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From: "Sarah" <>
Subject: [CUMB] Fletchers for Nelda
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:25:07 -0500
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>>The entry on FLETCHER, of Tallantire reads:
'This branch of the Fletcher family was founded by Lancelot Fletcher, of
Cockermouth, brother of Henry Fletcher, Mary Queen of Scots' host (see
Fletcher, of Cockermouth and Hutton-in-the-Forest). His son George Fletcher
acquired Tallantire, which descended to Henry Fletcher (d.1712), aged 25 at
the visitation of 1665, and described by Sandford as "a great gamester." His
daughter Anne (d. 1721, aged 53) marr. 1688 Matthias Partis, q.v., and
carried Tallantire to that family. Arms. Argent a cross engrailed Sable
between four pellets each charged with a pheon of the field in trhe sexter
chief a canton Gules. Crest. A horse's head couped Argent charged with a
trefoil slipped Gules (FCW)'<< Chris

Nelda, Chris' source has a great deal more on the Fletchers of Tallantire
than Cumberland Britannia. Here are the other Fletchers CB lists:

FLETCHER of Clea-Hall, 1782. - The Fletcher family are descended from
William Fletcher, a merchant of Cockermouth, who lived in the reign of Henry
VIII.; his great grandson Henry Fletcher, Esq. of Hutton, was created a
baronet in 1640. Sir Thomas, the third baronet, embraced the Roman Catholic
religion, retired into a convent at Douay, and dying without issue, the
title and the male line of the elder branch of the family became extinct.
Sir Henry Fletcher, who was created a baronet in 1782, was descended from
Philip, third son of Thomas Fletcher of Cockermouth, (grandfather of the
first baronet,) who married the heiress of Musgrave of Clea-Hall, about the
beginning of the seventeenth century. Sir Henry died in 1807, and was
succeeded by his son of the same name, who is the present baronet.
Arms: - Arg. a cross engrailed Sable, between four roundles of the
second, each charged with a pheon of the field.
Crest: - An horse's head Argent, charged with a trefoil, Gules.

FLETCHER-VANE of Hutton, 1786. - Lionel Wright Vane Fletcher, son of Walter
Vane, Esq. of Hutton, who had taken the name of Fletcher, and
grandson of Lionel Vane, Esq. of Long-Newton, in the county palatine of
Durham, by Catherine, sister of Sir Thomas Fletcher, the last baronet of the
Hutton branch, was created a baronet in 1786, and was father of Sir Frederic
Fletcher Vane, the present baronet, of Hutton and of Armathwaite.
Arms: - Or, three sinister gauntlets and a canton, Gules.
Crest: - An armed arm, embowed, couped at the shoulder, grasping a sword,
all Proper.

The Fletchers of Moresby descended from William, the elder son of Henry
Fletcher of Cockermouth, who lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, became
extinct by the death of Thomas Fletcher, Esq. before the middle of the last
century. The Fletchers of Tallantire descended from Lancelot, third son of
Henry Fletcher above-mentioned, became extinct by the death of Henry
Fletcher, Esq. one of whose coheiresses married Partis of Newcastle.


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