Volume 4

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

  • Burke, John, 1787-1848.
Date:
1833-1838
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Credit: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WARD, OF SALIIOUSE. WARD, ROBERT, esq. of Salhouse Hall, in the county of Norfolk, b. 3rd Sep- tember, 1767, m. 20th December, 1794, Lydia, third daughter of Richard Rawle, esq.*' of Liskeard and Trevill, in the county of Cornwall, and has had issue, i. Robert, b. in 1795, who whilst serving as a midship- man on board H. M. S. Topaz, was mortally wounded in an attack on the North Fort of Mocha, in the Red Sea, 7th December, 1820. ii. Richard, b. 14th June, 1799. in. William-Henry, b. in 1801, a student for holy orders, of Exeter College, Oxford, d. 8th December, 1819. i. Lydia, b, in 1797, m. to her cousin, William Ward, esq. and d. 12th October, 1834, leaving issue one daughter, Elizabeth Ward. Her widower m. secondly, 5th No- vember, 1835, Sarah, second daughter of the late Francis Hopkinson, esq. of Peterborough. II. Frances, b. in 1808, d. in 1825. This gentleman, formerly an officer in the royal navy, whilst serving as a midship- i man on board the Monmouth, in the fleet commanded by Sir Edward Hughes, was in 'Six general actions in India, from 1780 to 1784, in one of which he was seriously wounded by a splinter from a gun-shot, and for some time considered lifeless. Mr. Ward is in the commission of the peace for the county of Norfolk, and succeeded to his estates on the demise of his mother in 1828. Htneagr. The Wards have long been seated in the ccounty of Norfolk; they held adjoining estates at Walcotte and Happisburgh, in the s sixteenth century, which have descended in < direct succession from father to son to the ; present generation. In the reign of James I. v we find by a document still preserved, that i needy monarch, when issuing his privy seal • for the purpose of raising money, including amongst his loyal subjects Robert Ward, of 'Walcotte: “ To our trusty and wel beloved Robert Ward, of Walcotte. “ BY THE KING. u Trustie and welbeloved, Wee greete you well. Having observed| in the presi- dents and custome of former times, that all the kings and queenes of this realme, upon extraordinary occasions, have used either to ^ resort to those contributions which arise from the generalitie of subjects, or to the private helpes of some well affected in par- ticular, by way of loane : in which later course wee being at this time inforced to proceed, for some supply of some portions of treasure for divers publique services, and particularly for continuing and encreasing our magazines in some large proportion, in our realme of Ireland, in our navie, and in our fortes: (in all which greater summes have bene expended of late, both in build- ing, and repairing, and in making sundry provisions, then have been in twentie yeeres before :) wee have now in our eye an espe- cial care that such discretion may be ob- served in the choise of the lenders, and such an indifferent distribution, as the summes that wee shall receive may be raised with an equall consideration of men’s abilities ; and therefore, seeing men have had so good experience of our repayment of all those * The family of Rawle is of great antiquity in Cornwall. They were seated at Kennett and 1 Trevill, in St. Juliet, in the reign of Edward IV. about 1460. Their representatives now reside at Liskeard and Plymouth, but still hold the manor of Tresparrett, a moiety of the rectory of St. Juliet, . and several estates in that parish, which have descended to them for many generations. William Rawle, in 1632, in. Catherine, daughter of John Webber, esq. of Middle Amble, in St. Kew, by Susanna, daughter of Degory Polwhele, esq. an ancestor of the historian. Francis Rawle, esq. in 1668, rn. Thomasine, daughter of Francis Buller, esq. of Tregarrick, who was high sheriif of Cornwall. Richard Rawle, esq. of Liskeard, the father of Mrs. Ward, in. Anne, eldest daughter of William Carthew, esq. of St. Austell. The Rawle arms, sculptured of a very early date, are still affixed to the old manor house of the family: viz. Sable, three swords in yule, the middlemost pointed in chief, arg.—See Lvson’s Magna Britannia, vol. iii. and Gilbert’s History of Cornwall.