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)
unties of Hants andGloucester, and in Ireland. Seats—Westwood, Hants ; and BallintoyCastle, in the county of Antrim. THORNBROUGH, OF BISHOPSTEIGNTON. THORNBROUGH, EDWARD-LECRAS, esq. of Clifton, in the county ofGloucester, captain R. N. b. at Portsmouth, 1st December, 1795, m. 30th No-vember, 1820,… … The Thornbrough family, or, as it was formerly written, Thornborough, was longsettled in the county of Devon ; and one ofits distinguished ancestors is recorded inPrinces Worthies of that shire, as havinghad, while bishop of Limerick, in Ireland,a most miraculous escape from destruction,with all…
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