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By EDGAR LAMBART LEAVES F.ROM A FAMILY TREE By EDGAR LAMBART- PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY >MESSRS. HATCHARD, 187 PICCADILLY, LONDON, W 1902 LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE INSCRIBED TO RUDOLPH, 10TH EARL OF CAVAN MY FAMILY AND KINSFOLK LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE. CHAPTER I. OST people, I fear, look on genealogy and everything con­ M nected with it as mere profitless stirring of dry bones. The general democratic spirit of the age, which effects more or less consciously all classes, has taught us to consider ·nothing more ridiculous than undue pride of ancestry, or, at least, any manifestation o( it. We take people as we find them, and are more concerned as to what they are (especially if they have money) than as to whence they came. It is certain that no one is neces­ -sarily the better for the possession of a long line of ancestors, though he may be much the worse for them. We need not worship our ancestors like the Ohinese, nor ought we to despise them, for science teaches us that they certainly to some extent made us what we are. There is surely a happy mean. Let us try to pardon them their lost opportunities in omitting to invest in London property or to found co-operative stores, and be 1 LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE grateful if they did not bequeath to us hereditary insanity or con­ :ftrmed mo1·al obliquity. To return to the question of the dryness of the subject, it surely depends very much on how it is presented to us. Remember how terribly dry history of any kind seemed to us in our school days, and yet most of us have lived to own the charm of history as presented to us by Macaulay, or Froude, or Green. If we take genealogy not merely as a, dry record of births, and deaths, and marriages, but as a tracing of the footprints on the sands of time left by the particular family from which we come, we shall find it not without interest. We find curious sidelights on the general history of the nation, and many interesting problems present themselves to the amateur student of physiology and heredity. We ask ourselves why this family waxed great and prospered from generation to generation; why that one rose suddenly to eminence only in a, short time to drop back into obscurity ; why yet another continued to exist at the same social level from century to century. Some families, if they escaped the melodramatic curse of plun­ dered Churchmen or injured retainers, seem to have incurred somehow the curse of Reuben, 'unstable as water, thou shalt not excel,' and to have transmitted it to their descendants in per­ petuity. It seems true of family life, as of all life in nature, that birth is but the starting point of decay. Only in rare instances, by wise grafting or perhaps by vigorous prnning, the law of survival of the fittest has been enabled to give the family perpetual youth. What I offer here is in no sense a family history. Want of time, of literary ability and practice, and, I fear, a disinclination to face the necessary drudgery of research, unfit me for such a 2 LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE task. But I have long felt an interest in the narrower aspect of things historical and . genealogical, and some curiosity about problems of heredity, and it has been a pleasure and amuse­ ment to ransack the more accessible corners of Time's storehouse ·for dry leaves from our family tree. I here try my 'prentice hand at making an herbari1un of them (how warily must one walk to avoid mixed metaphors!), which I hope may interest my kinsfolk. Rather regretfully I have to own that in my researches into a family history of (perhaps) eight hundred years, I have found not many ' great ones after the :flesh.' Few deep 'footprints on the sand·s of time ' have our many hundred fore­ fathers left. ·Only with difficulty can one follow their trail through the centuries. Not even the tragic glories of the scaffold have they bequeathed to us their descend- ants. No masked executioner, quoad sciam, has ever held qp the dripping head of a ~ Lambart to the gaping crowd as that of a traitor. No religious obstinacy brought »uss oF aENTLEKAN, UIIP. EDwABD n. us to the stake under Mary or Elizabeth. We have been spared the conspicuous infamy of furnishing a regicide, though, as you will see, we were very near it. On the other hand, I cannot :find that any Lam.hart has been hanged for robbing a church or sheep-stealing, nor have they as a habit made love to their neighbours' wives. These are precious negative virtues, which we should appreciate and imitate in our generation. Lastly, there is no reason that I can find why we 3 LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE should not maintain, by reaso11ing uom the particular to the general, that in all ages the family has produced fair women and brave men. Not the least of the difficulties I have met with in collecting material for this little book is the fact that for several hundred years within the Jirnits of certain history that is our fami1y has · had no settled or central home. No hoary old church owes half the dimness of its aisles to crowded monuments and tombs of long­ forgotten Lamharts. No grey ancestral hall sacred to a thousand memories has, as a home of the race, endured the storms of time, the battering and bombarding of Oavalier or Roundhead. Houses we have bought and built, as other men, -no doubt, but seldom do we seem to have held them long enough for the ivy to hide the mortar, or the lichen to grow grey on the stones. · Scattered far and. wide are the graves of. the household in every generation. Not an acre of the lands we held in the northern counties, nor, I think, of the numerous properties acquired in the sixteenth and 11eventeenth centuries in Ireland remains in the hands of any one belonging to, or_ connected with, the family. And here in this chapter I would say something of what has struck me in my researches as to the singular faculty of the fami]y _for being, to use a modern expression, ' out of it ' at psychological moments of importance. There is no reason to doubt, if no certain record to confirm the matter, that we drew the long bow or co11ched a, spear at Ore9y and .Agincourt. It is certain that some Lambe.rt heads must have been broken in the Wars of the Roses, since the Vicar of Bray himself could hardly have kept out of the trouble in those times. But till stout Sir Oliver comes on the scene I can trace no La.mbart prominently connected with historical events. We bore the Royal Oornmission in various regiments almost in every generation since 4: LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE the formation of a standing Army. A Lamba.rt _circ11mnavi2ated the globe with .Anson, another tumbled into the surf from the boats at .Alexandria in all the bravery of scarlet ooatee and buckskins; but I think I am correct in saying that no Lambart carried colours or led a :regiment under Marlborough in his glorious campaigns, climbed the heights of Abra.ham with Wolfe, fought rebels and red-skins in the W a.r of Independence, followed Wellington from Lisbon to Paris, nor stood among the trampled corn of Waterloo. The Eastern sages delight to trace in subtle metaphysics ~f cause and effect how the :flight of a butterfl.y may affect the fate of an empire. How many pages of our fa,~ily history, now lost beyond ·recovery-stories of family intrigues and quarrels, perhaps of misused talents and wasted opportunities-should we require to search to understand the riddle of this singular inappositeness· through so many years P EVOLIJTION OF UND'OBJI : CAVALBY SOLDIBB, DELAn, 1599. 5 LEAVES FROM A FAMILY TREE CHAPTER II. THE most far-reaching version of the family pedigree extends back to Charlemagne, with a mysterious reference to the descent · of that great monarch from a celebrated warrior__ of the. Mede~~-J. I think it hardly necessary to attempt to follow the roots of the family tree so far underground as this : it would land us in Old Testament history. Oharlemagne is a fine, conspicuous starting­ point, and his name is still preserved in the family. The descent ft-om Charlemagne is in the female line, and for the benefit of those who may not be acquainted with it I give the following ' extract of the root,' if I may so call it :- One Lambart, Lambert, or Lambarde (for the name, like most others in early history, had no fixed form), Count of Mons and Louvaine, married the daughter and heiress of Oharles Duke of Louvaine, son of Louis· King of France, he hims_elf being descended, through his mother, from Oha.rles the Bold of France. Their third son, Rodolph, settled in Normandy on an estate belonging to his mother. From the eldest son descended all the Duk~~ of Br~bant, and from the second son the Italian family of Lambertini and the French Oomtes de St. Bruys. This part of the pedigree is recorded in the Archives of Brabant, and is further confirmed by the claim of common descent with our own family, made in the eighteenth century by Pope Benedict XIV., who was a Lambertini. .As family records were accurately kept in ltaly from a much earlier date than in England, this is, I think, a creditable voucher.
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