Antigua and the Antiguans. Volume 2

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lady (Mary, the wife of Col. Thomas Williams) was in possession of the late Rowland-E. Williams, at Newlands. Col. Thomas Williams dying, left issue, by Mary, his wife, I. EDWARD,

son and heir. Rowland, died s. p. in. Samuel, entered at University College, Oxon, 3 November, 1737, died s. p. iv. Sarah, died s. p. II.

EDWARD, son and heir, of Old Road, Antigua, and Newlands, in the parish of Thames Ditton, co. Surrey, born 9 May, 1710, m. in 1747, Mary, dau. of — Bennet, of Penryth, co. Cumberland. He, dying 6 April, 1734, was buried at Thames Ditton, aforesaid, leaving issue by his wife,

i. II.

ROWLAND-EDWARD,

son and heir. Samuel, who possessed an estate in Hampshire, and dying s. p. in 1825, Avas buried at Lyndhurst, in that county.

ROWLAND-EDWARD, as eldest son, inherited the family estates of Old Road, Antigua, and Newlands, co. Surrey, born 18 Dec. 1784, m. Mary, dau. of Robert Symes, of the Island of Jamaica, Esq., and dying 28 Nov. 1826, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, left issue two sons, I. ROWLAND-EDWARD, son and heir. II. Samuel Williams, captain in the Royal Navy, and two daus. ROWLAND-EDWARD WILLIAMS, as eldest son, possesses the familyestates in England and Antigua, the patrimonial domains of his ancestors, who came in among the first settlers ; member of her Majesty's privy council in that island, and late captain in the 10th regiment of Hussars, m. Mary-Anne, dau. of Sir Patrick Ross, K.C.B., (then captain-general and governor-in-chief of the Leeward Caribbee Islands,) who, dying at the early age of thirty-two, left issue by him two sons, one of which only survives.

Nos. 8 & 9. GENEALOGY OF THE CODRINGTON FAMILY. of the great ancestors of the Codrington family was John de Codrington, grandson of Geoffrey Codrington, standard-bearer to Henry V., 1415 ; he afterwards purchased the manor of Wapeley in 1455, living to the great age of 112 ; died in 1475. From this source descends the family of Codrington connected with Antigua. GEOFFREY CODRINGTON, of Codrington, co. Gloucester, left issue a ONE


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