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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xii. AUG. 15, 1903.

FLEETWOOD FAMILY. (9 th S. xii. 27.)

I CAN reply to the last part of SIR E. T. BEWLEY'S query. Mr. Earwaker's pedigree of the Fleetwoods has never been printed. Upon the last occasion when I enjoyed the privi- lege of a visit to Mr. Earwaker he showed to me the MS., which was then in but an early stage of preparation. Some additions were doubtless afterwards made to it, but I do not think that they could have been very numer- ous, inasmuch as Mr. Earwaker's lamented death occurred not long afterwards.

A full pedigree of this interesting family would indeed be of great value, but so far, I believe, has never been compiled. I have collected some notes of more or less value, which I should be willing to communicate to any one who might feel disposed to take the matter in hand. The chief, but not the sole, difficulty is with the descendants of Sir Wil- liam Fleetwood, of Cardington, Beds, and Cranford, Middlesex, who had a numerous family, who founded several interesting branches, and from whom most of the historic Fleetwoods are derived. Of Lady Lambart's brothers Thomas and John I have ascertained nothing, beyond that Thomas was admitted to Gray's Inn 11 March, 1600/1, as "son of William Fleetwood, of Cranfield [sic], Midx.," and that John is said to have been knighted, though there appears to be no definite evi- dence of this. That one of these brothers should be the founder of the Irish branch at Kilbeggan is a most valuable suggestion, opening up an entirely new field for research

W. D. PINK.

Winslade, Low ton, Newton-le-Willows.

Thomas Fleetwood does not appear to have been either at Oxford or Cambridge. There is no work by the late J. P. Earwaker on the Fleetwood family in the British Museum Catalogue. It is to be hoped that his notes will be published, as they are sure to be of great interest. So little seems to be known of the Fleetwoods in Ireland that I venture to give a list of some I have come across, in the hope that it may elicit information as to their parentage and descendants, and possibly clear up the Fleetwood ancestry of the Mark- ham family (vide ' Westminster Abbey Regis- ters ' and ' Fam. Min. Gentium,' both Harleian Society), which I believe is still doubtful.

William Fleetwood, one of the Lord Lieu- tenant's gentlemen, 11 October, 1667 (Hist. MSS. Commission, * MSS. of the Marquis of Ormonde '),

William Fleetwood, quartered at Athy : lieutenant of horse, Life Guards, 10 July, 1680 (ibid.).

William Fleetwood and Gustavus Fleet- wood,* brothers, mentioned in a letter of Col. Cooke to Ormonde, 4 August, 1679. He goes on to speak of the former "when his infirme carcas reaches his Irish home againe " (ibid.).

Dublin ').

John Fleetwood, of Dublin, arrived in Cal- cutta in 1788 ; living in 1800 ('Bengal Kalen- dar and Almanack,' 1792, and ' New Oriental Register for 1800').

John Fleetwood, of Pragh, near Tullamore, married in 1716 Lydia, daughter of Robert Armstrong, of Gallen, King's County.

Elizabeth Fleetwood, daughter of Fleet- wood, of co. Tipperary, married Charles, son of Richard Maunsell, of Bally william, oo. Limerick (Burke's ' Commoners ').

There were Fleetwoods residing in Dublin in the early part of last century.

R, W. B.

The parish registers of Stoke Newingtpn contain many entries of the related families of Fleetwood, Hartop, Gould, St. John, Cooke, and Hurlock, from the year 1672 to 1793, which are given in 4 th S. ix. 363.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

THACKERAY'S SPEECHES (9 th S. xi. 488). MR. MELVILLE will find the " original draft' of the speech delivered by Thackeray at the dinner given in his honour before he started for America in October, 1855, in George Hodder's 'Memories of my Time,' pp. 261-4. WALTER JERROLD.

Hampton-on-Thames.

SUNFLOWER (9 th S. xii. 25). There is no evidence that our modern sunflower owes its name to the fact that it was thought to turn with the sun. Gerard, who is, I believe, the first English writer who describes the flower, says, indeed, that this has been reported, but adds that he rather thinks the name was bestowed upon it because the flower " re- sembles the radiant beams of the Sunne."

It is, of course, unnecessary to say that our sunflower is not the heliotrope of the ancients, or related to it. Gerard figures four helio-

Swedish general and baron ? Further, was Gus- tavus (Miles) identical with Gustavus Fleetwood, of Wandsworth, co. Surrey, who died prior to 1722?
 * Were these the sons of George Fleetwood,