"i~i?~~E;~ )~.u. ~) ~ J ~<P_ . j 'I .4_ k - ~!£ ·: ·~ .t" The Ogle Family t1- ~~ ~ ~~- ifl.· By Anna Ogle Kirkpatrick G-LE f\( Df.~ LE j <!?AL If. !1-.iJv.~- \ ~</'lf TIIE WAIL OF THE ANCIENT BRITON the exception of three or four families, must we Romans came and left us laws and a look for the true nobility of England. The old . ?"he The Romans went and the Saxons landed proprietors are the ancient nobility. The "' .1g-ion~d the Jutes came, and the Angles came, old writers speak of the nobility titled and un­ .,.me. a Danes came, and all manner of strange titled. Those families whose names are the 1.:1d tpe ·ce people landed on th e eastern shores same as their estates, are the noblest. (From ~d ~e~n. With beguili_ng words th~y entered Chambers Edinburg Journal.) Ida began his ~ 1 B!1tmes and with lovmg protestatwns they reign as the first king of Northumbria, A. D. :Jr ~od our daughters. But soon, alas! so 547. At his death in 559, he was succeeded by ::-.arr,ie they trampled out our hearth fi_res and his son Adda. (Lappensberg's History of Eng­ ,.oon ··led our altars; and they set up Kmgdoms land.) His dominion extended from the river ~ sporo n gships among us and now the shepherd Humor on the south to the Firth of Forth, and the husbandman of the Cymry and the great on the east and west from sea to sea, thus em­ an~ bracing on the north nearly all that territory a.n d Sovereign Lords of the Cymry are gone, spoken of as Lowland Scotland. a.n the speech of our fat~ers has passed from ..,"Cil d the songs of our childhood are forgotten. Ogle Intermarriages ;l.' an happy Briton has become the home of Once gers -(Original) Dr. Simeon Todd. The Ogles from the earliest period of their 1tran · authentic history have been allied by marriage with families of note. Among these in the northern counties of England, all historic names, The history of the Ogles was collected were the Selbys, the Hepples, the Bertrams, ·hrough the persistent efforts of Simeon Todd, the Swinburns, the Hetons, the Femvicks, the ~ noted surgeon of Kansas City, _Mo. H~ was Gascoynes, the Delavals, the Carnabys, the a J:randson of Hiram Ogle, the pwneer, hem~ a Grays, etc. In Lancashire, were the Brooks, con of his eldest daughter, Mary, who marned the Leylands, the Welbys, the Fitzwilliams, and l~ dd Todd. Dr. Todd gave the _best years. of the Lincolnshires. Through these alliances hLc life and an entire fortune to .t~1s work, dymg their descendants are to be found among the ·:no ·t penniless. He mad~ y1s1ts to England most distinguished houses of the English no­ ri !lcarch for history pertammg to the remote bility, such as William and Henry CaYendish, ancestors of the Ogle family. He secured from Earls of Ogle and Dukes of Newcastle, His lib raries volumes containing authentic history Grace John Manners, and succeeding Dukes of or the family, aggregating large sums of Rutland. His Grace William Henry Cavendish r.onev · these books are now in possession of a Bentwick and succeeding Dukes of Portland. :\• la li~· ~ in Chicago, Ill. He visited the tombs There were the Ogles of Ogle Castle, The Ogles o ~ rornlty where repose many of the different of Bothval Castle, and Lords Ogle, The Ogles of fa milies of Ogle; their castles of which many Cansey Park and Bebside, The Ogles of Kirkley are now in ruins. We now quote from Dr. Hall, The Ogl es of Chappington and ' Elingham, Todd's history: "The Ogles have indeed a re- The Ogles of Whiston Lancashire and their de­ ~arkabl e history; a written history, presenting scendants, The Ogles of New Castle, Del and an unbroken line for more than eight hundred their numerous descendants. •Us. They were among the oldest and proud­ To Humphry de Ogle, (born 1070) William of the old English aristocracy; being de­ the Conqueror confirmed by deed all the liber­ .. nded from the early Saxon kings and the ties and royalties of his manor of Ogle in as am­ ng!\ of England. All the data relating to the ple a manner as any of his ancestors enjoyed •<.icial and public relations of the family of Eng­ the same before the time of the Norman invas­ !&nd and America have been carefully revised ion and in the 15th of Edward III, Sir Robert u1d are historically true. Ogle had a license to fortify his Manor house of Ogle; this Sir Robert's grandson, Rob- ORIGIN OF THE HOUSE OF OGLE ert, married Ellen, daughter and heir of Sir Lineage: The name of this ancient family Robert Bertram, Knight of Botha! Castle, and n the earliest evidence is written-Oggehill, Og- brought vast possessions into the Ogle family. ~~ and Oggille, and Hogge!. It is b~lieved "(From Sir Walter Scott's history of Scotland, ~ey were the descendants of Ogg-Kmg of Vol. 242.)" ~ :. rthumbria, the son of Ida, who founded the 1417. "The war with Scotland which '·?ngdom; it being the ancient custom for the seemed for some time to languish, received oung sons to take the name of their locality, some in terest from a daring exploit of Haly- __,"""" .... ·t residence as a surname; hence the progeni- burton of Fost Castle, who surprised ';1 was ~lied Ogg of the Hill, or Ogg-hill. Castle of Wark, situated on the Tweed. Th rnong the gentry, not among the peers, with was Sir Robert Ogle who married Maud Mat.i i(c;-{> fl_ ll..JM.- q"'1~4 fU;1'1 i>-11 ) ~j-ui ·~ .i~t~L. t.H () ~~~ B~ . ~ i G\_ ~ ~ . rt-Vt.~ 0-Jlo-.<trJ'° a~ ~._ ,1 ""'V' W°h<b '_r l l · - - - .:;1Yd...C _· - _ _u I ~ ~ ~r !·.~ PAGE SIX THE AMERICAN REGISTER ••'": ~' da, daughter of Sir Robert Gray, and who was black letters .a genealogical table of the Ogles ~~ a grandson of Sir Robert, who married Ellen, from the Conquest and a curious tomb belong. ~ J ' daughter of Sir Robert Bertram. He recover­ ing to that family, made of Alabaster and in. i ·: ed it for the English. He died in 1437. (From closed with iron rails. · It consists of recumbent Burk's peerage, London Mercantile Library.) I figures of one of the barons and his baby with vt .. ' 1739, June 6. "Died Nathaniel Ogle I of several figures about them and in one part of Kirkley in Northumberland, Esq., one of His it, a shield singularly charged with armorial de. Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that c lin­ vices. On the river's side, about three quar. [1l ty. He had been an eminent physician abr ad ters of a mile above the Castle, stood 'Our Lady's i· during the war and acted in that character at Chapel,' built by one of the Ogles as appeared by his arms fixed against it. A few years since fi:!, home, among his neighbors, in a most· charit ble :1; manner;· visiting the sick, giving advice gr tis. it was overgrown with trees which had twined His daughter not long before his death ma "ed their roots into its walls. At present it is quite 'i Sfr Chaloner Ogle, a famed British Admiral. ' demolished." ,;· r·',' i "Cansey Park, a member of the . Bothal \ 1742, April 19. "Died, in St. John's ish, in New Castle, Jane Ogle, aged 106. Barony, was the seat of a younger branch of the Ogles of Bothal Castle, from whom it descended ; retained her memory to the last." ~; to its present possessor, William Ogle and Wal­ t. 1750, April. "Died, Sir Chaloner O~le, lace Ogle. The tower of the Mansion House commander in chief of His Majesty's fleet. !He was built by John Ogle in 1582." was born at Kirkley in Northumberland. J He F was very early advanced by his personal merit 1388 :-Battle with the Scotts. "Among the prisoners were Lord Percy and his brother, rt and courage to the command of the Swallow, ~. man of war, when he took Roberts, the faro.bus Sir Lord Heron, Sir Robert Ogle, Sir John Til­ pirate, on the coast of Africa, Feb. 5, 1722. ror burn and many other valiant men of Northum­ this service Captain Ogle was knighted the y:ear berland." following, and later rose to the highest station "1419. In the absence of the King of Eng­ in the Navy, being appointed commander in land who was in France, hostilities being com­ chief of His Majesty's Fleet, on the death of menced on the borders, William Haliburton Qf Sir John Norris." Fost Castle, took the Castle of Wark, then in N. Ogle, Dean of Winchester. and C on the custody of Sir Robert Ogle, and put all the Residentiary of Sarum. Published serm . ns, garrison to the sword; but it was recovered by 1766, 1771 Salisbury." the English, who from a perfect knowledge of "George Ogle, English poetical Translatrr." the place, made their way by a sewer leading D. 1746. from the kitchen into the Tweed and surprising · Letter from Annapolis, Baltimore, jun, the garrison, put them all to death in revenge 'I,, Feb. 27, 1873. "An old seal of the State is ow for their cruelty to Ogle's troops." l preserved in the record office. It is of ax, "Lord Ogle in 1645 commanded the Castle i I of Winchester, which was besieged by Cromwell I covered on either side with paper.