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 (1836)
eason to believe, but how nearly con-nected, does not precisely appear. Arms—Gu. a lion rampant or.Crest—Two eagles necks and heads con-joined. Estates—In Ayrshire.Seat—Kelly House. 280 BIDDULPH, OF BIDDULPH. BIDDULPH, JOHN, esq. of Biddulph, in the county of Stafford, and of BurtonPark, in the… … This names^and family claims a Saxonorigin and derivation such as few now ex-tant in England can boast. Biddulph, variously written Bydulf, Bra-dulf, &cc. is a word purely Saxon, com-pounded of Bid, Biedw, and ulf, or wulf,literally the wolf-killer. The latter enteredinto the composition of a…
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