{93} Ruvigny Addition: Mortimer/Percy Descent for Maria Harriet (née Hesketh), Lady Haldon (1826-1905)

Maria Harriet (née Hesketh), Lady Haldon
(1826-1905)

Continuing with the ancestry of Hon. Annette Maria (née Palk) Baird, mother of Muriel Jane (née Baird) Noel, we finally turn to her mother's family, the Heskeths. The family had been seated at Rufford Hall in Lancashire for centuries, when, in the latter half of the reign of Elizabeth I, Robert Hesketh (1560-1620), breaking with his family's recusancy, conformed to the Anglican church, and represented Lancashire in Parliament in 1597. He had been the first of the Heskeths to marry into the Edward I bloodline, taking for his first wife, Mary Stanley (d. 1586), from a junior branch of the family of the earls of Derby which had its seat at Cross Hall, in the parish of Latham. The three subsequent generations of Hesketh squires at Rufford Hall also married ladies descended from Edward I, and it was Thomas Hesketh (1677-1720), great-great-grandson of Robert Hesketh and Mary Stanley, who married Anne Graham (see Generation 13 below), a lady descended from the Percy earls of Northumberland. Had Ruvigny been aware of Anne's descent, he would have included the subsequent generations of Heskeths in his 1911 Mortimer-Percy volume.

MARIA HARRIET HESKETH, b. Rufford Hall, Lancashire, bap. 26 Nov. 1826 St Mary Church, Rufford; d. 18 Dec. 1905 Eastfield House, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, bur. 21 Dec. 1905 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, Devon, only dau. of Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh, 4th Baronet of Rufford (1799-1843, descended from Edward III - see Generation 18 below) and Annette Maria Bomford (c.1799-1879, descended from Edward III); m. 15 Nov. 1845 St Mary Church, Rufford, LAWRENCE PALK, 1st Baron Haldon of Haldon, b. 30 Jan. 1818 Marylebone, London, bap. 26 Feb. 1818 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 22 Mar. 1883 Haldon House, Kenn, Devon, bur. 29 Mar. 1883 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, est. son of Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk, 3rd Baronet of Haldon (1793-1860, descended from Henry IV) and his 1st wife Anna Eleanora Wrey (1787-1846, descended from Edward III), and had issue, four sons and two daughters.

Rufford Hall, Lancashire

The nineteen-generation descent of Maria Harriet (née Hesketh), Lady Haldon, from Edward III through his great-granddaughter Lady Elizabeth (née Mortimer) Percy, follows. Generations 12 to 19 are additions to Ruvigny.

Edward III had a 2nd surviving son
1) Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338-1368) m. 1) Lady Elizabeth de Burgh (1332-1363, descended from Edward I), and had
2) Lady Philippa Plantagenet of Clarence (1355-1377) m. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352-1381), and had

5th Earl of Northumberland -
see Generation 7

3) Lady Elizabeth Mortimer (1371-1417) m. 1) Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy (1364-1403), and had
4) Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1394-1455) m. Lady Eleanor Neville (1403-1472, descended from Edward III), and had
5) Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421-1461) m. Eleanor Poynings (1428-1484, descended from Edward I), and had
6) Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (c.1449-1489) m. Lady Maud Herbert (c.1457-by 1487), and had
7) Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (1478-1527) m. Katherine Spencer (1477-1542, descended from Edward III), and had
8) Sir Thomas Percy of Prudhoe Castle (c.1505-1537) m. Eleanor Harbottle (1504-1567, descended from Edward III), and had
9) Mary Percy (1531-1598) m. Francis Slingsby of Scriven Hall (c.1524-1600, descended from Edward I), and had
10) Sir WILLIAM SLINGSBY of The Strand, London, and of Kippax, Yorkshire, M.P. Knaresborough 1597-1604, Appleby 1626, b. 29 Jan. 1563; bur. 13 June 1638 St Martin in the Fields, London; m. 13 May 1616 St Mary Abchurch, London, ELIZABETH BOORD, b. c.1595; d. by 6 Mar. 1656 (when will was proved), dau. of Sir Stephen Boord of Boord Hill, Sussex (d. 1630) and Margaret Montagu, and had

Elizabeth (née Slingsby) Fortescue
- see Generation 11

11) ELIZABETH SLINGSBY[*1], bap. 18 Feb. 1619 St Clement Danes, London; d. Norton Conyers House, Wath, Yorkshire, bur. 23 Jan. 1695 St Mary Church, Wath; m. 1st 1639, Col. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, Heir of Dromiskin Castle, co. Louth, Ireland, b. c.1615; d. (killed during siege) 1642 Drogheda, co. Louth, son of Sir Faithful Fortescue of Dromiskin Castle (1586-1666, descended from Edward III) and his 1st wife Hon. Anne Moore (c.1592-1634), and had
12) ELIZABETH FORTESCUE, b. 1642; bur. 25 June 1705 St Mary Church, Wath; m. by 1660, Sir RICHARD GRAHAM, 1st Baronet of Norton Conyers, bap. 11 Mar. 1636 St Mary Church, Wath; bur. there 21 Dec. 1711, yr son of Sir Richard Graham, 1st Baronet of Esk (1583-1654) and Katherine Musgrave (1601-1650, descended from Edward III), and had
13) ANNE GRAHAM, bap. 6 Feb. 1677 St Mary Church, Wath, Yorkshire; bur. unknown [I'm unable to locate in the Rufford Church register an entry for her burial, which is odd]; m. 17 June 1697 St Mary Church, Wath, THOMAS HESKETH of Rufford Hall, Lancashire, b. there, bap. 10 Dec. 1677 St Mary Church, Rufford; bur. there 2 Mar. 1720, son of Thomas Hesketh of Rufford Hall (1647-1689, descended from Edward III) and Sydney Grosvenor (1642-1702, descended from Edward III), and had

Thomas Hesketh - see
Generation 14

14) THOMAS HESKETH of Rufford Hall, M.P. Preston 1722-27, b. Norton Conyers House, bap. 26 June 1698 St Mary Church, Wath; d. 18 Apr. 1735, bur. 28 Apr. 1735 St Mary Church, Rufford; m. (lic. 7 July) 1722, as her 1st husband, MARTHA ST AMAND, bap. 15 Mar. 1705 St Paul Covent Garden, London; d. by 19 Feb. 1782 London (when her will was proved), bur. 20 Feb. 1782 St Paul Covent Garden, dau. of James St Amand of Covent Garden, apothecary (c.1643-1728) and Elizabeth Juxon (1664-1727, descended from Edward I), and had
15) Sir ROBERT HESKETH [later JUXON], 2nd Baronet of Rufford, b. 23 Apr. 1728 Rufford Hall, bap. 17 June 1728 St Mary Church, Rufford; d. 30 Dec. 1796 London, bur. 7 Jan. 1797 St Martin in the Fields, London; m. 19 Apr. 1748, SARAH PLUMBE, b. 17 Nov. 1727 Preston, Lancashire, bap. 28 Nov. 1727 St John Minster, Preston; d. July 1793 Wavertree Hall, Liverpool, Lancashire, bur. 27 July 1793 St Mary Church, Rufford, dau. of William Plumbe, heir of Wavertree Hall (1697-1761) and Sarah Towneley (1705-1776, descended from Edward III), and had
16) Capt. THOMAS HESKETH, Heir of Rufford Hall, b. 25 Mar. 1749 Liverpool, bap. 8 May 1749 St George Castle Street, Liverpool; d. 5 Jan. 1781 Preston, bur. 16 Jan. 1781 St Mary Church, Rufford; m. 1 Jan. 1771 St Margaret Church, Rochester, Kent, as her 1st husband, JANET DALRYMPLE, b. 1748; d. 7 Jan. 1802 London, bur. 11 Jan. 1802 St Mary Paddington, London, dau. of Hugh Dalrymple, Attorney General of Grenada (1727-1774) and Grissel Brown (c.1724-1767), and had

Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh,
3rd Bt - see Generation 17

17) Sir THOMAS DALRYMPLE HESKETH, 3rd Baronet of Rufford, b. 13 Jan. 1777 New York City, NY; d. 27 July 1842 Rufford Hall; m. 1st 5 Feb. 1798 St John Church, Chester, Cheshire, SOPHIA HINDE, b. c.1778 (aged 19 on her marriage licence); d. 6 Feb. 1817 Rufford Hall, bur. 13 Feb. 1817 St Mary Church, Rufford, dau. of Rev. Nathaniel Hinde, vicar of Shifnal 1794-1831 (1756-1831) and Elizabeth Hesketh (b. 1751), and had
18) Sir THOMAS HENRY HESKETH, 4th Baronet of Rufford, b. 11 Feb. 1799 Rufford Hall, bap. 1 Mar. 1799 St Mary Church, Rufford; d. 10 Feb. 1843 Westminster, London; m. 3 Apr. 1724 Cheltenham Minster, Gloucestershire, ANNETTE MARIA BOMFORD, b. c.1799 London; d. 17 Dec. 1879 Torquay, Devon, bur. 24 Dec. 1879 St Mary Church, Rufford, est. dau. of Robert Bomford of Rahinston House, Rathcore, co Meath, Ireland (c.1750-1817, descended from Edward III) and Maria Massy (1769-1848), and had
19) Maria Harriet Hesketh (1826-1905-see details above), wife of Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon

Ruvigny's account of Elizabeth Slingsby
on p. 121 of Mortimer-Percy (1911)

[*1] Ruvigny includes Elizabeth Slingsby on p. 121 of the Mortimer-Percy volume, stating she was "aged 8 in 1627." He was apparently unaware of either of her marriages. Following the death of her first husband, Elizabeth (Slingsby) Fortescue m. 2nd 1646, as his 2nd wife, John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, b. c.1591; d.s.p.l. 18 Feb. 1658 Charlton House, Kent. The elder brother of James I's favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, Elizabeth's second husband brought her a title but no further issue. Her only child was Elizabeth Fortescue (see Generation 12 above).

The next blogpost will look at some other lines from Edward III for Maria Harriet (née Hesketh), Lady Haldon.

Cheers,                                       -------Brad