Description | further pedigrees, correspondence and other family history matter compiled by Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828) with much speculation on the continental origins of the des Bouverie family (some material in French) and their early days in England, with extracts from the registers of the Walloon Church, but also work on collateral families; also copy of 1625 will of Elizabeth des Bouverie (nee de la Forterie) widow of Samuel des Bouverie, copy of 1701 marriage settlement of Christopher des Bouverie (1671-1733) to Elizabeth Freeman and 1773 correspondence from Robert Knight, rector of Weston Favell, on the Holman family. Other families include: Cornwallis, de la Forterie, Duncombe, du Quesne (Ducane), Freeman, Foster/Forster, Lannoye, Maurois and Raines |