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THE

GENEALOGIST’S
GUIDE.

BY

GEORGE W. MARSHALL, LL.D.,
ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT or ARMS.

’Enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers.’
--Job viii. 8.

’It is asserted after much reflection that there is scarcely an important fact in the annals of this
country but either had its origin or became intimately involved in a point of Genealogy.’
--Sir Harris Nicolas, in ’Memoir of A. Vincent, ’ p. 4.

PRIVATELYPRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY
BILLING AND SONS, GUILDFORD.
1903.

ADVICE
TO

READ THE PREFACE
BEFORE YOU CONSULT THE BOOK.

PREFACE

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THE ’Genealogist’s Guide’ having been accepted by the public as a useful book of
reference renders it almost unnecessary to do more by way of preface than
recapitulate the plan which has been followed in constructing it.

It will be asked what kind of genealogy I have considered a pedigree of sufficient
importance to be catalogued here. My answer is, that as a general rule, I have

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included any descent of three generations in male line. A pedigree, therefore,
which sets forth the descendants of A in the families of B, C, and D, is referred to
under such of the families of B, C, and D, as happen to have three generations in
male line given in it; if there be only two and an heiress, it is not noticed.
Exceptions to this rule are, however, frequent in references to works such as
Peerages and Baronetages, my object being not so much to index every existing
genealogy as to place the intelligent student in a position to find out the sources
from which he may obtain a clue to the particular pedigree he is searching for.
This observation also applies to the references given to ’Notes and Queries,’
which in no degree pretend to supersede the necessity of consulting for purposes
of genealogical reference the general indexes to that periodical. So far, indeed, as
’Notes and Queries’ is concerned, reference is often made only to one or two out
of many articles relating to a particular family; but it will be found sufficient to
give those consulting the book a clue to further information, as the articles in that
publication are headed by references to such as have previously appeared in it.

’Pulls’ from the publications of Archaeological Societies, and Periodicals have
been carefully excluded from this book, unless they contain additional matter to
that given in the work in which their contents originally appeared.

When, as is frequently the case with county histories, a book has passed through
more than one edition, reference is made to the best or most easily accessible
edition. In consulting the following pages it is therefore necessary to bear in mind
that references to

Dugdale's Warwickshire are to the 2nd Edition (Thomas's).
Chauncy's Hertfordshire are to the 1st Edition.
Erdeswicke's Survey of Staffordshire are to the 3rd Edition.
Whitaker's Deanery of Craven  are to the 1st Edition.
Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis are to the 1st Edition.
Hunter's Hallamshire are to the New Edition 1869 fol.
Ashmole's Berkshire are to the 2nd Edition.

Morant's Essex are to the 2nd Edition.

Blomefield's Norfolk are to the 8vo. Edition.

Hasted's Kent are to the folio Edition.

Hutchins' Dorset are to the 3rd Edition.

Gregson's Portfolio of Fragments are to the 3rd Edition.
Dallaway's Sussex are to the 1st Edition.

Burton's Leicestershire are to the 2nd Edition.

Thoroton's Nottinghamshire are to the 2nd Edition.

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Whitaker’s History of Whalley are to the 4th Edition.

Baines’s Lancaster 3 are to the Edition of 1836.

T. Nicholas’s County Families of Wales are to the 2nd Edition.
Ormerod’s Cheshire are to the 2nd Edition (Helsby’s).
Watson’s History of Halifax are to the 1st Edition.

Wotton’s English Baronetage are to the Edition of 1741.

The references to ’Glover’s Derbyshire’ are to the 4to. edition, and the figures in
parentheses refer to the 8vo. edition. Those portions of the publications of the
Powys-land Club which have been re-issued as ’The History of Llangurig’ and
’The Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire,’ are referred to under those headings.

The references to ’Topographical Miscellanies,’ 1792, 4to., of which work, edited
by Sir E. Brydges, only one volume was issued, have the places under which
pedigrees will be found in parentheses, there being no continuous pagination.

When a pedigree is on a folding table, the page which, it faces is given. To some
books no page is cited; in such cases it must be understood that they are not
paged.

It should be remembered when consulting the references to Burke’s ’History of
the Commoners,’ that the second and subsequent editions of that work bear the
title ’Landed Gentry.’ In these the pedigrees (except in a few instances) being in
alphabetical order, the page where a pedigree will be found is not given, the
number appended being that of the edition in which it is contained. When, as
often happens, more than one family of the same name occurs, its place of
residence is given in parentheses, a plan necessary to avoid confusion, and to
show that more that one genealogy will be found in the edition referred to. The
abbreviation add.= addenda; supp.=supplement; corr.=corrigenda. To the fifth
edition there are two supplements. The sixth edition was re-issued in 1882, with
an amended supplement. This book contains references to only the first eight
editions. The Landed Gentry being now issued at much more frequent intervals
than formerly it seems unnecessary to index each edition as it comes out.

Burkes ’Extinct Baronetcies’ contains a large number of pedigrees not to be
found elsewhere. These pedigrees being in alphabetical order, no page is given;
but to those of Baronets of Ireland and Scotland, and descents which are
subsidiary to others, the page has been added.

The words ’Caermarthenshire Pedigrees,’ ’Cardiganshire Pedigrees,’ and

’Pembrokeshire Pedigrees,’ refer to a book entitled ’Pedigrees of
Caermarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire, in continuation of Lewis

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Dwnn, to about the years 1700-10. From the MS. of John Philipps Allen Lloyd
Philipps, Esq., of Dale Castle, co. Pembroke. Typis Medio Montanis, 1859.’ Fol.
Privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. Sir Thomas Phillipps printed a
considerable number of pedigrees on separate sheets, many of them signed with
his initials and sometimes the date of the year when printed thus--T. P., 1870. I
have marked all those I know with the initials T. P., and the date when given. An
extensive collection of them will be found in the Bodleian Library, from which
most of my references are taken.

As a general rule, the surname of a family is the heading under which its
genealogy should be sought; but to this one exception is frequently made, viz.,
where there is a peerage title. In searching, therefore, for titled families, it is
necessary to look both under the surname and also under the title, reference
being avoidably made now to the one and again to the other. When a family has a
double surname the references to both names should be consulted. It must also be
borne in mind that many names are spelt in several different ways, so that it is
necessary to look under all the various ways in which any name can be spelt.
Cross references have been added to assist the reader, especially to such as are
not familiar to those who are unaccustomed to genealogical researches.

To have given references in this Work to the pedigrees contained in all the
Peerages and Baronetages which have been published during the last two
hundred years would have increased its cost and size without being a
proportionate aid to the reader. But references to the most important Peerages,
and Baronetages, e.g., Dugdale’s ’Baronage,’ Brydges’ ’Collins,’ Edmondson’s
’Baronagium Genealogicum,’ etc., have been added. Lists of the principal works
of this class will be found in Mr. Richard Sims’s ’Manual for the Genealogist,’ a
book so well known as to render it unnecessary to repeat them here. Peerages of
England at p. 180, Scotland at p. 187, and Ireland at p. 188. There is also a list of
Royal Genealogies at p. 178. Since my first edition was issued, the Index Society
has published (vol. v.) ’An Index of Hereditary English, Scottish, and Irish Titles
of Honour,’ by Edward Solly, F.R.S., F.S.A., a valuable work, and indispensable
to every genealogical inquirer who wishes to make a complete search in reference
to any name one of whose bearers has been raised to the dignity of a Peer or
Baronet.

Private Acts of Parliament frequently contain much genealogical information; a
collection in thirty-nine folio volumes is in the Guildhall Library, with MS.
pedigrees by Sir George Naylor, an index to them will be found in ’Genealogical
Queries,’ by G. F. T. Sherwood, vol. i., p. 21, etc.

The numbers of the Session Papers, printed by order of the House of Lords,
which are given as references to the evidence taken on claims to Peerages and to

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vote at the elections of Irish Peers, refer to the number at the bottom of each
paper. The volume in which the paper will be found can be ascertained by
referring to the General Indexes to the Sessional Papers. Though these give the
page as well as the volume, it would be useless here to refer to the page, because
it is the MS. page of the copy arranged for the library of the House of Lords, and
not the page at which the particular paper inquired for would be found. An
explanatory note to this effect will be seen at the commencement of the General
Indexes.

Mention of other works of the same kind as this may not be considered out of
place. Sims’s ’Index to the Heralds’ Visitations’ is a useful guide to the MS.
collections in the British Museum, though inaccurate and incomplete. The
’Heraldic Calendar,’ by William Skey, published in 1846, gives a list of pedigrees
and arms recorded in Ulster’s Office at Dublin Castle. Whitmore’s ’Handbook of
American Genealogy’ contains much information relative to the pedigrees of
English families whose descendants have settled in America. Durrie’s ’
Alphabetical Index to American Genealogies’ gives references to the pedigrees in
books published in America, and may frequently be consulted with advantage by
English readers. There is a useful list of claims to Scottish Peerages, from 1788-
1838, in the ’Gentleman’s Magazine’ for April, 1839. A catalogue of foreign
genealogies will be found in Moule’s ’Bibliotheca Heraldica,’ pp. 619-648. ’L’Art
de vérifier les Généalogies des Families Belges et Hollandaises,' par J. Huyttens
(Brussels, 1865, 8vo.), is a work similar to several of those already mentioned. A
work, entitled ‘A Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts relating to English
and Foreign Heraldry and Genealogy,‘ by George Gatfield, containing inter alia a
list of family histories, pedigrees, and peerage cases, will be found useful. As I
have not been able to discover the method pursued by the author of this
compilation, I refer the reader to it, merely remarking that by including in his list
of pedigrees such works as ‘DEVIL. The Pedigree of the Devil, by Frederic T.
Hall. Lond., 1883, 8vo.,' it will be obvious that his researches into genealogical
literature take a much lower range than mine.

The following pedigree indexes are useful, and should be borne in mind:

Genealogical Memoranda. List of Pedigrees in the Candler MS., Harleian MS.
6,071. By G. F. T. Sherwood. Brechin, 1895, 8vo., pp. 4.

Tyssen Library Pedigrees. Genealogical Queries. By G. F. T. Sherwood, i. 7, 15.

Glover's Collection. Harleian MS. 245. Genealogical Queries. By G. F. T.
Sherwood, i. 29.

Hasted and Rowe More's Kentish Pedigrees. Add. MS. 5,528. Genealogical
Queries. By G. F. T. Sherwood, i. 63, 69.

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In inquiries of a genealogical nature, biographical memoirs should not be
overlooked, as they often supply information of great value. Phillip’s ’Dictionary
of Biographical Reference’ is an index to the best-known biograpical dictionaries.
The dictionary of National Biography is an indispensable work, and should find a
place on the shelves of every genealogist. ’The Scottish Nation,’ by William
Anderson, Edinburgh, 1863, 8vo., three vols., though professedly a biographical
dictionary, contains extensive pedigrees of many Scottish families.

In deference to the wishes of many persons who have told me that they have
derived advantage from this book, I give a list of the volumes issued by the
Harleian Society explanatory of their contents:

Vol.

i.

ii.

iii.

iv.

v.

vi.

vii.

viii.

ix.

xi.

xii.

xiii and xiv.
xv.

xvi.

xvii.

xviii.

xix.

xx.

xxi.

xxii.

xxvii.

xxviii and xxix.
xxxii.
xxxvii to xl.

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The Visitation of London, 1568.

The Visitation of Leicestershire, 1619.

The Visitation of Rutland, 1618.

The Visitations of Nottingham, 1569 and 1614.
The Visitations of Oxford, 1566, 1574, and 1634.
The Visitation of Devon, 1620.

The Visitation of Cumberland, 1615.

Le Neve’s Catalogue of Knights.

The Visitation of Cornwall, 1620.

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623.

The Visitation of Warwickshire, 1619.

The Visitations of Essex, 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612, and 1634.
The Visitation of London, 1633-4, vol i.

The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1564.

The Visitation of London, 1633-4, vol. ii.

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580.

The Visitations of Bedfordshire, 1566, 1582, and 1634.
The Visitation of Dorset, 1623.

The Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623.

The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634.
The Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569.

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623.

The Visitations of Norfolk, 1563 and 1613.
Hunter’s Familiae Minorum Gentium.

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xli. The Visitations of Cambridgeshire, 1575 and 1619.
xlii. The Visitation of Kent, 1619.
xliii. The Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572, and 1623.

It should also be added that Surtees Soc., vol. xli., is Tonge’s Visitation of the
Northern Counties, and vol. xxxvi. Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6.
Camden Soc., vol. xliii., is the Visitation of Huntingdon, 1613. The Visitations of
Lancashire, 1533, 1567, 1613, and 1664-5, will be found in the vols. of the
Chetham Soc., lxXXi., lXxXii., lXxxiV., lXXXv., lXxxviii., Xcviii., and ex.

An index, embracing as this does the pedigrees contained in every important
genealogical and topographical work, as well as those in many of minor
importance, is certain to contain some errors both of omission and commission.
For such I crave indulgence, and to use the expression of an old heraldic writer,
’All errors and mistakings as shall fall out, I entreat the Learned-modest Reader
to correct with his Pen.’

G.W.M.

1 The pages in parentheses refer to the third edition, which has been published
since the first edition of this work was compiled.

2 References to Cr0st0n’s Edition have been added to this edition of the Guide.

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ABADAM.
Burke’s Landed Gentry, 2, 3, 4, 5.
See AP ADAM.

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ABAROUGH, or ABARROW.

Collinson’s Somerset, ii. 63.

Berry’s Hampshire Genealogies, 265.

Visitation of Somerset, printed by Sir T. Phillipps, 1.
Harleian Society, xi. 1.

Hampshire Visitations, printed by Sir T. Phillipps, 1.
Weaver’s Visitations of Somerset, 1.

ABBIS, or ABBYS.
Harleian Society, xix. 73; xxxii. 1.

ABBOT, or ABBOT.
Pedigree of Abbot of Suffolk. Single sheet, 1862.
Surrey Archaeological Collections, ii.; iii. 265.

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Visitation of Devonshire, 1620, printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, (Middle Hill,

fol.) 1.

Visitation of Wiltshire, 1677, printed by Sir T. Phillipps, (Middle Hill, 1854, fol.).

Harleian Society, vi. 1; xxxix. 1137; Xliii. 90.
Visitatio Comitatus Wiltoniae, 1623, printed by Sir T. Phillipps.

Abram's History of Blackburn, 589. Notes and Queries, 1 S. ix. 105, 233, 458.

The Visitations of Devon, edited by J. L. Vivian, 1, 704.
Burke's Colonial Gentry, ii. 420.
Oliver's History of Antigua, i. 1.

ABDY.

Hasted's Kent, iii. 510.

Morant's Essex, i. 177; ii. 152.

Berry's Essex Genealogies, 7.

J ewitt's Reliquary, vii. 17.

Visitation of London, 1634, printed by Sir T. Phillipps, 1.
Burke's Landed Gentry, 2.

Manning and Bray's Surrey, iii. 203.

Wright's Essex, ii. 411.

Surrey Archaeological Collections, vii.

Harleian Society, xiv. 627; Xliii. 148.

Wotton's English Baronetage, ii. 187; iii. 26.

Betham's Baronetage, i. 390.

Burke's Extinct Baronetcies.

Bysshe's Visitation of Essex, edited by J. J. Howard, 3.

A BECKETT. Burke's Colonial Gentry, i. 145.

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ABEELS.
Harleian Society, xv. 1.

ABELL, or ABELLS.

Morant’s Essex, ii. 228, 230.

Visitation of London, 1634, printed by Sir T. Phillipps, 1.
Lipscombe’s History of the County of Buckingham, i. 164
Harleian Society, XV. 2.

Bysshe’s Visitation of Essex, edited by J. J. Howard, 4.

ABERCROMBY.
Burke’s Commoners, iii. 1.
Nisbet’s Heraldry, ii.

The Genealogist’s Guide
by
George W. Marshall
Guilford.
Published for the Author by Billing and Sons.
1903

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