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A SHORT HISTORY

THE MAINWARING FAMILY

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As Cambria of her Brute's now is or could be then,
For which our proverbs call her Cheshire Chief of men.
And of our Counties place of Palatine doth hold,
And thereto hath her high regalities enrolled ;
Besides in many fields since conquering William came,
Her people she hath proved to her eternal fame ;
All children of her own the leader and the led,
The mightiest men of bone in her full bosom bred.

PREFACE.

Some years ago it struck me as being curious
that so little had been written about the Main-
waring family, assuredly one of the most
ancient in England. Accordingly, for some
time past, I have gathered together scraps of
information here and there, which, through the
kindness of subscribers, I am now enabled to
publish in book form. I must also acknow-
ledge that I have taken many facts and the
chief points of the pedigree from standard
books of reference, such as the works of Sir
Bernard Burke, Miss Strickland, Ormerod,
Betham, and many others ; and I trust that,
although there must be many faults and in-
accuracies in this little book, yet, if I have been
able to supply what I think has been a long-
felt want among the members of the family,
these may be overlooked and forgiven.

i o Preface.

I can only regret that my professional duties
have not allowed me sufficient time to work out
a more detailed and extensive history than I
have done.

In conclusion, I must again thank those who
have so kindly assisted me in publication, and
also my cousin, Mr. Reginald W. Robinson, for
revising the proofs, and acting as treasurer.

R. Mainwaring Finley.

Temple,

215/ April, 1890.

CONTE N T S.

page

Introduction ' l

CHAPTER I.
The Royal Descent lS

CHAPTER II.
The Mainwarings of Over Peover . . . 27

CHAPTER III.

The Mainwarings of Whitmore 41

CHAPTER IV.
The Mainwarings op Oteley Park and Gallt-

FAENAN 53

CHAPTER V.
The Connection with the Wroughtons and Hoys;
theAgnews; the Hall Stephensons and [vents ;
Tin: Campbells ; the Melviixs, Finllys, and
Moili.ilts ; the Blinds, Barnes's, Kelks, and
Wigans; the Russells and Robinsons; the
w athens and moodys j the parker jervises ;
the Pollys and Williamses .... 57

CHAPTER VI.
Historical Scraps 77

INTRODUCTION.

WHEN William of Normandy landed on
English soil, there were among his companions
in arms two Normans of the name of Warren.
One of these was William de Warren, after-
wards created the first Earl of Warren and
Surrey ; and the other was Ranulphus de
Mesnil Warm, from both of whom the present
family of Mainwaring can trace their descent.
Ranulphus de Mesnil Warin signifies in English
Ranulphus of the Manor of Warin. Now,
douhi less, these two companions in arms of
William the Conqueror were brothers, as both
their names signify that they came from some
place in Normandy ol the name of Warren,
although this spot cannot now be traced. This
theory, it is believed, has never been suggested
before ; but very possibly it was so, especially
as the historian Ordericus Vitalis mentions that

14 Introduction.

Wiiliam de Warren is supposed to have had a
.brother named Ralph, or Ranulphus. An
objection can at first be raised that the two
names are spelt differently ; but when you
consider the changes that have come to pass
in the spelling of names, as, for instance, the
fact that the name of Mainwaring alone has
been spelt, according- to Lower, in no less than
131 forms, surely this objection does not carry
much weight.* Of course, at tins distance of
time, points such as these can never be ascer-
tained with any degree of certainty, but may
be taken for granted, unless the contrary is
proved.

As to who was the father of these two
Warrens no record can be found, but if they
were brothers, as is suggested, their common
ancestor is believed to have come from Belleu-
combrc, near St. Saens. It is proposed first to
trace the line of descent from William de
Warren, married to Gundred, who, we will

* The name, to save trouble and confusion, lias been
spelt throughout this book in its usual form of Main-
warinff.

Introduction. 1 5

assume, was the youngest daughter of William
the Conqueror, although much has been said and
written to prove that she was the daughter of
Matilda, the wife of William T., by a former
husband. In spite of all this, however, there is
much to be said in support of our assumption,
and therefore we will begin with the Royal
descent.

A SHORT HISTORY

THE MAINWARING FAMILY.

CHAPTER . I.

THE ROYAL DESCENT.

William of Normandy was bom at
Falaise, m IO25, was crowned King of England
on Christmas day, 1066, died 9th September,
1087, at Hermentrude, a suburb of Rouen, and
was buried in St. Stephen's Church, at Caen.
Tie married, in 1053, Maud, daughter of Bald-
win V., Count of Flanders, who was fifth in
descent from Ethelwida, daughter of Alfred the
Great, and tenth in descent from Charlemagne,
and she died 2nd November, 1083. Among

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their children were Henry I. of England, and
Gundred. Tlie^e were the ancestors of two
separate lines of descent, which joined again in
the fourteenth century, so we will begin with
that of Henry I.

Henry ]., King of England, was born at
Sclby, in Yorkshire, in 1070; died 1st Decem-
ber, 1135, and was buried in Reading Abbey.
He married, first, on nth November, Moo,
Maud, daughter of Malcolm III. (Canmore),
King of Scotland, by Margaret, his queen,
sister and heiress of Edgar Atheling, heir to
the Saxon kings of England.

The second wife of Henry I. was Adelicia of
Louvain, married on the 2nd February, ri2i.
By Maud he had a daughter, also named Maud,
who was born in 1104, and died 10th Septem-
ber, 1 167. This Maud (the Empress Maud, as
she afterwards became) married, first, in 1114,
Henry V., Emperor of German}', who died
without issue on the 23rd May, 1125 ; and,
secondly, on the 2nd April, 1127, Geoffrey
Plantagenet, Ear! of Aftjou, who died on the
7th September, 1150. By this second husband,

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the Empress Maud had a sou, afterwards Henry
II. of England, who was born in 1 133, died 6th
July, 1 1 89, and was buried at Fontevraud.
Henry II. married, in 1 1 5 r , Eleanor, eldest
daughter and co-heiress of William V., Duke of
Aquitaine. She died 26th June, 1202, and was
buried at Fontevraud. Henry II. and Eleanor
had a son, John, afterwards King of England,
who was born 24th December, 1166, died 19th
October, 12 16, and was buried in Worcester
Cathedral. John of England married twice :
first, Isabel, daughter and heiress of William,
Earl oi Gloucester, who was divorced from her
on the ground of consanguinity, and, secondly,
Isabella, daughter of Aymer Taillefer, Earl oi
Angoulesme. She died in 1246, and was buried
at Fontevraud, John and Isabella had a son,
Henry, who also was afterwards King of Eng-
land as Henry III. He was born 10th October,
1206, died 1 6th November, 1272, and was
buried in Westminster Abbey. Henry III. of
England married, on the 14th June, 1236,
Eleanor, second daughter and co-heiress of Ray-
mond Berenger, Count of Provence. After her

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husband's death, Eleanor took the veil, and
died a nun, at Ambresbury, in Wiltshire, on
the 24th June, 1291. The second son of
Henry III. and Eleanor was Edmund Plan-
tagenet, afterwards Earl of Lancaster, who
married, first, in 1269, Avelina, daughter and
heiress of William de Eortibus, Earl of
Albemarle ; and, second!)-, Blanche, Queen
Dowager of Navarre, daughter of Robert,
Count of Artois. Avelina died without issue,
but by Blanche Edmund had children, his
second son being Henry Plantagenet, who
succeeded his father as Earl of Lancaster,
and died in 1345. This Henry married Maud,
daughter and heiress of Sir Patrick Chaworth,
Knight, and by her had issue, his third
daughter being Eleanor Plantagenet, after-
wards Lady Eleanor Plantagenet, who died
nth January, 1372, and was buried at Lewes.
She married, first, John, Lord Beaumont, and,
secondly, Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel,
who was born in 1306, died 24th January, 1375,
and was buried at Lewes. By this second
marriage the two lines of descent from Henry I.

The Royal Descent. 21

and Gundred were united, so let us now trace
that of Gundred.

Gundred, the supposed youngest daughter of
William the Conqueror, died in 1085, and was
buried at Lewes Priory. She married William
<le Warren, first Earl of Warren and Surrey,
who died on the 24th June, 1088, and was like-
wise buried in Lewes Priory. They had a son,
William, later the second Earl of Warren and
Surrey, who died nth May, 11 38, and was
buried in the Chapter House at Lewes. This
second Earl married Elizabeth, the third
daughter of Hugh, the great Earl of Verman-
dois, and widow of Robert de Pcaumont, Earl
of Leicester. She died [3th February, 1131.
Of this marriage was born another William,
who became the third Earl of Warren and
Surrey, and was killed in a crusade by the
Turks, 1 148. He married Aia, daughter of
William Talvace, Earl of Ponthieu, who was
the son of Robert, Earl of Belesme. The only
child of William, the third earl, and Ala,
was Isabella, who died 13th Jul)-, 1199, was
buried at Lewes, and had two husbands ; the

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first being William de Blois, the fourth Karl of
Warren and Surrey, jure uxoris, who died
without issue in 1 1 59, and was buried at
Toulouse ; and the second being" Hameline
Plantagenet, the fifth Earl of Warren and
Surrey, also jure axon's, who was a natural
son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, and died in 1201.
By this second husband Isabella had issue
William Plantagenet. the Earldom of Warren
and Surrey thus passing into the family of
Plantagenet, this William being the sixth earl.
He died in June, 1239, and was buried in
Lewes Church. This sixth carl married twice :
first, Maud, daughter of William D'AIbini,
Earl of Arundel, which Maud died without:
issue on the 6th February, 12 15 ; secondly,
Maud, eldest daughter of William Marshall,
Earl of Pembroke, and widow of Hugh Bigod
Earl of Norfolk. She died 31st March, 1236,
and was buried in Tiritern Abbey. By his
second wife the sixth carl had issue John
Plantagenet, seventh Earl of Warren and
Surrey, who died 27th September, 1304, at
Kennington. The seventh earl married, in

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1247, Alice, daughter of Hugh Le Brun, Earl
of the Marshes of Aquitaine, and sister, on
her mother's side, to Henry III. She died
9th February, 1290, and was buried at Lewes.
The issue of this marriage were William Warren
who married Joan, daughter of Robert de Vere,
Earl of Oxford, and Alice. This William
died in a tournament at Croydon, on the 1 5th
December, 1286, and was buried at Lewes ;
his widow dying in 1293, and being also buried
at Lewes. They had a son, John Plantagenet,
the last Earl of Warren and Surrey, who died
without issue in 1347, and the estates then
went to the Lady Alice, sister of the seventh
earl, who married, in 1305, Edmund Fitzalan,
twelfth Earl of Arundel, and thus the Earldom
of Warren and Surrey became extinct. This
Earl of Arundel was born on the 1st May,
1285, and was beheaded at Hereford on
the 17th November, 1326. By his marriage
with the Lady Alice he had a son, the
Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, above re-
ferred to as having married the Lady Eleanor
Plantasrenet.

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The two descents from Henry I. and Gundred
being thus joined, the issue of the marriage of
Lady Eleanor Plantagenet with the Earl oX
Arundel was (amongst others) Mary Fitzalan,
who died before her father. She married
John, Lord Strange of Blackmere, and of this
marriage was born Ankaret Le Strange, who
married Sir Richard Talbot of Goodrich.
Herefordshire, who was summoned to Parlia-
ment as Lord Talbot, and died in 1396. Among
their children were the great Earl of Shrews-
bury and Mary Talbot, second daughter, who
died 13th April, 1433, and was buried at
Norton, and married Sir Thomas Greene,
Knight, of Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire,
who died 14th December, 1417, and was
buried at Norton. They had a son Thomas,
afterwards Sir Thomas Greene, Knight, who
died in 1457, and was buried at Norton. He
married Philippa, daughter of Robert, fourth
Lord FerrerSj of Chartley, Staffordshire, by
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Baron de Spen-
cer. Philippa Greene was buried at Norton.
Of this marriage was born Thomas, also after-

TJic Royal Descent . 25

wards Sir Thomas Greene, Knight, of Greene's
Norton, who died Qlh September, 1462, and
was buried at Norton. This Sir Thomas mar-
ried Matilda, daughter of Sir John Throck-
morton, by Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of
Sir Guy de la Spire, of Coughton, Warwickshire.
Matilda Greene lies buried at Norton. The son
of Sir Thomas and Matilda was another
Thomas, also afterwards Sir Thomas Greene,
Knight, of Greene's Norton, who married Jane,
daughter of Sir John Fogg, Knight, of Repton,
Kent, and died 9th November, 1506. Their
daughter and co-heiress was Anne Greene, who
married Sir Nicholas Vaux, who was knighted
for his gallantry at the Battle of Stoke by
Henry VII., and on 27th April, 1523, was
created Baron Vaux of Harrowden. He died
14th May, 1525. Sir Nicholas and Anne Vaux
had a son Thomas, afterwards second Lord
Vaux of Harrowden, who married Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Gheney,
Knight, ol Istlinburg, Northamptonshire, and
died in 1562. Of this marriage was born, in
1542, the Honorable Anne Vaux, who died 7th

2 6 The Mainwaring Family.

May, 1619. Ilcr husband was Reginald Bray,
Esq., of Stene and Hinton, Northamptonshire,
son of Reginald Bray, Esq., of Barrington,
Gloucestershire.. He was born in 1530, and
died 28th October, 1583. The fourth daughter
and co-heiress cf Reginald and Anne Bray
was Temperance, who was born in 1577, died
25th October, 1619, and married Sir Thomas
Crew of Stene, jure itxoris, who was born in
1565. and died 1st February, 1633. They had
a son John, who was born in 1 59S, was
created Lord Crew of Stene on the 20th
April, 1661, and died 12th December, 1679.
He married in October, 1(348, Jemima, daughter
and co-heiress of Edward Walgrave, Esq., of
Lawford, Essex. She was born in 1596, and
died 14th October, 1675. Lord John Crew
and Jemima had a daughter, the Honorable
Anne Crew, who married twice : first, Sir
Henry Wright, Bart., of Dagenham, and
second, Edmund Pye, M.D., of Earringdon,
Berkshire. By her second husband, the second
daughter of the Honorable Anne Crew was
Jemima, who married Edward Mainwaring, of

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VVhitmore, Staffordshire, Esq., born in 1681 {see
Chapter III.).

We will proceed in the next chapter to trace
the Mainwaring genealogy, properly so called,
that is to say, the descent through the Com-
moners.

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CHAPTER II.

THE MAINWA RINGS OF OVER PEOVER.

RANULPHUS df. Mesnil WARIN was one
of the thirty-two persons to whom William
the Conqueror gave the most part of Cheshire,
and had given him for his share fifteen lordships
there, among; which was Peine, now Over Peover,
for many generations the seat of the family. lie
had a son Richard, who had issue Roger. Roger
de Mesnil \\ arm had three sons, William,
Wido and Randle. William, the son and heir,
had issue Roger, wlio.se son, Raufe Maimvaring,
was afterwards knighted. Sir Raufe Maimvar-
ing married Arriieia, daughter of Hugh. Kyve-
iiock, Earl of Chester. Roger Maimvaring of
Warmincham was son of Sir Raufe, and
William A I ainwaring was son of Roger. This
William had Over Peover given him by his

30 The Maimvaring Family.

father, and was the first of the family who
settled there. His children were William
(who married and had a son William, see below),
Thomas (who married and had a son Warin),
Benedict, Guy, and Roger, whose son William
married Margaret, daughter of Roger Toft, Esq.,
of Toft. William Main waring, tcmpus 1286,
son and heir of William, had issue Roger,
William whose daughter Ellen married Adam
Glasebrook, Esq., Reginald and Maud. Roger,
son and heir, married Christian de Birtles, who
was afterwards again married twice : first being
the wife of John de Byrun, and lastly, in 1334,
of Robert de Varnon. Roger and Christian
had two children, William, and Joan wife of
Robert de Fallybrome. William Mainwaring,
.--on and heir, married Mary, daughter of Henry
Davenport, Esq., in 1325, and died about 1338,
having had issue William, Roger, Margery, and
Milicent, all living 1334. William Mainwaring,
son and heir, married twice : first, Joan, daughter
and co-heiress of William Praers, Esq., of Bad-
diley, near Nantwich, by whom he had issue
William, and, second, Elizabeth (who was living

The Mainwarings of Over 'Peover. 3 1

in 1405), daughter of Nicholas Leycester, Esq.,
and sister of John Leycester, Esq., of Nether
Table)', by whom lie had issue John, Randle,
Thomas, A inn, and Richard ; also three
daughters, Emma, wife of Richard Winnington,
Esq., son and heir of Sir Richard Winnington,
Ellen, wife of Raufe, son of Richard Vernon,
Esq., oi Shilbrook, in Cheshire, and Joan, wife
of William Leigh, Esq., of Baggiley.

This William Mainwaring died in 1^64, and
was succeeded by his son Randle, the two elder
sons, William and John, having died previously,
in 1399 and 1410 respectively, without issue,
although the former married twice: first, in
1566, Catherine, daughter of John Belgrave,
Esq., of Belgravej Cheshire, and second, de-
mentia Cotton, and the latter once, viz.. in 1300,
Margaret, widow of Sir John Warren, of Pointon,
Cheshire. Randle Maihwarirfg then married, in
1393, Margery, widow- of Richard Buckley, Esq.,
of Chediii, in Cheshire, and daughter of Hugh
Venablesj Baron of Kindertori, by whom he
had issue John, William, Randle, Elizabeth
wife of Raufe Egerton, Esq., of Wrynehill,

32 The Main waring Family.

Staffordshire, Cicely wife of Thomas Fowle-
hurst, Esq., of Crew in Cheshire, Joan who
married in 1411 John Davenport Esq., son and
heir of Raufe Davenport Esq., of Davenport
in Cheshire, Ellen wife cf Thomas Fitton Esq.,
of Gawseworth in Cheshire, Agnes betrothed
to William son of Sir John Bromley of Bad-
dington in Cheshire but she died unmarried,
and Margaret wife o{ the said William Brom-
ley Esq. in 1426 she afterwards marrying Sir
John Nedham, of Cranach, Justiciarius de Banco
and Judge of Chester in J 462.

This Rahdle died in 1456, was buried at
Peover, and was succeeded by his son John,
aftei wards knighted. Sir John, who died about
1483, married twice: first, Margaret, daughter
of John Delves, Esq., the elder, of Dodington,
in Cheshire, in 141 1, and had issue William,
Elizabeth who married Piers Warburton Esq.
son and heir of Sir Geffery de Warburton Lord
of Arlcy in 1436, and Margaret, who married
Hamnet, son and heir of John Ashley, Esq., of
Ashley, in Bodcn Parish, in 1452 and, second,
Joan, daughter of John Warren, Esq., of Pointon,

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in 1455, by whom he had no issue. William,
son and heir of Sir John, married Ellen, daughter
of Sir John Butler, and sister of John Butler,
Esq., of Bewsey, near Warrington, Lancashire,
in 1443, and had issue John, who succeeded
him. John married Maud, daughter of Robert
Legh, Esq., of Adlington, and had issue John,
Robert, Maud married in 1490 to Thomas
Starkey, Esq., of Wrenbury in Cheshire, and
Joan married in 15 12, to Sir Thomas Ashton,
of Ashton-super-Mersey. This John died 8th
July, 1495. John, his son and heir, was born in
1470, knighted in France in 15 13, and died in
- 15 1 5. tie married Catherine, sister of William
Honford, Esq., of Honford, in Cheshire, and had
issue Randle his successor, Edmond, John, and
Piers, all three of whom died without issue,
if/ Philip, Edward (whose descendant, as shown in
the next chapter, married Jemima Fye, thus
linking the Royal and Commoner descents),
Robert, Thomas, George, Henry, Margaret, and
Catherine who, in 1 5 2 1 , married William, son
of Humphrey Newton, Esq., of Pownall. Her
mothcr died in 1529. Sir John was succeeded

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by Randle, afterwards knighted, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Randle Brereton, of
Malpas, and widow of Richard Cholmondeiey,
Esq., of Cholmondeiey, in Cheshire. By her
he had issue Margaret wife of Sir Arthur Main-
waring, of Ightheld, in Shropshire, Elizabeth
wife of, first, Peter Shakerley, Esq., of Holm,
in Allostock, in Cheshire, and afterwards, second,
in I 561, Christopher Holford, Esq., of Holford,
and Catherine, who married in 1560, John
Davenport, Esq., of Henbury, in Cheshire. Sir
Randle married, secondly, in 1551, Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Raufe Leycester, of Toft,
but had no issue by her, and died 6th
September, 1557. Elizabeth, his widow, after-
wards married Sir Ed mono Trafford, of Traf-
ford, near Manchester.

Sir Randle was succeeded by his brother
Fhilip, who married Anne, daughter of Sir
Raufe Leycester, of Toft, and had issue Randle
his successor, Edmund, and Elizabeth, who died
without issue. Philip died on the nth April,
1573, and was buried at Peover. Randle, his
son and heir, afterwards knighted, married twice.

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The Mainivarings of Over Peover. 35

first, in 1567, Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward
Fitton, of Gawseworth, in Cheshire, and had
issue Randle, his successor, Edmund, Thomas,
Edward, John, Arthur, Philip, who died 2nd
August, 1661, in London, unmarried ; Anne, who
married Lawrence Smith, Esq., son and heir of
Sir Thomas Smith, of Hough, in Widdenbury
Parish, Cheshire, at Great Budworth, on 31st
August, 1 591 ; Catherine, wife of Sir Edward
Stanley, of Biekerstaff, in Lancashire, Bart,
ancestor to the present Earl of Derby ; Eliza-
beth, who married Peter Leycester, Esq., of
Nether Tabley, in Cheshire, in 1611, and Elea-
nor, who died unmarried. Sir Randle died on
27th May, 1612, having married, secondly, Cathe-
rine, the widow of William Brereton, Esq., of
Honford, in Cheshire, and daughter of Roger
Hirleston, Esq., of Chester, by whom he had
no issue. Randle, son and heir, afterwards
knighted, married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas
Smith, of Hough, by whom he had issue Philip,
his successor ; George of Marthall, living 1666,
who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert
Tatton, Esq., of Wettenshaw, and relict of John

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Lathom, Esq., of Winslow, in Cheshire ; Marga-
ret, who died in infancy ; Elizabeth, who married
twice: first, Robert Ravenscroft, Esq., of Bretton,
in Harden Parish, beyond Chester, and had
many children ; secondly, Sir Francis Gamull.of
Chester, Knight, and by him had no issue. She
survived both her husbands, and dying at Ches-
ter, 13th August, 1661, was buried at Harden-
Anne, third daughter of Sir Randle Mainwaring,
Knight, married Robert Brierwood, Esq., of
Chester, Counsellor at Law, afterwards Sir
Robert Brierwood, being knighted in 1643, and
Judge of three shires in Wales ; and Margaret,
youngest daughter, married Henry Birkenhed,
Esq., son and heir of Henry Birkenhed, Esq.,
Protho Notary of Chester, of Backford, near
Chester, and died at Chester 25th July, 1661,
her children all dying young.

Philip, son and heir, married Ellen, daughter
of Edward Minshull, Esq., of Stoke, near Nant-
wich, in 1 622, and had issue, Randle, who died
without issue ; Philip, who died an infant ;
Thomas, his successor, Edmond, who died
before baptism ; George, and another Philip,

The Mainwarivgs of Over Pcozrr. 37

who died infants ; Edward, living 1666, who
married Frances, daughter of Peter Holbroke,
Esq., of Newbrooke, in Cheshire; and Jane, who
died an infant. This Philip died, 10th Decem-
ber 1647, and Ellen, his widow, died in 1656.

Thomas, third son and heir, was the first
baronet of the family, and married Mary,
daughter of Sir Henry Delves, of Dodington,
Bart., on 26th May, 1642, by whom he had
issue six sons and six daughters, who all died
unmarried, except Sir John, his successor,
Elizabeth, wife of Peter, son and heir of Sir
Peter Shackerley, of Shackerley, and Hulme,
Knight, who died without issue, and Anne, wife
of Robert Alport, Esq., of Overton, and had
issue one daughter, Jane, who married John
Lacon, Esq., of West Copies, in Salop. Sir
Thomas died 2«Sth June, 1689, his wife having
died, 1st March, 1670, and they both lie buried
at Over Peover.

He was succeeded by his son, Sir John Main-
waring, Bart.j who, on the 26th September,
1676, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
Roger Whitley, of Peel, in Cheshire, and by

3$ Tlir Mainwaring Family.

her had issue several sons and daughters, of
whom Roger, the second, married Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of John Middle-ton, Esq.,
of Shepton, in Yorkshire, and died without
issue in 1707. I lis wife afterwards married
James Lister, Esq. Sir John died on the
4th November, 1702, and his widow on the 7th
November, 1719, and both lie buried at Peover.
Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bart., eldest son
of Sir John, was born at Peel, on 7th August,
1681, and on 20th March, 1724, married Martha,
the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William
Lloyd, Esq., of Ilalghton, in Flintshire, by
whom he had no issue. He died 20th Septem-
ber, 1726, and was buried at Baddeley, his seat,
having sold Peover to his brother Henry. His
widow was married to Edward Mainwaring,
Esq., of Whitmore (see next chapter). Henry,
brother to Sir Thomas, married, on the 26th
July, 1725, Diana, only daughter of William
Blackett, Esq., eldest son of Sir Edward
Blackett, Part., of Newby, Yorkshire, but died
before his brother, leaving his wife with child,
who was born a baronet on Monday, Novcm-

TJic Mainwarings of Over Peover. 39

ber 7th, 1726, and was christened Henry, Mrs.
Main waring afterwards became the wife of the
Rev. Mr. Wittenhall, by whom she had a
daughter, who died young, and a son Thomas,
born 2 1st December, 1736. She died in May,
1737. Sir Henry Mainwaring, Bart., succeeded
his uncle, and died unmarried, on Gth April,
1797, whereupon the title became extinct, and
the Mainwarings of Whitmore became the
senior branch of the family. Thomas Witten-
hall, Esq., succeeded to the Over Peover estates,
and assumed the name and arms of Mainwar-
ing, in compliance with the will of his half-
brother, Sir Henr)' Mainwaring, Bart.

41

CHAPTER III.

THE MAINWARINGS OF WHITMORE.

Edward Mainwaring, Esq.. son of Sir
John Mainwaring, Knight, of Over Peover, who
died in 15 15, died in 1586, having married Alice,
granddaughter and heiress of Humphrey de
Boghey, of Whitmore, in 15 19, the manors of
Whitmore, Biddulph, Annesley, and Buckenhall
thus passing into the Mainwaring family, and
she died in 1540. They had issue Edward,
Anne, who married Thomas Rosse, Esq., and
Jane, who died in infancy. Edward, son and
heir, married Jane, daughter of Mathew Crad-
dock, Esq., of Stafford. This Edward died in
1604, his children being Edward, son and heir ;
John, a merchant, who died abroad, unmarried ;
Randle, born in 15SS, and married Elizabeth,

42 The Mainwaring Family,

daughter of Humphrey Haws, Esq. {see next
chapter) ; Mary, who married J. Brett, Esq., of
Dimsdale, Staffordshire ; Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Thomas Jolley, Esq., of Leke, Staffordshire ;
Anne, who married, first, William Fallows, Esq.,
of Fallows, Cheshire, and, secondly, Hugh
Maire, Esq., of Norbury, Staffordshire ; Sarah,
who married J. Bulkeley, Esq., of Stanton,
Staffordshire ; Jane, who married F. Martin,
Esq., of London ; Dorothy, who married James
Trevis, Esq., of Treveston, Cheshire ; Margaret,
who married J. Borne, Esq., of Chesterton ; Alice,
who married J. Baddeley, Esq., of Holditch,
and Catherine, who married Thomas Hunt,
Esq., of Congton.

Edward, son and heir, was born in 1577 and
died in 1647 Ksee Chapter VI.). He married
Sarah, daughter and co-heiress of John Stone,
Esq., of London. Their children were Edward,
son and heir ; John, Rector of Stoke-on-Trent
{sec Chapter VI.), who married twice : first,
Susanna, daughter of W. Piggott, Esq., of
Chetwin, Salop, and, secondly, Anne, daughter
of Matthew Grcgson, Esq., of Turnditch ; and

7/ie Mainwarings of Whitmorc. 43

Jane, who married James Abney, Esq., of
Measham, Derbyshire, in 1625.

Edward, son and heir, was born on 7th April,
1603, and died in 1675 {see Chapter VI.). He
married Anne, daughter of George Lomax,
Esq., of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, and their
children were Edward, son and heir ; George,
born in 1644, and died unmarried about 1690;
John, born in 1645; Thomas; Philip, born in
1638, and drowned in 164S; Jane; Sarah; Anne,
who married John Hockenhall, Esq., of Cheshire,
and two other daughters.

Edward, son and heir, was born in 1635, and
died in 1704. He married twice : first, Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Heneage, Esq., of Batter-
sey, and, secondly, on 29th July, 1679, Bridget,
daughter of Sir Thomas Trollop, Bart., of Case-
wick, Lincolnshire. By his first wife he had
issue Bridget, who married Thomas Key, Esq.,
of Islington ; Anne, who married John Taylor,
Esq. ; Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and
seven others who died in infancy. By his
second wife he had issue, Edward, son and heir;
Mary, who died unmarried, and Bridget, who

44

The Mainwaring Family

married George Davenport, Esq., of Calveley,
Cheshire,

Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore, Esq., son
and heir of Edward, united in his person the
Royal descent and that through the Commoners.
lie was born in 1681, and died in 1740, having
been twice married : first, to Jemima, who died
in 1721, second daughter of Edmund Pye, M.D.,
of Faringdon, Berks, whose wife, formerly the
Honorable Anne Crew, was descended, as shown
in Chapter L, in a direct line from William the
Conqueror; and, secondly, to Martha, the widow
of Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bart., of Over
Peover (see last Chapter). By his first wife he
had issue Edward, his son and heir ; Henry,
Rector of Etwall, in Derbyshire, who married,
in 1735, Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of John
Vanghan, Esq., of Caergay, Merionethshire ;
Thomas (see Chapter V., Wroughtons and
Hoys) ; Charles, born in 171 3 ; John, born in
1715 ; Robert, born in 1716 ; James, born in
1718 ; Benjamin, born on 20th December, 17 19,
who married twice (see Chapter V., Agnews),
and Jemima, who married Richard Nash, Esq.,

HISTORICAL J

The Mainivarings of Whhmore. 45

of Warburton, Sussex. By his second wife
Edward had no issue.

Edward, son and heir, was born on the 29th
December, 1709, and died in 1794. He married,
on 29th May, 1755, Sarah, daughter of William
Bunbury, Esq., of London, Attorney-General of
Cheshire, who was descended from the ancient
family of Eyton, and was the second son of
Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart., of Bunbury and
Stanny, in Cheshire, and she died in 179S. They
had issue Edward, son and heir; William (see
below), born in 1737, died 1812, having married
Frances, daughter of Richard Stone, Esq., of
London and Ilford, banker, eldest brother of
the Archbishop of Armagh ; Richard, who died
an infant ; Rowland, of Four Oaks Park, War-
wickshire, a Major in the Army, born in 1745,
and died in February, 1S17, having married
twice : first, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Mills, Esq., of Barlaston, Staffordshire, by whom
he had no issue ; and, second])-, Jane, daughter
of Captain Latham, R.N., by whom he had
issue, as shown below ; Richard, who died un-
married ; lames Eyton, of Magdalen College,

4 6 The Mainwaring Family

Cambridge, and Vicar of Ellaston. Staffordshire,
born in 1750, and died in 1S08, who also mar-
ried twice: first, Anna, only daughter of Thomas
Vawdrey, Esq., of Middlewich, Cheshire (and as
to his issue by this wife, see Chapter V., Wathen
and Moody) ; and, secondly, Anne, daughter of
T. Bridge, Esq., of Chester, by whom he had
no children, and Martha Susanna, Julia and
Charlotte, who all died unmarried,

Edward Mainwaring, Esq., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and Whitmore, son and heir, was
born in 1736, and died 7th December, 1825,
having married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir
Philip Touchet Chetwoode, Bart, of Oakley
Hall, Staffordshire, and widow of Robert
Davison, Esq., of the Brand, Shropshire, but-
had no issue. His brother William had issue
by his wife Frances, Edward, a cornet in the
13th Dragoons, born in 1772, and died, un-
married, of yellow fever in the West Indies,
1796; William, born in 1776, in the Honorable
East India Company's service, and died, un-
married, at Madras, in 181 1 ; Henry, of the
Royal Navy, born in 1779, and died, unmarried,

The Mainivariugs of WJiitmore. 47

on 4th June, 1797, being shot in an engagement
with a French frigate off Vigo, on board the
Boston; Rowland Eyton, a cadet in the
Honorable East India Company's service,
present at the capture of Seringapatam, born
in 1780, and died unmarried; Charles, born
1787, and died, unmarried, in 1832; Frances
and Charlotte, who died in infancy; Sarah died
unmarried, 31st March, 1837 ; Anne, born in
1781, and died in 1S14, having married, in 1803,
Joseph Sladen, Esq., of Doctors' Commons, and
Lee and Swanton Court, Kent ; Janet {see
Chapter V., Russells and Robinsons), and Julia,
who died unmarried in 185 1. Edward, having
died unmarried, was succeeded by his brother
William's son,

Charles, who died unmarried, as shown above,
and was succeeded by his sister,

Sarah, who also dying unmarried, we must
for her successor return to the children of
Rowland Mainwaring, Esq., of Four Oaks Park,
by Jane his wife. These were Edward Henry,
a Lieutenant in the Arm)-, who died unmarried
in 1808 ; Rowland, as to whom, see below ;

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48 The Mainwaring Family.

Thomas, {see Chapter V., Melvills. Finlcys,
and Moilliets) ; George {see Chapter V., Hall-
Stephensons and Kents) ; Charlotte Margaretta
(see Chapter V., Campbells) ; Elizabeth, who
died in 1876, having married the Rev. W.
Wilkieson, of Woodbury, Bedfordshire, by whom
she had three sons and four daughters ; and
Susanna Jane, who died in 1871, having married
Matthew Bell, Esq., of Alnwick, having three
sons and three daughters.

Rowland Mainwaring, jun., then (commonly
known as " the Admiral ") succeeded to Whit-
more after the death of his cousin Sarah. He
was born on the 31st December, 1783, and
died on the nth April, 1862. He was married
three times : first, on the 31st December, 1810,
to Sophia Henrietta, only child of Major Duff,
of the 26th Regiment, and she died on the nth
October, 1824. The Admiral's second wife was
Mary Anne, daughter of John Clark, Esq,, of
Preshute, Wiltshire, whom he married on 15th
November, 1826, and who died in 1834. His
third wife he married on the nth November,
1S36, and she was Laura Maria Julia Walburga,

The Mainwarings of Whit more. 49

only child of Colonel Florian Chevillard, in the
service of the Emperor Napoleon, and who died
of wounds received at the Battle of Leipsic in
181 5, who survived him and still lives. By his
first wife the Admiral had issue Rowland, of the
Royal Navy, born in iSio, and died 27th
October, 1S26; Edward Pel-lew, died 14th
September, 1858, having married, in 1S42,
Caroline, daughter of P. B. Story, Esq., and
widow of Dominick Trant, of Montserrat, by
whom he had one daughter, Louisa Aim Caroline
Amelia, who, on the 2nd April, 1861, married
Alexander Young Spearman, Esq. ; Gordon,
his successor, in the E.I.C.S., born in 1S17,
and died 21st December, 1872, having married,
in 1843, Miss Mary II ickey ; William Arthur, a
Captain in the 79th Highlanders, who died in
May, 1854, having married Christina, daughter
of Lieutenant-Colonel John Caulfield, of Bloom-
field, county Westmeath ; George, a Lieutenant
in the 85th Light Infantry, who died in
Australia ; Charles Henry, Rector of Whit-
more, born in 1 82 1, and died 3rd April, 1 878,
having married, in 1845, Jane, third daughter of

E 2

5<3 The Mainwaring Family.

the Rev. Sir Henry Delves, Bart., of Broughton,

Staffordshire, and she died on 30th June, 1873
(for issue see Chapter V., Parker Jervis) ; Sophia
Henrietta, died in 1871, having married, on 4th
December, 1838, Charles, son of Walter William
Hill Coyney, of Weston Coyney, Staffordshire,
Esq., with issue one son, and Pauline. By his
second wife the Admiral had issue one daughter,
Mary Ann, who married, in 1853, the Rev. Robert
Vaughan Hughes, of Wyelands. By his third
wife the Admiral had issue seven sons (as to
whom sec Chapter V., Foleys and Wiiliamscs).

Gordon succeeded his father in the possession
of the Whitmore estates. His children by his
wife Mary were Charles, son and heir, Walter
Coyney, died 9th November, 1S8S, Frederick,
Ellen Jane, who married Wentworth Cavcnagh,
Esq., of Eden Park, Adelaide, Australia, and has
issue(i) James Gordon, born 3rd December, 1865,
(2) Wentworth Rowland, born in September,
1869, (3) Orfeur Charles, born in April, 1872,

(4) Hugh Mainwaring, born 30th August, 1876,

(5) Eva Mainwaring, born 12th July, 1S67,

(6) Isabelle Alice, born in August, 186S, (7)

The Mainwarings of Whitmore. 51

Kathleen Mary, born in February, 1875, (8)
Helen Maud, born 9th August, 1877 ; (9) Alice
Mainwaring, born in September, 1S79 ; and
(10) Gertrude Lucy; none of whom are married :
Alice, who married William Moore, Esq., and

Julia, who married Wilkinson, Esq., of

Brighton. Charles Mainwaring succeeded his
father Gordon.. He died in February, 1889,
having married and had no issue, and was
succeeded by his brother, Frederick Mainwar-
ing, Esq., who is the present owner of the
Whitmore estates.

53

CHAPTER IV.

THE MAINWARIXGS OF OTELEY PARK AND
GALLTFAENAN.

RAXDLE MAINWARING, a Colonel in the
Army of King Charles I., the son of Edward
Mainwaring, Esq., of Whitmore, who died in
1604, by his wife Jane, was born in 15 S3. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey
Haws, of London, by whom he had issue John,
Edward, Randle, George, Nathaniel, Elizabeth,
who married William Floyer, Esq., of Floier's
Hayes, Devonshire, Jane, Mary, and Sarah.
George Mainwaring, FCsq., M.P., the son of
Randle, married, and had a son, James Main-
waring, Esq., Alderman of Chester, and Mayor
in 1708, who married and had a son also,

James, born in 1701, and died 23rd October,
1749, who bought Bromborough Court from the

5^- The Mainwaring Family.

Hardwares. He married Mary, daughter and
co-heiress of Charles Kinaston, Esq., of Oteley
Park, Shropshire, and she died in 1786. The
Kinastons are descended from Ionveth Goch,
Lord of Mochnant Powysland, and through him
and the Hughes's of Gvverclas from Rhodn Mawr
(Roderick the Great) King of Powys (Wales) in
843. The issue of James by Mary, his wife,
were Charles, son and heir ; Thomas, born in
1725, who married Elizabeth, daughter of James
Mason, Esq., of Shrewsbury, by whom he had
one daughter ; Mary, who married Bulkeley
Hatchett, Esq., of Ellesmere, and Elizabeth,
who died unmarried on 13th October. 1749.

Charles, son and heir, was born in 1723, and
died 30th July, 1781. He married, on the 24th
June, 175 1, Mary, daughter of William Falconer,
Esq., Recorder of Chester, and she died in 1789.
Their issue was James of Bromborough, born
15th April, 1757, and died February, 1827,
having married and leaving one son ; the Rev.
James Mainwaring, M.A., born at Avignon ;
Charles, who succeeded his father ; Elizabeth,
who married the Hon. Booth Grey ; Mary, who

Of Ofelcy Park ami Galllfacnan.

married John Smith, Esq., and Harriet, who
died unmarried.

The Rev. Charles Mainwaring succeeded to
Oteley Park on the death of his father. He
was born on the 7th September, 1768, and died
on the 6th May, J 807, having married, on the
24th June, 1S00, Sarah Susannah, daughter of
John Townshend, Esq., of Hem House, county
Denbigh. She died in December, 1829. Their
issue were : (1) Charles Kynaston, son and heir,
(2) Townshend, of Marchwiel Hall, Denbigh-
shire, M.P. for Denbigh Borough ; born 16th
March, 1S07, and died 25th December, 1853,
having married, on the 14th February, 1837,
Anna Maria, eldest daughter and co heiress of
Colonel John Lloyd Salusbury, of Galltfaenan,
and had issue Charles Salusbury, of whom pre-
sently, Reginald Kynaston, born 1 ith September,
1847, Amicia, Mary, and Susan, who died in 1854,
having married, on the 22nd November, 1825,
the Rev. Edward Duncombc, of Aldborough,
Yorkshire.

Charles Kynaston Mainwaring, Esq., J. P. and
D.L., High Sheriff in 1829, succeeded his father,

56 The Mainwaring Family.

the Rev. Charles Mainwaring. He was born
16th September, 1S03, and died in June, 1S62,
having married, on the 2nd October, 1832,
Frances, the second daughter and co-heiress of
John Lloyd Salusbury, Esq., whose sister his
brother married, Charles and Frances Main-
waring (who died on the 10th January, 1872)
had one son, who was

Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring, Esq., born
Sth September, 1S44, the present owner of
Oteley Park, his uncle, Charles Salusbury Main-
waring, Esq., born 7th July, 1845, being the
present owner of Galltfaenan.

SI

CHAPTER V.

THE CONNECTION WITH THE WROUGHTONS
AND HOYS.

Thomas Mainwaring, Esq., the son of
Edward Mainwaring, Esq., of Whitmore, by
Jemima, his wife, was horn in 17 12, and died in
1766. He married his first cousin Frances,
eldest daughter of Henry Pye, Esq., of Faring-
don, and had a son, Charles Henry.

Charles Henry Mainwaring, Esq., died in
1S00. He married, in 1777, Julia, daughter
of the Rev. Philip Wroughton, by Dorothy
Musgrave, his wife, and had issue two sons, two
daughters, and several children who died young.
The daughters were (1) Julia, and (2) Sarah,
who married James Harrison, Esq., Royal
Artillery, of Weard Hall, Cornwall. The sons
were (1) Thomas, born in 1780, a Rear-Admiral

5 8 The Mainwaring Family.

in the Ro^al Navy, who served at Trafalgar,
and who married, in 1811, Mary Anne, daughter
of Bacon Frank, Esq., of Campsall, near Don-
caster, and had one son, born in 1812, and (2)
George, of the Royal Artillery, who married, in
1832, Mrs. Hoy, widow of Thomas Hoy, Esq.,
of Thornhill, Hampshire, and he died without
children in 183S.

The Connection with the Agnews.

Benjamin Mainwaring, Esq., born on the 20th
December, 1719, was the brother of the above
Thomas. He married twice, and had issue Ed-
ward (see below), John Montagu, a distinguished
General in the Army, born 1761 and died at
Cowes, 1842, and Jemmett, a Captain in the
Royal Navy, who was lost at sea with H.M.S.
Babct in 1801.

Edward Mainwaring, Esq., was born in 1744,
and died in 1803. He married Elizabeth Judith
Reeves, and had issue Edward Reeves Philip
{see below) ; Charles Henry, a Captain in the

The Agnews. 59

47th Regiment, who died at Calcutta; Benjamin,
a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, wounded at
Trafalgar, and died in April, 1852 ; Frederick, a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, who married
Mary Catherine, daughter of Lieutenant-
Colonel Popham ; George, a Major in the Army,
who married Maria, daughter of Colonel Mac-
kenzie ; and Edwin, a Lieutenant in the 1st
Regiment, who died in India. Edward Reeves
Philip Mainwaring, a Captain in the Royal
Navy, died at Brighton, on the 5th October,
1865. He married, in 1827, Eliza, daughter of
the Rev. M. Hill, Rector of Snailwell, Cam-
bridgeshire. Their children were, Charles
Edward [see below) ; Edwin George, a Captain
in the 91st Regiment, who married and had
issue, (1) Percy Harry, (2) Edward Charles
Lovel Thirsby, (3) Kate Eliza Bromley, (4)
Helen Florence May, (5) Ella, (6) Evelyn, (7)
Agnes Mary, and (8) Fanny Elizabeth.

Charles Edward Mainwaring, of the Royal
Navy, married Isabella Agnew, of a well-known
Scotch family. Their children are, Edward
Seymour Ranulphus Mainwaring, Charles

6o The Mainwaring Family.

Agnew Mainwaring, Anne Mary Isabella
Mainwaring, Louisa Maud Mainwaring, Isabel
Blanche Mainwaring, Mabel Gertrude Main-
waring, and Margaret Baptiste Mainwaring.

The Connection with the Hall-Stephen-
sons and Rents.

George Mainwaring, Esq., of the Honorable
East India Company Civil Service, was the son
of Rowland Mainwaring by Jane, his wife, and
was born in 1790, and died on the 24th June,
1 065, at Porchester Square. He married, in
India, Isabella, the daughter of Colonel Byers,
of Tonley, Aberdeen, of the Honorable East
India Company's Service. She was born in
1S00, and died 6th February, 1872, at Bath.
Their children were, Rowland Recs, a General
in the Bengal Native Infantry, born at Poonah,
in 1819; Harry, born at Jaunpore, and died
at Agra, in 1845 ; Norman William (see below) ;

Hall-Stephensons and Rents, 61

George Byres ; Charles, a Lieutenant in the
Bengal Cavalry, born at Calcutta, and supposed
to have been killed on the boats at Cawnpore,
about: 29th June, 1857 ; Jane Latham, born
at Calcutta in 1S1S, who married Alfred P.
Curric, Esq., and had issue five daughters and
one son, her husband dying at Mirzapore, on
the 3rd February, 1847 I Anna Maria, born at
Tamlook in 18 19, and died at Hyderabad 8th
June, 1857, having married Colonel W. Cuth-
bert Davidson ; Isabella Elizabeth, born at
Shagehanpore, and died at Bandak, aged eleven
months and four days ; Julia Sarah, born and
died at Bandak, aged ten months and four days ;
Isabella Agnes, bom at Benares, who married,
on the 12th January, 1854, Major Hall-Stcphen-
son, of Somerton Court, and has issue one
son, John Mainwaring, who married, on the
17th August, 1S87, Hannah Langsdale, only
daughter of P. Penketh, Esq., of Upper Nor-
wood ; Julia, born at Benares, and died there
2nd September, 1838, aged eighteen months;
Elizabeth, born at Benares in 1841, and died
1 2th July, 1856; and Amicia, born at Blandford

62 The Mainwaring Family

Square, Loudon. Norman William Mainwar-
ing, mentioned above, was born at Jaunpore,
and was killed on the railway at Hourah. He
married, in 1849, Jane, the daughter of Colonel
Kent, and had issue Isabella Jane, born in
September, 1850, Georgina Agnes Emma, born
in May, 1852, who died at Malvern in August,
1S63, Rowland Kent, born in 1855, Edward
Currie, born in 1856, and Norman Hall, born
in 1857.

The Connection with the Campbells.

Charlotte Margaretta Mainwaring was the
daughter of Rowland Mainwaring by Jane,
his wife. She married Charles Smith, Esq.,
banker, of Northampton, and had issue, Row-
land, who was murdered at Meerut, in the
Indian Mutiny ; Emily Jane {see Wathens and
Moodys) ; Isabella Sophia (below), and Mary
Adelaide, who married Captain Boyd. Isabella
Sophia died in May, 1887, at Woodford, Essex,

The Campbells.

having married John Cameron Campbell, of the

Lochnell family, Argyllshire, a Major in the 9th
Royal Lancers, who distinguished himself at
the Battle of Gujerat, 21st February, 1849, by
whom she had no issue.

The Connection with the Melyills, the
flnleys, and the moilltets.

Thomas Mainwaring, of the Honorable East
India Company's Civil Service, Bengal Presi-
dency, was the son of Rowland Mainwaring by
Jane, his wife. He was born in 1784, and died
on the 4th March, 1834, *?« route to Mauritius.
He married, on the 20th October, 1806, in India,
Sophia Isabella, the daughter of Thomas
Walker, Esq., of Wendlebury, and she died at
Aveley Vicarage, Essex, on the 7th August,
1868. Their children were Edward Rowland,
(see Brinds, Barnes's, and Kelks) ; Charles John,
a Captain in the Indian Arm)-, born 2nd June,

F

64 The Mainwaring Family,

1809, and died unmarried on the 1 6th August,
1848 ; Henry George (see Brinds, Barnes's, and
Kelks) ; Richard, born 6th May, 1814, and
died unmarried in 1834; James Irvine, a
Captain in the 42nd Native Infantry, born 29th
March, 1S16, and died 5th August, 1853,
unmarried ; William Drew, born 3rd October,
1S17, and died 30th June, 1846, having married
Sophia, daughter of Captain Floyd, of the 2nd
Light Infantry, she dying, and leaving issue, (1)
Charles Sweedland, born 23rd October, 1841,

(2) Sophia Emily, born 21st January, 1844, and

(3) Louisa ; Sweedland, a General in the Madras
Staff Corps, born 8th March, 18 19, who died
13th February, 18S3, having married, 23rd Sep-
tember, 1856, Mary Augusta, third daughter of
Philip Melvill, Esq., of Clarendon Place, Hyde
Park Gardens (of a well-allied family from the
south of Scotland, her brother being Lieu-
tenant Melvill of the 24th Regiment, who, with
Lieutenant Coghill, was killed in attempting to
save the colours at the Battle of Isandhlwana),
and had issue. (1) Sweedland Melvill, born at
Banjabore, 25th June, 185;, (2) Henry Melvill,

MelviilSi Fiu leys and Moilliets. 65

born at Bellary, 26th March, i860, (3) Mary
Melvill, born at Ootacamund, 13th Novem-
ber, 1858, who married, in 1888, Frederick
McNair, Esq., and has one son, (4) Edith
Melvill, born at Secunderabad, 1st October,

1866, and (5) Kate Melvill, born at Palam-
cottah, on the 1st March, 1872 ; Reginald
Ouintin, a General in the Madras Staff
Corps, born 8th October, 1828, who married
twice: first, Charlotte, daughter of Major
General Pinson, by whom he had issue,
(1) Edward Rowland, born 25th January,
1859, (2) Charles Vaughan, born 7th May,
1852, (3) Norman Elliott, born 20th July,

1867, (4) Alice Maud, born nth December,
1855, who married General Mundy, of the
Madras Staff Corps, who died in 1S89, and
had no children, (5) Florence Emily, born
19th March, 1857, (6) Edith Elliott, born
22nd September, i860, (7) Gertrude Harriet,
born 17th September, 1863, (8) Mabel Elliott,
born 1 2th April, 1S66, (9) Ethel Mary, born
22nd March, 1S69, and (10) Ada Constance,

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66 The Mainwaring Family.

born i st March, 1871, and, secondly, Caroline,
widow of Monsieur Le Cromier. by whom he
has no children ; Randle Parker, a Captain in
the 20th Native Infantry, born 22nd March,
1830, and died 22nd March, 1 865, having
married Ellen, daughter of Captain Sayers, on
the 1 8th December, 1854, by whom he had
issue, (1) Emily Ellen, born at Belgawm, on
the 1 8th October, 1855, (2) Anne Margaret,
born at Belgawm, on the nth May, 1857,
(3) Charlotte Louisa, born at Belgawm, on
the 2nd December, 185S, (4) Sophia Florence,
born at Dhanvar, on the 16th May, i860, and
(5) Helen Frances Maud, born at Ahmcdabad,
on the 5th August, 1864; Sophia Isabella,
born on the 29th March, 1S16, who died un-
married on the 24th December, 1833 ; and
Emily Anne.

Emily Anne Mainwaring was born at Jaun-
pore on the 12th September, 1S23. She married,
on the 2nd ]unc, 1853, the Rev. John Finley,
M.A. (of a good family from the south of Scot-
land), sometime Chaplain to the Earl of Gains-

M chills, Fin leys and Moilliets. 67

borough, and he died 31st July, 1871. Their
children are John, born 16th August, 1855,
Hyde, born 3rd October, 1863, Reginald Main-
waring, born at Aveley Vicarage on the 28th
September, 1868, Sophia Harriet, born on the
13th March, 1854, who married, on the 20th
August, 1874, James Keir Moilliet, Esq. (of an
old Gcnevese family), of Cheyney Court, Here-
fordshire, and has five sons and one daughter,
Constance Emily, born 2nd April, 1857, who
married, on the 2nd October, 1879, Walter
Thomas Eeeby, Esq., M.D., of Bromley, Kent,
and has no children, Maria Hyde, born on th<?
20th January, 1859, an^ Marion Alice, born on
the 28th June, 1S61.

68 The Mainwaring Family.

The Connection with the Brinds,
Barnes's, Kelks and Wxgans.

Edward Rowland Mainwaring, mentioned
above, the son of Thomas Mainwaring, was
born on the 20th November, 1807, and died on
the 10th April, 186S. He married Georgiana,
the widow of Captain Byron, and had issue, (1)
Edward Philipson, born 13th October, 1 841,
who married Flora Brind, and has issue Frances
Brind, Guy, Florence, Ethel, Evelyn, and Wini-
fred, (2) Frances George Lawrence, born 8th
November, 1S51, who married, on the 21st
December, 1885, Alice, daughter of William
Bishop, Esq., of 20, Craven Hill, Hyde Park,
and has no children, and (3) Emily Sophia
Isabella, born on the 28th February, 1844, -who
married, in 1862, Major Osmond Barnes, of the
Bombay Staff Corps, and has issue four sons
and two daughters. Major Barnes, as the

Brznds, Barnes's, Kelks and Wigaus. 69

tallest man in the Indian Army, was selected
to proclaim the Queen Empress of India.
Henry George Mainwaring, mentioned above,
the third son of Thomas Mainwaring, was born
on the 29th June, 18 12, and died on the 24th
June, 186S. He married, on the 15th January,
1850, Frances Sanders, daughter of John
Kelk, Esq., and had issue one son, Henry
Germain Mainwaring, a Major in the 24th
Regiment, who was born on the 6th January,
1853. He married, in 1889, Henrietta Wigan,
and has issue one daughter, Elfrida Henrietta,
born in February, 1890.

Major Mainwaring served and distinguished
himself in the Zulu War.

The Mainwaring Family,

The Connection with the Russells
and the Robinsons.

Janet Mainwaring, mentioned above, the
daughter of William Mainwaring, died on the
/th February, 1S5S. She married, on the 17th
February, 1S03, Michael Russell, Esq., of
Wimbledon, who was born on the 28th
February, 1778, and died on the nth January,
1840. Their children were : (j) Edward, born
on the 24th October, 1808, who married and
had issue Henrietta, who married Edward
Kohler, of Stuttgart, and has issue two
daughters, and Emilie Louisa {see below), (2)
Menshaw, born on the 9th January, 1812, and
died on the iSth January, 1866, who married,
first, on the 10th February, 1840, Anastatia,
daughter of John Eyre, Esq., of Eyre Court
Castle, county Gahvay, by whom he had three
sons and one daughter, and she dying on the

The Russclls and Robinsons.

27th March, 1846, Henshaw Russell married,
secondly, on the 10th February, 1848, Jane
Alethea, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Groves,
by whom he had no issue, (3) Elizabeth, who
married, on the 19th July, 1827, Major John
Robinson {see below), and had issue four sons
and two daughters, (4) Harriett, who married, on
the 23rd April, 1S53, Alexander Naime, Esq.,
who died on. the 4th April, 1859, and had issue
one son and three daughters, (5) Mary, who
married, on the 1st May, 1864, Thomas William
Hare, Esq., who died on 21st January, 1S90, and
had no children, (6) Frances Sarah, who married,
on the 14th July, 1847, the Rev. Gilbert William
Robinson, who died 26th February, 1884 (see
below).

Major John and the Rev. Gilbert WTilliam
Robinson were the sons of Captain Gilbert
Robinson, of Shin rone, by his wife Elizabeth,
the daughter of the Rev. John Godwin, by-
Mary, daughter of John and Mary Godfrey,
of Lydd, Kent. The Rev. John Godwin was
private Chaplain to Lord James Somerville,

72 The Mainwaring Family ,

and the Rector of Playden, Iden, and East
Guilford.

The children of the Rev. Gilbert William and
Frances Sarah Robinson are : (i) Frederick
Russell, born on the 24th July, 1848, who
married, on the 23rd September, 1876, his
cousin, Emilie Louisa, referred to above, and
has three sons and one daughter, (2) Gilbert
Mainwaring, born on the 29th March, 1850,
who married Mary Ramskill, daughter of
George Pinkerton, Esq., of Surbiton, and lias
two sons and four daughters, (3) Godfrey,
born on the 20th January, 1S52, (4) Rowland
John Dodsworlh, born on 14th April, 1854,
(5) Henry Russell, born on the 28th April.
1S56, who married Ethel Eliza Maud, daughter
of the Honorable William Eccles, of Trinidad,
and has one daughter, (6) Ernest Murray, born
on the 1st April, 1859, (7) Reginald William,
born on the 8th October, 1864, and (S) Mary
Adela, born on the 23rd September, 1S61, and
died on the 10th March, 1S62.

The Wathens and Moody s. j$

The Connection with the Wathens
and Moodys.

The children of James Eyton Mainwaring,
referred to above, by his first wife Anna, were :
(i) James (below), (2) Anna Maria, who diet]
unmarried, and (3) Frances, who died un-
married.

James Mainwaring married Emily Jane
Smith (see under Campbell), and had issue :
(1) John, (2) James, (3) Anna, who married
Frederick Wathen, Esq., and has no children ;
(4) Emily, (5) Ada, and (6) Isabella, who is
married to Colonel Moody, and has one son,
Rowland.

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The Connection with the Parker
Jervises.

Charles Henry Mainwaring, referred to above
by Jane his wife, had issue, (i) Rowland Brough-
ton, (2) Henry Arthur, (3) Cecil Charles,
(4) Gerald, (5) Percy Edward, the present
Rector of Whitmore, (6) Gordon Louis, (7)
Ethel Mary, who, on the 24th July, 1S77, married
William Robert Parker Jervis, of Little Aston
Hall, (8) Maude, (9) Paulina Jane, and (10)
Sophie Henrietta Julia.

The Connection with the Foleys and

WlLLIAMSES.

Admiral Mainwaring, by his third wife, Laura
Maria Julia, had issue, (1) Karl Heinrich
Augustus, a Captain in the Royal Navy, who, in
1876, married Florence Maud, the daughter of
Henry Foley, Esq., of Wistow, Huntingdonshire,

The Foley s and William ses. 75

(2) Randolf, who married, in 1883, Edith Laura
Vernon, youngest daughter of Henry Foley,
and sister to his brother's wife, (3) Eugene
George Henri, (4) Frederick, (5) Guy, a
Commander in the Royal Navy, who married,
in July, 1889, Gertrude Henrietta, daughter of
Michael Henry Williams, Esq., of Pencalenick,
Cornwall, (6) Horatio, and (7) Algernon.

n

CHAPTER VI.

HISTORICAL SCRAPS.

The Mainwaring coat-of-arms, in Heraldic
language, is " two bars, gules," the crest " out of
a ducal coronet, or, an ass's head in a hempen
halter, ppr," and the motto " Devant si je puis."

There are several stories as to the origin of
the crest and motto. The most common is that
Ranulphus de Mesnil Warin, at the Battle of
Hastings, had his horse beneath him pierced by
an arrow, whereupon he jumped upon an ass,
exclaiming, " Devant si je puis." The legend,
however, must be accepted aim grano salts.

We will now briefly enumerate scraps of
history and some of the noble deeds accom-
plished by the family, taking them, as far as
possible, in chronological order.

Gundred, the supposed youngest daughter of

78 The Mainwaring Family.

William the Conqueror, although some authori-
ties believe her to have been the daughter of
Matilda, by another husband, and William, her
husband, the first Earl of Warren and Surrey,
were celebrated and charitable in their lives.
William de Warren founded the Church and
Monastery of St. Pancras at Lewes, in Sussex,
as his charter sets forth, " for the health of his
soul, and the soul of Gundred his wife, and for
the soul of King William, who brought him into
England, for the health also of Queen Maud,
mother of his wife, and for the health of King
William, her son, who made him Earl of
Surrey."

Warren was one of the most ferocious of
William's followers, but was sincerely attached
to his wife. The remains of both were dis-
covered on October 28th, iS45,by the workmen
cutting for the Lewes and Brighton railroad
through the grounds of St. Pancras Priory, in
two leaden coffins, with simply Gundrada on
the one and Wilhclmus on the other. They are
now deposited in Sputhover Church, together
with a tablet previously discovered, which was

Historical Scraps. 79

stolen when Thomas Cromwell demolished the
Prior)', and was found worked into the tomb of
one of the Shirleys at Isfield. This tablet pre-
serves part of the mutilated monastic verses
that, commemorated the virtues of Gundred,
and these verses have been beautifully trans-
lated into modern English rhymes by the
learned historian of Lewes, as follows : —

'•' Gundred, illustrious branch of princely race,
Brought into England's Church balsamic grace ;
Pious as Mary, and as Martha kind,
To generous deeds she gave her virtuous mind.
Though the cold tomb her Martha's part receives,
Her Mary's better part for ever lives.
O, holy Pancras, keep, with gracious care,
A mother who his made thy sons her heir ;
On the sixth Calehd of June's fatal morn,
The marble

William de Warren also founded the Abbey
of Lewes, and built many noble castles, chief
among which were Hedingham, in Essex, and
Castle Acre, in Norfolk, which latter must have
been the strongest fortress in the Eastern

c;

So The Mainwaring Family

Counties. The epitaph on his tomb is as
follows : —

" Who seeks Ear] Warrenne's tomb may look around,
And mark the buildings on this holy ground,
For here with pious zeal his wealth he spent
In rearing this his noblest monument.
Here the poor brethren whom his bounty fed,
With dirge and requiem laid his honored head ;
Saint Pancras here his mouldering ashes guards,
May the good Saint secure him rich rewards ;
And grant him with the blest above to reign
Who to Saint Pancras raised this stately fane."

Sir Raufe Mainwaring, Knight of Over
Peover, who married Amicia, the daughter of
Hugh Kyveliock, Earl of Chester, was Justice
of Cheshire in the time of Richard I. His
marriage was considered a very noble alliance,
as indeed it was.

William Mainwaring, of Over Peover, who
married Catherine Bclgrave and Clementia
Cotton, departed out of England towards
Guyen in 1393, and made his will in 1394.
His seal, 17 Richard II., had the impression of
his coat and crest, viz., in an escutcheon two

Historical Scraps. Si

bars only and cornerways on the dexter angle,
on a helmet an ass's head couped, inscribed
about it S. Willielmi Maynwaringe. For at this
time the house of Warmincham, formerly the
elder branch, was extinct, and devolved to a
daughter and heiress, and therefore he bore
their arms as next heir male, and this coat-of-
arms his descendants have ever since continued.

His half-brother John, who succeeded him,
waited on the Prince Henry, afterwards King
Henry V., and was made Sheriff of Cheshire on
the )8th September, 1843, in the words of the
writ, "Quamdiu nobis placuerit." He con-
tinued sheriff for three years, the Earl of
Chester calling him "Armigerum suum." This
John, with Matthew Del Mere and Thomas
Meyshawc, was appointed Judge of the gaol
delivery at Chester in 1404, " hac vice nono de
Aprilis."

Randle, the brother of John, as shown above,
married Margery Buckley. He petitioned the
king for enjoying his wife's dower in 1393, as he
had married her without the Royal license.

1 1 is son William was the ancestor of the

c; 2

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Mainwarings of Ightfield, in Shropshire. Mr.
Walker, in his " Sufferings of the Clergy," says :
" A descendant of this branch (though a younger
son), I take it, was Dr. Roger Manwaring, who
was born at Stretton, in Shropshire, and edu-
cated in the University of Oxford. Me was
sometime Vicar of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, and
Chaplain to King Charles I. ; before whom
preaching those sermons entitled ' Religion
and Allegiance,' he was called in question for
it by the Parliament, charged with endeavour-
ing to destroy the King and Kingdom by his
divinity, and censured, to be imprisoned, was
fined ;£i,ooo, and ordered to make his submis-
sion, and was disabled to have or enjoy any
preferment or office. However, the King soon
after pardoned him, and gave him the rich living
of Stanford Rivers, in Essex, in 1653 made him
Dean of Worcester, and two years after nomi-
nated him to the Bishopric of St. David's. In
1640 his troubles were revived in Parliament,
and though the old grudge lay still at the
bottom of the prosecution, yet the new crimes
of Popish innovation, conversing with Papists,

Historical Scraps. 8

and being sociable and jovial, were trumped up
against him, upon which he was (as Lloyd, in
his 'Memoirs,' p. 274, expresses it) apprehended
suddenly, confined severely, fined heavily, plun-
dered violently, persecuted from place to place
continually, insomuch that for the last two years
of his life not a week passed over his head with-
out a messenger or an injury, which he desired
God not to remember against his adversaries,
and abjured all his friends to forget. Under
these his troubles he had nothing left but a
small temporal estate to support him, and died
at Carmarthen, July 1 6th, 1653. He was of a
pious life and conversation, and very charitable,
as appears particularly by one of the three great
designs which he had in pursuit, namely : the
redeeming of captives, and though he laboured
under a veiy severe character with the Puritans
(and not without reason, if the accusation against
him was true of straining the prerogative in the
matter of raising money without the consent
of Parliament), yet by the Royalists he was
esteemed worthy of the great function which

84 The Mainwaring Family.

he bore, being a person of great zeal for the
Church of England."

This last-mentioned Randlewas also a courtier,
styled "Armiger Regis" and "Sagittarius dc
Corona," in 1399, and went into Ireland with
his brother John, in the service of the King, in
1400. He was called Honkyn Mainwaring, or
Hondekyn the Good. In 1390 he was made
one of the Yeomen of the Crown during
pleasure, and was accorded sixpence a day. In
1416 he was made Serjeant of the Peace, and
in 1424 lands at Goostrey were settled on him
by Randle de Roley. This Randle lived to a
great age, and lies buried in a stone chapel on
the south side of Over Peovcr Church with his
wile, who erected two monuments for herself
and her husband.

In 1460 the King, Henry VI., sent a letter
to Sir John Mainwaring, Knight, son and heir
of Randle, that he deliver to the Lord Stanley
these persons following, then in the Castle of
Chester, for some matters alleged against them
in the late Parliament at Coventry, to wit,
Thomas and John Nevill, sons of the Earl of

Historical Scraps. 8

Salisbury, Sir Thomas Harrington, James
Harrington, Raufe Rokeby, Thomas Ashton,
and Robert Everous, Esquires. Sir John Main-
waring, Knight, great-grandson of the last-
mentioned Sir John, was Sheriff of Flintshire
in 1514. By his will, among other things, he
gave to Charles Main waring, his bastard brother,
yearly, £l 6s. 8d., for his life, &c, dated 4th
March, 15 1 5. He lies buried with his wife in
Over Peover Church, their monument being
very quaint.

Philip Mainwaring, Esq., of Over Peover, son
of Sir John, lies buried with his wife Anne in
Over Peover Church, and to their memory is
erected a very singular monument, with an
epitaph, an exact copy of which is:

" Lyke as this marble now doeth hyde
The bodies of thcisse twayne :
So shall not thou on earth lyve longe,
But turne to dust ngayne.
Then learn to dye, and dye to lyve :
As theissc two heare example gyve."

Sir Randle, son of Philip, was Sheriff of
Cheshire in 1605.

86 The Mainwaring Family.

His son, Edmund Mainwaring, was an LL.D.
and Chancellor of Chester in 1642.

Another son, John, living in 1634, was a D.D.
Another, Sir Philip, was Secretary for Ireland
to the Earl of Stafford, in 163S.

Sir Randle, son and heir of the last-mentioned
Sir Randle, was Sheriff of Limerick, in Ireland,
in 1605, Sheriff of Cheshire in 1619, and Mayor
of Chester the same year.

Philip, his son and heir, was Captain of the
Light Horse in Cheshire, and was Sheriff of
Cheshire in 1639. There is a handsome monu-
ment in Over Peover Church erected to him
and his wife Pollen.

Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Bart., son and heir
of Philip, was the first Baronet of the family,
and was so created after the Restoration. He
was Pligh Sheriff of Cheshire in 1657, and
served with Sir George Booth (afterwards Lord
Delamcr) as Knight of the Shire, in the Parlia-
ment at Westminster, at the Restoration. He
was also Deputy-Lieutenant of Cheshire many
years. He is buried with his wife in Over

Historical Scraps. 87

Peover 'Church, but their tomb cannot now be
traced.

Sir John Mainwaring, Bart., his successor,
was for many years Knight of the Shire for
Cheshire, and also Deputy-Lieutenant and
Captain of the Light Morse. Me accompanied
Henry, Lord Delamer (afterwards the Earl of
Warrington), and many other noblemen at the
Revolution.

Sir John and his wife are buried in a chapel
at the north side of the chancel in Over Peover
Church.

Sir Henry Mainwaring, Bart., was the nephew
of the last-mentioned Sir John. He received
the earlier part of his education under the
celebrated Mr. Dongworth of Durham School,
and from thence, in 1744, he was admitted as
nobleman of Lincoln College, Oxford, and was
by that University presented to an honorary
degree of Master of Arts. In 1759 he went
abroad, and made the tour of Italy, and en his
return home served as Captain in the Regiment
of Royal Cheshire Militia, commanded by the

88 The Mainwaring Family,

Right Honorable Lord Viscount Malpas. In
May, 1764, he was promoted to the rank of
Major in the same Regiment, then commanded
by his intimate friend and companion of his
travels in foreign parts, the Right Honorable
George Harry Earl of Stamford. On the death
of this Sir Henry Mainwaring without having
married, the title became extinct, and the Over
Peover estates passed to the Wetenhall family.

Dr. John Mainwaring, D.D., son of Edward
Mainwaring, Esq., of Whit more, was Rector of
Stoke-on-Trent in 1633. In the parish register
is the following notice of his induction :

"Johannes Mainwaring, Alius natu minor
Edovardi Mainwaring, de Whitmore Armigeri,
Artium Magister, Socius Collegii Caio — Gun-
villensis in Academio Cantabrigiensi,praesentatus
est ad Rectoriam Ecclesiae parochialis de Stoke
per Rogerum Brereton de novo Castro Armigero,
inductus fuit per Alexander How, sacrac theo-
logiae Baccalaureus a.d. 1633."

In the register of burials there is:

" 1692, May 14. Johannes Mainwaring,
ST. P. cum exstitisset Rector Ecclesiae de

Historicctl Scraps. 89

Stoke per spatium quinquaginta et nona
Annorum expiravit die et anno supradictis."

Edward Main waring, Esq., of Whitmore, in
Charles I.'s reign, took the side of the Parlia-
ment and fortified Whitmore against the Royal
troops. He was appointed, too, High Sheriff
for the county b}' the Rebel Government in
1646.

His son Edward was appointed, in March,
1645, to demolish the Castle of Heleigh, but
the loyalty of the family returned with the
Restoration, and Charles II. made him, in 16G9,
High Sheriff.

In 1745 Edward Main waring, Esq., did good
service against the Scotch rebellion, and marched
before his tenantry against the invaders. He
was appointed High Sheriff for Staffordshire
in 1768.

Rear-Admiral Rowland Mainwaring, of
Whitmore, greatly distinguished himself in the
French War. He served as a midshipman in
the Majestic at the Battle of the Nile, and in
the Defence at the siege of Copenhagen. One
of his last commands was that of the Caledonia,

oo The Mainwaring Family,

flagship of Sir Edward Pellew, afterwards Lord
Exmouth. lie was also a Justice of the Peace.

We will not dwell further upon the deeds of
the Mainwarings, having just touched upon
some of the chief of them ; but will con-
clude with two memorials from Whitmore
Church.

A marble monument is erected over the tomb
of Edward Mainwaring, and /Mice his wife,
formerly Alice de Boghey. By this marriage,
it will be remembered, the Whitmore estates
first passed into the Mainwaring family. On
the monument there is, in very old English
characters :

" Here lyelh the bodies of Edwarde Manwaringe, of
Whitmore, in the Countie of Stafford, Esquire, ;i younger
sonne of Sir John Manwaringe, of Pever and Badyley,
in the Countie of Chester, Kt. : also his wyffe right heir
o^ Whitmore, Bedulph, Andeslay, and Baggenall, wich
Edwarde Manwaringe deceased the day of .... in the
yere of y'Lord, Ano Mo. Do. LXVI, on whose soulc God
have mercy amen.

• . . . the roade free ;

Into thye handes
Oure sondes wee geve unto thee.
Quod E. E, M. ; Ano dmi. 15S1."

His to rical Scraps.

In the parish register of Whitmore there is
the following curious tribute to the memory of
Sarah, formerly Stone, who married Edward
Mainwaring, Esq., of Whitmore :

" Sarah Mainwaring, virtutis exemplum et
ornamentum, sexus gloria et eclipsis, ex assidua
pietate in Deum, profusa liberalitate in pauperes,
spectata probitate in omnes, ab omnibus imi-
tanda pariter et admiranda, Vidua Edvardi
Mainwaring, Armigeri, maximo omnium luctu
necnon et damno, sepulchro conditur, July,
Anno Domini 164s."

THE END.

LIST OF ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS.

W. T. Beeby, Esq., M.D.

Mrs. Finley.

Miss Fin lev.

Major Hall-Stephenson.

Mrs. Haul.

Rev. Algernon Mainwaring.

Rev. C. W. Manwaring.

Ernest Manwaring, Esq.

Colonel E. P. Mainwaring.

Captain F. G. L. Mainwaring.

Commander Guy Mainwaring, R.N.

Major H. G. Mainwaring.

Captain K. H. A. Mainwaring, R.I

General R. R. Mainwaring.

Mrs. Randle Mainwaring.

Mrs. Swfedland Mainwaring.

J. Keir Moilliet, Esq.

Rev. J. L. Moilliet.

Reginald W. Robinson, Esq.

Messrs. Robinson and Turneull.

E. R. Stable, Esq.

D. Wintringham Stable, Esc

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