B54651-Towneley

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Name of the family:

Towneley

Blason:

Ar. a fess sa. three mullets in chief of the second.

Crest(s):

On a perch or, a hawk close ppr. beaked and belted gold.

Motto:

Tenez le vraye.

Info about the family:

Towneley, co. Lancaster; descended from Richard de Towneley, alias De la Legh, Sheriff co. Lancaster 1375, great-grandson of John Del Leoh, by Cecilia de Towneley his wife, dau. and heir of Richard de Towneley. The Towneleys suffered much for their devotion to the royal cause during the civil war; Charles Towneley, Esq., of Towneley, the then head of the family, fell at Marston Moor, and his son, Richard Towneley, Esq., of Towneley, an eminent philosopher and mathematician, was compelled, at the Restoration, to sell the fine estate of Nocton, co. Leicester, in order to repair the losses occasioned by sequestrations

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1023

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