| History of the Mansergh Name and the Clan |
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| Variants: Mansurgh; Manzerge; Manser.
Arms: Argent a bend raguly between three arrows gules feathered and barbed d'or.
Crest: A demi lion rampant gorged with a collar raguly gules holding in the dexter paw an arrow of the last feathered and barbed d'or.
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| 1066 |
Mansergh or Mansurgh is a surname derived from the place name Mansergh in the parish of Kirkbylonsdale, in Westmoreland , England. MacLysaght's publication on Irish names stresses it's prevalence in that county. The name Manzerge is first mentioned in The Doomsday Book in 1066 (Vol:1, P.301) as existing in Yorkshire 's West Riding, having originated from a Norwegian background. |
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| 1187 |
In 1187, Nether Hall, comprising an Estate of 1000 acres was leased from the King by Adam de Mansergh for 6 broad arrows yearly. |
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| 1339 | In 1339, clerk John de Mansergh, son of William, was complained against by a priest for felling and carrying away trees to the value of 60 shillings. In the same century in 1384, John de Mansergh was chosen as Knight of the Shire, to represent Westmoreland in Parliament. |
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| 1529 | Brian Mansergh of Barwicke Hall, Yorkshire stated in his last will and testament of 1529: “I give unto every priest to say Messe for my soul eleven pence and unto every scholar one pence”. Brian's successor, George (1490 - 1571) had an only son William who married his cousin Jane, the only surviving grandchild of Edward Mansergh of Nether Hall, a descendant of Adam Mansergh. William's son Brian died in 1621, and was succeeded by his sons William and George. They were born in 1591 and 1596 respectively. | |
| 1636 | It is with this George Mansergh that the Irish connection begins. George married Rebecca Redman, daughter of James Redman of Halton, Yorkshire, and sister of Col Daniel Redman, M.P. for Co Kilkenny. George died in 1636, leaving his sons Brian, James and Robert to succeed him. According to Smith's History of Cork, James Mansergh, Captain of Horse, petitioned for land in Cork under the Act of Settlement on the 18th of February 1659. He acquired lands at Macroney and Macroney Castle in the Fermoy and Kilworth areas of the County. | |
| 1683 | Brian, the eldest son who came to Ireland with James, acquired land in Meath and Kilkenny, under the Act of Settlement. Robert Mansergh, aged seven when his father died, also came to Ireland, and had one son, George who became Alderman and Freeman of Cashel. He had no family, so when he died, and was buried in the Cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in 1683, his estate reverted to his uncle James. | |
| 1684 | Other events were taking place in Ireland which would later effect the family. In 1632, King Charles the 1st, granted Sir Hardresse Waller, the lands of Grenane. In 1647, Miss Waller, Sir Hardresse's daughter, married Nicholas Southcote and they took up residence at Grenane House, Tipperary. James Mansergh, of Macroney married and had one son, George who died without issue. However, his eldest daughter, Eleanor, married Nicholas Southcote in 1684, eldest son of Nicholas Southcote of Grenane House, and grandson of Thomas of Bovey, Devon. Nicholas Southcote Snr's. parentage was James Perceval Of Weston, Somerset's grandson and his wife Mary. |
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| 1703 | Eleanor Southcote Mansergh's two sons died in 1703 and 1710 aged 8 and 10 respectively. Her daughter, Mary married Daniel, her mother Eleanor's first cousin and son of Bryan Mansergh. Daniel was Justice of the Peace, for Co: Cork and lived at Macroney Castle at Kilworth. Daniel and Mary had three sons and one daughter. The eldest son James married first Elizabeth Gifford of Aghern, Conna, Co: Cork and had one daughter, Catherine who married Samuel Bayley. James re-married in 1749, Mary the daughter of Lt. Col Richard St. George, commander of forces in Ireland. Their son Richard assumed the prefix St. George Mansergh and married Anne Stephen of Durrow and they resided at Haedford Castle in Co Galway, until he was killed by rebels in 1797. | |
| 1750 | Daniel's second son Nicholas inherited Grenane Estate and married Elizabeth Lockwood of Indaville, Cashel in 1750. Their eldest son, also named Nicholas, married Elizabeth Carden. Their grandson John Craven Carden Mansergh, son of their 10th son Daniel, married secondly, Louisa Georgina Smith of Capetown, the antecedents of the Mansergh's in South Africa. | |
| 1795 | In 1795, Daniel and Elizabeth 's eldest son John Southcote Mansergh of Grenane, High Sheriff and Justice of the Peace for Counties Cork and Tipperary, married Mary, the only daughter of Richard Martin of Clifford, in Castletownroche, in Co Cork. This brought one of the family seats into the Southcote Mansergh family. Their eldest son born in 1799, was killed in an accident at school in Dublin in 1815. |
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| 1800 | Richard Martin Southcote Mansergh, born in 1800 inherited Grenane House, and married Jane Rosetta Bomford. He was succeeded by his son John who died in 1899 without issue. John was succeeded by his nephew Richard who died unmarried in 1906. His brother Philip St. George Mansergh, son of Richard of Friarsfield, Tipperary was his successor. | |
| 1900 - present day | Philip married his cousin Ethel Marguerite Otway Louisa only daughter of Major Charles Stephen Perceval Egmount Mansergh of Bridgetown in Co Cork. Ethel Marguerite was the daughter of Helen Ogilvy, who was in turn daughter of George Ogilvy, of Cove, Dunfries in Scotland. George's lineage included Maria Augusta and Alexander Grieve, son of David Grieve personal physician to Tsar Alexander of Russia. However it was said that he was if fact the son of the Tsar. The granddaughter, of Ethel Marguerite and Philip St. George, is Philippa Mansergh-Wallace, daughter of Charles Ogilvy Martin Southcote Mansergh and Marjorie Joan Wild, and is the present resident of Grenane House, Tipperary . | |