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)
orough. II. Frances, b. in 1808, d. in 1825. This gentleman, formerly an officer in the royal navy, whilst serving- as a midship-man on board the Monmouth, in the fleet commanded by Sir Edward Hughes, was insix general actions in India, from 1780 to 1784, in one of which he wTas seriouslywounded by… … The Wards have long been seated in thecounty of Norfolk ; they held adjoining-estates at Walcotte and Happisburgh, in thesixteenth century, which have descended indirect succession from father to son to thepresent generation. In the reign of James I.we find by a document still preserved, thatneedy…
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