Lineage. JOHN MAYNEY, esq. of Biddenden, in Kent (descended from a very ancient family established at the Conquest, of which was the celebrated Sir Walter de Mayney, of the reign of EDWARD III.) left, by Lettice, his wife, two sons, JOHN, his heir, and Walter, of Staplehurst, sheriff of Kent 13 ELIZABETH. The elder, JOHN MAYNEY, esq. was of Biddenden, and served as sheriff in 1566, in which year he died, leaving by Margaret, his wife, daughter and heir of Ralph Johnson, of Tisehurst, two sons, Anthony and Walter. The former, ANTHONY MAYNEY, esq. of Biddenden, wedded Bridget, daughter of William Tanfield, esq. of Northamptonshire, and was father of SIR ANTHONY MAYNEY, knt. who sold his estate at Biddenden to Sir Edward Henden, one of the barons of the Exchequer temp. CHARLES I. and purchased Linton, in Kent. His son and heir, WALTER MAYNEY, esq. of Linton, was father of 1. SIR JOHN MAYNEY, knt. of Linton, who was created a BARONET in 1641. During the civil wars, Sir John was one of the most devoted adherents of royalty, and in the cause of his ill-fated master, spent all his estate. Linton he sold to Sir Francis Withens, and it eventually became the property of the Manns. Sir John m. Mary, daughter of Sir Peter Ricaut, of Aylesford, Kent, and died about the year 1676, leaving a son and successor, II. SIR ANTHONY MAYNEY, who died unm. in 1706, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. This unfortunate gentleman, male heir of one of the most eminent Kentish families, and son of a gallant cavalier who had sacrificed a great estate in the service of his king, is stated to have died of actual want, his brother, broken down by indigence, having previously, in 1694, committed suicide. Arms-Party per pale arg. and sa. three chevronels between as many cinquefoils counterchanged. MERCES, OF FRANCE. CREATED in 1660. Lineage. 1. MONSIEUR ANTHONY DE MERCES, was created a BARONET in 1660, but of him, or his descendants, nothing further is known. Those may possibly still exist in France, and this BARONETCY not be EXTINCT. Lineage. This, an ancient family of the principality of Wales, traced its descent from EUNYDD GWERNGWY, a chieftain of North Wales, and head of one of the fifteen tribes. ROWLAND MEREDITH, of Alington, who assumed the surname since borne by his descendants, married Elizabeth. daughter of Edward Brereton, of Borasham, and was s. by his son, JOHN MEREDITH, of Alington, who m. Catherine, daughter of John ap Iolyn ap Madoc, and had two sons, JOHN, coutinuator of the line of Alington, and RICHARD MEREDITH, seated at Pentrebychan, in Denbighshire, who m. Jane, daughter and heir of Morgan ap David ap Robert, and had issue, WILLIAM (Sir), Hugh, whose descendant, HENRY WARTER-MEREDITH, esq. is still resident at Pentrebychan Hall. (Refer to BURKE's Commoners, vol. iii. p. 425.) The elder son, SIR WILLIAM MEREDITH, of Stansley, in the county of Denbigh, and of Leeds Abbey, in Kent, who was treasurer and paymaster of the army, temp. ELIZABETH and JAMES, m. Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. of Wingham, by whom (who wedded, secondly, John, Earl of Carbury) he had issue, WILLIAM, his heir. Anne, m. first, to Sir Robert Brett; and secondly, He was s. at his decease by his son, 1. WILLIAM MEREDITH, esq. of Stansley, who was created a BARONET, 13th August, 1622. Sir William m. Susanna daughter of Francis Barker, esq. of London, and had issue, RICHARD, his heir, Roger, one of the masters in Chancery, m. Anne, Elizabeth, m. to Sir Henry Oxenden, of Dean, in He m. secondly, Mrs. Aynscombe, relict of Thomas Aynscombe, esq. and sister of Sir Henry Goring, bart. but by her had no other children. He d. 10th April, 1675, and was s. by his son, II. SIR RICHARD MEREDITH, who married Susanna, daughter of Philip Skippen, esq. of Tobsham, in Norfolk, the noted parliamentary commander, as Majorgeneral Skippen, and had, with five daughters, who all d. unm. six sons, viz. WILLIAM, third baronet. Henry, a colonel in the army, who m. 12th April, 1709, Mary, daughter and heir of Walter Atwood, gent. of Hackney, and had an only daughter, SUSANNA, died unm. RICHARD, fourth baronet. Thomas, was knight of the shire for Kent, 12 Philip, d. unm. before his father. ROGER, S. as fifth baronet. He was s. by his eldest son, III. SIR WILLIAM MEREDITH, who died unm. about 1682, and was s. by his brother, IV. SIR RICHARD MEREDITH, who also died unm. in August, 1723, and was s. by his youngest brother, V. SIR ROGER MEREDITH, of Leeds Abbey, in Kent, M. P. for that county, 1727, who m. Mary, daughter of Francis Tyssen, esq. of Shacklewell, and widow of Samuel Gott, esq. but d. s. p. 3rd January, 1739, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED. The estate of Leeds Abbey passed, under Sir Roger's will, to his niece, Susanna Meredith, and was eventually sold in 1765, to John Calcraft, esq. of Ingress. THOMAS MEUX, esq. of Kingston, left a son and heir, SIR WILLIAM MEUX, knt. of Kingston, who m. Jane, daughter of Richard Cooke, esq. of Rustington, in Sussex, and had issue, William, who died in France. John, m. Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Blenner- The second son, and eventual heir, RICHARD MEUX, esq. of Kingston, married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Cooke, esq. of Harbridge and Somerley, in Hampshire, and had three sons and two daughters, viz. John, m. in 1582, a daughter of Hill of Bishops town. Elizabeth, m. to William Bethell, gent. of Hyde, near Winchester. Jane, m. to John Worsley, esq. of Apuldercombe. The eldest son and heir, WILLIAM MEUX, esq. of Kingston, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Strangways, kut. and had issue, JOHN (Sir), his heir. Anne, m. to Edward White, esq. of Winchelsea. Eleanor, m. to William Okedon, esq. of Elling. ham, in the county of Southampton. He was s. by his son, SIR JOHN MEUX, knt, of Kingston, who m. Cecilie, daughter of Sir William Button, knt. of Alton, Wilts. and had issue, WILLIAM (Sir), his heir. Bartholomew, of Lesland, in the Isle of Wight, buried at Kingston, 19th December, 1650, called in his will (proved 23rd June, 1632), of Brixton, in the Isle of Wight, m. Radcliffe, daughter of William Gerard, esq. of Harrow-on-the-Hill, and from this marriage descended SIR HENRY MEUX, bart. of Theobald's Park, Herts, the eminent London brewer. (Refer to BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage.) Eleanor, m. to William Compton, esq. of Hartbury, in the county of Gloucester. Mary, m. to William Higford, esq. of Dixon, in the county of Gloucester, This Sir John Meux entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Hants, in 1622. He was s. at his decease by his elder son, SIR WILLIAM MEUX, knt. of Kingston, living in 1641, who m. first, Winifred, daughter of Sir Francis Barrington, bart. of Barrington Hall, in the county of Essex, and had issue, Anne, of Westminster, d. unm. in 1728. He d. in February, 1657, and was s. by his son, II. SIR WILLIAM MEUX, who m. first, Mabel, daughter of Sir Robert Dillington, bart. of Knighton, in the Isle of Wight, and by that lady had four children, who all died young. He wedded, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of George Browne, esq. of Buckland, in Surrey, and by her had WILLIAM, his successor. Henry, aged three years in 1694, d. unm. ELIZABETH, m. 2nd May, 1710, to Sir John Miller, ELEANOR KINGSTON, m. William Drew, and left a son and heir, JOHN DREW, of Kingston, grandfather of the lady mentioned above, ALICE DREW, as marrying Lodovick Meux. CHRISTOPHER MYERS, esq. of Monkstown, in the county of Dublin, formerly of Whitehaven, in the county of Cumberland, m. Jean Graham, second cousin to James, 3rd Duke of Montrose, and d. 27th June, 1789, aged 72; leaving by her (who d. 15th Jan. 1803), 1. Graham, b. in 1748, d. 18th Jan. 1801, aged 51, leaving issue, by Pleasance his wife*, who d. 17th Sept. 1809, three daughters, 1. Jane, m. 9th Nov. 1815, Francis Waskett, gent., (now Sir Francis Waskett-Myers, K.C.S. &c. &c., of Chester Street, London, and Pentlow Hall, Essex), who, 24th Jan. 1818, on the male line of the family of Myers becoming extinct, by the deaths, in His Majesty's military service, of the three uncles and three cousins of his wife, assumed, under the authority of the king's sign manual, the name and arms of Myers, in addition to his own family name and arms; and to whom, in acknowledgment of the services of the second baronet, It.-colonel Sir William James Myers, who fell at Albuera, Ferdinand VII., in 1824, (with the consent of the British government), sent, through his minister at St. James's, a diploma and jewel of the royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles III.; and in 1825, a second diploma, to a higher class in the order, with especial privileges. 2. Pleasance, m, to Admiral Carthew of Wood- 3. Emily, born 12th Aug. 1789, m. 26th June 2. Thomas Carthew, b. 12th May, 1809, She was daughter of George Cockrein, gent., who d. in 1778, of Harwich, in the county of Essex, (a branch of the House of Dundonald,) who m. Mary, daughter of Moore, of Kentwell Hall, in Long Melford, and had issue, 1. George, who d. in India unm. 2. Anna, m. George Thomas, esq. of Kesgrave, in Suf- 3. Pleasance, m. Graham Myers, esq. as above. 5. Elizabeth, who also d. unm. 3. Pleasance Jane, b. 2nd Jan. 1811, d. 23rd May, 1818. 4. Graham Myers, b. 29th Aug. 1812, d. March 1836, leaving a widow, enciente of a son now living. 5. George Thomas, b. 27th May, 1814, now living, and an officer in the East India Company's service. 6. Edward Sabine John, b. 16th Sept. 1815, in holy orders. 7. Francis Waskett Milward, b. 17th May, 1817. 8. Pleasance Jane, b. 1819, d. 1825. 9. John, b. 29th August, 1821. 10. Jane Anna. 11. William Waldegrave. 11. JOHN, of Temple Park, co. Down, d. 17th March, 1795, m. Jane Johnson, who d. 10th January, 1807, and left issue, 1. CHRISTOPHER, d. at Quebec, 3rd Nov. 1817, a lieutenant-colonel in the army, major in the 99th regiment, and deputy quarter master general of the forces in Lower Canada; m. first, Mary, daughter of James M'Evers, esq., of New York, by whom he had no issue; and secondly, Lydia Amelia, daughter of Michael Head, esq., of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, by whom he left issue, two infant daughters only, who survived their father a few months. 1. Jane Elizabeth, b. 18th Oct. 1815, d. 30th Sept. 1818, 2. Emily Mary, b. 18th July, 1817, d. 2nd March, 1818. 2. James, captain of the 15th Foot, d. unm. in 1805, at Barbadoes. 3. Mary Maccannon, m. David Barr, esq., now lieutenant-colonel in the service of the East India Company. and has issue several children. III. WILLIAM, third son, created a baronet, of whom presently; IV. CHRISTOPHER, an officer in the royal artillery, m. a daughter of Colonel Rawlinson, and d. in Canada, s. p. V. RANDLE-MACDONALD, a major in the army, and brigade major in the county of Wicklow, during the troubles in Ireland, m. Ellenor, eldest daughter of Matthew Daly, esq., of Mornington, in the county of Westmeath, and d. 4th March, 1805, s. p. VI. ELIZABETH, M.The third son, Alleyn, esq., and d. s. p. I. WILLIAM MYERS, esq. b. at Whitehaven, 1st March, 1750-1, who attained the rank of lieutenantgeneral in the army, with the colonelcy of the 2nd West India regiment, was created a BARONET 3rd July, 1804. He had been successively governor of Tobago, commander-in-chief of the Southern district of Ireland, and commander-in-chief of His Majesty's forces in the Leeward Islands. Sir William m. in August, 1779, Elizabeth, dau. of James M'Evers, esq. of New York (she d. 14th Dec. 1814), and had issue, 1. WILLIAM-JAMES, his successor, b. in Park Street, Dublin, 27th November, 1783. 2. Eliza, b. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in February 1782, m. at Cork, in 1801, to Captain William Erskine (of the 16th Foot), of Cardross Castle, N. B., and died in France, in 1837, s. p. The general died at Barbadoes, 29th July, 1805, and was s. by his son, II. SIR WILLIAM-JAMES MYERS, a lieutenant-colonel of the 7th or Fusileer regiment, who fell at the battle of Albuera, 16th May, 1811, in a charge at the head of 351 the Fusileer brigade* under his command, at the age of 27, and unm.; upon which event the BARONETCY BECAME EXTINCT. A national monument was voted by the House of Commons to his memory, and has been erected in St. Paul's Cathedral; on which is recorded an extract from the following letter, addressed by his illustrious commander, the Duke of Wellington, to Lady Myers, his mother : "MADAM, "I cannot allow the despatches, which I am now sending to England, to go away, without writing a few lines to condole with your Ladyship upon the severe loss of which they convey the intelligence. Although the mind of the wife and mother of soldiers must be in some degree prepared to receive intelligence of this description, it cannot be expected that you should not be severely afflicted by the loss which you have sustained; and I do not address your Ladyship with the hope that any thing I can write will have the immediate effect of allevi ating your sorrow. "It must, however, be some consolation to you hereafter, to know that your son fell in an action, in which, if possible, the British troops surpassed all their former deeds, and at the head of the fusileer brigade, to which a great part of the final success of the day was to be attributed. "As an officer, he had already been highly distinguished, and if Providence had prolonged his life, he promised to become one of the brightest ornaments to his profession, and to increase the military reputation of his family, and to be an honour to his country. "I could not deny myself the melancholy satisfaction of communicating to you my sense of your late son's merits, in hopes that, at some future period, the occasion and mode of his death, as well as this evidence of my favourable opinion of him, under whose command he had served for some time, may alleviate your affliction. I have the honour to be, Madam, Arms Arg. on the sea proper, an ancient ship at anchor, with three masts, on each a single yard across, the sails furled, sable, colours flying gu. (and as an honourable augmentation granted to General Sir William Myers, 12th June, 1804, to be borne by him and his descendants, and also by the descendants of his late brothers Graham Myers, and John Myers, with due and proper differences), on a canton of the last, a baton or, and a sword also proper, pomel and hilt gold, in saltire, encircled by a mural crown arg, and for the crest, on a wreath of the colours, a mermaid proper, her waist also encircled by a mural crown or, [a mullet for difference]. The Fusileer Brigade was formed of the 7th and 23rd regiments, and had only left the trenches before Badajos in the night, and when they arrived at Albuera at nine in the morning, the battle was already far gone, and success more than doubtful; the Spaniards had been driven from heights which commanded the combined lines, the first brigade had fallen back, and the retreat, it is said, was sounded. To General, afterwards Sir Lowry, Cole, in whose division was the fusileer brigade, Sir William Myers expressed his anxiety for orders to advance,-the moment was critical, Sir William eagerly entreated permission to lead on his brigade, and when, at length, he succeeded in obtaining permission, he shewed the highest satisfaction, and turning to his brigade, he exclaimed, "It will be a glorious day for the fusileers!" slowly they moved on, bearing with them the fate of the army: the order and exact line preserved by Sir William's exertions, in ascending the hill, of which the enemy had gained possession, was remarked by every officer of either army. His horse was wounded under him, he proceeded on foot, giving his men an example of that unconquerable spirit they throughout displayed: another charger was brought, which he had hardly mounted, when the fatal shot struck him, passing from under the hip, upward, in an oblique direction, through the intestines; he continued, with his wonted firmness, to address his soldiers. It became necessary, however, to take him from his horse, and he was carried off the field by his trusty comrades, expressing more pride at their conduct, than sense of his own sufferings, and only regretting his separation from his gallant fusileers; thus closing a career not less brilliant to himself, than its premature termination was destructive to the hopes and honours of his family. 1. HUGH MIDDLETON, of Ruthyn, in Denbighshire, (younger brother of Thomas, ancestor of the MIDDLETONS of Chirke), a citizen and goldsmith of London, the projector of the New River Company, was created a BARONET in 1622, and died in 1631. By his will, dated 21st November, 1631, he bequeathed to each of his children by name, except John and Hugh, his two eldest sons (who died before the making of his will), and William, his third son, and Jane, the wife of Dr. Chamberlen (to whom he had before given their full portions), a pecuniary legacy, and also devised to each of them, after the decease of his wife, one share in the New River water. He devised another share to the then Court of Assistants of the Goldsmiths' Company, London, and their successors, upon trust, to dispose of the profits every balf-year, after the death of his wife, in weekly portions of twelve-pence a piece to the poor of the Company of Goldsmiths, at the discretion of the wardens and assistants, and "especial to such poor men of my name, kindred, or country, as are or shall be free of the said company." He m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Olmstead, esq., of Ingateston, in Essex, and had issue, WILLIAM, Successor to his father. Henry, bapt. at St. Matthew, London, 14th June 1607; died before 1678, leaving two sons, William, supposed to have died s. p. Henry, b. about the year 1662; became an inhabitant of the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street, 25th December, 1614; and died at an advanced age. He had been twice married, and left issue, Starkey, b. 3rd April, 1688, who practised physic in London, and had a son, Henry, also a medical man in London, who d. s. p. 9th September, 1759; and a daughter, who was living in 1792, the widow of Dr. Jubb. Henfo, bapt. 1699; died at West Ham, in Essex, 1726, leaving a son, Starkey, and a dau. Anna-Maria,living in 1792, wife of W. Grandpreet. SIMON, who had four sons, viz. Simon (died at Constantinople in 1678), Hugh, Benjamin, and Hezekiah; and five daughters, Sarah, Hannah, Anne, Elizabeth. and Rebecca. Jane, m. to Peter Chamberlen, M.D. of London, and was grandmother of This STARKEY MIDDLETON was born at West Ham, 7th June, 1719; was married at St. Luke's, Middlesex, 2nd March, 1741; and died at Hoxton in September, 1709, leaving four children, viz. 1. Joseph, who d. in 1787, leaving Susannah, Mary, Elizabeth, and Joseph. II. Elizabeth, m, a Mr. Smith, and had Henry. III. Jabez, who had Elizabeth, Anne, and Jane, IV. Martha, living unmarried in 1792. HUGH CHAMBERLEN, M.D. of Alderton Hall, who m. first, Mary, daughter and sole heir of Nathaniel Bacon, esq. of Friston Hall, Suffolk; and secondly, Mary, Lady Crewe, daughter of Sir Willoughby Aston, bart. of Aston, in Cheshire. By the former he left three daughters, his co-heirs, MARY, d. unm. ANNA-MARIA, Mm. to the Right Hon. Ed- CHARLOTTE, M. to Richard Luther, esq. 11. Hester, m. to Richard Price, esq. III. Elizabeth. iv. Ann. Sir Hugh's eldest surviving son and successor, II. SIR WILLIAM MIDDELTON, m. Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Harris, bart. of Shrewsbury, and had issue, HUGH, his heir. Elizabeth, who had four New River shares. She m. John Greene, of Enfield, clerk to the New River Company; and dying in childbed, December, 1675, in her forty-third year, was buried in the north aisle of Enfield Church, where a monument was erected to her memory. She left two sons, Giles and William, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine, one of whom married Mr. North, a brewer. The younger son, WILLIAM GRENE, esq. m. Jane, daughter of Hamey Burwell, of Enfield, merchant, and by her, who d. in 1767, had an only daughter and heiress, JANE GRENE, who m. the Rev. Richard Ellicombe, A. B. of Balliol College, Oxford, who recovered, in right of his wife, after a lawsuit, four New River shares. He died in 1778 (his widow survived until 1786), leaving issue, RichardAmey-Burwell, who d. s. p.; WILLIAM, of whom presently; Hugh Myddelton; and Jane. The second son, THE REV. WILLIAM ELLICOMBE, A. B. curate of Exmouth, b. in 1745; wedded, in 1773, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Rous, esq. of Exeter; and was father of the present REV. HENRY-THOMAS ELLACOMBE, vicar of Bitton, in Gloucestershire. Sir William was s. at his decease by his son, 111. SIR HUGH Middelton, who appears to have d. s. p. in 1675, when the BARONETCY ceased to be assumed, but it certainly was not then EXTINCT, nor, in all probability, has it since expired. Arms-Arg. on a pile vert, three wolves' or griffins' heads erased of the field. Elizabeth, m. to John Lane, of London, merchant. Rebecca, m. to William Barnham, esq. mayor of Norwich, and was mother of a daughter, Sarah, the wife of Charles Wood, esq. of London. Simon Middelton's fourth wife was Mrs. Mary Ellis, widow, daughter of Sir Samuel Luke, knt. of Bedfordshire, who survived him, and wedded for her third husband Mr. Barrington, of London and Hoxton, and after his decease Mr. Blackerby. Simon Middelton was s. by his eldest son, I. HUGH MIDDELTON, esq. of Hackney, in Middlesex, who was created a BARONET in 1681. He m. Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Oglander, bart. of Nunwell, in the Isle of Wight, and by her, from whom he was divorced by act of parliament, had an only daughter, DOROTHY, m.to Henry Berkeley, esq. of the Middle Temple, and d. in 1735. Sir Hugh spent all his estate, and died in obscurity about the commencement of the eighteenth century, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. Hugh Middelton, who resided in the parish of Kemberton, Shropshire, under the assumed name of William Raymond, and died 10th March, 1702, is supposed to have been Sir Hugh, the baronet. Arms-As Middelton oF RUTHYN. |