Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08


ganized resistance in Virginia to the expressions
of the Government
On the land owned by Capt Martian-now
Yorktown-W Washington gave the final blow to Eng
lish ascendancy. The Moore House." where the
surrender signed, was owned by George Lud-
low Capt Martian ancestor to both Wash
ington and Gov. Thomas Nelson.
LAWRENCE wAsHINGTON-DE TERRIERS
BUCKINGHAM.
The alliance of the house of Lawrence with the
house of Washington took place in 1915, nearly
two centuries after the de Hertburns came over
with William the Conqueror, 1906, and were grant
ed the lands formerly occupied by the de Wessing
tons from which finally came their patryonimc of
the present day.
The Laaorences probably date from about the
same time, for Robert Lawrence of Ashton Hall
attended Richard Occur de Lion in the first cru
sade and is said to have been the first to scale
the walls of Acre, and place thereon the banner of
the cross. He knighted for this gallant action
by his sovereign, "Sir Robert Lawrence of Ashton
Hail. and obtained for his insignia, A. D. 1886,
shield of silver with cross thereon raguly gules;
a semi dolphin for the crest; motto: "In cruise
salus" (See Vol. /, Am Gen. Birth)
Robert Laurence, of Lancashire, England, born
1850; knighted 1876; succeeded by his
and heir Robert whose son, James of Ashton Hail.
married Matilda daughter of John de Washington
of WdSton The first Lawrence Washington, how
ever, does not appear until the time of Henry WILL
about $685. some three centuries later 1t is
able, therefore, to suppose that there were other
more of the Washingtons took to himself
wife from the Lawrences, thus bringing into the
family the first Lawrence Washington, which has
been perpetuated to the present day.
DE FERRIERs.-The same inference may be drawn
in regard to the intermarriage of the Wash
ingtons and De Terriers. 1t is of record that in
1877 Robert Shirley, a lineal descendant of Henry
H. through the marriage of Robert de Terriers,
seventh Earl of Derby, to Marie, daughter of Hugh
LIE Brun, who married daughter of Henry H.
lineal descendant of the Ears of Chester, and of
Pembroke, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress
OF Lawrence Washington, and the names Law
renee and Washington carried down in the
main Lawrence and Shirley lines until this day.
The records of those early days very meagre,
carried the name title and estates 1t is difficult,
confined chiefly to the lines of the elder sons who
Therefore, momentous task-to search the side
lines which have the same heritage of blood, for
these intermarrages, to find the recorded evidence.
In those days, too the daughters of kings mar
red into the families of peers, and 1t is recorded
that
Laurence Washington was third in descent from
the first Lawrence. It is stated that he was
nearly related to the Earl of Spencer there having
been two intermarriages in the families. Hence
perhaps, the ducal crown in the Washington arms
His son, John Washington, was the emigrant to
Virginia.
Connected with Althorp House, the seat of the
SpencerS, which has stood for centuries under the
same line of owners-the last Earl being Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland and President of Her Ma
jesty's Council-there is little church at Brigh-
ton which is the parish Church for Althorp. In
the middle aisle of this church is memorial brass
plate of the Washingtons which bears the stars
and stripes, and it, this inscription:
Here lies inferred we bodies of Elizabeth Wash
ington, widowe who changed this life for i'm
mortaitie We 10Th of March, 1922. AS also We
body of Robert Washington Gent her late hus-
band second son of Robert Washington of Sol
grave in We County of North, Esqur, who depted
this life ye 10th Of March, 1922, after they lived
lovingly together in this parish"
In the chancel is monument to Lawrence
Washington, bearing also the stars and stripes