. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. o m. first, Elizabeth, daughter ofHugh, Lord Cliflford, of Chudleigh, and re-lict of the Viscount Dunbar, by whom, whodied in 1721, he had no issue. His lordshipwedded, secondly, Mary, daughter of Ni-cholas, sixth Lord Fairfax, and by that lady,who died in 1741, left at his decease an onlysurviving daughter and heiress. The Hon. Anne Fairfax, who died un-married in 1793, when the estates passed toher cousin, Charles-G


. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. o m. first, Elizabeth, daughter ofHugh, Lord Cliflford, of Chudleigh, and re-lict of the Viscount Dunbar, by whom, whodied in 1721, he had no issue. His lordshipwedded, secondly, Mary, daughter of Ni-cholas, sixth Lord Fairfax, and by that lady,who died in 1741, left at his decease an onlysurviving daughter and heiress. The Hon. Anne Fairfax, who died un-married in 1793, when the estates passed toher cousin, Charles-Gregory Pigott, now Fair-fax, esq. their present possessor. Arms—Arg. three bars-gemelles gu. sur-mounted by a lion rampant sa. Ciesi—On a cap of maintenance, a lionpassant guardant sa. Motto—Je le feray durant ma vie. Estates—In Yorkshire. Seat—Gilling Castle, 18 miles north ofYork. 117 CHETHAM-STRODE, OF SOUTHHILL. STRODE-CHETHAM, RANDLE, esq. of South Hill, in the county of Somerset,b. 7th January, 1773, inherited the estates at the decease of his brother Richard,issueless in 1828, and assumed, by sign manual, the additional surname and arms ofStrode. The family of Strod e, which derives fromthe Dukes of Bretagne, was founded in En-gland by one of the soldiers of the Conquest, Sir Warinus de la Strode, Lord ofStrode, in Dorsetshire, whose immediatesuccessors enjoyed large estates in thecounties of Dorset and Somerset, to theeighth of whom in direct line we pass,namely, Sir John de Strode, knt. who wassheriff of Dorset and Somerset shires, in the17th Henry III. He had two sons, JohnStrode, of Parnham, and an elder, his suc-cessor, Nicholas de Strode, living in 1249,whose son and heir. Sir Hugh de Strode, knt. m. Beatrix,daughter and heiress of Sir John de Bytton,knt. and Hawise, his wife, the daughter andheiress of Matthew Ffurneaux. Sir Hughwas living in the time of Edward I. andwas s. at his decease by his son, Sir Hugh de Strode, of Chalmington,who m. Be


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