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)
vicar of Sedgley, and incumbent of Bilston, all in the county of Staf-ford, and has a daughter, Eliza-Jane. Mr. Fletcher succeeded his father in the year 1827, being then a minor. * The representatives of the family of Best have, without the exception of a single generation, beenbeneficed clergymen… … The family of Fletcher is of antiquity inthe shires of Stafford and Warwick, as inthat of Cumberland, where the resident ob-tained a baronetcy temp. Charles I.* Thereare proofs extant that the branch before uswas seated in the county of Stafford so earlyas the reign of Edward II. but from the…
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