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"Out of the Long Ago" by Maud Milgate |
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Genealogy
When I started to write this book I did not mean to bring a lot of genealogy into it, but for it to be more of people and places and incidents. But genealogy motivates it and cannot be kept out. Also I am reminded of two remarks made in books I have read. The Rev. George Crabbe said when writing "Thompson", "always give the source of your information" and Lord Braybrooke in writing "Audley End" said "write down what you know even if it is not conclusive. Many people go on searching without recording and then die and take their knowledge with them" so I am writing of what I know and where I found the information. Tracing the Cornwallis pedigrees has given me a lot of interest and historical reading. I found a John Cornwallis and his wife Grace had owned land in New Buckenham in 1690 and this is only one mile from Old Buckenham but my main interest is in the family of the 4th Lord Cornwallis because this most closely coincides with the period covered by my search.
Charles 4th Lord Cornwallis was born in 1675 and died in 1722 aged 47. He married Lady Charlotte Butler, heiress of the Earl of Arran and they had twelve children, nine sons and three daughters.
Their first son Charles became the first earl but their second son John was a Captain in the Army and died at the age of 26 in 1728 in "Copenhagen Roads". This is a sea off Copenhagen and I wondered if it had any connection with Katie Reeve's statement that the "evidence was lost at sea". Captain James [John?] who lived at Wingfield and who married Sarah the daughter of the Rev. Hugh Dale. I did quite a lot of search into his descendants but it did not lead anywhere. I think he was the John Cornwallis who presented the Silver Punch bowls to Eye in 1743 as listed in the town's plate. The fifth son Richard died *
I did not succeed in finding where Mary and Mark married, but there is no doubt her father accepted the marriage. Neither do I know where they lived after the Marquis' death in India in 1805. Mary died in 1857 aged 88 and she does not appear to have any children. In any case the period of her life is too late to connect with the Shardelowes.
[Editor's note:
Although this is as it was transcribed I am sure there is a large passage missing at this point.
Mary is thought to be the daughter of Charles the 6th Lord Cornwallis.]
| Owner of original | Maud Milgate via Gerry Langford |
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