B60098-Worsley

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Name of the family:

Worsley

Blason:

Ar. a chev. sa. betw. three falcons of the last, beaked, legged, and belled or. Ancient Arms, Ar. a chief gu.

Crest(s):

A wolf's head erased or. Ancient crest, A wyvern, wings endorsed at. armed and legged gu.

Motto:

Ut sursum desuper.

Info about the family:

Appuldercombe and Westover, in the Isle of Wight., bart, extinct 1825; descended from John Worsley, second son of Sir James Worsley, Bart., of Worsley Hall, co. Lancaster. Sir Thomas Worsley, the sixth bart. of Appuldercombe, d. 1768, and left a son, Sir Richard Worsley, who d.s.p. in 1805, and a dau. Henrietta Frances, wife of the Hon. John Bridgman Simpson, by whom she had a dau. Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte, m. Charles, Earl of Tarborough. At the decease of Sir Richard Worsley, the seventh bart., the title passed to his kinsman, the Rev. Sir Henry Worsley Holmes, LL.D., whose son, Sir Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes, ninth bart., d.s.p. m. He left two daus. his co-heirs; the eldest, Elizabeth, m. 1833, William Henry, second Baron Heytesbury, who assumed, by royal licence, the additional surname of Holmes

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1136

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