Pedigree of the Lords Ward of Dudley Castle

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PEDIGREE OF THE LORDS WARD OF DUDLEY CASTLE.

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Sir Ferdinando Dudley, otherwise=Honora Seymour (dau. of Mary Dudley, Anne Dudley, Margaret, Theodosia. Sntton, K.B.;ob. v.p.; IEdward Seymour, Lord married to Alexander, Earl ofHome. married to J.M.de Schomberg. married to Sir Miles Hobart, K.B. b. 1588; d.1621. Beauchamp) m. 1610; d. 1620. Frances Dudley,', onlychild and sole heheiress; b.1611; m.1628; d.1697.= Humble Ward, created Baron Ward ofBirmingham, 1644; d.1670; buried at Himley.

Edward Ward, Lord Dudley: dau. of Sir W. Brereton, Bart. John Ward, Wm. Ward.=Anna, sister and heir of Anne Ward, Honor Ward, Frances Ward, Theodosia Ward, m.Ist,to Sir Thomas and Ward, b.1631;Baron She died 1676. s.p. I John Parkes, Eeq., of d. unm. m. Wm. Dilke,Esq. m.to Sir Brereton, Bart., and, 2nd, to Ward ofBirmingham, and Willingswith,Co. Stafford. Wm. Noel,Bart. Hon. Charles Brereton. Baron Dudley of Dudley Castle, 1697; d.1701; buried Wm. Ward, onlyson, M.P. for the County of Stafford,=Mary, dau. of Hon. John at Himley. in reigns of Anne and George I.;d. 1720. I Grey, ofEnfield.

John, Esq., of Sedgley Park, Staff., 6thBaron, Daughters. William,rector of Himley,m.Elizabeth, dau. of John Hawkes, and d.1758, leaving issue :Humble, who m.1779, Susanna Viscount Dudley and Ward, of Dudley.* Beercroft, and d.1785, leaving a son, William Humble, who succeeded the 10th Baron Ward.

John Ward, b. 1656; d.1676. Humble Ward. William Ward,=Frances, dau. of William Dilke, Ferdinando Dudley Ward, Elizabeth Ward, Catherine Ward, Humbletta Ward, Lattice Ward, ob.v. p.; b. Esq., cousin to William Ward. ob. unmarried, 1717. twin to Wm., b.1659-60. married to married to Thos. Porter. ob.unmarried. Both died unmarried. 1659-60 ;d.1692. She died 1724. Hon. John Grey, 1683.

Edward Ward succeeded his=Diana, dau. and heir John Ward, William Ward, succeeded his nephew Edward, as Frances, only daughter, and inher=William Lea, Esq., grandfather as Baron Dudley of Thomas Howard, d.young; buried at Lord D'idleyand Ward, 1735. Died unmarried, 1740. issue sole heiresß. Married 1709. i ofHalesowen and Baron Ward ;bap.1683; Esq.; m.1703; Himley,1696. Succeeded in the Barony ofDudley byhis nephew, She died 1737; buried at Himley. Grange; b.1677; d.1704; buried at Himley. d. 1709. Ferdinando DudleyLea. d.1741.

Edward Ward, Lord Dudley Ferdinando Dudley Lea, bap. 1710, William Lea, Anne Lea, Frances Lea, Mary Lea, Catherine Lea, Elizabeth Lea, and Ward, b.1704; died succeeded his maternal uncle, in1740, died unmarried ; bap. 1714; married bap. 1717 ;married d.1742; married bap.1726; married to bap.1728; married to unmarried, and was succeeded as Baron Dudley. Died 1757, unmarried, bap. 1722; d.1741-2. to Wm. Smith, Esq., to Walter Woodcock, to Joseph Thomas Jordan, 1744. Rev.Benjamin Briscoe, by his uncle William. when the Barony fellinto abeyance. 1737. Esq., 1740. Harvey, M.D. 1759.

* Thiß Viscovnt Dudley and Ward, married first, Anna Maria, daughter ofCharles Bourchier, Esq., of the cityofDublin, by whom he had one son, John, his successor, and VißCOunt Dudley and Ward then married secondly Mary, daughter and heiress of John Carver, EBq., by whom he had another survivingson, William. The elder son succeeded Viscount Dadley and Ward in1774. This second Viscount was an LL.D. and died s.p. in1788, when the honors devolved upon his half brother, William,who was third Viscount, horn Jan. 21, 1750, married Aug.1,1780, Julia, second daughi er of Godfrey Bossville, Esq., of Gunthwaite, Yorkshire, by whom he had an onlyson, John William, who was distinguished for his highcharacter. He died April5,1823, and was succeeded byhis son, John William aforesaid, who was the fourth Viscount, and was created Viscount Ednam of Ednam, inRoxburghshire, and Earl Dudley of Dudley Castle in 1827, but died unmarried March 6,1833, when the titles conferred on himself, together with the Viscounty of Diidleyand Ward became extinct, while the Barony of Ward devolved on his Becond cousin, William Humble Ward, tenth lord, a clergyman, born Jan. 9,1781, who married May 22, 1816, Amelia, daughter of William Gooch Pillans, of Bracondale, County Norfolk, and had :1,William Ward, apeer after the death ofhis father, Dec. 6, 1835. He was created Earl of Dudley. 2, Hon. H-imble Dudley, b. Dec. 20, 1821 ;d. Dec. 14, 1870; m. Dec. 17, 1843, Eleanor Louise, daughter of Thomas Hawkes,Esq., ofHimley House, County Stafford, M.P. forDudley,and had a son and two daughters, viz.:1, William Humble Dudley Ward, b. Feb. 19, 1849; m. Oct. 14. 1876, Eugenic Violet Adele, daugh er of Right Hon. Bir William Baliol Brett, P. C. (M.P. for Helston, 1886-8; 2, Amelia Alice Julia, m.1865, James K.Fraser, Colonel IstLife Guards (Bart.) ;3, Henrietta Maria, m.1869, George Stewart, son of Sir Charles Forbes, Bart. 3, Hon. Julia S itauna, m.1842, Rt. Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton, D.D.,Lord Bishop of St. Albans, 1877, and of Rochester. The Earl of Dadley, William Ward above-named, m. first,1851, Salina Constance, dau. of Hubert de Burgh, Esq. She died ltthNovember followingher marriage, and he m. secondly, 1865, Georgiana Elizabeth, dau. oflate Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, Bart., and had sixsons and a daughter.— Burke*s Peerage, Staff. Collections.