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The line of John Smith of Hacthorpe, Lincolnshire. John Smith, of Hacthorp, in Lincolnshire, married Joan Willarby, daughter and heiress of Robert Willarby, by Isabel Oteby, his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Oteby, son of Sir Randolph Oteby and was direct ancestor (intervening descent;) of Robert Smyth, who married, early in the sixteenth century, Eleanor Lilborne, daughter and co-heir of William Lilborne, and had, with a younger son, Henry (Lilborne) Smith and a daughter, a successor, Christopher (Lilborne) Smyth, Lord of the Manor of Annables, in the county of Hertford, temp. Queen Elizabeth. He married Margaret Hide, daughter of John Hide of Aldbury, and had two sons, Thomas and Nicholas and four daughters. Christopher (Lilborne) Smyth was s. by his eldest son, Thomas (Hide) Smyth of Annables, who m. Joan Collett, and was father of Sir George (Collett) Smyth of Annables, who wedded Judith Lytton, daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Sheriff of Hertfordshire, 36th Elizabeth, and by her (who married, secondly, Sir Thomas Barrington, bart. of Barrington Hall, in Essex, and d. in 1657, aged 65) he had one son, George Roland (Lytton) Smyth, and one daughter, who both died unmarried. The manor of Annables reverted, at his decease, to his uncle, Nicholas (Hide) Smyth who married Katherine Gardiner, daughter of William Gardiner, of Southwark, London, and had, with several other children, who died s. p., a daughter and a son, Edmund (Gardiner) Smyth of Annables, one of the Clerks of his Majesty's Council, in Ireland. Estates -The Annables estate and manor, on which stood Kingsbourn Hall, the residence of the family for about two centuries, commencing in 1556, acquired temp. Philip and Mary. The manors and estates in North and South Elkington, Lincolnshire, traced in the possession of the family from the reign of Edward I. In the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries the Smyths resided at Acthorpe, a hamlet in South Elkington. Also estates in Northamptonshire.
The line of Thomas Smith of Reyworth Thomas Smith of Reyworth married Fortune Collin, daughter of Laurence Collin, Banker, at Nottingham, and had issue: Thomas (Collin) Smith, who served the office of high sheriff for the county of Leicester. He married Mary Manle. His son, Abel (Manle) Smith, of Nottingham, Banker, married Jane Beaumont, daughter of George Beaumont of Chapelthorpe in Yorkshire, and had issue, George (Beaumont) Smith, created a baronet in 1757, whose son, Sir George Smith, the second baronet, assumed the surname of "Bromley". John Smith, of London, merchant. and Abel Smith, whose son, Robert Smith, was elevated to the peerage, 16 Jul 1796, as Lord Carrington. Samuel (Collin) Smith (the second son of Thomas Smith of Reyworth and Fortune Collin) had the following children: John (Collin) Smith who died unmarried; Thomas (Collin) Smith who married Dorothy Lister, daughter of John Lister of Sysonby - and an only daughter who married Sir Philip Hales. The third son, Samuel (Collin) Smith married Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Thomas Watson, and had these children: Samuel (Watson) Smith, M.P. for Worcester, who married a Miss Lockyer, daughter and heiress of George Lockyer, of Mappleton, Somerset. Another son, Thomas (Watson) Smith, married the Hon. Mary Hutchinson, who was the daughter of the Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson, and the aunt of the later Earl of Donoughmore by whom (who d. in 1821 ) he had issue, an eldest son, Hely Hutchinson Smith, who died s.p. in holy orders and, amongst other daughters and sons, James (Hutchinson) Smith, who later possessed Ashlyns. Arms: Or, a chevron cottised between three demi-griffins, the two in chief respectant sa. Crest: An elephant's head, erased or, eared gu. Motto: Preignes haleine tire fort. Estate Ashlyns Hall, near Great Berkhampstead, Herts, purchased in 1801.
The line of James Smith of Ashlyns Hall, Hertfordshire James Smith of Ashlyns Hall , in the county of Herts, married firstly Frances Arbuthnot, sister of the Right Honorable Charles Arbuthnot, by whom he had an only son, James (Arbuthnot) Smith, b. in 1800, d. in 1811 He married secondly, in 1803, Mary Isabella Pechell, daughter of Augustus Pechell, Receiver General of his Majesty's customs, and niece of Sir Thomas Pechell, by whom (who d. in 1823 ) he had the following children: Augustus (Pechell) Smith, b. 15 Sep 1804, Frederick George (Pechell) Smith, b. 20 Mar 1806, d. in Jun 1826, Robert Algernon (Pechell) Smith, b. 02 Oct 1814. Frances Mary Isabella (Pechell) Smith and Paulina Wilhelmina (Pechell) Smith. Mr. Smith served the office of high sheriff of the county of Herts , in 1831. Burke says, "This family, with the collateral branches of Sir George Bromley and Lord Carrington, derive immediately from Thomas Smith, of Reyworth, in the county of Nottingham, and of Gadesby, in Leicestershire, who was a descendant of the Smiths of Ashby Folville and Gadesby, and from whom he inherited this latter property in 1699. The Smiths of Ashby deduced their origin from Sir Michael Carrington, Standard Bearer to King Richard I in the Holy Land, one of whose descendants changed his name to Smyth (see page header above) during the conflicts between the houses of York and Lancaster, for purposes of concealment, which surname remained afterwards that of the family."
William Smyth of London, who erected the first mansion house at Binderton was the progenitor of Thomas Smyth of Binderton, who, about the year 1680, began to rebuild the old house and removed the chapel of Binderton which was adjoining it, and erected a new one at a more convenient distance. But this having been done without the consent of the ordinary, Bishop John Lake refused to consecrate it and it fell into decay. (NB The first Duke of Chandos married a daughter of the Lake family.) Thomas Smyth died in 1687, aged sixty, and was s. by his son, The Rev. George Smyth, of Binderton who died in 1711, aged eighty-three. He married firstly, Elizabeth Peckham, daughter of Robert Peckham of Little Green and had one son and two daughters: Thomas (Peckham) Smyth, who d. in 1720, aged thirty-one; Elizabeth (Peckham) Smyth who married Dr. William Woodford of Epsom and who had a daughter, Elizabeth Woodford, who married Thomas Wright of London and had a daughter and heir, Elizabeth Wright, the wife of Sir John Guise, bart. of Highnam, Gloucestershire; Hannah (Peckham) Smyth who died unmarried in 1731. The Rev. George Smyth married secondly, Barbara Woodward and they had two daughters. The first was Mary (Woodward) Smyth who married William Hamilton of London but who died s.p. in 1757. The second was Barbara (Woodward) Smyth who married the Rev. Walter Bartelott, (? Barttelot ? Barttelott ?) of Stopham, whose son assumed the surname and arms of Smyth. The Rev. Walter Bartelott died in 1743, aged seventy-eight, and was s. by his grandson. Walter Bartelott of Stopham married Elizabeth Hooker, daughter of Thomas Hooker of Great Chart, in Kent and dying in 1764 left - with two younger sons - George who died in 1778 and Hooker, a Major in the South Hants. Militia, whose only child, Julia, married 19 Mar 1811, Colonel Hawker, of Longparish House, Hampshire. The successor - Walter Bartelott-Smyth of Stopham. Arms: Quarterly, first and fourth arg. an unicorn's head erased gu. on a chief wavy az. three lozenges or: second and third sa. three sinister gannts or, gloves arg. Quartering: Stopham, Lewknor, D'Oyley, Tregoz, Camoys, Walton, &c. Crest A swan arg. couched, wings expanded. Estates: In Sussex. Seat: Stopham, originally erected in the reign of Elizabeth I, it was nearly rebuilt in a modern style in 1787. "In the small church of Stopham,"says Dellaway, "the windows have been ornamented with stained glass, exhibiting imaginary portraits of individuals of the Stopham and Bartelott families, with escucheons of many quarterings. These are said to have been removed from the great window of the old hall, and were the work of one Roelandt, a Flemish glass-stainer, whose name appears on them. The pavement is almost entirely composed of large slabs of Sussex marble, inlaid with brass figures and memorials of the Bartelotts, from the date of their original establishment at Stopham, and which forms one of the most complete series of monumental brasses in the county of Sussex. A very singular addition has been subsequently made of other figures, in small, of the issue of the several marriages, all of them in the dress peculiar to the age of Charles I." Visitation of Warwick and Leicester, confirmed by the Deputies of Camden, Clarenceux, to Francis Smyth, of Wooton, grandson of Sir John Smyth, and 5th in descent from John Carrington or Smith, died in 1446, who was 5th in descent from - Sir Michael Carrington - Standard Bearer to Richard I - died in the Holy Land. Sir Michael Carrington, Standard Bearer to Richard I, in the Holy Land, had a grandson, Sir William Carrington, living during the reign of Edward I. This latter was the father of Sir Edmund Carrington who flourished in the reign of Edward II. His son, Sir William Carrington, married in the time of Edward III, Lady Catherine, sister of William Montague, Earl of Salisbury, and had a son, Sir Thomas Carrington, who was a steward to Edward III. According to Burke - "Sir Thomas Carrington married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Roos, and was father of John Carrington, who in the beginning of the reign of Richard II was forced to expatriate himself, and after residing sometime abroad, to assume for security the very general surname of Smyth. " He died in 1446, leaving, among other children, Hugh Smith, his heir, ancestor of the Smiths, Lords Carrington, which branch of the family became extinct in 1706. (See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage) and Thomas Smyth of Rivenhall, whose great-great-great-grandson, Edward Smyth, of Iver, Bucks, married Frances Pennyman, daughter of William Pennyman of Normanby, in the county of York, and had seven sons and four daughters. The fourth son, (all the others d. unm.) John Smyth, of Iver, Bucks, married Martha Bethel, daughter of Walter Bethel of Bristol and had three sons and two daughters: of the former, the eldest, The Rev. John Smith, rector of Ashwicken, in Norfolk, and of Henderclay, in Suffolk, married Mary Woodcock, daughter of (unknown) Woodcock, of Warwickshire, and died 17 Oct 1808, having had with two daughters, Mary and Anne, who died unm. an only son, Col. Carrington Smith. John Carrington Smith of St. Margaret's in the county of Gloucester, was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire and was a Lieutenant Colonel in the army. He was born 08 May 1766. He married 07 Aug 1799, the Hon. Charlotte Juliana Butler, daughter of the then Viscount Mountgarret, and sister of the Earl of Kilkenny. The sons of this marriage were Edmund Carrington Smith, Capt. in the army; John Somerset Smith, Capt. in the army, who died unmarried and Pierce Butler Smith, who also died unmarried. The daughters were Harriet Mary Smith, Charlotte Juliana Smith, and Anne Smith, all of whom were unmarried. Lt. Col. John Carrington Smith - Arms: Quarterly; 1st and 4th arg. a cross gu. between four peacocks ppr; 2nd and 3rd arg. on a bend sa. six swords in saltier of the 1st. Crests-1st. A peacock's head erased, issuing out of a ducal coronet, 2nd an arm embowed in armour holding a sword. Motto: Spero Meliora. Estates - In London , Bucks., and Essex. Seat: St. Margaret's, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Thomas Smith of Reyworth married Fortune Collin, daughter of Laurence Collin, Banker, at Nottingham, and had issue: Thomas (Collin) Smith, who served the office of high sheriff for the county of Leicester. He married Mary Manle. His son, Abel (Manle) Smith, of Nottingham, Banker, married Jane Beaumont, daughter of George Beaumont of Chapelthorpe in Yorkshire, and had issue, George (Beaumont) Smith, created a baronet in 1757, whose son, Sir George Smith, the second baronet, assumed the surname of "Bromley". John Smith, of London, merchant. and Abel Smith, whose son, Robert Smith, was elevated to the peerage, 16 Jul 1796, as Lord Carrington. Samuel (Collin) Smith (the second son of Thomas Smith of Reyworth and Fortune Collin) had the following children: John (Collin) Smith who died unmarried; Thomas (Collin) Smith who married Dorothy Lister, daughter of John Lister of Sysonby - and an only daughter who married Sir Philip Hales. The third son, Samuel (Collin) Smith married Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Thomas Watson, and had these children: Samuel (Watson) Smith, M.P. for Worcester, who married a Miss Lockyer, daughter and heiress of George Lockyer, of Mappleton, Somerset. Another son, Thomas (Watson) Smith, married the Hon. Mary Hutchinson, who was the daughter of the Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson, and the aunt of the later Earl of Donoughmore by whom (who d. in 1821 ) he had issue, an eldest son, Hely Hutchinson Smith, who died s.p. in holy orders and, amongst other daughters and sons, James (Hutchinson) Smith, who later possessed Ashlyns. James Smith of Ashlyns Hall , in the county of Herts, married firstly Frances Arbuthnot, sister of the Right Honorable Charles Arbuthnot, by whom he had an only son, James (Arbuthnot) Smith, b. in 1800, d. in 1811 He married secondly, in 1803, Mary Isabella Pechell, daughter of Augustus Pechell, Receiver General of his Majesty's customs, and niece of Sir Thomas Pechell, by whom (who d. in 1823 ) he had the following children: Augustus (Pechell) Smith, b. 15 Sep 1804, Frederick George (Pechell) Smith, b. 20 Mar 1806, d. in Jun 1826, Robert Algernon (Pechell) Smith, b. 02 Oct 1814. Frances Mary Isabella (Pechell) Smith and Paulina Wilhelmina (Pechell) Smith. Mr. Smith served the office of high sheriff of the county of Herts , in 1831. Burke says, "This family, with the collateral branches of Sir George Bromley and Lord Carrington, derive immediately from Thomas Smith, of Reyworth, in the county of Nottingham, and of Gadesby, in Leicestershire, who was a descendant of the Smiths of Ashby Folville and Gadesby, and from whom he inherited this latter property in 1699. The Smiths of Ashby deduced their origin from Sir Michael Carrington, Standard Bearer to King Richard I in the Holy Land, one of whose descendants changed his name to Smyth (see page header above) during the conflicts between the houses of York and Lancaster, for purposes of concealment, which surname remained afterwards that of the family." (some repetitions due for edit.)
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From Judge
Robert Staples Smyth - September 2003 to whom gratitude
is expressed for these observations. 