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$J\S-Aacj\ Cwton$ :>- S' Ui-cfAarria, .tffzatirU&r- J\s-aacj\ cwton "Wallop., $ bL Sari of1 {Ports matd/i y^CiJixtkcr- ph JC. THE WALLOP FAMILY y4nd Their Ancestry By VERNON JAMES WATNEY nATF MICROFILMED iTEld #_fe - PROJECT and G. S ROLL * CALL # Kjyb&iDey- , ' VOL. 1 WALLOP — COLE 1/7 OXFORD PRINTED BY JOHN JOHNSON Printer to the University 1928 GENEALOGirA! DEPARTMENT CHURCH ••.;••• P-. .go CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Omnes, si ad originem primam revocantur, a dis sunt. SENECA, Epist. xliv. One hundred copies of this work have been printed. PREFACE '•"^AN these bones live ? . and the breath came into them, and they ^-^ lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.' The question, that was asked in Ezekiel's vision, seems to have been answered satisfactorily ; but it is no easy matter to breathe life into the dry bones of more than a thousand pedigrees : for not many of us are interested in the genealogies of others ; though indeed to those few such an interest is a living thing. Several of the following pedigrees are to be found among the most ancient of authenticated genealogical records : almost all of them have been derived from accepted and standard works ; and the most modern authorities have been consulted ; while many pedigrees, that seemed to be doubtful, have been omitted. Their special interest is to be found in the fact that (with the exception of some of those whose names are recorded in the Wallop pedigree, including Sir John Wallop, K.G., who ' walloped' the French in 1515) every person, whose lineage is shown, is a direct (not a collateral) ancestor of a family, whose continuous descent can be traced since the thirteenth century, and whose name is identical with that part of England in which its members have held land for more than seven hundred and fifty years. Some of the pedigrees have been treated more fully than others ; for particulars of the lives of members of royal families, and of the more con spicuous members of British families, can easily be found elsewhere ; and so, where historical details have been available, such information has, for the most part, been given only about those whose lives are not generally well known. Though it would be impossible to suppose that so large a collection of pedigrees (which includes many thousands of names and of dates) could be altogether free from mistakes ; yet it is to be hoped that those readers, who may happen to find any such defects, will also recognize the nature of the tasks which such a collection has entailed ; tasks such as those of finding, of estimating the values of, of selecting, and of collating these many genealogies ; and of making the cross-references ; and of arranging and type-writing the assembled production within the compass of sheets of paper PREFACE of a moderate size ; and finally of carrying out revisions before and during the process of printing. This work (which has been undertaken by the compiler personally, and was begun as a pastime) has expanded beyond expectation. And it has been spread over several years ; for it could only be done at such intervals as could be spared from the ordinary claims of daily life. The tasks of checking the innumerable cross-references, of seeing the type-written sheets through the press, and of making the index, have been undertaken, most kindly and with a most wonderful care, by Mr. Strickland Gibson, to whom the greatest thanks are hereby recorded. There may, perhaps, still be some branches of the family tree of the Wallops that have not been examined ; but ' Quod satis est cui contingit nihil amplius optet.' There is also printed in these volumes (as a prelude to the subsequent pedigrees) a history of the Wallop family, which—incomplete though it be— has been compiled from histories and biographies, from public and private documents, printed and unprinted, from family information, and from personal knowledge, and also—as regards the earlier part—from the harvest of Major Duncan Warrand's researches, access to which has been most generously granted. In conclusion, and with gratitude for more than thirty-six years of happy married life, these volumes are dedicated to a member of that family whose ancestry is herein recorded. VERNON J. WATNEY. CORNBURY. St. Margaret's Day, io June 1927. vi CONTENTS Preface ....... v, vi The Family of Wallop ..... ix-lxxiv Appendixes I. Various direct ancestors of the Wallop Family Ixxv-lxxix ILA list of persons named Wallop, living in the thirteenth- eighteenth centuries, who have not been identified Ixxix-lxxxii III. Robert Wallop (1654-67) . Ixxxiii IV. Verses on Miss Wallop (eighteenth century) . Ixxxiv V. William Wallop (d. 1856) Ixxxv, Ixxxvi VI. Knights of the Garter Ixxxvii-xc VII. Those executed xci, xcii List of the Pedigrees 1-6 The Pedigrees . 7-848 Envoy 849 Index 851-1060 ILLUSTRATIONS Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth Frontispiece Vol. I. Eveline Alicia Juliana Herbert, Countess of Ports mouth ..... Frontispiece Vol. II. John Fellowes Wallop, 7th Earl of Portsmouth Frontispiece Vol. III. Hurstbourne Park, 1787 Frontispiece Vol. IV. THE FAMILY OF WALLOP HE following translation of entries in ' The Book of Winchester', that Tis Domesday Book (which was compiled from the returns to the Con queror's famous Inquest in 1086), refers to places then called Wallop, in Hantescire (Hampshire) ; of which there are now three, namely Upper, Middle, and Lower Wallop. ' In Brocton (now Thorngate) Hundred. The King holds Wallop. Countess Gueda * held it of earl Godwin. It then paid geld for 22 hides ; now for nothing. There is land for 15 ploughs. In (the) demesne are 6 ploughs, and (there are) 30 villeins and 39 bordars with 12 ploughs. There are 18 serfs, and 3 mills worth 15 shillings, and 9 acres of meadow, (and) a saltpan worth 5 pence. (There is) wood(land) worth 40 swine ; and 2 haws 2 in Wincestre (Winchester) worth 65 pence. There is a church to which belong 1 hide and a moiety of the tithes of the manor, and the whole cirset and 46 pence from the villeins' tithes, and one half of the lands. There is, besides, a chapel (secclesiola) to which belong 8 acres of tithe. To this manor belonged, in the time of King Edward, the third penny of six hundreds ; it had also free right of pasture and pannage, in all the woods belonging to those 6 hundreds. In the time of King Edward it was worth 30 pounds ; and afterwards 27 pounds. Now 27 pounds. And yet it is farmed for 31 pounds and 5 shillings. What belongs to the churches is worth 25 shillings. The King himself holds another Wallop. Earl Harold held it. It then paid geld for 17 hides ; now for nothing. There is land for 10 ploughs. In (the) demesne are 2 ploughs, and (there are) 22 villeins and 16 bordars with 9 ploughs. There are 3 serfs, and 3 mills worth 25 shillings, and 4 acres of meadow. (There is) wood(Iand) worth 3 swine. In the time of King Edward, and afterwards, it was worth 20 pounds; now 23 pounds; but it pays 27 pounds 10 shillings of 20 (pence) to the ounce. The same Hugh (de Forth)3 holds Wallope as half a manor. Godric held it of King Edward as an alod (in alodium). It then paid geld for i-| hides ; now for 1 virgate. In (the) demesne is 1 plough with 4 bordars. In the time of King Edward it was worth 20 shillings, and was afterwards, as now, worth 15 shillings. The same Hugh (de Forth) holds 1 hide in Wallope and Boda (holds it) of him. Edric held it of King Edward. Then, as now, it paid geld for 1 hide. There is land for 1 plough. There are 2 villeins and 2 bordars with 2 oxen. It was always worth 10 shillings. Alsi the son of Brixi holds Wallop of the King. Alric held it, as a manor, of King Edward, as an alod (in alodium). Then, as now, it paid geld for 2 hides. There is land 1 Gytha, wife of Earl Godwine, mother of 3 Hugh de Forth ; from Port-en-Bessin, Harold, and mother-in-law of Edward, the near Bayeux; the greatest man in Hamp- Confessor. shire. 2 Enclosed spaces in a town. ix THE FAMILY OF WALLOP for i plough. There are 4 villeins with 1 plough. In the time of King Edward (it was), as now, worth 20 shillings ; (it was) afterwards 15 shillings. Four Englishmen hold Wallope of the King. Their father held it of King Edward as an alod (in alodium). Then, as now, it paid geld for 1 hide. There is land for half a plough, which is there in demesne between them. It was, and is now, worth 10 shillings.' Though it is not now possible to prove the truth of the tradition that the Wallop family was settled at Wallop in Saxon times ; and though the name of Wallop, or de Wallop, does not appear in the Domesday survey ; yet, within the next eighty years (or earlier), there were in Wallop and in its neighbourhood land-holders named de Wallop. And, indeed, who had a better title to be known as de Wallop than the descendants of the four Englishmen who, at the time of Domesday, held land in Wallop from the Crown, and whose father had held it, as an alod (that is with as full an ownership as was then possible) from Edward the Confessor ? But the links in the early stages of the Wallop pedigree are not easy to weld together conclusively, till we come to Sir Richard Wallop, who was a Knight of the Shire for the County of Southampton in 1328.

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