braire, or Mac Bray, a gentleman of Galloway, in consequence of publicly expressing sentiments favourable to the Reformation, then in progress, was obliged to take refuge in England, about the year 1538. At the death of Edward VI. he retired from that country to Frankforth, where he preached to the English congregation. He is called an eminent exile in Styrpe's Annals, i. 130. On the accession of Elizabeth,

Arms Arg. a fesse gu. between three stars in chief, and a lion rampant in base of the last.

Crest-A lion rampant gu.

Motto-In defiance.

Estates-In Berwickshire.

Seats -Tweedhill and Broadmeadows, Berwickshire.

he returned to England, and on the 13th November, 1568, was inducted to the vicarage of St. Nicholas, in Newcastle, and was buried there November 16th, 1584. Ball mentions several of Mac Braire's works, and says, "he wrote elegantly in Latin." (Vide Ball, Spotteswoode, &c.; also notes to M'Cries' Life of Knox).

* In 1809-10, at the recommendation of his friend, the late Admiral Sir Richard Keats, then governor of Newfoundland, he was appointed by the Prince Regent, major-commandant of a local volunteer corps, 500 strong, which continued embodied to the end of the war.

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