FW: The Burke's Peerage & Gentry Collection

The Burke's Peerage & Gentry Collection
Price: £195.00 plus postage and packing: £20 (UK) and £50 (RoW)
Burke's Peerage will cease to offer the current Burke's Peerage & Gentry
Collection in July, 2010.
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The Collection features the following reference works published by Burke's
Peerage & Gentry:
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (2003, 4,556 pages) Burke's Landed
Gentry, The Ridings of York (2005, 958 pages) Burke's Landed Gentry, The
Principality of Wales and the North West (2006, 1,009 pages)
The combined published price of these books is £697 plus postage and
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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage
Edition: 107th
Editor in Chief: Charles Mosely
ISBN: 0-9711966-2-1
No of Pages: 4,556
Year of Publication: 2003
Burke's Landed Gentry, The Ridings of York
Edition: 19th Volume II
Editor in Chief: Charles Mosley
ISBN: 0-9711966-4-8
No of Pages: 958
Year of Publication: 2005
Burke's Landed Gentry, The Principality of Wales and The North West
Edition: 19th Volume III & IV
ISBN: 0-9711966-6-4
No of Pages: 1,009
Year of Publication: 2006
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The Wedgwoods of Harracles

The Wedgwoods of Harracles represented the senior Wedgwood line until their extinction, in the male line, in the eighteenth century. Harracles came into the Wedgwood family through the marriage, in 1470 of John Wedgewode of Dunwood to Mary Shaw, daughter and heiress of John Shaw. The estate was inherited by his son John Wedgewode who married Anne Bowyer (See Bowyer of Kynpersley) - a two generations later the elder John Wedgwood inherited Harracles whilst his brother Richard settled in Biddulph near his Bowyer kin - it is from him that most modern Wedgwoods descend. John the Elder's increased his fortune considerably, became Lord of the Manor of Horton and it is to him and his family (he married Mary Egrton of Wall Grange) that the Brass in Horton Church is dedicated - reproduced from Josiah C. Wedgwood's A History of the Wedgwood Family (1908).

The lineage of the Harracles Wedgwood can be found here:

http://www.wedgwood.org.uk/HarraclesI.html

and an account of Harracles, now called Harracles Hall is given in the Victoria County History of Staffordshire, reproduced on the Wedgwood Family website here:

http://www.wedgwood.org.uk/Harracles.html


The Wedgwood Museum has a number of indentures pertaining to the family.


Further information on the village of Horton can be found here: http://www.thornber.net/staffs/html/horton.html

New Lines of Enquiry

Since this Blog was announced via the Wedgwood-L mailing list (visit the main page to join – http://www.wedgwood.org.uk), there has been a pleasing flurry of activity. A number of new initiatives will be rolled out over the coming months, your comments and input are always most welcome:

1. A "Would like to make contact with…." section on the site would provide contact particulars and details of member's genealogical/family history interests, for instance, their desire to make contact with Cumberland Wedgwood descendants etc.
   
2. The Wedgwood Pedigrees (1925) has been almost completely transcribed into the GEDCOM available for download. However there were some off-shoots, some with twentieth century representatives, that were not included at the time. I now intend to remedy this, indeed the fact that many parish registers unavailable to our kinsmen in the 1920s are now available, it might be possible to affix these twigs on to better documented branches. Watch this space.
   

It is far too nice a day to be in front of a computer, so having committed myself to the above, I will retire. To be honest, the evening that my wife and I spent at the http://www.puddingclub.com/ last night, to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary, has left me somewhat lethargic!