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)
states—In Perthshire.Seat—Gask. BURTON, OF LONGNER. BURTON, ROBERT, esq., of Longner Hall, in the county of Salop, m. in 1798,Rose, second daughter and co-heir of John Smitheman, esq. of Little Wenlock, whichlady d. in 1830, without issue. He s. his father in 1803, and served as high sherifffor… … The Burtons of Longner in Shropshire,are by some conjectured to have come outof Yorkshire ; and there are traditionary ac-counts of their descent from Lionel, Dukeof Clarence, by Alice Burton, and of theirpossessing Burton Constable, in Yorkshire, which was sold to Lord Scrope, in the reignof…
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