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GBNEALOGY COLLECTION
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MLLtN UUUNIY HUbLIC LIBRARY
1833 00676 7179
HOLBROW,
AS RECORDED AT HERALDs' COLLEGE, 1 787.
SOME ACCOUNT
FAMILY OF HOLBROW,
ANCIENTLY OF
IN
BY
W. p. W. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L.,
OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Honour thy Father and thy Mother.
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AND ISSUED BY
PHILLIMORE & CO., 1 24, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
Seventy-five copies only printed.
This is Number . Qr. 7—
1S98419
NOTE.
THE compilation and printing of this little family history
has been undertaken at the request of the Rev. Thomas
Holbrow, who was desirous of thus placing on record what
could be learnt respecting his ancestors and kindred. A book
such as this forms a suitable memorial, and one which allows of
the preservation of many additional facts which, though of
interest to those concerned, cannot be conveniently recorded in
the formal pedigrees which are entered at Heralds' College.
Such biographical information gives a reality and vivid interest
to the narrative which ordinary tabular pedigrees of necessity
lack. But these official pedigrees, entered after due proof of the
facts, have their special value, for they form a reliable basis on
which one can the more readily build up the history of the
family, and we may therefore regret that the practice of enter-
ing up family pedigrees in the books of Heralds' College is not
more widely followed.
There are some who affect to despise genealogy and question
its utility, insisting that in our estimate of a man's worth we
have to think of what he has done rather than to concern our-
selves with the history of his forefathers. But such a view is a
narrow one. We are but links in a chain of which we know
neither the beginning nor the end. We cannot dissociate our-
selves from those who have gone before, while our own lives are
facts which will influence, even though they know it not, those
who will follow us. And, indeed, the knowledge that their
family is one of honest men will obviously encourage the new
generation to walk in the old paths, and to emulate their
conduct. Nobility is wider than official limits, and the duties
which arise from the knowledge of a reputable ancestry are
NOTE.
aptly summed up in the phrase, noblesse oblige. Genealogy, in
short, is but the natural extension of the fifth commandment,
" Honour thy father and thy mother."
The family of Holbrow may be taken as an illustration of
those families which in the past have been so largely concerned
with the cloth-making industry in Gloucestershire. As far as
records go, they appear to be indigenous to that county and
Wiltshire ; and, though this branch is no longer resident in
Gloucestershire, there are still several families of Holborow
living in the same district from which they sprang, who, in this
twentieth century, relatively occupy much the same position of
middle-class prosperity as did their ancestors in the sixteenth.
In the eighteenth century the Holbrows obtained a confirma-
tion of arms, and subsequently Bigland compiled a tabular
pedigree of the family, which brought down their history to near
the close of that century, thus covering a period of nearly two
hundred years. That pedigree has formed the basis of this book,
supplemented by notes made many years ago by the present
writer, and also by information collected by the Rev. W. G.
Dimock Fletcher, of Shrewsbury, to whom special thanks are due.
Acknowledgment has also to be made for assistance given in
various ways by Mr. S. C. Holbrow, Mr. Walter J. Stanton, of
Stroud, Rev. Thomas Keble, of Bisley, Mr. F. Swire, of Orston
Hall, Notts, Colonel Goldney, Mr. Richard Denison Jones, of
Townsend, Leonard Stanley, by Mr. Arthur Baines, of Uley
House, and also by Mr. C. H. Athill, Richmond Herald.
Help was also rendered with the early records by Miss Ethel
Stokes, Mr. H. Y. J. Taylor, and Mr. F. E. Wallis.
To Miss Cordelia Phillimore the reader is indebted for
the frontispiece, while most of the views were drawn by Mr.
B. C. Dexter.
[24, Chancery Lane,
November 1901.
CONTENTS,
Introduction
Confirmation of Arms
The Medieval Holbrows
Hawkesbury Manor Roll Extracts
Abstracts of Early Wills
The Descendants of William Holbrow,
The Family of Maule
The Family of Keble
The Family of Stanton
The Family of Swire
OF Kingscote
ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Arms of Holbrow
Key Pedigree of Holbrow
The Holbrow Country
Kingscote Church and Town's End,
Stanley
Uley House
Signature of William Holbrow
Uley Church
Signature of John Holbrow
Portraits of Samuel Holbrow and
Sarah Dimock ; Thomas Hol
William Holbrow
Portrait of Anthony Holbrow
Signature of Anthony Holbrow
Portrait of Maria Holbrow
Signature of Maria Holbrow
Frontispiece.
Facing p. i
M A 2
, Leonard
„ p- 19
„ p. 22
A 25
Facing p. 24
p. 26
HIS Wife
brow and
Facing p. 33
Facing p. 37
A 39
Facing p. 39
p. 40
CONTENTS.
Signatures of Rev. Thomas Holbrow and Jane
TucKEY . . . . . . . . /•• 40
Portrait of Rev. Thomas Holbrow .. .. Facing p. d,o
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Holbrow . . . . „ />. 40
Signatures of C. A. Holbrow & H. E. Holbrow p. 41
Portrait of C. A. Holbrow . . . . . . Facing p. 42
Portrait of H. E. Holbrow . . . . . . „ />. 44
CONTENTS.
Signatures of Rev. Thomas Holbrow and Jane
TucKEY . . . . . . . . /"• 40
Portrait of Rev. Thomas Holbrow .. .. Facing p. 40
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Holbrow . . . . „ />. 40
Signatures of C. A. Holbrow & H. E. Holbrow p. 41
Portrait of C. A. Holbrow . . . . . . Facing p. 42
Portrait of H. E. Holbrow . . . . . . „ />. 44
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HOLBROW is a surname which, in its origin,
seems to have a local significance, but there
does not appear to be any town or parish mentioned in
the ordinary sources of information from which it can be
derived. There are villages known as Holbrook, but
Holbrook and Holbrow seem to be distinct names, and
not the slightest evidence has been found connecting the
one with the other. The name in ancient times, and
also indeed at the present day, is found within so limited
an area of country, and is borne by comparatively so few
persons, that we are justified in assuming that most, if
not all, of the name belong in their remote origin to the
same stock. That part of England of which Holbrows
are characteristic is Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but
they are not found widely distributed even in these two
counties ; indeed, until the seventeenth century they
were mostly dwelling in a small district on the borders
of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire about half-way between
Malmesbury on the east and Chipping Sodbury on the
west, from which they gradually spread northwards. Of
the situation of their settlements a good idea will be
obtained from the accompanying plan. In this plan,
which includes the various villages and hamlets with
which the Holbrows have been connected up to the
early part of the nineteenth century, the reader may
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
trace the movements of the family along the high-
roads in the days before railways were known.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the places in
which they were settled were the Wiltshire villages of
Sherston Magna and Luckington and Little Badmin-
ton, a chapelry in the adjoining Gloucestershire parish
of Hawkesbury. Occasionally the name might be
found, as their wills show, in the neighbouring villages
or hamlets of Hawkesbury, Upton, Kilcot, Horton, Did-
marton, Leighterton, Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Sodbury,
Sopworth and Alderton. And in this district there
are residing at the present time (1900), in one or other
of the parishes mentioned, several substantial yeoman
families bearing the name of Holborow, which seems to
be the spelling most usually followed by those of the
clan who have remained in the district.
In the seventeenth century one branch, in the person
of William Holbrow, who was born at Luckington in
1603, migrated northwards, and settled at Kingscote, a
village on the edge of the Cotswolds, overlooking the
vale of Berkeley. That village, insignificant and obscure
though it now be, was, in the old coaching days, a place
relatively of more note and importance, for it lies on the
great high road from Bath to Gloucester, and, by reason
of the traffic passing through it, was a place likely to
afford scope to an energetic business man. Such a one
would not now settle at Kingscote. Two of his sons
settled in the valley just below Kingscote at Uley, then
and till the early years of this almost ended century
noted for its trade in the making of cloth. As
" clothiers" increased prosperity came to this branch of
the family, and one of the grandsons of William
MALMESBURY
WILTS
The Holhrow Country.
THE FAMILY OF HOLE ROW.
Holbrow, of Kingscote, another William Holbrow,
became High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1741. With
Uley, Leonard Stanley and Stonehouse, this line of
Holbrow was long associated, and with its history in
this little book we are chiefly concerned, although in it
will be found various notes from wills, manor rolls, parish
registers, and monumental inscriptions which may be
of interest also to other lines of the family.
To the origin of the name, evidently a local one, we
have already alluded. It first occurs at Little Badminton
in the middle of the fifteenth century,* but at the
commencement of the preceding century we find
mention of the name at Pitchcombe and Brookthorpe,
some fifteen or sixteen miles north of Badminton.
This, the earliest mention of the name at present
known, is to be found in a cartulary of the Abbey of
Gloucester, ascribed to the period 1 284-1 306. In the
" extenta de Broctrope ", the modern Brookthorpe,
appears, amongst the free tenants of land, the name
of Richard de Holberwe de Pychenecumbe, i.e. Pitch-
combe, a village close by; and a few years later, in the
Subsidy Roll for Brocthrop, dated 1327, we find entered
* The name also occurs in East Anglia. Amongst the wills
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury are the following: —
1494 — John Holborowe, Bumstede, Essex.
1498 — William Holborow, Bumstede St. Mary, Essex.
1544 — John Holborowe, Glemsforde, Suffolk.
It is not known if these persons were connected with the West of
England.
In the history of the Staffordshire family of Wrottesley of
Wrottesley, General Wrottesley mentions a William de Holbarow
who was trustee for Sir Hugh de Wrottesley in 1347.
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
Walter de Holberg-h, who paid 2^%d. Of the four-
teen who were rated, he was by far the largest contribu-
tor, the total being but 145-. iii^d.
Where Holberwe or Holbergh may be is not known,
but it is quite likely that some one of the many ancient
camps in Gloucestershire was so called, and that from it
the race obtained their surname.
The spelling of the name is subject to numerous
variations* as the following list, which is taken from
manor rolls, wills, parish registers and other records,
abundantly testifies : —
de Holbrwe, c. 1300.
Holborough.
Holbrough.
de Holbergh, 1327.
Holbrow.
Holborrow.
Holbrowe.
Holborowe,
1622.
Howlbrow.
Hulkeberowe, 1470.
Holbourowe,
1603.
Howborow,
Hollboro.
Howborowe.
Hulborow.
Hollborro.
Howboroe.
Hulborough.
Holbourogh.
Hobrow
Hulbrow.
Holboroe.
Evidence for the existence at one time or another
of all these variations will be found in the records
which are printed hereafter. At the present day the spell-
ings chiefly favoured are Holbrow and Holborow, the
former being adopted by the armigerous line with whose
history we are now chiefly concerned, while the latter is
the variation followed by the families resident in the
neighbourhood of Badminton.
* The spelling of Holbrow may be compared with that of Edinboro
or Edinbro for Edinburgh, and the early forms of Holbrwe,
Holberge and the later of Holborough, evidently point to the
origin of the name.
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
As regards the arms of Holbrow, none of the family-
were summoned at any of the Heralds' visitations, and
it is not known when they first used arms, but ultimately
John Holbrow, of King Stanley, obtained a confirmation
of armorial bearings from Heralds' College for himself
and the descendants of his grandfather, John Holbrow,
of Kingscote. This was in 1787. In accordance with
the laws of heraldry, only those persons who can show
due authority are entitled to use coats-of-arms, and,
consequently, those only who are descended from the
grantee of the arms, or any other person specifically
named in the letters patent, may rightly bear them.
In the case of Holbrow the only members of the family
entitled to make use of the arms confirmed in 1787
are the descendants of John Holbrow, of Kingscote.
No others have any right whatever thereunto. It is
well to be thus explicit, since many people are under the
impression that arms belong to the surname and may be
assumed at will by anyone bearing it, which is not the
case.
The following is a list of those members of the
Holbrow family now (1900) living, who alone are
entitled to use the arms : —
Stanley Charles Holbrow and his children :
Frances Andrea Stanley Holbrow.
Thomas Leonard Stanley Holbrow.
Rev. Thomas Holbrow and his children :
Charles Antony Holbrow.
Henry Edward Holbrow.
Isabel Holbrow.
Marion Emily Holbrow.
In addition, the arms of Holbrows may be impaled by
the husbands of such of the Holbrows' daughters as are
THE FAMILY OF HOLE ROW.
themselves lawfully entitled to bear arms with which, in
heraldic language, they may support them. Of these
there are living : —
Col. Philip Goldney, who married Mary Holbrow.
John Macintire, who married Charlotte Holbrow.
Charles B. Stevens, who married Eliza Anne Holbrow.
Rev. James Pensley Lang, who maiTied Frances Holbrow.
John Ellington Jones, who married Emma Holbrow.
Further, the arms of Holbrow may be quartered by
the descendants of daughters of this family who were
heiresses, provided again that their husbands were
armigerous. In this category come the following: —
Benjamin Packer and his wife Elizabeth Holbrow.
John Wollaston and his wife Hannah Holbrow.
Robert Wallis and his wife Hester Holbrow.
Richard Hawker and his wife Grace Holbrow.
Rev. John Maule and his wife Elizabeth Holbrow.
Charles Stanton and his wife Martha Holbrow.
Appended is given the full text of the confirmation
made in 1787, and the arms appear as the frontispiece
to this book. It will be observed that no motto is men-
tioned in this grant, and it does not appear that any has
ever been used with the coat of arms by members of the
Holbrow family, though such is the more usual modern
practice.
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROIV.
Confirmation of (^xma,
®0 all and singular to whom these Presents shall come Sir
Isaac Heard Knight Garter Principal King of Arms and Thomas
Lock Esquire Clarenceux King of Arms of the South East and
West Parts of England from the River Trent Southward send
Greeting pUjerae John Holbrow of Kings Stanley in the
County of Gloucester Esquire only Son and heir of Williah
Holbrow of Uley in the said County Esquire and Grandson of
John Holbrow of Kingscote in the said County Gent : hath repre-
sented unto the Most Noble Charles Duke of Norfolk Earl
Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England that his Ances-
tors have been long resident in the County of Gloucester and
borne Armorial Ensigns which appear on Monuments erected to
the Memory of several of his Family but on examining the Records
of the College of Arms the same do not appear recorded therein and
he therefore requested his Grace's Warrant for our confirming and
exemplifying the same with such Variations as may be requisite to
be borne by him and his Descendants and the Descendants of his
said Grandfather according to the Laws of Arms, glnb forasmuch
as his Grace did by Warrant under his Hand and Seal bearing
date the twentyfifth day of January last authorize and direct Us to
confirm and exemplify such Arms and Crest accordingly, ^noxv
ye therefore that We the said Garter and Clarenceux in pursu-
ance of the Consent of the said Earl Marshal and by Virtue of the
Letters Patent of our several Offices to each of Us respectively
granted under the Great Seal of Great Britain flo by these
Presents confirm and exemplify to the said John Holbrow the
Arms following that is to say Azure a Bend Ermine Between Six
Mullets pierced Argent And for the Crest on a Wreath of the
Colours a Pair q/ Wings elevated Argent including three Mullets as
in the Arms in triangle as the same are in the Margin hereof more
plainly depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by him the
said John Holbrow Esquire and his Descendants and by the
Descendants of his said Grandfather with due and proper
Differences according to the Laws of Arms without the Let or
Interruption of any Person or Persons whatsoever, g^it yitittteafl
whereof We the said Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms have
to these Presents subscribed our Names and affixed the Seal of
our several Offices this eighth day of February in the twenty-
seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland
Defender of the Faith &c. and in the Year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.
Isaac Heard Thomas Lock
Garter Clarenceux
[L. S.] [L. S.]
ZU O^tt^Vmat f)oCfit:oto0.
BEFORE the early seventeenth century, when we
commence to trace the connected pedigree of the
Holbrows, they were settled within a very limited area,
and it may be assumed that the various individuals of
the name whom we find recorded in manor rolls, parish
registers and wills, were all related one to another. But
with the scanty records of middle-class families which
have come down to us from the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries it is rarely possible to form a connected pedi-
gree for any long period, and the Holbrows are no
exception to this rule. The fortunate circumstance that
they were tenants of the great manor of Hawkesbury,
which formed part of the possessions of the Abbey of
Pershore in Worcestershire, has been the means of
preserving records of them as early as the middle of the
fifteenth century. Hawkesbury is a place of very great
antiquity, whose recorded history goes back to the
seventh century, at which early period it is known to
have possessed a church, and we have mention of
several of its subordinate hamlets and villages in the
year 684. By the dissolution of the monasteries the
court rolls of the manor of Hawkesbury and its depen-
dencies came into the hands of the Crown, with the
result that the extant rolls, prior to 1528, are now
preserved in the Public Record Office. Of the later
sixteenth century rolls nothing appears to be known.
The present Duke of Beaufort is unable to find any in
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
his muniment room, nor does Sir George Jenkinson, the
present lord of the manor of Hawkesbury, know any-
thing of them. It is possible that they may yet be
discovered, but at present they may be considered as
missing, a fact which is no small loss to genealogists
interested in this part of Gloucestershire.
Amongst the subordinate members of Hawkesbury is
the village of Little Badminton, a place which now is
scarcely more than a name, having been long absorbed
in Badminton Park. Badminton is a phonetic cor-
ruption of the Domesday name of Madmington, but it
had already assumed its modern form when we first
find the Holbrows associated with Little Badminton
in the reign of Henry the Sixth.
These manor rolls have been carefully searched up
to the thirty-sixth year of that King's reign. At the
view of frankpledge, held at Hockday in that year,
the tithing of Badminton made a presentment against
William Hulkeberowe to the effect that he made an
affray on Thomas Byke with a flail worth one penny,
for which he was amerced in the sum of twopence.
At the same view, William Byke was also presented for
assaulting William with a stone of no value, whereby
he drew blood. His offence was evidently the more
serious, for he was fined in the then substantial sum of
sixpence. At the same court he was also presented,
in company with others, for having his tenement in a
ruinous condition, by no means an uncommon com-
plaint in manorial courts at this period. At the follow-
ing Martinmas court, some six months later, and per-
haps in consequence of the proceedings just mentioned,
William Hulkeberowe surrendered his cottage, which
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
he held at the rent of eight shillings a year, into the
hands of the lord for the purpose of transferring it to
one Thomas Coke, who thereupon was admitted tenant
for life "according to the custom of the manor." It was
no doubt a sale by the outgoing tenant, but it is clear
that relatively the tenant's interest in the premises was
then of far less value than it would be now. A heriot
fell due to the lord for the alienation from Hulkeberowe,
who redeemed it for is. 4^., or two years' rent, while the
purchaser Coke paid to the lord by way of fine, 6s. Sd,
being ten times the rent. What Hulkeberowe the vendor
may have received for his interest in the property we
have no means of knowing, but it could scarcely have
been any large amount.
At the next court, Hockday, 1460, William Hulke-
borowe, was presented and amerced in sixpence, for that
he brewed and broke the assize. John Hulkeberowe
and John Wydnam, amongst others, were also presented
for allowing the thatch of their tenements to become
ruinous, and were ordered to repair them before the next
court day, under penalty of a fine of is. 8d. At that court,
too, we find the name of one Robert Hulkeborowe
occurring amongst the jury, and also at the preceding
and succeeding courts.
Some two years later the name again occurs. The
jury presented that a hogster, taken as a stray, was
in the keeping of Robert Hulkeberowe. At the same
time he and John Wydenham were again presented for
having their houses in a " ruinous" state, and they were
ordered well and sufficiently to repair them before the
following Michaelmas, under the penalty of 6s. 2>d. A
similar complaint was made against him some five years
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
later. In 1467 a complaint was made that he and others
permitted their oxen to graze in Upton Field (doubtless
an open field long since enclosed, but then cultivated in
common, lying between Hawkesbury Upton and Little
Badminton), to the injury of the tenants there. What
penalty, if any, was imposed is not stated. This is all
that we know about Robert Hulkeberowe save the
surrender of his house to his son's use some five years
later.
In 9 Edward IV, 1469-70, we find the tithing man of
Badminton making a presentment about some stray
which was in the custody of John Hulkeberowe, while at
the view of frankpledge in 1472, he was upon the
jury. At this same court, Robert Hulkeberowe sur-
rendered the tenement in which he lately dwelt to the
use of his son John Hulkeberowe. A heriot accrued to
the Abbot of Pershore, as lord of the manor, of some
sheep of the total value of two shillings, and John was
thereon admitted and did his fealty to the lord, a cere-
mony which now has become a mere formality, and is
usually "respited." Doubtless, this entry indicates that
Robert Hulkeberowe, whose name occurs as a juror at
various courts from 1457 to 1473, was now an aged
man, but we have not met with any presentment of his
death.
The next entry on the rolls which have survived to
our day is that of Thomas Holborowe, who was a juror
in the year 1500.
After a considerable gap in the records, a single entry
indicates that in 1528 the family was still living at
Badminton, where William Holborowe had the custody
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
of an estray of two sheep, which the jury valued at the
price of sixteen pence.
This is the last extant manorial entry respecting them,
and henceforward our principal sources of information
are the various wills and parish registers, until in
modern times, that is within the last two hundred years,
we have, in addition, deeds, monumental inscriptions.
Heralds' College records, and various minor sources of
information.
It may interest the reader to have some of the entries
as they are recorded in the quaint medieval Latin
anciently used in legal proceedings, except that, as in the
original almost every word is contracted and hardly
intelligible save to experts, they are here extended
at length : —
Havvkesbury, Martinmas Court, 12 Edward IV. [1472].
Badmynton: Homagium ibidem venit et presentat quod
Robertus Hulkeberowe sursum redidit in manus domini
totum tenementum suum cum pertinentiis in quo nuper
habitavit ad usum Johannis Hulkeberowe filii sui unde
accidit domino de herietto . . . oves precii ij soli-
dorum. Et dictus Johannes admissus est tenens et fecit
domino fidelitatem.
The fight between William Hulkeberow and Thomas
Byke is thus described in the roll for the Hockday
court, 36 Henry VI, 1458 : —
Badmynton : Decennarius ibidem .... presentat quod
Willelmus Hulkberow fecit aflfraiam in Thomas Byke
cum uno flagello precii unius denarii in defectum
Willelmi Hulkeberowe ; ideo ipse in misericordia ij
denarii. Item presentat quod Willelmus Byke fecit
affraiam super Willelmum Hulkeberowe cum uno lapide
nolius valoris et traxit sanguinem in defectum Willelmi
Byke. Ideo ipse in misericordia vj denarii.
THE MEDIEVAL HOLE ROWS.
As the Holbrow wills prior to the seventeenth century
do not alone allow us to construct a connected pedigree,
it will suffice to give a short abstract of the early wills
now in the Gloucester Probate Registry, the records
of which, with some insignificant exceptions, begin in
1 541, the date of the foundation of that bishopric*
Jhon Holboro in ye ty thyng of Ly ttyll Badgington, dated 2 1 April
1558 ; to be buried in the church yerd of Hawkysberre. To every
child's child a sheep apiece. To Robert Holboro a paire of ... .
a wayne and all my wagonyng, raymente and a cowe and various
domestic utensils. To Wyllie Brynett various domestic utensils.
To Annes Holboro various domestic utensils and a flock bed.
Various domestic utensils to Thomas Hoboro, John Longden and
Margere Holborro. Wife Margere and son John full executrix and
executor of all my goods movable and immovable to se my detts
payde and my will fulfyllyde, my boddye to be brought honestly to
the ground. Overseers: Thomas Holboro, Wylem Holboro.
Witness: Willym Nettylton, vicar of badington. Proved at
Gloucester.
Thomas Howborow, of Little Badminton, in the parish of Hawkes-
bury. Dated 30 October 1578. To Thomas, his son, his godson,
ijs. To his son, William Howborow, a cow and half a quarter of
wheat and half a quarter of barley. To every of the five children
of the said William, a sheep a piece. I give to Moll and Alice,
daughters of the said William, a yerelinge heffer. I give to John
Howborow, his son, a yoke of oxen and a yoke and a .... ,
a quarter of wheate, a quarter of barley and the wayne only and the
furniture. To Harry tlowborow, his son, one j'oke of oxen and a
a quarter of wheat, a quarter of barley. Anis How-
borow, my wife, to have the use of the foresayd wayne and four
oxen during her life. Residue of goods, movable and immovable,
to Anys Howborow, his wife : she to be executrix. Witnesses :
William Holborow, John Gorden and others. Proved by William
Howbrow, the son, 1578, in Gloucester Consistory Court.
* There are a very few earlier Gloucestershire wills still pre-
served at Worcester, but it is probable that before the reformation
most middle-class wills were proved before the Archdeacon. All
these records seem to have disappeared.
THE MEDIEVAL HO LB ROWS.
Joanne Holbourogh, of Littall Badminton. Dated 17 May 1571,
13 of Elizabeth. To the church or chappell of Littell badminton,
ij bossells of barley. To every one of my children's children
a cow a piece. To every godchild that I have m]d. To Elnor
Holborowe, my daughter-in-law, late wife of Thomas Holborow, of
Sharston, my best peticoat. To William Longden half a bossell of
wheate. To Lawrence Boshyre half a bossell of wheate. To
Arthur Andros, half a bossell of wheate. To John Butler my son-
in-law, one cow, an acre of wheat shoting on the hundred path, an
acre of barley, on the north sideof the Staunge brook, six yewes and
various domestic utensils. To Christopher Holborow, my son,
various domestic articles, one ox called Whytthorne, three whethers
and one cow called gentle, one quarter of wheate, one acre of wheate
at Staunge book and various domestic utensils. To Johane Mane, my
daughter, mj- new clocke.* To Annys Butler, my daughter, a cote
cloth. To Alj'ce Butler, daughter of John Butler, a cow calf To
Johane Holborowe, daughter of Christopher Holborow, a heutfer of
xii year old, a platter and potynger. Residue of goods and chattells,
movable and immovable, my debts and legacies and my funeral
expenses performed, I bequeeth to my son Richard. Son Richard
sole executor. Overseers : Thomas Holborow and William Long-
den. Proved at Gloucester 8 June 157 1.
John Holborow, of Badmenton Parva, parish of Hawkxebyer3^e.
Dated 1583: a religious preamble to will. Wife Jone.
To sons James, John, and Thomas £6 6s. 8d. each. To his four
daughters /[6 of money at the age of 16. To son James 3 acres of
barley in Maddon Hill. To son Thomas 6 yewes, neither the best
nor the worst, and one cowe of two years old. To his wife one yoke
of oxen or ^4 in money and various domestic utensils. I give and
bequeath toward the maintenance of the chapel and service of Litell
Badmonton ij bushells of barley. To Lawrence Bishope and
Nicholas Hulbero half a bushell of barley. To Richard Mayo one
bushel! of barley. To Thomas Hulbero half a bushell of barley. To
Wykes Wyese half a bushell of barley. Executrix : Joan my wife.
Witnesses : Richard Mayo, John Jordan, Rychard Holborow, Ralphe
Byshope, clerk. Overseers : my well beloved in Christ, William
Holboro and Henry Holborow. Residue to Jone his wife. Debts
owing unto me : Robarde Wadley, xiii. ob. ; NichoUas Bennet oweth
me xviiijo'. Proved at Gloucester, coram Will. Blackleech.
* The word " clock" is probably only a mis-spelling of " cloak.'
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROIVS.
William Holboroive, of Lj'tle Badmyngton, parish of Hawxbery.
Dated 17 April 1592. To son Thomas £12, one quarter of wheat,
one quarter of barley and four ewes with their lambs. To daughter
Margerie Tilleadams two bushells of wheat and one busliell of
barley. To Isabell Hoborow his daughter ^^4, and two ewes and
numerous domestic utensils, a quarter of wheat and a quarter of
barle3^ Residue to son Henry. John Bennet half a bushell of
wheat. To Thomas Wilks half a bushell of wheat. Executor :
son Henry. Overseers : friends and kinsmen Richard Holborow
and Henry Holborow, to each 6s. Zd. for their pains. Witnesses :
Thomas Hooke, vicar of Hawxbere, Richard Bennet, John
Holborowe. Proved at Gloucester 1592.
Richard Holborow, of Badmenton parva, dated last day of August
1594. Religious preamble. To the Chapel of Litel Badmenton a
bushel of barley. To Thomas Wyko half a bushel of barlej'. To
his four children, viz., Thomas Holborow, Ralph Holborow,
William Holborow and Joane Holborow, every of them ^5.
Residue to wife Syble, she to be executrix. Overseers, Elye
Halfustne and my brother, Henrye Holborow. Witness, Elye
Halfustne, Henry Holborow, John Butler, John Holborow and
others. Proved coram Blackleech 5 July 1595. Richard Holborow
oweth Thomas Salmon xls. Alexander Longden oweth him xxs.
Gloucester Registry.
Thomas Holboiirowe, of Oldbury {i.e., on the Hill]. Dated 26
January 1603. Religious preamble. To be buried in Oldbury
churchyard. To Edward Freeman and his household one bushell
of barley. To aunt Arcoll [? Arnott] one bushell of wheat. To
Alyce Arnott half a bushel of wheat. To Margerye Felpes half a
bushell of barley. To Augustine Towgh half a bushell of barley.
To James Wood half a bushell of barley. To John Butler one
bushell of barley. To wife Agnes xijW. in money. To his mother
one yooke of bullocks. To brother Wylliam xli. To sister Jone all
my wool in the house. To Cicely Leigh ij ewes of the best. To
Elizabeth Idolls one ewe and lambs. Residue to brother Ralph
Holborowe : he to be executor. Overseers : Thomas Richemon,
Nicholas Chappell. Witnesses : William Leigh, parson of Oldbury,
Thomas Idolls the elder, Robert Heaven, with others. Proved
1603.
Gloucester Registry.
THE MEDIEVAL HOLE ROWS.
Henrii Howborowc, the eldest, of Little Badminton, co. Glouc,
yeoman: dated i January 1617. Religious preamble. To wife
Elizabeth two best kine. To Izabell, my daughter, wife of Thomas
Parsons, xijrf. To Dina, my daughter, wife of Thomas How-
borowe, vijW. To Dina Heykborowe, widow, Alice May, widow,
and IWarian Howborowe, widow, each a bushell of barley. Resi-
due unto Mr. William Howberowe, my son ; he to be executor.
Witnesses : Richard Frankline and Henry Howborowe. Proved
at Gloucester.
Henry Howborow, of Little Badminton. Dated 29 May 16 19.
Religious preamble. To my brother, Thomas Howborow, ;^io.
I owe to Thomas Fearn los. To the Chapel of Little Badminton
2S. To Alice Mayo, Marian Howborow and Dina Heckborne each
half a bushell of barley. To my son, Henry Howborowe, my best
oxe, to be by himself chosen. Proved 1631.
Gloucester Registry.
Henry Howborow, of Upton, within the parish of Hawkesbury,
dioc. Glouc, husbandman. Dated 3 April 162 1. Religious pre-
amble. To my daughter Deena, various domestic utensils and 50s.
To his son John, domestic utensils, one mault-mill, best hatt, a shirt,
etc. and 20s. to be paid him by son Richard, and 20s. more by my
executrix ; also my long coat. To daughter Margaret 30s., to be
paid her by my son Richard. To my daughter Mary Minchin 20s.
To my son Arthur the rest of my apparel. To my son Richard
the table board in the haule and the foorme ; and my will is that
my executrix shall discharge the trust. Residue to daughter
Elizabeth, she to be executrix. Overseers, William Bence and
Henry Venne. Witnesses, William Bence and Henry Venne.
Debts due to the testator: from Richard Chaunler, iijs. v}d. From
my son Richard Howborrow, vUi. Proved at Gloucester ult. May
1621.
Elizabeth Holborowe ; dated 23 November 1622 ; to be buried in the
churchyard of Wickwar. To my brother Arthur Holborow, vs. and
to Margaret his wife " the gown I now wear in the weeke daye."
My sister Deena Holborow xs., clothing and domestic utensils. To
sister Margaret vs., and wearing apparel. To goddaughter Margery
Holborow vs. To my sister Mary Davies wearing apparel. To
John Peace one stale of bees. To my brother Richard Hoborow
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
one stale of bees, one cupboard and trow. To John Holborow
domestic utensils. All my goods moveable and not moveable to my
brother-in-law and executor Ralf Danes. Overseers : Richard
Right and James Webb.
Gloucester Registry.
John Holbrow, of Hawkesbury, 1630. This will is not to be
found, but as the bundle in which it should be is in great confusion
it would not be safe to say that it is lost.
Thomas Holbrow, 1650. This will is also missing.
John Holbrow, of Wickwar ; dated 13 May 1643; named wife
Jane ; Mary Houbro ; Thomas Houbro ; my sister Ursula Pratt ;
Mary, daughter of Samuel Pratt ; my sister, Joane Hurnes ;
Jane, wife of Richard Russel ; Thomas, son of Richard Russell ;
also John, Thomas Richard and Mary Russel. All the rest of my
goods, bonds, bills, money and cattels I give and bequeath to
Samuel Pratt, my executor. Overseers : Thomas Russel and
Richard Russel. Signed John Houbrow. Witnesses : Richard
Russel, Mary Holbrow, William Pratt.
Gloucester Registry.
Crossing the county boundary into Wiltshire, we
find also, as already mentioned, various Holborows
settled in the neighbouring parishes of Great Sherston,
Alderton and Luckington. For their history w^e must
content ourselves with short abstracts of their wills which
were recorded in the Consistory Court of Sarum and the
Archdeaconry Court of Wilts, for it is not possible to
compile from these scanty records a connected pedigree.
It is, however, evident, from the inventories of goods
which have been preserved, that the wills relate to
people who were in a comfortable middle-class position.
D
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
That of John Holborowe, of Great Sherston, yeoman,
shows that he left goods valued at the then substantial
sum of £'/2> 9s. 2d., while the existence of the item
of books, 5i-., seems to indicate that he was an educated
man.
Marye Holborough, of Aldrington, co. Wilts, widow, dated
14 January 1564-5. I desire to be buried in Aldrington church-
yard. I give to the poor people, 40?. To the cathedral church of
Sarum, 2d. To Richard, my son, all such things as are particularly
named in the last will of Nicholas Holbrowe, my late husband, viz.,
harness and timber, &c. Three of the plough oxen thus bequeathed
to my said son are already delivered to him, and in recompense of
the fourth I give him one querne mill for malt, a "yotinge " stone, a
colt, a cofiFer, &c., &c. I also bequeath him two kine, a mare, six of
my best sheep, and other farm stock. To my daughter Alls, a table-
board in the hall, two dry vats, two herring barrels, and other
household stuff. To John Pheltham, one little coffer, &c. To
Richard, Arthur and John Coxe, sons of RafiFe Coxe, a sheep apiece ;
and to Thomas Coxe, a lamb. To Margery Wodmane, John
Pheltame, Katherine Pheltame, and Johan [or ? John] Bearde and
my daughter Alice, half of my corn and hay, and all manner of
fodder. The table-board above bequeathed to my daughter, shall
remain at her death to my son Richard ; or if he then be dead, to the
said Margery Wodman. Residuary legatees and executors : — my
son Richard and daughter Alice. Overseers : William Pontinge and
Richard Felpes. Witnesses : Robart Sandell, William Pontinge,
Richard Felpes. [Probate Act not registered.] Consist. Sarum ;
^eg: 1557-98-
William Holborowe, of Sherston Magna, co. Wilts, husbandman,
dated 23 September 1607. I bequeath to my daughter Alice
Holborowe, three kine, my greater heifer, 20 sheep and 3 young
pigs. To my other daughter Dinah Holborowe, the like. To my
son Thomas, my best platter, my spice " morter and pessell," and
one little caldron. To my said two daughters, all the residue of my
household stuff equally between them. Residuary legatee and
executor : my son Thomas. I give to my sister Joane, one store
pig. To the goodwife, Hobbes' widow, ^£'4. To my godson John
Turnor. Witnesses : Richard Woodroffe, clerk, Joane Wyer.
[Probate Act not recorded.] Archd. Wilts : Filed Wills.
KiNGScoTE Church.
Town's End, Leonard Stanley.
THE MEDIEVAL HOLBROWS.
Agnes Holborough (nuncupative will) made 28 September 1616,
I give unto Alice May 20s., which Peter Crome, of Chippenham,
oweth me ; and 12s. which Robert Baker and his wife, of Chippen-
ham, owe me. [No executor named.] Witnesses : William Bongey,
John Maye. Proved 15 October 161 7. Archd. Wilts : Filed Wills.
John Holboroiv, of Luckington, co. Wilts. Bond, 6 September
1 63 1, by Rice Holborrow, of Luckington, co. Wilts, mason, and
John Goodenough, of Sherston Magna, gent., on grant of admon of
the goods of the abovesaid John Holborow to the said Rice.
Inventory of goods, appraised on the same day [appraisers' names
not given], value 50s., viz., wearing apparel los., and lease of his
house 40s. Archd. Wilts : Filed Papers.
W'lt is not improbable that this John Holborow was the father of
illiam Holbrow, of Kingscote.]
John Holbrowe, of Cherston Magna, co. Wilts, yeoman, dated 8
July 1634. I give to my grandchild, Annie Bane, ;^5. Executrix
and residuary legatee: — my wife Elleonor. Made in the presence of
divers credible witnesses. Proved 15 July 1634, by the executrix
named. Inventory of goods, appraised 9 July 1634, by Ethelbrighte
Neale and John Ellizander. The goods consist of farm stock and
household stuff, including books 5s., value £tt, gs. 2d.
Consist. Sarum : Filed Wills.
With the evidences that so far are available it is not
possible to construct a consecutive pedigree earlier than
the seventeenth century, and this narrative therefore,
in its commencement, follovirs the pedigree prepared by-
Ralph Bigland, Garter King of Arms, about the year
1792. We accordingly begin the pedigree with: —
I. William Holbrow, of Kingscote, in the county
of Gloucester, born at Luckington, Wilts, and settled at
Kingscote, where he was buried 5 April 1688, aged 83,
THE FAMILY OF HOLE ROW.
his handsome altar tomb still existing in that churchyard
with the following inscription : " Here lyeth the Body of
William Holbrow, senior, who departed this life the
2nd day of April in 1688, aged 83." His will, of which
we give an abstract, shows that he was a prosperous
man. Kingscote is now merely a small agricultural
village, but in the middle of the seventeenth century it
must have been more important, situate as it is on the
great coach road from Bath to Gloucester. By his
removal to Kingscote he became a man of substantial
means, and he may be regarded as the founder of his
family. By the early part of the next century his son
had so prospered at Uley that Atkyns named him
amongst the gentry of that village as possessing there a
"good house and estate", whilst his grandson, in 1741,
attained the dignity of High Sheriff of the county. His
own will is recorded at Gloucester.
William Holbrow, of Kingscote, tailer, 20th February 1687.
4 James II. " Weak in body." To my son, John Holbrough, one
table board and frame that stands in the hall, also my gun. To my
son, William Holbrow, one shilling. To my son, Daniel Holbrow,
one shilling. To my grandson, Anthony Holbrough, one shilling.
To my son-in-law, Samuel Deny, of Tetbury, 2/6. To my son-in-
law, Nathaniel Heren, of Minchinhampton, 2/6. To my son-in-law,
John Andrews, of Dursley, 2/6. To my daughter, Mary Holbrow,
_jirToo, to be paid to her at the day of marriage if she do plase
herself to the consent of her mother and my overseers. To my
daughter, Predget Holbrough, ^100, to be paid to her at her
marriage if she do place herself to the consent of her mother and
my overseers. Residue to my wife, Bredget, whom I appoint sole
Executrix. Overseers, my son, John Holbrow, of Kingscote, and
my son William Holbrough, of Uly, and to each of them 2/6 for
their pains. Signed, William Holbrow [a rose]. Witnesses:
Mary Holbrough her M mark ; William Hooper ; Daniell
Welsteed.
Proved at Gloucester 27 April 1688, by Bridgett Holbrough,
the executrix.
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
He married, at Leonard Stanley 14 April 1645, Bridget,
daughter of Toby Shillam, of Leonard Stanley, who
was baptized 9 February 161 5-16, and died 7 April 1695,
and was buried at Kingscote.
William Holbrow and Bridget Shillam had issue —
i. John Holbrow, of whom next (2).
ii. Thomas Holbrow, baptized 10 June 1660, buried
8 December 1662.
iii. William Holbrow, of Ludgershall, in the parish of
Newington Bagpath, esquire; died 23, buried 26
February 1730, aged 84. He appears to have been
a clothier, and is described on his tombstone in
Uley churchyard as "gentleman." He seems to
have either purchased or rented Townsend House,
Leonard Stanley, about the year 1693, which after-
wards became the seat of the family. He married
Mary, daughter of — . Beard, of Spelman's Court,
in the parish of Rodborough, who died 14
September 1683, and was buried at Uley.
They had issue a daughter, Mary, who died
I February 1703-4, unmarried, and was buried
Ludgershall. — This is an ancient homestead, very picturesquely
situated in a detached part of Newington Bagpath parish, nearly
two miles from that church, but within half-a-mile of Uley,
in the valley between that village and Owlpen. Its recorded
history goes back to the twelfth century, when it belonged to the
Cowley family, one of whom, Claricia, the widow of John Hunedi,
granted it to the Hospital of St. Bartholomew in Gloucester. At
the Dissolution it was transferred to the Corporation of Glou-
cester, but, after an interval of nearly eight hundred years, it has
returned to private ownership, having been purchased within the
last few years by the Holloway family, who now reside there.
Uley House. — The premises, thus purchased by Mr. Holbrow,
were conveyed by lease and release, dated 16 and 17 June,
33 Charles II (1681), by Sir William Bassett, of Claverton, Somer-
set, knight, to him as William Holbrow, of Uley, clothier, and the
property is thus described in the purchase deed — " All that
messuage, house, rooms of houses and buildings before Gerlinges
Green [in the lease spelt Garlinges Green], and a close adjoining ;
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
at Uley, and on their tombstone were recorded
two others, Mary and James, who died in the
first year of their age.
He was it may be presumed the " Mr. Holbrow "
Atkyns, in 171 1, speaks of under Uley, saying
" Mr. Holbrow, Mr. Dorney, Mr. Small, and Mr.
Gide possess good houses and estates in this parish."
It is evident that he must have been the purchaser
on 17 June 1681 of the house on Uley Green which
afterwards became the seat of his family. His
nephew, William Holbrow, afterwards sheriff, who
resided here, was at this time but an infant a
few months old.
The inscription on their tomb in Uley church-
yard is thus given in Bigland's Collections: —
" In Memory of William Holbrow, Senr., of this
parish, gent., who died Feb. 23, 1730, aetat. suae 84.
Also of Mary, his wife, who died Sept. 14, 1683, and
of 2 of his children, viz., Mary & James, who died
in the first year of their age.
"Also in Memory of 3 children of William
Holbrow, Junr., and Mary his wife, viz., William,
Mary, and Elizabeth, who died Infants."
iii. Thomas Holbrow, baptised 10 June 1660; buried
8 December 1662.
iv. Anne, born 15 June 1654.
V. John Holbrow, of whom next (2).
an orchard adjoining the Parson's ground called Ouldhay, 3 lea-
sowes of pasture called Foreland's Inlands and Dead Acre ; 3 closes
of arable and meadow in the Warleigh ; 2% acres of grounds in
Lewcombe ; 2 acres of land and i acre of wood called Uleys, and a
wood called Ruckwood, containing 12 acres." For this he gave
;£i7o. Sir William Bassett was the head of the very ancient
family of Bassett of Bassett's Court in Uley, of which the very site
is now quite forgotten, though for many years after it continued
to be inhabited by a younger branch. Though the title deeds
do not show how it passed, this property became vested in
William Holbrow's nephew, William, who by his will, proved
in 1741, devised his freehold and leasehold estates to his son John
Holbrow, at whose death, in 1795, the property passed to his
nephew, Thomas Maule. The latter sold the premises in 1799 to
Edward Sheppard for ^2,250, and further assured the premises to
him by a fine levied in 1806. In 1837, the assignees of Edward
Uley House.
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW. 23
vi. Bridget, born 15 August 1657.
vii. Katherine, and
viii. Mary, twins, baptized 9 November 165 1. She was,
probably, the Mary Holbrow, of Kingscote, who
married at Uley, 15 August 1695, IVilliam Jacob, of
Minchin Hampton.
ix. Anthony Holbroiu, of whom hereafter (15).
X. Daniel Holbrow, of Hampton, co. Gloucester, buried
at Hampton ; m. a daughter of — Damsell, of
Tetbury, co. Gloucester. They had issue —
1. William Holbrow, " died unmarried. "
2. Daniel Holbrow,* "of Hampton,t married
twice."
2. John Holbrow, of Kingscote, gentleman, born
there in 1646, died 20 August 1729, aged 2>2„ and was
buried at Kingscote. He married, at Beverston, 14
February 1680, Mary Hailing, of Hostley (i.e.,
Horsley), who died 25 March 1729, in her 75th year.
Sheppard, sen., and Edward Sheppard, jun., sold the house to the
Rev. Marlowe Watts Wilkinson, Rector of Uley. On his death
in 1867 it was conveyed to General A. E. Burmester, C.B., who
lived here about five years, and in 1872 sold it to Mr. Arthur
Baines, J. P., the present owner of Uley House, to whom we are
indebted for these particulars of its history. It may be inferred
that William Holbrow did not himself reside at Uley House, since
he is expressly described by Bigland as " of Luggershall." On
his tombstone in Uley churchyard he was described as of "this
parish," a discrepancy which may be accounted for by his interest
in Uley itself, of which Ludgershall, in situation, forms part,
though technically in Bagpath parish.
* Probably Daniel Holbrow, of Minchinhampton, surgeon, whose
will, leaving all to Nathaniel Perkes, of Minchinhampton, gentle-
man, was dated 25 September 1761, and proved 26 March 1769, was
of this family. The registers of Beverston contain the following
entry, which possibly refers to this gentleman : — " Daniel Holbrow
and Elizabeth Booker, married 21 April 1755."
t Minchinhampton locally is often called simply Hampton.
THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
They are thus commemorated in Kingscote church-
yard—
In memory of
John Holbrow of this parish, yeoman,
And Mary his wife.
She died the 25th of March
In the 75th year of her age,
And he the 20th of August
In the 85th year of his age,
1729.
John Holbrow and Mary Hailing had issue —
1. William Holbrow, of whom next (3).
ii. Mary, born 10 June 1682, married — Trotman, of
North Nibley, and had issue.
Hi. Elizabeth, born 21 April 1685, and died i July 17 11,
unmarried.
Iv. Thomas Holbrow, of whom hereafter (14).
V. John Holb7-ow, of whom hereafter (6).
vi. Daniel Holbrow, settled in London.
3. William Holbrow, of The Green, Uley, esquire,
born at Kingscote 16 November 1680. It may be pre-
sumed that he succeeded to the wealth of his uncle
William Holbrow, of ' Ludgershall, and doubtless in-
creased it by following what then at Uley was the profit-
able business of a clothier : his own position is shown by
the fact that he became sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1741,
an honour which he did not long survive, for he died in
the year of office 7 July 1741, aged 61 ; his m.i. is on a
Halling. — This appears to be an old Gloucestershire name
which is variously spelt as Hawlinge, Hawlinges, Hallinge,
Halinge, Haulinges, Hawleinge. The earliest wills of the name at
Gloucester appear to be those of Edward and Alice Hawlinge, of
Berkeley, in 1577. In Uley register appears this marriage: Robert
Wight, yeoman, and Ales Halling, dau. of William Hallinge and
Elizabeth, 23 October 1703.
Uley Church, before Rebuilding.
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Uley Church, before Rebuilding.
From the Green.
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
large altar tomb still extant on the south side of Uley
churchyard, though the inscription is now partly effaced.
He married (i) Mary Tippetts, of Dursley, who died
and was buried at Dursley. By this lady he apparently
7i
had issue three children, William, Mary, and Elizabeth,
who died in infancy, and are recorded on the tomb at
Uley ; but she seems to have left no surviving children.
He married (2) Anne, daughter of Isaac Gale, of
Corston, Wilts, gentleman. She was buried 26 July
1768, at Uley.
William Holbrow and Anne Gale had issue —
i. John Holbrow, of whom next (4).
ii. Grace, m., as second wife, Richard Hawker, of Dud-
bridge, King Stanley, gentleman. She died 14
Sept. 1770, aged 51 years. He died 6 July 1776,
aged 70 years ; m.i. at King Stanley.
They left issue, amongst others —
Thomas Hawker, their youngest son, who settled
at Uley as a clothier, and died 5 March
1794, aged 45 ; m.i. at King Stanley.
Mary, married William Holbrow, and died 27
Feb. 1803, aged 51.
TiPPETTS. — This family long occupied a respectable position in
the town of Dursley, of which from time to time they were bailiffs,
but they are no longer resident there. The family is now repre-
sented by Mr. W. J. B. Tippetts, a London solicitor. In the reign
of Charles II Richard Tippetts, a member of this family, took out a
grant of the following arms : Argent, on a chevron between three
dolphins embowed azure as many crosses crosslet of the first.
E
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
iii. Elisabeth, baptized at Uley, 5 August 1721 ; married
Rev. John Maule, of whom hereafter (5).
iv. Anna, married at Uley, 29 August iT Si, John Lyne,
of Ringwood, Hants, and was buried there.
4. John Holbrow, of King Stanley, esquire, born at
Uley about 1725, appears to have resided there for a time,
but afterwards lived at King Stanley. John Holbrow,
who was a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire, used
arms, as is shown by his seal, which appears on documents
as early as 1759. The origin of the coat is not known,
but it was confirmed by grant of Sir Isaac Heard,
d/J^^^,
Garter King of Arms, in 1787. Mr. Holbrow died 15
November 1790, aged 65, and was buried at King
Stanley, where on the north side of the nave of that
church is his mural tablet ; married (i) by license at
Newington Bagpath, 29 December 1768, his cousin
Catherine, daughter of Thomas Holbrow, of Newington
Bagpath.
By her, who died 7 September 1780, and was buried
at Uley, he had issue —
i. Anne, who died in infancy.
ii. William Holbrow, who died in infancy,
iii. Anne, born at Uley 7 July 1773; died unmarried
5 November 1793, aged 20.
He married (2) by licence at Uley, 17 July 1784,
Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Phillimore, of Cam,
gentleman, by his wife Elizabeth Partridge. She, in the
register, is described as of Wotton-under-Edge, which
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
indicates that she then resided with her brother, John
Phillimore, of Symondshall, close to Uley, though
actually in Wotton parish. By her, who died 2 Septem-
ber 1793, aged 54, he left no issue.
His monument, a handsome mural tablet, still remains
on the north aisle in King Stanley church, with the
following inscription —
Arms — HoLBROw impaling Phillimore. Gules, three bars or,
in chief as many cinqticfoils of the last.
In memory of John Holbrow, late of Uley, who died November
iSth, 1790, aged 65 years.
Also of Catherine, his first wife, and daughter of Thomas
Holbrow, of Bagpath, who died September 7 th, 1780, and was
buried at Uley.
Also of Ann, their daughter, who died November 6th, 1793, aged
20 years.
Also of Elizabeth, his second wife, daughter of Samuel Philli-
more, of Cam, who died September 2nd, 1793, aged 54 years.
Phillimore.— The Phillimores had been settled at Cam, chiefly
as manufacturers of cloth, since the early years of the sixteenth
century, and at Dursley at least as early as 1465. John Phillimore,
of Simondshall, esquire, a very considerable farmer, brother of
Mrs. Holbrow, greatly enlarged the ancient mansion of the
Dorney family, which adjoined the Holbrow property, but died in
1825, before he took up his residence there. This house, with a
large estate in Uley, had come, by her first marriage with John Foyle
Small, esquire, to their sister Mrs. Purnell, of Kingshill, who,
dying in 1826, left this property, ;^4o,ooo, and the residue of her
estate away from her kindred to the Kingscote family. That line
of Phillimore which has since become eminent in the legal world
descends from Joseph Phillimore, who died in 1704, a younger great
uncle of Mrs. Holbrow. The arms empaled for Phillimore upon
John Holbrow's monument in King Stanley church are quite
without authority, and there is no evidence that at this time the
Phillimores were entitled to arms, though, like many other pros-
perous clothing families in Gloucestershire, they assumed and used
coat armour. On the tablets of Mrs. Holbrow's near kindred in
Cam church appears the shield, Sable, three bars or, in chief as
many cinquefoils of the last, being in fact the arms of the very
distinct family of Filmer, baronets of Kent.
28 THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
5. Elizabeth Holbrow, baptised at Uley 7 August
1 72 1, married Rev. Jo/m Maule, of Ringwood, Hants.
She died 14 and was buried at Uley 17 Nov. 1784,
aged 62,.
Here lie the Remains of
Elizabeth,
Relict of the Rev. John Maule,
Vicar of Ringwood, Hants,
And daughter of William and Anne Holbrow, of this parish,
Who died November 14, 1784,
Aged 63 years.
Rev. John Maule and Elizabeth Holbrow had issue —
i. Thomas Maule, of Maisey Hampton, and afterwards of
Amnej' Crucis, died unmarried, and left the bulk of
his property to his nephews. Rev. John Keble and
Rev. Thomas Keble.
ii. Sarah, of whom next.
5a. Sarah Maule, who died ii May 1823, having
married at Uley, 8 December 1785, Rev. John Keble,
of Fairford, 52 years vicar of Coin St. Aldwyn, M.A.,
and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was
born at Fairford about the year 1745, and died 24 Jan-
uary 1835, aged 89.
Keble. — The Rev. John Keble was son of John Keble, a maltster
at Fairford, who died in 1780, and, though apparently not of armorial
rank, the family was well-to-do and had long been settled in the
county of Gloucester. One of the family, Richard Keble, esquire,
of East Leach Turvill, had been summoned at the Herald's visita-
tion of the county in 1684, but did not enter his pedigree, nor does
his name appear amongst those disclaiming the right to bear arms.
The Kebles, who are said to descend from Sir Henry Keble,
knight. Lord Mayor of London in 15 10, were long settled at East
Leach Turville. From this family the Fairford Kebles presumably
descended. The earliest wills of the Gloucestershire Kebles prior
to 1650 are those of Thomas Keble, of East Leach Turville, 1559;
William Keble, of Southrop, in 1601 ; Henry Keble, of Southrop,
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROIV.
Rev. John Keble and Sarah Maule had issue —
i. Elisabeth, born i6 July 1790, died unmarried 7
August i860.
ii. Sarah, died June 1814.
iii. Mary Anne, died unmarried September 1826.
iv. John Keble, vicar of Hursley, in Hampshire, and
author of the " Christian Year". He was born at
Fairford 25 April 1792. Keble matriculated at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 12 December 1806,
and graduated B. A. in Easter Term 18 10, taking a
First Class both in classics and mathematics. In
181 2 he won both the English and Latin Essay
Prizes, and the same year was elected fellow of
Oriel, which he held till 1835. He was professor
of Poetry 1831-1S42. In 1827 he issued "The
Christian Year ", a work which did much to help on
the Oxford Movement, of which Keble himself was
one of the foremost pioneers. His life has been
written by Sir J. T. Coleridge, and there is a good
summary by Canon Overton in the "Diet. Nat.
Biog.", vol. XXX, pp. 291-295. He died 29 March
1866, and was buried 6 April in Hursley
churchyard. As is well known, Keble College,
Oxford, was founded by subscription to perpetuate
his memory. Mr. Keble married at Bisley, 10
October 1835, Charlotte, daughter of Rev. George
Clarke, B.D., fellow of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, rector of Meysey Hampton. They left no
issue.
V. Thomas Keble, of whom next (5b).
5b. Thomas Keble, vicar of Bisley 1 827-1 873.
He was born at Fairford 25 October 1793; entered
1613; Thomas Keble, of Southrop, 1613; Agnes Keble, of Southrop,
1625; Bernard Keeble, of Lechlade, 1644; Margaret Keeble, of
Addlestrop, 1644. Of this family are said to have been Richard
Keble, a Welsh Judge in 1647, a Serjeant in 1648, and one of the
Commissioners of the Great Seal ; and his son Joseph Keble, a
Reporter of the King's Bench, temp. Charles II, born 1632;
died 1710, both of whom are named in the " Dictionary of National
Biography."
30 THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, i April 1808; scholar,
and afterwards fellow of his college ; B.A. 181 1 ; M.A.
1815; B.D. 1824. He died 5 September 1875. He
married at Cirencester, June 14, 1825, Elizabeth Jane,
daughter of the Rev. George Clarke, B.D., fellow of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, rector of Meysey
Hampton, and sister of Mrs. John Keble.
Rev. Thomas Keble and Elizabeth Jane Clarke had
issue —
i. Thomas Keble, born at Southrop March 24, 1826.
vicar of Bishopstone 1869-73, and of Bisley since
1873; IVI.A. and fellow of Magdalen College, Ox-
ford; hon. canon of Gloucester 1893. Mr. Keble
has three sons —
1. John Noble Keble, M.A. of Keble College,
Oxford ; prebendary of York.
2. George Clarke Keble, B.A. of Keble College,
Oxford ; vicar of St. Catherine, Gloucester.
3. Thomas Charles Keble, B.A. of Keble College,
Oxford ; vicar of Dunstall, Staffordshire.
ii. Elizabeth, born June 30, 1827.
iii. Sarah Margaret, born January 27, 1832.
iv. Charlotte Mary, born February 26, 1834.
We now return to the family of John Holbrow (2) and
Mary Hailing — the third son —
6. John Holbrow, of Leonard Stanley, Gloucester-
shire, gentleman, was born at Kingscote 10 November
1686, and died 2 March 1747, aged 62 ; buried at
Leonard Stanley ; m.i. there.
Will as John Holbrow, of Stanley Saint Leonard, gent. Residue
of leaseholds in Stanley St. Leonards, purchased from Samuel
Clutterbuck and John Welsh, to Nathaniel Beard, of Oldends,
Stonehouse, gent., and eldest son John Holbrough, jun., in trust for
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
wife, remainder to daughters Anna and Mary. Freehold in Stanley
St. Leonards lately bought of Richard Whitmore, esq., and also
residue to wife, with remainder to daughters. Wife executrix.
Dated i6 March 1742. Proved 15 July 1748 by executrix.— G/o«-
cester Probate Registry.
He married Anna, daughter of William Clissold, of
Pitchcombe, co. Gloucester, clothier. She died 3
December 1759, aged 70, and was buried at Leonard
Stanley.
Anna Holbrow, of Stanley St. Leonard, widow. Personal estate
to my two sons, John Holbrow and William Holbrow, of Stanley
St. Leonard, gentlemen, in trust as to one moiety for my daughter
Anna, wife of Francis Brabant, of Gloucester, maltster, and the
other moiety for my daughter Mary, wife of Nathaniel Beard, of
Stonehouse, clothier. Dated 17 February 1759. Anna Holbrow.
Proved 4 September 1761 by William Holhrov/.— Gloucester
Probate Registry.
John Holbrow and Anna Clissold had issue —
i. /ohn Holbrow, of whom next.
ii. Anna, died 21 July 1776, aged 62, and was buried at
Leonard Stanley. She married (i) at Leonard
Stanley, 17 October 1749, Samuel Fisher, of Bir-
mingham, and (2) at Leonard Stanley, 22 January
1759, Samuel Brabant, of St. Mary de Crypt, in
the City of Gloucester, widower.
iii. Mary, died 20 February 1772, aged 57, m.i. at
Leonard Stanley. She married at Leonard Stanley,
S April 1743, Nathaniel Beard, of Merritts Mill,
Leonard Stanley (son of John Beard and Elizabeth,
daughter of Samuel Arundel, of Stonehouse) ; he
died 19 August 1774, aged 65. They left issue
nine children.
iv. William Holbrow, of Leonard Stanley, gentleman,
baptized there 16 January 1717-18; died unmarried
8, buried 11 June 1767, at Leonard Stanley, aged 49.
Will dated 9 March 1765. To cousin William
Holbrow, of Dursley, gent., and brother John
Holbrow, land at Leonard Stanley called Sheppard's
Mead, in possession of Samuel Dangerfield, in
trust for brother-in-law Nathaniel Beard, then to
THE FAMILY OF HOLE ROW.
my sister Mary, his wife. Remainder to my
nephew John Beard, their eldest son. ;^ioo to my
sister Mary, and ;,{^ioo each to her nine children,
John, William, Nathaniel, Samuel, Thomas, Charles,
Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, all under age. Residue of
estate to brother John Holbrow, charged with annuity
of ;i{^io to my sister Anne, wife of Francis Brabant,
of Gloucester, maltster. Proved by John Holbrow,
the executor, 28 March 1767. — Gloucester Probate
Registry.
V. Elisabeth, baptized at Leonard Stanley 4 April 1722;
died unmarried in 1742, aged 20, and was buried
2 October at Leonard Stanley ; m.i. there.
7. John Holbrow, of Leonard Stanley, gentleman,
was born at Horsley, and died, 25 October 1780, aged
68, at Leonard Stanley, where he was buried 29 October,
m.i. ; churchwarden 1758.
Will dated 26 October 177S. To my wife Elizabeth, ^,^50 and
household goods for life, then to my sons Thomas and Samuel.
My messuage, etc., in Leonard Stanley, and orchard enclosed out of
the withy beds, to wife for life, then to son Thomas, but charged
with £^0 to Samuel. Also to wife for life, premises in tenure
of John Davis, and also the Little Riddings ; remainder to son
Samuel. Recites indenture of 23 June last between himself (i);
Richard Bigland, of Frocester, esq. (2) ; John Hawker, of Dud-
bridge, dyer, and eldest son, William Holbrow (3) ; and John
Beard, of Leonard Stanley, clothier, and John Colborn, of Stroud,
gent. (4), whereby he had power of appointing ^1,000 in case of
death of Thomas and Samuel, and he appoints to son William.
Residue to executor Richard Bigland and John Beard in trust for
wife and Thomas and Samuel. Admon. 12 Oct. 1782, to son
Thomas, the executors having renounced. — Gloucester Probate
Registry.
He married at Leonard Stanley, 21 April 1746,
Elizabeth, only surviving daughter and heir of Thomas
Dale, of Leonard Stanley. She survived her husband
less than a month, and died 24 November 1780, aged
60, and was buried 28 November at Leonard Stanley;
m.i. in that church.
Samuel Holbrow,
of Leonard Stanley.
Son of John Holbrow and Elizabeth Dale.
Mrs. .Sa.mlll Holbrow,
Sam/, Dimock.
Thomas Holbrow,
Died 1824.
Son of Samuel Holbrow and Sarah Dimoc
Willl\m Holbrow,
of Leonard Stanley.
Son of John Holbrow and Elizabeth Dal
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW.
John Holbrow and Elizabeth Dale had issue —
\. John Holbrow, born 23, baptized 24 August 1749;
died 9, buried 1 1 December following.
ii. William Holbrotv, of Leonard Stanley, esquire, born
there 14 February, baptized i March 1750-51;
died 8 January 1803, aged 52, and buried 13
January at Leonard Stanley ; m.i. From 1779 to
1797 his name frequently occurs as church-
warden in the parish books of Leonard Stanley.
His portrait, in possession of Mr. S. C. Holbrow,
at Bath, is reproduced in this volume. He married
at King Stanley, lo November 1779, his cousin
Mary, second daughter of Richard Hawker, of Dud-
bridge, gentleman, and Grace Holbrow. She was
born 5 January 1753, and dying 27 February 1803,
aged 51, was buried at Leonard Stanley 2 March;
m.i. They left no issue.
iii. Elizabeth, born 6, baptized 19 November 1752, at
Leonard Stanley ; died 17, buried 20 October 1755.
iv. Anna, born 13, baptized 22 August 1754, at Leonard
Stanley; died 23, buried 26 February 1755.
V. Thomas Holbrow, of whom next (8).
vi. Samuel Holbrow, of whom hereafter (10).
vii. John Holbrow, twin with Samuel, born 13, baptized
14 May 1758; died 28, buried 30 September
following.
8. Thomas Holbrow, of Leonard Stanley, after-
wards of Badbrook House, Stroud, gentleman ; church-
warden 1 782-1 792 ; born at Leonard Stanley; baptized
12 April 1756; died 7 November 1833, aged 76, and
was buried at Leonard Stanley ; m.i. Married at Stroud
28 January 1783, Martha, only surviving child of
Samuel Butt, of Stroud, gentleman, who died 17 July
1836, aged 80 ; buried at Leonard Stanley.
Thomas Holbrow and Martha Butt had issue —
i. John Holbrow, of Gloucester and Upfield Lodge,
born at Leonard Stanley 29 January ; baptized 8
March 1784; died unmarried 6 March 1849, aged
65, buried at Leonard Stanley ; m.i.
34 THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
ii. Elizabeth, born at Leonard Stanley — July, baptized
25 September 1787; died 11 December 1838, aged
51 ; buried at Leonard Stanley; m.i.
iii. Mary, born at Leonard Stanley 27 February ; bap-
tized 19 April 1791 ; died 10 September 1870, aged
79, and was buried in Stroud Cemetery.
iv. Martha, of whom next ; and probably also Thomas
Holbrow, an infant buried 27 December, 1785.
9. Martha Holbrow, born 9 March 1799; died 9
January 1876; and was buried at Stroud; married at
Painswick 10 October 1820, Charles Stanton, of Upfield
Lodge, near Stroud (fourth son of William Stanton, of
The Thrupp, near Stroud, and his wife Anne Carruthers);
he died 27 March 1863.
Charles Stanton and Martha Holbrow had issue —
i. Charles Holbroiv Stanton, of Field Place, Stroud, J. P.,
of Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. ; born 15 March
1825.
ii. Walter John Stanton, of Culls, Stroud, J.P., M.P. for
Stroud, 1874 and 1880-85; Major (retired) Glou-
cestershire Rifle Volunteers ; born 24 March 1828 ;
married at Painswick, 24 November 1S65, Mary,
daughter of William Cupel, of the Grove, Stroud ;
she died 8 March 1894. Their children are —
1. Walter Charles, born 1872.
2. Arthur William, born 1875.
3. Catherine Holbrow.
4. Helen Rose.
5. Edith Mary, married October 1890, Captain
K. Marshall, of the Argyle and Sutherland
Highlanders,
iii. A. Henry, born 21 June 1839.
iv. Catherine, died 12 July 1899.
V. Martha Ann, born 1822; died 14 November 1894;
having married, 15 July 1845, William Dcvas, of
Sussex Place, Hyde Park, who died 18 October
1870, leaving issue two sons,
vi. Mary, died 13 September 1S99; married, 22 June 1853,
her cousin Rev. William Darke Stanton, vicar of
1S98419
THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
Toddington, co. Gloucester, J. P. ; born 19 February
1828, and had issue —
1. John Darke Stanton, born 9 November 1854 ;
B.A. Exeter College, Oxford; died un-
married 13 January 1895.
2. William, born 26 October 1862 ; died an
infant.
3. Francis Mary, born 3 September 1S56; died
2 April 1S79.
4. Alice Maude, born 3 May 1858.
5. Marion Isabel, born 19 July 1859; died
6 September 1876.
6. Ethel Sophia Martha, bora 11 July 1863.
vii. Margaret, died unmarried 1891.
viii. Maria Cecilia, m. Rev. Frederick Swire, rector of
Elston, Notts. ; born 22 August 1826, and died 1886.
They left issue amongst others —
1. Charles Swire, who married Lucy K. Vallana
in 1892, and has issue.
2. Annie, married Rev. H. Bennett, and has
issue.
3. Frederick Swire, married in 1889, Florence,
the only child of John Henry Fisher, of
Orston Hall, Notts., and has issue two
daughters.
4. Mary.
5. Samuel Swire, M.A., of Exeter College,
Oxford; vicar, 1892, of St. Thomas, Hud-
dersfield.
6. Arthur Swire, married Edith Walker.
7. Margaret, married Dr. J. Copeland Poole, and
has issue, one son.
8. Stanton Swire.
ix. Gertrude Elisabeth, died 25 January 1S77 ; married
(as his second wife) in 1857, Samuel Swire, of Little
Thorpe and Hartwith, co. York, J.P., B.A., Univ.
College, Oxford, who died 26 November 1892.
X and xi. Emily Rose and Rose Emily, twins, born 1S38.
36 THE FAMILY OF HO L BROW.
lO. Samuel Holbrow, of Leonard Stanley, gentle-
man and clothier, born there 13th May 1758; died 14 April
1814, aged 55, and was buried at Leonard Stanley ; m.i.,
churchwarden 1805-6-7-8-9. He married at Stone-
house, 24 August 1786, Sarah, daughter of John Dimock,
of Bridgend, Stonehouse, co. Gloucester, gentleman and
clothier; born 29 July and baptized 8 August 1768;
died 18 November 1847, 3-"^ buried at Leonard Stanley,
aged 79 ; m.i. Their portraits are at Bath in the poses-
sion of their grandson, Stanley Charles Holbrow.
Samuel Holbrow and Sarah Dimock had issue—
i. William Holbrow, a captain in the Yeomary, born at
Leonard Stanley 27 March, baptized 17 April 1788 ;
died at Frampton-on-Severn 16 July 1847, aged 58 ;
m.i. at Leonard Stanley ; married, but left no issue.
ii. John Holbrow, of whom next (11).
iii. Samuel Holbrow, born at Stonehouse 5 September
1792; became chief officer of the East India Com-
pany's Ship Bcriuickshirc, and died unmarried at
sea 27 January 1822, aged 27 ; m.i. at Stonehouse.
Dimock. — The family of Dimock is of considerable antiquity in
Gloucestershire, doubtless deriving from the village of Dymock, in
the Forest of Dean. Rogers I)immock, about 1390, a learned
Dominican friar, styled the invincible victor of the Wycliffites, is
said to have been a native of Dymock, but the earliest known
instance in Gloucestershire occurs in 1327, when we find Hugh de
Dymmok paying to the subsidy in the town of Gloucester. The
Dimocks from whom Mrs. Holbrow descended were settled at
Randwick early in the seventeenth century, and we have mention
of a Giles Dymocke, of Uley, whose will was proved in 1558; but
the traced pedigree commences with Giles Dimock, of Randwick,
living there in 1639. His great grandson, another Giles Dimock,
who died 17 11, settled at Stonehouse, and married Rebecca Jenner.
Their son, Giles Dimock, of Stonehouse, married Sarah Alldrich,
and was grandfather of Mrs. Holbrow. A detailed pedigree of this
family of Dimock, compiled in 1892 by the Rev. W. G. Dimock
Fletcher, appeared in "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries", and
was reprinted for private circulation. The present representative
of the family is the Rev. Nathaniel Dymock, late vicar of St. Paul's,
Maidstone.
Anthony Holbrow,
OF Stonehouse.
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iv. Thomas Holbrow, commander of the Marianne, born
at Stonehouse 14th March 1795, died of a fever in
the island of Java contracted through remaining too
long on land in search of a lost sailor, 2 January
182 1, aged 25 ; m.i. at Leonard Stanley. His por-
trait, a miniature, is now at Bath in possession of
his nephew, Mr. Stanley Holbrow.
V. Elizabeth Holbrow, born at Stonehouse 20 December
1796, married at Leonard Stanley the Rev. George
Hough.
vi. Anthony Holbrow, of whom hereafter (13).
vii. Sarah, born at King Stanley 10 April i8oo; died
unmarried at Leonard Stanley 16 August 1885,
aged 85.
viii. Anne, born at Leonard Stanley i September, baptized
25 October 1804; died unmarried at Leonard
Stanley 14 May 1884, aged 79.
II. John Holbrow, a colonel in the Bengal Army*;
born 15 November 1790, and died 10 July 1849, aged
58; buried at Leonard Stanley, m.i. Married (i), 14
September 181 2, Elizabeth, daughter of General Louis
Saunders Bird, of the Bengal Army. She died in India.
He married (2) 27 May 1841 Mary Ann, daughter of
Charles Hotigh.
Colonel Holbrow and Elizabeth Bird had issue —
i. Mary Louisa, born 17 April 1815 ; died 13 July 1891,
aged 76, at St. Leonard's, Sussex. Married, 4
December 1833, Colonel Philip Goldney, son of
Thomas Goldney, of Goldney House, Clifton,
* Colonel Holbrow was resident in India for some thirty-four
years, and about 1840 was living at Agra.
THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
Bristol, of the Bengal Army, 4th Bengal Infantry,
and 35th Bengal Infantry. Served under Sir
Charles Napier in the settlement of the province of
Scindi, and subsequently was Commissioner of the
Oude district on its annexation in 1856. During the
Indian Mutiny, after removing all the residents of
Fezabad under his charge from immediate danger,
he refused to leave his post, and met his death in
June 1857, aged 55 ; they left a family of two sons
and three daughters.
ii. Charlotte, married, in 1841, John Macintire, surgeon
to the 6 1 St Native Infantry, and afterwards Deputy
Inspector-General of Hospitals ; died at Peshawur
leaving a large family.
iii. William Francis Holbrow, born in 1820; became a
captain in the 12th Bombay Native Infantry, manned
but died in India, of cholera, without issue.
iv. Elizabeth Aim, married Captain Charles Borlase
Stevens, of the Madras Army.
Colonel Holbrow and Mary Ann Hough (who now
resides at " St. Leonard's ", Miles Road, Clifton) had
issue —
V. Stanley Charles Holbrow, of whom next (12).
vi. Frances Anne, born 8 December 1845; married, 2
February 1869, Rev. James Paisley Lang, of the
Stirli '^'
Manse, Stirling. They have issue —
1. Frances Marian Marshall, bor
1871.
2. Edith Holbrow, born i March 1875,
Frances Marian Marshall, born 1 7 February
1871.
GoLDNEY. — This name occurs at Chippenham, in Wilts, as early
as 1485, but the authentic pedigree is traced back to Gabriel
Farniwell, alias Goldney, a bailiff of Chippenham, who died in
1639, from whom there are numerous descendants — one of them,
Sir Gabriel Goldney, being created a baronet in 1880. The arms
of Goldney are. Per pale gules and azure on a band engrailed, plain
cotised argent, between two eagles displayed of the last, three
garbs sable banded or.
Mrs. Anthony Holbrow,
Maria Wartuan.
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THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW. 39
3. Anne Marshall Cimliffe, bom 27 March 1878.
4. George Holbrow Lang, born 5 October 188 1.
Alice Emily, born 13 October 1847 ; married, 25
September 1872, George Augustus Walters, of
of the India Forest Department, who died without
issue in Burma, of cholera, in April 1S76.
Marian Adelaide Gill, born 24 November 1849.
12. Stanley Charles Holbrow, of " Hillsborough,"
Beechen Cliff Wood, Bath, born 5 January 1844; served
in the Punjab Police Department from 16 May 1864
to 2 November 1895, when he retired. Married, 31
July 1884, at St. Matthias, Bayswater, Katherine Yville,
daughter of the late Charles Wilks, M.R.C.S., of
Charing, Kent.
Stanley Charles Holbrow and Katherine Yville Wilks
have had issue —
i. Charles Stanley Holbrow, died in infancy.
ii. Frances Andrea Stanley, born 30 November 1886.
iii. Thomas Leonard Stanley Holbrow, born 22 February
We novi^ return to the family of Samuel Holbrow (10)
of Leonard Stanley, and his wife Sarah Dimock. Their
fifth son —
13. Anthony Holbrow, of Stonehouse, surgeon, was
born 28 November 1798. Member, afterwards Fellow,
of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Licen-
tiate of Apothecaries' Hall 181 8. He was a pupil of
the celebrated Abernethy, who offered him various posts
40 THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
to induce him to stay in London. He preferred, how-
ever, a country practice, and after spending a few years at
Wootton Bassett settled at Stonehouse, where he died 23
March 1873, aged 74, and was buried in the churchyard of
that village. Married Maria, daughter of William War-
man, of Broad Hinton, in Wilts. She died 23 January
1879, aged 84, and was buried at Stonehouse.
Anthony Holbrow and Maria Warman had issue —
i. William Holbrow, born 23 September 1826, and died
an infant 28 January 1828.
ii. Thomas Holbrow, of whom next (14).
iii. Emma, married John Ellington Jones, of Oakham,
surgeon.
14. Thomas Holbrow, now Chaplain of St.
Aidan's, Stagshaw, Newcastle-on-Tyne, clerk in holy
orders ; was born at Wootton Bassett 13 December 1829;
matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, B.A. 1853,
curate of Standish and Hardwick 1854-64, curate of
Almondsbury 1864-66, vicar of Coleford 1866-79, and
of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, 1879-96. Married y^w^.
J^-C^U.^ ./Zt<t..y^k*^
daughter of Richard Phelps Tuckey, of Haydon, Wilts.
She died 11 September 1886, aged 59, at Sandhurst,
and was buried there.
Rev. Thomas Holbrow,
Chaplain of St. Aidan's
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Rev. Thomas Holbrow and Jane Tuckey have had
issue —
i. Katherim Mary, born i, and died 2 November i860.
ii. Isabel, born at Hardwick, 22 September 1861.
iii. Charles Antony Holbrow, electrical engineer, born at
Hardwick 31 January 1863, educated at Uppingham
under Dr. Thring, then for some time in the School
of Electricity in Hanover Square, London ; after
that for two years, 1884-86, in the works of the
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company
at Greenwich; then for two years, 1886-88, on the
staff of engineers for the installation of electric
light at the Great Western Railway Paddington
Station and Hotel ; afterwards, from its commence-
ment, one of the engineers of the Metropolitan
Electric Supply Company, until in 1898 he was en-
trusted with a large responsibility in the building
and starting of the Company's Works at Willesden.
In 1 90 1 he undertook the installation of electric
light at Kalgoorlie, in West Australia, and is now
resident there.
iv. Henry Edward Holbrow, captain in the Northumber-
land Hussars, born 23 June 1864, educated at
Uppingham ; after that for nearly nine years in New
Mexico, for seven or eight years of which he was in
Tuckey.— The Tuckeys had long been settled at Haydon,
owning property there from the time of Cromwell. In the 17th
century a member of the family settled at Cork, becoming Mayor
of that city. Of this family was Captain J. K. Tuckey, the noted
explorer of the Congo in 1816, who in 181 8 printed a narrative
of the expedition.
THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
partnership on a cattle ranche with Dudley Smith,
a son of the Rev. Sidney Lidderdale Smith, Canon
of Hereford. In January 1900 he joined the Imperial
Yeomanry, in the A Company of the Northumber-
land Hussars, for service in South Africa. In the
autumn of the same year he became Corporal of his
troop, then in March 1901 he received a commission
as Lieutenant, and in the following May was made
Captain and Adjutant.
Marion Emily, born at Coleford, co. Gloucester, 2
December 1867 ;
We now return to the family of John Holbrow (2) and
Mary Hailing. Their third son —
15. Thomas Holbrow, of Newington Bagpath,
gentleman, was born at Kingscote 10 April 1687, and
died 21 February 1744, in his 57th year, and was buried
at Newington Bagpath ; m.i.
Will dated 25 September 1741. All messuages, etc., to Abraham
Kidler, of Edgeworth, gent., and my brother John Holbrow, of
Leonard Stanley, tallow chandler, in trust to sell and divide pro-
ceeds between my sons and daughters, Thomas, Daniel, Hester,
Elizabeth, Anna, and Katharine, equally, at 21. Residue to wife
in trust for children. Wife to be executrix. Proved by Esther
Holbrow, widow, 8 October 1765. — Gloucester Registry.
He married at Rendcombe, by licence, 9 October 17 18,
Hester, daughter of William Hill, of Rendcombe, who
was buried at Newington Bagpath 14 January 1770,
aged 74 years.
The following inscriptions on tombs in Bagpath
churchyard are taken from Bigland's Collections : —
Here lies interred the Body of Thomas Holbrow, who died
February 21, 1744, in the 57 year of his age.
In memory of Mr. Thomas Holbrow, of this parish, who was
buried February [2 ?] 5, 1744, aged 58 years.
Also of Mrs. Hester Holbrow, his wife, who was buried January
14, 1770, aged 74 years.
ClIAS, A. IIOLBROW.
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/(^. Jh^H^'
HO —
THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW. 43
And also of Mr. John Holbrow, their son, late surgeon, of
Wooton Underedge, who was buried May 21, 1772, aged 46 years.
In memory of Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Hester
Holbrow, who departed this life the 6 day of May 1731, aged —
years.
Thomas Holbrow and Hester Hill had issue —
i. Thomas Holbrow, " married, but died without issue."
ii. Daniel Holbrow, " of St. Paul's Churchyard, London,
married, but died without surviving issue."
iii. lVilliam_ Holbrow, of Dursley, gentleman, died un-
married in October 1791, aged 70, and was buried
at Dursley.
iv. John Holbrow, of Wotton-Under-Edge, surgeon, was
buried 21 May 1772, aged 46, at Newington Bag-
path ; m.i.
Will dated i June 1768. To sister Katherine
Holbrow a freehold messuage called Tedpence, in
parish of Owlpen. Residue to her, and she to be
sole executrix. Proved by executrix 9 Aug. 1773.
— Gloucester Probate Registry.
V. Elizabeth, married Benjamin Packer, of London, but
died s.p.
vi. Hannah, married John Wollaston, of St. Andrew,
Holborn, London, and left issue.
vii. Hester, married Robert IVallis, of Lasborough, and
left issue.
viii. Mary, died 6 May 1731; m.i. at Newington Bagpath.
ix. Catherine, married, as first wife, her cousin John
Holbrow, of Uley (4), and left issue as before stated.
We now return to the family of William Holbrow (i)
of Kingscote, and his wife Bridget Shillam ; their fourth
son —
16. Anthony Holbrow, of Uley, gentleman and
clothier, born 5 April 1662 ; died 19 May 1729, aged 67.
Will proved at Gloucester, 18 June 1729, by Elizabeth
Holbrow and John Holbrow.
44 THE FAMILY OF HO LB ROW.
The inscription to their memory in Uley churchyard
was as follows : — -
In memory of Anthony Holbrow, clothier, who died May 19,
1729, aetat. suae 67 ; also Anne, his daughter, who died 22nd July
1729, aetat. suae t,t, ; likewise of 3 of his children, Anne, Daniel,
and Katherine.
His wife Elizabeth died 8, buried 15 February 1754,
aged 88.
Anthony Holbrow and Elizabeth had issue^
i. William Holbrow, of whom next (17).
ii. John Holbrow, of Uley, clothier, buried 23 May 1730 ;
died unmarried,
iii. A nnc, horn 7 September 1697; baptized 17 February
1697-8; buried 22 July 1729, aged ;i^.
iv. Antkotty Holbrow, of Uley, gentleman, baptized at Uley
17 August 1700; married Mary Long, of London,
who was buried at Uley 12 May 1768. They left
no issue.
V. Mary, married Wichcll, of North Nibley.
vi. Hannah, born August 17 13; married, at Uley 26
March 1734, Thomas Aiistcn, of Wotton, gentleman.
His name in the Uley Register is spelt Asiin.
vii. Daniel Holbrow, baptized at Uley 30 January 1 702-3.
viii. Catherine, baptized at Uley 20 May 1717 ; d. an infant.
ix. Catherine, born 26 August, baptized 14 September
1719.
17. William Holbrow, of Uley, died 13, buried 17
May 1748, aged 56, at Uley, where his tomb bore the
following inscription : —
In memory of Elizabeth, the relict of Anthony Holbrow, who
died February 8, 1754, aetat. suae 88.
In memory of William, son of Anthony and Eliz.\beth Hol-
brow, who died May 13, 1748, aetatis 56.
Henry E. Hulbruw.
F
THE FAMILY OF HOLBROW. 45
And for John, the son of Anthony Holbrow, who died 24 May
1730-
In memory of William Holbrow, clothier, who died . . . 1741.
Married Rosamond, daughter of Jasper Selwyn, of
Frampton-on-Severn.
William Holbrow and Rosamond Selwyn had issue —
i. Elizabeth, baptized 6 September 1719; died unmarried.
ii. Mary, baptized at Uley 10 October 1720; married
at Frampton-on-Severn, 13 December 1741, Abel
Rtidhall, of Gloucester, bell-founder.
Selwyn. — The well-known Gloucestershire family of Selwyn,
settled at King Stanley, Horsemarley, Frampton-on-Severn, Cam,
and Matson, entered their pedigree at the Gloucestershire visita-
tion of 1683. They descend from a certain William Selwyn, who
was a lessee of Abbey lands, and is thought to have been brother
to Richard Selwyn, alias Frampton, the last Abbot of Malmesbury.
Of their alleged descent from the Selwyns of Friston, in Sussex,
in the time of Richard III, there is no real evidence, and it is,
indeed, improbable, for there were Selwyns in Gloucestershire at a
much earlier date. It is unnecessary here to do more than just
allude to the modern Selwyns who have rendered their family dis-
tinguished, George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand and
afterwards of Lichfield, Lord Justice Selwyn, and John Richardson
Selwyn, Bishop of Melanesia. From the Bishop of Lichfield, Selwyn
College at Cambridge takes its name ; a memorial in like manner,
as Keble College at Oxford, which, as already noted, reminds us
of another famous Gloucestershire man, John Keble, the author of
the Christian Year, who, as we have seen, was descended from
the Holbrow family. The arms of Selwyn are. Argent a bend
engrailed and cotised sable, thereon three annulets or. A detailed
pedigree of the Selwyn family was compiled by the Rev. William
Bazley, rector of Matson, and printed in vol. x of the Transactions
of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archceological Society.
Deoizes :
Printed by George Simpson, "Gazette" Office.
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