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GEIVEALOGY COLLECTION
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THE
HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL
AND OTHER FAMILIES.
Extracts from Letters received—
Lieut. -Colonel Robert Maunsell, Fanstown, Kilmallock, and 78 George Street, Limerick, says —
"As present representative of tlie Irish Brancli of the Maunsells, I write to say how much pleased I am with your interesting and beautifully got up book. The pictures of the different places add much to the interest of it."
General Sir F. R. Maunsell, K.C.B., 32 Ashley Gardens, London, S.W., says—
" I must corgratulate you and the family on this excellent and interesting work, and I think all the family owe IVIr. Maunsell thanks for the pains he took. It must have been a pretty severe task."
Major-General Thomas Maunsell, C.B., Ballywilliam, Co. Limerick, and Burghclerei Co. Berks., says —
" Having waited to look over the book, kindly inform Mr. Maunsell that I am very much pleased with his work. It has been well turned out and completed by your firm."
Rev. C. H. Maunsell, Thorpe Malsor Hall, says —
" I received my copies of the book safely, and am much pleased with it, and think the illustrations very good. I hope it will have a good sale, and I think all members of the family may well feel exxeedingly obliged to Mr. Maunsell for compiling such a valuable work."
Lieut.-Colonel F. R. Maunsell, R.A., Military Attache, Constantinople, says— " It is extremely well got up and printed."
Lieut.-Colonel George J. Maunsell, of Torquay, says —
" I congratulate you and Mr. Maunsell on the highly creditable manner in which it has been compiled and printed."
Colonel C. A. Maunsell, of Poyle Hill, Tongham, says —
"Kindly express my thanks to Mr. Maunsell for the great care and trouble he has taken in collecting all this most interesting matter. I think the entire family owe him a deep debt of gratitude."
W. Pryce Maunsell, Esq., B.A., Barrister at-Law, Fairyfield, Kilmallock, and 5 Martello Terrace, Kingstown, says —
"This History of the Maunsell Family, from the Conquest down to the present times, has been admirably compiled, and the various English, Welsh, and Irish branches welded into one harmonious whole. The manner in which the relationship is shown among its members, more especially those eminent in politics, war, or literature, such as the Chancellor in Henry III.'s reign, the celebrated General who was the first to capture cannon with cavalry, his distinguished descendant, the Dean of St. Paul's, and my own immediate ancestor who defended MocoUop Castle against the army of Oliver Cromwell, is highly creditable. Mr. Maunsell deserves the thanks of all the family for the admirable way in which he has accomplished his work."
Colonel W. D. Dickson, J.P., of Kildimo, Co. Limerick, and Bournemouth, says —
" The book is well got up, and contains a great amount of information about the Maunsell Family and their alliances. It certainly does you much credit to have undertaken such a troublesome task."
Rev. F. W. Maunsell, Rector of Symondsbury, Dorset, says —
" I congratulate Mr. Maunsell on his extremely interesting and exhaustive family history. I have received two copies to-day, please send me two more copies."
G. E. CoKAYNE, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Clarenceux King of Arms, says —
" I am indeed highly delighted with the book ; the illustrations are beyond praise."
Sir Arthur Vic.4rs, K.C.V.O., F.S.A., Ulster King of Arms, says —
" I consider you deserve the greatest credit for the energy you have displayed in gathering together the hitherto disjointed pedigree ol the Maunsell Family. A collective genealogical account of this family m all its numerous branches was much required, and your efforts will be of great use to genealogists at large.
" To bring together such a mass of information and data, entails enormous labour, and if the IVIaunsell family appreciate their ancestry, a second edition will surely be required.
"The printing is good, and the illustrations well chosen."
Sir Edmund T. Bewlev, LL.D,, F. R.S.I A., 40 Fitzwilliani Place, Dublin, says —
" I have duly received the IVIaunsell Family History, the typography and illustrations of which do great credit to your firm. As for the numerous and interesting pedigrees contained in it, only those who have been engaged in a similar under- taking can properly appreciate the vast labour and research involved ; and from such examination as 1 have been able to make of the pedigrees up to the present, Mr. Maunsells' work appears to me to show great care and accuracy."
Mrs. H. Widenh.am Maunsell, of 7 South Street, Thurloe Square, London, S.W., says— " I think the book is most interesting and beautifully got up. The engravings of the different places make it quite difierent to the books of the kind that have been brought out before.''
Mrs. R, Eyre Maunskll, of Moorlands, Treen, Cornwall, says —
" I have received the books safely, and am very pleased with them. The history is most interesting, and must have entailed much labour on the compiler."
Edward Longueville Mansel, Esq., M.D., 7 Clements Inn, London, says —
" I have received my copy of Mr. Maunsell's most interesting book, and am very pleased with it. The printing and engravings are excellent."
Colonel E. S. Maunsell, New Orleans, says —
"Your very interesting book to hand, for which please accept thanks."
J. LuKis Mansell, Esq., 2 Somerset Place, Guernsey, says —
" I have received my copy, and am much pleased with it. As I am the oldest member of the Guernsey branch, I beg to thank Mr. Maunsell for the records of the family in his book."
Lieut.-Colonel T. W. Mansell de Gu£rin, of Le Mont Durant, Guernsey, says —
" Many thanks for your most interesting book on the Mansell family. Your work con- tains an amount of information on the Mansell family which is new to me, and is a very valuable record."
H. G. ToLER Hope, Esq., 119 Elms Road, Clapham Park, London, S.V/., says —
" In acknowledging the receipt of, and in thanking you for sending me, a copy of Mr. Maunsell's History of his grand old family, I wish at the same time to say that the manner in which you have placed it before the world is most praiseworthy. The printing is exceptionally good, and the binding appropriate in the extreme."
J. T, Warren White, Esq., of Bedford, says —
" 1 cannot tell you how very greatly I am pleased with the book, and admire it. There is nothing in it to indicate the hand of an amateur. The book is a very great achievement, the more I look into it the more I admire it."
Colonel C. H. B. Nurcott, C.M.G., Brookfield House, Oakham, says —
" The book is well got up in every way, and does you great credit. There is evidence of much hard work and research on Mr. Maunsell's part, the records bringing to light many important and interesting facts."
W. Mansell- MacCulloch, Esq., M.D., F.G.S., Les Touillets, Guernsey, says —
" I must take this opportunity of letting you know how much I am interested in the undertaking you have so successfully carried out. I do think that work such as is entailed by the collecting together of so many varied materials is deserving of all praise."
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HISTORY or
MAUNSELL OR MANSEL,
AND OF
CRAYFORD, GABBETT, KNOYLE, PERSSE, TOLER,
WALLER, Castletown ; WALLER, Prior Park ;
WARREN, WHITE, WINTHROP,
AND
MANSELL OF GUERNSEY.
COMPILED BY
ROBERT GEORGE MAUN5ELL.
CORK:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GUY AND COMPANY, LIMITED. 1903.
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DEDICATED TO
MY WIFE.
PREFACE.
This book was compiled during^ the spare moments, and holidays, of five of the busiest years of my life. I hope it will be as interesting to the readers, as the work has been to me. The records are founded on Family MSS., Brit. Mus. MSS., Cokayne's Peerage, Burke's Peerage, Patrician, and Landed and Colonial Gentry; Banks' Baronage, Baker's Northants' Lipscomb's Bucks, Annates Monastici, Fasti Eccles. Ang., Camden and Harleian Societies' Visitations, W. W. Mansell's History of Maunsell Family, Familice Minorum Gentium, Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men and his Royal and Historical Letters, Staines' Nemport Pagnell, Sheehan's History of Bucks, Chicheley Parish Registers, Cambrian Register, Harvey's Willy Hundred, Halstead's Genealogies, Harrison's Yorkshire, Foster's County Families of Yorks, Weever's Funeral Monuments, Foedera, Matliew Paris, Heyland's England, Muskett's Suffolk Manorial Families, Herald and Genealogist, Fitzgerald's Limerick, Lenihan's Limerick, O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees, Dalton's Army Lists, Brady's Records of Cork, Hadyn's Book of Dignities, Calendars of English and Irish Patent Rolls, Hutchins' History of Dorset, Revd. J. D. Davies' History of Parishes of Penrice, Oxivich, and Nicolaston, ]]'est Gower, Sir Thos. Phillipps' Genealogical Works, including the Mansell Records compiled by him from State Rolls, Inquisitiones Post Mortem, etc., temp. Hen. H. to Hen. VI. From the latter period the records are based on Visitations, Histories, Wills, Deeds, Marriage Bonds, etc., of the English and Irish Courts, and on the informa- tion kindly given to me by Wm. Pryce Maunsell, Esq., 5 Martello Terrace, Kingstown ; Major-General Thos. Maunsell, of Ballywilliam and Burghclere, New- bury; General Sir Frederick R. Maunsell, Ashley Gardens, London; Revd. Cecil H. -Maunsell, Thorpe Malsor Hall; Revd. John Colvile Morton Mansel-Pleydell, M.A., Vicar of Sturminster Newton, Co. Dorset; Lieut. -Col. Rd. Maunsell, Dubbo, N. S. W. ; Colonel W. Dickson, Kildimo, and Bournemouth ; Colonel J. Delalynde Mansel, Bayford Lodge, Wincanton ; Colonel W. S. Maunsell, Ridgeway, Nar- berth; Lt. -Colonel Geo. Jos. Maunsell, Petit Tor View, Torquay; Colonel C. A. Maunsell, Poyle Hill, Tongham ; R. E. Maunsell, Esq., 9 Ely Place, Dublin; R. E. L. Maunsell, Esq., Mount X'ernon, Inchicore; Mrs. Thomas, The Rectory, Nenagh; Mrs. M. F. Maunsell, 7 South Street, Thurloe Square, London; Miss Edith Phibbs, Lisheen, Sligo ; Mrs. Maunsell, 67 Earl's Court Road, Kensington; Major G. W. Maunsell, Dungarvan ; W. Wray Maunsell, Esq., 30 Albion Road Clapham ; Major R. G. S. Maunsell, Glenwood, Co. Clare, and Bournemouth ; Major Nevill Maunsell, Lauragh, Mountmellick ; C. E. Vandeleur, Esq., Spring Mount, Mallow; Major G. W. Maunsell, 4 Chester Place, Hyde Park Square; Revd. F. W. Maunsell, Symondsbury; Miss Caroline Maunsell-Eyre, 8 Islington Avenue, Kingstown; Mrs. C. Hare Alcock, Innishannon ; Miss Marian Winthrop Nash, Ivy Lawn, Cork; Miss E. M. Mansel, Kendal; E. L. Mansel, Es^j., M.D., 6 Clement's Inn, London; R. J. C. Maunsell, Esq., Trinity College, Dublin;
Miss M. A. Maunsell, Leinster Road, Rathmines; A. E. L. Maunsell, Esq., Claverton, Streatham Hill; John Warren White, Esq., Brisbane; Revd. E. H. Waller, Athy ; J. F. Minchin, Esq., Annagh Castle; F. R. Minchin, Esq., Bourne- mouth; Mrs. F. A. Hewson, Leeson Park, Dublin; S. N. Hutchins, Esq., Ardna- gashel, Bantry; Miss A. M. Hutchins, Bantry ; R. C. Winthrop, Esq., Boston; Mrs. Bevan, Darraghniore, Kilmallock ; H. G. Toler Hope, Esq., 119 Elms Road, Clapham; Colonel Norcott, Oakham; Capt. W. A. Persse, J. P., D.L., Rox- boroug-h, Loughrea; F. F. Persse, Esq., Ashfield, Gort ; J. Porter Porter, Esq., J. P., D.L., Emberton Manor, Newport Pagnell ; Mrs. A. L. Persse, Ormonde View, Ballinasloe; Capt. E. E. West, Mallow; William Rochfort Wade, Esq., Lower Leeson Street, Dublin; Revd. Wilfred T. Roe, Sandford Orcas, Sherborne; Walter Money, Esq., F.S.A., Snelsmore, Newbury; Mrs. Maunsell, Burghclere, Newbury; Captain J. F. Tuthill, Esker, Lucan ; Guy T. Fairfax, Esq., Billorough Manor, Yorks ; Dr. H. W. Drew, Mocollop Castle; R. G. Campion, Esq., Lake- view, Midleton; Colonel and Mrs. Mansel, Maindiff Court, Abergavenny; D. Ross McCord, Esq., K.C., Temple Grove, Montreal; A. McMurrogh Murphy, Esq., Kerry Mount, Dublin; J. Percy Dale, Esq., Yorks; Dr. J. Collins, Pateley Bridge, Yorks ; Revd. C. M. Ottley, Newport Pagnell ; Revd. A. Donkin, Chicheley, Newport Pagnell; Joseph Carloss, Esq., Hereford; The Honble. and Venble. Archdeacon Stanhope, Mansel-Gammage, Hereford ; Revd G. O. Kildare O'Neill, Mansel-Lacy, Hereford; Sir Edmund T. Bewley, 40 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin; His Honor Judge Snagge, Courtfield Gardens, London ; Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Cambridge; Rev. J. F. Marr, Aldgate ; Very Revd. H. Fleming, Cloyne ; Revd. J. P. Alcock, Crayford, Kent; Revd. G. Pattison, Oundle; W. S. Coppinger, LL.D., Manchester; Revd. G. E. Wilson, Great Missenden; Thos. W. Davenport, Esq., Oxford; Revd. R. H. Taylor, D.D. , Bicester; Revd. B. L. Symonds, Haversham ; John Swan, Esq., Lincoln; E. J. Gray, Esq., Peterborough; A. Gibbons, Esq., Heworth Green, Yorks; T. T. L. Overend, Esq., 13 Ely Place, Dublin; J. T. Warren White, Esq., Bedford; F. Elrington Ball, Esq., J. P., Dublin; Commander G. R. Mansell, M.V.O., H.M. Yacht Victoria ami .Ube^f ; Waldemar Mansell, Esq., M.A., Saumarez Street, Guernsey; Lieut. -Col. T. W. Mansell de Guijrin, Le Mont Durant, Guernsey; Revd. Thos. E. Hackett, St. James's Rectory, Bray; Lieut.-Coloncl Edwd. L. Maunsell, R.A.M.C. ; Professor H. Brougham Leech, T.C.D., etc.
And here I wish to express my thanks to all who have thus assisted me. I also desire to thank G. E. Cokayne, Esq., Clarenceux King of Arms, for his unfailing courtesy and kindness during a long, and, to m<e, most interesting correspondence. Sir Arthur Vicars, Ulster King of Arms, and G. D. Burt- chaell, Esq., Office of Arms, Dublin Castle, I also thank for the valuable informa- tion given by them, and for the many facilities afforded to me of collecting materials from their books for this work.
The pedigree of Mansell of Guernsey was compiled between 20th August and loth September, 1903, that is, after all the other pedigrees had been printed and paged. Hence it is placed out of alphabetical order.
R. G. M.
CONTENTS.
Maunsell — Name, Origin, etc.
,, Arms, Crest, etc.
,, Family Stem Mansel of Margam (Lord)
,, OF Muddlescombe (Bart.) ,, OF Trimsaren (Bart.) Maunsell of Chicheley, Derryvillane, Mocollop,
,, of Ballywilliam
,, OF Oakly Park
,, OF Ballinamona, Castle Park, and Spa
,, OF Ballyvoreen and Ballybrood
,, OF Thorpe Malsor Hall Mansel of Cosgrove Hall Mansell of Guernsey Crayford of Co. Kent Gabbett of Co. Limerick Knoyle of Co. Somerset Norcott of Co. Cork . Persse of Co. Galway Toler of Co. Tipperary Waller of Co. Limerick Waller of Co. Tipperary Warren of Co. Kilkenny White of Cos. Limerick and Claf WiNTHROP of Co. Cork Appendix
pages.
I to 3
4 to 6 7 to 19 20 to 27 29 to 35
37, 38 39 to 53 55 to 64 65 to 67 69 to 74
75, 76 77 to 86 87 to 91 157 to 160 93, 94 95 to lOI 103 to 105 107 to 113 115 to 119 121 to 126 127 to 130 131 to 134 135 to 139 141 to 150 151 to 156 i6[ to 180
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece ....
Maunsell Seals ....
Maunsell Arms ....
De la Mare Tomb, Oxwich Church
De la Mare Tomb — Figures only
Gateway Oxwich Castle, with Maunsell Arms
Oxwich Castle, facing east
Penrice Castle . . . .
Arms of Sir Richard Maunsell over Gateway of
Arms of Sir Rice Man.sell
Whatcombe, Blandford, Co. Dorset
Smedmore, near Corfe Castle, Co. Dorset
Remains of Balney Manor, Chicheley
Mocollop Castle, Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
Ballywilliam, Rathkeale, Co. Limerick .
Oakly Park, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Chicheley Church, Co. Bucks
The Drive, Thorpe Malsor Hall .
Old Chestnut Tree, Thorpe Malsor Hall
Thorpe Malsor Hall, Terrace Front
Thorpe Malsor Hall, Entrance Front
Thorpe Malsor Church, Exterior
Warrant from King Charles H. in Thorpe Malsor Hall
Old Pedigree in Thorpe Malsor Hall
Thorpe Malsor Church, Interior .
Thorpe Malsor Church, Interior of Side Chapel
Cosgrove Hall, Stoney Stratford
Roxborough, Loughrea, Co. Galway
Beechwood, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Monuments
facing
86 87 "5 121
ERRATA.
Page 72, lioe 16. II. Richard, midshipman, instead of " Chatham," read " Illustrious ; " and after Java, add " See Appendix No. ill."
Page 81, line 39. After the records, IV. Robert Charles, R.N., add "See Appendix No. iii." Page 104. For " Barston," read " Eurnston ; " and under footnote re Clavell, add " See also Appendix No. 100."
Page 131, line 22. For "William Waller, the second son, married Blanche, dau. of Mark Weekes," etc., read "William Waller, the second son, married Blanche, younger dau. of Marck Weekes, of Kilbolane, Co. Cork, and of Co. Limerick, and had issue, viz. : "
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.
Under Frontispiece, please read " see page 73. " Page I. Instead of de Rou, read "du Rou. " ,. yj. After matriculated, read "at Oxford."
., 44. After A. Burke, read "of Springfield, Co. Galvvay, and had, with other issue, a son, Maunsell Bourke, whose youngest dan., Jane, married, in 1788, Thos. Longworth Dames, of Greenhills." .. 48 (a). Instead of Countess, etc., read "whose husband, after her decease, succeeded as ninth Earl of Seafield. " (a). Instead of St. Mary's, read "St. Anne's Shandon. " (ai). Read "Robert Hedges, married Helena M. A., dau. of \Vm. Hare Maunsell,
and has issue, viz. (i) Richard Henry, (2) Doris." (33). Read "Anna, married Revd. Wm. Darling, and has issue, viz., !Muriel
■Violet. They went to Australia in 1904." (34). Read "Mary, married Wm. Cox Langford Sullivan, and has issue, viz.
(i) Leta Stephanie, (2) Mary Grace Enid." (m). After Mabella Roberta, etc., etc., strike out "and had issue." (b). After Wm. Hare, read "at time of marriage, in 1884, was Navigating Lieut, of H.M.S. 'Conquest.' He retired in 1893, owing to a severe wound from a Nordenfeldt gun (fired accidentally), whilst serving as Staff Commander of H.M.S. 'Hotspur' at Harwich." ,, 52 (i). With the other issue of R. G. S. Maunsell, read, viz. "(e) Grace Elizabeth, (f) add in "Anna Constance" as fourth daughter, and alter other index letters accordingly. ., 52 (10). After Eliza Grace, married Revd. J. H. Gollock, etc., etc., read "and has issue, viz. (a) James de la Plante, (b) Robt. Geo. Maunsell, (c) H. Louis, (d) Maria Louisa, married W. F. Longfield, and has issue, viz., Grace Wilhel- mina ; (e) Mabel Anne Grady." „ 57 (B). After Geo., read "Revd., of Te Aroha, New Zealand."
(d). After John Fredk., etc., read "and has issue, viz. (i) Fredk. Wyndham,
(2) Henry Beresford, (3) Leslie Beauchamp. " (e). Instead of Bing, read "Revd. Chas. Bice, now of Murrurundi, N.S.W. " (f). For Kisling, read "Kissling. " ,, 5S (a). Instead of Geo., etc., read "George Wyndham, married, in 1884, Isabella Carrigue, youngest dau. of Robt. Atkins Lidwell, of Dromard, Co. Tipperary, and has issue, viz. (a) Mark Fredk. Wyndham, (b) Isabella Carrigue, (c) Louisa Lidwell. " (n). Instead of Edward, etc., read "Edwd. Herbert, settled at Ivy Ranche, Macleod, Alberta, Canada, married, in 1886, Jeannette, youngest dau. of Wm. Ryan, J. P., of Ballymackeogh, Co. Tipperary, by Jane, sister of Sir Edwd. Grogan, Bart., and has issue, viz. (a) Fredk. Wm. Edward, (b) Jeannette Louisa Clare, (c) Antoinette Townshend Frances Mary. "
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.
Page 58. (c). Instead of Henry, etc., read "Henry Fredk., married, in 1886, Mary Adelaide, youngest dau. of Charles Townley, of Townley House, Ramsgate, and of The Turret, Ballingarry, Co. Limerick, and has issue, viz. (a) Frederick Charles Townley, (b) Henry Basil Townley." ,. 60. IX. (i). After Danl., etc., read "late Capt. 4th King's Own Regt., married, in 1S5J, Miss Anne Lucinda Billing, and had issue a dau., Matilda Lucy, who married, first, Edwin Smith, of Seapoint Manor. He d.s.p. She married, secondly, in 1903, \Vm. Somerville Lowndes." .. 61 (f). For Jernan, read "Ternan."
.. 62. XL For issue of Revd. Horatio Maunsell, read "(i) Horatio, settled in New Zealand, (2) Edwd., in Bank of England, (3) Henry, died unmarried, (4) John, M.D., deceased, (5) Louisa, married Revd. — Richardson, who settled in Canada, (6) Dora, (7) Selina, (8) Isabel, (9) Eugenie." ,, 66 (4). For Bethel, read "Bethell."
., 69-70. After Caherdavin, put in "Maryville." After Castle Park, put in "Maryville." ,. 71 (i). Instead of younger dau., read "elder daughter."
(a). After William Dickson, etc.. etc., read "LP.. High Sheriff Co. Limerick
1890." Footnote. Instead of elder dau., read "younger daughter." ., 73. Instead of S. Yeilding, read "Richd. Massy Yeilding, of Bellevue, Croom, etc." ., 76. 11. (i). Instead of Fosberry, read "Fosbery, late of Curragh Bridge House, Adare, Co. Limerick." (a). Instead of Muriel Clarence, read "Miriel Clarence."
(b). Add in as second dau., "Alice Mary (Eilpen), died unmarried," and change the succeeding index letters accordingly. ,. 83. For 69, read "aged 59." ,, 99. II. For Digest, etc., read "Digest of Statutes " and on "Criminal Law."
(4). Instead of I.C.C., read "Edwd., I.P.W.D., married a daughter of Capt. Robert John Knox, of Cahirlesk, Co. Kilkenny." ,, no (4). Instead of Byblox, read "Surgeon R.N." ,, 117. second line. Instead of niece, read "Aunt," and strike out all between brackets,
3rd, 4th and 5th lines. ,, 138. III. After Lemuel, Capt., etc., read "married, in 1804, Elizabeth, dau. of John Bolton, of Donnybrook, and died in 1833, having had issue, viz., Edward and Elizabeth. " ,, 138. In addition to the issue of Edward Warren and his wife, Elizabeth Shuldham, there given, put in a third child, viz. "Elizabeth, married, in 1812, Revd. Henry Lucas St. George." ,, 139. I. After Edwd. G. S., etc., read "d.v.p., 1891, s.p. "
II. .A.dd in as eldest dau., "Emily Zoe, now of Lodge Park," and alter succeed- ing index accordingly.
„ 132. (b). For Falliner, read " Falkiner."
(d). (a). After Richard Fitzarthur, read "and nine other sons, and a daughter."
(b). Read " Wm. Arthur de Warrenne, Major, m. in 1894, Anna Selina, dau. of E. W. Waller, and had issue, (i) Hardress de Warrenne, (2) Eric de Warrenne, (3) Mary Dorothea. He died March, 1904.
HISTORY OF
Maunsell, or Mansel,
AND OTHER FAMILIES.
maunsell:
Cbc name, its Origin and Ortbograpliy.
HE name Maunsell, with its variants Maunchell and Maunchenell,
would seem to have been derived from, or may have given
designation to, the district or province of La Manche, in
Normandy. That district, in shape, is like a badly made
sleeve, and in the Maunsell Coat of Arms are three sleeves
or maunches " mal-taillees." The old French for sleeve was
mancele, the modern French being manche.
Some writers give the origin as being from Le Mans (quasi Mans-el), the
chief town of Maine, but the forms " Mansois " and " Manxois " alone are found
in this connection, whilst the term "Manseau" was used to designate "a man
from Maine."
The " Dictionnaire Universel de Trevoux," says, sub voce Manseau : " Qui est du Maine, habitant du Maine." Wace, in his "Chronicles of the Conquest" (Roman de Rou), says : " Then the Duke called in his good neighbours the Britons, Mansels, and Angevins, and those of Pontif and Boloigne, to come with him in his need." The family was evidently numerous and of widespread influence in France, but it does not follow that all who assumed the surname belonged to the same stock, since in early times a man was known by his Christian name, and his father's Christian name, together with the name of his property, and, if a stranger, by the name of the country or province from whence he came. Saint Allais, in his " Dictionnaire de la Noblesse," says : " Le Maunsel — an ancient family, originally of Normandy."
Near St. Peter's Port, in the Island of Guernsey, is a district called Contree Manscll. In La Manche is a place called La Manseliere, formerly a prebendal stall to the Cathedral of Coutances. In Brittany, between Dol and Baguer, Department of Ille et Vilaine, is also a place so designated, and some of the
2 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
family appear to continue there, for a Monsieur Mancel was Mayor of Dol, 1829-30. Further south, there is a town called Manciel, in Department of Gers, and in Charente there is another town called Maunsle.
The present French Branch of the family spell the name Mancel, but some- times Manssel and Mansois.
In the Battle Abbey Roll some of the chiefs or knights of this family appear as Le Siegneur de Mauneville, Le Sieg. de Maunceaux de la Maunse, and Maunchenelle. The Anglo-Norman spelling was undoubtedly with the u and 11, oi which most of the copies of the Battle Abbey Roll, Matthew Paris, Vincent, and other writers, give proof. In all the Papal Bulls, and other public docu- ments, addressed to Jolm Maunsell, temp. Hen. III., the surname is invariably so spelt. About this period the name was sometimes written with t, or at least the written form of s was such as to be easily mistaken for that letter, thus Robert Maunsell who founded the Abbey of Bileagh, near Maiden, Essex, in 1 1 80, and his son, Robert, who was sheriff of Essex 2nd Hen. III., and of Leicester 31 Hen. III., in the Close Rolls have the name written Mauntell, whilst in the Plea Rolls and " Inquisitiones Post Mortem" it is spelt Maunsell. Again, the name of Walter Maunsell, who held the Manor of Missenden, Co. Bucks, in the beginning of the reign of Hen. III. has sometimes been written with a t, but in the "Inquisitiones Post Mortem," Charter Rolls, Parhamentary Writs, etc., it is invariably spelt with s ; but in the Close Rolls it is once written Mauncel.
Until about the fifteenth century the seal attached to any document acted as the signature of later times, and it is therefore difficult to authenticate the earlier writings. A seal, presumably that of John Maunsell, temp. Hen. III., was found under the foundation of London Bridge, but the engraving on it gives the name as Maunsel, whilst another seal found in 1849, near the Reculvers,
when excavating for the Dover Railway, gives the name "Thome Maunsell." This latter seal is said to be of the period Henry VI. In 1450, Thomas Maunsell was Receiver-General to the Duke of Somerset, the King's Lieutenant-General in France, and " had money to pay the wages of divers men at arms and archers
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proceeding to Normandy for defence of those parts." The name continued to be thus sealed or written by the family until the latter end of the fifteenth century, when Philip Maunsell is stated to have omitted the u, probably as not being pronounced, as we see in so many words of French origin. His descend- ants— Sir Rhys Mansell, who died in April, 1559, rarely used the u, but retained the 11, sometimes writing the name Manysell and Manxell. Richard Maunsell of Claicheley, Newport-Pagnell, also died in 1559, and the entry of his burial in the church there appears as Mansell. In the Visitations of the period the name of the latter's grandson, John, appears in the same form ; but in the tablet erected to his memory in the chancel arch of Bromley Church, 1625, it is spelt Maunsell. The descendants of this John's brother, Thomas, who settled in Ireland, maintain the latter original spelling, although Thomas Maunsell, of Mocollop Castle, in 1661, signed an admn. bond without the u; yet his own will, in 1687, is signed with that letter. Again, in 1713, two brothers in signing a marriage licence bond, one wrote the name in the former fashion and the other in the latter. Sir Robert Mansell, Vice-Admiral of England, temp. Queen Elizabeth and James I., sometimes, in early life, spelt his name as Mansfeeld. The earliest funeral certificate of the family in the College of Arms is that of Sir Thomas Mansell, the first baronet, who died 163 1, and is signed by his son, Sir Lewis Mansell. The latter died 1638, and his funeral certificate is signed by his widow, Lady Elizabeth Mansell. No other alteration occurred in the spelling of the name until the reign of Queen Anne, when Sir Thos. Mansell, Bart., previous to his elevation to the peerage, omitted the final 1, and some of the Carmarthenshire branches, and that of Cosgrove Hall, Northants, a Junior branch of the Maunsells of Chicheley, have followed Iris example. An instance of the fonn Maunchell is to be found in the will of Rev. Thomas Maunchell, Rector of Overe, Co. Cambridge, proved 1467.
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Argent, a Chevron between Three Maunches Sable.
OATS OF ARMS, or Armorial bearings, are of very remote origin. Ttiey were composed of tinctures and figures borne on a shield and granted by Sovereigns and others to dis- tinguish persons, and families, or states, and were usually conferred for exceptional valor, or other such signal service. Hereditary arms began to be displayed in this country only towards the middle of the twelfth century. The feudal system, the times of chivalry, and the Crusades appear to have been principally the cause and the period of their being adopted throughout Europe, whilst the privilege of bearing them was jealously guarded. The inferior classes of society were totally excluded from such characteristics of dignity. At tournaments no one could enter the lists without producing his armorial bearings, and proving his gentility by several descents, and no branch of a family could assume the arms of its chief, without displaying suitable differences.
Arms once established in a family, may be borne by all the members of it, with proper distinctions, such as the label, mullet, etc. A change in the tincture is also another mark of cadency, and may in some degree account for the many different ways in which Maunsell arms are found emblazoned. The Maunsells of Gloucestershire bore Gules, a fesse, argent; and, as early as the beginning of the fifteenth century we find it thus displayed, with a label of the second, for difference, by Sir Wm. Maunsell of that county, at the battle of Agincourt, and the siege of Rouen under Henry V. Sir Robert Mansell, temp. Queen Elizabeth, and some other branches, bore — Or, three Maunches Sable, on a chief, gules, a lion passant, gardant of the field. The chief and its charge were granted by the Earl of Essex, in consequence of the gallant conduct displayed, by Sir Robert at the siege of Cadiz in 1596, when he also knighted him. The Maunsells of Ballybrood transpose the arms, and bear — Sa, ; a chevron between three Maunches, argent. Mansells of Dorsetshire — Sa, a chevron between three Mullets, argent. Others bore — Sable, a chevron between three mullets pierced, or. Again — Or, on a fesse, dansette gules, three lions rampant, argent. Also — Sable, a chevron between three Maunches, argent. Thomas Mansell, of Wood Street, London, 1633-4, bore — Or, on a fesse, indented, gules, three lions rampant, argent ; and John Maunsell, of Tirlington, Leicestershire, temp. Ed. II., bore — Gules, a fesse, argent, a label, or. The Maunsells of Somersetshire, in 1573, bore — Gules, a fesse or, between three jambes, argent. Some of Uie
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Mansells of France, now spelt Mancel, bore, — Vert, three mullets, argent, 2 and r, within a border, sable. Jean le Mancel, lord of Sequeville, bore — Sa, a fesse, or, between six escalops, or, 3 and 3. Mansel, lord of La Laude, near Caen, bore arms exactly similar to the main branch in England, viz., "d'argent, au chevron de sable, accompagne de trois manches, mal-taillees, du meme." Others bore — Azure, Seme of Mullets, or, three bunches of grapes, or, 2 and i. Whilst in-Narburgh Church, Norfolk, the arms quartered for Maunsell were — Azure, Seme of Cross Crosslets, and three Crescents argent. In the samie church they also appeared quartered in the Sixth in the Spelman Arms (see page 9).
The original arms of Maunsell are — Argent, a chevron, between three Maunches, sable. Their composition, according to the laws of heraldry, is far from being insignificant, for it is an acknowledged rule, that armorial bearings which are the simplest and least diversified, are the most noble and ancient. A field argent, as representing the light, is the most distinguished ; and the chevron is the seventh honorable ordinary, the principal charges in heraldry, and represents two rafters, denoting an established house. It was given to those who had accomplished any great undertaking, or performed some signal service. The Maunche represents an ecclesiastic's sleeve, and is perhaps a rebus on the rame, being " Maunchelle," a little sleeve. The Maunche is of the greatest antiquity, and is to be found only in the arms of those who have descended from a long line of ancestry. Only two families in this country, besides the Maunsells, bear the Maunche Sable, namely, Hastings and Coniers. The Maunche in different other colours is displayed by the families of De la Mare, Fleming, Staverton, PagneJl, Framville, Frevell, Wharton, Hayford, Colthorpe, Thirkell, Crosby, Mohun, Manly, Bouler, Acklam, Norton, Acham, and Bordsay. By the seal of John Maunsell, temp. Hen. III., it appears that he bore — Ermine, on a cross, five lions passant gardant, but these may have had reference tj liis civil, courtly, or ecclesiastical appointments.
Supporters.
Coats of Arms with Supporters is the prerogative of the " Nobiles Majores," and was granted to the five gradations by Henry VIII. Knights of the several orders also bear them, as do also Nova Scotia Baronets, although those of England and Ireland are not entitled to that privilege. Several private families display supporters, being entitled to do so by the express permission of the Sovereign.
Supporters, which cannot with propriety be changed or alienated, are generally taken from such things as are borne on the shield ; they have also been adopted, or first granted, on account of some particular action.
The Supporters used by the Lords Mansel — A Hawk and Griffin, were first assumed by Sir Thomas Mansell, Bart, on his elevation to the House of Lords, temp. Queen Anne, and were taken from his crest.
The Supportrrs of the Mansells of France are two Parrots.
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Crest.
A Falcon rising ppr., with wings expanded,
or A Cap of Maintenance gu. turned up emiine and enflamed at the top ppr.
or A Griffin's Head erased.
Motto.
" Quod Vult Valde Vult." As to its origin, it appears probable that John Maunsell, when he was crossed for the Holy Land, temp. Henry III., followed the fashion of the day and took a motto, and that the King, hearing of his favourite minister's intention of joining the Crusade, may have appropriately repeated the words Julius Caesar made use of when speaking to Brutus, " Nescio quod vult ; sed quicquid vult, valde vult," and thus have given rise to the Maunsell motto. It may also be in allusion to the crest. The Lords Mansel of Margam bore another motto, namely, " Honorantes me Honorabo," which is also borne by the Irish and Northamptonshire branches of the family.
At tournaments Sir Jenkin Mansell used the motto, "Perit sine adversario virtus."
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Philip Maunsell. Amongst the MSS. preserved in the Royal Library at Paris is a book entitled, "Armoires de Genealogie de la Famille de Mancel," which commences thus, "Adinoffe, grand Chambellan de Guillaume, eut pour petit his, ou pour nepheu Phillippe." Tlris Philip was cup-bearer to the Conqueror, and accompanied him to England. He was nephew of Sir Henry de Herle, and settling in County Bucks, married Demoiselle, daughter of Hugh de Montsorrel, of Leicestershire, with whom he got large estates in tliat county. He had five sons, viz., Henry, Philip, Robert, Michael, and Andrew.
Henry Maunsell, married Emma, sister of Sir Richard de Lucy, Chief Justice of the Reahn, who, in 1178, founded tlie abbey of Westwude, or Liesne (Erith Abbey), and was buried there the following year. Henry's eldest son, viz. :
John Maunsell, married Elaine, daughter of — de Lutterell, Baron of Irnham, Co. Lincoln, and had a son, viz :
Raffe Maunsell, who married Cecily, daughter of that Gervaise Pagnell, Baron of Dudley, who, in 11 38, held the castle of Dudley for the Empress Maud, and from whom Maunsell got a fee of the new feoffment of Gervaise Pagnell, and held it, as per state records, in 1 167. Cecily was grand- daughter of Fulk Pagnell, Baron of Dudley, by the daughter and sole heir of Wm. Fitzasculph, who founded the monastery near Newport-Pagnell, called Tickford, and gave thereto the church of Newport, with its appur- tenances, together with the churches and "lordships of Bradwell, Willen, and Chichele, the mill at Caldecote, and half a yard of land with the meadow which belongs to the mill, and some property in Northampton, to which his son, Gervaise, subsequently added the church at Aston, juxta Birmingham. Maunsell, with consent of his wife, and of his son and heir, for the souls of his father and mother, and of his sons, Gilbert, Roger, Simon, William, and Hugh, gave his land " Cuculmes ho " to Tickford Priory This grant was made in presence of, and confirmed by Gervaise Pagnell, for the general confirmatory charter from Gervaise Pagnell to the priory
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includes all the mere, and lands, meadows, and pastures, and woods, liber- ties and ways, of the gift of Ralph Maunsell, and Cecily, his wife. . His eldest and only surviving son and heir, viz. :
Syr Robert Maunsell, Knt.-Banneret, with Gilbert de Lacy, in 1163. attacked and defeated Nouradin, the Sultan, at La Bochen, near Tripoh On his return from the war, he married (Joice) one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Wm. de Alneto, or Dawney, Lord of Turvey, by Joice, dau. of — D'Engain. Her eldest sister married Eustace le Mordaunt. ancestor of the Earls of Peterboro' ; and the second married Richard de Andres. Maunsell, with other estates, held also the Manor of Sedgway, Co. Sussex, in capite of the King. He had issue, viz. :
I. Walter, of whom afterwards.
II. Robert, held lands Sancketon and Terlington, Co. Leic, but, in 12 16
having joined the Barons against the King, these lands were forfeited and given to Hugh de Luterinton. On accession of Henry III, he had restoration or livery of his lands in counties Leic, Beds., and Essex, and was nominated one of the twelve knights for the afforesting of Co. Leicester in 1227. He also held the lands of Pateshul, Co. Stafford, 20 Henry III. ; and in this year he and his wife had law proceedings against Wm. Extraneum about a watercourse at Sancketon. He married Mabilia, dau. of — de Saunderville, of Teignworth, Leic, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Umphry, held lands Kynwardsbeg, Co. Devon, and married Sibilla, who survived him, and, in 1254, obtained from her father-m-law in dower the lands of Ellesburn, Co. Wilts. He had no issue
(2) Robert, d. s. p. 1247.
(3) John, died unmarried
III. Henry, in 1225, held the lands of Wexham, Co. Bucks.
IV. Godefridus, in 1204, was in command of the King's ships, and took them to Rothomagum (Rouen) in his service.
V. William, had plaint against John de Caverton for the lands of Shenley. He gave half virgate to the abbey of Westwude in Liesnes (Erith Abbey), which was founded by Richard de Lucie in 11 78. He held the advowson of the church at Witewic, Co. Leic, to which he appointed the cleric, 7 Ric I., and owned lands — Barton, Brume, and Caldecote, Inter Cantuar, in Shenlee, Co. Bucks ; Westlingworth, Co. Bed. ; and Witewic, Co. Leic.
His only son, viz. : (i) Thomas, in 1208, claimed the right to present to the church of Witewic. He married Margery , and had two daughters, co- heiresses and minors at the date of their father's death, viz. :
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(a) Alicia, married, without her guardian's consent, Robert de
Verdun; and their son, John de Verdun, in 13 13, held the fifth part of a knight's fee in Oddeston, of John de Hastings, portion of lands formerly held by Thos. Maunsell.
(b) Mabilia, married Rici de la Vache. He had been appointed
guardian of the minors. In 1283 they purchased back from Wm. de Aette lands, which, owing to certain trespasses of their father, had, by decree of Kenilworth, been granted to him. In 1320 the lands of Witewic passed into the hands of Henry, Baron de Beaumont, by his marriage with Alice, dau. of Alexander Comyn, when he was licensed to convert the manor house into a castlei
There is still in Co. Bucks a place called Shenlee Mansell, and an estate near Chalfont St. Giles named De la Vache.
VL Sampson, held lands in Turvey in 1235. He married and had a son, viz. :
(1) William, who, in 1236, held lands at Tortworth and Minchene, Hampton, County Gloucester. In 1287 he appears to have sold portion of his lands at Turvey, Co. Bucks, to his cousin, Wm. le Mordaunt, who then impaled the wood of Maunsell Grove with tlie rest of his lands in Turvey, having licence in 1299 to convert them into a park. He had a dau., Beatrice, who, in 1294, recovered possession of lands at Turvey from Reginald le Ken. He also had a son :
William, who, in 1305, was sued by Wm. le Muner for damage to lands at Turveston — claim, ;^ioo. He accompanied King Edward in his expedition to Scotland, and was knighted. In 13 14 he held the custody of Co. Gloucester during the King's pleasure, and rights over the sixth and seventh parts of the pesage, or markets and fairs, of Southampton, with all the
returns belonging to the same. He married Margaretta ,
and had a daughter, who got from him the lands of Strood, and married Sir John Spelman, Knt., of Norfolk. In Narburgh Church, Norfolk, is a monument over which may be seen the arms of Spelman quartering Maunsell in the sixth, and bearing the following inscription — " Clementi Spelman, Equite aurato Norfolciae (1509), Viscomte, etc., obit 24 die Sept., 1607." In die fourth Edward IV. Sir James Berkeley, of Berkeley, Knt, issued the following order — "Right well beloved seirs, I greet you well wth all my hart, and pray you that you tender the right of my well beloved servant and yours, Will'm Payne, touching to his Right in Strood as you will that I should doe any thing att your prayers, ffor truly Sr. John Spilman had
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the land in Strood of Sir Wm. Mauncell with a daughter of his in ffree mariag and held it in time of hiy lift'e, and his son, Nicholas Spilman, held it the time of his liffe, and Thos. Spibnan, Nicholas' sonn, held it the time of his hffe, and Margery, daughter of the said Thomas, late the wife of Wm. Payne, held it 46 years."
Sir Wm. Maunsell also had a son, viz : William, born 1295, who held Lypiate Manor and lands in Bisley, Co. Glos., and to whom Robert de Eton yielded lands, etc., near Eton in 1362. In 1346 he, with Henry Danvers, v/as assessed 13 s. 4d. on the knighting of Edward of Woodstock, for a third part of a knight's fee in Oddeston and Sancketon, parcel of the fee of John de Hastings, Lord of Abergaveny. He married and had a son, viz. :
Sir Philip Mauncell, Knt., who held lands — Mauncell Place, Pusey, and Bryttes Place, Bockland, Co. Berks ; Redyse, Bampton, Co. Oxon ; and Lypiate, Co. Glouc. He was Governor of Rochelle in 1372, and is described by Anquitel in his "History of France" as having lost that fortress by not being able to read. The mayor of the town, by a forged despatch, induced Maunsell to attend a review out- side the walls when, by a preconcerted movement, the French troops took possession of the place. He married the dau. of Sir John Atthyle, of Geystwick, Co. Norfolk, and died 1396. In Narburgh Church there is a window, or memorial, evidently to him, dis- playing the following arms — "Azure Seme of Cross Crosslets and three Crescents Argent." — See "Pa- trician," vol. i. (Burke).
Walter Maunsell, the eldest son, held the sergeanty of Little Missenden as Napkin Bearer to the King, and owned tlie manors and lands of Soulbury, Bucks. ; Ingepenne, Berks. ; and lands in Staffordshire by the service of marshalling in the house of the King. He held also one knight's fee of Roger de Somery of the honour of Dudley,^') and one fee of the honour of the Earl and fee of tlie Marshal in Buddeley, Co. Wilts, and, with Nicholas de Ingepenne and the Abbot of Tyckford, held two fees of the fee of Roger de Somery. Also he held two fees in Hartwell, Co. Northants, of the fee of Wm. de Say of the honour of Dover, half a hide of land of the fee of Pevershale of Nottinghain "by the sergeanty of finding for our lord the King, for his army in Wales, one horse of the price of five shillings, with a (') Honour— a Seigniory of several manors, held under one baron, or lord-paramount.
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halter of the price of one penny, and to pay toll for forty days." His lands were taken from him 1216, but were restored second of Henry HI.
He married Hawisia, daughter of John de Somerie by Hawisia, daughter of Gervaise Pagnell, Baron of Dudley (this latter Hawisia married, secondly, Roger de Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, Co. Gloucester), by Hawisia, dau. of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, by Hawisia, daughter of Andre de Vitre, by Agnes, half-sister of the Conqueror. For the health of the soul of his cousin, and wife's uncle, Robert Pagnell, last of the two sons of Gervaise Pagnell, he bestowed some of tlie lands of Ingepenne on the Priory of Tickford, which gift his son, John, subsequently confirmed in his court at Soulbury, his brothers Philip, Henry, Peter, and Robert being witnesses to the deed.
Walter died about 1250, for in the following year Hawisia held the lands of Ingepenne in dower. Of his issue, viz. : I. John, of whom afterwards, II. Philip, d. s. p.
III. Henry, held the presentation to benefice of Soulbury, 1276.
IV. Peter, became a monk at Tyckford.
V. Robert, whose homage the King accepted in 1250 for lands in Co. Northants.
VI. Michael, in 1279, assigned to Walter de Agmondeshem certain lands in Agmondeshem, portion of the lands his father held by sergeanty of Little Missenden.
VII. Clarissa, married Sir Geoffrey de Childewick, of Co. Hertford. VIII. A daughter, married — Le Norays, and they had a daughter, Matilda, to whom John Maunsell, in 1250, made free gift of Winterbourne, Gun- nour, Co. Gloucester, on her intermarriage with Henrico de la Mare. She was ancestor of Peter de la Mare who, in 1376, as Speal-:er of "the good Parliament," was thrown into prison by John of Gaunt for refusing to vote supplies. This Peter had a sister Joan who married Simon de Brockburn, who died 15 Ric. II., leaving a daughter, Margaret, who married Sir Wm. Seymour, ancestor of the Dukes of Somerset.
John Maunsell appears from early youth to have been brought up at court, for in a letter written by King Henry III. to the College of Cardinals, dated 1st January, 1262, of Maunsell he says : — "Sub alis nostris educatus cujus ingenium mores et marita ab adolescentia sua probarimus," etc.
He married Joan, only daughter and heir of Simon Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford, Hereditary Almoner to the King, by Isabella, daughter of Hugh Wake, Lord of Chesterfield, and sister of Baldwin, Lord Wake (who was also married to Simon's sister, Ella), and granddaughter of Wm. Beauchamp,
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Baron of Bedford, by Avicea or Idonea, daughter of Wm. Longspee, Earl of Salisbury. In 1226 he was appointed Constable of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and, in addition to the family estates which he in- herited in Beds., Bucks., Leic, etc., and the estates in right of his wife, of which he had free warren of the King, he also, between years 1241 and 1 25 1, got grants of the following manors and lands, viz. — Hyldesle, Co. Berks. ; Renham and Berton, Co. Suffolk ; Wepeham and Sedgwick, Co. Sussex ; Wygan, Co. Lancaster (for which town he got a charter) ; Merston, Co. Wilts. ; Bergton and Meonstoke, Hants., together with their markets and fairs ; Tidderleigh, Co. Ebor ; Messeberg and Polres, and Bilsington, Co. Kent. Of the last-named lands he had the sergeanty as Cup Bearer to the King, and had them of the gift of his uncle, Roger de Somerie, one of the heirs of Hugh, Earl of Arundel, he (Roger) having married Nicholia, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of said Hugh, Earl of Arundel, and in right of his wife had a third part of the manor of Bilsington. At Bilsing- ton John Maunsell founded a priory for the King and Queen, valued at ;^8 IS. 6d. yearly, and endowed it with lands Polres, Gozehale, and Ecche, besides the manor of Belgar, near Sid. A small alien house was also established by him at Romney in 1257. Bilsington was surrendered 28 Feb., 1535, its revenues not amomiting to £200 p. a., and in the 36 Plenry VIII. it was given with others to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canter- bury, and still forms portion of that see. It had previously been rented to Sir Anthony St. Leger, Knt., for 50 years, at £70 per annum. A farm- house, formed from the ruins of the Priory, is now the only remains of the dwelling.
In Shropshire, Maunsell held the town of Lega Cambrey in ward of the fee of Robert Thocket ; he had wardship of the son and heir of Edmund de Kemesek, for which he paid 300 marks ; of the heir of Alardi le Fleming, for which he paid 500 marks ; and of Henry, son and heir of Mathew Hoese, for which he paid 600 marks ; also of William de Buri, of Alppintorn, Shropshire, who, being under age, the King "gave the wardship to John Maunsell, and he holds 2 parts, 9 perches." He was also appointed guardian to Felicia, daughter of Humphry de Millers, whom he married as second wife. She survived him, for, in 1263, as widow of John Maunsell, she held in dower the lands of Rossington, Co. Derby.
In 1243 he was appointed Chancellor of London, and resigned that post in 1259. He was, in 1255, appointed Provost of Beverley and Treasurer of York, and, in 1258, Member of Privy Council, Lord Justiciar of England, and Constable of the Tower, which latter was considered the most honorable appointment in the gift of the King. In 1249 he had royal permission to embattle his house at Sedgwyck, and had free warren in all his demesnes in counties Surrey, York, Berks., Herts., Sussex, etc., and all lines of the sergeanty of Bilsington. In 1250 he, with the King and several nobles, was crossed to go to Jerusalem, and in 125 1 he compelled the
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monastery at Tewkesbury to pay him tithes of Kingeston Manor. As a chief member of the Council, he and Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, were the only parties freely admitted to the King's presence during Prince Edward's disobedience. In 1256 he and Gloucester had full power to treat with the foreign ambassadors re Richard, Duke of Cornwall, being elected King of the Romans; and in 1259 he and the Earls of Gloucester and Leicester were sent as ambassadors to France to treat for the marriage of Prince Edward and Beatrice, daughter of the King of France. He was employed as ambassador to the Pope, to the King of Scots, and to the King of Spain. The charter, with its golden seal, which he brc>ught back from Spain, is still amongst the archives at Westminster.
He was one of the Royal Representatives at Oxford Parliament, and Member of the Council of 15, having been previously one of the two chosen by the Barons from the Royal Electors, the Earl of Warwick being the other. In a Bull from Pope Alexander IV. advising the King to pay the debts in re the affair Sicily, and addressed to John Maunsell, dated June 3rd, 1258, he says: — "Alexander, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to his beloved son, John Mavnsell, Treasurer of York, greeting and Apos- tolic benediction"; and in a letter from Henry III. to Pope Alexander, he says — "John Maunsell is quite innocent of the beating of a proctor at York." In 1260 arose a violent dispute between his Majesty the King and the English Barons, because, it was said, acting on advice of John Maunsell, Robert Walerand, Peter de Sauvage, and others, he attempted to infringe the statutes and provisions which had been laid down in the general Parliament at Oxford. In 1261 an agreement was arrived at, the matter in dispute being referred, on the King's part, to the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Hereford, and John Maunsell, and on the Barons' side to Robert de Marisco, Dean of Lincoln, Roger Bigod, Count, and Peter de Mumford ; and in case of disagreement, Richard, King of the Romans, to act as umpire. Maunsell held the advowson of seventy (some authorities say seven hundred) parishes, which brought him a revenue of over 18,000 marks per an. "He feasted at his hcuse, Tole Hill Field, at one time, two kings, two queens, with their dependances, 700 messe of meate scarce serving for the first dinner." "With his owne hands in battle betwixt the English and the French near to Tailborge, in France, he took prisoner one Peter Orige, a gentleman of eminent place and qualitie." About 1263, he was named one of the executors of the will of Henry III., and, as his name does not again appear in state affairs, it is thought that he died in that year ; and as on 7th February, 12O4-5, Johannes de Chishull, Archdeacon of London, was appointed to the Provostship of Beverley, and as King Henry was forced to confer on Alanwick de Montfort the Treasurership of York, it being then in custody of Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester, as 'tis expressed, void by Maunsell's death, and, as already stated, his widow. Felicia, held the lands of Rossington in dower in 1263, it follows that he
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must have died in that year. He was buried at York Minster, and King Henry " granted lands to that church that prayers and masses might be said there annually for the repose of the soul of John Maunsell." Soon after, John de Aucer and James de Cimiterio took violent possession of the grant and detained it, whereupon the monks brought action for its recovery in 1274, alleging "they cannot perform the anniversary, to the peril of the soul of the deceased, and of their own souls," whereupon King Edward confirmed the grant, and the memorial service was continued in the church of St. Peter's, York, until the Reformation. Matthew Paris, and some other writers, assert that Maunsell died abroad, in 1268, "poor, wretched and miserable " ; but from the above this cannot be true, as also from the fact that, in addition to estates in England, he left large properties in Ireland, for by deed dated i6th Dec, 1266, "Sir RolSert de Twenge, Knt., and Simon of Stourbridge, and the other executors of his will, constituted Wm. de Bakapuz as their proctor in all matters throughout Ireland relating to said will." Immediately after his death, in 1263, most of his lands were seized by the Earl of Leicester and given to his son, Simon de Montfort, jun., but after the battle of Eveshiim, in which Leicester and his son were slain, the property was restored to the Maunsell family. In 1264 his two eldest sons, and his grandson, Henry Hoese, were in open hostility to the King. In 1266 the manor of Hyldesle was ceded to Robert de Wytefeud, and in 1268 the manors of Wepeham and Sedgwyck, Co. Sussex, and of Beimund, Co. Essex, were surrendered to the King, who then granted them to Peter de Chaventree for his homage and service.
In addition to male issue, he appears to have had a daughter married to — Gyrlyngton, of Gyrlington Hall, Yorks, for, on the 3rd Edwd. I., Gunilda, who was wife of Mansell de Girlington, claimed against John Maunsell, son of the abovenamed John, custodian of the lands, and heir of Master Mansell de Girlington, and against John fil Manselli de Girlington, against Richard Maunsell, against Felicia Maunsell, John Emon, and Richd. de Erndesby, certain lands in Girlington as her dower. He also had male issue by his first wife, viz :
I. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
II. John, described in the Rotulorum Chart, 30 Henry III., as John Maun- sell, jun., got from the King the advowson of Lugwardine church, and churches or chapels in Urcliingfeld, Co. Hereford. In Irish "Close Rolls" he is described as brother of Walter, and acknowledges himself indebted to William, Archbishop of Cashel, in ;^300.
III. Henry, was killed at Northampton, in 1264, whilst defending the citadel for the Barons against the royal forces. He does not appear to have been married.
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Cashel. On 23 January, 125 1, he got the gift of the Capital Serjeancy of Munster, and on ist March of that year, as per commission signed by John Mamisell, he was appointed Governor of the Castle of Occonath in that district. The commission runs as follows : — " Mandate to John Fitzgeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland, that, taking with him good and lawful men, he viewe the defects of the King's Castle of Occonath, and cause them to be thoroughly repaired, and that he cause Walter Maunsell, to whom the King has committed its custody, to have what belongs to him for that custody. The King will cause the expenses to be allowed to the Judiciary." Occonath was situate in that district portion of which is now known as Coonagh, and then comprised the counties Limerick and Tipperary, etc. He also held the castle of Balygady. On Maunsell's death, in 13 18, the sergeancy of Munster was given to Robert Bagod, and the castle of Balygady to Maurice de Rupeforte, " to hold the same till the lawful age of Walter's heir." He had issue, viz. :
(i) Robert, who was sheriff of Tipperary, 1304, and died before his father, leaving a son, John, who, in 1356, was co-sheriff of the county of the Cross of Tipperary with John Everh^rd. In the baronies of EUiogurty and Iffa and Offa, in that county, is a town- land called Maunselltown.
(2) Philip, sold lands at Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, in 1307, to
Gilbert de Clare, and then held by Joan, Countess of Gloucester.
(3) John.
(4) Thomas.
V. Galfridus, held lands Grillington, Co. Yorks, and gave all his lands
in Ingepenne, Berks, to Tichfield or Tickford Priory, which lands are described as having been formerly held by John Maunsell, lord of the manor. He became a monk at Tickford. See Appendix, Nos, 2 and 3.
VI. Richard, in 1253, held jointly with his brother, Thomas, the manor, markets and fairs, and free warren in Budeford or Bridforth, Co. Yorks, and, in 1262, the King granted him a licence to hunt in that county. He also held lands of Comb Quynton, Co. Cumberland. He also held Hundreds in Hovedene, Co. Yorks, and his bailiff, John Skelton, vacated a certain ward to Richard the Forester. He had issue, viz 1 (i) John, of Brudeford, who had action against Wm. de Karliolo in
1307, and was declared owner of the property at Comb Quynton. He married Isabella, dau. and co-heir of Richard de Sto Dyonysio. of Hempstead, Co. Norfolk, and in 13 12 had licence to enfeoff half the manor of Hempstead with the moiety of the church of Norfolk ; and had also licence of the King to grant Henry Maun-
l6 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
sell and Beatrice, his wife, one moiety of the manor of Hempstead, by Irnham, and the advovvson of a moiety of its church, held in chief, and the reversion of the other moiety, which Roger de Thorpe, of Wystonwe, and Joan, his wife, held for their lives. He had issue, viz. :
(A) Henry, referred to above, married Beatrix, daughter of Thos. de Berton, of Rondham, Co. Norfolk, and had issue:
(a) John, who paid 20s. for licence to obtain the advowson
of Hempstead in 1358, and died unmarried in 1362.
(b) Walter, died unmarried in 1365.
(c) Alicia, married and had a daughter, Beatrix, aged 30
in 1365.
(d) Mariota, married and had a daughter, Rosa, aged 18 in 1365. Rosa married Robert Robel, for, in 1365, the King commanded the sheriff of Norfolk "to get security from Beatrix, dau. of Alicia Maunsell — the one, Robert Robel, and Rosa, his wife, daughter of Meriot Maunsell, the other — to make lawful partition of the moiety of the manor of Hempstead, with its appurtenances, which is held of the King in chief by military service."
(2) Walter, was of Hoton, Co. Cumberland, and had a son, viz. :
(a) Patrick, aged 21 in 1296, in which year the King accepted his fidelity for all the lands and tenements which his father held in chief of the King.
(3) Adam, had right of the gift of the Priory of St. Swithin, Winchester,
which, on his demise in 1280, reverted to the King, and which the King then granted for life to Aunger de Chancovy.
Thomas Maunsell, in 1225, held joinly with Alexander D'Oville, from the Earl of Arundel, the lands of Tackele, Co. Oxon ; he also held lands in Bucks and Berks, the manor of Reddeston, and half a fee in Farendun, Northants, under the Earl of Winchester, as well as the lands in Yorks held jointly with his brother, Richard.
He was Escheator of Bucks, 1251, and Jurator in Essex in 1255. In 1250 he was sent on a mission to Rome re the Crusades. He fought during the Barons' wars, and, with Simon de Montfort, jun., Baldwin le Wake, and several others, was wounded and taken prisoner at Northampton, 1264. He was created a Knight Banneret by the Earl of Leicester, and was appointed one of the fifteen standard bearers in the Barons' army After the above battle he was thrown into prison and attainted in Parliament, but his powerful influence soon obtained his freedom and a repeal of the attainder on payment of a small fine. Subsequently he appears to have
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been on intimate terms with King Edward. He also held lands in Pape- worth Hundred, Co. Kent, of Thomas de Ellesworth by service of two suits of court per annum, where his father had held lands at id. per year.
He married, first, Hana, dau. of Sir Henry Grey, Knt., son of John Grey, Justice of Chester, progenitor of Lords Grey of Wilton and Ruthyn, and who gave to the canons of Nutley, Bucks, a cottage in Co. Norfolk to pray for his soul and that of Aleanor, his wife. This John Grey was son of Henry de Grey, of Thurrock Grey, Essex, by Isolda, niece and sole heir of Robert Bardolf.
He married, secondly, Johanna, who survived him ; and in the Hilary term at York, 27 Edward I. she recovered lands at Croydon as dau. and heiress of Walter de Winchesham.
By his first wife Sir Thomas Maunsell had issue, viz. :
I. Henry, of whom afterwards.
II. John, who held the lands of Doddeworth, Co. Berks, and in 1292,
jointly with Elias Eddison, held the manor of Eddison, Co. Leic, of John de Hastings by the service of half a knight's fee, Hastings, Lord of Abergaveny, holding them of Philip Marmion, as of his honour and castle of Tamworth. He married Isabella, who survived him, and she, 2gth Edward I., recovered the lands Neuton, Herecut, Thughton, Burton, and Contesse Thorpe, in Co. Leic, from Ric de Ernesby. He left issue, viz. :
(i) John, named in a state paper, 8 July, 13 10, as John, son of John Maunsell. In 13 13 letters of protection were issued to him on his going beyond seas with the Earl of Richmond in the King's service. In 1324 he was assessed on the lands of Eddeston and Doddeworth ; and on his death, in 133 1-2, the King's escheator was commanded to take into the King's hands all the lands of which John Maunsell died possessed, during minority of the heir. He married Joan , and had a son, viz :
(A) Richard, aged 13 at his father's death, and who, in 1398, held the lands of Burbache and Eddeston from Richard Earl of Arundel
III. Joan, married her grandfather's ward, Henry Hoese, who, in 12G4, had taken part with the Barons against the King, but in 55th Henry III. was pardoned and had free warren for his manor of Childerston, Co. Kent. He was ancestor of the Barons of Galtrim, and of Edward Hussey, created Earl of Beaulieu in 1784.
Henry Maunsell married Elina or Ellinor, dau. of Hugh Haels, and had, with other issue, an eldest son, viz. :
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Sir Walter MauNSELL, Knight of the Sepulchre, who held the manor of Missenden, etc., Co. Bucks, in capite of the King. He married Emma, dau. of Sir Wm. Langton, and dying about latter end of the reign of Edward II., was buried before the altar of St. Botolph's Church, Londoa He was succeeded by his eldest son, viz. :
Sir Robert MaunsELL, also Knight of the Sepulchre, who was of Missenden, etc., and Hanslape, Co. Bucks (which latter lands his representatives held in 1453 of Henry Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). He married Dorothy, dau. of Sir Richard Fry, Knt., and had, with other issue, a son, viz. :
Richard Maunsell, who married Lucy, dau. and heir of Philip Scurlage, Lord of Scurlage Castle, Glamorganshire, and his eldest son, viz. :
Sir Hugh Maunsell, Knt. Banneret, of Missenden, Chichele, and Berry End, etc., Bucks, and Scurlage, Glamorgan, married Elizabeth or Isabel, dau. and heir of Sir John Penrys, Knt., Lord of Oxwich. Sir Hugh and his father-in-law were both living 1367, as stated in MSS. at Britton Ferry. He also held lands at Brockton, Co. Salop, from the Earl of Stafford in 1399, and his heirs held them in 1467 of Humphry Duke of Buckingham. He was succeeded by his eldest son, viz. :
Sir Richard Maunsell, Knt., of Oxwich, Penrice, and Scurlage Castles, who died in 1435, and, as per Inquisition held in 1440, held with other estates the lands of Necleston, Co. Hereford, from John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. He married Elizabeth, dau. of Gilbert Turbeville, of Penline, son of Tomkyn, son of Hamon, and had issue, viz. :
I. John, who married Cecily, dau. and heir of Sir Wm. Cantelupe, of
Cantelupestown Castle, Gower, by the dau. and heir of Sir Roger Umfraville, Knt., Lord of Penmarsh, by Isabel, widow of Howel ap Vychon Howel, and dau. of Wnx Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, de- riving from the royal house of Plantagenet. He died in his father's lifetime, leaving issue a son, viz. :
(i) Philip, who, in 1435, succeeded to his grandfather's estates, as detailed below.
II. William, of Mansellfield, Gower, married Jane, dau. of Thomas ap
Bevan Gwin ap Howell Melyn, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Morgan, who married Jane, dau. of Richard Box, and had issue, viz. :
(A) David, married Catherine, dau. of Philip Cradoc, of Cheriton,
and had issue a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Rees ap
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Ferry ; from whose descendants that property came mto the Maunsell family (see page 24).
(b) Margaret, married Griffiths Thomas, of Llandemore.
(c) Alice, died unmarried.
Philip ManSELL, son of John Maunsell and Cecily, his wife, was 15 years of age when he succeeded to his father's and grandfather's estates, as per Inquisition held at Swansea by Humphry Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, 13^1 Henry VI. About 1444, he married, first, Mabel, dau. of Griffiths Nicolas, of Newton, Co. Caermarthen, heiress of her mother, Jane, heiress of Jenkin ap Rees ap David, descended from Cadifor ap Dinawall. In the Inquisition recorded above, Philip is mentioned as the son of John, and grandson of Richard Maunsell.
Amongst the MSS. at Britton Ferry, copied by Revd. J. M. Traherne, appears the following : — " Ego Phillipus filius et haeres nuper Johis Maunsell de Oxenwych, 10 die mens Maie, 1444." By a deed dated 1459-60, to which Sir Wm. Berkeley, Knt., then Seneschal of Gower, and others are witnesses, he entailed his Gower estates on his sons, John, Leonard, and Jenkyn. (See Appendix, Nos. "j"] and 84.)
He married, secondly, about this latter date, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Sir Philip Long, Knt., and had further issue.
He fought at Mortimers Cross against Edward, Earl of March (after wards Edward IV.). On the same side were Jasper Earl of Pembroke, James Earl of Ormond, and Owen Tudor (who had married Queen Catherine, mother of Henry VI.). For this he was attainted in Parliament in 1464, and two years later his Gower estates were bestowed upon Sir Roger Vaughan, Knt., as per Patent Roll, 5th Edward IV.
Philip and his sons, under leadership of his relative the Earl of Warwick, fought throughout for the Red Rose. Two of his sons were slain ; and at the battle of Tewkesbury he was taken prisoner by Sir John Conyers, and was soon afterwards beheaded.
Philip appears to have been the first to omit the "u" in spelling of
the name. He had issue by his first wife, viz. :
I. John, killed in battle. II. Leonard, killed in battle.
III. Jenkyn, of whom afterwards.
He had issue by second marriage, viz. :
IV. Richard, for which see Maunsell of Chicheley, page 39.
V. Philip, of whom nothing is known.
VI. Elizabeth, who, in 1489, married Sir Mathew Cradock, of Swansea Seneschal of Gower, by whom she was mother of one daughter, viz.
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Margaret, who married, first, John Malefant, of St. George's Castle, by whom she had no issue ; secondly, Sir Richard Herbert, of Ewias, Co. Monmouth, ancestor of the present Earl of Pembroke ; and thirdly. Sir Wm. Bawdrip.
JENKIN MANSELL.on the accession of Henry VII., in 1485, obtained a repeal of the attainder against his father and a restoration in blood and estates. At a tournament given by his cousin. Sir Rice ap Thomas, Knt., Constable and Lieutenant of Brecknock, 21st Henry VII., to celebrate the order of the Garter having been conferred on him, amongst others from Glamorgan came Jenkin Mansell, surnamed " Dewr," or " the Valiant." In this tournament he bore for motto, " Perit sine adversario virtus." — See Cambrian Register, Vol. I., page 25. In i486 he married Edith, dau. and heir of Sir Geo. Kyme or Kene, Knt., of Well Hall, Eltham, Co. Kent, and granddaughter of Sir Wm. Kyme (who was sherifT of Kent 25 Hen. VI.). by Agnes, widow of John Tettershall, and dau. of John Chichele, Chamberlain of London, by Margery, dau. of Sir Thos. Knolles, Lord Mayor of London. Agnes was grand-neice of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, who founded All Souls College, Oxford, and all " akin " to him became entitled to a presenta- tion to a fellowship to that college. He had issue, viz. :
I. Rhys, of whom afterwards.
II. Hugh, married Jane, dau. and co-heir of Richard Wogan, of Kent, and had issue/"' viz. :
(i) Robert, Groom of the Chamber to Henry VIII., and Marshall of the Hall to Queen Elizabeth. He married Alice, dau. of Philip Long, of Co. Dorset, and had issue, viz. :
(a) John, who married Edith, dau. of — Breche, of Newbury, and had issue — Richard, William, and Foulk. Richard was of Keynsham, Co. Somerset, and one of the yeomen of the guard to Queen Elizabeth.
III. Philip of Llandewy, married Anne, dau. of Wm. Dai.ibridgecourt, of Hants, and had :
(i) Henry, who married Dorothy, dau. and heir of Jeffery Newton, by Grace, dau. of Nicholas Bringer, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Rees, married, and, with other issue, had a dau., Dorothy, who married Thos. Franklen, of Nicolaston Hall, as stated in Survey made in 1632.
(■) The Rt. Rev. Wm. Lort Mansel, Bishop of Bristol was most probably a descendant of Hugh Mansell by his wife Jane Wogan, but I have not been able to trace it further than given in Appendix No. 70, which see.
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(b) Henry, married Jane, dau. of John Hodges, of Lofton, Co.
Somerset. In reign Chas. II. he was assessed at £193 8s. 4.6., and appears to have been invested with the order of "The Royal Oak," his income being estimated at ;^700.
(c) Elizbaeth.
(d) Grace.
(2) William, d. s. p.
(3) George, married Matilda, dau. of Wm. Probert, d. s. p.
(4) Elizabeth, married David Popkin Thomas, of Gower.
(5) Grace.
(6) Mary.
IV. Alice, married John Drew, of Bristol.
V. Anne, married David ap Rees Gwynne, of Llancayach.
VI. Jane, married John Gwynne ap Jenkyn ap Richard, of Llansanwr.
VII. Elizabeth, married Christopher Fleming.
Rhys Mansell, Sir, Knt., the eldest son, born 25th January, 1487, received the honour of knighthood between the 17th and 27th Hen. VIII. In the latter year he was sent to Ireland at the head of a body of troops to assist the Lord Deputy in suppressing a rebellion of the Earl of Kildare. Next year he had grant for life of the site of the monastery of Margam, Co. Glamorgan, a grant for life of the office of Chamberlain of the County Palatine of Chester, and the Royalty of Avon Waters to liim and to his heirs. After the dissolution of the abbeys, he got a lease of Margam, and in 1540 he purchased the whole of that property, the conveyance bearing the autograph of the King. In 1544, being concerned in an expedition against Scotland, the isles of Arran and Bute, and the castle of Rothsay, were delivered to him, and he took formal possession thereof in the name of the King of England. He died in 1559,^'^ at Clerkenwell,London,where he had a mansion, and was succeeded as Chamberlain of Chester by Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby. Me married, first, on 17th May, 1511, Eleanor, dau. and sole heir of James Bassett, of Beaupre, but by her left no issue. The marriage bond
(i) Sir Rhys Mansell, in his will proved 1559, mentions his sons, Edward and Anthony, Dame Jane, wife of said Edward ; and Dame Mary Dorell, now married to Henry Ffoscue, late wife of said Philip, deceased ; sister Fleming, daughters Mary, Katherine Bessett, and Elizabeth Morgan, niece Mary, daughter of brother Philip ; nieces Elizabeth Howe, Elizabeth Hopkins, Margaret, wife of Rd. J. D. Morgan; Elynor, wife of Randolph Purcell ; and Katherine, wife of Rd. ap Owen. Nephews Harry, George, Thomas, Leonard, Edward, and William Maunsell, and nephews Arnyld Bassett and Wm. Fleming. Also late sister Anne Maunsell, widow, executrix of late brother Philip.
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was dated 17th May, 15 11, and the witnesses to it were John ap Thomas Gwilhm, Richard Howell, Richard Maunsell, John Haron, Richard Thomas, Jenkin Russell, Hugh ap Hopkin, Thomas ap David ap Howell, Nicholas ap Rice. He married secondly, in 1 520, Anne, dau. of Sir Giles Bruges, Knt., of Coberly, Co. Gloucester, and by her had three sons, who all died in his lifetime, and two daughters, viz. :
I. Catherine, married William Bassett, junior, of Beaupre, by which the Bassett estates reverted to that family.
II. Elizabeth, married William Morgan.
He married thirdly, on 19th June, 1527, Cecily, dau. of John Daubridge- court, and had :
III. Edward, of whom presently.
IV. Philip, married Mary Dorrell, d. s. p. She married, secondly, H. ffoscue.
V. Anthony, married Elizabeth, dau. of John Bassett, and had issue, viz. : (i) Mary, married Sir Thomas Awbry, of Llantrithroyd. and of Co.
Bucks. (2) Cecil, married Sir Rawley Bussy.
VI. Mary, married Sir Thos. Southwell, Knt., of Woodrising ; and their son and heir. Sir Robert Southwell, married Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral of England, and had issue.
Edward ManSELL, Sir, Knt., received honor of knighthood in 1572, and, upon the death of the Earl of Derby, was appointed Chamberlain of Chester, distinguishing himself in many services during reign of Queen Elizabeth. (■' He married Lady Jane Somerset, youngest dau. of Henry Earl of Worcester, and had issue, viz. :
I. Thomas, of whom aiterwards.
II. Anthony, married Mary, dau. and co-heir of Henry Morgan, of Muddles- comb, d. s. p.
III. Francis. See Mansell, Bart., of Muddlescombe, page 29.
IV. Philip, married Catherine, dau. of William Mathew, of Radyr, and widow of Rowland Lewis, and had : (i) Thomas, of Swansea, married a dau. of David Gwyn, of Llanbran,
and had Edward and Philip, and Roderic and Thomas, etc. (2) Dorothy, married David Vachan, of Trimseran.
(0 Supposed to be the Sir Edward and Lady Mansel mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in the Waverley Novels, " Fortunes of Nigel," viz.— Sir Edward, Lieut, of the Tower, temp. James I.
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V. Charles had command of a troop in Ireland under Tyrone, and was killed in action 1598.
VI. Robert, Sir, Knt., of Norfolk, entered the royal navy under the im-
mediate patronage of his relative, the Lord High Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham, Earl of Nottmgham. He was captain of the "Mer Honour," and was knighted by the Earl of Essex for conspicuous bravery at the battle of Cadiz, when the Spanish fleet was destroyed in that harbour by the intrepid attack of the English, A.D. 1596. He was most successful in defence of the English coast, and was in high favour with Queen Elizabeth. King James, in 1604, appointed him Treasurer of the Navy for life, and in 161 8 Vice Admiral of England. In November, 1599, he fought a duel with Sir John Hayden, both being described as Knights of Norfolk. In course of a long and desperate struggle Sir John's left hand was cut off It is still preserved in tiie museum at Canterbury. In early life Sir Robert spelt his name Mansfeeld, but later reverted to Mansell. See his letters to his wife's nephew, Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy ; see also account m " Gentleman s Magazine," 1853, vol. 39; and also Campbell's "Lives of British Admirals." He married, first, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and secondly, Ann, maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, and dau. of Sir John Roper, Knt., but had no issue by either wife.
VII. Rees, capt. of a troop under Tyrone, killed in action in Ireland.
VIII. Harry, d. s. p.
IX. Christopher, married Anne. dau. of Sir Robert Worsley, and had issue five daughters, viz., Jane, Hope, Dorothy, Catherine, and Elizabeth.
X. William, d. s. p.
XI. Elizabeth, married her cousin, Sir Walter Rice, Knt., of Newton, and
was ancestor of Lord Dynevor. See " Burke's Peerage." Xn. Cecil, married Sir Rowland Williams, of Llangibby Castle, High Sheriff of Monmouthshre, and had, with other issue. Sir Charles, his successor, and Jane, married Sir Nichs. Kemeys, Bart. Sir Charles's son, Sir Trevor Williams, was created a Baronet in 1642. (See Appendix No. 74.)
XIII. Mary, married Christopher Turbeville, of Penline.
XIV. Anne, married Edward Came, of Nash.
Thomas Mansell, Created a Baronet 1611. In marriage bond, 1582, name Sir, 1st Bart. spelt Maunsell. He married, first, in 1582, Mary, dau.
of Lewis, second Lord Mordaunt, and had issue :
I. Lewis, of whom afterwards.
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II. Anthony.
III. Arthur, married Jane (who married, secondly, Sir Anthony Mansell, Knt., see page 29), dau and co-heir of Wm. Price, of Britton Ferry, and granddau. of Lyson Price, and had issue, (with five daughters, the eldest of whom, viz., Mary, married, in 1649, Coin. Edward Prichard, third son of Edwd. Prichard of Lancayagh), viz. :
(i) Thomas.
(2) BUSSY, married Gate, dau. of Hugh Pery, Alderman of London, and widow of Sir Edwd. Stradling. Bussy, in 1645, was appointed Commander-in-chief of the forces in Glamorganshire. He had a dau., Jane, died young, and a son, viz. :
(A) Thomas, married dau. and heir of Richd. James, and had issue, viz. :
(a) BusSY, lieutenant in army, whose wife, Peregrina, died 1 72 1, as set forth in monument on west wall under gallery of Bromley church.
IV. Henry, entered college 1601, aged 14, described as brother of Lewis. Sir Thomas Mansell married, secondly, Jane, widow of — Bussy, and
dau. of Thomas Pole, and had further issue, viz. :
V. Mary, married Sir Edward Stradling.
Lewis Mansell, Married, first, about 1600, Lady Katherine Sydney, second Sir, 2nd Bart. dau. of Robert Lord Lisle, first Earl of Leicester, by Bar- bara, dau. and heir of John Gammage (Lady Maunsell v/as aunt of the poet, Algernon Sydney), but by that lady,' who died 1616, he had no issue. He married, secondly, Katherine, dau. of Sir Edwd. Lewis, senr., of Van, and had issue, viz. :
I. Jane, married Abraham Wogan.
II. Blanche, married Sir Chas. Kemeys, second Baronet, d. s. p.
Sir Lewis married, thirdly. Lady Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Montague, Earl of Manchester, and had further issue, viz. :
III. Edward, of whom afterwards.
IV. Henry.
V. Elizabeth, married Sir Wm. Wiseman, Bart.
VI. Mary, married William Leman.
Sir Lewis died about 1638 (his widow married Sir Edwd. Seabright), and was succeeded bv
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Edward Mansell, Married Martha, dau. and co-heir of Edwd. Came, of
Sir, 3rd Bart. Ewenny, by his second wife, Martha, dau. of Sir Hugh
Wyndham, of Pilsden, Co. Dorset, by which the lordship
and advowson of Landorugh, St. Mary's Church, and Colwinstone, came
into the family. He died 1706, aged 70 years, having had issue, viz. :
I. Edward, died unmarried 1681. II. Thomas, of whom presently.
III. Henry. ' IV. Martha, married, in 1682, Thomas Morgan, of Tredegar, Co. Mon.
V. Elizabeth, married Sir Edward Stradling, Bart.
Thomas Mansell, 1704 to 171 1 Comptroller of the Household to Queen 4th Bart, and ist Anne, Member of Privy Council, Commissioner of Treasury, Baron Mansel of Teller of the Exchequer, and raised to tlie Peerage 1711 Margam. as Baron Mansel of Margam.
He married, in 1686, Margaret, dau. and heir of Francis Millington, of London, and had issue, viz. :
I. Robert, who married Anne, dau. and co-heir of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, Knt., and dying before his father in 1723, left issue, viz.:
(1) Robert, succeeded his grandfather as second Baron, and of whom presently.
(2) Thomas, succeeded his brother as third Baron, and of whom
presently.
(3) A daughter.
II. Christopher, who succeeded his nephew as fourth Baron, and of whom presently.
III. BUSSY, who succeeded his brother as fifth Baron, and of whom presently.
IV. Martha. V. Elizabeth.
VI. Mary, married John Ivory Talbot, M.P. of Lacock, Wilts, son of Sir John Ivory, of New Ross, Ireland, and Anne, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Talbot, and had issue, viz. :
(i) John, d. s. p.
(2) Thos., Revd., of Margam, married, in 1746, Jane, only dau. of Thomas Beach, of Fittleton, Wilts, and had issue, viz. :
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(a) Thomas ManSEL-Talbot, married Lady Mary Lucy Fox- Strangways, dau, of Henry Thomas, second Earl of Ilchester, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Mary Theresa.
(b) Jane Harriett, married John Nicholl.
(c) Christina Barbara, died young-.
(d) Charlotte Louisa, married the Revd. John M. Traherne.
(e) Eleanor Sybella, died young.
(f) Isabella Catherina, married Richard Frankhn.
(g) Emma Thomasina, married John Llewelyn.
(h) Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, M.P. for Co. Glamorgan from 1830 until his death in 1890, and was styled " the father of the House of Commons." He was also Lord Lieutenant of the County, and was more than once offered a peerage, which he decHned. He married, in 1835, Lady Charlotte Butler, dau. of the first Earl of Glengal, and had issue, viz. : : (hi) Theodore Mansel-Talbot, died 1876. (h2) Emily Charlotte, now of Margam Park. (h3) Olive Emma, died 1894.
Oh) Bertha Isabella, married John Fletcher, of Sal- toun Hall, Haddingtonshire, and had issue, viz. : (i) Violet Charlotte, married, in 1893, Bertram C. C .Spencer Meeking, of loth Hussars.
(2) Margaret Francis, married Bryan Leighton,
of Loton Park, Shrewsbury.
(3) Evelyn, married Archibald Campbell, of Blyths-
wood.
(4) Kathleen Louisa.
(5) Olive, died young.
(6) Mary Lucy, married Guy Spiers, of Culdees.
(7) Gladys Emily, married George Grahame, of
Menteith.
(8) Ella Geraldine, married Alfred Miller, of
Shotover.
(9) Andrew Mansel-Talbot, married Frances
Jane, dau. of Sir Francis Galwey Winnington, bart, J.P., D.L., by Jane, dau. of Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill, 2nd son of George, 6th Duke of Marlborough. (3) Martha, married Revd. Wm. Davenport, D.D., and had a son,
Wm. Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey. The first Baron Mansel died December, 1723, and was succeeded by his grandson, viz. :
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Robert MansEL, succeeded his grandfather. He died, without issue, in 5th Bart, and London, and his remains were interred 3rd February, 1743, 2nd Baron, in the parish church, Crayford, Co. Kent He was suc-
ceeded by his brother, viz. :
Thomas Mansel, Who died unmarried, 29th January, 1744, when his honors 6th Bart, and reverted to his uncle, viz. : 3rd Baron.
Christopher Mansel, Who dying unmarried, at Newick Place, Sussex, 7th Bart, and 4th 26 November, 1744, was succeeded by his brother. Baron (Bussy), to whom he left the estates, with remainder
to his nephew, the Revd. Thomas Talbot.
BusSY Mansel, Who married, first, Lady Betty Harvey, dau. of John, Earl
8th Bart, and of Bristol, by whom he had no issue. His Lordship married,
5th Baron. secondly. Lady Barbara Blackett, widow of Sir Walter
Blackett, Bart., and dau. of William, second Earl of Jersey
(she died 1761), and had issue viz. :
I. Louisa Barbara, who married George, second Lord Vernon, by whom
she had a dau, viz. :
(i) The Honble. Louisa Vernon, who died unmarried in 1786.
Lady Vernon died in 1788.
Lord Mansel of Margam died 29th November, 1750, when all his honors, including the Baronetcy, expired.
Arms — Arg. a Chevron between three Maunches Sa.
Crest — A Chapeau gu turned up ennine enflamed at the top ppr. Another — A falcon rising or.
Another — A grifHn's head erased, per pale indented ar and gu. Supporters — Dexter : a falcon rising with wings expanded and belled or.
Sinister: a griffin with wings expanded, per pale indented ar and gu. Mottoes— Quod Vult Valde Vu)t.
Honorantes me Honorabo. See "Burke's General Armoury," 1878. See "Burke's Extinct Peerage."
MANSEL, BARONETS OF MUDDLESCOMBE.
Francis Mansell, See page 22, second son of Sir Edwd. Mansell, Knt, was 1st Bart. created a Baronet 162 1-2. He married, first, Catfierine,
dau. and co-heir (her sister, Mary, married his eldest brother, Anthony, d. s. p.) of Henry Morgan, of Muddlescombe, Carmar- thenshire, and had issue, viz. :
I. Walter,^') who married, and had male issue that died either young or issueless, and also a dau., Elizabeth, who married, in 1G72, Thomaj Brome, Serjeant-at-Law.
II. Anthony, '=' was Governor of Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire, and fell fighting for King Chas. I. at Newbury, 27th October, 1644, where a cannon ball, with chain shot, took off his head whilst he was charging and routing the enemy. His name was spelt Mauncell. See Camden Society, No. 74, and "Shaw's Staffordshire," Vol. II. He married Jane, widow of Arthur Mansell, see page 24, and dau. and co-heir of Wm. Price, of Britton Ferry, and had issue, viz. : (i) Edward, who succeeded his grandfather as second Baronet, of whom afterwards.
(2) Francis.
(3) Arthur.
(4) Ann, married Thomas Ducket, of Steeple Morden, Camb., and
their only daughter married Revd. Joseph Bentham, prebendary of Lincoln. (See Appendix No. 53.)
(5) Barbara, or Ann Barbara, second wife of Jenkin Jones.
III. Francis, matric. 1607, was Treasurer of Llandaff, 163 1, and elected Principal of Jesus' College, Oxford, which he left in 1643, to look after
(0 Some authorities state that Walter Mansell succeeded his father as second Bart., but, dying without surviving male issue, his nephew Edward inherited the estates and Baronetage. If this is correct the present holder of the title (1903) is therefore the twelfth Baronet,
<■') "Anthony Maunsell was governor of Cardiff Castle, and it is recorded in the ' Historical Register of Lords, Knights and Gentlemen who were slain in defence of their King and Country during the unnatural Rebellion begun in 1641,' that 'he fell at the first battle of Newbury, 20th September, 1643.' The name is also thus given in a cotemporary list in the possession of the R. Catholic Chapter of London." This information was kindly supplied by Walter Money, Esq., F.S.A., Snelsmore, Newbury.
30 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
his brother Anthony's affairs. He returned in 1647, but soon after was called on to resign by the Parliament Party. He was restored to office in 1660, and appears to have been created Knight of the Royal Oak in that year. He died in 1665.
TV. Richard, married Catherine, dau. and heir of Rees Morgan, of Ischoed,
and had issue, viz. :
(i) Richard, who succeeded his cousin Edward, as tliird Baronet of whom afterwards.
(2) Ann, married Edward Came, junior, of Nash. For Sir Francis Mansell, first Baronet's, second marriage and further issue,
see page 37.
Edward Mansell, eldest son of Sir Anthony Mansell, Knt, succeeded his 2nd Bart., grandfather, and inherited Muddlescombe after his uncle
Walter died without surviving male issue. He married the widow of Sir Roger Lort, of Stackpool Court, Pembroke, dau. of Humphry Windham, of Dunraven. He had issue three daughters. His dau., Dorothea, married about 171 3, Samuel Townsend, of Whitehall, Co. Cork. Townsend's eldest son born about 1727. He was succeeded by his cousin, viz. :
Richard Mansell, eldest son of Richard, who was fourth son of the first
3rd. Bart.. Baronet. He married Alice, dau. and heiress of Rees
David Hopkins, of Pcntry Estill, Glamorgan, and had
issue, viz., Richard and William, who, respectively, succeeded to the
Baronetcy, viz. :
Richard Mansell, eldest son, succeeded to the title on the death of the 4th Bart, third Baronet. He died unmarried, when the title de-
volved upon his brother, viz. :
Wm. Mansell, was, as Sir Wm. Mansell, Knt, Captain in Brigadier-General Sth Bart, Nichs. Price's Regin«nt of Foot, and retired on half-pay in
1 713. He married, in 1 700, Amy, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, by whom he had issue two sons and three daughters. His dau.. Amy, married John Rees, of Killymaenllwyd, and had issue. He was succeeded by his elder son, viz. :
Richard Mansel, who married, first, in 1732, Susanna, dau. of Thos. Warner,
6th Bart., Co. Cork, by whom he had no male issue. He married,
secondly, in 1737, Rebecca, eldest dau. of Wm. Ware, of
Farranalough, Co. Cork, and by her had an only surviving son to succeed
him, viz. :
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Wm. Mansel, M.P. for Carmarthenshire, married, in 1765, Mary, only dau. 7th Bart., of John PhiUipps, and sister and heir of George Philiipps, M.P.,
of Coedgaing, and had issue, viz. : I. William, of whom aftenvards.
II. Richard, M.P. of Coedgaing, who took the surname of Phillips by sign manual, in 1793. Pie married, in 1797, CaroUne, only dau. and heir of B. Bond Hopkins, M.P., and had issue, viz. :
(i) Courtenay, Major 15th Hussars, married, 1847, Eliza, dau. of Revd. John Sydney, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Courtenay, d. s. p.
(b) Richard, who succeeded his cousin as tenth Baronet, of whom
afterwards. (C) Harriett.
(2) Edward Berkeley, Sheriff of Norfolk, Capt. 53 rd Regiment,
married Mary, dau. of Revd. John Seeker.
(3) Harriette, married Capt. Carpenter, 15th Hussars.
III. Francis, d. s. p.
IV. John, C.B., of Smedmore, Co. Dorset, colonel in the army, married, first, Mary, who died 1806. He married, secondly, in 181 5, Louisa, dau. and co-heir of Edmund MortonPleydell, of Whatcombe, by Elizabetha Mar- garetta, dau. of Wm. Richards, of Warmwell, by Margaret, dau. of Edward Clavell, of Smedmore, and had issue, viz. : ( See Appendix No. 88.)
/(i) John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell, B.A., J.P., D.L., F.G.S,F.L.S.,C.C., of Whatcombe and Longthorns, Co. Dorset (assumed the addi- tional name of Pleydell under Royal Licence), High Sheriff, 1876; died 1902. Married, first, in 1844, Emily, dau. of Capt. A. B. Bingham, R.N. She died 1845, s. p. He married, secondly, in 1849, Isabel, dau. of F. C. Acton Colville, late Scots Guards, and of Barton House, Co. Warwick, by Mary, sister of Chandos, first Lord Leigh, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Edmund Morton, Lieut.-Colonel 12th Royal Lancers, and of Whatcombe and Longthorns, Co. Dorset, married, in 1885, Kathleen Emily, dau. of Sir Thomas Eraser Grove, first Baronet, by Grace Catherine, dau. of the Honourable Waller O'Grady, Q.C., who was son of the Right Honourable Viscount Guillamore, by Katherine, dau. of John 'Ihomas Waller, by Elizabeth, dau. of Revd. Richard Maunsell, Rector of Rath- \ keale and Qhancellor of Limerick, by the daughter of Right
HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
Revd. William Burscough, D.D., Bishop of Limerick (see pages 44, 128), and had issue viz. :
(a) Edmund Morton.
(b) Henry Grove Morton.
(c) Vivian.
(d) Daphne. (c) John Colvilc Morton, Revd., M.A., Vicar of Sturminster
Newton, Dorset, married, in 1879, Beatrice Maud, dau. of Robert Smith, of Geldings, Herts, and had issue, viz. :
(a) John Morton.
(b) Evan Morton.
(c) Harry Percy Morton.
(d) Ralph Morton.
(e) Dorothy Isabel Morton.
(f) Cicely Morton.
(c) Henry Bingham Morton, Capt. 7th Royal Fusiliers, died s. p. \ 1886.
(2) George Pleydell Mansel, of Smedmore, Dorset, J. P., D.L., late Capt. 60th Rifles and Colonel Dorset Rifle Volunteers, married, in 1848, Jemima Henrietta, dau. of William Gambier, by his wife, Henrietta, Countess of Athlone, and had issue, viz. :
(a) John Delalynde, Colonel Rifle Brigade, of Smedmore, married,
in 1888, Mildred Ella, only dau. of Arthur Guest, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Rhys ClaveU.
(b) Marcia Eugenia.
(c) Juliet.
(b) Eustace Gambier, Capt. 52nd Light Infantry, married, in 1883,
Mary Eleanor, dau. of Commander Belgrave, R.N., and has issue, viz. :
(a) Philip Eustace.
(b) Lily Dorothy.
(C) Ernest Digby, Major 71st Highland Light Infantry, married, in 1882, Henrietta Cecilia, dau. of Sir John Don Wauchope, eighth Baronet.
(d) Geo. Clavell, D.S.O., Major Durham Light Infantry. (E) Elizabeth Henrietta, of Sulby Hall, Rugby.
(f) Louisa Mary. (3) Morton Grove, of Pucknoll, Dorset, died 18^8, married, in 1848, his first cousin, Elizabeth Arundel, dau. and co-heir of Revd. Geo.
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Clutterbuck Frome, by Mary Sophia, third dau. of Edmund Morton Pleydell, and had issue, viz. :
(a) George Morton, R.N., of Pucknoll.
(b) Walter Luttrell, Lieut.-Colonel, married, in i8S6, Helen, dau.
of Geo. Ogilvy, of Cove, Dujnfries, and widow of Major Charles Stepney Mansergh, of Clifford, Co. Cork.
(c) Charles Pleydell, died young.
(d) Emma Louisa Arundel, married in 1S99 Col. Henry Mallock,
(4) Owen Luttrell, Revd., M.A., Rector of Church Knowle, Co. Dorset,
died 1900, married, in 1859, Louisa Catherine, dau. and co-heir of Lord William Montagu, second son of William, fifth Duke of Manchester, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Francis Montagu, died 1888, s. p.
(b) Owen Llewellyn.
(C) Edward Luttrell, East Surrey Regiment, died 1899 s. p.
(D) William Du Pre,
(E) Charles Pleydell, R.N.
(f) James Morton.
(g) Katherine Louisa. (h) Emily Magdalene. (l) Winnifred Emma.
0) Theresa Mary, married Algar Labouchere Thorold. (k) Gwendolin Henrietta.
(5) Arthur Edmund, Capt 3rd Hussnrs, and J. P., formerly of Heath-
field House, Hants, married, in i860, C^lare Henrietta, dau. of the Hon. A. Lascelles, son of Henry, second Earl of Harewood, of Norley, Co. Chester, and has issue, viz. : (a) Algernon Lascelles.
(B) Hugh Arthur, Capt. Dorset Regiment.
(C) Evelyn Louisa.
(D) Margaret Blanche.
(e) Susan Emma.
(f) Clare Frances
(g) Eleanor Maud. (h) Rhoda Caroline.
(6) Louisa Mary, died unmarried 1S29.
(7) Eliza Sophia, died unmarried 1834.
(8) Emma Georgina, married, in 1852, Charles R. Hoare, Barrister-at-
Law, eldest son of the Venerable C. Hoare, Aichdeacon of Surrey.
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V. George, d. s. p.
VI. Thomas, Admiral R.N., married Selma Fleming, dau. of Captain Leigh, R.N., and has issue, viz. :
(1) Selina Elizabeth Courtenay, married, in 1850, Alfred Young,
Commdr., R.N.
(2) Alexina Louisa.
VII. Robert Christopher, Lieut. -General K. H., Colonel 68th Regiment, married Amelia, dau. of Admiral Sir Charles Tyler, G.C.B., and had issue, viz. : (i) Emily. (2) Georgiana, married, in 1848, Major John Davy Brett, 17th Lancers.
VIII. Mary, married, in 1829, J. D. Davies, R.N. IX. Eliza, died unmarried.
X. Harriette, married, in 1810, Wm. O. Brigstocke. XI. Frances Henrietta, died 1866.
Sir William Mansel died in 1804, and was succeeded by his eldest son, viz. :
William Mansel, who married, in 1790, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John 8th Bart., Bell, of Harefield, and had issue, viz. :
I. William John, rector of Ellesborough, Bucks, married, in 1814, Harriet
Charlotte, third dau. of Laver Oliver, of Brill House, Bucks, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Elizabeth Harriette Anne, married, first, in 1842, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart, of Middle Hill; and secondly, in 1875, Revd. Geo. Digby.
(2) Caroline, married, in 1847, Revd. Frederick Leigh Colville, of.
Kempsey House, Co. Worcester, vicar of Leek Wootton, Co. Warwick, and has issue.
(3) Frances Henrietta, married, 1853, Revd. Cuthbert J. Carr, and has
issue.
(4) Augusta, married, 1845, Re\-d. Helier Touzel, M.A.
II. John Bell William, who succeeded his father, in 1829, as ninth Baronet, as follows :
John Bell William Mansel, Earrister-at-Law, J.P. and D.L., and High 9th Bart, Sheriff, 1846. Married, in 1832, Mary Georgina, only
surviving dau. of Revd. John Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, the Hon. the Queen's Champion of England, and had issue, viz. :
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I. Maria, married, in 1869, Sir Edward Bradford Medlycott, fourth Baronet, of Ven House.
II. Elizabeth f . A ^ A^ ^ ^ ^
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III. Emma Jane (. -»--i-w
Sir John B. W. Mansel died in 1883, and was succeeded by his cousin, viz. :
Richard Mansel, Younger but only surviving son of late Courtenay Mansel lOth Eart. (formerly Philipps), married in 1878, Maud Margaretta
Bowen, dau. of John Jones, of Maes-y-Crugian Hall, Co. Carmarthen, and had issue, viz. :
I. Courtenay Cecil, of whom afterwards.
Sir Richard married, secondly, in 1891, Ada Alice, dau. of Jas. Lea, and died 1892.
Courtenay Cecil Mansel, only surviving son of Sir Richard Mansel, Bart., nth Bart., succeeded to the estates and Baronetcy in 1892.
MANSELL, BARONETS OF TRIMSAREN.
Francis Mansell, second son of SirEdwd. Mansell,Knt.(seepages22,29,3o). 1st Bart., of married, secondly, Dorothy, dau. of Alban Stepney, of
Muddlescomb, Pendergast, and died 1622, leaving further issue, viz. :
I. John, of whom afterwards.
II. Edward, captain in the army, and invested by Charles II. with order of " the Royal Oak," married Susan, dau. of Thos. Wm. Lloyd, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Rawleigh, married Frances, widow of his cousin, Henry Mansell, and dau. and heir of Sir John Stepney, second Baronet.
III. Rawleigh.
IV. Catherine (Jane), married Sir John Stepney, first Baronet. V. CiCILY, married Geo. Jones, of Abercothy.
John Mansell, matriculated in 1627, aged 15. He married Mary, dau. of Sir Henry Vaughan, Knt, of Dersvidd (she was relict of Chas. Philips, of Lewes Lodge, Carmarthenshire, at g years of age, so that she was maid, wife and widow the day her first husband died), and had issue a son and heir, viz. :
Henry Mansell, who married Frances, only dau. and heir of Sir John Stepney, second Baronet (she married, secondly, her late husband's first cousin, Raw- leigh, as detailed above), and had issue a son, viz. :
Edward Mansell, He married Dorothea Lloyd, dau. of Philip and sister ct
of Trimsaren, Edward Vaughan, of Trimsaren. The latter, at his death
1st Bart. in 1683, bequeathed to her his whole estate, with remainder
to his cousin, Edward Mansell, of Gray's Inn ; and
Mansell, on being created a Baronet, 22nd February, 1696, was designated
as of Trimsaren. He died in 1 720, having had issue, viz. :
I. Edward, of whom afterwards.
II. Rawleigh, brought a cross bill in administration against his brother. Sir Edward, in 1730. He married, and dying 1748, left issue, viz. :
(i) Edward Vaughan, who succeeded his uncle as third Baronet, of
whom after.
38 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL.
(2) Ann Bridget, married — Shewen, and had, with other issue
a son, viz., Edward Mansell Shewen.
(3) Margaretta Maria, married — Dawkins, from whom evidently
descended the Coin. Mansel (original name Dawkins), who lived at Lathbury, near Chicheley, in 1822.
III. Dorothy, who married — Langdon, and had issue a daughter, Dorothy, and a son, Mansell Langdon.
Edward Mansell, obtained administration of his mother's estate. He 2nd Bart., married Anne — , who was joint executor with liim. Sir
Edward died without issue in 1754, and was succeeded by his nephew, namely :
Edward Vaughan Mansell, who married Mary, dau. of Joseph Shewen, and 3rd Bart., dying 1789, left, with a daughter, Mary, an only son and
heir, viz. :
Edward Joseph Shewen Mansell, who died 6th April, 1798, unmarried, 4th Bart., when the Baronetcy expired.
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Margaretta Maria Mansell, dau. of Rawleigh Mansell, and sister of Sir Edvvd. Vaughan Mansell, third Baronet, married, about 171 5, William Dawkin, of Killyrough, Carmarthenshire, and had issue, viz :
I. Rawleigh Mansell, inherited Mansell estates, married, but soon after d.s.p. II. Mansell, of whom afterwards.
III. Rowland, inherited the Dawkin property of Killyrough, died unmarried.
IV. William, died unmarried. V. Elizabeth.
Mansell, the second son abovenamed, on inhe|riting the estates of Alpock, Newhall, and .Sketty Hall, Glamorganshire, under the will of his maternal grandfather, took the surname of Mansell by royal licence, and was then known as Mansell Mansell. He married, first, in 1742, Miss Anne Hudson, whose aunt was wife of one John Mansell. She died 1752 s.p. He married, secondly, in 1757, Mary, dau. of Robert Morris, Barrister-at-law, London, and died in 1767, leaving issue by her, viz. :
(i) Montacute Browne, died young.
(2) Mansel Dawkin Mansel, inherited the family estates, and under the will of Miss Jane Symes, proved in 1799, succeeded to the manor of Lathbury Park, near Chicheley, Bucks. He re- built the Mansion house, and resided there till his death. He was D.C.L., J. P., and in 1800 was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. On 22nd February, 1797, he got a commission as Capt. -Lieut, of the Buckinghamshire Gentlemen and Yeomanry, whereof Wm. Praed was Capt., and he was subsequently Colonel of that Corps. He was Commissioner of the French Emigration Committee appointed in England to look after H.R.H. the King of France, his Staff, and the French Emigrants, etc. To mark his appreciation of the way this duty was performed King Louis XVIII. sent Mansell a golden snuffbox, in the lid of which was a portrait of the King painted in blue on ivory, and encircled with diamonds. Inside was an inscription addressed to Mons. M. D. Mansel, by S. M. the King of France, and enclosed was the order of the Fleur de Lys, with white satin ribbon. Accompanying them was a letter dated 27th August, 18 16, expressing his Majesty's thanks and appreciation of the valuable services rendered to him, and to his subjects. Colonel Mansel, at request of the Duke of Buck- ingham, contested, in the Liberal interest, a Conservative seat in Cornwall, and being unsuccessful, suffered heavy financial loss. He died suddenly, nth August, 1823, ifi the 60th year of
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his age, and his widow was so prostrated by the shock that she died on the 25th of the same month. After his death Lathbury Park was put up for sale. It was purchased by trustees for Mary Isabella, sole heiress of Richard J. Tibbits, of Barton Seagrave, Northants, now Dowager Viscountess Hood (see p. 82).
Mansel, in accordance with the desire expressed in the will of Miss Jane Symes, as before-mentioned, married, in 1799, Elizabeth, only dau. of Wm. Browne, of Bedford Row, by Jane Eliza, eldest dau. of Thomas Vernon, of the Middle Temple, by Elizabeth, only child of John Nicoll, of Highwood Hill, by Mary, dau. of Wm. Pym, of Arlington Street, and had issue, viz. :
(a) James Temple Mansel, Clk. in Holy Orders, student (Fellow)
of Christ Church, Oxford, and subsequently — 1850-65 — Chaplain of the Bristol House of Correction. He married, in 1832, Mable, youngest dau. of Michael Burke, of Bally- duggan, Galway, M.P. for Athenry, and had issue two sons and three daughters. The sons, and one of the daughters, died young. Two daughters survive, viz., (a) Mable, (b) Mary Frances, and are unmarried.
(b) George Barclay Mansel, Barrister-at-law, London, married, in
1825, Jane, dau. of John Bell, and d. s. p. 1869. He was the author of " Law and Practice of Costs."
(c) Charles Grenville Mansel, after a distinguished collegiate
career, obtained a writership in the H.E.I.C.S., through the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. In that service he held many responsible and important posts. In 1848 he was acting Secretary to the Punjaub Goverrmient, in 1 849 Member of the Board of Punjaub Administration with the two Lawrences, in 1851 Resident at Nagpore, and in 1854 Commissioner there. In December of this latter year he retired from active service.
In 1 843 he presented an organ to the church at Lathbury. During the famine at Agra, he gave away over ;^ 10,000 to starving Indians, being his own one-third share of his mother's property. He was practically the founder of the Agra Bank, India, and for his services, as leading director for eight years, he was presented by the Proprietary Board with a large silver candelabra valued at ;£^200. In 1903 a tablet was erected to his memory in Lathbury Church; Iti is placed upon!, the wall immediately over the Mansel vault, situate at the south- east side of the porch entrance. For further reference to his services, see " Letters to the Queen," by Lord Ellenborough ; " Contemporary History of Englcind," by Arabella Buckley ; "Life of Sir John Lawrence," by Bosworth Smith; "Rulers
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of India — Lord Dalhousie," by Froude; "Times," 21st
November, 1886, etc., etc.
He married, in 1848, Anna Mary, dau. of — ■ O'Ryan, of
Ballyglass, Co. Tipperary, and died in 1878, leaving issue, viz. :
(c) Charles Granville, Colonel Commanding the Third Punjab Cavalry. War services, viz., Mahsud Waziri Expedition 1881 ; Waziristan Expedition, 1894-5 — medal with clasp; N. W. Frontier of India, 1897-8; Operations on the Saraana and in the Kurram Valley, Aug. and Sept., '97 ; Relief of Gulistan ; Operations of the Flying Column in the Kurram Valley, 20th August to 1st October, 'g7 ; Line of Communications, Tirah Field Force, 1897-8 — • medal with two clasps. Specially employed in surveying and reporting upon the fords and ferries of the Indus. Received the "Thanks of H.E. the Commander-in-chief on 19th September, 1887." Special employment under Government of India in collecting trans border Com- missariat and Transport Statistics, in N. W. F., Punjab, and in Beloochistan, 1888-90. Received the "Thanks of the Governor General in India in Council, igth April, 1892." He retired from the service in 1900, and is unmarried.
(b) Wm. James G., Lieut. -Colonel Commanding 7th Bengal
Infantry. Afghan War, 1879-80 — medal. Retired from Indian Army 1904. He married, first, Mary Seafield Grant, dau. of General Grant, and had issue, viz. : (bi) William. (b2) Violet.
He married, secondly, Mrs. May Salter, formerly wife of — Salter, Esq. She d. s. p.
(c) Mary Elizabeth, married Revd. Anthony Benn, formerly
Vicar of Woolsery, Crediton, Devon, and now of Puddle- stone Court, Leominster, Herefordshire, and had issue, viz. :
(ci) C. A. Benn, Barrister-at-law. (c2) Albert Benn, now of New Zealand.
(d) Katie, died unmarried.
(e) Julia Eugenie, married Alfred Charles, only son of the
Hon. Frederick Augustus Barnard Glover, late Judge of the High Court, Calcutta.
(f) Fanny Maria, married Frederick Barnes, third son of
Samuel Pitman, late of Oulton Hall, Norfolk, and had issue, viz. : (fi) Denzil.
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MAUNSELL OF CHICHELEY, CO. BUCKS; DERRYVILLANE, CO.
CORK; MOCOLLOP CASTLE, CO. WATERFORD ; AND OF
PLASSY, AND BANK PLACE, AND FANSTOWN, CO.
LIMERICK.
LlEUT.-COLONEL ROBERT Maunsell, of Fanstown, Co. Limerick, J.P., late S5th Light Infantry, succeeded as representative of the Irish branches of tlic family at the decease of his cousin in 1887.
Lineage.
Richard Mansell, fourth son of Sir Philip Mansell, Knt. (see page 19), of Chicheley, married Elizabeth, dau. of Roger Wingfield, of Norfolk,
and had issue, viz. : I. Richard, of whom afterwards. II. John, died unmarried 1543, and was buried at Chicheley.
III. Ophelia, married, in 1539, Charles Goddard.
IV. Elizabeth, died umnarried 1542, and was buried at Chicheley.
Richard Maunsell, married, 5th August, 1535, Margaret, widow of Wm of Chicheley ,<■) Sayre, of Worsall, and second dau. of Sir Thomas
Fairfax, of Walton, and Gilling Castle, by Agnes, dau. of Sir Wm. Gascoyne, of Gawthorpe, by Lady Margaret Percy, dau. of the third Earl of Northumberland, by Eleanor, dau. of Richard Poynings, only son of Baron Poynings. Lady Margaret was granddau. of second Earl, by Lady Eleanor Neville, dau. of Ralph, first Earl of Westmoreland, by Joan
(i) On 27th June, 1548, Sir Michl. Stanhope wrote to Sir Edwd. North praying him to ex- pedite the lease of the Manor of Hotham, Co. York, to Richd. Maunsell, and on 6th of the following month it was sent.
The wills of Richard and of Thomas, and of John Maunsell, shew that they held the following lands, viz, :— Chicheley, Eckney, Emberton, Hardmeade, Haversham, Moussle, Much Crawley, North Crawley, Newport-Paynell, Petisha, and Sherrington, Co. Bucks, Hulcot and Kislingbury, Co. Northants, and lands in Hereford, at Gloster, and at Newporte, also Hanbury, Worcestershire.
About 1615-20, the Estate of Chicheley was sold by John Maunsell to Sir Anthony Chester subject to a charge of £1 12s. p. a. for the poor Widows and Widowers of the Parish. This charge is still being paid, and in Charity Commissioner's report is styled " Mansell's Gift." In "Lipscomb's Bucks," and other local histories, it is said to have been created by a Lady Mansell, but I have not been able to definitely fi.x the donorship. Mrs. Agnes Maunsell, in will proved 1603, left money for the poor of the parish, as also did her son John, but these were not annual charges on tlie lands, and must be regarded as separate and distinct from the first mentioned charge or bequest.
40 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OK MANSEL,
de Beaufort, dau. of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and she was great- granddau. of the celebrated Harry Hotspur, by EHzabeth, dau. of the Earl of March, by Phillipa, dau. and heir of Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence. Sir Thomas Fairfax' father was Master of Horse to King Edward VI. ; and the fifth in succession to him, viz., Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Walton, was created Viscount Fairfax of Emly, Co. Tipperary, in 1629. (See Appen- dix No. 23.)
Mr. Maunsell died 6th November, 1559, and was buried at Chichelcy, leaving issue, viz. :
I. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
IL John, of Haversham, for whom see Mansel of Cosgrove Hall, page 87.
III. Rudolph, bom 1544, died 1545.
IV. Olivia, bom 1542.
V. Elizabeth, born 1546.
Thomas Maunsell, born 1536; M.A., 1554; married, nth September, of Chicheley, 1567, Agnes, widow of Wm Everell, and dau. of John
Morton, of Oundle. She had issue by her first husband two sons, William and John, and two daughters, viz., Johanna, married Robert Campion, and Agnes, married Wm. Parkins. Mr. Maunsell died and was buried at Chicheley, 5 th April, 1582, and his widow died at Oundle, 1603, leaving issue by him, viz. :
I. John, of Middle Temple, London. See Maunsell of Thorpe Malsor, page 7T.
II. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
III. Richard, inherited the lands of Emberton. He was of the Inner Temple, London, and married, in 1623, Dorothy, widow of Humphry Phipps, and dau. of Henry Mordaunt, of Thunderley, Co. Essex. He died issueless in 163 1 leaving his property of Lowesmore, near Gloster, to his widow for life, with reversion to the issue of his brothers John and Thomas, as specified in his will. Administration granted to his nephew, John, 13th December, 1631. In 161 7-8, Richard and John Maunsell sold lands of Willerdsly, Litde Berryfield, and Great Berryfield, parish of Eardsley, Co. Hereford, to Mainwaring, to Sir John Tovvnsend, and others. His widow married, thirdly, in 1638, Thomas Halsewood, of Belton, Co. Rutland, who, being in amis against the Parliament, was arrested and imprisoned at Leycester. The Lowesmore lands were thereupon sequestrated, but on memorial made by the Maunsell family, the estate was restored to them in 1650. (See Appendix No. 54.)
IV. Maria, inherited the lands of Hulcot, Co. Northants, and married Daniel Comry.
AND OTHER FAMILIES, 4 1
V. Martha, got portion of the lands of Much Crawley. She married Henry Edwards.
VI. Elizabeth, got portion of the lands of Much Crawley. She married — Petit
Thomas Maunsell, bom 1577; matric. Mag. Hall, 1594, as a youth he dis- tinguished hinaself against the Spanish Armada, and was subsequently a Captain in the Fleet. In the college books he is described as Thomas Maunsell, of Chicheley, Bucks, gent, late of Barnard's Inn; admitted, 1599, to Gray's Inn. He retired from the naval service in 1609, and on 28th July of that year, as per order of Council, he received a command to all Governors, Captains, Mayors, etc., as follows: —
"Arthur Chichester. By the Lord Deputie.
"We greete you well, whereas this gent, Captaine Thomas Maunsell, is come into this Kingdom with entent to take a viewe and enforme himselfe of the ports £md most convenient places for him to settle in, and especially in the Province of Ulster, and some ptes of Connaught, to wch ende he brought unto us leres of recommendation in his behalfe from lis. of his Maties Most honorable Privie Councell wch we received this day signefinge his Matie and their pleasures in that behalfe. These are therefore, to wille and require you and every of you his Maties Officers, Mynisters, to take notice hereof, and not only to suffer and p'mit the said Captaine above named with his servants peaceablie and quietlie to pass by you to and fro as he shall have occasion to veowe, searche and enquire as aforesaid, but also to be aydinge, comportynge and assistinge unto him with post horses and guydes from place to place in his travells, and if need require, to give him the best knowledge and furtherance you may in you owne mons for effectinge his desire according to his Matie, and the lis. pleasure unto us signefied as aforesaid, whereof you and every of you may not fayle, as you will answer the contrary at your p'rills. Given at Melefont, this 28th July, 1609.
"To all Governors, Captains, Maiors, Sherefes, Justices of Peace, Headborowes, Constables, and to all other his Mats. Officers and loving subjects to whom it shall or may app'aine."
"(Signed), GEO. Sexten." He sold the estate at Newport-Pagnell left him by his father's will, and sailing for Ireland he landed at Waterford and settled at Derryvillane, Co Cork. He also held lands of Kilwallory, Ballycouton, Carr Downan, and Towron. His manor house having been burnt during the rebellion of 1641, and his property robbed to extent of £2,^^ los., he returned to England, where he died about 1646, evidently at his late brother Richard's estate of Lowesmore, near Gloster. On 20th April, 1661, letters of administration were granted by the Irish court to Thomas and
42 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
Walter Maunsell, of Mocollop, in which Thomas is designated as eldest son of the deceased. He married Aphra, dau. of Sir Wm. Crayford, of Mongham Magna, Crayford, Co. Kent, and had 23 children, 11 of whom survived him, viz. :
I. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
II. Walter, party to the administration bond as above. A pardon granted to him,6th September, 24 Caroli, for killing of a man. Nothing further known of him.
III. John, of Ballyvoreen, Captain in Cromwell's Lifeguards. See Maunsell
of Ballybrood, page 75.
IV. Boyle, a comet in the Cromwellian forces, settled at Gaulstown, or
Kilbroney, Co. Kilkenny. He married and had a son viz. : (i) Thomas, who married Miss Jane Cosby, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Boyle, died unmarried.
(b) Elizabeth, died unmarried.
(2) — daughter, married Thomas Bowers.
(3) Sarah, married John Drew, of Ballinlough, Co. Kilkenny.
V. Richard, who on 23rd August, 1642, made oath, as son of Captam Thomas Maunsell, of Derryvillane, that on 5th February of that year the said Thomas Maunsell was robbed of goods to value of ;£^2,4g0 10s. He was of the Inner Temple, London, and died unmarried prior to 165 1.
VI. Aphra, married Geo. Peacock, of Graigue, Co. Limerick, and had a dau., Ann, died unmarried.
VII. Anne, married, in May, 1630, the Very Revd. Robert Naylor, Dean of Lismore, afterwards Dean of Limerick. He was son of Robert Naylor, of Canterbury, and cousin of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork. They had issue, viz. : (i) Catherine.
(2) Margaret, married, in March, 1659, her cousin, John Drew, of Kilwinny, Co. Waterford, and was given away by her cousin, the Earl of Cork, who is said to have added ;£'i,ooo to her fortune. In the rebellion of 1641, Dean Naylor was also plundered by the rebels of property to amount of £1,797, besides the loss of his preferment of ;^500 p. a.
VIII. Sarah, married — Ridgate.
IX. Catherine, married Theophilus Eaton.
X. Alice, married — Andrews, of Co. Tipperary.
XI. ]\IARY, married Richard Bettesworth.
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Mrs. Maunsell having survived her husband returned to Ireland, and resided with her third son, Captain John Maunsell, at Ballyvoreen, near Caherconlish. She died prior to 1662, and her remains were interred in the chancel of the church at Caherconlish, where her son erected the following memorial, bearing that date: — "Here lyeth the bodye of Alphra Maunsell, my dear mother, daughter of Sir Wm. Crayford, of Kent. Here also lyeth my dear wife, Mary Maunsell, daughter of Geo. Booth, Esq., of Cheshire. And of my sister, Alphra Peacock. And of her daughter, Anne Peacock." The eldest son, viz. :
Thomas Maunsell, of Mocollop, one of " the '49 officers," defended the Castle of Mocollop, Co Waterford, against Cromwell's forces, 1649-50, and was granted a debenture, £71'^, 18th Charles IT. With portion of the ruins he built a mansion close to the castle. His remains, with those of his wife, were interred in the church immediately near, where the tomb remained until the old church was taken down about the beginning of the nineteenth century. The inscription had been previously committed to paper by Mrs. Drew, wife of the then owner of Mocollop. It is as follows — "Here lyeth the body of Lieutenant Thom's Maunsell, who departed this life the 13th day of March, An. Dom. 1686. Here lyeth also the body of Mrs. Margtt. Maunsell, his wife, who departed this life the 2nd day of Feby., An Dom. 1679."
About two centuries after, during some alterations at the Castle, a secret recess or room was opened up. It contained munitions of war, armour, and some plate and pictures of the family. The latter were handed over by Mr. Drew to the then representative of the Plassy branch.
He married, in 1641, Margaret, widow of Thomas Hutchins, of Mitchels- town, daughter of Leonard Knoyle, of Ballygally, Co. Waterford, and granddaughter of William Knoyle, of Samfort Orcas, Co. Somerset, Ly Grace, dau. of Jo. Clavel, of Barston, Co Dorset. In his will, proved 1686, he made bequests to his stepsons, William and Walter Hutchins, and to his stepdaughters, viz., Margaret, wife of Wm. Walters, of Whiddy Island ; Mary, wife of Cliristopher Croker, of the Great Island, Cork ; and Elizabeth. He left issue, viz. :
I. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
' II. John, captain in the navy, died before his father.
III. Sara, married Ihomas Seward, M.D., and had a daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, Thomas.
IV. A daughter, married Henry Carter, M.D., of Grange, Co. Limerick.
V. Aphea, married John Downing, of Broomfield, Co. Cork, and had issue, viz., Richard, Robert, Thomas, Catherine, Sara, Freuices, Maria, Susanna, Rachel, and also a dau., Mardia, who married, in 1699,
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Thomas Garde, of Polemore and Ballinacurra, Co. Cork ; and their dau. Aphra married, in i/ig, John Farmer, of Youghal, ancestor of the present Baronets of that name.
Thomas Maunsell, colonel in the army, only surviving son of the foregoing, obtained grants of land, as per Royal Patent and Deed of Settlement 1663, in Co. Waterford ; Annaghrosty, Ashford, etc.. County and Liberties of Limerick ; and Curagh, Lislumla, and Lista, Barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. He also inherited the castle and lands of Mocollop, which he sold to Geo. Jackson, who subsequently sold them to John Drew, of Kil- winny, whose representatives still hold the place.
In his will, proved 1692, he gives address as late of Mocollop, now residing at Chester ; and after making several specific bequests to his younger children, to his half-brothers, William and Walter Hutchins, and to his aunt, Catherine Knight, he left his estates to his eldest son, but failing heirs male, then to his six other sons, under like conditions, naming each in order of seniority, and failing them, to his daughters and their heirs male. He married Anne, daughter of Theophilus Eaton, of Dublin, and of Pole, Co. Chester. She survived him, and married, secondly, Joseph Ormsby, and thirdly, John Ryves, of Castle Jane, Co. Limerick. Colonel Maunsell left issue, viz. :
I. Thomas, of Annaghrosty, ensign in Coin. Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot, J.P. and High Sheriff of Co. Limerick, 1697; died unmarried 171 1, and was buried in St. John's Church, Limerick. See his will, proved 1 7 1 1 , for bequests to his brothers and sisters.
IL Joseph, of Curagh, Co. Galway, inherited the estates after his brother's decease, as above. He married a daughter of — Fitzgerald, of Stone Hall, Co. Limerick, and had issue: (i) Thomas, died unmarried.
(2) Joseph, married Elizabeth, dau. of H. Widenham, d. s. p.
(3) StaNDISH, died unmarried.
(4) Anne, married Anthony Burke.
III. John, settled in Cork, of which he was High Sheriff 1719 He married in 1709 Miss Elizabeth Campion, and had issue, viz. ; (0 Richard, Revd., Rector of Rathkeale, and Chancellor of Limerick, married a dau. of Rt. Revd. Wm. Burscough, D.D., Bishop of Limerick, and by her had an only dau., Elizabeth, who married John Thomas Waller, of Castletown, and they had a son, Bolton ; a daughter, Elizabeth, who married The O'Grady, of Kilballyowen , a daughter, Katherine, who married the first Viscount Guillamore ; and a dau., Dora, who married Revd. Josiah Crampton. Revd.
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Richard Maunsell left his estate of New Ross and Cool and ;^3,ooo to his grandson, Bolton Waller, and the lest of his property to iiis dau., Elizabeth, for life, with reversion to her soti, the said Bolton Waller^ See also page 128.
(2) Thomas, d. s. p.
(3) Mary, married, in 1737, John Lawto;i, and had, with other issue,
a dau., Elizabeth, married Sir Robert Warren, frrst Baronet.
(4) Ann, married, in 1737, John Carey, of Careysville, and had issue.
(5) Susanna, married, in 1745, Bickford Heard, solicitor, Cork, and
had issue.
(6) Elizabeth, married, in 1767, John Carey, of Carey's Lodge, and
had issue.
(7) Martha, died unmarried in 1755.
Mr. Maunsell's will proved by Bickford Heard m 1752.
IV. Richard, of whom afterwards.
V. William. See Maunsell of Ballinamona, Co. Cork, and Castle I^ark and Spa Hill, Co. Limerick, page 69.
VI. Edwin, died unmarried.
VII. TheopHILUS, died unmarried.
VIII. Margaret, married, in 1692, Colonel John Widenham, of Castle Widen- ham, Castletownroche, and had issue, viz., Geo., Margaret, married Ml. Apjohn ; Catherine, Dorothy, a posthumous son, Henry, born 1708, married, in 1740, Catherine, dau. of Revd. Walter Atkin, Treasurer of Midleton, and had issue. Mrs. Widenham married, secondly, in 1709, Revd. Richard Verling, Rector of Castletownroche, and had further issue, viz., Catherine, Tryphoena, Laura, married — Blood ; and another daughter married Mr. Lane, of Cork, and had a son, Thomas Lane. There was also a younger son, Richard Verling, and an elder son, William Verling, Barrister-at-Law. The latter married, in 1738, Martha Roberts, of Bridgetown, and had a son, William, who married Miss Abigail Newman, and had issue Richard, M.D. ; a daughter, Eliza, wife of Henry Carey; and a dau., Jane, wife of the Revd. Richard Archer, Rector of Clondufi'.
IX. Ann, married Revd. Daniel Widenham, of Ballinamona, and had, with other issue, a dau , Alice, who married Thomas Maunsell, of Ballybrood, and a dau., Margaret, married Henry Hunt, of Friarstown.
X. Mary Ann, married Henry Ormsby, of Ballymartin, and had, with other issue, a son, Maunsell Ormsby, of Ballygrennan Castle.
46 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL.
XI. Katherine, a posthumous child, for whose name see her brother Thomas's will, proved 171 1. Also, she was a party to the Bill in Chancery dated 1694.
RiOIARD Maunsell, fourth son of Colonel Thomas Maunsell and Anne Eaton, his wife, became the representative of the Irish branches of the family after the death of his brother Joseph, and on failure of male issue through his brother John. He was Mayor of Limerick in 1734, High Sheriff 174s, and represented the City in Parliament 1740 to 1761. He married, first, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Twigg, uncle of the Venerable Archdeacon Wm. Twigg, and had issue, viz. : I. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
II. Anne,W married Colonel Edward Taylor, of Ballynort, M.P. for Askeaton, and had issue two daughters and co-heiresses, viz. :
(i) Catherine, married, in 1760, Hugh, second Lord Massy, and had
issue. (2) Sarah, married, in 1774, Henry Thomas, second Earl of Carrick,
and had issue.
Mr. Maunsell married, secondly, Jane, dau. of William Waller,
of Castle Waller, for issue of which marriage see Maunsell of Bally-
william, page 55,
Thomas Maunsell was Senior King's Counsel, M.P. for Kilmallock, and a County Court Judge. He married Dorothea, youngest dau. of Richard Waller, of Castle Waller, and had issue, viz. :
I. Richard, entered T.C.D. 1749, aged 15. Died in America unmarried. 11. Thomas, of Plassy, near Limerick, was M.P. for Johnstown. He and Joseph Gabbett contested Limerick in Uie Liberal interest in 1797, but they were defeated by the Tory candidates. He and his brother, Robert, and his brother-in-law. Sir Mathew Blakiston, Bart., founded "Maunsell's Bank" in Limerick. He married, first, in 1767, Mary, dau. of John Rochfort, uncle of Robert, first Earl of Belvedere, but by her had no issue. Her sister, Anne, married Sir Mathew Blakiston, second Baronet. He married, secondly, in 1795, his first cousin, Dorothea Grace, dau. of Revd. William Maunsell, D.D. (see Maunsell, BallywiHiam, page 55), and had issue, viz. : (i) Elizabeth Dorothea, who married her cousin. Major Robert Hedges
Eyre Maunsell. See page 47. (2) Dorothea Jane, married, in 1825, John Dunlevie.
III. Robert, of whom afterwards.
(i) See Appendi-v No. 69. ' '
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IV. George, Very Revd., D.D., Dean of Leighlin, married, in 1777, Helena, daughter of Richard Hedges Eyre, of Macroom Castle, by Helena, daughter of Edward Herbert, of Muckross, by the Honourable Frances Browne, dau. of Nicholas, second Viscount Kenmare, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Thomas, Revd., M.A., married Miss Blackmore, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Elizabeth, married, in 1831, Thomas Godfrey Phillips, of Gaile
House, Cashel.
(b) Helena, married, in 1843, John Burnett.
(2) Robert Hedges Eyre, a Major in the army, married his cousin, Elizabeth Dorothea, dau. and co-heir of Tliomas Maunsell, of Plassy, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Thomas, entered T.C.D. 1842, aged ig.
(B) Robert.
(C) Grace Elizabeth, married, in 1842, Colonel Geo. Roche Smith, and had issue.
(d) Helena Eyre, married, in 1846, Doctor Francis Jervois, and
had issue :
(a) Francis Thomas, married Catherine, dau. of Charles Nason
of County Cork.
(b) William Sampson, married Anna, dau. of — Beasley, of
County Tipperary.
(c) Mary Helena Dring, married William H. Beamish.
(d) Emily Grace, married Major Stuart des Barres.
(e) Georgina Maunsell.
(e) Emily Maria, married, in 1846, Revd. William St. George.
and had issue.
(f) Georgina, married, in 1856, John Lecky Phelps.
(j) George, Capt. in army, married, at Cape of Good Hope, Maria Wilhelmina Frederica, dau. of Baron Von Hardenburgh, and had issue, viz. :
(A) Robert, entered T.C.D. 1825, aged 16.
(b) Louisa, married Isidore Blake, Barrister-at-Law, Judge at
Melbourne, Australia, and had issue.
(c) Maria, married — Whiteford, of Queen's County, now U.S.A.,
and had issue.
(4) Richard, Barrister-at-Law, Q.C., married, in i8c8. Lady Catherine Hare, youngest dau. of WilHam Earl of Listowel, and had issue :
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HISTORY OF MAUNSELL. OR MANSEL,
/(a) Robert Hedges, Revd., who assumed the surname of Eyre ' on succeeding to a portion of the estates of his great-uncle,
Robert Hedges Eyre. He married, in 1836, his cousin, Anna Maria Stone, dau. of Eyre Evans, J.P., D.L., of Ash Hill Towers, and sister of Caroline Louisa, Countess of Seafield, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Eyre Maunsell-Eyre, married, in 1865, Louisa, dau. of
Revd. Montifort Longfield Conner, late Rector of St.
Mary's Shandon, and had issue, viz. :
(ai) Robert Hedges, married Helena M. A., dau. of
William Hare Maunsell. (a2) Fanny Gertrude.
(a3) Anna, married Revd. William Darling. (a4) Mary, married William Sullivan.
(b) Robert Hedges, Revd., Vicar of Congresby, near Bristol,
married, in 1881, his cousin, Isabel Freke, dau. of John Freke Evans, LL.D., by Julia Bruce, dau. and co-heir of Revd. David Stewart Moncrieff, and has issue.
(c) Horatio, (d) Anna, (e) Mary, (f) Catherine, (g) Augusta,
all died unmarried. (h) Richard Edward, (j) William Henry. (k) Caroline Louisa. (1) Catherine Hare, married Alexander Mann Alcock, M.D.,
and had issue, (m) Mabella Roberta, married Re\'d. J. Lindsay Darling, and \ had issue.
(b) William Hare, entered T.C.D. 1829, married, first, in 1838, Fanny, dau. of Patrick ffrench, of Dublin, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Robert Eyre, married, in 1871, Letitia Mary, only dau.
of Ed. Tisdall Cavenagh, R.N. (he was killed by a fall
from his horse in 1894), leaving issue, viz. :
(ai) Richard Edwyn Hare, Mining Engineer, British
Columbia. (a2) Roland Edward S.
(a3) Mary Frances, married Stirling A. Stradling. (a4) Kathleen Alice Eyre, married Capt. Norman Rainier,
I.M.S. (a5) Letitia Maud. (a6) Norah Alice Geraldine.
(b) William Hare, H.M.S. " Endymion," married Alice Maud,
dau. of .Samuel Philip Townsend, of Garrycloyne, Co. Cork, by Fanny Helena, dau. of Adam Newman, of Dromore, by Frances, dau. of Revd. Robert Dring.
AND OTHER FAMILIES. 49
(c) Richard St. George, went to Australia.
(d) Frances Maria, married, in 1868, Richard Horatio Townsend, of Garrycloyne, and had issue, viz. :
(di) Samuel Philip Townsend, settled in Australia.
(d2) Mary Helena Maunsell Townsend, married Ernest Langdoii
(d3) Hildigardis Maud Leigh Townsend, married F. Hemmingway.
(d4) Catherine Granville Townsend, died unmarried.
(d5) Emily Mabel Townsend. ;^e) Catherine Hare, married Richard Newman Townsend,
M.D., of Glanmire, and had issue, viz. :
(ex) Richard Newman Townsend, solicitor.
(e2) Marion Townsend, married William Collier.
(e3) Ethel Hare Townsend.
(e4) Geraldine Townsend, married Reginald Neil
(e5) Kate Townsend. Mr. W. H. Maunsell married, secondly, in 1859, Harriett,
daughter of Revd. W. H. Fleming, of Nullamore, and
had further issue, viz. : (f) Herbert Henry Fleming.
(e) Mary Emily Fleming.
(h) Helena, M.A., married Robert H. Maunsell-Eyre, Innishannon. (C) George, Major g4th Regiment, married, in 1840, Elizabeth, dau. of Brigadier General Conway, and had issue, viz. : (a) Fanny, (b) Catherine, (c) Isabella.
(d) Richard, Capt. 7th Fusihers, married, first, ni 1840, Maria, dau.
of Major Odell, of The Grove, Co. Limerick. He married, secondly, Grace Byron, dau. of — Stillwell, of Townfield, Dorking.
(e) Edward Eyre, -Capt. R.N., married, in 1859, Louisa, only dau.
of Samuel Waller, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Florence Catherine, married the Revd. Theophilus
Boughton Leigh.
(b) Alice Edith, married the Honourable T. Morrison Wilde,
who, in 1 89 1, succeeded his uncle as Baron Truro.
(f) Mary Grace, married, in 1831, Revd. Richard Davies, of Cannaway, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Rowland Davies, deceased.
(b) Robert Davies (Revd.).
(g) Louisa Hcire.
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50 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
(5) Edward Eyre, Revd., M.A,, Fort Eyre, Co. Galway, and Rector of Oranmore and Ballinacourty, same county, married, in 1818, Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Thomas Studdert, J. P., D.L., of Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Edward Eyre, B.L., High Sheriff of Galway, 1854, married, in 1867, Alicia, only dau. of Geo. Minchin, of Busherstown, d.s.p. (B) Geo. Wm. White, J.P., Co. Waterford, late Major 4th Batt, Connaught Rangers, married, in 1857, Alice, only dau. of General Sir Michael Creagh, K.C.H., by Elizabeth, dau. of the Right Honourable Charles Osborne, Lord Justice of the Queen's Bench, Ireland, who was son of the Right Honourable Sir William Osborne, seventh Baronet, and had issue, viz. : (a) Chas. E. Osborne. (b) Herbert H, Creagh.
(c) Wm. Granville Eyre, (d) Geo. F. Massey.
(e) Edward W. Eyre, married, in 1902, Marion, dau. of Capt.
Tyrrell Smith, of Kingwilliamstown, South Africa.
(f) Harry Butson, M.D., married Minna, dau. of Capt. Gilson,
76th Regt, R.M, of Durban, South Africa, and has issue, viz.: (ai) Errol Creagh. (a2) Herbert Edward Eyre. (a3) Zoe Alys.
(g) Geo. Christmas. (h) Octavius Studdert, M.D. (i) Fredk. Osborne Eyre, (j) James F. Creagh.
(c) Richard Hedges Eyre, died unmarried.
(d) Charles Studdert, Capt. 82nd Regiment,
(e) Helena Eyre, married the Very Revd. C. H. Gould Butson,
Dean of Kilmacduagh, of St. Brendan's, Co. Galway, and had issue. (')
(6) Henrietta Margaret Eyre, married, in 1805, the Revd. William
Atthill, M.A., of Brandiston Hall, Co. Norfolk, and had issue.
(7) Emily, married Henry Watson, second son of John Watson, of
Ballydartin House, Co. Carlow, d. s. p. V. Blanche, married Maunsell Sargent, d'. s. p.
VI. Margaret, married, in 1764, Robert Going, of Traverston Hall, and had i£,sue, viz., a son, Thomas ; a dau., Margaret, married — Birch ; and a dau., Jane, married John Willington, of Castle Willington. VII. Elizabeth, married, in 1765, Henry White, of Greenhills, Co. Tipperary,
and had issue. VJII. Dorothea, married, in 1762, William Long Kingsman, Barrister-at-Law,
of Lincoln's Inn, and had issue. (1) Dean Butson was eldest son of the Venerable James Strange Butson, Archdeacon of Clonfert, by Esther Eccles, dau. and co. heir (with her sister Charlotte Maria, who married Conway Richard Dobbs) of William Sinclair of Fort William, Co. Antrim, and grandson of the Right Revd. Christopher Butson, Bishop of Clonfert.
AND OTHER FAMILIES. 5 1
Robert MaunselL, Third son of Thomas Mauiisell and Dorothea Waller, of Bank Place, " his wife, became representative of the Irish branches of Limerick. the family on the death of his brother, Thomas, without
rriale issue. He was Chief of the Council of Gangam, and Member of the Supreme Council of India, from which country he re- turned to Limerick in 1789, and was one of the founders of " Maunsell s Bank." While in India, as Governor of the Province of Gangam, he averted a severe famine in that immense district by foreseeing it, and storing up quantities of grain, which he sold to the natives at cost price. He com- puted that had he charged only a halfpenny a stone profit he could have realized a fortune of a million sterling, but as an old man he used to tell of the happiness he felt in not having exacted anything from the starving natives. The day before his death, which occurred in Lunerick, at the age of about eighty, he attended as chairman of a meeting to provide an hospital for that city. He married, in 1782, Anne, only dau. and heiress of John Maxwell Stone, who was also Chief of Gangam, and grandson and heir of the Honourable John Maxwell Stone, Archbishop of Armagh, second son of John, third Earl of Nithsdale, who derived from Robert III., King of Scotland, and had issue, viz. :
I. Robert George, married, first, in 181 3, Mabella, second dau. of Standish Grady, of Elton, Co. Limerick, brother of the Countess of Ilchester, (■> and had issue, viz. : (i) Robert Thomas, died unmarried.
(2) Standish Grady, died unmarried.
(3) George, Major H.E.I.C, also died unmarried.
(4) Anne Stone.
(5) Maria.
(6) Mabella.
(7) Emma.
(8) Louisa Emma, married, first, in 1843, Francis William, sixth
Earl of Seafield ; secondly, in 1856, her cousin. Major Godfrey WilHam Hugh Massy, and had issue a son, Lennox; and she married, thirdly, in 1864, Lord Henry Loftus, younger son of the Marquess of Ely. (q) Georgina, married, in 1849, the Honourable Lewis Alexander Ogilvie Grant, Lieut. Royal Horse Guards, younger son of the sixth Earl of Seafield, and had issue.
(0 Of the Countess of llchester's daughters, the Honourable Ehzabeth Theresa married, in 1796, Wilham Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, Co. Wilts; the Honourable Mary Lucy married, in 1794, Thomas Mansel-Talbot of Margam, see page 26; and the Honourable Louisa Emma married, in 1808, Henry, third Marquess Lansdowne.
52 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
(10) Eliza Grace, married, in i860, Revd. T. H. Gollock, of Forest,
Co. Cork, and had issue.
Mr. R. G. Maunsell married, secondly, in 1834, Maria, dau. of John Minton, of Cork, and had further issue, viz. :
(11) John Minton, Lieut. R.A., married, in 1864, Elizabeth Jones, only
dau. of Revd. S. T. Harman, and died in 1867, leaving issue, viz. : (A) Lillie, died 1894. (b) May.
(12) Edith, married Major William Stopford Maunsell, and has issue.
See Maunsell, Ballywilliam, page 63.
II. George, Lieut.-Colonel 3rd Dragoon Guards, died umnarried 1849. See the tablet to his memory in St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.
III. Henry, of Femstown, of whom afterwards.
IV. Charles, entered T.C.D. 1807, died unmarried.
V. Frederick, General in the army. Colonel 85th King's Light Infantry, married, in 1834, Alicia, dau. of Thomas Studdert, of Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Robert George Stone, late Major Limerick Artillery, and formerly Lieut, in 85th King's Light Infantry and 50th Queen's Own Regi- ment ; J. P. for Co. Clare, and Bournemouth, Hants ; of Gortbwee and Cloran, Co. Limerick; married, first, in 1870, Henrietta, dau. of Benjamin Peyton Sadleir, Commander R.N. ; and secondly, Anna Margaret, dau. of Henry Spaight, J. P., of Affock, Co. Clare, by whom he has issue, viz. :
(a) Frederick Henry Robert.
(b) Robert George Frederick.
(c) Henrietta Frederica Maria.
(d) Alicia, married Lieut. T. H. S. Burder, R.N. (died 1902).
(e) Grace.
(f) Mary Helen Maxwell.
VI. Anna, married, in 1805, Eyre Evans, of Ash Hill Towers, grand-nephew of George, first Lord Carbery, and had issue, for which see "'Burke's Peerage " — " Carbery."
VII. Maria, married, in 181 7, her cousin, the Honourable John Massy, youngest son of Hugh, second Lord Massy, and had issue. See " Burke's Peerage " — " Massy."
VIII. Eliza, died unmarried.
IX. Grace, married, in 1833, Revd. Jas. Charles Fitzgerald, of Shepperton, Co. Clare.
AND OTHER FAMILIES. 53
Henry Maunsell, Third son of Robert Maunsell and Anna, his wife, as
of Fanstown, Co. above, succeeded as representative of the Irish branches on
Limerick. decease or failure of male descendants of his brothers,
Robert George and George. He was a Barrister-at-Law,
was High Sheriff for City of Limerick, 1848, and for the County, 1851. He
married, in 1821, Eliza, dau. of Pryce Peacock, by Jane, dau. and heiress
c.l — Ellard, of Fairyfield, Kilmallock, and had issue, viz. :
L Robert, Lieut.-Colonel late 85th Light Infantry, now of Fanstown.
II. William Pryce, of Fairyfield, Barrister-at-Law, married, in 1861, Richarda, dau. of Richard Gabbett, by Deborah, dau. of Revd. Wind- ham Magrath Fitzgerald, and had issue, viz. : (i) Richard Gabbett, died unmarried.
(2) Henry Rhys, entered T.C.D. 1894.
(3) Gwendolin Emma, married, in 1893, Charles Marshall Courtney, and lias issue :
(a) Alphra Gwendolin. (B) William Maunsell.
III. Emma Frederica, married, in 1884, Charles Warren, R.N.
IV. Henrietta.
MAUNSELL OF BALLYWILLIAM, CO, LIMERICK.
Richard Maunseil, for whose first marriage see page 46, and who was M.P. for Limerick 1742-61, married, secondly, Jane, dau. of William Waller, ot Castle Waller, by Blanche, dau. of Mark Weekes, and had issue, viz. ;
III. Richard, of whom afterwards.
IV. John, General in the Army. He commanded the 56th Regiment at the siege of Havanna, in 1762, and led the party that stormed the More. He died without issue, and left the lands of Bakestown, Co. Tipperary, to his brother, William.
V. William, Revd., D.D., married a dau. of the Venerable Wm. Lewis, Archdeacon of Kilfenora, by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of Richard Bucknor, of Waterford, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Richard, Revd., married Miss Anne Crump, and had issue a son :
(A) Richard John William.
(2) Elizabeth, married, 1798, Richard Chute, of Chute Hall, and had
issue a daughter, Margaret, married — Crump, of Tralee ; a daughter, Dorothea, married William Neligan, of Tralee'; and a daughter, Elizabeth, married Revd. Robert Wade. Also two sons, viz. :
(a) William Maunseil Chute, married Miss Nash, of Ballycarthy, and had issue.
(B) Richard, M.D., married Miss Elizabeth Rowan, and, with other
issue, had a daughter, Rowena, wife of the Right Honourable John Atkinson, Attorney-General for Ireland.
(3) Dorothea Grace, married her cousin, Thomas Maunseil, of Plassy,
see page 46.
(4) Jane, married Anthony Samuel Raymond, and had a son, William,
and a dau., Elizabeth.
VI. Eaton, High Sheriff of Limerick 1760, Mayor 1779, died unmarried. VII. Edward, died unmarried,
56 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
Richard MauNSELL, The eldest son by the second marriage as above,
of Ballywilliam, married, in 1745, Maria Helena, half-sister of John,
Co. Limerick. first Earl of Norbury, and dau. of Daniel Toler, of
Beechwood, by his first wife, Maria Helena, dau. of
Simon Purdon, of Tinnerana, Co. Clare, M.P., by his second wife, Helena,
dau. of the Rt. Revd. Edward Synge, D.D., Bishop of Cork,^'^ and had issue,
viz. :
I. Daniel, of whom afterwards.
II. Richard, married, in 1774, Rebecca, dau. of Nicholas Smith, of Castle Park, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Richard, Revd., married Sarah, dau. of Benjamin Hawkshaw, of Falleen.
(2) Nicholas, married, first, Sophia Secretin, a Jersey lady, and secondly,
in 1 81 3, Ursula, dau. of John Kingsley.
(3) John, died unmarried.
(4) Charles, married, in 181 3, Margaret Heard; secondly, in 1828,
Elizabeth Fleetwood ; thirdly, in 1 830, Catherine E. Taggart, and had issue.
(5) Elizabeth, married, in 1795, William Ryves.
(6) Helena Maria, married, in 1806, Charles Rolleston, of Silverhills,
King's County.
(7) Rebecca, died unmarried.
III. John, for which see separate account, " Oakly Park," page 65.
IV. George, of MiLford, near Limerick, was Collector of Customs, and subsequently partner with his cousins, Thomas and Robert, of "Maun- sell's Bank," Limerick. He married, first, in 1786, Anne, aunt of Viscount Guillamore, and dau. of James Smyth, former Collector of Customs, and had a daughter that married Thomas O'Grady.
Mr. Maunsell married, secondly. Miss Magrath, first cousin of the Earl of Dunraven, and dau. of Gamaliel Fitzgerald Magratli, of Red-
(0 Dr. Edward Synge was Bishop of Limerick in 1660, and of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 1663 till his death in 167S. His son, Dr. Edward Synge, was for twenty years rector of Christ Church, Cork. He was offered the Deanery of Derry but refused it, his mother being aged and unable to accompany him. He was Chancellor in 1710, Bishop of Kaphoe in 1713, and Arch- bishop of Tuam in 1716, and Privy Councillor. His son, Edward, was Bishop of Clonfert in 1730, of Cloyne in 1731, of Leighlin and Ferns in 1733, and of Elphin iu 1740, and the Arch- bishop's other son, Nicholas, was Bishop of Killaloe in 1746.
George, Bishop of Cloyne in 1638, and Archbishop of Tuam in 1646, was brother to Edward, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. — See " Burke's Baronetage," "Synge;" see "Nichol's Literary Anecdotes of 18th Century," vol. i.
AND OTHER FAMILIES.
57
mondstown, by , Elizabeth, dau. of Windham Quin, of Adare. (Mrs. Maunsell's brothers took the surname of Fitzgerald under royal sign manual in 1810). He had issue by his second wife, viz.: (i) Richard, Revd., entered T.C.D. 181 5. He was Rector of Adare. He married Frances, dau. of John Brown, of Bridgetown, by Con- stance, dau. of Col. William Odell, of the Grove, d. s. p. His widow died in 1903, aged 93 years.
(2) John, Revd., entered T.C.D. 1818; married, in 1825, Elizabeth,
dau. of James Butler, Co. Clare.
(3) George, entered T.C.D. April, 181 8.
(4) Windham, entered T.C.D. October, 181 8.
(5) Thomas, was a solicitor, and is said to have resided in England.
(6) Edward, of Deer Park, Co. Clare, married and had issue.
(7) Robert, The Venerable Archdeacon of Auckland, New Zealand,
who translated the Holy Scriptures and the Prayer Book into Maori. He married, first, in 1834, Miss Susan Pigott, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Edward .Schwartz, married, first, Rose Maginity, and had : (a) Robert Edward ; (b) Frederick ; (c) Herbert ; (d) Henry ; (e) Percy ; (f) Frances ; (g) Ada ; (h) Maud.
He married, secondly, Mary Spratt, and had : (i) Thomas ; (j) Daniel.
(b) George, married, first, Rosetta Sherwin, and had :
(a) Robert Sherwin.
He married, secondly, Elizabeth Keating, and had :
(b) George ; (c) Bertha ; (d) Rose ; (e) Hannah.
(c) Robert, of Tinui, Wellington, New Zealand.
(d) John Frederick, married Emma Louisa Beauchamp.
(e) Susarma Eliza, married Revd. Charles B«^^tc«<
(f) Frances, married Schwartz Kisling.
(g) Anne Gabbett.
The Venerable Archdeacon Maunsell married, secondly, Beatrice Panton, and by her had issue, viz. : (H) Herbert. (I) Agnes.
(j) Jane, married Augustus Coates, chief clerk in the Auckland Post Office.
(8) Frederick, of Finneterstown, Adare, married Louisa, dau. of Revd.
Edward Herbert, of Kilpeacon, by Alice, dau. of Revd. Gustavus
58 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
Wybrants, by Margaret, dau. of Revd. Stephen Handcock, and had issue, viz. :
(a) George, married Isabella, dau. of — Lidwell.
(b) Edward, married Miss Ryan. (C) Henry, married Miss Townley.
(d) Charles Arthur, married, in 1903, Amy Mary, dau. of M. C. Burke, of Mullinahone House, Armagh.
(e) Alice, married Alic Beere.
(f) Louisa, married Revd. Richard Sargent Rosslewin.
(g) Frances, married E. Hunt. (h) Caroline.
(I) Augusta. (9) William.
(10) Frances, died unmarried.
(11) Elizabeth, married Thomas Smith, of Barberstown, Straffan, and
had issue.
V. Jane, married William Gabbett, of Caherline and Rathjordan,sce page 99.
Daniel MauNSELL, the eldest son, as above, married, in 1779, Sarah, dau. and co-heir of George Mears, of Lion Hill, Co. Dublin, and had issue, viz. :
I. Richard William, died young.
II. George Mears, of whom afterwards.
III. Daniel, died young.
IV. John, died 181 2.
V. WiUiam, died unmarried.
VI. Daniel Henry, Revd., married Louisa Jane, dau. of John Richardson, of Mount Panther, Co. Down, by Jane, dau. of John Debonnaire, of Lisbon and Madras, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Henry Daniel, Colonel B.S.C., married Emily, dau. of Revd. M. Butt.
(2) General Sir Frederick Richard, K.C.B., R.E., late B.E., served in the Punjaub Campaign, 1 848-9, at the siege, storming, and surrender of Mooltan ; the capture of Fort Cheniote, and battle of Goojerat, for which he got a medal with two clasps. Was in the Indian Mutiny Campaign, 1857-9 — actions on the Hindun, battle of Budle- keserai, siege and assault of Delhi, where he was dangerously wounded. At siege and capture of Lucknow. In Rohiland Campaign — actions at Rooyah, AUygunga, and Bareilly ; and
AND OTfiEK FAMILIES. 59
HI Oude Caiiipaigii — actions at Mitowlee. Mentioned in despatches 14th and 1 5 til December, 1857; 25th May and 28th July, 1858; and 4th February, 1859. Received medal with two clasps. In Afghan War, 1878-9 — siege and capture of Ali Musjid. Men- tioned in despatch of November, 1879. Medal with clasp. Was Hon. A.D.C. to Viceroy of India, 1876-9. Nominated C.B. 1873, and K.C.B. 1897. He married, in 1862, Maria, dau. of Don Manuel Velez, of New Granada, and had issue living, viz. :
(a) Frederick Guy, R.A., married Hilda, dau. of H. Irwin.
(b) Charles Manuel, R.H., married Alice, dau. of Colonel de P.
O'Kelly.
(c) Francis.
(d) Louisa Jane.
(f.) Margaret, married D. O'Leary. (F) Ysabel.
(3) John Richardson, General, R.E., married Augusta, dau. of Colonel
Sandwith, H.E.I.C.S., and had issue, viz. :
(a) John Boyd, died 1891.
(b) Debonnaire Frederick.
(c) Eleanor Frances.
(d) Florence Mabel.
(4) Jane, married General Sir Jas. Brine, K.C.B.
(5) Louisa, married Henry Benedict Medlicott, Superintendent of the
Geological Survey of India, and had issue.
VII. Francis Richard, Revd., Rector of Castleisland, married Sarah, dau. of Edward Kelly, of Moate, and had issue, viz. : (i) Daniel Edward Knox, killed at the diggings in Australia.
(2) Richard Savage, died unmarried in America.
(3) Geo. Henry Clonbrock, died unmarried.
(4) Mary Isabella, married, in 1843, James George Godfrey, third son
of Sir John Godfrey, second Baronet, and had issue.
(5) Sarah Louisa, married Robert Godfiey Day, brother of Rt. Revd.
Maurice F. Day, Bishop of Cashel, and, with other issue, had a dau., Agnes, who married, in 1875, The Honourable Lt. -Colonel Thomas Charles Scott, second son of the fourth Earl of Clonmel, who succeeded as sixth Earl in 1891, but d. s. p.
(6) Letitia Maria, died unmarried.
(7) Eliza Victoria, married, first, Capt. St. John, and secondly, Mr.
Bolton.
6o HISTORY OF MAUNSELL OR MANSEL,
(8) Julia Ellen, married, in 1861, Major Henry Marcus Beresford, second son of the Most Revd. Marcus Gervais Beresford, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, and had issue, for which see "Burke's Peerage " — " Waterf ord."
VIII. Edward Charles, married Charlotte Hemming, and had issue, viz. : (i) Daniel.
(2) Edward.
(3) George.
(4) Sarah.
(5) Isabella.
(6) Marian.
IX. Robert, solicitor, Merrion Square, married, first, in 1821, Anne, dau. of Revd. John Llo}-d, and niece of Thomas Lloyd, of Beechmount, M.P. for Limerick, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Daniel, in die army, married, in 1853, Miss Anne Lucinda Billing, and had issue a daughter that married — Smith.
(2) John, solicitor, of Edenmore, Raheney, married, first, in 185 1, Catherine Lucinda, dau. and heir of Thomas Lloyd, of Beech- mount, J. P., D.L., and had issue, viz. :
(A) Edmund Robert Lloyd, B.L., married Annie Rachel, dau. of Joseph Emerson Dowson, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Arthur Edmund Lloyd, B.A.
(b) Eileen Lucinda.
(c) Gwendolen Josephine. (b) Arthur Horatio, died 1870.
(C) John Drought, Major A.P.D., married Euphemia, dau. of Major Robert Bush, and has issue three sons.
(d) Frederick William, M.A., died 1894.
(e) Eyre Lloyd, M.A., solicitor, died 1894.
(f) Annie Mary.
Mr. John Maunsell married, secondly, in 1863, Emily Roche, daughtet of Archibald John Stephens, Q.C., and had issue, viz. :
(g) Archibald John Stephens, Major, married Arabella Augusta,
dau. of Revd. J. W. Boyce, and has issue a son.
Mr. Maunsell married, thirdly, in 1867, Frances Caroline, dau. of Doctor Lloyd, of Limerick, and had issue, viz. : (h) Richard Edward Lloyd, M.A., M.I.M.E., married, in 1896, Edith Annie, dau. of Thomas Pearson, of West Bank, Bolton, and has issue, viz. : (a) Netta Kathleen
AND OTHER FAMILIES. 6l
(l) Herbert Hodges.
(j) George Henry.
(k) Kathleen Isabella, married Herbert Stanley Ballance, M.D.
(l) Maria Jane.
(m) Caroline Elizabeth, married the Revd. Alexander Thomas,
Rector of Nenagh, and has issue. (n) Maud Frances, (o) Ethel Charlotte, (p) Alice Louise.
Mr. Maunsell married, fourthly, Annie, dau. of Revd.
Geo. Peacocke, of Guile, and died m i8gg without further
issue.
(3) Elizabeth, married, in 1851, Capt. Robert Mayne.
(4) Isabella, married William Boyne Butt, M.D.
Mr. Robert Maunsell married, secondly, in 1834, Fanny, dau. of Francis Dwyer, late si.x clerk in Chancery, and had further issue, viz. :
(5) Francis Richard, solicitor, married Miss Jones.
(6) Albert Edward.
(7) Henrietta.
(8) Fanny Barbara Maria, married — Shegog.
He married, thirdly, in 1848, Louisa, dau. of James Douglas, of Co. Antrim, and had further issue, viz. :
(9) George Mears.
X. Thomas, Revd., resigned his commission in the amiy, and entered the ministry. He married Alice, dau. of Thomas Friend Maunsell, of Bally- brood, and had issue, viz. : (i) Daniel Toler Thomas, M.D., who married Elizabeth Lake Hinds,
dau. of Edward Lake Hinds, of Westmoreland, Barbadoes, and
had issue, viz. :
(a) George Edward, Constabulary, Jamaica.
(b) Thomas Vero, Eketahuna, New Zealand, married Miss Marion
Glynn, and had issue, viz. : (a) Eileen.
(c) Alfred, died umiiarried.
(d) Frances Alice, married F. F. J. Hewson, and had issue.
(e) Mary Alleyne.
(f) Geraldine, married Wm. George Jernan, M.D., and has issue. (2) George Henry, surgeon R.N., died unmarried.
62 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
(3) Samuel Edward, Colonel R.A.M.C, married Miss Madeline
Dickson, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Cecil, surgeon, Indian Medical Service.
(b) Maud, married Major H. D. Lawrence, East Surrey Regiment.
(c) Violet, married — Ashwin. (D) Edith.
(4) Charles Albert, Colonel R.A.M.C. Was in Bhootan Expedition,
1864-5 ; Bechuanna Expedition, 1884, and received medal with clasp ; Egyptian Expedition, 1882, and got medal and bronze star. He married, first, Miss Frances Anne Johnson, and has issue, viz. :
(a) Eustace Ball, Lieut. 5th Bombay Cavalry.
(b) Ivan O'Grady, Lieut. East Surrey Regiment. (C) Margaret Stella.
Colonel Maunsell married, secondly, Frances Walter, dau. of F. Chester, of Poyle Park, Tongham, Surrey.
(5) Horatio Edmund, a doctor in Kingston, Jamaica.
XI. Horatio, Revd., Rector of Drumbo, married Louisa, dau. of Revd. M. Marriott, and had issue, viz. -.
(i) Horatio.
(2) Edward Henry.
(3) Arthur.
(4) John.
(5) Selina Louisa.
(6) Dora Jane.
(7) Eugenie.
XII. Isabella Mears, married, in 1812, Edward Smyth.
Geo. Mears Maunsell, the eldest surviving son, was High Sheriff of Co. Limerick 1835. He married, first, in 1817, Catherine, dau. of Thomas Lloyd, of Beechmount, J.P., D.L., M.P., and had issue, viz. :
I. Daniel Mears, who succeeded to the Ballywilliam estates on the death of his father. He married Eliza, dau. of Christopher Delmege, of Castle Park, and dying without issue, in 1898, was succeeded by his brother, Thomas.
II. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
III. Geo. Mears, died young.
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IV. Richard, married Jane Maria, dau. of William Ledmon, M.D., and
had issue, viz. :
(i) George William, Major. Served in the South African War, 1881, also the Egyptian Expedition, 1882 — battle of Tel el Kebir. Re- ceived medal with clasp, bronze star, 5th class Medjide. Was at the Soudan, 1885-6, and South African War, 1899-1901. Men- tioned in despatches loth September, 1901, and received Queen's medal with three clasps. He married Annie Pauline Clementina, dau. of John Phillips Thomas, and has issue, viz. : (a) Aileen Edith Pauline. (B) Beryl Lola.
(2) Francis Richard, Lieut.-Colonel R.A., Military Attache at Con- stantinople.
V. Catherine, married, in 1840, William Phibbs, of Seafield (now Lisheen), Co. Sligo, and had issue.
Mr. Maunsell married, secondly, in 1833, Mary Josepho Anne, granddaughter of the Bishop of Cloyne and Ross,<'^ and daughter of the Revd. William Stopford, of Blarney, by Abigail, dau. of Eyre Evans, of Miltown Castle, by Mary, dau. and heiress of riiom.as Williams, of Ballymenagh, Co. Limerick, and had further issue, viz. :
VI. William Stopford, Colonel R.A., married Edith, dau. of Robert Geo. Maunsell, see page 52, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Maida.
(2) Edith.
(3) Kathleen.
VII. George Joseph, Lieut.-Colonel, was Staft" Ofhcer, Adjutant-General (New Brunswick), D.A.G. (Canada), and Inspector of Infantry, Eastern Canada, etc. He married, in 1864, Anna Jane, dau. of Francis E. Mooney, J.P., D.L., of The Doon, and has issue, viz. :
(i) George S., C.E., married Miss Austin.
(2) W. Drought, married Miss Clements.
(3) Frank Mooney.
(4) Catherine, married Waller de Courcy O'Grady.
(5) Rachel.
(6) Anna Lee.
VIII. Edward Horatio Phibbs, married his first cousin, EUen, dau. of Jas. Hunt, of Danesfort, and has issue, viz. : (i) Philip.
(2) James.
(3) Edward.
(,) The Rt. Revd. James Stopford, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, married his cousin Miss Anne Stopford, sister of the first Earl of Courtown.
64 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL.
IX. Abigail Mary Angelina, married Robert James Enraght Mooney, J.P.. D.L., of The Doon, King's County, and has issue — ^tor which see " Burke's Landed Gentry"- — " Mooney."
Thomas MaUNSELL,. Succeeded to the Ballywilliam estates on the death of
Major-General, C.B., his eldest brother without issue. He served in the
Burghclere, Newbury, 32nd Light Infantry throughout the Punjaub Cam-
and paign of 1 848-9, and was present at the first and second
Ballywilliam, Co. siege operations before Mooltan, and in the action of
Limerick. Soorjkund was at the storai and capture of the city,
and the surrender of the fortress. During these latter
operations he was personally engaged with two Siklis, one of whom he
killed. He was present at the surrender of the Fort and Garrison of Chiniote,
and also at the battle of Goojerat, for which he received a medal with two
clasps. He was slightly wounded at Mooltaa on the 12th September, 1848,
and severely wounded on 21st January, 1849. See "Reminiscences of the
Punjaub Campaign," " Cornhill Magazine," March, 1902.
In the Eastern Campaign of 1854-6 he served in the 28th Regiment, was at the battles of Alma and Inkerman, and at the siege of Sebastopol. During Uiis time he commanded the Volunteer Sharpshooters of the 3rd Division, until he was severely wounded on 31st December, 1854. For this service he was honourably mentioned in Division Orders of 3rd Jan., 1855. On recovery from his wounds he re-joined his regiment in the Crimea, and served there with it until the conclusion of the war. He received medal and tliree clasps, Sardiniarv and Turkish medals, and 5th class of the Order of the Medjidie.
Was in command of his regiment in India for nearly t^wo years during the latter part of tne Mutiny in 1858-60, and subsequently commanded the 2nd Battalion 13th Light Infantry for nearly seven years. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath 29th May, 1875. He married, in 1865, Amy Louisa Elizabeth, dau. of Colonel Robert Edward Burrowes, K.H., of Bourton Court/''' Somerset, and has issue, viz. :
I. George Edward Scarlett.
II. Philip Mountstuart Aitchison.
III. Louisa Amy Catlierine Augusta.
IV. Cicely Marion Grace.
(0 "Colonel Burrowes served with the 12th Foot at the capture of the 'Isle of France' in 1810, and commanded a Detachment of that Regiment in boarding and capturing two French privateers off the Isle de la Passe. Commanded a Battalion of details with a force under Colonel the Honourable Leicester Stanhope, in Kattywar, and was in advance at the storm and capture of the strong hill fortress of Meetialla." He led a forlorn hope, was sent home with despatches by Sir Stapleton Cotton (afterwards Lord Combermere), made a Knight of Ha and placed on the staff, before he was eighteen years of age."
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(6) Edward Maunsell, of .Deer Park, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, sixth son of George Maunsell, of Milford, married Wilhelmina, daughter of William Cannon, of Millbank, Co. Galway, and had issue, viz. :
(a) George, went to Australia. Married, first, Maria, daughter of
General Brownrig, and niece of Sir Henry Brownrig. She d.s.p. He married, secondly, Elizabeth, dau. of — Janison, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Wm. Hewlett.
(b) John Richard.
(c) Bessie. (d) Molly.
(b) William, died unmarried.
(c) Albert, went to America and settled at Chillicothe.
(d) Richard, The Island, Clare Castle, Co. Clare, married Eliza-
beth, dau. of Revd. John Twamley, Rector of Timolin, Co.
Wicklow, and has issue, viz. :
(a) George Fitzgerald. (b) May Constance.
(e) Thomas, of Deer Park, married Catherine, dau. of Robert
Hare Clarke*, J. P., of Bansha Castle, Co. Tipperary (her
sister, Anne, married, in 1867, the Right Honourable Sir
Peter O'Brien, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland — Lord O'Brien
of Kilfenora), and has issue, viz.:
(a) Edward Butler. (b) Herbert, (c) Wilhelmina Kathleen. (f)* Edward, went to America and settled at Rat Portage,
Ontario. He married Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Cox, of
Mount Pleasant, Kilrush, and has issue, viz. :
(a) Francis. (b) Joseph. (c) Wilma. (G) Elizabeth. (h) Anne, died unmarried, (r) Kate, married Revd. Canon Jas. R. Kellett, late of Offerlane
Vicarage, Mountrath, and Ballinadrinna House, Co. Meath,
and had issue, viz. :
(a) Richd. M. Kellett, Revd., Recor of Fethard, Co. Wexford
(b) Edward Kellett, M.D.
(c) James Kellett.
(d) John Kellett.
(e) Wilhelmina Kellett. (f) May Kellett. (j) Josephine.
(K) Wilhelmina, married Dr. Charles O'Keeffe, of Mount Keeffe, Newmarket, Co. Cork, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Charles E. O'Keeffe, L.R.C.P.S.I.
(b) James Maunsell O'Keeffe.
(c) Louisa O'Keeffe.
(l) Maria, married John Twamley, of Boakefield, Ballytore, Co. Kildare, and has issue, viz. : (a) Jeannette Josephine Hope Twamley.
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VIII. Edward Charles (died 1857), married Charlotte Jane, dau. of Charles Heming, and grand-niece of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Tutteridge, and had issue, viz. :
(i) Daniel Charles, served for some years in H.M. Customs, and afterwards as Private Secretary to H. E. the Governors of Van- couver and British Columbia.
(2) Edwd. Henry, Lieut. Colonel. Retired from the army in 1897
after 37 years' full-pay service, nearly 20 of which as Cornet and Lieut, in 17th and i6th Lancers, and Capt. in 5th Dragoon Guards and 13th Hussars, the remainder in the Army Pay Department. He married, in 1878, Rosalie Harriott, younger dau. of Charles Anson, only son of Edwd. Anson, of Bentley Hall, Staffordshire (see "Burke's Peerage," 1880, Lichfield), and had issue, viz.:
(a) Muriel Aileen, died in infancy.
(b) Olive Georgina. (C) Guy Anson.
(3) Sarah Ann Eliza, died 1898.
(4) Julia Lloyd.
(5) Marianne Douglas.
(6) George Mears, died i8c;9.
MAUNSELL OF OAKLY PARK, CO. KILDARE.
John MauNSELL, Third son of Richard Maunsell, of Ballywilliam, by Helena
of Carrickoreely, Maria Toler, half-sister of John, first Earl of Norbury
Co. Limerick, and (see page 56), married, first, in 1780, Anne, only daii. and
Portarlington. heir of Edward Webster, of Whitehall, Co. Dublin, and
had issue, viz. :
I. Richard, of whom presently.
II. Edward, died young.
III. Anne, married, in 1832, the Very Revd. John Wolsely, Dean of Kildare, nephew of Sir Richard Wolsely, of Mount Wolsely, Co. Carlow, whom he succeeded as eighth Baronet, but d. s. p.
Mr. Maunsell married, secondly, in 1793, Anne, dau. of the Very Revd. Richard Handcock, Dean of Achonry, and sister of William, first Viscount Castlemaine, but had no further issue. He was succeeded by his only surviving son, viz. :
Richard Maunsell, J.P., High Sheriff of Kildare 1841, married, in 1807, of Oakly Park. Maria, only daughter of John Woods, of Winter Lodge, ancestor of Woods of Milverton Hall, Co. Dublin, and had issue, viz. :
I. John, entered T.C.D. 1827, aged 16, was B.L. He succeeded to the estate on the death of his father, was High Sheriff of Kildare, 1868, and dying in i S82 unmarried, he was succeeded by his brother, viz. :
II. Geo. Woods, of whom afterwards.
III. Richard Dixie, Revd., of Whitehall, and Ailesbury Road, Dublin, married, in 1859, Alicia Fanny, dau. of Malcolm Laing, of Orkney, and of Taplow, Bucks, and had, with other issue who died young,
(i) Richard Edward, married, in 1895, Lucia Eleanor, daughter of
S. A. W. Waters, A.I.G. R.I.C., and has issue, viz. :
(a) Richard Lucius Dixie ■» , ■ ,
,.-..., ^ ., \ twins, born, rgoo.
(B) Helena Cecil. i
(2) Malcolm Laing.
(3) Alexander Copeland Dixie, died 1880.
(4) Violet Augusta Caroline.
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66 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
(5) Alice Emily, married, in 1887, Revd. W. Somerville Large, of
Carnalway, Co. Kildare, and had issue a dau., Alice Emily.
(6) Frances Cecil.
IV. Edward Beauchamp, Capt. 3gth Regiment, killed in the trenches before Sebastopol.
V. Warren Cecil, Revd., died 1872.
VI. Frederick Webster, Rector of Symondsbury, Dorset, married, in 1857, Emily Caroline, dau. of Malcolm Laing, of Orkney, and of Taplow, Bucks, and had issue, viz. : (i) Edward Beauchamp.
(2) Richard Cecil.
(3) Frederick Baker Laing.
(4) Laura Beatrice, married, in 1888, the Hon. Slingsby Bethel, C.B.,
second son of first Lord Westbury, and has issue, for which see " Burke's Peerage " — " Westbury."
(5) Louisa Isabella, married, in 1885, Edward S. Prior, and has issue
(6) Emily Caroline, married, in i8gi, Edward C. Jenkins, and has issue.
(7) Alicia Barbara, married, in 1896, Revd. John Jacob. VII. Hannah, died unmarried.
VIII. Anne Jane, died unmarried.
IX. Fanny, died unmarried.
X. Helena Maria.
XI. Louisa Augusta, married Revd. Malcolm Strickland Laing, Rector of Hinton St. Mary, Dorset.
Geo. Woods Maunsell, J.P., D.L., Barrister, was High Sheriff of Kildare
of Oakly Park, Co. 1885. He married, in 1842, Maria, eldest sur-
Kildare, and Ashford, Co. viving dau. and co-heir of Mark Synnot, of Mon-
Limerick. asteroris House, King's County, and died in 1887,
leaving issue, viz. .-
I. Richard Mark Synnot, of whom presently.
II. Geo. John Synnot died 1863.
III. Anna Mary Synnot, married, in 1873, Alan Cameron Bruce Pryce, of Duffryn, St. Nicholas, Co. Glamorgan, and has issuer
IV.. Maria Augusta Synnot.
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Richard M. S. Maunsell, J. P., High Sheriff 1890-2, late Capt. ist Royal Dragoons, married, first, Marie Lucy, dau. of Alexander Copland, of Wing- field, Berks, but had no issue by her. He married, secondly, in 1877, Mary Eliza, dau. and heiress of Samuel Caswell, of Blackwater, Co. Clare, and had issue, viz. :
I. Richard John Caswell.
n. Marie Norah.
He married, thirdly, in 1894, Georgina, dau. of J. Midleton.
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MAUNSELL OF BALLINAMONA, CO. CORK, AND Ol- CASTLE PARK AND SPA HILL, CO. LIMERICK.
William Maunsell, of Ballinamona, fifth son of Coin. Thomas Maunsell and Anne Eaton, his wife (see page 45). Married, in 1713, Alice, dau. of Revd. John Norcott, of Ballygarrett, Mallow. He died in 171 8, and letters of administration were granted to his widow, who had as sureties Antonio Jephson, M.P. of Mallow, and her brothers, John and Edward Norcott, of Ballygarrett. She married, secondly, in 1720, William Brereton, of Carrig Slayney, Co. Carlow, for issue of which later marriage, see account " Norcott," page 108. Mr. Maunsell left issue, viz. :
L John, captciin in Lieut. -General Otway's Regiment of Foot. He married, in 1753, Sarah, dau of Matliew Sewell, of Flower Hill, Cork, and had issue a daughter, who married Lifford White, of Co. Tipperary, ancestor of Coin. Maunsell White of New Orleans. n. William, of whom afterwards.
in. Anne, married John Norris of Limerick, and had issue (i) WilHam, (2) Patrick, and (3) Richard, captain in the army (who all died without issue) ; also
(4) Elizabeth, married, in 1766, Francis Russell, of Limerick, and had
issue.
(5) Majry, married, in 1775, Samuel Dickson, of Ballynaguile, and had
issue. Their dau., Catherine, married, in 181 1, Sir Robert Bateson, Bart., and was mother of first Lord Deramore. See "Burkes Peerage" — "Deramore," and "Landed Gentry" — "Dickson."
(6) Alice, married, in 1778, Geo. Lee, of Barna, Co. Tipperary, and
had issue, for which see " Burke's Landed Gentry " — " Lee of Barna."
(7) Catherine, married Charles Creed.
(8) Anne, married, in 1785, James Creed, of Dublin, and had issue.
(9) Jane, married — Browning.
William Maunsell, Younger son, as above, held conmiand in Royal Limerick
of Caherdavin, and Regiment, commissions dated 1744, 1756, and 1762.
Flag House, Limerick. He married, first, Mary, dau. of George Sealy, by Anne,
dau. of Revd. Richard Baldwin, by Mary, dau. of
Benjamin Winthrop, and had:
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I. Anne, mcirried, in 1761, Verc Hunt, of Friarstown, and had issue.
II. Eliza, died unmarried.
Mr. Maunsell married, secondly, in 1761, a cousin of his first wife, namely, Bridget, dau. of William Winthrop (Sheriff of Cork 1741, Mayor 1744), by Alicia, dau. of Robert Wrixon, of Mallow, and had issue viz. :
III. William, of whom afterwards.
IV. Mary, married, in 1782, Robert Reeves, of Merrion Square, Dublin,
and had issue.
V. Sarah, married Doctor John Vize, of Limerick, and had issue.
VI. Alicia, married, in 1790, William Ricketts Hughes, of Cork, and had issue, viz. :
(i) William Russell Hughes, M.D., who married Miss Nicholson, and had issue, viz. — (a) William, (b) Robert, (c) Alice, (d) Elizabeth, (e) Mary, (f) Anne, (g) Frances.
(2) Eliza, married — Vincent.
(3) Bridget, married Rd. Riley Daunt,
(4) Alicia, married Lieut. Henry Nash, and had :
(a) William R., Colonel 13 th Regiment.
(b) Llewellyn, Lieut. 97th Regiment.
(c) Alicia, married Isaac Notter.
(d) Mary Ann Wintlirop.
VII. Frances, married her cousin, David Roche, of Carass Court, County Limerick, and, with other issue, was mother of Sir David Roche, first Baronet.
William Maunsell, of Castle Park, only son of the preceding, admitted free- man of Cork 1 799 ; held a command in Royal Limerick Regmient, com- mission dated 1804. As per settlement, 31st December, 1790, he married, first, Dorotliea, youngest dau. of William Gabbett,*.') of Caherline and Rathjordan, by Jane, dau. of Richard Maunsell, of Ballywilliam, by Helena Maria, half-sister of John, first Earl of Norbury, and dau. of Daniel Toler, of Beechwood, by Helena, dau. of the Right Revd. Edward Synge, D.D., Bishop of Cork, and had issue, vii.. :
(i) Mr. Gabbett was eldest son of Wm. Gabbett by Dorothea, dau. of Rev. Rickard Burgh, of Dromlteen, son of the Right Rev. Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh, by his wife Mary, widow of Evan Lloyd, and dau. of Wm. Kingsmill, of Ballybeg, Co, Cork, by Dorothea, dau. of Sir Warham St. Leger.
The Dkive, Thorpe Malsor Hall.
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I. William, Revd., Rector of Kilmurry, married Frances, daughter of Revd. William Lewis, of Kilkeedy, and had issue, viz. :
(i) William F., Revd., Rector of Kildimo, married Rebecca Caroline, younger dau. of Revd. Richard Dickson,'") by Anna, dau. of Sir James Chatterton, Bart, of Castle Mahon, Co. Cork, and had an only son, namely :
(a) William Dickson, Colonel of the City Limerick Artillery, grad- uated T.C.D. 1 87 1, and married, in 1897, his first cousin, P ranees, dau. of Revd. Lewis M. Maunsell, and has issue, viz. : (i) Elizabeth Rebecca Frances.
(2) Nora Constance.
(3) Olive Beatrice, died in infancy.
In 1901, Colonel Maunsell inherited his maternal uncle's estates, and, under terms of the will, he assumed, by royal letters patent, the surnemae of Dickson. (2) Richard, Lieut.-Colonel in the army, now of The Grange, Dubbo, New South Wales, married, in 1851, at New Castle, N. S. W., Annie Mary, second dau. of Capt. Alexander Livingstone, of Beau- thorn, Hunter's River, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Lewis Livingstone.
(b) Richard Dillon, married, in 1894, Annie Churchward, and has
issue, viz. :
(a) Allan Richard.
(b) Massy.
(c) Edward Montague.
(d) Frances Rebecca, mcurried, in 1870, Lieut John Corsane
Robinson, Royal Artillery, and has issue, viz. : (a) Dora. (b) Louis.
She married, secondly. Major Geo. Rowland Gambier, R.H.A.
(e) Bessie Mary Dora, married Louis Beclce, and has issue a
daughter, Dora.
(f) Eveline Annie Ryves, married, in 1895, Sydney Robert Morris,
and has issue Mary Elizabeth and Richard Maunsell. (G) Ethel May Ursula, married, in 1898, Harley C. Antill, and has issue, Mary Campbell and Alice.
(OThe Rev. Richard Dickson's elder daughter, viz , Maria Frances, married Wm. Peters Smith, of Bellmont, Raheney, vifho, on 17th lUarch, 1874, assumed the name and arms of Chatterton by royal licence. The Rev. Richd. Dickson was fourth son of Samuel Dickson, of Ballinaguile, by Mary dau. of John Norris, by Anne dau. of Wm. Maunsell, of Ballinamona, Co. Cork. (See page 69.)
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(3) Lewis Montagu, Revd., Rector of Kilskyrc, married Mary, dau. of
Revd. Richard Bell Booth, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Frances, married her first cousin. Colonel William Dickson Maunsell.
(b) May Kathleen, married G. Gilchrist, Lf^.D., and has issue.
(4) Francis Edwin, a major in the army, married, in 1849, Miss Ellen
Catherine Stephenson, and had issue, viz. :
(a) William Edwin, of 2nd W. I. Regiment, d. s. p.
(b) Arthur Munro, Major 2nd R. Mimster Fusiliers, married Miss
May Thompson, and has issue — Charles, Douglas, and Viola May. He was in Burmese Expedition 1887-9, ^^^^ received medal with clasp.
(c) Edward Lewis, LieuL-Colonel R.A.M.C, married Miss E.
O'Callaghan.
If. Richard, midshipman on board the " Chatham." Whilst serving with his " cousin, Captain Robert Maunsell, he was killed in the action against the Dutch at Java.
III. John, of Coolmoyne, Co. Tipperar}^ maintained, with his younger brother, Joseph, a brave defence in his house there against the attacks of the Terryalts, or Whiteboys. He married, in 1834, Rosa, widow uf Revd. J. O'Donohoe, and dau. of — Savage, and had issue two sons and a daughter, who settled abroad.
IV. Winthrop, died immarried.
V. Joseph Gabbett, of whom afterwards.
VI. Bridget, married — Wilson, of Rhynanna, Co. Clare, and had issue that
died issueless.
VII. Dorothea, married, in 1827, Samuel Bell-Kingsley.
V^III. Jane, married — Reeves.
IX. Helen Maria, died young.
Mr. Maunsell married, secondly, Elizabeth, dau. of William Marcus Jackson, of Limerick, and had, with other children that died young, Elizabeth, Mary, and George, who all died unmarried.
Joseph Gabbett Maunsell, Youngest son of William Maunsell, of Castle
of Limerick and Park, and Dora Gabbett, his first wife (born 1S03,
Spa Hill. died 1868), married, first, Anne, dau. of Samuel Bevan,
of CEunass, Co. Limerick, and had a son, Daniel Gabbett,
who died in infancy. Mrs. Maunsell died 1832. He married, secondly, in
January, 1835, Sarali Maria, widow of George Dodd, solicitor, and dau. of
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Bannister Chambers, of Corbally House, Limerick, by Elizabeth, sister of Robert Johnston, Inspector General of Excise for Province of Munster, and Captain 5th Company Cork Legion, and had issue, namely :
I. Charlotte, died September, 1836.
II. Theophilus Alfred, died December, 1836.
III. Samuel, died young.
IV. Joseph Gabbett, died unmarried 1857.
V. Richard Johnston, married Frances, widow of Henry Prettie Bayly, and dau. of S. Yeilding, of Glenstar, Co. Limerick, d. s. p.
VI. Robert George, of whom as follows.
Robert Geo. Maunsell. Only surviving issue of Joseph Gabbett Maunseil,
of married Dorothea Jane, first cousin of the fourth
Spa Hill, Co. Limerick, Lord Clanmorris, and dau. of Thomas Warren
and of Cork. White, Barrister-at-Law, of Kingstown and Caher-
blonick,Co. Clare (see separate account White, Bart.,
and Marquis d'Albeiville), by Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Persse, of Roxboro,
Co. Galway, by Maria, dau. of Samuel Wade, of Fairfield, Co. Galway, by
Katharine, dau. of James Davies, of Aughrim, same county. Mrs. Maunsell
is also maternally descended from Sir Anthony St. Leger, Knt, who was
Lord Deputy of Ireland, for particulars of which, see separate account
Persse, page 1 16.
Mr. Maunsell has issue, viz. :
I. Robert Charles Butler, M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S.I., Visiting Surgeon of Mercer's Hospital, and University Examinex in Surgery T.C.D. Res. : 32 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin.
II. Arthur Persse Gabbett, Revd., B.D., Dublin University Mission, Ranchi, India.
III. Dudley Philip Wmthrop.
IV. Dora Frances Elizabeth, married Revd. Canon Robert Irvine Ford, B.D., and has issue (i) Theodore Arthur Irvine, (2) Dora Georgina, (3) Hope Evangeline.
V. Elizabeth Georgina.
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MAUNSELL OF BALLYVOREEN AND BALLYBROOD.
John Maunsell, third son of Capt. Thomas Maunsell, R.N. (see page 42), was captain in Cromwell's Lifeguards, for whom, it is said, he raised a regiment of horse. He got a grant of g,ooo acres of land in barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. A pardon was granted to him 14th Charles II. He married, first, in 1656, Mary, dau. of Geo. Booth, of Cheshire, and had issue, viz. :
I. George, of Ballyphilips, d. s. p. 171 1.
II. John, of Ballybrood, of whom afterwards.
Capt. J. Mamisell married, secondly, Jane, dau. and co-heir of John Campbell, of Callar, Co. Kilkenny, and had further issue, viz. :
III. Thomas, of Drombane or Mount Sion, for which see Maunsell of Thorpe Malsor, page 79.
IV. Jane, married Joseph Osburn.
V. Mary, married Samuel Edmondson.
John Maunsell, of Ballybrood, married, in 1683, Anne, dau. of Robert Foulkes, of Curranahinchy, Co. Cork, and died 1739, leaving issue, viz. :
I. Samuel, who was High Sheriff of Limerick 1717, and married Elizabeth, dau. of John Andrews, d. s. p. 1722.
II. Thomas, of whom presently.
III. Richard.
IV. Catherine.
Thomas Maunsell succeeded to Ballybrood. He married, in 1728, Alice, dau. of Revd. Daniel Widenham, of BallinEmiona, and had, with a younger son, Daniel, an elder son, viz. :
John Maunsell, who married, first, in 1753, Arme, dau. of Henry Mannix, and sister of Sir H. Mannix, Bart. She d. s. p. He married, secondly, in 1755, Catherine, dau. of Revd. Thomas Widenham, and had issue, viz. :
I. Thomas Friend, of whom afterwards.
II. John, married Anne, dau. of — Sargent, d. s. p.
III. Samuel Revd., married, in 1 805, the widow of — Brazier, of Craighert, Saffron Hill, Cork, and d. s. p.
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IV. Charles, married, in 1804, Grace, dau. of John Green, and had issue, viz. : (i) John Rodolphus, d. s. p.
(2) Maria, married Richard Frederick Peard, of Belvedere, Co. Cork,
and had issue.
(3) Grace, married, in 1831, Geo. Henry Houghton.
V. Alice, married Hassard Powell.
VI. Margaret, married, in 1793, Thomas Franks. They and their son were murdered by the Whiteboys at Lisnagourneen, near Kildorrery, on gth September, 1823.
VII. Anna Maria, married, in 1792, Peirce Mahony, of the Castle, New Castle, Co. Limerick, and Woodlawn, Co. Kerry, and had issue, viz.: (i) Peirce Mahony, J. P., D.L., of Kilmorna and Gunsborough,Co. Kerry. (2) David Mahony, of Grange Con, Co. Wicklow. See Burke's Landed Gentry — " Mahony of Kilmorna."
Thomas Friend Maunsell married Isabella, dau. of Edmond Vero, and had issue, viz. : I. Samuel, J.P., married, in 1834, Phoebe, dau. of Geo. Henry Houghton, and had issue, viz. : (i) Samuel.
(2) Vero.
(3) Charles.
(4) Thomasine.
(5) Isabella.
II. Charles, of Dublin, married, in 1838, Maria, dau. of Geo. Henry Houghton, and had issue, viz. :
(1) Henry Widenham, married Mary Augusta, dau. of Francis George
Fosberry, by Sarah, his wife, dau. of William Humphry Smith, of St. Cronan's, Co. Tipperary, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Muriel Clarence.
(b) Kathleen Fosberry, married, -n 1902, Capt. Owen L. Francis
of the 6th Dragoon Guards (the Carabiniers). (C) Lylie Widenham.
(2) Charles Friend, married Charlotte, dau. of — Barron, and had
issue, viz. :
(a) Charles Henry Barron.
(b) Vero.
(3) Phoebe, married Joseph Holt, and has issue.
(4) Sarah, married — Holt, she died at Geneva in 1879.
III. Mary, died unmarried.
IV. Alice, married Revd. Thomas Maunsell, of Ballywilliam branch, and had issue, for wliich see page 61.
MAUNSELL OF THORP AL^LSOR, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
John Maunsell, (see page 40), eldest son of Thomas Maunsell, was of Balney Manor, Chicheley, and of the Middle Temple, London, Barrister-at-Law. Over the doorway of the manor, evidently on the occasion of his marriage, the following was engraved, " Sobrie, Justi, Pie, 1601." A portion of the house is still standing. It is now known as Grange Farm. About 161 5-20, he sold the estate to Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., subject to a charge of ;^2 12s. per annum, created by one of his predecessors (said to be a Lady Mansell) for the poor widows and widowers of the parish. This bequest is designated in the Charity Commissioners' Report as " Mansell's Gift." He married, in 1601, Katherine, dau. of Sir Richd. Ward, of Hurst, Co. Berks, and dying 1625, was buried at Bromley, where is a plate in the chancel arch of that parish church bearing the following inscription: — "Here Lyeth buried the Body of John Maunsell, sometime of Chicheley, in the County of Buckinghamshire, Esquire. He had two sons, John and Thomas, and departed this life 19th October, 1625." He also had an elder son, Thomas, that died young, his issue being as follows :
I. Thomas, born 1602, and died 1606, mentioned in the will of Sir Richard Ward as "Thomas Ward Mancell, my godson."
II. John, of whom afterwards.
III. Thomas, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law, died unmarried 1643, and was buried at Thorpe Malsor.
John Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, the eldest surviving son, was of Woodford, Co. Essex, and a Barrister-at-law. He purchased the estate of Thorpe Malsor from John Watkyn, who had bought it in 1598 from Edward, Earl of Oxford. He married, in 1G26, Susan, daughter of Humphrey Phipps, of London, by Dorothy, dau. of Henry Mordaunt, of Thunderley, Co. Essex, by Susan, dau. of Simon Belknap, and had issue, viz. :
I. Robert, of Thorpe Malsor, admitted to Lincoln's Inn 1649, and suc- ceeded to Thorpe Malsor estate in 1677. He married, in 1656, Judith, dau. of Thomas Brooke, of Great Oakley, Northants, by Margaret, dau. of Sir John Walter, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and died in 1705, without surviving issue. By will dated 1704-5, he left his estates to his widow for life, with remainder to his nephew, Robert, son of his brother, John Maunsell, of London, with remainder to his cousin, Thomas, youngest son of Capt. John Maunsell, of Ballyvoreen, who eventually inherited. See pages 75, 79.
II. Charles, died young.
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III. John; merchant, of London, married, about 1664, Martha, dau. of . . . He died at Edmonton, Middlesex, in 1670, and his widow married, secondly, in 167 1-2, George Duke, of Aylesford, Co. Kent. John and Martha Maunsell left issue, viz. :
(i) Robert, of Thorpe Malsor, under terms of his uncle Robert's will, succeeded to the Thorpe Malsor estate in 1709 on the death of the widow of the testator. He married, about 1704-5, his cousin, Catherine, daughter of Revd. John Courtman, D.D., Rector of Thorpe Malsor, by Catherine, dau. of John Maunsell, the flrsf- possessor of Thorpe Malsor. He died without issue and intestate, February, 1 716- 17. His widow possessed the estate in dower for her life. She died March, 1727-8, when the estate passed, under the will of her husband's uncle, Robert Maunsell abovenamed, to the testator's cousin, Thomas Maunsell. See pages 75, 79.
(2) John, living 1689, but died unmarried before 1704, and, accordingly,
not mentioned in his uncle's will when entailing the estate.
(3) Sarah, died unmarried in 1684, aged 19.
(4) Mary, died unmarried.
IV. Richard, died young before 1675.
V. Thomas. Under the terms of his brother Robert's will, was entitled to reversion of the estate in the event of the extinction of the male issue of his brother John, but he did not inherit, as he died in 1 72 1 issueless, prior to the decease of his nephew Robert's widow. He was the last surviving male descendant of the purchaser of the estate, and died unmarried in 1721, aged 81, being described as of Rothwell, Northants. VI. Humphrey, sometime Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, M.A. 1670.
Died unmarried at Montpelier, France, 1676-7. VII. Henry, died in London, umnarried, 1699.
VIII. Dorothy, married, about 1659, William Wheelowes, of Gayton, Co. Northampton (Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, i67i),and had issue.<''
(i) Dorothy, only child and heiress of William Weelowes, by Dorothy, dau. of John Maunsell, married Arthur Brooke, of Great Oakley, and had two sons, viz.
( 1 ) Wheeler, his successor, who died unmarried in 1 762, bequeathing his estates to his nieces.
(2) Arthur, married Mary, only child of Z. Isham, D.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and had
two daughters, eventual co-heiresses of their uncle Wheeler, viz. :
(a) Mary, who married Richard Supple of Aghadoe, Co. Cork, had an only son, Richard Brooke Supple, who succeeded to the Great Oakly Estate in 1797, and by royal licence, assumed the name and arms of Brooke. He was created a Baronet. His son William, the third Baronet, married the Hon. Catherine, daughter of second Lord Sondes, and their son, Richard Lewis, married his cousin, Mary Grace, dau. of the Right Rev. Ed%vard TroUope, D.D., Bishop of Nottingham, by Grace, dau. of Sir John Henry Palmer, Bart,, and had issue.
(b) Dorothy, married Thomas Cecil Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, as stated above. See "Burke's Peerage,"— " Baron Sondes;" "De Capell Brooke, Bart.;" "Palmer, Bart, of Carlton."
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IX. Catherine, married, in 1658, the Revd. John Courtman, D.D., Rector of Thorpe Malsor, and had issue.
X. Susan, married, in 1665, Edward Hill, of Rothwell Manor, Co. North- ampton. They had issue nineteen children, of whom the Rev. Nathaniel Hill was father of George Hill, of Rothwell, Serjeant-at-law, who died in 1808, leaving two daughters, co-heiresses, viz.: (i) Anne married, in 1781, Thomas Cecil Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor. (2) Barbara, married, in 1777^, the Hon. William Cockayne, second sur- viving son of Charles, fifth Viscount Cullen. By Act of Parlia- ment she, in 1801, took the name of Medlycott. They had several daughters, co-heiresses, of whom two married into the Maunsell family, as hereafter recorded. See page 82.
XI. Elizabeth, said to have married — Leigh.
XII. Mary, married, in 1669, Daniel Blundell, of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, and had issue.
On the failure of male heirs of the body of the purchaser, as above, the estate passed, under the will of Robert Maunsell, dated 1705 as abovementioned, to
Thomas Maunsell, of Drumbane, or Mount Sion, Co. Limerick, youngest son of Capt. John Maunsell, of Ballyvoreen, by his second wife, Jane, dau. of John Campbell, of Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Lender his cousin Robert's will he also inherited lands of Hanbury, Worcestershire. He was High Sheriff for County Limerick 1697-8, and married, in 1699, Thomasina, dau. and heiress of Richard Stephens, of Newcastle, Co. Limerick; and died in 1739, leaving issue, viz. :
I. Thomas, of whom afterwards.
II. Edward, Captain, of Mount Sion and Loftus Hill, High Sheriff of Co. Dublin 1755, married, in 1746, Catherine, widow of William Roberts, of Monkstown Castle, Co. Dublin, snd dau. and heiress of Philip Ridgate, LL.D., and had issue, viz. : (i) Thomas Ridgate, graduate T.C.D. 1765, married by special licence,
at Teignmouth, Devon, 13th November, 179S, Maria Fortaye,
dau. of James Daly, of Upton House, near Brixham, Devon, and
had issue, viz. :
(a) Anne.
(B) Elizabeth.
(c) Maria Daly Fortye, born 2nd February, 1800, married Cuth- bert Chambers, of Limerick, and had issue.
III. Catherine.
8o HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
Thomas Maunsell, the eldest son, was of the Middle Temple, London, and Lieut. -Colonel of Northamptonshire Militia. Married, in 1725, Anna, dau. and co-heir (with her sister, Jane, who married the Revd. Stackpole Pery, ancestor of Earl of Limerick) of the Venerable William Twigg, Archdeacon of Limerick, by Diana, formerly wife of Revd. Peter Rilands, dau. and eventually co-heiress of Sir Drury Wray, Bart., son of Sir Christopher Wray, Knt., by Albinia, dau. of Edward (Cecil) Viscoimt Wimbledon, second son of Thomas Earl of Exeter, K.G., by Dorothy, dau. and co-heir of John (Neville) Lord Latimer, a direct descendant of the Royal House of Plan- tagenet. Colonel Maunsell died in 1768, aged 64, leaving issue (besides others that died young) :
I. Thomas Cecil, of Thorpe Malsor, Colonel of Northamptonshire Militia, married, first, in 1756, Dorothy, dau. and co-heir of Arthur Brooke, of Great Oakley. She d. s. p. in 1779, ag-ed 53 He married, secondly, in 1781, his cousin, Anne, dau. and co-heir of George Hill, of Rothwell Manor, Northants, and had issue a daughter, Anne, that died unmarried. He married, thirdly, in 1796, Jane, dau. of Clement Wrather, of Aisthorpe, Co. Lincoln, and had issue another daughter, Jane Catherine, who married, in 1828, Frederick Henry Le Mesurier, Capt. R.N. (who died in 1865), and died in 1882, aged 81, leaving issue. Colonel Maunsell died without male issue in 181 5, aged 88.
n. William, cf whom afterwards.
III. Diana, married, in 1747, Ambrose Wilson, of Caherconlish, and their grandson, Thomas Maunsell Wilson, married, in 181 5, the Honourable Isabella Monck, dau. of first Viscount Monck.
IV. Mary, died 1786.
V. Thomasina, died 1780.
VI. Anne, died 1808.
VII. Jane, married, in December, 1764, at St. John's Church, Limerick, Thomas Spring, of Stephen's Green, Dublin, and Ballycrispin, Co. Kerry, whom she survived, and died in 1782, leaving issue by him an only dau., viz., Catherine Spring, baptized in St. John's Church, Limerick, 8th April, 1766, and married, in 1785, Stephen Edward Rice, of Mount Trenchard, Co. Limerick, and had issue, viz., Mary, who married Sir Aubrey de Vere, Bart. ; and Thomas Spring Rice, first Lord Monteagle.
William Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, Revd. Archdeacon of Kildare and Chancellor of Limerick, succeeded to the Thorpe Malsor estates on the decease, in 1815, of his elder brother without male issue. He married, first,
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1758, Deborah, dau. and co-heir of Revd. William Foster, Rector of Thrapston, Co. Northants, by whom he had issue three daughters, viz., Deborah, Elizabeth, and Diana, all of whom died unmarried. He married, secondly, in 1780, Lucy,- dau. and co-heir of Philip Oliver, of Altamira, Co. Cork, second son of Robert Oliver, of Clonodfoy Castle, Co. Limerick, and died in 181 8, aged 8g, leaving issue, viz. :
I. Thomas Philip, of v/hom afterwards.
IL William Wray, Revd., Archdeacon of Limerick, married Charlotte, dau. of the Right Revd. Charles Mongan Warburton, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne, and died in i860, aged TT, leaving issue, viz. :
(i) William Wray, married Miss Mary Mabel Bruce, and had issue, viz. : (A) William Wray.
(2) Charles Thomas, died unmarried.
(3) Garnet Philip, died unmarried in 1872, aged 48.
(4) Robert Augustus, Revd., Rector of Coolbanagher, Queen's County,
married Frances Anne Erskine, dau. of Capt. Francis Tipping Hall, and had issue, viz. :
(a) Cecil William Mowbray, married Mary, dau. of G. Richardson,
of Invercargiiill, New Zealand, and had issue, viz. : (a) Cecil, (b) Dorothy.
(b) Nevill Francis Augustus, Major, married Anita Matilda, dau.
of F. A. Muntz, and has issue, viz. :
(a) Erin Francis, (b) Cecil Robert Wray. (c) Olive Anita.
(c) Charles Henry Wray, Major, married Amy Charlotte, dau. of George Matthey, and has issue, viz. :
(a) Sydney Augustus Wray.
(d) Lucius Augustus D'Vere, Capt., married Margaret E., dau. of J. Watson, and died in igoo, on passage to the Cape.
(e) Ernest Oliver Henry.
(5) Frances, married Major Thomas P. Vandeleur, loth Regiment, of
Cragbeg, Clarina, Co. Limerick, and had issue.
(6) Lucy Diana married, in 1846, her cousin, General Thomas E.
Knox, grandson of the first Earl of Ranfurly, and had issue.
(7) Charlotte, died unmarried.
(8) Selina Deborah, married Revd. Robert de la Poer Robinson, and
had issue.
III. Philip Oliver, d. s. p. 1804.
IV. Robert Charles, Capt. R.N., C.B., and Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. Died unmarried 1845.
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V. John Edmund, Capt. R.H.A., was at Waterloo. Married, in 1824, his cousin, the Honourable Georgiana, fourth dau. and co-heir of the Honourable William Cockayne, brother of Borlase, sixth and last Viscount Cullen. She obtained warrant of precedency as the dau. of a viscount in 1836. They died without issue, she in 1864, and he in 1869. V'l. Lucy, married, in 1806, Joseph Gabbett, of High Park, for whom see separate account under " Gabbett," page 98.
VII. Anne Jane, died unmarried in 1877.
Thomas Philip Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, inherited the estate on the decease of his father in 181 8. He was High Sheriff of Northants 1821, colonel of the militia, and M.P. for that shire 1835 to 1857. He married, in 181 1, his cousin, the Honourable Caroline Elizabeth, dau. and one of the co-heirs of the Honourable William Cockayne, brother of Borlase, sixth and last Viscount Cullen. She, in 1836, had warrant of precedency ^s the dau. of a viscount. Her mother was Barbara, dau. and eventual sole heiress of George Hill, of Rothwell Manor, Serjeant-at-law, grandson of Edward Hill, by Susan, dau. of John Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, above- named. She died in i860, aged 72. Colonel Maunsell died in 1866, aged 84, leaving issue, viz. :
I. William Thomas, died unmarried, vita patris, in 1862, aged 49.
II. George Edmond, of whom presently.
III. Thomas Cokayne, of Sparrows Heme Hall, Watford, late Capt. 12th Lancers, married, in 1 867, Catherine Elizabeth, dau. of the Honourable Richard Cavendish, and died in 1 887, aged 70, leaving issue, viz. :
(i) Cecil John Cokayne.
(2) Caroline Emily Cokayne.
(3) Beatrice Elizabeth Cokayne.
(4) Isabella Louisa Cokayne.
(5) Ida Cecilia, Cokayne.
IV. John Borlase, D.L., J.P., of Barton Seagrave, and of Rothwell Grange, married, in 1858, Mary Isabella Dowager Viscountess Hood, dau. and heir of Richard J. Tibbits, of Barton Seagrave, and assumed the name and arms of Tibbits by Royal Licence in 1888. He died, s. p., in 1902, aged 82.
V. Charles Cullen, of Rothwell Manor House, Capt. 54th Regiment, married, in 1878, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Revd. Evan Nepean, by Anne, dau. of the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, and granddau. of Sir Evan Nepean, first Baronet. He died, s. p., in 1891, aged 63.
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VI. Lucy Diana, married, in 1849, John Oliver, and died in 1892, aged 78, leaving issue.
Vll. Sophia Caroline, married, in 1844, Sir Philip Pauncefort-Duncombe, Bart., of Great Brickhill Manor, Bucks, and died in 1889, aged 67,
leaving is.sue.
Geo. Edmond Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, Revd., Rector of Thorpe Malsor, married, first, in 1846, Theodosia Mary, dau. of Sir John Palmer, Bart., of Carlton Park, Northants, by Mary Grace, eldest dau. of 2nd Lord Sondes (see Burke's " Baronetage," " Palmer of Carlton "). He married, secondly, in i86g, Matilda Anne Frances, eldest dau. of the Hon. and Revd. Hugh Francis ToUemache. He died in .1875, aged ^g, leaving, by his first wife, an only son and heir, viz. :
Cecil Henry Maunsell of Thorpe Malsor, Revd., Rector, Patron, and Lord of the Manor of Thorpe Malsor, Northants.
HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL,
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.
BROMLEY, CO. KENT.
"Here lyeth the body of John Maunsell, sometime of Chicheley in the county of Buck- ingham, Esq. He had two sons John and Thomas, and departed this life 19 Oct. 1625."
THORPE MALSOR, CO. NORTHAMPTON.
Upon a brass plate in a stone near the altar rails, under the arms of Mansell, a cheveron between 3 manches with a crescent difference : —
"Here lietli the body of Thomas Maunsell of the Middle Temple, London, Esq., who departed this life the 25th day of February, 1643.
Carmina ejusdem paulo ante obitum suum. Mors dabit et requiem fessis tollitque dolores,
Et quodcunque malum vita lugubris habet Disce raori, quoniam Mors est tibi janua Vitae, Mortuus ut vivas, sit tibi dulce mori. Aged 36 years." (')
On a black marble table within a bordure of white marble against the south wall of the chancel when Bridges' Northamptonshire was issued in 1720, but in 1877 against the west wall of the north aisle of the chancel : —
"Nigh unto this place lyeth the body of John Maunsell, Esq., who descended of an antient family in Chichely in the county of Bucks, was borne there March 12th a" 1604 and dyed here May 2d ao 1677, in the 73d year of his age."(0
[Arms as remaining in 1877— A chevron Argent, between 3 maunches Sable. Crest— A falcon, with wings elevated.]
Upon three brass tablets on three stones collateral to each other, in the north chancel :— "Here lyeth the body of John Maunsell, eldest son of Robert Maunsell and Judith his wife, who was born the xiith day of February 1666 and died the xxxi day of December 1677. "Quem deus amat moritur juvenis."
" Here lies interred the body of Robert Maunsell, Esq., who deceased May the xxvii'h anno dom. mdccv in the Lxxvii year of his age.
Here's laid up good, sincere, and prudent dust, Kind, courteous, faithful, merciful and just."
Under the arms of Maunsell, impaling on a fess, 3 escallops. Crest — On a wreath a griffin's head, erased : —
"Here lies the body of Mistress Judith Maunsell, the relict of Robert Maunsell, Esq., who dyed April the xxvii, anno dom. mdccix in the lxxiii year of her age." (0
(0 Bridges' Northamptonshire (vol. ii, pp. 78-79) published in 1720; but the inscriptiou to Thomas Maunsell, 1643, and to Robert Maunsell, 1705, were not seen by the writer of this article when inspecting the church in 1877.
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In the north chauntry which has been sepaiated from the chancel and north aisle by the arches being blocked up, and which is approached by a small door from the exterior, are four stone cells on the front of which are the following inscriptions (2) : —
The cells on which these inscriptions appear are erected above ground and are believed to cover a number of slabs with old inscriptions such as the following, which is to be found on the pave- ment in front of the tombs : —
" Here lyeth the body of Sarah Maunsell, daughter of John Maunsell, of London, merchant ; shee dyed Sep. 10, in the 20th year of her age, a° dni. 1684." (3)
On a free stone in the middle of the chancel : —
" Here lyeth the body of John Courtman, Divine and Physician, who was born at Hening- ham Sible in Essex, and dyed February the 9th in the 6sth year of his age, 1691."
" Here lyeth the body of John Courtman, late Rector of this parish, who as he showed forth his love to God in keeping his commandments all his life, desired at his death to liave the following words inscribed on his gravestone, viz. :— I will love thee, oh Lord my strength, therock of tny salvatiofi. He departed this life the 9th day of April in the 60th year of his age, A.D. 1719-" (■>
In the pavement of the chancel is a slab with the following inscription : —
" Catherine Courtman, relict of John Courtman, gent., died January 27, 1704, aged 66. "(3)
Against the same wall [i.e. the south wall of the chancel in 1720, and the west wall of the north aisle to the chancel in 1877] on a like marble monument [i.e. like the one to John Maunsell, who died 2 May 1677] with the arms of Maunsell and crest a pea hen argent at the top; —
" MS. I RoBERTi Maunsel, Armigeri | linjus ecclesife Patroni | Johannis Maunsell, Armigeri | Nepotis | Viri probi, integri | Vidua superstes, Catharina j Johannis Courtman, S.T.B. I Fiha | ConjugaHs affectus monumentum | Posuit j . Obiit Feb. x° | Salutis MDCCXVi I An. aetatis suae Lil." (0
On the north wall, east of the door, is a tablet of white marble, on which is inscribed :—
"Near to this place lieth the body of Thomas Maunsell, Esq., third son of John Maunsell, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Esq. In the year 1728 he became Lord of this manor in pursuance of the will of his dear friend and relation Robert Maunsell, Esq., whose friendship he remem- bered with gratitude and supplied his place with honour till he exchanged this life for a better, September 1739."
(2) The persons commemorated are [l] " Dorothy, wife of Thomas Cecill Maunsell, Esq.," 28 Dec, 1779, aged 52. [2] "Anne, second wife to Thomas Cecill Maunsell, Esq.," 10 Dec. 1794, aged 47. [3] "Thomas Cecil Maunsell, Esq.," 22 Feb, 1815, aged 8S, and Jane, his third wife, 23 Dec. 1800, in her 34th year. [4] " Anne, the da. of Thomas Cecil Maunsell, Esq., and Anne, his wife," 14 Aug. 1808, in her 25th year,
(3) "Northampton Herald," 15 Aug. 1863, in which is given an account of Thorpe Malsor, as also the lengthy monumental inscription to "Robert Maunsell, Esq., a Post Capt. in the Royal Navy, a Companion of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath, and a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital," 24 Aug. 1845, aged 60 ; and those to ' ' Barbara Anne Maunsell, da. of Thomas Philip and Caroline Elizabeth Maunsell," 6 Dec. 1842, aged 17 ; to the "Honourable Caroline Elizabeth Maunsell, wife of the said T. P. Maunsell," 12 March, i860, aged 72, and to " W. T. [i.e. William Thomas] Maunsell" [their eldest son], 13 March, 1S62, aged 49."
86 HISTORY OF MAUNSELL, OR MANSEL.
On a brass plate below the forementioned tablet are the subjoined inscriptions :— " Here lyeth the body of Thomas Maunsell, Esq., third son of John Maunsell, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Esq., who died Sep. 27th, 1739, in the 67th year of his age."
" Here also lieth the body of Thomasin Maunsell, relict of Thomas Maunsell, Esq., who departed this life April 3d 1747, in the 72d year of her age."
Near this place is a loose brass plate with the subjoined [inscription] :— " Under this cell lyeth the body of Catherine, daughter of Thomas and Thomasin Maun- sell (who also lie here) who died ye third day of June 1779, in the 66th year of her age."
CAHIRCONLISH, CO. LIMERICK. A letter from the Rev. Robert John Gabbett, dated 24 April [1869 ?] from Foynes Vicarage, CO. Limerick, states that " In the chancel of Cahir Conlish Church was formerly a tombstone, whose fragments are now in the churchyard ; on these is this inscription : -
"... Aphra Maunsell, my dear mother, daughter of Sir William Crafford, of Kent. Here also lies the body of my deare wife, Mary Maunsell, daughter of George Booth, Esq., of Cheshire, and of my sister Aphra Peacock, and of her daughter Ann Peacock. Erected by me, John Maunsell, Esq., and intended for myself and for my family this 17 of October 1662."
The foregoing article, re Monumental Inscriptions, and its foot notes, were compiled by G, E. Cokayne, Esq., Clarenceux King of Arms, and published in his " Pedigree of Maunsell," a copy of which he kindly presented to me. I am also indebted to him for many other interesting records in this work. — R. G. M.
Thorpe Malsor Church — Side Chapel. Shewing Family Monuments,
MANSEL OF COSGROVE HALL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
John Maunsell, Second son of Richard Maunsell, of Chicheley, born 1539, of Haversham, married Dorothy, dau. of (Samuel) Smyth, by whom, with
Co. Bucks. other issue, he had two sons, Samuel and John. In the
See page 40, chancel of Haversham church there are two sepulchral
brasses, the second exhibiting a human skeleton, with this inscription, viz. — "Here resteth the body of John Maunsell, gent., who de- parted this life the 25th January, 1605, when he had lived LXVI. years, fower months and five days, whose Christian life, and godly end, God grant us all to follow." On two plates or shields at the top of the stone are the arms of Maunsell — a fesse, charged with a mullet, inter three maunches. John, the younger son, matric. Mag. Hall, Oxon, 1600, was Rector of Calverton, Bucks, in 1609, and was buried there in 1640.
Samuel Maunsell, the eldest son, bom 1 581, matric. Oxford 1593-4, Barrister, Mid. Temple, 1608. He married, in 1621, Nightingale, dau. and co-heir of Edward Furtho, of Cosgrove, by Elizabeth, dau. of Geo. Gascoigne, of Co. Hunts, and had issue, viz. : I. Edward, of whom afterwards. II. Thomas, of Wolverton and Stony Stratford, married and had issue,
viz. :
(i) Thomas, in 1645 apprenticed eight years to Thomas Scottle. (2) John, matric. 1662, was Rector of Furtho 1675, and of Cosgrove 1697, where he died and was buried 1729-30, aged 86. III. Christopher, who married, and, with other issue, had a dau., EHzabeth, who married Charles West. She died in 1 710, and her remains were interred in East Cloister of Westminster Abbey.
Mr. Samuel Maunsell died between 1630-35, in or about which latter year his widow married Mr. Francis Longueville, and had further issue by him. Longueville died about 1646, and she died about 1682.
Edward Mansell married Millicent, dau. of Edward Draper, and died about 1696, aged 69 years, leaving issue, viz. : I. Edward, matric. 1677, aged 16, Vicar of Ecclesfield, Yorks, 1693 ; d.s.p. II. John, married Anne Rawlins, and died without male issue.
III. Charles, died unrparried.
IV. Christopher, of whom as follows:
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Christopher Mansel, matric. in 1704, was Rector of Long Newton, Co. Durham, and married, in 171 7, Sarah, dan. and heir of Edward Hoare, and, with other issue, had a son, viz. :
John Mansel, Major-General, Colonel 3rd Dragoon Guards, who, in 1741, of inherited Cosgrove Hall. "He commanded a brigade of
Cosgrove Hall. heavy cavalry in the Duke of York's Campaign in Flanders in 1794, falling gloriously at the battle of Coteau. Having been directed by General Otto to attack the enemy in flank, after some manoeuvres, he came up with the French in the valley of Cawdry, charged, and completely defeated them. He then rushed at the head of his brigade against a battery of fourteen pieces of cannon, which were placed on an eminence behind a deep ravine, into which many of his front rank fell. He passed the ravine, and, at the head of a considerable body of his men, charged the cannon with inconceivable intrepidity, and complete success. His heroic conduct decided the day ; but at the mouth of this battery, after having three horses shot under him, he received his death wound. One grape-shot entered his chest, fracturing his spine, and coming out between his shoulders, while another broke his arm to splinters. His eldest son and aide-de-camp, Capt. Mansel, rushed to his fatlier's aid, but he was wounded and taken prisoner. The General was buried in a redoubt at the head of the camp with all military honors, six Generals (Abercrombie, Dundas, Harcourt, Garth, and Fox) supported tJie pall, and the Duke of York, the Stadtholder, the hereditary Prince of Orange, and all the ofhcers of the army attended the funeral."
"By the above action, 1,500 of the British cavalry gained a complete victory over 22,000 men, in sight of their corps de reserve consisting of 5,000 men and 20 pieces of cannon." — See "Evening Mail," 14 May, 1794, ^^'^ "Times," 26th January, 1855. He married Mary Anne, sister and heir of Robert Biggin, and had issue, viz. :
I. John Christopher, Major, married, in 1795, Maria Antonia, dau. of William Linskill, d. s. p.
II. Robert, Rear Admiral R.N., married, in 1805, Frances Charlotta, dau.
of William Thorold, of Weelsby House, Lincoln, and had issue, viz. :
(i) John Christopher, of Cosgrove Hall, J. P., Northants and Bucks,
and Sheriff in 1858. He married, in 1853, his cousin, Katherine
Margaret, dau. of the Revd. H. L. Mansel, Rector of Cosgrove,
and had issue, viz. :
(a) Frances Charlotta, married Rodney Granville Randolph, son of Admiral Randolph.
(2) Robert Thorold, died young.
(3) Maria Antonia, married, in 1830, Henry Thorold, of Cuxwold,
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III. Christopher, died young.
IV. George, Capt. 25th Light Infantry, died unmarried, on his passage from India, in 1808.
V. Henry Longueville, of whom as follows :
VI. Mar}^ Anne, died unmarried 1801.
Henry Longueville Mansel, Revd., Rector of Cosgrove, and J.P. for the County, married, in 181 5, Maria Margaret, dau. of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, K.C.B , and had issue, viz. :
I. Henry Longueville, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, London. In 1867 he was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was well versed in the erudition of Metaphysical Philosophy, and wrote in a clear and elegant style. His published works were "Aldrich's Logic with Notes," "Prolegomena Logica," article Metaphysics in " Encyclopredia Britannica,"i857 ; and "Bampton Lectures " ; " The Limits of Religious Thought " ; " The Philosophy of the Conditional," etc. He married, in 1855, Charlotte Augusta, dau. of Daniel Taylor, of Clapham Common, and died 30th July, 1871, s. p. 11. Robert Stanley, of whom afterwards.
III. Marianne, married Revd. Geo. Weight.
IV. Eleanor Maria, married Henry Pearson Gates, of Peterborough.
V. Katherine Margaret, married her cousin, John Christopher Mansel, of
Cosgrove Hall. VI. Clarissa, married Alfred Searle.
VII. Henrietta, died unmarried.
Robert Stanley Mansel, married Anna Louisa, dau. of Revd. Geo. Preston, and had issue, viz. :
I. George Christopher, emigrated to the United States. II. Henry Gates (deceased).
III. William Robert, emigrated to the United States.
IV. Robert Stanley, settled in South West Africa. V. Edward Longueville, M.D., London.
VI. Constantine Richard, settled in South Africa. VII. Marianne. VIII. Eleanor Maria. IX. Edith Frances, married Hermann Edward Mylius. X. Constance Emma. XI. Evelyn Amy. XIl. Margaret Anna.
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HISTORY OF MAUNSKLL, OR MANSEL,
TABLET IN THE NAVE OF COSGROVE CHURCH.
IN MEMORY OF
Major General John Mansel,
Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards,
Killed in the act of charging the French Artillery.
Buried on the Field of Battle, 26th April, 1794.
ALSO IN MEMORY OF
Mary Ann Mansel, Wife of the above,
and only daughter of John Biggin, Esq.,
of Cosgrove Priory. Died 14th March, 1790.
Aged 38 years.
IN MEMORY OF
John Christopher Mansel,