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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:08:49 -0400
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Thought this might be of interest to everyone.

Marilyn

"The Genealogie of the Ancient and Worshipful Family of WYNNE OF GARTH",

http://www.mytton.com/genealogy/pedigree.html

Mytton of Garth.

PEDIGREE.

REPRINTED FROM THE "MONTGOMERYSHIRE COLLECTIONS" VOL. XXIV. ISSUED
BY THE POWYS-LAND CLUB.

1890.


THERE is in the possession of the family an ancient vellum roll, purporting to be
a pedigree of
the Mytton family, in which the first nine generations are given as follows:-

SIR EVERARD DE MUTTON, Knight. "This Everard was slain in the Wars of Mawde
the
Empresse, An'o Dom. 1154." He had a son,

ALDRED DE MUTTON, Esq., who had a son,

SIR HUGH DE MUTTON, Knight, who had a son,

ROGER DE MUTTON, who married Ann, daughter of Richard Hussey, Esq., son of
Richard
Hussey, of Adbridge Hussey, by his wife Mabell, daughter to John Lord Talbot, son
of Sir
Radulphus Hussey, Knight, son of Adam Hussey, Esq., son and heir of Thomas Hussey
"that
came in with the Conqueror". Roger de Mutton had a son,

STEPHEN DE MUTTON, who married Jane, daughter of Lord Strange, son of Philip
Lord
Strange of Knocking, by his wife Joyce, daughter to Sir Robert Corbet, Knight.
Stephen de
Mutton had a son,

OWEN DE MUTTON, who married Joyce, daughter of William Purcell of Marton and
Wynnesberge, Esq., by his wife Joyce, daughter of William Wynesbury, Esq., and by
her had a
son,

WILLIAM DE MUTTON, who married Joyce, daughter of Sir William Pickering,
Knight, by his
wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Raysford, Knight, and had a son,

JOHN DE MUTTON, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Paul Dorrell, Knight, by
his wife
Anne, daughter of Sir Roger Powis, Knight. John de Mutton had two sons,

1. .... de Mutton, Esq., first son. "Mem'dum. That of Hankyn de Mutton's
Brother all the Muttons of
Weston-under-Lysyerde, and now being ended by a daughter that married
Harpesfield do likewise continue the name
of Mytton." (1)

2. Hankyn de Mutton.

In the Herald's Visitation (2) of Shropshire in 1623, the first part of the
Mytton pedigree is
given as follows:-


MITTON OF SHREWSBURY AND AFTERWARDS OF HALSTON.


Rogerus Mitton de com. Wiltes. = Anna, filia Ric'i Husey Hussey.
_______________________________|
|
Stephanus Mitton. = Jana, fil. Philippi Strange de Knocking, militis.
__________________|
|
Andoenus Mitton de com. Wiltes. = Jocosa, fil. Will'i Purcell de Merton.
________________________________|
|
Phillippus Mitton. = Jana, filia Henriei Vernon, militis.
___________________|
|
Willimus Mitton. = Anna, fil. Will'i Pickton, militis.
_________________|
|
Johannes Mitton. = Anna, fil. Franc. Darrell, militis.
_________________:
:
Hankin Mitton. = Alicia.


It will be observed that the foregoing accounts from the Vellum Roll and the
Herald's
Visitation of 1623 vary in several particulars, and that in the latter the Heralds
mark the
connection between "Johannes Mitton" and "Hankin Mitton" with dotted lines, which,
we
conceive, must be taken to indicate that satisfactory evidence of that connection
was not
adduced at the Visitation, and therefore the generations before "Hankin Mitton"
were treated as
traditional only, and not vouched by the Heralds to be authentic. Moreover,
neither version
gives dates; and, looking at the era of some of the earlier generations, the
alliances there given
can be shown to be improbable, if not impossible. Under these circumstances we
shall content
ourselves with giving the two accounts of the earlier generations on the authority
of the Vellum
Roll and the Visitation respectively, and leave them to stand on their own merits.

The pedigree is, however, of proved and undoubted authenticity from Hankyn
Mytton
downwards. We shall therefore commence our account of the Mytton genealogy by
quoting
Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire (pp. 77-9), which gives the following
interesting particulars
of the family:-

"1483. THOMAS MITTON." Arms: (3) Per pale g. and az., an eagle displayed with
two heads,
or.

Thomas Mitton. In Phillips's list this Sheriff is called John Mytton, Esq. of
Shipton; but his
name was certainly Thomas, and I suspect he had nothing to do with Shipton. I take
him to have
been the ancestor of the family now seated at Halston [of which the Myttons of
Garth are a
cadet branch]. Some of the Visitations bring the Myttons out of Wiltshire; but
there is reason to
believe that they were originally of this county, and sprung from the village of
Mitton, in the
parish of Fittes. In the Tallage Roll for Shrewsbury in the year 1313, which
contains a catalogue
of the names and property of the inhabitants, William de Mutton is found to have
20s. in goods,
for which he is rated at 16d., and he is the only person of that name in the roll.
John de Mitton
appears upon the Roll of Guild Merchant of the liberty of the town of Salop, 46
Edward III
(1372), de forinsecis, which denotes, I presume, that he was a foreigner, and not
a native of the
town.

The first undoubted progenitor of the Halston family is Hankyn Mitton, a
usual abbreviation
of Henry. Reginald de Mutton, son of Hankyn, held premises in Shrewsbury in 1413;
and of the
wealth and importance of this gentleman some notion may be formed from the fact
that he lent to
Richard III (and I apprehend that it was during the residence of that capricious
monarch at the
Parliament of Shrewsbury) the sum of forty marks, a considerable sum in those
days, and more
than a fourth part of what was advanced by the Corporation upon the same occasion.
By a writ,
(4) dated the 10th of August, in the twenty-first of his reign, the King
acknowledges this service
of his beloved and faithful Reginald de Mitton, and promises "in good faith" to
repay the same
in the quindem of the ensuing Easter. He greatly raised the family by marrying the
heiress of Sir
Hamo Vaughan, Lord of the Manor of West Tilbury, in Essex, son of Sir Thomas
Vaughan, Lord
of the Manor of Stepney, who bore the spread eagle in his arms, and who, from the
name of
Vaughan's Place still belonging to that old hall near the market-place in
Shrewsbury, late the
property of the Halston family, should seem to have had a residence there. By this
lady Reginald
de Mutton had two sons, Thomas and John. The will of the latter bears date the day
before St.
Mary Magdalen, 1454, and proved, 12th November...., before John Clone, Bachelor of
Degrees,
Sequestrator and Commissary-General of Reginald, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
(Reginald
Butler, who sate from 1453 to 1459). He styles himself John Mitton of Salop,
burgess, directs
himself to be interred in the chancel of the collegiate church of St. Chad, and
wills that all the
ministers and choir of that church attend the obsequies, and be rewarded in the
usual manner (ut
moris est). He bequeaths to every order of friars of the town 20d., and directs
that he shall have
four torches and four wax lights (cerios) to burn about his body at the time of
his sepulture;
whereof he devises one torch and two lights to the high altar of the Trinity
therein, and another
to the altar of St. Mary. He further bequeaths seven marks to a fit chaplain to
celebrate divine
offices in the said church for the space of a year for his soul. To Thomas Mitton,
son of his
brother Thomas, he leaves a corslet (loricam) and sword; and the residue of his
goods the
testator bequeaths to his wife Alice, and constitutes her and William Otteley of
Salop his
executors. This will is attested by John Colle and Philip Graie, Bailiffs of the
town.

Thomas Mitton, son of Reginald, still further augmented his property by
marrying a rich
Shrewsbury heiress, who united the wealth of the Tours and the Prides, names which
occur so
frequently among our early bailiffs, and the latter of which is still remembered
in a principal
street of the town. Thomas, his son, whom I conceive to be the present Sheriff,
obtained a
splendid addition to his inheritance by marrying one of the daughters of Sir John
Burgh, with
whom he obtained Haberley, Dinas Mawddwy, etc. During the year of his shrievalty
he acted
with great promptitude and vigour in the apprehension of the Duke of Buckingham;
and for this
"good and acceptable service" King Richard, styling him "our trusty and
well-beloved Squier
Thomas Mitton", rewards him with a grant of the Castle and Lordship of Cawes, of
the annual
value of £50. Upon the accession of Henry VII, that fortress and domain of course
reverted to
the young Duke; yet Mr. Mitton's spirited resistance, and seasonable admission of
Henry (VII)
within the walls of Shrewsbury, of which he was then bailiff, secured him the
favour of the new
monarch. He served the same municipal office ten times between 1464 and 1500, and
died in
1504. His son, William Mitton, quitted the residence of his ancestors at Vaughan's
Place and
removed to Coton Hill, (5) where he was living when Leland visited these parts:
and I find in
the Exchequer of Shrewsbury relating to this William, which is so far curious as
it proves the
deep humility with which a principal gentleman of Shropshire was obliged to
approach a peer
of the realm in those days, even when claiming no more, as appears, than his just
due. The
nobleman to whom it was addressed must have been George, fourth Earl of
Shrewsbury,
great-grand-son of the famous Lord Talbot, by whose countenance, as we have seen
under 1430,
his "officer", Hugh Burgh, ancestor of the present petitioner, was enabled,
according to the
allegations of Hugh de Berwick, to disseise him of certain parts of his property.

"To the Right Honerable my Lord the Erle of Shrowesbury, Stuard of the Kyng's most
Honorable Howsold.

"In his moost humblist wyse, schowith unto your gud lordshop, your true and
feithfull orator, William Mitton, Esquier, son and
heire to T. Mitton, late of the Towne of Schrowsbury, decesed, how that Master
Thomas Talbot, your brother, now dede,
whose sowle God pardon, of long tyme kept and witheld from the fadre of your said
orator certeyn lands and tenements within
the town and franchise of Shrowesbury forseid, which is the rightfull
enheritaunces of your seid orator. It may therefor pleas
you seid Lordschip of your blessed disposic'on to considerac'on of the true
service whiche your seid orator, to the uttermost
of his power, hath doon unto your Lordschip, to be unto him special gud lord, and
to ayte and assist him to the recovere of the
seid rightfull enheritaunces according to the right and gud concyens. This at the
reverens of God, and in wey of charite."

John Mytton, Esquire, now (1820) of Halston, is twelfth in descent from
Thomas Mitton and
Elizabeth Burgh.

We now proceed with the genealogy, following the Vellum Roll pedigree so far
as it
extends, and showing in italics any addition or variation made by the Visitation
of 1623,
supplementing it by extracts from Registers, etc.


I. HANKYN DE MUTTON (Hankin Mutton) married Alicia . . . . . ; he had a son-

II. Reginald de Mutton (Mitton) of Salop, Esq., held premises in Shrewsbury,
1413; Bailiff
of Salop, 13 Richard II (1390). He married Elianor (Anna), daughter and heir of
Hamo
(Vichan), son of Sir Thomas Vaughan (Vychan), Knight, of Shrewsbury, and had a
son-

III. Thomas de Mutton (Mitton) of Shrewsbury. He married Agnes (Cecilia),
daughter and
heir of William Burleigh, Esq., of Shrewsbury (Arms: Ar., a lion ramp. sa.,
debruised by a bend
compony or and az.), son of William Burleigh of Salop, by his wife Isabella, sole
daughter and
heir of William Tower of Salop, Esq. (Arms: Sa., three towers, triple-towered
ar.), by his wife
. . . . daughter and co-heir of John Preede (Arms: Az., three ells haurient in
fesse ar.), and had an
only son-

IV. THOMAS MYTTON (Mitton), Esq., M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1472. Ten times
Bailiff,
1464-1500; Sheriff, 1483. He married twice: first, Elianor, youngest daughter, and
one of the
four co-heiresses (6) of Sir John Burgh, Knight, Lord of Mawddwy (Arms: Azure, a
chevron
ermine between three fleurs-de-lis ar.), by his wife Jane, one of the daughters
and co-heirs of
John Clopton of Gloucestershire, Esq. (Arms: Gu., a bend between six pears, or).
Sir John
Burgh was son of Sir Hugh Burgh of Wattlesborough, Knt., by his wife Elizabeth,
daughter and
sole heir of John Lord of Mawddwy, by his wife Catherine, daughter and heir of
Thomas Corbet
of Cause, Esq., who was sone of William alias Wilcocke, Lord of Mawddwy, and his
wife
Elianor, (7) daughter and co-heir of Thomas ap Llewelyn of the House of South
Wales.
(Corbet--Arms: Or, a raven ppr. Wilcock of Mawddwy--Arms: Or, a lion ramp. gu.,
within a
bordure engrailed sa. John ap Llewelyn--Arms: Gu., a lion ramp. or, within a
bordure
engrailed of the last.) Thomas Mytton, by his first marriage, had, with three
daughters, an only
son, William Mytton (V), of whom hereafter. Thomas Mytton married, secondly,
Stanley,
daughter of . . . Booth of Cheshire (but, according to Burke's Landed Gentry,
Anne, daughter of
the Lord Strange of Knockin, and relict of Jeffrey Kyffin, Esq.), by whom he had
four children-

1. Sir Adam Mytton.

2. Alan Mytton, married . . . . . Wootton.

3. . . . . . daughter, married . . . . . Wentnor.

4. Mary, married Hugh Say of Hope Say.

An interesting anecdote of Thomas Mytton is related in the following extract from
Owen and
Blakeway's History of Shrewsbury, vol. i, p. 245, describing the incidents of the
Earl of
Richmond's (Henry VII) march through Shropshire to Bosworth Field:-

"He delayed his march to Shrewsbury till he was master of Forton and Montford
Bridge, two points of main importance to
his designs, as he was thus provided with a passage into the midland counties,
even though this town should shut her gates
upon him. Having secured that bridge, which, if the Salopians had been hearty in
the cause of Richard, they would have
broken down, his army encamped upon Forton Heath, and he despatched messengers to
Shrewsbury to summon the town.
When they arrived at the foot of the Welsh bridge, they found the place in a
posture of defence; the gates shut, the portcullis let
down, and the bailiffs within ready to give their answer. The senior of these
magistrates for that year was Thomas Mytton,
Esq., whom we have lately seen as Sheriff of the county, engaged in the arrest of
the Duke of Buckingham. He is described in
an old chronicle as ' a stout wise gentleman', and made answer that he knew the
Earl for no King, but ' only Kynge Rychard,
whose lyffetenants he and hys fellowe weare, and before he shoulde enter there, he
should goe over hys belly', meaninge
thereby, continues our authority, ' that he would be slayne to the grounde and so
to (be) roon over (by) him before he entryd;
and that he protested vehemently upon the othe he dad taken.'
"Much conversaton, we may suppose, ensued, but Mr. Mytton continuing
resolute, the Earl ' retornyd', says our chronicle, '
wyth hys companye backe agayn to Forton . . . .' On the following morning the
negotiation with the Bailiffs of Shrewsbury was
renewed, and the Earl assured the magistrates that he did not mean to hurt the
town or any of its inhabitants, but only desired
to pass on to try his right to the Crown. We are told that Mr. Mytton began to
yeald to these suggestions, but that on account
of the oath he had so lately taken to oppose the entrance of Richmond into
Shrewbury, he adopted the ingenious expedient of
lying down on the ground and permitting the Earl to step over him. Thereupon the
portcullis was drawn up, and the Earl and
his retinue admitted within the gates, to the general joy of the inhabitants, and
received, we are assured, ' with an Ave chaire
(Xaipe), and God speede the wel! the streets being strowed with hearbes and
flowers, and their doores adorned with greene
boughs, in testimony of a true hartie reception.'"

V. WILLIAM MYTTON (only son of the first marriage of Thomas Mytton) of
Shrewsbury, Lord
of Mawddwy, three times Bailiff of Shrewsbury, and M.P. in 1491. He married
Cicely, daughter
of Sir Henry Delves, Knight, of Doddington, Cheshire, by whom he had one son and
two
daughters. He died in 1512, leaving

1. Richard Mytton (VI), of whom hereafter.

2. Ellen, married to Wm. Gatacre of Gatacre, co. Salop.

3. Margeria, the wife of . . . . Dawes of Salop.

VI. RICHARD MYTTON of Shrewsbury, six times Bailiff of Salop, Lord of
Mawddwy, Chief
Stweard of the Manor of Church Stretton, and for John Lord Lumley in 1562. He died
28th
November 1591, having been thrice married; first to Anne, daughter of Sir Edward
Grey of
Envil, by whom he had issue-

1. Francis |

2. Humphrey |

3. George |_ died without issue.

4. William |

5. Richard |

6. Rowland |

7. EDWARD MYTTON of Habberley, co. Salop, afterwards of Halston, an estate
which he obtained by exchange with
Alan Hoord, Esq., who had purchased it from the Crown. Ancestor of the MYTTONS
OF HALSTON AND OF
MAWDDWY.

8. Ursula, married to John Owen of Dolgelley.

9. Thomas Mytton, Esq., M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1554, who married Margaret,
daughter of Sir Edward Grenvil, Knt.,
and had seven children: John, Richard, William, Thomas, Adam, Margaret, and
Anne.

10. Elizabeth, married to Nicholas Gravenor of Showlde, Esq.

11. Cicely, married to Richard Acton of Acton-on-the-Hill, Esq.

12. John Mytton of Pontyscowrid, Esq. (VII), of whom hereafter.

Richard Mytton married, secondly (according to Burke, but not in the Mytton
Vellum
pedigree), a daughter of Jenkyn Pigott, Esq., of Rhuddlan, North Wales, and by her
had a son,
Richard Mytton, or Mutton, of Rhuddlan, whose great-grandson, Sir Peter Mutton,
Knt., of
Llanerch Park, Chief Justice of North Wales and M.P. for Carnarvon, had two
daughters and
co-heiress: i, Anne, who married Robert Davies of Gwysaney, co. Flint, from which
marriage
derive the DAVIES'S of Gwysaney (see that name under COOK of Owston); ii, Elinor,
who
married Kenrick Eyton of Eyton.

Richard Mytton married, thirdly, Elnor, daughter and heiress of Sir G.
Harbrown, Knt. (in
the Mytton Vellum pedigree she is stated to be second wife), by whom he had three
children-

1. Isabell, married to Thomas Okeley, Esq.

2. Jane, who married, first, Thomas (or Edward, according to Burke) Ireland,
and, secondly, Thomas Higgon, D.D.

3. Adam (Sir), Recorder of Shrewsbury, who married, first, Joyce (or Jane),
daughter of Launcelot Lacon, Esq.;
secondly, Mary, daughter of Thomas Holstock, Esq., and had by her three
children, George, Edward, and Mary.

Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire (p. 87) thus refers to Richard
Mytton, 1544:

" RICHARD MYTTON of Shrewsbury, grandson of Thomas Mitton, as I suppose, the
Sheriff of 1483. The manuscript
chronicle of Shrewsbury in the Free School Library, known by the name of Dr.
Taylor's Manuscript, thus records his death
under the year 1591:
"' This yeare & the 28th day of Nov'r, master Rychard Mytton, Esquier, called
the Gentle Master Mytton, an alderman of
Salop, who had been six tymes Bayllyf of the Towne, was solemnly buryed, being
about an hundred yeares old.' His wife, a
wealthy heiress, daughter of George Harborne, an eminent lawyer, and Recorder or
Shrewsbury, has a great character in the
same manuscript. ' The 30th day of January 1602, beinge Sundaye, departed this
lyfe the worthy Mrs. Elnor Mytton, late wyfe
of Mr. Richard Mytton, Esquire. She was buried the Thursdaye following, very
solemnly, being of the full age of 90 yeares.
She was of greate birthe, and verey good to the poore; vertuous and godly. She
wold dayly pray most devoutly, three whoale
houres before noon, and three whoale houres in the afternoone, and never storre'
(perhaps stoode) ' but these tymes upon her
knees. The God of peace no doubt hath received her to His Mercye. Amen!' These
worthy characters fully experienced the
truth of the apostle's declaration, 1 Tim. iv, 8, ' Sit anima mea vobiscum!'"

VII. JOHN MYTTON, ninth, but second surviving son of Richard Mytton, Esq., of
Shrewsbury,
was the first of the family who settled at Pontyscowrid, co. Montgomery. He
married twice:
first, Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cole of London, by whom he had an only
daughter,
Ellen, who married John Whitacre, Gent., and had one son, Richard Whitacre. John
Mytton
married, secondly, Anne, daughter of John Burnes of Salop, Gent., and by her had
four children-

1. Richard Mytton (VIII), of whom hereafter.

2. Humphrey, who married Judith, daughter of . . . Turnil.

3. Edward.

4. Jane, who married David Davies of Egerley.

Over the chimney-piece in the large oak-panelled parlour at Pontyscowrid, the
following
inscription is carved:

1593. | I . N . R . I . | I . M . A . M .

The last initials are those of John Mytton and his second wife, Anne, and the
date probably
marks the time of their residence in this house, and the letters I . N . R . I .
may be interpreted as
"Jesus Nazareth Rex Judæorum". John Mytton died intestate and was buried at
Meifod, 5th
December 1605. Administration was granted to his grand-daughter, Margaret Edwards,
on 10th
February 1614. (Mont. Coll., xxii, p. 249.)

VIII. RICHARD MYTTON of Pontyscowrid, Esq., born . . . . married . . . .
daughter of John
Parrye, Esq., (or . . . . daughter of . . . Garnons, co. Hereford), and died . . .
. having had four
children-

1. James Mytton, (IX), of whom hereafter.

2. John, baptized at Meifod, 5th December 1605, and buried there 14th November
1613.

3. Margaret, married, at Meifod, March 1606, and buried there 5th February
following.

4. Annah, baptized at Meifod, March 1606, and buried there 5th February
following.

IX. JAMES MYTTON of Pontyscowrid, baptized at Meifod, 18th January 1600;
married
Eleanor, daughter of Edward Jones of Sandford, co. Salop, and sister of Sir Thomas
Jones,
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and by her (who married, secondly, Humphrey
Hughes,
Esq., of Gwerclas) had three children-

1. Richard Mytton (X), of whom hereafter.

2. Elizabeth, married Charles Hughes, Esq., of Bryntangor, co. Denbigh, High
Sheriff of Merionith in 1698.

3. Dorothy, buried at Meifod, 10th July 1666.

James Mytton was buried at Meifod, 1st April, 1658.

X. RICHARD MYTTON of Pontyscowrid (or Street-y-Verniew). Esq., baptized, St.
Julian,
Salop, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1674; married Bridget, daughter of George
Devereux
of Vaynor, Esq. (she was buried at Meifod, 29th October 1736), and he died and was
buried at
Meifod, 30th December 1715, having had seven children-

1. James, baptized at Meifod, 1673.

2. Bridgetta, baptized at Meifod, 10th August 1675, and buried there, 4th May
1676.

3. George, baptized at Meifod, 29th June 1677, and buried there, 29th December
1686.

4. Maria, baptized at Meifod, 10th January 1679, and buried there, 26th June
1680.

5. Richard (XI), of whom hereafter.

6. Catherine, baptized at Meifod, 5th February 1688, and married Edward Lloyd
of Aberbechan, 11th April 1710.

7. John, born 20th September 1692, and baptized at Meifod 4th October
following, and buried there 2nd October
1695.

XI. RICHARD MYTTON of Pontyscowrid, baptized at Meifod, 9th December 1683,
High
Sheriff co. Montgomery 1730; married, at Guilsfield, on 10th July 1717, Dorothy,
only child and
heiress of Brochwel Wynne of Garth, Gent., who was buried at Guilsfield, 30th
April 1717 (by
his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Powell of Worthyn, who was buried at
Guilsfield, 17th June
1714), son and heir of Thomas Wynne of Garth, Gent. (by his wife Hester, daughter
of
Brochwel Griffith of Broniarth), derived through Sir Gryffith Vychan, "Knight
Banneret under
Henry the fifth in Agincourt field in France", from "Brochwel Yscythrog, Prince of
Powis (see
"The Genealogie of the Ancient and Worshipful Family of WYNNE OF GARTH", by John
Salusbury de Erbistocke, 16th January 1777, original in the possession of the Earl
of Powis,
printed in the Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. xii, p. 255). By this marriage
Richard Mytton
became of GARTH, and possessed of the Garth estate, consisting of lands in
Guilsfield and
elsewhere which had been in the possession of the Wynne family since the time of
Brochwel
Yscythrog in the 6th century (Wynne arms: Sa., three nag's heads ar.). She died
and was buried
at Guilsfield, 8th July 1728, and he died and was buried there, 25th November
1775, having had
issue-

1. Catherine, baptized at Meifod, 6th February 1718; married at Guilsfield,
16th April 1738, "Edward Devereux of the
parish Forden", afterwards the eleventh Viscount Hereford (see Peerage), and
was mother of Edward, 12th Viscount
Hereford, and died 22nd February 1748.

2. James, baptized at Meifod, 22nd January 1719, and buried at Guilsfield,
25th July 1742.

3. Wynne, baptized at Meifod, 13th April 1721, and buried at Guilsfield, 15th
May 1722.

4. Richard, baptized at Guilsfield, 10th April 1722, ob. s. p.

5. Brochwel, baptized at Guilsfield, 19th December 1723, and buried there on
23rd of the same month.

6. Devereux Mytton (XII), of whom hereafter.

XII. DEVEREUX MYTTON of Garth, Esq., born and baptized at Guilsfield, 22nd
October 1725;
married Anne, daughter of Richard Jones of Trelydan, Esq. (who died and was buried
at
Guilsfield, 10th December 1753). He died on the 12th May 1809, aged 84, "the
senior
magistrate in the county of Montgomery," having had three children-

1. Richard Mytton (XIII), of whom hereafter.

2. John Mytton, Esq., of Penylan, co. Montgomery, baptized at Guilsfield, 2nd
December 1752, High Sheriff of that co.
1809, and married twice - 1st, Bridget, daughter of Price Jones of Glanhafren,
by Bridget, his first wife, daughter of
Edward Glynne of Glynne. She died 26th October 1819, and had issue-

i. Rev. Devereux Glynn Mytton, Rector of Llandyssil (1807-1857); married,
19th June 1810, Elizabeth Sarah,
youngest daughter of Francis Lloyd, Esq., of Berghill, co. Salop. She died
6th October 1840, and he died 11th
December 1860, aged 77. They had issue-

1. John Glynn Mytton, born 15th September 1811; married Charlotte,
only daughter of Colonel John
Davies. She died 28th January 1844, aged 32 (M.I. Meifod Church),
leaving an only daughter, Charlotte
Arabella Anne Glynne Mytton, born . . . . 1836, and died 15th December
1859, unmarried (M.I. Meifod
Church).

2. Devereux Glynn Mytton, born . . . . 1815, died unmarried.

3. Bridget Mytton of Welshpool, living 1890.

4. Elizabeth Mytton, married . . . . 1841, Rev. Robert John Harrison,
M.A., of Caerhowel. She died in . .
. . 1867, and he died 4th September 1872, having had three children-

i. Robert John Harrison, died an infant.

ii. Robert John Harrison of Caerhowel, born 27th September 1852,
Lieut.-Colonel of 4th Battalion
of South Wales Borderers; married, 2nd June 1874, Charlotte
Henrietta, third daughter of Mr. and
Lady Charlotte Montgomery, and niece of the Earl of Powis, and has
a son, Hugh Robert Edward
Harrison, born 1875.

iii. Elizabeth Sophia Harrison, living 1890.

3. Devereux Mytton, M.D., of Varchwell, in the parish of Guilsfield, baptized
at Guilsfield, 4th December 1753; died
30th September 1841, in his 88th year (M.I. Guilsfield Church), unmarried.

XIII. RICHARD MYTTON of Garth, baptized at Guilsfield, 21st June 1751;
married Letitia,
daughter of . . . Lloyd, and died 8th April 1801, in his 51st year and in his
father's lifetime. His
wife died 13th October 1801, in her 54th year. M.I. Guilsfield Church. They had
eight children-

1. Anne Mytton, born 11th July 1777, baptized 3rd August following.

2. Letitia Louisa Mytton, born 7th April 1779, and died 28th October 1787.

3. Mary Mytton, born 17th December 1780, and publicly baptized 16th April
following at Holy Trinity, Chester.

4. Richard Mytton (XIV), of whom hereafter.

5, Harriot Mytton, born 5th August 1785, and died 2nd January 1788.

6. James Williams Mytton, born 1st April 1788.

7. Devereux Mytton, born 14th August 1789, and died at Eton.

8 Letitia, bon 22nd November 1790.

XIV. RICHARD MYTTON, LL.B.Camb., of Garth and Pontyscowrid, officiated at
Trelystan
from 1820 to 1826, afterwards Chaplain of Barruckpore in the Presidency of Bengal,
and to the
Governor-General of India; born 4th January 1783; married, 5th March 1804,
Charlotte, second
daughter of John Herbert, Esq., of Dolvorgan, co. Montgomery (who was born 10th
October
1778, and died 24th May 1872). He died 21st February 1828, leaving two children-

1. Richard Herbert Mytton, Esq., of Garth (XV), of whom hereafter.

2. Charlotte Henrietta Avarina Mytton, born 11th March 1805, died 13th
February 1874, unmarried.

XV. RICHARD HERBERT MYTTON, Esq., of Garth, born 2nd December, 1808, formerly
of the
Bengal Civil Service, in which he rose to a seat on the Bench of the Sudder, or
High Court of
Appeal; afterwards Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions of Montgomeryshire; Sheriff
of that
county, 1856; married, 15th May 1830, Charlotte, youngest daughter of Colonel
Macgregor,
Military Auditor General. He died 12th May 1869, having had twelve children-

1. Devereux Herbert Mytton (XVI), of whom hereafter.

2. George Mytton, Lieutenant Bengal Artillery, Aide-de-camp to Lieut.-Governor
of Calcutta; born 15th May 1834,
and died at Dum Dum, 20th June 1856, unmarried.

3. Frederick Colvin Mytton, Capt. R.E., Bombay, born 13th November 1835, and
died at Lewisham, 31st May 1888,
unmarried.

4. Henry Whitehead Mytton, born 18th September 1840; married at New Zealand,
on 12th November 1863, Maria
Mary, daughter of Alexander Sherwood Jackson, Esq., of Canterbury, New
Zealand, and died at Rugby, Tennessee,
12th June 1890, leaving issue-

i. Ellen Mary Mytton, born 15th October 1864.

ii. Henry Robert Herbert Mytton, born 4th January 1866.

iii. Frances Harriet Mytton, born 18th June 1867.

iv. Richard Griffith Vere Mytton, born 15th November 1868.

v. Leornard Vincent Mytton, born 8th April 1870.

vi. Hilda Violet, born 30th September 1872.

vii. Charlotte Isabella, born 26th March 1874.

viii. Robert Arthur Carlyle, born 18th July 1878.

5. Robert Purrier Mytton, born 23rd September 1850; Barrister-at-law; married
at London, on 26th August 1879,
Annie, daughter of Stephen Crackwell, Esq., of London, barrister-at-law, and
has issue-

i. Richard Devereux Hugh Mytton, born 7th February 1882.

6. Richard Mytton, born 13th March 1856, of Lopchoo, East Indies; married at
Clifton, on 27th November 1889,
Florence Edith, youngest daughter of E.D. Thompson Harrison, Esq., M.R.C.S.,
formerly of Welshpool, but then of
Clifton, Bristol.

7. Charlotte Henrietta Mytton, born at Jepore, 30th April 1831; married, at
Dacca, Robert Abercrombie, Bengal Civil
Service, in 1850. He died 12th February 1889, leaving issue-

i. Frances Rachel Abercrombie, born 6th April 1851; married, first, Walter
Robert Hamilton, 4th Bengal
Cavalry, in April 1871, who died June 1882; secondly, William Percy Ashe,
M.D.

ii. Harriet Catherine Abercrombie, born 9th May 1854; married, April 1875,
Ferdinand Albert Shaw.

iii. Marian Elizabeth Abercrombie, born 28th March 1856; married,
July1878, Charles Edward Harenc.

iv. Walter Devereux Abercrombie, born 5th December 1860.

v. Frank Sutherland Abercrombie, born 8th July 1864.

8. Mary Ann Fanny Mytton, born 26th September 1837, and died at London, 30th
December 1878, unmarried.

9. Eliza Jane Mytton, born 17th March 1839; married, at Guilsfield, on 1st
February 1872, Edward Francis Brown
Brooke, Esq., eldest son of Rev. T. R. Brown Brooke, of the county Gloucester,
and has issue-

i. Gilbert Edward Brown Brooke, born 28th March 1873.

10. Letitia Clementine Mytton, born 26th September 1844; married, at
Guilsfield, on 1st January 1869, William
McCandlish, Esq., C.E., of Lewisham, and has issue-

i. William Herbert McCandlish, born 23rd October 1869.

ii. Charles Murray McCandlish, born 12th April 1871.

iii. John Alexander McCandlish, born 26th May 1872.

11. Emily Harriett Mytton, born 9th April 1847; died at Garth, 7th July 1888,
unmarried.

12. Mary Helen Mytton, born 7th December 1852; married, at Guilsfield, 24th
January 1882, Francis Woolaston
Trevor, Esq., (son of Edward Salisbury Rose Trevor, Esq.), and has issue-

i. Charles Gerard Trevor, born 28th December 1882.

ii. Herbert Edward Trevor, born 26th May 1884.

iii. Frances Mildred, born 9th June 1886.

iv. Ronald Adair, born 7th March 1889.

XVI. DEVEREUX HERBERT MYTTON, Esq., of Garth, born at Baraset, Bengal, East
Indies, 9th
September 1832; late Captain 85th Light Infantry; Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1873;
married,
23rd January 1873, Emma Lydia, only daughter of Edmund Storey, Esq., and has
issue-

1. George Herbert Mytton, born 3rd Nov. 1873.

2. Hugh Frederick Mytton, born 17th January 1875.

3. Arthur Reignallt Mytton, born 21st August 1878.

4. Philip Aldred Mytton, born 5th October 1880.

5. Richard Llewellyn Mytton, born 3rd September 1883.

6. Dorothy Wynne Mytton.

7. Gwladys Ethel Mytton.




BLAZON OF THE MYTTON SHIELD OF 17 QUARTERINGS.

1. Per pale az. and gu., an eagle displayed with two heads or, within a bordure
engrailed of the
last. (MYTTON.)
2. Ar., a lion ramp. sa., debruised by a bend compony or and az. (Burleigh.)
3. Sa., three towers triple-towered ar. (Tower.)
4. Az., three eels haurient in fesse ar. (Pride.)
5. Az., a chevron ermine between three fleurs-de-lis ar. (Burgh.)
6. Gu., a lion ramp. or, within a bordure engrailed of the last. (Thomas ap
Llewelyn.)
7. Or, a lion ramp. gu., within a bordure engrailed sa. (Mawddwy.)
8. Or, a raven sa. (Corbet.)
9. Gu., a bend between six pears erect or. (Clopton.)
10. Quarterly per fesse indented gu. and or, in the first quarter a lion pass.
guard. ar. (Beysin.)
11. Sa., three nag's heads erased ar. (Wynne.)
12. Ar., three bull's heads couped sa., attired or. (Sir Aron ap Bledri.)
13. Or, three lions erased gu., within a bordure engrailed az. (Griffin ap Allon
of Powis.)
14. Gu., a griffin ramp. or. (Llowdden.)
15. Sa., a chevron or, between three owls ar. (Griffith ap Jenkin of Broughton.)
16. Gu., three snakes nowed in a triangular knot sa. (David ap Jevon Goch,
descended from
Ednowen ap Bradwen.)
17. Same as 1.



FOOTNOTES


1. Burke, in his Landed Gentry (1817), gives a somewhat different version. "Sixth
in descent
from Sir Hugh's son Roger was Hawkin de Mutton, father of Reginald de Mutton, M.P.
for
Shrewsbury in 1373, who married, first, the daughter and heir of Sir Hamo Vaughan,
Lord of the
Manor of West Tilbury, Essex, and had by her two sons, Thomas and John. He
married,
secondly, Eleanor, sister of Thomas le Skinner of Shrewsbury, and by her was
father of Sir
Richard Mutton, who married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir Adam Peshall,
Knight, of
Weston-under-Lizard, and was ancestor of the MYTTONS of Weston. Reginald's eldest
son,
Thomas Mitton, Esq., married Agnes, daughter and heir of William Burley, Esq.",
etc. - Return
to Pedigree

2. Harleian Society's Publications, vol. xxix, p. 361. - Return to Pedigree

3. The various Shropshire families of Mytton gave originally for their arms the
spread eagle,
borrowed evidently from a very ancient family of Mitton, seated at a place of the
same name in
Lancashire, whose arms were: Per pale azure and purple, an eagle displayed with
two heads; of
whom an account can be seen in Whitaker's History of Whalley, p. 448. I have seen
nothing
which would lead me to suppose that the Shropshire Myttons came from that
Lancashire family,
which may, however, have been the case. It was General Mytton, I think, that first
quitted this
coat and assumed the cinquefoil, on what grounds I cannot say; the family have now
returned to
the eagle. - Return to Pedigree

4. Rymer, viii, p. 9. - Return to Pedigree

5. The protection of "fenced cities" and moated mansions came about this time in
gradual disuse
by the improved state of society, arising from a more exact administration of
laws. In the
habitual enjoyment of our present security, we do not enough regard the greatness
of the
blessing, or the causes from which it springs. - Return to Pedigree

6. The other co-heiresses were: Isabel, married to John Lyngen, Esq.; Anereda,
married to John
Leighton, Esq.; and Elizabeth, married to William Newport, Esq. - Return to
Pedigree

7. "This Elianor was one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas ap Llewelyn ap Owen
ap
Meredithe ap Owen ap Griffith, ap Rees ap Griff ap Rees, Prince of South Wales,
whose other
sister, Ellen, was mother to Owen Glendower, and parted lands with her said
sister." (See this
pedigree at large in Dr. Powell's Wales, pp. 211-13.) - Return to Pedigree






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