B61841-Naunton

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Name of the family:

Naunton

Blason:

Sa. three martlets arg.

Crest(s):

A basilisk ppr.

Motto:

Ut vidi, ut vici; Below, Constant et vray.

Info about the family:

Alderton and Letheringham Abbey, Suffolk, of great antiquity in that county. "Some avouch," says Fuller, in his "Worthies," "that this family came here before, the others that they came in with the Conqueror." The representative temp., Queen Elizabeth and James I., was Sir Robert Nacnton, Kt., Principal Secretary of State, and afterwards Master of the Wards and Councillor of State; author of "Fragmenla Regalia," grandson of William Nacnton, and Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of Sir Anthony Wingfield, K.G., of Letheringham. On his monument in old Letherinnham Church appeared a grand escutcheon of all the quarterings of Naunton. His only dau., Penelope, m. Paul, Lord Baynino. Sir Robert's brother, William Naunton, succeeded to Letheringham Abbey, and had a son and heir, Robert Nacnton, Esq., of Letheringham Abbey, who m.Mart, dau. and co-heir of Abthcb Coke, and their only child, Theophila, wife of John Leman, Esq., of Charsfield, was great-grandmother of Theophila Lemon, an heiress, who m. Thomas Rede, Esq. and had issue; the eldest dau., Elizabeth, m. Rev. Richard Tornbb, who d. 1835, and the second, Sarah Leman, m., in 1787, Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper. Of the former, the great-grandson is Major Alfred Edward Tu&neb, A.P.Ct to H. E. the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He is entitled, by descent through heiresses, to the numerous quarte rings of the Nauntons

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0117

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