The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12

Franklin Preston born ls4T; men,
bcr Rockbridee Artillery. Confederate
| states Army; lost arm at Battle OF
! Winchester May -. 1852: assistant
professor of Greek Washington and
Lee University: professor OF Greek
1859 in William and Mary College, Vir-
GINA; died az Williamsburg November,
1869.
William Caruthers Preston, b. is43:
member Liberty Hall Volunteers.
Fourth Virginia Regiment, confeder-
ate states Army; killed at Second Bat
tie of Manassas August 90. 1852
Edmund Randolph Preston, b. 1s45:
died 1862.
Elizabeth Randolph Preston mar
ried. 1874. w Allan. Of McDonoush.
Preston Allan. Janet George Allan.
John Preston Allan. William Allan,
Josephine Backus Allan and Elizabeth
Randolph Allan.
John Aloxander Preston. Presbyte-
| rian minister. married Elizabeth
courtlandt. daughter OF Rev. b. NJ.
Smith. OF Union Theological Seminary.
| Va; is pastor Of Thinking Spring
Church. Augusta County, Va. Their
| childron Edmund Randolph Preston,
b. 1850; Ben Smith Preston. b. 1856. :
Colonel j. T. l.. Preston's children
by his second marriage are:
George Junkin Preston. b. 1858; ply
| sician in Baltimore. Md.
Herbert Rush Preston. b. 1851 law
yer in Baltimore. Md.
Lucy Nelson Randolph. b. 1855, d.
1877; married Judge Peter vyvyan Dam
iel Their issue-one son and two
daurhtcrs-are:
Ellis Randolph Daniel. d. unmar-
ried.
Peter v Daniel lawyer in Rich !.
mond married Mary Robertson.
James " Robertson Daniel b.. -:
married Harriet w Williams
Lucy Randolph Daniel.
Ann Lewis Daniel. b. married
Charles prosser Moncure. of Orange
County. Va. Their children are:
William Moncure; married Miss
Chapman.
=. V. Daniel Moncure. ~
Lucy Randolph Moncure.
Foscuc.
Ny mother was Foscue. The name ,
in England In the past has been spelt
In various ways, but | notice, from;
old papers, that about the end of the
fifteenth century the signatures had
become ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Richard
Fortescue, about the year 1850. grant,
ed land to Woodbury. Priory. The old /.
parchment with seal attached Is now.
at Elton College, and Is still perfectly
leEible. He not only grants land him
self. but confirms form er grants Of his
father, Richard, and OF his grandfather.
Raiph. "Sciant presentes ct futurtr
| great ego Ricardus Fort Escu, cou.
sensu ct asensu ysmeine sporse NEE
CT heredum meorum. etc. etc" 80
The coats OF arms borne by the
| family, In all its branches, has tho
motto. Forte Scutum Salus Ducum"
Sir John Fortescue, OF Salden, Chan.
ccllor OF the EXchequer 10 Queen
Elizabeth. In a letter to Lord Spencer, >
refers 10 himself as Il, Sir 10. Foscue~
though his signature to the letter is
j. Fortcscuc.
There arc traditions coming through
my grandfather. connecting us with +,
the Fortescues, OF livingstone. This
family was seated in South Devon !.
from the time or the Conquest down
10 about 1851. livingstone seems to
have been part of the land received In
the partition, and their possession OF
II was afterward confirmed by an act
OF the 10th King John Ga. d. 1o0e).
sir Richard Fort Escu, Norman
Normandy. in the Conquest of Eng
land. After the battle OF Senlac. Rich
ard returned to Normandie. but his
son. Sir Adam, remained In England :.
and became the progenitor OF the Eng
fish family. .
d. 1906, eldest son In the eleventh gen.
Grafton from Richard, married Eliza =
beth. daughter of Sir John Bcauchamp, j
OF Rynn. Dorset. This William had I
two sons, William, who married Ma
bella Folwell (from whom I descend).
and SIR John. Governor OF Meause, who
married Eleanor Norreis. From this
John and Eleanor descend many of tho
distinguished members OF the family. s
John and Eleanor had three sons:
u> Sir Henry, Chief Justice OF Ireland:
CD Sir John, who Married Isabella
Jamyss, was Chief Justice of England
G4i3). and afterwards Lord Chancel- /.
Tor 10 King Henry VI. (3) Sir Richards
married Agnes, daughter OF Sir Walter
de Windsor He was killed at the
battle of St. Adams u455). -
Richard and Agnes had a son. Sir,
John, who married Alice, daughter of
Sir Gcoffry Boleyn. These were grand
parents of Sir John Fortescue, of SAL !.
den. Chancellor iof the ENchequer. to
whom ! have already alluded. This
John married, first Cicely Asheheld; ).
second, Alice Smythe. He was born
In 1888 and died In 1907.
Edmund. OF Wimpstone, In the
nineteenth generation from Sir Rich
ard Fort Escu. died In parts beyond ,
seas 1851. lie left a son, John. to
whom administration was granted.
This John sold livingstone and went
beyond seas"
The oldest members OF tho family
In America whose names can And
were John and Simon, who both died !.
in North Carolina in 1851 cannot
ascertain where John and Simon cana 4
from. but think they went from Vir- I.
Einia TO North Carolina. Simon was
my great great great grandfather
have heard that the Fortescues
kandolphs intcrmarried. AS the RAN
dolphs went 10 Virginia at a very early
period. this would seem 10 indicate
that the Fortescues, like the Whit
fields, lived for ono or two generations
IN Virginia before contributing to-
wards the settlement of the newer
country 10 the southwark.
Between the John. OF Wimpstone
diving l63D and the John and simon
who both died in 1851 presumably
well advanced In lifc). there were
probably two generations. These two
links | am trying to find.
For ten years l tried to get copy
OF History of the Family of Forte
cues" by Thomas (Fortecues) Lord
CloNemcnt. and was at last successful
through the assistance of lady mem
Der of the family living in South Devon,
JnnPinl- from q fau fro