This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...told me many people visited the grave, "because there was something particular about the lady's father." The text placed on it is singularly appropriate: Proverbs x. 7, "The memory of the just is blessed." OF OUR IRISH ANCESTORS, BURROUGHS AND NEWBURGH. UR earliest ancestor in this line is said to have come over with William the Conqueror, but I have no means of verifying this fact. The Newburghs are linked to the conquest through Baron Taillefer, William's Minstrel, as will be shown in their genealogical account which follows. In Burke's "History of Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies," it is stated of the lineage of Sir William Burroughs of Castle Bagshaw, that "the first settler of this family in Ireland is presumed to be descended from the Lincolnshire House of Burroughs which was elevated to the Peerage by Queen Elizabeth: he acquired a large landed property in the County of Wicklow." This by computation of dates must have been prior to A.D. i600. We have no trace of the name of this "first settler" nor of his property; should I obtain any information on these points it shall be added in the genealogical chapter. This unknown Burroughs' ancestor had a grandson named Thomas, who married Elizabeth Lewis, t the third in descent from whom also Thomas, was a Master in Chancery, and married Catherine, daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart, (see Waterpark in Burke's Peerage) sometime between i750 and i760. Thomas Burroughs and Catherine Cavendish had two sons and one daughter (Mary). i. Francis, of whom I have no trace. 2. Lewis, my great-grandfather, who became Archdeacon of Deny. note.--Lord Burroughs (in some peerages Borough) was killed in the rising in Tyrone, circa, i590-97....