WALFORD OF WOLVERTON

originally OF WALFORD AND ASTLEY

Family of Jack & Diana Walford of Wolverton

   

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LT.-COL. JOHN HERBERT (JACK) WALFORD, D.S.O. (1943) and Bar (1944), (1900 – 1976) (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 18th Edn. Vol. I, 1965, Walford of Wolverton, and Alastair Borthwick, Sans Peur, Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1946), of The Old House, Wolverton, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and later of Arlington Lodge, Bibury, Gloucestershire, joined Kings Royal Rifle Corps. 1920, transferred to Seaforth Highlanders 1923, Capt. 1929, served in India 1929-30, North West Frontier Medal, Adjutant 1931-33, Depot, Seaforth Highlanders, Fort George, 1933-34, Instructor, R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1935-38, Maj. 1938, ret. Jan. 1939, re-joined Sept.1939, served in World War II 1939-45 (mentioned in dispatches), in France 1939-40, Depot, Fort George 1940-41, Middle East and Italy 1941-44, Lt.-Col. 1943 commanded 5th Seaforth Highlanders 1943-45, in France 1944-45, commanded 9th Seaforth Highlanders 1945-46, 10th Blackwatch 1946-47, Commandant and G.S.O.I, Military School of Intelligence 1947-48, demobilized 1948, M.F.H. (Master of Foxhounds) West Street Foxhounds 1931-33, The Old Berks 1938-39, and The Vine 1949-52, Chairman, South of England Hereford Breeders Association, 1958-60, Hereford Breed Council, 1961-63,  b. 4 May 1900,  educ.. Harrow, and R.M.C., Sandhurst, m.10 Oct 1939, Diana Myrtle (13 Feb 1918 - 8 June 2001), M.F.H., The Vine, 1939-40, elder daughter of Sir Strati Ralli, 2nd. Bt., M.C. (1876-1964) (see Burke’s Peerage, 105th Ed., 1970, Ralli, Bt.), of Beaurepaire Park, Bramley, Hants., High Sheriff of Hampshire 1943, and d. 7 Feb. 1976, leaving issue,

Lieut_Col. Jack (1900-1976) and Diana (1918-2001) Walford, of The Old House, Wolverton, Hampshire.

Jack and Diana Walford left issue:

I.  MICHAEL CARR (BOY) of The Old House, Wolverton, Tadley, Hants. RG26 5RS), b. 11 March 1943, educ. Harrow, and Royal Agric. Coll., Cirencester.

Michael Carr Walford (1943- ), of The Old House, Wolverton, Hampshire.

II.  Ewan John (203 W. Prairie Ave., Wheaton, Illinois 60187, USA), b. 16 Feb.1945, educ. Harrow,

Law School (London & Guildford), & the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Speelman Fellow for Dutch

& Flemish Art, Wolfson Coll., Cambridge, 1976-80, Ph.D., Cambridge 1981, Asst. Prof. of Art

History & Dept. Chair, Wheaton College, Illinois 1981, Assoc. Prof. 1986, Prof. 1997, author of

Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape (New Haven & London: Yale U. Pr., 1991)

Great Themes in Art (Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2002), and with Franco Vaccaneo &  Maria

Walford_Dellu’, & Immagini fotografiche di David Wittig, Alchimia degli Elementi: Sui sentieri di

Cesare Pavese, (Pieraldo Ediitore: Roma, 2006); m. 16 Dec. 1972, Maria (b. 1938, educ. Univ. of

Lausanne [licence ès lettres, ’70], Univ. of Chicago [Ph.D., 2002]), only dau. of the late Pietro

Angelo Eligio Dellù (1907-1975) of Milan, by his late wife, Angelica (1909-1969), dau. of Carlo

Quaroni (1861-1943), of Marcignago, Pavia, Italy, and has issue,

E. John (1945-  ) and Maria (1938-  ) Walford, of Wheaton, Illinois, USA.  (Right photograph by Gregory Halvorsen Schreck, of Wheaton College, Illinois).

E. John and Maria Walford have issue:

1.  Samuel Michael (812 Wandering Way Drive, Waxhaw, NC 28173), b. 14 Dec. 1973, educ. Wheaton Coll. (BA, ’96), Western Carolina Univ. (MA, ’99), Research Program Coordinator, Divn. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical Instit., 2000--2006, Clinical Research Coordinator, Piedmont Neuropsychiatry, Charlotte, NC, 2006-2007; Project Manager, Project On TRAC, College of Health and Human Services, Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2007- present;  m. 20 June 1998, Ginger Elizabeth (b. 1975, educ. Wheaton Coll. [BA, ’97], Western Carolina Univ. [BS, 2000], Univ. of Maryland [D.D.S., 2006]), elder dau. of John Bewick Gouch, DDS., of Charlotte, North Carolina, by his wife Betty Jean, dau. of James Robert Davis, of Oxford, North Carolina, and has issue,

1a. William John, b. 24 Nov. 2000.

2a.  Andrew Harvey, b. 20 Nov. 2003.

     3a.  Christopher David, b. 14 July 2005

     4a. Peter Samuel, b. 7 February 2008

              1a.  Elizabeth Maria, b. 12 June 2002.

2a. Carolina Sophia, b. 16 Aug. 2006.

2.  David John (126 W. Franklin St., Wheaton, Illinois 60187), b. 29 June 1980,  educ. Wheaton Coll. (B.A.

2002, M.A. 2006), Assistant Coach, Track & Cross-Country, Wheaton College, Il., 2005--present,

Programs Manager, Sports & Recreation Complex, Wheaton College, 2006--present. He m. 25 May

2002, Aimee Merie (b. 1980, educ. Wheaton Coll. [BA, 2002, M.A. 2006]), only dau. of Paul Milton Swan,

of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, by his wife Kathleen Merie, only child of the late Emil Korthals, of Chicago,

Illinois.

1.  Deborah Maria (905 Appomattox Circle, Naperville, Illinois 60540), b. 26 March 1978, educ. Wheaton

Coll. (BS, Mathematics & Spanish, 2000), North Central Coll. (MA, Curriculum &  Instruction, 2004, MA.

Educational Leadership & Administration, 2006), Teacher of Mathematics, Naperville Central High School,

Illinois, 2001- present. She m. 29 October 2005, Jeffrey Leonard Danbom (b. 1977, educ. Northern

Illinois University BS, Mathematics,  North Central Coll.  MA, Curriculum &  Instruction, 2007; Teacher

of Mathematics, Naperville Central High School, Illinois,2003- present) only son of Bruce Dana Danbom,

of Wheaton, Illinois, by his wife Patricia Marie, daughter of George Robert Berg, of Chicago, Illinois.

I.  Belinda Mary (8 St. Mary Abbot’s Terrace, London W14 8NX), b. 21 April  1941, florist, m. 23 Sept. 1961

(marr. diss. by div. 1968), John William Hayter, only son of the late Charles William John Hugh Hayter, of

Pudlicote House, Chilson, Oxfordshire, and has issue,

Sarah Miranda  (The Old House, Wolverton, Tadley, Hants. RG26 5RS), b. 13 Sept. 1964, m. 28 Oct 1989,

Angus Murray Sladen, of The Old House, Wolverton, Tadley, Hants, only child of the late S/Ldr. Algernon

Ivan (Toby) Sladen, DSO, RAFVR, of  Baughurst, Hants, and Glencarron, Ross-shire, Scotland (see Burke’s

Landed Gentry, 18th Edn. Vol. I, 1965, Sladen formerly of Ripple Court), by his wife Dorviegelda Malvina,

widow of S/Ldr. Hon. Robert Alexander Greville Baird, RAF (see Burke’s Peerage, 105th Ed., 1970,

Stonehaven,V.), and only dau. of the late Alexander Ronald (Alasdair) MacGregor, JP, of Cardney, Dunkeld,

Perthshire, Scotland (see Burke’s Peerage, 105th Ed., 1970, MacGregor of MacGregor, Bt.) and has issue,

1a. Archie Jack Murray, b. 28 June 1996.

1a. Olivia Henrietta Malvina, b. 24 June 1992.

2a. Georgina Ann Diana, b. 23 March 1994

She m. 2ndly, 28 May 1986, Colin Norman McCorquodale, only son of the late Major Angus McCorquodale,

by his wife, Pamela Constance, yngr. dau. of Norman McCorquodale, OBE, of Winslow Hall, Bucks. (see

Burke’s Peerage, 105th Ed., 1970, McCorquodale of Newton, B.).

Belinda (Bindy) (1941-  ), only daughter of Jack & Diana Walford, and her husband, Colin McCorquodale (1938-  ), at his 70th Birthday celebration, The English Speaking Union, Dartmouth House, London, 2008.

Lt.-Col. Jack Walford d. 7 Feb., 1976, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Michael Carr (Boy) Walford.

Lineage—This family was long thought to descend from the Walfords of Walford, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 18th edn., Vol. I, 1965, Walford of Wolverton; see also Burke’s Landed Gentry, 15th (Centenary) edn., 1937, Walford of Arle Bury, and Burke’s Landed Gentry, revised 1st edn., Vol. II, 1847, where this view was first published in detail). Modern research has proved that this is not the case, since this family appears to have taken their name from the land they owned as early as 1250 that lies much further north, in Shropshire, in and around the village of Walford (near Baschurch and Myddle), which was so-called at Domesday. They continued to own land in the immediate area, from c. 1250 until c. 1750, and some of it until 1937. The record here set forth attempts to correct these earlier errors, which the author (Ewan John Walford) regrets having taken at face value and repeated in the ignorance of youth for the 1965 edition of Burke’s Landed Gentry.

Others bearing the name Walford (and possibly branches of the Shropshire family here treated) settled elsewhere in Shropshire, mostly further to the south-east, where they are recorded as landowners in Alveley and Bobbington, near Bridgenorth [see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1st, & 18th edns.]. Walfords are also found further south, at Salwarpe, in Worcestershire, where they possessed considerable property. Since their direct link to the Walfords of Walford in Shropshire is difficult to prove with certainty, they have been excluded from the following genealogy. But that they are descended from this family remains a strong probability.

The name also occurs yet a little further east, near Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, where Walfords are first recorded in 1332 owning land, which they held for many centuries thereafter, at Wolverton, Claverdon, and Binton Manors (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 18th edn., Vol. I, 1965). Whether this Warwickshire family is a branch of the original Walfords of Walford in Shropshire, here treated, is hard to prove with certainty. Indeed, it is all-the-more questionable since all of these manors lie close to Welford-on-Avon, and a corruption of Welford into Walford is a distinct possibility. They have therefore been excluded from the following genealogy.

Nicolas de Walford, and the heirs of Walter le Fleming (fl. c. 1190-1230). The village of Walford in Shropshire has a brook running through it, called Warbrook, its ford providing the name Warford, later Walford. The first recorded members of this family appear in land deeds about 1250. Around 1250, Nicholas de Walford is recorded as holding land in the fee of Stanwardine-in-the-Fields (which comprised three manors in and around Baschurch and Myddle), adjacent to Walford. He is assumed to have acquired this land--as did others in the same knight’s fee of Stanwardine--through marriage with one of the descendants of the six co-heirs of a great feudal lord, Walter le Fleming (see Eyton’s History of Shropshire).  Walter le Fleming lived in the reigns of Richard I (1189-1199), John (1199-1216), and early in the reign of Henry III (1216-1272). For several generations thereafter, members of the Walford family appear in the records along with others who acquired portions of the same land through marriage with the descendants of the co-heirs of said Walter le Fleming. In 1256, Nicholas de Walford sued Gilbert de Buckenhill and others for disseizing him of a tenement and property in Walford. In 1260, Nicholas de Walford sued Robert de Bollers (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Childe of Kinlet), and others for disseizing him of property in the Manor of Walford, in the fee of Stanwardine.

From other records, it appears that the Walford family held a half-share in the Manor of Walford, the heirs of Robert de Bollers, the other half, both shares derived from Walter le Fleming. Thus, in 1283, William fitz Baldwin, otherwise de Bollers (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Childe of Kinlet), and his wife Sibil (dau. of Sir Philip de Hugford, by his wife, Sibil, dau. of  Cecilia, one of the six co-heirs of Walter le Fleming), transferred half of the manor of Walford, in the Fee of Stanwardine to Eva, wife of Walter de Drayton (who d.s.p. before 1292). She then married Richard Hord. In this way, the Walford and Hord families came to own equal shares in the manor of Walford. The Hord’s share descended to Margaret, dau. and heir of John Hord, who m. Griffith Kynaston of Stocks, seneschal of the Lordship of Ellesmere, in reign of Henry VI (1422-61), and was enjoyed by the descendants of their eldest son, Philip Kynaston (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Kynaston of Hardwick). The Walford’s share in the Manor of Walford was last recorded as being held by William Walford, early in the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547).

Richard and Ralph, sons of Philip, Priest of Walford, appear in a land deed of 1255 that records their granting rents off land to Haughmond Abbey, Salop, in return for the monk’s intercession for their souls. (The deed was witnessed by Sir Thomas de Rossall, Sir Vivian, his son, and Sir Philip Hugeford [another of those who married an heir of Walter le Fleming, and perhaps, therefore, their relative, see above]. In other records Richard is described as simply Richard de Walford. He made a further bequest to Haughmond Abbey, witnessed by Thomas deMuridon. In yet another deed, these individuals are identified as Nicolas, Philip, and Richard and Ralph, the sons of Philip the Priest, all of Walford.

Ruins of Haughmond Abbey, to which the Walford family gave rents off land in the thirteenth century.

Thereafter, Walter de Walford (b. c. 1250) is recorded in 1282 as holding lands in Walford and in the manor of Astley, to the east of Walford. Between 1270-72 he was involved in litigation, over ownership of the Manor of Culmington, Salop, with Margaret, widow of Walter de Clifford of Clifford Castle, and daughter of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales (d. 1264), and later also in litigation with Sir Roger de Clifford (see Burke’s Peerage, Clifford, B).

In 1319 Richard de Walford of Astley is murdered, and his widow, Alice, appeals against Richard Gamel, and his brother John, both of Astley, for the death of herhusband. John de Bromfield and William de Weston were commissioned to try the matter.

In 1323, a Walter de Walford is accused of being an adherent of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, of Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, over a plot to share in the inheritance of Gilbert de Clare, 9th Earl of Gloucester.  Walter de Walford escaped by taking refuge in Leominster Priory, Salop, to the south of Culmington Manor, over which the previously mentioned Walter de Walford was involved in litigation.

In 1327, John de Walford is recorded as both holding the manor of Walford, and as Chaplain of Astley. A document of this date, pertaining to lands in Astley, bears his seal, comprising his coat-of-arms, namely, what appears to be a chevron between three lions rampant, with “John de Walford” inscribed around its circumference.[Research into possible affinity of his coat of arms to the coat of arms of another established family in that area might reveal from what family those who, in records, were first called simply “de Walford” sprung].

Grant of Houses and Lands in Le Mere, Baschurch, Shropshire, by John de Walleford, 1327, and sealed with his armorial l seal, a chevron between three lions rampant, with John de Walleford inscribed around the perimeter.

In 1327 John de Walford held land in the Manor of Onslow, St. Chad, Salop.

In the 1327 Stephen de Walford was assessed in the Lay Subsidy Roll for Salop (Shropshire), for land in the manor of Walford, in which he held an equal share with Richard Hord, as in the time of Nicholas de Walford.

Also in 1327, Henry de Walford held Smethcote, in the manor of Hadnell (adjoining Astley) , also within the fee of Stanwardine-in-the-Fields, land that the family continued to hold until c. 1750.

Robert de Walford, of the manor of Astley, and his wife Agnes, are recorded as the parents of Richard de Walford, M.P., member of parliament for Shrewsbury, 1330.

In 1330, Thomas de Walford, also of Astley, is mentioned in a grant of land of his uncle, John de Walford, chaplain of Astley.

In 1330 Richard de Walford of Astley, was appointed Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury, sitting at Westminster. In 1340, he was appointed Commissioner for Salop, and, in 1350, Collector of Subsidy for Salop.  In 1356 he was murdered by John de Stockton and John Hord (see further, below).

In 1331, when the king seized the lands of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March ( of whom Walter de Walford had been accused in 1323 of being an adherent (see above), Richard de Walford, Fulk le Fitz Waryn, and Thomas de Wynnesburg le Futz gave security for the rents to be paid to the Royal Exchequer, and promised that if they were not paid, the same could be levied from their own lands.

In 1333 and 1334, Richard de Walford and Richard Hord got into a dispute over their co-shares to land in Myddle (see above, under Nicholas de Walford). Nicholas, Abbot of Haughmond Abbey, and Sir John le Strange, Lord of Myddle, were appointed to mediate their differences. In 1340, Richard de Walford was appointed a Commissioner for Salop with John de Leyburn, Roger Corbet of Caus Castle (see Burke’s Peerage, Corbet, Bt.) and Robert de Harleye, to array the men of Salop and to keep the peace. In 1341, these same Commisioners, with Robert Corbet in place of Robert de Harleye, were ordered by the King to discover what part of Hampton by Culmere, Salop, was in the King’s Lordship, and what in the Lordship of Ebulo Le Strange, Lord of Ellesmere, whom the King accused of usurping the greater part of the town, and so effecting the tax coming to the King. In 1342 Richard de Walford, together with John Le Strange, Lord of Whitchurch, Henry de Mortimer, and Malculm de Harleye, was commissioned to discover who drowned John Hackette, late parson of Whethill, Salop. In 1350, Richard de Walford, Richard de Hugeford and two others were appointed by the King Collectors of Subsidy for Salop. In 1356 Richard de Walford was murdered by John de Stockton and John Hord, with whose family Richard had earlier been in dispute (see above). John Hord obtained a pardon from King Edward III, through Ralph, Earl of Stafford, in whose service he had done good service in the wars abroad. In 1363 John Hord died in Burgundy, fighting for the King, who then ordered that no harm should come to his widow, Margaret, for the murder of Richard de Walford.

William de Walford is recorded in the retinue of Edward, the Black Prince (1330-76), son of Edward III, and hero of Crecy and Poitiers.

John de Walford, Lieutenant of Roger (de) Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, Keeper of Clarendon Park and Forest, in 1354 supervised the cutting of wood and the enclosing of areas of the forest and park. In 1356 he was given by Edward III a grant for life of ten pounds yearly, out of the issues of Wilts. In 1362, this was altered, by letters patent, to come likewise out of the issues of Salop. In 1357 he obtained for Henry de Shipton of Salop a pardon from the King for the murder of John Aas. In 1382, the Sheriff of Hereford was given a commission to arrest certain peoples outlawed in Salop for disseizing John de Walford of the Manor of Brocton, Staffs.

Richard (de) Walford, of Walford and Astley, the first recorded to drop the “de”, is recorded in 1369 and 1371 in various charters relating to property in Astley. He also acquired the Manor of Oaks, nr. Wrentnall, south-west of Shrewsbury, and a residence, called Walford House, at Dorrington, also near Wrentnall.

William Walford, of Walford House, near Oaks, owned land passed down from Richard de Walford, M.P. (murdered 1356), and was a Commissioner at Chirbury, under the Castle of Montgomery, in 1342. He also acquired an estate at Alveley, Salop. He died before 31 Dec 1420, leaving issue:

Robert Walford, of whom presently.

William Walford, Clericus. In 1401 a license was granted for him to give lands in

Shrewsbury to certain chaplains, who were to celebrate divine service daily in the

church of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, for the good estate of him, Richard Hord and

Margaret his wife. In 1413 he gave part of his paternal property at Alveley, Salop, to

the Abbey of St. Peter’s, Shrewsbury. He was Vicar of Norton-in-Hales 1401-04, of

Myddle, nr. Baschurch 1404-08, of Donnington 1408-12, and of Upton Magna

(Great Upton) 1412-34, when he resigned.

The elder son,

   Robert Walford of Walford House, near Oaks. On 31 Dec. 1420, he gave to John Okes, son of Roger Okes of Okes, and Christina his wife, all his lands, etc., in the township and fields of Oakes, which he had inherited from his father, William Walford. On 9th March 1421/22 William Smethcote and William Webbe, Chaplain, gave to John Walker, son of David Walker of Lee, a messuage and one and one-half virgates of land in Wrentnall with a reversion to Robert Walford and his heirs for ever. Roberts’s seal was the sign of an anchor.

John Walford, Yeoman of the King’s Chamber. (His relationship, if any, to these other Walfords is unclear). In 1468, Edward IV granted him for life the office of the custody of the King’s Goal, Ilchester, Somerset, with the accustomed profits. In 1468 (or ’67) he was pardoned by the King for the escape of some prisoners, as he had been on the King’s service in the North, with Sir William de Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, Lord Chamberlain and a great favorite of the king. (see Burke’s Peerage, Huntingdon, E.). In 1470 the King granted him for life the office of Bailiff of the King’s Lordship of Fordington, Dorset, with the accustomed fees from the Lordship and all profits. In 1471 he was made Steward of Eastpurbike Manor, Dorset and Seven Haughton Denys Manor, Somerset.

William Walford is recorded as being given Hordley Manor (north of Walford) by John Hordeley, late of Shrewsbury. In 1438 it was seized by the king, as being an illegal transaction, and in 1441 there was an inquisition to discover who had the right to the manor, as a result of which William Walford was ejected.

WILLIAM WALFORD is recorded as holding the manor of Walford, near Myddle, early in the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547). The succession of this property from the Walfords mentioned above to him is unclear, since members of the family occur in the records with respect to other land transactions, while the record is silent on their share of the manor of Walford. One may perhaps surmise that there had been no disputes over this land, give its now ancient tenure by members of the family. William Walford also purchased the estate of Smethcote, in the parish of Myddle, adjoining Walford, but part of the manor of Hadnall, which is earlier recorded as owned by Henry de Walford in 1327 (see above). He m. Margaret (bur.  at  Myddle, 19 April 1547), and died, early in the reign of Henry VIII, leaving issue:

WILLIAM WALFORD, of Smethcote, Myddle, mentioned in the State Papers of Henry VIII in 1545, part of his land being held in chief from the King. He left issue,

RICHARD, of whom presently.

William, who settled at Pattingham, m. and had issue.

Roger, who settled in Shifnal, m. and had issue, from whom sprung a line of flourishing tailors and small landowners.

Adam d.s.p. 1586.

In 1525, Thomas Walford, perhaps related to above, was assigned by Richard Wantenar two mills at Walcott (south-east of Myddle, Walford and Astley), leased in 1490 from Richard, late Abbot of the suppressed Abbey of Haughmond, and by 1544 Thomas Walford assigned them to Thomas Eyton of Hales.

   

RICHARD WALFORD of Smethcote, Myddle (eldest son of William of Smethcote). m. Mary__,(? or Katherine [d. 1601]) and was  bur. at Myddle 14 Sept 1590, leaving issue,

WILLIAM, of whom presently.

John, bapt. At Myddle 10 July 1569.

III.  Roger, d. 1599.

Elizabeth, m. 1569 Thomas Arrowsmith, of St. Alkmund, Salop, and had issue.

Anne, m. ___  Heywey, and had issue.

III. Margery, m. 1588 John Edwards, of Baschurch.

The eldest son,

WILLIAM WALFORD, of Smethcote, m. Joan ____ (who m. 2ndly, at Myddle, 5 Aug. 1605, Roger Whieth, of Ellesmere, Salop), and was bur. at Myddle, 5 April 1601. Settlement of his estate shows that he held part of his land under Sir Basil Brake, Kt. William Walford left issue,

Richard, of Smethcote, b. 1591, m., and had issue with whom the Smethcote estate

remained until the extinction of the line, c. 1760.

William, of Lee Brockhurst (4.5 miles north-east of Myddle), mentioned in his

father’s will, 1601, and in 1625 as trustee, overseer and witness to the will of his brother, George, of Hodnet (4.5 miles north-east of Lee Brockhurst). He m. and had issue,

William, of Lee Brockhurst, m. Catherine ____, d.  7 March 1665 and was bur.

at Lee Brockhurst, 9 March 1665, leaving issue:

1a. William, of Lee Brockhurst, m. Eleanor___ (d.  1696), and d. 28 April 1696,

and was buried at Lee Brockhurst, leaving issue (with a dau., Katherine, b. 1657),

William, of Lee Brockhurst and Wem, bapt. at Lee Brockhurst 8 Aug. 1661, Church Warden of Lee Brockhurst, 1711, in 1721 entered a mortgage agreement with the Rt. Hon. Richard Hill, P.C. of Attingham (see Burke’s Peerage, Hill, V.) for one thousand pounds to purchase property in Wem. He m. at Lee Brockhurst, 20 Sept 1698,  Jane (bur. at Lee Brockhurst 19 March 1706), dau. of Thomas Morhall of St. Alkmund’s and Prees, Salop, and his wife Mary Roe. [In the 14thc., the Morhall family had succeeded to the estates of Walter de Beysin, 2nd Lord of Broseley, etc. Jane Morhall, wife of William Walford, was the great-aunt of Richard Morhall of Onslow Park, Sheriff of Salop, 1770, for whose family, see George Morris, Pedigrees of Salop Families.] William Walford was bur. at Lee Brockhurst 22 March 1724, leaving issue (with a son George and a dau. Jane),

1c. William, of Aston, Wem, b. 19 July 1699  at Lee Brockhurst. He m. at

Newton, 5 July 1718, Anne, dau. of Edward Muckleston of

Merrington, Salop, whose family also held their lands in descent from

Walter le Fleming (see above, and see also George Morris, Pedigrees of

Salop Families.). William Walford predeceased his father, and was bur at

Lee Brockhurst, 4 Sept. 1722, having had issue, one son, and two daus.,

who d. young.

2c. Thomas, of Wem and Lee Brockhurst,  bapt. at Lee Brockhurst 8 June

1701, Patron of the Living of Lee Brockhurst, mentioned in a document

of 8 Oct 1762 addressed to the Lord Chancellor, as guarantor, with John

Henshaw of Wem, for one thousand pounds, for the payment of rents

by Charles Bolas of Shrewsbury, on behalf of John Newport, who had

gone insane. He m. Anne ___, who owned properties in Ellesmere, Wem,

Edstaston, and in Denbeighshire, whose titles are preserved in the Salop

County Record Office. He was bur. at Wem, 18 Sept. 1769, leaving issue,

1d.  William, bapt. Wem 16 March 1726, mentioned in the will of his

brother Richard in 1765. He m. and had issue,

1e.  Thomas, mentioned in the will of his aunt, Mary Walford, of

                            Wem, in 1811.

               2d.  John, bur. at Lee Brockhurst, 9 Nov. 1729.

3d.  Richard, bapt. at Wem, 17 Aug. 1737, twin to his sister

Catherine,  d.s.p. and bur. at Wem, 20 Sept. 1764.

4d.  George, of Ruyton Park and Ruyton Lodge (2.5 miles west of

Walford and Baschurch, neighboring Stanwardine-in-the-Fields), also

of Wem, and Lee Brockhurst, Patron of the Living of Lee Brockhurst,

and Lay Rector, 1778.  He also owned lands in Aston, Kenston,

Eaton-on-Tern, Stoke-on-Tern, and Edstaston [the latter probably

inherited from his mother]. Bapt. at Wem, 1 Aug. 1739, m. there, 29

April 1765, Rebecca (bur. at Wem, 3 March 1805) dau. of John

Henshaw of Wem (by his wife Beatrice), and, with her sister, Jane

Nickson of Wem, and sister Beatrice Wycherley, of Wycherley Hall,

sister and co-heiress of her brother, John Henshaw of Wem, attorney

-at-law (d.s.p.  1801), and of the Henshaw family, formerly of

Henshaw, Cheshire (arms: Arg., a chevron between three heronshaws

sable). Having given five hundred acres at Ruyton to his eldest son,

Thomas Walford, before 1799, on which the family subsequently built

Ruyton Towers, George Walford d. 1821, leaving issue,

Ruyton Park, Shropshire, as seen from Ruyton Towers, built in 1860 by his great-grandson, John Henshaw  Nickson Walford

George Walford (1739-1821) of Ruyton Lodge and Park, left issue:

1e.  Thomas. Bapt. at Wem, 19 May 1766, d. an infant, bur. there

                             12 Jan 1770.

2e.  Thomas, of Ruyton Lodge and Wem, bapt. at Wem, 24 Nov.

1772, m, in 1799, Mary Elizabeth (d.s.p. 1844), only surviving

child and heiress of Thomas Whilton of Ellesmere. She brought

the Walford and Barker families (see below) extensive properties

in Salop, Denbeighshire, and Flint, viz. The Squennon (or

Squenant) estate in Llansilin & Llangadwaladr, Denbeigh, Llwyn

-y-maen Hall on the River Morda, with property in Oswestry,

Horsley Hall, Allington Hall,, on the River Alyn, and Marford

Hall, all in Gresford, nr. Wrexham, and land and houses in

Ellesmere. Thomas Walford  d.s.p. c. 1820, when his will was

                             proved.

3e.  John Henshaw, of Aston Hall, Lee Brockhurst and Wem,

attorney-at-law. Bapt. at Wem, 1 Nov. 1774, m. at Wem, 28 Nov.

1804, Dorothy, dau. of Thomas Dickin of Wem Hall and

Loppington,  High Sheriff of Salop, 1799 ( see Burke’s Landed

Gentry, Dickin of Loppington), by his wife Sarah, dau. and heiress

of Roger Atcherley of The Cross, Ellesmere (see Burke’s Landed

Gentry: Atcherley of Marton). John Henshaw Walford d.  6 Sept.

                             1836, leaving issue,

1f.  John Henshaw, of Ruyton Lodge, and Roden House,

Wem, and Lee Brockhurst, where he was Patron of the Living,

J.P. for Salop., bapt. at Wem, 3 Sept. 1807, educ.  Shrewsbury,

and St. John’s College, Cambridge, m. 10 Oct. 1832 Mary (d.

18 Dec. 1907), dau. and heiress of Johnathon Nickson of

Wem, attorney-at-law. (Johnathon Nickson of Whitchurch,

Salop, bore the arms: a chevron between three sheaves of

corn). There are two large memorials to the Walford and

Nickson families in the churchyard at Wem. John Henshaw

Walford  d.  20 Oct. 1865, leaving issue,

1g.  John Henshaw Nickson, of Roden House, Ruyton

Towers (now Manor), and Lee Brockhurst, where he was

Patron of the Living. He also resided at Treago, St.

Weonard’s, Ross, Herefordshire, the ancestral castle of the

Mynors family, until he had completed his own castle-like

mansion at Ruyton, b. Wem, 3 Dec. 1836, educ. Christ

Church, Oxford, M.A. 1861. J.P. for Herefordshire 1865,

and for Salop from 1871 onward. Chairman of the

Oswestry Highway Board. Chairman of the Ruyton Parish

Council, and Member of the Oswestry District Council.

President of the Salop Chamber of Agriculture and a

member of the Joint Committee for Salop. In 1860, he

started building “The Towers” on the Ruyton Lodge estate,

a startling piece of nineteenth-century Castle building: red

sandstone, broad façade, with turrets, towers and

embattlements high above elaborate garden terraces. A

fuller description is given in Nicholas Pevsner’s The

Buildings of England—Shropshire, and a photograph of it

accompanies one of its owner, and a biography, in two

volumes entitled Shropshire—Biographical. He m., 1stly,

11 Sept 1862, Mary, daughter and heiress of William

Staley of Thistlemount, Rossendale, Lancashire, who d.

Jan 1900, having had issue,

Ruyton Towers, Shropshire, built by John Henshaw Nickson Walford in 1860, on land acquired by his great-grandfather, George Walford, in the 1770s.

John H.N. Walford of Ruyton Towers left issue:

1h.  John Ashton Henshaw, D.S.O., b. 4 Nov. 1864.

Lieut. In Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Colonel of

Bechuanaland Police. Went through the siege of

Mafeking, and d.s.p. 3 June 1903, at sea, as a result of

severe suffering endured in the siege.

2h.  Thomas Walford Henshaw, of Ruyton Towers

and Roden House, Wem,  b. 1866. He adopted, 21

April 1886 the name of ASHTON. He m. Edna

Holland, and d. 13 July 1914, at 4 Upper Wimpole

Street, London.

1h.  Mary Joan Henshaw.

     John Henshaw Nickson Walford m., 2ndly, 4 Feb 1902,

     Emily de Courcy, widow of Bernard Pauncefote, and

dau. of the Rev. Robert Baker, of Ayot St. Lawrence,

Herts. As late as 1937, she, as his widow, was Patron of

the Living of Lee Brockhurst. He died, 31 July 1910.

1g.  Mary Dorothy, m. the Rev. John Wright, Vicar of

     Grinshill, Salop.

          2g. Sarah Helen (Borgates House, Whitchurch, Salop), m.

the Rev. John Lee, in 1914, late Vicar of Tilstock.

1f.  Sarah Rebecca, bapt. at Wem, 18 June 1806, m. Henry

John Barker of Northwood Hall and Wem, Solicitor. He was

the Walford family solicitor, and many of his records relating

to the Walford and Barker families were deposited in the

Salop County  Record Office. She d. 1854. In 1873 all the

Whilton property, inherited through the Walfords (see above),

was sold, and in 1874 Northwood Hall was sold. He d. in 1872,

                                 leaving issue,

1g.  Thomas John Barker, who d. 1865, predeceasing his

father, leaving the Whilton family property, inherited

through the Walfords, to his wife and children.

2g.   Walford Henry Barker, who inherited property in

Wem from the Walford family. He d. 1869, predeceasing

                                      his father.

1g.   Beatrice Mary Anne, b. 1830. She inherited from

Mary Elizabeth Walford (née Whilton), as well as part of

the Whilton family property, something that had belonged

to her great-grandfather, George Walford, of Ruyton and

Wem (1739-1821). She m 1857 Hyde Whalley-Tooker of

Hinton House, Hinton Daubrey, Hants, Anmore Manor

and Horndean, Hants, and Norton Hall, Somerset (b. 26

Dec 1825), eldest surviving son of Hyde Salmon Whalley

-Tooker, of Norton Hall and Hinton Daubrey Park (see

Burke’s Landed Gentry, revised 1st edn, Vol. II, 1847,

Tooker of Norton Hall). The Walford-Whilton property

settled on her at the time of her marriage was all sold.

They had (with other issue),

1h.  Hyde Salmon Whalley-Tooker of Hinton

Daubrey and Norton Hall, who had his own pack of

harriers in the 1880s and ‘90s, and was M.F.H. of the

Hambledon Hunt, 1900-1907 (see Brig.-Gen. J.F.R.

Hope, The History of Hampshire).

2h.  Francis Whalley-Tooker, who carried the horn,

when his brother was M.F.H. of the Hambledon Hunt,

1900-1907(see Brig.-Gen. J.F.R. Hope, The History of

Hampshire).

          4e.   George, b. 4 July 1786, d. an infant, bur. at Wem, 21 May 1791.

5e.   Richard, of Wem, b. at Wem, 17 May 1788, d.s.p. 16 Sept. 1828.

1e.  Anne, of Wem, bapt. 23 April 1770, lived, in Wem High Street, with her sister, Beatrice, and her widowed sister-in-law, Mary Elizabeth, widow of their brother, Thomas Walford (1772-1820), and d. unmarr.

2e.  Rebecca, bapt. at Wem, 17 June 1777, m. there 15 May 1810, George Nevill Adams, of Christ Church, Surrey, and she d. before 1821, leaving issue,

1f.   Rebecca Elizabeth Adams, mentioned in the will of her grandfather, George Walford of Ruyton and Wem (1739-1821)

          3e. Beatrice, lived with her sister Anne, in Wem (see above), d.

unmarr. 1842.

5d.  Thomas, mentioned in the will of his brother Richard, in 1765.

1d.  Anne, bapt. at Wem, 18 March 1728, m. at Wem, 24 April 1756

John Kilvert of Grinshill, Shrewsbury, Salop, the eldest son of

John Kilvert of Grinshill, and his wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Russell,

of The Clive (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Kilvert-Minor-Adams of

Grinshill). Anne d. 17 Feb 1791, leaving (with other issue),

1e.  John Kilvert of Grinshill, bapt. 24 July 1764, m. 18 Aug. 1792, Catherine, dau. and heiress of the Rev. William Clarke, B.A., Rector of Moreton Corbet, by Catherine his wife, dau. of Andrew Corbet, of Moreton Corbet and Shawbury Park ( see Burke’s Peerage, Corbet, Bt.), and they d., leaving issue (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1952 Edn., Kilvert-Minor-Adams of Grinshill).

     2d.  Catherine, bapt. at Wem ,17 Aug. 1737 (twin with Richard), m. at

Wem, 17 Feb 1778, George Dickin, the younger son of Thomas Dickin

of Aston Hall, and his wife, Anne Groome, widow, dau. of John Birch of

Lee. [George was the brother of Thomas Dickin of Wem Hall and

Loppington Hall, High Sheriff of Salop, 1799, whose dau. Dorothy m.

John Henshaw Walford (see above, and see also Burke’s Landed Gentry,

1952 Edn., Dickin of Loppington). In 1800, Catherine stood witness to the

will of Mary, widow of John Corfield of Chatwell Hall, as did her sister Jane.

3d.  Jane, bapt. at Wem 1723, mentioned in the will of her brother

Richard, 1765.

4d.  Mary, b. 16 Sept. 1733, mentioned in the will of her brother

Richard, 1765, d. unmarr. at Wem, 1811.

1b.  Katherine, bapt. at Lee Brockhurst, 6 Aug. 1657,  m. at Wrockwardine, 13

April 1687, Richard Brooke of Chetwynd End, and had issue, William Brooke

of Chetwynd End, who is mentioned in the will of his cousin, William Walford of

Aston, Wem, in 1723(see also Burke’s Landed Gentry, Brooke of Haughton Hall,

Shifnall).

     2a.  George, an attorney, who in 1673 was witness to a deed of his cousin, George

Walford of Marchamley, in Hodnet (see below). He m. in 1649 Mary Botfield, of

Hopton Court, Salop, one of whose family, Thomas Botfield, or Thynne, son of

Ralph Botevile of Stretton (see The Visitation of Salop, 1623), founded the family of

the Thynnes of Longleat, built by his son, Sir John (see Burke’s Peerage, Bath, M.)

3a.  John, who m. 19 April 1647 Katherine Culrocke.

III.  GEORGE WALFORD, of Marchamley Wood, Hodnet, Salop, ( 9 miles north-east

of Walford and Myddle), of whom presently.

IV.  Roger.

Elizabeth, m. Richard Arrowsmith, Corrizor of Shrewsbury.

_______, m. William Falkner of Heath and Stanton Lacy, Salop (see Burke’s

Landed Gentry, Falkner of Bath and Claverton), who, in 1625, was overseer of the will of his brother-in-law, George Walford of Marchamley Wood, Hodnet (see below).

GEORGE WALFORD, of Marchamley Wood, Hodnet, Salop, ( 9 miles north-east of Walford and Myddle), b. c. 1595 (third son of William Walford of Smethcote, Myddle, who d. 1601, and his wife Joan). He acquired the estate of Marchamley Wood, which his great-grandson, William Walford, of Marchamley and Woolerton, sold in 1720 to the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Hill, P.C., of Attingham, eminent statesman and diplomat in the reigns of William & Mary, Ann, and George I (see Burke’s Peerage, Hill, V.). George Walford m. Elizabeth ____, and d. in 1624, his will being proved 2 Jan. 1625, as overseen by his brother William, of Lee Brockhurst, as his trustee for his children. He left issue (with daus. Anne and Katherine), an only son,

ROBERT WALFORD of Marchamley Wood, Hodnet, Salop, b. c. 1620, m. Alice Harries (bur. at Hodnet, 30 Nov. 1687), sister and next-of-kin of Richard Harries, who d.  1685 (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1937 Edn., Harries of Cruckton, Salop). Robert Walford was bur. at Hodnet 30 July 1685, leaving issue,

John, of Marchamley Wood, m. Jane ___, and d. 1694 leaving, with other issue

(Thomas, John, George, and a dau. Jane),

William, of Marchamley Wood and Woolerton, who sold the former in 1720 to

Sir Richard Hill of Attingham. William Walford m., at Drayton, 1715, Anne Parr, and  d. at Woolerton, 1741, leaving issue.

Robert, who owned houses and land in Wem, Salop. He m. Mary ___, and d. 1717,

leaving issue.

George, of Marchamley, mentioned in deeds in 1673. He m. Jane ___, and d. 1702,

leaving issue.

Joseph, of whom presently.

JOSEPH WALFORD, b. c. 1650-52, 4th son of Robert and Alice Walford of Marchamley, Hodnet, in whose parish registers the family is recorded as having been one of the principal gentry families. He settled in the neighboring parish of Drayton-in-Hales (Market Drayton). Perhaps a Royalist, since he named his son Charles, born sometime after the restoration of the monarchy (1660), in the reign of Charles II (1660-85). Charles is notable as a name not previously used in the family. Joseph m.  Elizabeth _____ (bur. at Drayton, 10 Feb. 1740), and was bur. at Drayton 7 Feb. 1716, leaving issue,

CHARLES WALFORD, of Drayton-in-Hales, Wool Merchant, b. c. 1675, m. at Drayton, 1 Nov. 1701 Jane (b.  at Drayton, 23 March 1683, bur. there 28 Aug. 1756), dau. of John Newton of Drayton. Charles Walford was bur. at Drayton 19 Nov. 1728, leaving, with other issue (sons Robert and William, daughters Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, and Hannah), an eldest son,

JOHN WALFORD, of Drayton-in-Hales, Wool Merchant. bapt. at Drayton, 29 Oct 1703, mentioned in his father’s will 1729. He also owned a tannery, leather business, and other interests, in and around Drayton. He m., 1stly, at Wem, 13 June 1726 Mary, dau. of Thomas Morgan of Drayton, by whom he had issue (with another son William, and daus. Catherine, Anne and Elizabeth),

JOHN WALFORD, of Enfield, Middlesex, of whom presently.

Charles.

Thomas, b. 5 April 1731, m. 24 Dec. 1755, at Drayton, Anne Brittain, His widow, Anne, is recorded as owning a property of two hundred acres in Woodseaves, parish of Drayton. They had issue, a da., Sarah, b. 12 April 1757.

John Walford of Drayton m., 2ndly, at Drayton, 16 Feb 1745, Hannah Halford, (by whom he had further issue, Mary and Hannah) and d. at Drayton, 29 March 1751.

His eldest son,

  JOHN WALFORD, of Enfield, Middlesex, Solicitor, b. 9 Nov. 1727 and bapt. at Drayton, 12 Nov. 1727. Having moved to Middlesex, he was the first of the family to act as a Solicitor, a practice continued in unbroken succession until the death of Geoffrey Walford, c. 1968 (see below). A portrait in oils of this gentleman, by Joseph Highmore (1692-1780, but retired from his practice, 1761), probably painted at the time of his marriage, or shortly thereafter, remains in the family. John Walford is reputed to have taken the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson on a trip in his coach to Harrow while visiting his son. If so, this marks the beginning of a long connection of the Walford family with Harrow School, descendants being sent there generation after generation, until as recently as 1980 (Rupert Croker-Poole, see below).   John Walford  m. 27 Sept. 1752, Mary Croxton (b. Liverpool, 21 April 1730, d. 8 Aug. 1786, bur. at St. Luke’s Old Street, Middlesex.), and d. at Enfield, 2 Oct. 1786, also bur. at St. Luke’s, Middlesex., leaving issue (with another son, Richard, who m. Anne Everest, and d.s.p. 1832, and another dau. Anne),

1.  Foy, b. 22 Feb. 1756, m. 31 Oct 1793, Hannah Lowe, by whom he had issue (with three other sons, who d.s.p., and two other daus., Catherine and Hannah),

George, b. 1799, d.s.p. 1850, at Grafton Street, London.

1a. Mary Jelly, m. 21 Feb 1824 Johann Christian Burckhardt, of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London.

2.  John, living in 1788 at Holborn Hill, London (see Gentleman’s Magazine), b. 7 Aug. 1757, m. at Stanmore, Middlesex, 22 July 1788, Anne, dau. of ___ Hobbs, Barrister-at-law, of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and d. in Dominica, British West Indies, 7 July 1819, leaving issue, with four other sons (who d.s.p.) and four daus.,

1a.  John Thomas, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, b. 1789, m., and d. after Jan. 1851, having had issue, with one

other son (who d.s.p.) and five daus.,

1b. William Henry, d.v.p.  at Windsor, Nova Scotia, April 1828.

2a. Robert, of Dominica, British West Indies, living 1825, not heard of since.

3. THOMAS, of whom presently.

4. William, b. 1765, m. 1791 Anne Warren, d.s.p. 1826.

1. Mary, b. 22 Sept 1754, m. 23 June 1787 John Jelly, and had issue, one dau. She m., 2ndly, 16 Oct. 1800, ___ Moss.

2. Sarah, b. 2 Aug. 1761.

3. Catherine, b. 11 Aug. 1767.

4. Jane, b. 9 May 1771, d. 1834 (see Gentleman’s Magazine).

5. Elizabeth, b. 1 June 1776.

The third son,

THOMAS WALFORD, Solicitor, of 7, Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London, admitted a Solicitor 1785, partner with Messrs. Bateman and Foulkes, of Southampton Street, Covent Garden, later Foulkes, Langford and Walford, b. 16 Nov 1762, and bapt. at St. Luke’s Old Street, Middlesex.. By 1800, he was living at 7, Bolton Street, Piccadilly. William Foulkes  d.  8 Nov. 1825, and Robert Langford d. 17 Sept. 1830, aged 49, and then the law practice became entirely Thomas Walford’s, continuing unbroken among his descendants until the death of Geoffrey Walford, c. 1968.  He m., at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 15 Oct. 1787, Mary (b. 4 June 1769, bapt. St. James’s, Westminster, 25 June 1769, d. 14 Feb 1822), only child of Joseph Coleback, by his wife, Clara (m. 1768, burnt to d. 1806), dau. and heir of Thomas Black (1715-1777), of 1, Bolton Street, Piccadilly (subsequently The Bath House), portrait painter, member of Hogarth’s St. Martin’s Academy, and heiress of her aunt, Mary Black, A.R.A., (1737-1814), painter, exhibiting member of the Society of Artists, and a friend and associate of Sir Joshua Reynolds, founder of the British Royal Academy of the Arts, of which she was elected A.R.A, 5 Sept. 1769. Her portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey, M.D., F.R.S. (hanging in the Royal College of Physicians, London), has often been attributed to better-known artists. Two portraits of Mary Walford, painted by her aunt, Mary Black, one a version of Reynolds’ The Laughing Girl (Kenwood House Coll, Hampstead, N. London), remain in the family. Thomas Walford d. 24 Dec. 1840, having had issue,

Thomas (1762-1840) and Mary (1769-1822) Walford, of Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London.

Thomas and Mary Walford, of Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London, left issue:

I.Thomas Foy, b. 9 Dec. 1788, d. 15 March 1789, bur. at St. Luke’s Old Street, Middlesex.

II.  Thomas, of Starwell House, Richmond, and 27 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London, Solicitor, b. 10 Jan 1797, bapt. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, lived at 35 Clarges St, Piccadilly, in 1835, and sometime of Prior’s bank, Fulham, Middlesex, Solicitor to the Commission for Auditing the Public Accounts and to the Duchy of Lancaster, m. 12 May 1825, Maria  (b. 1 Apr. 1798,  d. 24 March 1858, at Mortlake, Surrey, bur. at Kensal Green), third dau. of William Sturges of Datchet, Bucks., Solicitor with William Sturges & Co., by his wife, Jane (b. 1762), dau. of John Binfield, and d. 24 Dec. 1861, at Mortlake, Surrey, bur. at Kensal Green, North London, leaving issue,

Maria Sturges Walford (1798-1858), with her son, Thomas Walford, and daughter, Maria, who m. John William Whitelock.

Arms of Thomas Walford, impaling those of his wife, Maria Sturges.

Thomas and Maria Walford left issue:

Thomas Sturges, of Ramsey Lodge, Ramsey, Harwich, Essex, Solicitor, and

later Soldier, b. 15 Oct.1826, partner in Messrs. Walfords, of Bolton Street, Piccadilly, retired 1858, after a dispute with his father, thereafter, Major, and Hon. Lt.-Col. 4th Battalion (Prince of Wales Own) West York Regiment, m., 1stly, 5 May 1862 (5 months after his father’s death), Julia (b. 1834, Jersey, Channel Islands, with whom he had lived since 1858, who d. 11 June 1866), dau. of John Pike of Norwood, Surrey, and m. 2ndly, 4 Sept. 1869, Louisa, widow of Henry Claridge, and likewise dau. of John Pike of Norwood, and d. c. 1904, leaving, with other issue (Edward Erlam, b. 1858, who d.v.p., Katherine Louisa Sturges, b. 1861, who d. unmarr. 1933, and Isabella Sophia, b. 1864, who m., 5 Sept. 1895, Thomas Sadler.),

1a.  John Sturges Valentine, of Glen Villa (which he built, 1904),  Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, b. 14 Feb. 1863, m. 24 Dec. 1889, in Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Sarah (b.  22 May 1863, who remarr., 17 Nov. 1911,  Patrick Kelly, of Feeney, County Kerry, Ireland, and d. 25 July 1935), dau. of Charles Kelly and Mary McGeehan of Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, and d. 8 April, 1909, leaving issue (with a dau. Sally, died an infant),

1b.  Charles Thomas, b. 29 Nov. 1890 Philadelphia, m. Elizabeth

McFadden, moved to Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, where he lived with his mother, Sarah Kelley, killed in an accident with a horse and cart, 18 July 1916, leaving issue,

1c.  John, d.s.p.

2c.  Manus, b. 1 Aug. 1912, became a Roman Catholic priest, but left the priesthood due to illness, m., in 1950s, Carmel Hitchcock, and d., in 1960s (?), leaving issue, an only child,

1d.  Mary, of Dublin, Ireland,  b. 11 Dec. 1955,  m. (and now separated from), James Moran, by whom she has no issue. She works for an International bank in Dublin.

3c.  Charles Thomas, b. 29 Dec. 1916 (?), d.s.p.

1c.  Sarah, b. 13 June 1911, d.s.p. 

2b.   John Sturges, of Newport News, Virginia, b. 29 June 1893, in Occoquan, VA, m. 20 June, 1917 Winifred Irene, (b. 9 June 1892, d. Apr. 18 1983, in El Cajon, San Diego, CA) dau. of Dwight Palmer Smith, of Laramie, Wyoming, by his wife, Julia Krieger, and d. 19 June 1965, in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, leaving issue,

1c.  John Dwight (6915 Glenroy St., San Diego, CA 92120), of San Diego, California, former aviation chief machinist, on aircraft carriers, U.S. Navy, retired, b. 9 Dec. 1922, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA, m. 16 Feb. 1952, Mary, (b. 17 Jan. 1924, Endicott, NY), dau. of Angelo Raponi, by his wife, Elizabeth Leogono, and has issue,

1d.  Robert Joseph, of Santee, CA.,  b. 29 Nov. 1955, m. 4 Oct. 1986, Kathleen McMahon, and has issue:

1e.  Brian, b. 24 Aug. 1989.

1e.  Aubrey Elizabeth, b. 6 Oct 1992.

2d.  Timothy John, of San Diego, CA,  b. 2 Aug. 1961, m. in San Diego, 2003, Lisa Moore.

1d.  Patricia Ann, b. 7 Sept. 1959.

2d.  Sharon Marie, b. 5 Oct. 1962, m. Tracy Vaughn, and has issue,

1e.  Nicole Briana Vaughn, b. 19 Apr. 1994.

2e.  Kaitlyn Kristine Vaughn, b. 29 Jan. 2000.

2c.   Edward Thomas, of North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, b. 22 May 1928, m. 25 Sept.

1965 (separated), Sylvia (b. 21 July 1933, Los Angeles, CA), dau. of Vincent Impusene, of Los

Angeles, and his wife, Lola Daggett, and died,  23 Dec. 2004, leaving issue ((with an adopted

dau., Jacqueline White):

1d.  Thomas Edward, of Escondido, CA, b. 8 Nov. 1966.

1c.   Eugenia Marie (c/o Charles & Eileen Godfrey, 1652 Cayton, Simi Valley, CA  93065), b. 11 March 1918, m.  24 July, 1953, James Allan Gannon (b.1913, d. 23 Mar. 1973, Westminster, Orange County, CA), by whom she had no issue. She died 2008.

2c.   Florence Eileen, b. 15 May 1921, m., 9 Oct 1941, William Preston Brown, Jr., son of William Brown, of Baltimore, MD, and his wife, Agnes Hooper, and d. 26 Mar. 1966, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, leaving issue,

1d.  Eugene Kenneth Brown, of Simi Valley, CA., b. 28 Sept. 1947, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA., m. 19 Aug. 1972, Akata Sautogi Atalifo (b. 29 June 1952, Lautoka, Figi), and has issue, three sons, one dau.

1d.  Eileen Frances Brown (Charles & Eileen Godfrey,178 Stevens Circle, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147-8854), b. 1 Oct. 1944, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA., m. 19 Feb. 1966, Charles Elmer Godfrey (b. 29 May 1944, North Wildwood, NJ), son of Elmer Godfrey, and his wife, Mary Beatty, and has issue, three daus.

2d.  Kathleen Marie Brown, b. 25 Mar. 1946, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA., m. 14 Jan. 1967 (now separated), Robert Louis Williams, Jr.

( b. 12 Feb. 1945), son of Robert Williams, and his wife, Marie Hokey, and has issue, three daus.

3d.  Barbara Ann Brown, of Hawaii,  b. 6 Sept. 1950, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m. Randy Poor, and has issue, one son, one dau.

3c.   Caroline Veronica, b. 23 Dec. 1931, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, m., 1stly, 30 June 1951, Richard Charles Wilber (b. 20 Sept. 1928), by whom she has issue,

1d.  John Charles Wilber Key, b. 16 Feb. 1952, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m. 2 Oct. 1972, Shelley Jean Davis (b. 29 July 1952, Albuquerque, NM), dau. of Joel Davis, and his wife, Wanema Argo, and has issue, one son, one dau.

2d.  Christopher Thomas Wilber Key, of St. George, UT, b. 29 June 1954, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m. 25 Feb 1977, Nancy Lee Nielsen (b. 3 May 1957), dau. of Ramon Nielsen, and his wife, Shirley Reed, and have issue, two sons, three daus.

3d.  Craig Joseph Wilber Key, b. 9 Sept. 1955, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m. 4 June 1977, Cheryl Marie Tunney (b. 7 May 1954, Yonkers, NY), dau. of Robert Tunney, and his wife, Starr Barreto, and have issue, two sons.

4d.  Richard Austin Wilber Key, of San Bernardino, CA, b. 10 Sept. 1958, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m.28 Apr. 1979, Debi Ann Geisler, and have issue, two sons.

1d.  Cynthia Elaine Wilber Key, b. 23 June 1953, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m. 16 Nov. 1974, Dennis Paul Desanzo, son of Meryl Desanzo, and his wife, Vida Rubnio, and has issue, two sons, 1 dau.

2d.  Nancy Colleen Wilber Key, b. 9 Sept. 1957, Burbank, Los Angeles, CA.., m. 30 Aug. 1980, Paul Thomas Szilagi (b. 4 June 1962, Buffalo, Erie, NY), son of Sigmond Szilagi, and his wife, Elizabeth Folan, and have issue, two sons.

She m., 2ndly, 10 Nov. 1962, George Franklin (Frank) Key, Jr. (b. 19 Nov.1933), son of George Key, and his wife, Laverne Morgan. George Key Jr. adopted Caroline’s six children by Richard Wilber

1b.   Mary Anne Veronica, b. 6 Oct 1896, m. Hugh McFadden.

1a.  Julia Maria Isabella, b. 30 Nov. 1859, m. Francis Henry Atherton, of Pathfield, Guidford, Surrey, by

whom she had, with other issue (a son Frank, and another dau.),

1b.  Katherine Louisa Clare Atherton, m. 1925, Lt.-Col. Lord Hugh  Kennedy, M.C., (d. 1970),

                        youngest son of the 3rd Marquess of Ailsa (see Burke’s Peerage,  Ailsa, M.), by whom she had

                        issue.

Maria Jane Mary, b. 15 Feb. 1828, m., at All Saint’s, Fulham, 15 May 1851

John William Whitelock (1823-1875), Barrister-at-law, son of Benjamin Whitelock of Point House, Putney, and had issue, three sons and five daus.

Edward, of Kensington, London, b. 30 Aug. 1804, worked for the Exchequer, d. unmarr. at Thurloe Square,

Kensington, London, 20 April 1863.

ARTHUR, of whom presently.

Frederick Hancorne, of Sheen, Surrey, and 27, Bolton Street, Piccadilly,

Solicitor, with Messrs. Walfords, b. 5 May 1808, Solicitor to the Exchequer and Auditing Dept. at Somerset House, m. at Chiswick, 18 March 1837, Frances Philippa (d. at Wiesbaden, Nassau, 15 Sept. 1851, aged 36 (see Gentleman’s Magazine), eldest dau. of Philip Griffith of Sutton Court, Chiswick, Middlesex, and he d. 9 Feb. 1882, leaving issue,

Francis Mary, b. 5 Jan. 1838, m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 28

Sept. 1861, Capt. William Whilehurst MacDonald Mill, late 6th Regiment and 26th Cameronians, youngest son of Major Mill of Ripley, Surrey.

2.   Amy, b. 5  June 1839, m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 22 April 1865, Commander C.W. Andrews, R.N., of Midlands, South Stoneham, only son of Charles Andrews of Bath.

Francis Joseph Gourdez, Barrister-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn, b.  19 June 1810,

Wrote a short memoir of his great-aunt, Mary Black, A.R.A., and other books, m. 5 Oct 1847, Isabella Maria, dau. of Capt. Thomas Manners Aston of Milton, near Gravesend, Kent.

The fourth son,

ARTHUR WALFORD, of 66 Lowndes Square, Knightsbridge, London, Solicitor with Messrs. Walfords, of 27 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, one of H.M. Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London, b. 22 Sept. 1806, educ.. Harrow, admitted a Solicitor 1825, m. at Hammersmith Chapel, 13 April 1831, Eleanor, dau. and eventual heiress of John Carr of Clay Hill and Enfield, Middlesex (b. 1772, bur. at St. Andrew’s, Enfield, 12 Jan. 1819) and his wife Martha Wilson (m.  at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, 27 April 1805, bur. at Fulham, 4 March 1811), and grand-dau. of William Carr of Hammersmith, and his wife, Anne Nevill.       Eleanor Walford (b. 10 Dec. 1806, and bapt. at Chislehurst, Kent, 4 Jan 1807, d. at 66 Lowndes Square, Knightsbridge, 26 Dec. 1893) became the heiress of this family through the d., unmarr., of her sole brother, John Carr of Beccles, near Great Yarmouth, and of Enfield, Middlesex (Holborn, 1806-Great Yarmouth, 1840), a keen horseman.

As a result of this marriage, the College of Arms, London, confirmed and re-granted to Arthur Walford, 17 Nov. 1845 (in a grant preserved in the family), the right to quarter his family coat-of-arms with that of the family of Carr, at the same time distinguishing both their arms from that of other branches of each family. Thus, for the Walford arms, formerly: arg, a fesse gu., with a lion passant in chief, the colors were counterchanged, per pale, and a cinquefoil added in base; the Carr arms, as born by Eleanor’s grand-father, William Carr, were: Gules, on a chevron or, 3 mullets sable, and for crest: A stag’s head couped argent, attired or, and charged with a bar gemel gules. [These arms suggest that his family was connected with the Carrs of Hillingdon, Middlesex, or of Sleaford, Lincolnshire (bart., extinct 1683), whose arms were: Gules, on a chevron or, 3 etoiles sable, and for crest: a stag’s head couped argent, attired or, charged with two bars gemel gules.] As quartered with the arms of Walford, these were now modified to: Sable, on a chevron between three mullets of six points or, as many like mullets of the field. Thus the colors were switched, and three mullets added to the field.

Arthur Walford d.  at 66 Lowndes Square, Knightsbridge, 10 Sept. 1859. An obituary to him was published by Edward Walford, M.A., late scholar of Bailliol Coll. Oxford, Fellow of the Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain, in The Law Times, 1 Oct. 1859. It was noted therein that Arthur Walford descended “from a family long and respectfully settled in Shropshire,” with branches established elsewhere. The author also refers the reader to an article on the origin and history of te family, of which Arthur Walford was a member, published in Burke’s Heraldic Register, 1849-50, and appended to the St. James’s Magazine. It was this article that promoted the view that the Walfords of Shropshire were descended from the Walfords of Walford in Herefordshire, a view that this present account seeks to correct. Arthur and Eleanor Walford left (with a son, Charles Neville (1841-43), who d. young) issue,

Arthur and Eleanor Walford left issue:

I.   Arthur Carr, Barrister-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn, b. 4 Nov. 1833, educ. Harrow and Trinity Coll., Cambridge (M.A. 1858), called to the bar 1858, m. 26 July 1870, Caroline, dau. of James Hall of Scorborough Hall, Beverley, Yorkshire, and d. 24 Oct 1873, at Scorborough Hall, leaving issue,

1. Arthur James, b. posthumously, 29 Jan. 1874, d. 4 April 1883.

II.   HERBERT HENRY, of whom presently.

III.  Neville Lloyd, Col. and T/Major-Gen., Royal Artillery., commissioned 1865, served in India and Aden in 6th Brigade, R.A. 1869-72, Staff Coll. 1872-73, Instructor in Tactics, Military Administration and Law, R.M.C., 1875-82, Capt. 1877, 1882 inspected the effects of the British bombardment of the sea defences of Alexandria, awarded the Khedive Star, Major 1884, Bde Major to Sch. of Gunnery, Shoeburyness 1884-89, Lt-Col. 1889, mem. Ordnance  Cttee, 1890-93, Assist. Dir. of Artillery 1894, Col. 1894, cmd’d R.A. Western Dist. 1897-1901, Member of the Colonial Defence Committee, b. 7 Dec. 1844, educ. Harrow, and R.M.A., Woolwich, m. 1879 Selina Eliott (b. Oct. 1856, d. Feb. 1906), dau. of Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, K.B., 1st Governor of South Australia and Tasmania (see Dictionary of National Biography), and his wife, Augusta Sophia, eldest dau. of Charles Marryat, of Potter’s Bar, neice of Frederick Marryat, C.B., the Novelist, and grand-daughter of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich and Chairman of Lloyds of London  (see Dictionary of National Biography). Nevill Lloyd Walford was an excellent French and German scholar, and is known especially for his translations of Prince Kraft’s Letters on Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry, which became widely used in the British army. He d. 28 Oct 1901, leaving issue,

Col. and T/Major-Gen. Neville Lloyd Walford, R.A. (1844-1901).

Col. Neville and Selina Walford left issue:

1. Garth Neville, V.C. (1915), joined Royal Artillery 1902, passed Staff College,

served in World War I, at Aisne and Ypres, France, 1914, Brigade Major 1915, awarded V.C. posthumously for gallant action at Gallipoli, b.  27 May 1882, educ. Harrow and Bailliol Coll., Oxford, m. 10 Oct 1907 Elizabeth Katherine Mary (who settled at Mill Cross Cottage, Kingston St. Mary, Taunton), 2nd dau. of Col. the Hon. John Schomberg Trefusis, C.M.G., J.P. (son of the 19th Baron Clinton), and his wife, Eva Louisa, only dau. of James Bontein, Gent. Usher to the Queen (see Burke’s Peerage, Clinton, B.), and was killed in action on V-Beach, Gallipoli, 29 April 1915, leaving issue,

Garth Neville Walford (1882-1915),  V.C. , awarded posthumously for bravery, at Gallipoli, 1915.

Memorial in Exeter Cathedral

Garth and Elizabeth Walford left issue:

1a. Naomi, of Tillies Cottage, Forest Green, Dorking, Surrey, b. 1908. Taking after her grandfather, she was a translator of many scholarly books, d. 1992/3.

Awarded to Naomi Walford by the KIng of Norway, 1945.

          2a. Phyllida, b. 1915, m. 1944, Kenneth Ellis, a singer, of 9, Ormerod Road, Stoke

Bishop, Bristol, 9, son of Ernest William Ellis, of Swindon.

1. Camma, b. 22 Oct. 1883, d. unmarr., May 1917.

2. Norma, of Crossways, Yelverton, Devon, b.  21 July 1886, m. 28 April 1909, Col. Charles Marwood Tucker, D.L., formerly of Coryton Park, Devon, only son of Marwood Tucker of Coryton Park, and has had issue (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Tucker of Coryton Park). He d. 24 Jan 1955.

IV.  Lional Nicholas, Admitted a Solicitor 1870, b. 26 Nov. 1845, educ. Harrow, and Trinity Coll., Cambridge (M.A. 1872), d. unmarr. 9 Nov. 1879.

I.    Eleanor Mary, b. 5 Aug. 1836, m. 21 Feb. 1867 Henry Kingsmill,Barrister-at-law, eldest son of Henry Kingsmill of Sidmonton, County Wicklow, Ireland, a collateral branch of the Kingsmills of Sydmonton, Hampshire (see  Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1937 Edn., Kingsmill of Sydmonton), and d.s.p. 1916.  He died 1890.

II.  Ada, b. 5 Sept. 1837, d. unmarr.

III. Caroline Carr, b. 1838, d. unmarr. 4 June  1886.

The 2nd son,

HERBERT HENRY WALFORD, J.P., of Arle Bury Park, Alresford, Hampshire, which he acquired 1883, and 6 Cornwall Gardens, London, Admitted a Solicitor 1858, senior partner in Messrs. Walfords, Solicitors, of 27 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, a great benefactor to Alresford, where he contributed to the re-building of the church, and bought the site and playing fields for Perin’s school, J.P. (1895) Hants, b. 16 July 1835, educ. Harrow, m. 1862, Julia Henrietta (b. 1836, d. 10 Jan. 1882), widow of Col. Francis Augustus Brett, Madras Native Infantry (by whom she had issue, a dau., (Augusta Mary) Pera, b. 1856 posthumously, after her father d. , on board the ship, Pera, and d. 1930, see  Burke’s Peerage, Esher, V.), and dau. of Samuel Matthews, J.P., and d. 25 Dec. 1928 (bur. at Kensal Green), leaving (with a dau., Rose Julia Eleanor[1870-72], and two other sons, Arthur/George/Thomas (?) [b. ca. 1866], and Harold Carr [1876-84]) issue,

Herbert Henry Walford, J.P. (1835-1928),  and his wife Julia Henrietta (1836-1882) of Arle Bury Park, Alresford, Hampshire, 6 Cornwall Gardens, London, and Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London.

Arle Bury Park, Alresford, Hampshire, the Walford Hampshire home, 1883-1944

Herbert Henry & Julia Henrietta Walford left issue:

I.   Herbert Nevill, of Arle Bury, Alresford (which he sold 1944) and later of Priestwell House, East Haddon, Northants, Admitted a Solicitor 1889, partner in Messrs. Walfords, of Bolton Street, Piccadilly, b. 9 March 1864, educ. Harrow, and Trinity Coll., Cambridge (B.A. 1885), m. 24 Oct. 1900, Sybil Marie (d. 24 Oct. 1942), youngest dau. of Thomas Denne, D.L., J.P. , of The Dene, Hythe, Kent (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1925 Edn, Denne ofLydd), and d. 12 April 1955, having had issue:

Herbert Neville Walford (1864-1955), of Arle Bury Park, Hampshire.

Herbert Neville & Hugh Selwyn Walford & sons, on the lake at Arle Bury Park, Alresford, Hants (Painting by Julian Barrow, , after a photograph of Sept 1910).

Herbert Neville Walford left issue:

     Hugh Carr, joined 17th/21st Lancers 1922, served in Egypt 1930-32, India 1932-39,

and in World War II 1939-41, Lt.-Col. 1941, played polo for England against the USA,  b. 2 Nov. 1901, educ.  Harrow, and R.M.C. Sandhurst, m. 14 July 1931, Mary Olivia (who m. 2ndly, 26 May 1944, Brig. Bryan John Fowler, D.S.O., M.C. of Rahinston, County Meath, Ireland [1900-1987] (see Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland), and d. 14 Sept. 1998, having had further issue), dau. of Lt.-Col. Cecil Patteson Nickalls, D.S.O. (son of Sir Patteson Nickalls), and was killed in action, 12 Aug. 1941, leaving issue,

Lieut.-Col. Hugh Carr Walford (1901-1941).

Hugh Carr  and Mary Walford left issue:

1a.   Simon Hugh, Capt. Late 17th/21st Lancers, of Summerstown House, Trim, County Meath, Ireland, b. 25 April 1933, educ. Harrow, m. 2 May 1964, Angela Mary, only dau. of James Bryan Bellew, of London, and Mary Bellew of Barmeath Castle, Dunleer, County Louth, Ireland (see Burke’s Peerage, Bellew of Barmeath, B.), and has issue,

Simon (1933-  ) and Angela Walford.

Simon and Angela Walford have issue:

     1b.   Jeanie Anne (Crossing Cottage, Little Farringdon, Lechlade, Glos. GL7

3QN), b. 26 Oct.1966, m. 24 July 1993, Timothy Hugo Pollock (b. 1958),

eldest son of Lady Zinnia Rosemary, only child of the 4th Earl of

Londesborough (see Burke’s Peerage, Londesborough, B.), and step-son of (Ralph) John Hamilton Pollock (see Burke’s Peerage, Pollock of Hatton, Bt.) and has issue,

1c.  Arabella Zara Pollock, b. 24 May 1994.

2c.  Lucy Caroline Pollock, b. 12 Oct. 1995.

          2b.   Caroline Sarah (27 Sibella Road, London SW4 6JA), b. 1968, m.

17 May 1997, Anthony Lionel Brockbank, son of Lt.-Col. John Myles

(Robin) Brockbank, M.C., of Manor House, Steeple Langford, Salisbury, Wilts (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1952 Edn., Brockbank), and his wife, Gilian, yngr. dau. of Sir (John) Edmund Ritchie Findlay, 2nd Bt., M.P., (see Burke’s Peerage, 105th Edn., 1970, Findlay, Bt.), and has issue,

1c.  Eleanor Harriet Brockbank, b. 15 Sept. 2000.

2c.  Rosanna Lucy Brockbank, b.  23 Feb. 2002.

1a.   Sarah Mary, b. 16 July 1935, m. 6 May 1957 Sir (Thomas) David Ainsworth, 4th Bt. (1926-1999), of Crotanstown, The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland, 2nd son of Sir Thomas Ainsworth, 2nd Bt., and has issue (see Burke’s Peerage, Ainsworth, Bt.),

     1b.  Sir Anthony Thomas Hugh Ainsworth, 5th Bt., b. 30 March 1962.

     2b.  Charles David Ainsworth, b. 24 August 1966.

   

     1b.  Serena Mary Ainsworth, b. 13 March 1958, m.  in Corfu, 1987, Stelios

Peratinos (d. June 1999), and has issue,

1c.  George Peratinos, b. 1986.

2c.  Nicholas Peratinos, b. 1987.

2b.  Tessa Jane Ainsworth (8 Trouville Road, London SW4 4QL), b. 6 Aug. 1959, m.  24 April 1986, Nicholas Cecil John Fortescue (b. 1953), only son of  Brig. Arthur Henry Grenville Fortescue, MBE, MC, of Goddards, Furley, Axminster, Devon (see Burke’s Peerage,Fortescue, E.), by his wife, Rosita Anne, dau. of late Maj-Gen. John Charles Campbell, VC, DSO, MC, and has issue,

1c.  Lilly Sarah Fortescue, b. 1990 (twin with her sister).

2c.  Rosie Olivia Fortescue, b. 1990 (twin with her sister).

II.   HUGH SELWYN, of whom presently.

The younger son,

HUGH SELWYN WALFORD, of The Old House, Wolverton, Basingstoke, Hampshire, which he purchased 1929, Admitted a Solicitor 1894, partner in Messrs. Walfords, of Bolton Street, Piccadilly, b. 28 March 1868, educ. Harrow, R.M.C., and Trinity Coll., Cambridge (L.L.B. 1887, M.A. 1890), m.  20 Dec. 1898, Mary Susan (b. 1866, d. 5 March 1949), 2nd dau. of George Christian of Bighton Wood, Alresford, Hants (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Christian of Stonerwood Park), by his wife, Sarah Mary, dau. of Gen. Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.B. (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1863 Edn, Bainbrigge of Lockington), and d. 15 Nov. 1945, leaving issue,

Hugh Selwyn ((1868-1945) , and Mary Susan (1866-1949) Walford, of The Old House, Wolverton, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London

Hugh and Mary Walford left issue:

I.   JOHN HERBERT (JACK) WALFORD, of whom we treat above.

II.  Geoffrey Hugh, of The Manor House, Sherborne-St. John, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Admitted a Solicitor 1926, held legal appointment with Custodian of Enemy Property Dept. in World War II, last surviving partner in Messrs. Walfords, of 27 Bolton Street, Piccadilly, b. 20 April 1902, educ.  Harrow, and Trinity Coll., Cambridge, m., 1stly, 12 June 1928 (m. diss. by div. 1937), Jane Winifred (b. 1906, d. 5 Sept. 1993), only child of Capt. Edmund Nelson Fisher, Manchester Regt.(only son of Ven. Edmund Henry Fisher, Archdeacon of Southwark), by his wife Georgina Mary, elder dau. of William Maxwell Hammick, J.P. (see Burke’s Peerage, Hammick, Bt.), and had issue,

Geoffrey Hugh Walford (1902-1968), of The Manor House, Sherborne-St.John, Hampshire, and Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London.

Geoffrey Hugh Walford had issue:

1. Mark Hugo, of Little Acre, Down Farm Lane, Headbourne Worthy,

Winchester, Hampshire, b. 24 March 1929, educ. Eton, Machinery & Retail Director, Southern Counties Agricultural Trading Society (ret. 1989).

1. Julia Jane, b. 14 April 1932, m. 19 July 1952 Victor Axel Axel-Berg of

Haughton, Neen Sollars, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop (d. 22 Feb 1992), elder twin son of the late Axel William Waldemar Berg of Little Morton, Brockenhurst, Hants, and originally of St. Petersburg, Russia (who was sent by King George V, after the Russian Revolution, to ascertain the fate of members of the Royal family and nobles), by his wife, Margaret Annie, dau. of Ven. Harry William Carpenter, O.B.E., Archdeacon of Sarum, and has issue,

1a.  Luke Waldemar Axel-Berg (Malt House Cottage, Farringdon, Alton,

Hants GU 34 3DL), b. 18 Oct. 1954, m.  2 Feb. 1985, Fiona Angela Lyndon

-Skeggs (b. 18 March 1955), dau. of Peter Lyndon-Skeggs of Valley House, Preston Candover, Hants., and his wife June Angela Reid.     

2a.  Hugo Alexander Axel-Berg ( Sparsholt Court, West Hendred, Oxfordshire)), b. 12 July 1956, m.  25

July 1981, (Vanessa) Claire Davis  (m. diss. by div. 2004), and has issue,

1b.   Justin Hugo Axel-Berg, b. 26 Jan. 1988.

          1b.   Alexandra Claire Axel-Berg, b. 22 Nov. 1989.

          2b.   Anastasia Victoria Axel-Berg, b. 3 July 1992.

                He m., 2ndly., 2005, Amanda  Radclyffe (b. 1959), formerly wife of John Dixon, and dau. of Alan

                Roger Douglas Pilkington, of Aldbourne, Wiltshire (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1965 Edn, Pilkington

                of Reay), by his wife, Dorothy Maureen Radclyffe, dau. of Major Charles Robert Eustace Radclyffe, of

                Forss House, Thurso, Caithness, and Hyde, Wareham, Dorset (see that family, Burke’s  L.G.,

                1952  Edn.). 

   

     He, Geoffrey Hugh Walford, m. 2ndly, 3 June 1937, Ursula (1904 - 1980), formerly wife of Lt.-Col. James

Alexander MacNabb, T.D. (by whom she had issue, four sons, one dau., see Burke’sLanded Gentry, MacNabb of

Kinnell House), and eldest dau. of Charles Frederick Robert Barnett (see Burke’s Landed Gentry, Barnett,

formerly of Glympton Park) and his wife, Cicely Frances Cornish, and d. 17 April 1968, having had, by her

     further issue,

2. Henrietta (17 Rosenau Crescent, Battersea, London S.W.11), b. 24 Dec.

1940, m. 4 Sept. 1965, (Arthur) Anthony Croker Poole, only son of Lt.-Col. Arthur Eric Croker Poole

of London, and his wife, Jean Margaret Balfour Watson, and has issue,

Henrietta  Croker Poole, nee Walford’s investiture as an M.B.E., from The Queen, November 28, 2007.

     1a.  Rupert Mildmay Croker Poole (4217 Walker Road, Charlotte, North

Carolina 28211), b. 19 Oct. 1966, educ. Harrow and the College of

Charleston, m. 1stly, 5 Sept. 1992, Jennifer Blair (m. diss. by div., no issue),

dau. of Terrance R. Begley, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, m. 2ndly, 26 July

2002, Robin Christine, ynr. dau. of Roy W. House, Jr., of Charlotte, North

              Carolina, and has issue:

1b. Sophie Edna Croker Poole, b. 22 July 2004.

2b. Isabella Kate Croker Poole, b. 29 June 2006.

1a.  Emma Eugene Croker Poole (Thistle Croft, Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire),

24 Oct. 1970, m. 7 Oct 2000, David Henry Tijs Pattullo, only son of

Sheriff William Pattullo of Glasgow, and his wife, Etty Hoekstra,

and has issue,

1b. Phoebe Etty Jean Pattullo, b.  4 July 2001.

2b. Imogen Pattullo, b. 24 Aug. 2003.

3. Annabel Mary (The Thatches, Crossing Road, Palgrave, Diss, Norfolk 1P22

1WA), b. 28 Jan 1946, m. 26 Sept. 1981, Bruno Michele Veneto, and has issue,

1a. Tristano Geoffrey Michele Veneto (lives in New York, New York,

U.S.A.), b. 27 Feb. 1983, m. 17 July 2005, Erika Erskine, b. Mexico.

I.   Bettine Christian, a watercolor painter, exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, and has works in the British Museum, b. 2 Jan. 1905, m. 30 March 1932 Henry Hubert Walter Winter Woodcock, of 99 Eaton Place, London S.W.1, only son of His Honour Judge Hubert Drysdale Bayley Woodcock, Q.C., of Lypiatt Park and Jaynes Court, Gloucestershire. He d. 12 Feb. 1957, and she d. 2 Feb. 1977.  

II.  Rosemary, of Heatherdene, Briff Lane, Bucklebury, Reading, Berks, b. 7 Feb.

1912, d. unmarr. 27 Sept. 1996.

Arms—Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale arg. and gu., a fesse between a lion passant in chief and a cinquefoil in base all counterchanged (WALFORD); 2nd and 3rd, sa. on a chevron between three mullets of six points or, as many like mullets of the field (CARR).

Crests—A demi-lion holding in the dexter paw a cross-crosslet fitchée gu. and a semée of cinquefoils arg. (WALFORD); a stag’s head couped arg. attired or and charged with a bar gemel gu. (CARR).

Motto—Paratus et fidelis.

Residence--The Old House, Wolverton, Tadley, Hants,

The Old House, Wolverton, Hampshire.

Note: All references are to the 17th (1952) Edn. of Burke’s Landed Gentry, unless noted otherwise, and to the 105th (1970 ) Edn. of Burke’s Peerage, unless noted otherwise.

The author takes no responsibility for errors or omissions in the above, but will be glad to be provided with any corrections, additions, or deletions thereto.

This genealogical record of the Walford family, as well as drawing on entries recorded in an old family bible, and other recent family records, for the earlier generations is derived principally from original archival materials, such as land deeds in the Salop County Record Office, Shrewsbury, the Parish Registers of Shrophire, Wills of Shropshire families, as well as, for the Medieval period, published State Papers, as available at the British Library, London. Nearly all such material were collected by the author between 1959 and 1965, and formed the basis for the genealogy published in Burke’s Landed Gentry, 18th Edn., Vol. I, 1965, Walford of Wolverton. As noted above, in that account, I followed the view and record of much older scholarship--not surprising given my inexperienced age at the time (14-20 yrs. old)--which I now regret. I now offer the above revised account as a correction to my earlier misjudgements, and apologize for any misleading consequences of the earlier account.

Further Sources: For an account of Lt.-Col. Jack Walford’s remarkable service in World War II, see also Alastair Borthwick, Sans Peur, Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1946, a history of the 5th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, 1942-1945, written by Jack Walford’s Intelligence Officer, and dedicated to him, and see also the Obituary to Jack Walford, published in the London Times newspaper, February 16, 1976, written by his commanding officer, Field-Marshall Sir A. James H. Cassels.

On the family of Jack Walford’s mother, Mary Susan Christian, see: Mrs. Hicks Beach (née Susan Christian), The Yesterdays Behind the Door, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1956, which is a family biography of the Christian and Gregorie families. See also:  livepage.apple.com <http://www.thepeerage.com/p11905.htm#i119045>; For Mary Susan (née Christian) Walford’s  grandfather, Gen. Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.B., see the privately printed Memoirs of General Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.B., (of which a copy, as well as his portrait, is in my possession, E.J. Walford), and Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1863 Edn., Bainbrigge of Lockington. For the family of Gen. Sir Philip Bainbrigge’s mother, Rachel Dobrée (whose portrait, in grey feathered hat, is now in possession of E.J.Walford), wife of Col. Philip Bainbrigge, and dau. of Peter Dobrée, Merchant Banker, of Beauregard, Guernsey, whose Huguenot family were refugees from the French 1572 Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day, see Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1935 edn. (?), as well as a long article, “During Eight Reigns: The History of an Old Merchant Banking Family,” The Times, London, Nov. 8, 1927, xxv., which tells the story of the Dobrée family business. For  further information on the Dobree family, of Guernsey, and their descent from, and multiple connections with the Carey family, also of Guernsey, see: <http://www.careyroots.com/>.

On the family of Jack Walford’s wife, Diana Ralli, a member of the internationally-renown trading families from the Greek Island of Chios, which, following the 1822 Massacres of Chios, has come to be known as the “Chios Diaspora,” much has been published. For a short, illustrated account of the London branch of the Ralli family, see Timotheos Catsiyannis (Bishop of Militoupolis), Pandias Stephen Rallis (1793-1865): The Founder of the Greek Community in London, London, 1986. See also records of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia, London, Philip Argenti’s Libro d’Oro de la Noblesse de Chio, (written in French), Oxford University Press, 1955, Philip Argenti, The Massacres of Chios, Described in Contemporary Diplomatic Reports, edited with an introduction by Philip Argenti, John Lane/The Bodley Head, London, 1932.

On the Ralli and other Chiot diaspora families, see also, the most extensive materials published on the Internet by Christopher A. Long at: www.christopherlong.co.uk . See the main Index to this extensive site, which contains much historical material on the events leading up to the Massacres, the events surrounding it, and the consequences thereof on Chiot families, including extensive documentation of all the leading families of the Island, including two very extensive genealogical records of different branches of the Ralli family. For the mercantile and cultural activity of the Ralli and other Chiot settlers in Marseilles, one of the places, with Trieste, where the “diaspora” first recovered from the Massacres, see also http://barthes.ens.fr/clio/art/eng/pari.html

A Note on the Origins of the Ralli Family: The Ralli family, which has long been well known in Greece, has caused a number of Greek scholars to research their history and speculate on their origins. They appear to have been prominent in Constantinople at least by the fifteenth century, and are thought to have settled on the prosperous island of Chios, as did many others, as the Turkish threat increased, and which ultimately led to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Prof. Anthony C. Chatzi, of Salonica University, published a study of the origins of the Ralli family, stating that, in his view, they derive from the noble family of Raoul, a Norman family that settled in Constantinople in 1081, and whose descendants played a prominent role in the history of the city. Chatzi believes that the name Ralli was a corruption of the French/Norman name of Raoul, and cites a series of documents that evidence gradual transformation of the name.

Philip Argenti, in his book Libro d’Oro de la Noblesse de Chio, Oxford University Press, 1955 (written in French) puts forward many reasons to discount the theory of Prof. Chatzi that the Ralli name—which is not a Greek name (and which Greeks spell Rallis)—was derived from Raoul. Rather, Argenti notes, the name Rali or Ralis or Ralli(s) is found in the 14th century in both Constantinople and the Peloponnese, at a time when the name Raoul is still found in documents, which, in his view also discredits the theory of Chatzi.

But the argument is inconclusive, either way. None of these scholars ever suggest that Ralli might be a Genoese name, which seems a possibility, given the long association—both political and economic--between Genoa and Chios. The presence of the name in Constantinople and the Peloponnese could, theoretically, result from such Genoese/Chiot merchants extending their activity to these areas, at an early date. The Argenti family of Chios, for example, is Genoese in origin, and many other Chiot families, related to the Rallis, also have Italian names, such as Sechiari, Calvocoressi, Schilizzi. The name Ralli seems, in my view, to fit the same Genoese/Chiot pattern.

Argenti suggests, following the Greek scholar G. Zolotas, that the Ralli family came to Chios in the 15th century, “either directly from Constantinople, or from the Peloponnese, where several members of the family established themselves a century earlier, thus in the 14th century.  Argenti also notes that later on, some Rallis re-settled in Constantinople.

The first surviving documented record of the Rallis in Chios is in 1511, when Michel Rali signed a petition to the Genoese relating to the monastery of Nea Moni in Chios, signing as one of the “archontes” of Chios, “representing the nobles of the island and the people in general.” By this date, the Ralli family was thus established among the leading noble families of the island, a position they retained up to the time of the Massacre of Chios in 1822.

After 1511, the Ralli name crops up in the records of Chios with great regularity, but one cannot establish a precise genealogy before 1700. The earliest marriage recorded is in 1518 between Thomas Rali and Cali Viorentina Calvocoressi.

In 1650 Cozis Ralis is described in a document as “démogéronte” of the island (meaning, one of the ruling Council). In 1759 they are cited in Dutch diplomatic records (Egmont & Heyman) as being among the five premier families of the country. Five members of the family were massacred in 1822. Many, however, were out of the country at the time, attending to their business interests already established in other locations, notably Marseilles in France. By the time of the 1822 massacre, or shortly thereafter, they had established trading outposts in Marseilles, Trieste, Livorno, Smyrna, Constantinople, Odessa, where they commanded the Russian wheat trade, shortly thereafter also in  London and Manchester, and later on in Egypt, Persia, India, Africa and the United States of America .

A printed genealogy of the Ralli family (besides that in Philip Argenti’s book Libro d’Oro de la Noblesse de Chio, Oxford Univ. Press, 1955, and besides the very extensive genealogy posted on the Internet at www.christopherlong.co.uk ) can be found in Burke’s Peerage, 105th  (1970) Edn., and/or 1998 Edn., Ralli, Bt.)

This illustrated text is a 100-page brief memoir about growing up in an English country house, moving overseas,

and then returning for a visit in May, 2006.

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