SOME NOTES ON OUR FAMILY HISTORY BY E. R. YERBURGH LONDON CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD SOME NOTES ON OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO ROBERT ARMSTRONG YERBURGH, M.A., J.P., D.L., M.P., OF WOODFOLD PARK, LANCASHIRE; OF FREEBY, LEICESTERSHIRE, ETC. ETC.; THIS SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO OUR FAMILY HISTORY IS AFFECTION­ ATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS BROTHER, EDMUND ROCHFORT YERBURGH, RECTOR OF WRENTHAM, SUFFOLK CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION, ix THE SKELETON PEDIGREE, xi THE EARLY CLIFFORDS, 3 THE CLIFFORDS: LORDS OF SKIPTON, 11 THE CLIFFORDS: EARLS OF CUMBERLAND, . 49 SIR HENRY PERCY (HOTSPUR), 71 THE BARONY OF GILLSLAND, 77 THE LOWTHERS OF LOWTHER, . 89 THE RICHMONDS OF HIGHHEAD CASTLE, 97 THE GLEDHILLS, 127 THE BLAMIRES OF THE OAKS AND THACKWOOD, . 145 THE BAYNES OF COCKERMOUTH, 157 THE ARMSTRONGS OF LANCASTER, 165 THE HIGGINS OF ETHERSALL, MARSDEN, AND LAN- CASTER, 179 THE YERBURGHS OF COCKERINGTON, FRAMPTON, WYBERTON, AND SLEAFORD, . • THE YARBURGHS OF SNAITH AND HESLINGTON, . APPENDICES, INTRODUCTION AFTER reading Colonel Chippindall's Memoirs of Lieu­ tenant-Colonel Samuel Gledhill, and the late Mr. Jackson's article on the Richmond Family, it struck me that it might be interesting if I were to try and piece together some further notes on our family history, and the outcome of this idea is embodied in Notes on our Family History. These notes make no pretence to any originality. I have simply strung together information which 1· have acquired from various sources ; the idea which has been in my mind is that the information which I have got together might be of interest to a considerable number of people, not only in the present, but in the future. In all cases when it has been practicable to do so, I have stated from what sources my information has been derived. If it had not been for the original research of Colonel Chippindall these notes could never have been compiled. I am indebted to Sir Matthew Hale, and to Whitaker's .Craven, for a great deal of my information about the Clifford family : about the Richmonds to the late Mr.Jackson, F.S.A., and also to Mr. Jackson for some information about the x SOME NOTES ON OUR FAMILY HISTORY Lowthers. Colonel Chippindall has kindly supplied practi­ cally all the information about the Gledhills, Armstrongs, Baynes, and Higgins. The Yerburgh information I have got together myself, but I have got a great deal of information about the Yorkshire Yarburghs from the Rev. C. B. Robinson's History of the Priory and Peculiar of Snaith. The information about the Percies and the Barony of Gillsland is derived from the Encyclopcedia Britannica and Ferguson's History of Cumberland.· SKELETON PEDIGREE showing the descent in the Female Line of the Family of Y ERBURGH of W oodfold Park, Lancashire, and Freeby, Leicestershire, etc., from the HousE OF CLIFFORD. FITZPONCE I :r. RICHARD FITZPONCE, temp. Richard I. - I 2. WALTER DE CLIFFORD, temp. HENRY II. = MARGARET, daughter of Ralph de Toney. ________! I 3. WALTER DE CLIFFORD, temp. John. = AGNES, daughter and heiress of Roger de I Cundi, co. Lincoln. ----------c- I 4. ROGER DE CLIFFORD, temp. Henry III. = SIBILL, daughter of Robert de Ewyas. --------I I 5. ROGER DE CLIFFORD. I 6. ROGER DE CLIFFORD, temp. Henry III. = ISABEL, eldest daughter of Roger de Vipont, and Edward I. ----------=' Lord of Westmorland. I 7. ROBERT DE CLIFFORD, Lord of West-= MATILDA DE CLARE, daughter and sole morland. lnq. anno 8 'Edward II. heir of Thomas de Clare, ' nobilis viri No. 62. Senescalli Forestire de Essex.' I 8. ROBERT DE CLIFFORD, junior, son of = !SABEL, daughter of Maurice, Lord Berke- Robert de Clifford, Lord of West- ley of Berkeley Castle. She died 36 morland, died 20 ?viay I8 Edward III. Edward III. Ing. No. 50. a Xll SOME NOTES ON OUR FAMILY HISTORY a I I 9· ROGER DE CLIFFORD, second son of= MATILDA, daughter of Thomas Beauchamp, Robert de Clifford, Lord of West- Earl of Warwick, died 4 Henry IV. morland, died I3 July I3 Richard n. Inq. No. 37. Inq. No. x4. I IO. THOMAS DE CLIFFORD, son and heir of = ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas, Lord Roger de Clifford, Lord of Westmor- Roos and Hamlake, died 26 March land, died abroad I5 Richard n. 2 Henry VI. Inq. No. 30. Ing. No. I7. I II. JOHN DE CLIFFORD, Lord Clifford and = ELIZABETH, daughter of Sir Henry Percy Westmorland, died abroad I3 March (Hotspur), son and heir of Henry, Earl 9 Henry v. Inq. IO Henry v. No. 27. of Northumberland. She died x6 Oct. 15 Henry VI. Inq. No. 55. I 12. THOMAS, Lord Clifford and Westmor- = JOANNA, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre land, born 25 March 2 Henry v., killed of Gillesland. at the battle of St. .A.loans 22 May 1455, 33 Henry VI. I x3. JOHN, Lord Clifford and Westmor- = MARGARET, only daughter and heiress of land, son and heir of Thomas, Lord I HenryBromflete, Lord de Vesey. Clifford, killed in battle at Ferrybridge, Edward IV. Inq. 4 Edward IV. No. 52. I I 14. HENRY, Lord Clifford and Westmor- = 2ndly, FLORENCE, daughter of Henry Pudsey land, son and beir of John, Lord of Bolton, Esq. Clifford, died 23 April x5 Henry VIII. I x5. DOROTHY CLIFFORD, daughter of Henry,= SIR HUGH LOWTHER of Lowther, temp. Lord Clifford and Westmorland. J Henry VIII. I r6. MARGARET LOWTHER, daughter of Sir= JOHN RICHMOND of Highhead Castle. Will Hugh Lowther of Lowther. dated 24 Dec. :r574. Buried at Dalston :r8 Jan. :r575. Will proved at Carlisle 24 March x575. I I7. JOHN RICHMOND of Highhead Castle, = MARY DALSTON, daughter of Thomas Dal- buried at Dalston 29 Oct. :r597. I ston of U dal1, buried at Dalston r6 April :r589. I :r8. CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND of Highhead = ISABELLA CHAYTOR, daughter of Anthony Castle, buried at Dalston :r5 Feb. x643. Chaytor of Croft Hall, Yorkshire. Mar­ ried at Croft :r3 April I613. Marriage settlement proved March :r6x2. Buried at Dalston 20 July :r630. l, SKELETON PEDIGREE Xlll b I------' rg. CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND of Highhead = MABEL VAUX, daughter and co-heiress of Castle, born r623, p. Dugdale's Visita-1 John Vaux of Catterlen Hall. tion 27 March 1665. Livir.g 1678. I 20. CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND of Highhead = !SABELLA TOWERSON, daughter of Thomas Castle, bap. at Dalston :r2 Aug. :r641:. Reynolds of London, married at Dalston Will dated i:6 June r693, proved at i:8 June r678. Will dated i:3 August Carlisle r9 Dec. 1693. i:737, proved at Carlisle 19 June i:739. Buried at Newton 4 June 1739. 2I. ISABEL RICHMOJD, baptized at Newton = SAMUEL GLEDHILL, colonel in the army, r5 May r679, died at Whitehaven Governor of Placentia, born 7 April 16 Feb. r727. 1677. I 22. ELIZABETH GLEDHILL, died 3 Feb. = ROBERT BAYNES of Cockermouth, Cumber- 1673, aged 52. Monument in All land, died 2r Aug. 1789, aged 72. Mon u- Saints' Church, Cockermouth. ment in AU Saints' Church, Cocker­ mouth. DEBORAH ANNE! BAYNES, married in= JOHN ARMSTRONG of Acrelands, Skerton, Feb. r781, died at Lancaster 5 May near Lancaster, died 13 April i:829, 1792, aged 42, buried St. Nicholas aged 80. Street Graveyard. I 24. SUSANNA ARMSTRONG, born I3 Oct. = JOHN HIGGIN of Lancaster, born r7 Feb. 1787, married 24 June i:814, died i:3 1785, died Oct. r847. March r852, buried in Lancaster Parish Churchyard. I SUSAN HIGGIN, died 4 Jan. r86I, buried = RICHARD YERBURGH, Clerk~in Holy Orders, at Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Married born 5 May 18r7, died 29 Aug. r866. 1846. I 26. ROBERT ARMSTRONG YERBURGH, J.P., = ELM"A AMY, only ¢laughter and heiress of D.L., M.P., born r7 January i:853. Daniel Thwaites, Esq., J.P., D.L., of W oodfold Park, Lancashire ; Freeby, Leicestershire, etc. I 27. ROBERT DANIEL THWAITES YERBURGH, Univ. Coll., Oxon., born ro Dec. r889. THE EARLY CLIFFORDS A THE EARLY CLIFFORDS To do anything like justice to the history of this great family a volume rather than a chapter would be needed. Viewed as a whole, that history, from its romantic interest, from the strange vicissitudes of fortune it presents, -from its really national import, is a most remarkable one. Long before the martial achievements of the first Clifford of Skipton, members of the family had distinguished them­ selves on the field, and the deeds of these are recorded in history. The first of this ancient family of whom Dugdale takes notice was called Ponce, or Pont or Fitz Pont. One of this line came over with the Conqueror and acquired Clifford Castle in Herefordshire. The first Ponce is represented as leaving three sons, Walter and Dru, considerable landed proprietors in the Conqueror's survey. RICHARD FITZPONCE, a personqge of rank in the time of Richard I. and a liberal benefactor to the Church. This Richard left also three sons, of whom the second, Walter, having obtained Clijford Castle in Herefordshire with his wife Margaret, daughter of Ralph de Toney, a descendant from William Fitzosborn, Earl of Hereford, by whom the castle was erected, assumed thence his surname and became WALTER DE CLIFFORD. This feudal lord was in influence 3 4 SOME NOTES ON OUR FAMILY HISTORY in the reign of Henry II. From very early . times the Cliffords were custodians of the Castle of York, whence one of its ancient towers is known as Clifford Tower. They also claimed the right of bearing the city sword on the occasion of a royal visit (vide Progresses of King James I., vol. i. p. 78). This Walter de Clifford left at his decease two sons and two daughters: WALTER, his heir. RICHARD, from whom the Cliffords of Frampton in Gloucestershire descended.