James Trubshaw, CE, of Little Heywood, This
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D ail he de of life o ebb d flowin be de m y t ti s g ing an g si the , ' T h u d of h bb he Wh he e e d for o san s t ro ing arts, ere t irs ar at r st an T h u d of chi b Wh he l on er e bu o san s a ng rains, ere t irs no g ar sy, ho san s of l h d Wh h s h ave c e ed from he l ab u T u d toi ing an s, ere t eir as t ir o rs, Th u d of we fee Wh r the h v e c m le ed r n o san s ary t, e e irs a o p t thei j our ey ! ‘ LONGFELLOW. S T A F F O R D R W. WRIGHT 56 PRINT ED . GR NGA S R , , EE TE T EET . 1 87 6 . 1 37 36 8 1 TO THE G RAN D C H TL D RE N A N D GR E AT - GRAN D C HILD R E N OF THE LAT! ! T U H W E J A M E S S C . R B A , , OF LITTLE HEYW OOD , THIS BOOK OF FAMILY RECORD S IS D ED ICATED BY THEIR AF FECTIONATE AUNT S U S NN T U S W A A R B HA . Little He yw ood , 1876 . F A M I L Y R E C O R D S . n, any of the members of our family Will take the trouble to look i N — at the Ordnance Survey, a little to the orth East of Kids from Kn ersle W find grove and not far yp y, they ill a place called TrubshaW : here originally stood a residence designated Trubshaw Hall, and until the last few years Trubshaw Ley for cattle was hir Advertis er dul y ann ounced in our Staflords e . This district now and converted into Collieries belonged to our ancestors, and here th e in neighbourhood they occupied an important position . In ’ “ t — — ” Ward s History of the Borough of S oke upon Trent, in speaking us of Longton, he tells “ The upper part of the vil lage Where th e roads to Tuns tall r and and Burslem diverge was formerly called T ubshaw Cross, an W ancient stone cross stood there, of hich the base or plinth yet and - remains, is now placed at the foot of a handsome lamp pillar, n in a central position between the roads, still maintaini g its former rude character . And he proceeds to state The Act of Parliament for making the present turnpike road (passed in 1762) describes the road from Tunstall to Newcastle as going by Trubshaw ’ W H ollow Cross, and the Tan House ( olstanton) down Spark s , - - a m field to New cast l over co mon called The Brampton, e and another branch extending from Burslem to Trubshaw Cross afore said . We conceive that Trubshaw was the most ancient name of find this locality, though now forgotten, for we Thomas de Trobe ” of 27 shawe one of the jurors Tunstall Court, Anno Henry VI . 6 139 6 2oth m Kni ersle In , of Richard II . , Willia Bowyer of p y u married Margaret da ghter of Thomas Trubshawe, and the arms of Trubshawe are impaled w ith those of Bowy er on an old tomb — a Erdeswick in Biddulph Church , their son married daughter of ’ “ ” of Sandon, and in Burke s Landed Gentry, in speaking of the Trubsh a h Standishes of Lancashire, mention is made of Henry g , Trubsh a h son of Richard g , who was married at the church door of 1 13 I . 285 Wigan, th Edward , Anno , to Mabel Standish . Now Fern h ou h , at the time that our old friend Captain y g was employed in the British Museum to collect information respecting f the pedigree of some of our Sta fordshire families, my father received a letter from him, of which the following is a copy 2nd 183 February , My dear Sir, m I have discovered in the British Museum, a ongst the M find SS . Harleian the pedigree of Lister, wherein I Alice Trub shawe married the heir of that house, thereby her descendants are ustice and connected with Lord Ribblesdale, Lord Chief J Lister, by t &c marriage wi h the noble house of Russel . 5 the arms of Trub shawe are given in the impalement of Lister, and the pedigree am o n perfect . I g i g through the whole of these MSS . and I will a send you the produce of my rese rches . am &c &c I , . THO AS FERNYHOUGH M . To James Trubshaw, Esq . In the postscript of this letter came a list of the families with “ n n whom we were allied ; but, Jenny blushi g behi d her fan, modestly keeps it in the background . H e had better let the dead rest, said my father in his manly so a way, as he laid down the letter, and , for w nt of encouragement, the researches were not pursued . We could very well live without them ; we were an independent race ; were alive to the fact that h ad a we had a grandf ther, and did not greatly care for a further cor it roboration of . It was enough that we were spared the trouble n of advertisi g our gentility, by stealing the distinctive badges of &c hi . n others to head our note paper after the fas on of Brow , ” Jones and Robinson . My father had an idea, either his own or inherited (the last I have every reason to believe, as he seldom troubled his head much a about such m tters) , that our family, when it began to die out at t Trub sh aw es Trubshaw, set led at Wolstanton 3 certain it is that the w Lichfield resided there for many years, and, from a ill proved at , we ’ find or Trubsh aw e s a Richard Trubshawe of Trubshawe ( Cross) , Parish of Wolstanton, who desired to be buried in the graveyard of ’ St . r 1643 find Margaret s in the same pa ish . Then in we another on Richard Trubshawe buried there . They came , according to my ’ father s idea, from Wolstanton to Sandon, and it was probably at the latter place that the gentle blood began in some measure to wane; but as there is generally compensation, it may be through this that the men of our family have been indebted for their tallness of stature, powerful frames, physical strength, and an exemption from flesh S i many ills to which is heir through a uperabundance of t . A t w Hey ood they settled in the capacity of masons, carrying n “ E on an extensive busi ess in that line . The name of dward Trv bsh aw , Mason, may be found carved on the highest gable of Sandon Church, and also on the tower at Armitage is ” a Trvbsh aw th t of Thomas . And now having mentioned physical strength as a characteristic of our race, which enabled them in athletic sports to yield the ’ hi palm to few, I will mention a feat of my father s, w ch, from its A t connection with Sir Francis Chantry, may be interesting. m i I- I all M r the time he ( y father) was bu lding Ilam , there was in . Watts Russell ’ s family a tall tutor who was held in repute by the 8 r i t Mr va ious members of it for sw f ness of foot, and who was by . a t e ein Watts Russell pitted gains my father in a race . The latter y g w f his man and kno ing his own powers, o fered to compete with Chantry on his back, and came off victorious . It is amongst some of the earliest entries in the Colwich Registers, that we meet with the name of Richard Trubshaw, and i u th s Richard was the father of George, who was baptised A gust 2 4th 16 65 - i , , and whose prettily carved little qua nt old gravestone, hi s Sh usann with name and that of his wife, forms a pleasing con trast in the midst of the tall heavy unadorned ones of more modern date . The next in succession was his son Richard, a noted man in in n our family many ways, and whose ame was handed down to s 9 H e e u as worthy of respect he was born in 168 . carri d on an n E extensive business, not only in ma y of the nglish Counties, but likewise in Wales gave his son a good education ; left behind hi s substantial proofs of prosperity ; had a love for books, and ’ ” a Gwillim s in collected some v luable ones . Heraldry is still our possession, in which he has not only entered his name, but also d \Ve 2s . 0 . where it was purchased (Chester), and the cost “ ’ ” h d - have also Sir Matthew Hale s Sermons, a an somely bound “ ” “ ’ r and copy of Vit uvius Britannicus, Bailey s Dictionary, ff 6 s 6d . bought at Sta ord, cost . , in which he allowed his son to 1740 write his name in , and underneath , the good father, apparently satisfied well with the penmanship, has added My son James Trubshaw writ the above .