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The Rainsford Family with Sidelights on Shakespeare Southampton, Hall and Hart THE RAINSFORD FAMILY WITH SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEARE SOUTHAMPTON, HALL AND HART. THE RAINSFORD FAMILY WITH SIDELIGHTS ON SHAKESPEARE, SOUTHi\l\1PTON, HALL AND HART Embracing 1000 years of the RAINSFORD family and their successive partakings in the main lines of national life BY EMILY A. BUCKLAND. " In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and ]et them tell thee tales.'· -King Richard 11 i11lorcrsttr: Pa1Li,1Ps & PROBERT? LTD., THE CAXTON PRESS. I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO FAITH AND JACK AND MY NLECES AND NEPHEWS. n FOREWORD. 3T was suggested to me by my cousin, Alfred Ransford of Hunstanton, that being a native of Stratford-on-Avon, baptized there in the historic Church of Holy Trinity (Register Certificate No. 70;\ Page 89), and the grand-daughter of a Rainsford of the Clifford Chambers line, I should compile into a little book some of his genealogical notes relating to the family, which he has collected over a period of thirty years, in­ spired and assisted by a kinsman, the late Frederick Vine Rainsford, who began turning over Wills and docu-· ments at the age of eighteen, and devoted a great part of sixty years to research work. This volume is a brief outline of a typical English family, living in the beautiful homes of our Empire, yet facing the vicissitudes oflife, with its struggles and successes; amidst the hardships and dra\vbacks of a much less advanced civilization ; who, like numerous others, in response to the call of King and Country, have been leaders of men, in the Church and Services, in the legal and civic world, and in commercial enterprise, upholding its honour and traditions, fighting for what they believed to be right, though " mocked, imprisoned, slain with sword," remembering the mottos of the three main branches of the family, " Toutzjours loyall ; " " Spera in Deo ; " and " In one is all." I gratefully acknowledge the use of my cousin's comprehensive notes (which also authentically embrace direct family associations with the immortal poet, William Shakespeare) also for his compilation of " The Table of Descent of the Family of Rainsford" no\v in the BRITISH MUSEUM and ,vhich may also be found in the follo,ving Public and Reference Libraries :- Gloucester Public Library. Cheltenham Public Librarv., . Bristol Public Library. Liverpool Public Library. Glasgow Corporation Public Library. Glasgow University Reference Library. 1\i1anchester Reference Librarv. Birmingham Reference Libra~y. Yale, U.S.A., University Library. Trinity College, Dublin, Reference Library. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Cambridge Reference Library. Coventry Reference Library. Harvard College, U.S.A., Library. Norwich Public Library. Edinburgh University Reference Library. Shakespearean Museum Library, Stratford-on-Avon. Melbourne, Australia, Reference Library. and in about 100 other places. The principal authorities for this history of the Rainsford family, linked as it is with so many gt e: at men and matters for close upon a thousand years, are -- "The Norman People" (author unknown) ; 'The House of Arundel '' (Yeatman) ; '' The Victoria History of the Counties of England ; " "Feudal Baronagt " (W. Farrer) ; "Peerage and Pedigree Studies" (Horace Round); " Historic Peerage of England " (Nicholas) ; " The Complete Peerage " (2nd edition) ; The Visitations of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Oxon., Bucks and Essex ; " A short Hisotry of the English People " (John Richard Green) ; " History of the Norman Conquest " (Freeman); " The Wilcotes Monument in Great Tew Church " (William F. Carter) ; Berks. Arch. Journal XIII, 18) ; " Blomefield's Norfolk ; " " Shakes­ peare's Contemporaries " (C. C. Stopes) ; " The Hanley Court Collection " (E. A. B. Barnard) ; " Table of descent of Rainsford of Rainsford," complied by Alfred Ransford ; " Rainsford Records " and the " Origin of the Ransfords, (1919) " by the same author " Memorials of the Danvers Family"; (Macnamara); "Shakespeare's Stratford" (Fripp) ; and " Shakespeare's Studies " (by the same author) ; the articles in " Country Life," August 4th and 11th, 1928 ; to the Editor of which periodical I am also gratefully indebted for the photographs taken of Clifford Chambers ; also articles in the Birmingham Post and The Daily Telegraph, in 1H31. As the late Lord Birkenhead said in his last book) " Turning Points in History " (Hutchinson) ;- 11 " The wnting of history is an Art rather than a Science, the art of compelling figures to stand out from dry documents and musty folios, to tell as far as possible their own story." May the lives herein reviewed inspire the ns1ng generation with renewed zeal and devotion to their Country. EMILY A. BUCKLAND, EATON LODGE, MALVERN WELLS. I9J2. These additions to page 241 were recei1.,,ed after the book was in print. A descendant of this Irish branch, the Rev. Marcus Rainsford's first wife was Miss Louisa Dixon, whose father was the last Bishop of Meath, under the Irish Church Establishment. The Rev. Marcus left his parish at Dundalk, Co. Louth, after 12 years, to take up the incum­ bency of Belgrave Chapel and work in a large parish · round Belgrave Square, London ; his son the Rev. Marcus Rainsford (ii) M.A., being Incumbent of St. James', Paddington for many years. The second son of the Rev. Marcus Rainsford of Belgrave Chapel was Colonel Stephen Dixon Rainsford, C.B. A third son was the Rev. Chas. Forester Rains­ ford,M.A.,of Hereford, and another the Rev. William Stephen Rainsford, D.D., left London for New York, and for 47 years worked in an ever increasing parish as the Rector of St. George's, New York (living 1933). He has written several interesting books and has recently retired from Public life and enjoys big game shooting in South Africa and elsewhere. He was a great friend of the late President Theodore Roosevelt. He has two residences in the States, one being presented to him some years before the Great War by his admirers. He has three sons living in U.S.A The Rev. Marcus Rainsford (i) married as his second wife Agnes Stirling, Co. Stirling, N .B., sister of General Sir William Stirling, Governor of the Tower of London. There is a family tradition handed down the ages that the Rainsfords are descended from a King of Saxony, circa 800. There is a river there named Rainsford and the " Eagle " in one of the " Arms " of the family is some evidence. This tradition was plainly recorded in the Irish pedigree, but unfortunately this pedigree was lost a few generations ago. (See also page 14 7, paragraph one; and page 272, paragraph two.) 12 ERRATA Page 11-'The alterations to page 241 were received after the book was printed. Pages 32-Small 'l ' for lords of. 37-Constances, read Coutances. " 38-Constance, read Coutance. " ,, 94-Small '1 ' for lord of. ,, 125-Small ' 1 ' for lords of. ,, 183-Wakestead, read Wakested. ,, 200-Cockayne, read Cokayne. ,, 238-Fifth line for nephew, read brother. ,, 23B-Sixth line, read Ballinastraw. ,, 239-Cradockstown has one 'd '. ,, 239-Colonel W. J. Read Rainsford. ,, 272-Small 'l ' for lords of. ,, 334-Wakestead, read Wakested. ,, 160-CR, read created. ,, 186-First line, 1676-8 read 1676-9. ,, 213-on, read in. ,, 216-Last para.," King of Arms, read King at Arm~. 13 CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE. FOREWORD U ADDITIONS TO PAGE 241 11 ERRATA - 12 CHARTS - 14 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ] 5 I THE ORIGIN OF THE ARDENS AND THE RAINSFORDS 17 II THE RAINSFORDS OF ESSEX, NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK - 41 III THE RAINSFORDS OF CORNWALL, SOMERSET, AND LoNGDON, WoRcs. 64 IV THE RAINSFORDS OF GREAT TEw, OxoN 81 V THE RAINSFORDS OF CLIFFORD CHAMBERS, GLOS. - 94 VI THE RAINSFORDS OF ELMLEY CASTLE, WoRcs. - 119 VII THE RAINSFORDS OF WARWICK - - 130 VIII SIDELIGHTS ON THE POET, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE- 140 IX DR. JOHN HALL 163 X THE RAINSFORDS OF DALLINGTON, NORTHANTS - 194 XI THE RAINSFORDS OF IRELAND - 219 XII THE RAIN SFORDS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON AND SCOTLAND - 245 XIII THE RAINSFORDS OF GuP's HILL, TEWKESBURY: AND SOUTH CAROLINA, u .S.A. - 254 CONCLUSION - 283 APPENDIX - 288 INDEX - - 293 ADDITIONAL INDEX - - 337 14 LIST OF CHARTS. PAGE ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY, CIRCA 870-920 35 REINFRED TAILIBOIS OF NORMANDY, CIRCA 1050 -36, 37 ORIGIN OF THE RAINSFORDS-TENTATIVE PEDIGREE, CIRCA 1050. COMPILED Nov., 1932 38 PEDIGREE OF RAYNSFORD (or RAINSFORD) CIRCA 1391, FROM RAINSFORD HALL, LANCS. 39 PEDIGREE OF RAINSFORD. HERALDS OFFICE, LONDON, DEC., 1932 40 POPE OF WROXTON 78 RAINSFORDS OF GREAT TE\V AND CLIFFORD CHAMBERS - 118 RAYNSFORDS OF STAVERTON, WOLFHAMCOTE, ETC.- - 218 READ-G UINNESS-RAINSFORD - 242 DESCENT OF FRANCES RAINSFORD - - 243 ,, DESCENT OF RAINSFORD HANNAYS - 253 15 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE RAINFORD HALL - - 16 STAINED GLASS WINDOW TO LADY LAURENCE RAINSFORD - 45 MONUMENT TO MRS. ANN KENWELL - 47 LONGDON MANOR - 65 GREAT TEW PARK - 80 LITTLE TEW MANOR - - 82 BRASS OF }OHN AND ALICE WYLCOTES - - 84 BRAS5 OF WILLMUS REYNEFORD IN GREAT TEW CHURCH - 86 CLIFFORD CHAMBERS - -95, 96, 98, 102 CLIFFORD CHAMBERS-ENTRANCE HALL - - 100 GATES LEADING TO CLIFFORD VILLAGE - - 104 COAT OF ARMS OF HERCULES RAYNSFORD OF CLIFFORD CHAMBERS - 107 BRASS OF l-lERCULES RAINSFORD, HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN - 109 MONUMENT TO SIR HENRY AND LADY ANNE RAINSFORD - 111 BRASS TO ELIZABETH MARROWE - 112 SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE - - 141 NASH'S HOUSE ON SITE OF NEW PLACE - 146 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, STRATFORD-ON-AVON - 152 SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORIAL IN HoL Y 'fRINITY CHURCH - lf>7 OIL PAINTING, THE RIGHT HON. SIR RICHARD RAINSFORD 196 MONUMENT IN DALLINGTON CHURCH TO SIR RICHARD RAINSFORD, KNIGHT - - 198 SILVER POINT DRAWING, BRIG. GEN. EDWARD JAMES RAYNSFORD - 207 OIL PAINTING, SrR MARCUS RAINSFORD - 225 OIL PAINTING, MRS. RAINSFORD, WIFE OF GEN. CHARLES RAINSFORD - 246 GuP's HILL MANOR - - 255 EDWARD RANSFORD - 260 BAPTIST CHAPEL, TEWKESBURY - 264 THE HoN. ·rHoMAs H. RA1NsF0Ro - - :269 REV. WM. STEPHEN RAINSFORD, D.D. - - 274 SIR RANSFORD SLATER, K.C.lVI.G., C.B.E.
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