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mXT 929.7201 F81r V.2 1266656 GENEALOGY COLLECTION 1833 00726 8193 I'l'^y THE WOELD. Jan. 25, 1893. An interesting^ fact in family history is mentioned by the editor (M ^w Walery) of Our Celebrities, who publishes a portrait of Major-General Sir \ " Osven Burne in his last niimber. He Fays : Some few years ago the \ 2Iorning Post cited the family of Sir Owen Burne as a remarkable instance I of illustrious descent in families which have no specially prominent position I sin the world. Forster's Roijal Linear/e of our Noble and Gentle Families I jgives his descent on his father's side from the ancient families of de Leiburne | and Bodicote, and on his mother's side from French and English kings : I jthirty-fourth from Charlemagne, thirty-first from Alfred the Great, and / 'sixteenth from Edward II[., and, agiin, through his four sons separately : / thus being connected with some of the noblest families in England and / France." / T\ ^^FAMILYJ/ REGISTER FOR RECORDING Birtl)S, £©amage0, anD SDeat?)^, AS THEY OCCUR IN "Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal Descent," By JOSEPH FOSTER, 21, Boundary Road, Loudon, N.W. i£ FAMILY REGISTER of v^/a^^/^ V^/^v&Z^ ^(ji/Zf^^^^*^^ DATES OF BIRTH, IN FULL. ^^^ /yj^ /ffS i.IRTHS. PLACE OF BIRTH. CHILDREN. ^.^^x^^^M^..... J \../iP^., .. f/&/ .<f^/l^r^!i(f^ /^.. A/^n/i.. 9~ \ >^2M^A^.y..if:it^<7^f^.... ' /<? ^/Uf.4hrTf*^.if. 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'.Jr..L^^C....J.^^ .Mpi^>^Mf^:^^.^.f^i:72^.....i^..^»^^ .^^^1^^ Sti£m:.^...i .<??^m^.,..3./?:r:t^..-..*t^f:^st^.. BY HIS Wife M(..J^i.-..C....KM^<f?!?f^.....^U>^.. Daughtek of! 'tCoi^4^^AJ^lMua:>u<: ' /ty^p/ . .*'. ., . i?^. fT^r-d. SON OF. ./?^ .^.4^!?. }^^f:cA. t" Mf.i.i^.i:*j-??:.r/ie...,.(M-^A<ir. BY HIS Wife ..CiUf24a^:J:72£i..Xjh{^^^cf. EXAMPLE 1883. Henry Jamc: Anderson, of Maiy Evelyn, ird Daughter < 23 Dec emu Palgrave, Suffolk, J. P., D.L., Caft. Suffolk Artj: Mil., Wdliavt "John Jones, Son of Henry Charles Anderson, of Hill House, Sussex, Major-General in the Armj At St. George's. of Morpeth, Northumberland, 'D.'L., S/ieriff li^i, by his Wife Maty Caroline, only ehild of Geor^ Ha limey Square. by his Wife Mary, dan. of John Sinclair, of Dumftics. Josslyn, Esq., of Croio's Nest, Essex. The Family Register. — MARRIAGES. Namf.s of HusiiAN-n in full, and his Resiulnce. | Names of Wife. Their Parents' N.imes and Residences, and also the position or occupation of the Husband, his Father, and his Fathe nusoana. _ »viic.^ \ ....v>.\UGHTER OF. ^^^.4^</. .^fe^?^3^^.-?'. rr.^<^- OF . ^.U^ui P:k.a^./:Jf^ aa....^^a^.^^<<.(ie. ns WiFE...^^.:;if«5.^<^....^.- /'..jr.a...i^':ff.yr'.r.^...i. M.a,<kri.a/W.....Cn!<jhf^rz^.....Kd.iPr.^£.. .S^^Jri/..Jlz.a}:z<c^... :Aa.f^.k..j^Lt<a<(d.../22^j:^f.c >?:^. ov..J./£<.:a^£^Jf^^f:?::ke. IIS Wife ...^;%f*<^. /.^£4...J^.(.iMs^. <r^??s«??*^...>^W9i$i?../^^ BY HIS Wife . The Family Register.— OBITUARY. NAME AND. DESCRIPTION IN FULL. Cjje 3Ro;)al Etneage OUR NOBLE AND GENTLE FAMILIES, TOGETHER WITH THEIR PATERNAL ANCESTRY. COMPILED BV JOSEPH FOSTER, Corres;ponding Member of the "New England Historic Genealogical Society, Author of the "British Peerage and Baronetage," and numerous other Genealogical Works. PRIVATELY PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LIMITED, LONDON AND AYLESBURY. 1884. «*^ :.. „.«« 1883- ^^° ^"^^ x8821882, ovVRAGB x88x, --•*•" /::/»-.MR paper r.rr»» tende' BOUNDARY 21, ^ — — 1266656 PREFACE. TT is with much pleasure that I am enabled to issue another new volume of " The Royal Lineage of our Noble and Gentle Families." Though this is not the first work that has appeared on Royal Descents, it is the first in which they have been genealogically treated. Hitherto they have only appeared in the form of chart pedigrees, which, though useful adjuncts to a genealogical narrative, are by themselves meagre and uninstruc- tive. The families included in the present work will have their descent from the blood royal traced in the form of a detailed narrative, introducing the various historic houses—now extinct, for the most part, in the male line through whom they derive their royal descent. Most of the names illustrious in our early annals are no longer to be found in works dealing with the extant Peerage, but they will necessarily occupy a prominent place in the pages of the present work. A well-known and almost solitary exception to the utter extinction of these historic houses is to be seen in the mighty race of Nevill, still represented in the English Peerage by a lineal descendant, in the male line, of Ralph Neviil, first Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife, the daughter of John of Gaunt. Both on the ground of its exceptional paternal ancestry, and on that of its descent in an unbroken line, from a match with the blood-royal of England, * the House * The issue of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swynford received letters of legitimation from Richard II. as "entire Emperor of his realm of England," which was preceded by a similar act by the Pope ; the King's patent received the assent of parliament 5th February, 1397, rendering the issue capable of succession to all honours. This patent was confirmed by Henry IV., loth February, 1407, the royal dignity being excepted, but without the consertt of^arliafnent ; they were called Beaufort from the Duke's castle in Anjou, where they were bom. " Excerjtta Historica." pp. is2 seg. iv Preface, of Nevill fitly occupied the first place in my first volume But it is not only in these respects that I claim for my undertaking a novel character. Many of those who are outside the charmed circle of the titled classes can prove their descent from the kings of England ; and I have taken the opportunity afforded me by this fact, and by the wide sphere which the subject consequently presents, to extend my genealogical operations beyond the Peerage and Baronetage, and to deal on a somewhat comprehensive scale with the history of our gentle though untitled families. In so doing I shall be breaking new ground, not only so far as I am myself concerned, but also in respect that, numerous as are the works dealing with the Peerage and Baronetage, no worthy effort has ever been made to deal with the families beyond their pale ; and yet there are to be found among the latter houses of equal, if not of greater antiquity than those which bear "the guinea stamp." And of these many are no longer to be found in the ranks of the " landed gentry," and are consequently supplanted in the work which deals with that class, and which bears the imprimatur of Sir Bernard Burke, by families either of no pedigree at all, or of pedigrees which no one but the Ulster King-of-Arms could dare to foist upon the public. I have therefore decided to comprise in my work, as a supplementary and special feature, accurate narratives of the "paternal ancestry" of the principal families that figure in its pages. The usual plan in such cases is the exceedingly simple one of printing a pedigree just as it is received, with the result, in some instances, of including much that is false, and in others of omitting much that ought to appear. To exclude, on the one hand, infor- mation which is false, and to amplify, on the other, that which is imperfect, is a work involving no little time, trouble, and cost ; but I have set myself to perform it to the best of my abilities, trusting that the members of the families whose history I undertake to compile will, on their part, loyally supply me with that detailed and personal information without which it would be utterly impossible to make my work complete. I venture to think that in respect not only of elaboration, but of truth, I may fearlessly invite comparison between the pedigrees in these pages and those which have appeared in any other work. Mr. Freeman has denounced, in scathing language, " the hideous nonsense " ... of the absurd tales which fill the pages of Sir Bernard Burke (" Pedigrees — Preface. v and Pedigree Makers," Contemporary Review, June, 1877). From his indignant criticisms I here extract a few weighty sentences. " What, for instance, can be the state of mind of Sir Bernard Burke ? Does he know, or does he not know, the manifest falsehood of the tales which he reprints year after year ? He may, one is tempted to say, be reasonably called on for a more critical examination than we can ask from people who simply send him the stories which they have been taught to believe about their own families.