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BURKI^-S COLONIAL GENTRY. ->3.'] Alcxnndi^r Duff, D.D., T.L.D., and liiia issue, Alexaii ler, Cecil, Sopliiii Ann Cliarlutte, and Mar_v Scott. lieiideace — Ivilgraston, llokitika, New Zealaud. II. Annie, m. at Melbourne, Vic^toria, John Crawford IlEXUUitsDX.nierehant, and has issue, Marion and Theresa. !3rt)nu mUE LATE ALFRED .RI>EN, of Claude Lorraine, Talmra, JL K at Saugoj', JJeugiil rrcsidency, India, 22nd May, 1820; m.. 17 1649, Margaret, daughter of James Fulton, J.P., by Mary Hill, both natives of Scotland, and d. 12th . January, 18y2, having had is.suc I. Alfred, 6. 13th June, 1853. II. Franklyn Pulton, HI. Hamar Shake.spear I. Ruth. IT. Florence, m. Samuel Connor, M.D., M.A., R.U.I., &c. HI. Edith Cornelia, IV. Mary. Victoria, th April, lii.s wife, }tvin,s, b. 2Gtli February, IS.'jG. HintactE. Tins familj, which is of Saxon origin, claims distinction for a full century at least before the Conquest, deriving, in direct descent from Siwakd ok Akden (tciiijt. Henry 1), eldest son of TurkiUde Warwick, and grandson of Alws, Earl of Warwick, iemji. Edward the Confessor, T)ie senior line, the Akde.vs, of Park Kail, oo. Warwick, became extinct at the do<'ea.«e, in 16 13, of Eobei-t ^Vrdeu, of Purk HaU, who loft his four sist<'rs, his co-heirs, viz., 1. Elizabeth, ni. Sir William Foley, of Boxted, Suffolk ; 2, Goditha, nife of Herbert Pkice ; 3. Dorothea, ni. Colonel Hevve}" Bagot, sou of Sir Hervey Bagot, Bart., ancestor of the Bai>ons Bagot, of Bagot's Bromley, co. Stafford, and had a daughter, Eliza, who m. first, the Earl of Falmouth, and secondly, the Earl of Dorset j nud -1. Anne, m. Sir Charles Adderlev, of Lea, ]t is an iut«resting fact that Mary, the daughter of Kobert Arden, of ^A'ilme?ote, and grand daughter of Sir Walter tie Arden, by lier marriage with John Shakesjieare, of Sti-atford-on-Avou, was mother of William Shaeespeaeb, the immortal poet and drama- tist. HuMPHKEY Akden, of Longcrofts, eo. Stafford, ««. Miss Lasckllks, of London, and dying in 1705, at the age of 7-1, left a daughter, Catherine, and a son, HkneY Arden, of Longcrofts, baptised 7th Noveniber, lt>65. This gentleman m. Aimo ALCOCK(hcires3of .Tames S.Mirn, of Xantwicli), by whom (who il. Cil .lauiuirv, ItJ'.I.S) lie had a daughter, Klizabcth, buried 12th June, IG'JG, and a son and heir, John Ahden, of Longcrofts, higli sherifT for Staffordslnre in 1730 ; baptised 1st January, 10U3 ; «t. twice, and by his first wife, AnnaCatherina, eldest daughter of .Vohn NkWtON, of King's Brondey, left at his decease, in ITSt, with two daught<-rs (Catherine, d. num., and Ainni Cailierina, wife of FettipJacc Nott, of Jjichficld), a son and heir, Henry Arden, of Longcrofts, who m. Alathea, daughter of Robert Cotton, of Woi^ester, by wliom (who d. 1st July, 1783) he left at his decease, in 17fS2, with younger children (of whom were Humphny,. who m. a daughter of Dr. Landoe ; .Samuel, a naval otTicer ; and Aune, wifcof Benjajnin SriLS- ECRY, of Wellington, eo. Dublin), a son and successor, The Kev. John Aede.v, of Longcrofts Hall, Burton-on-Trent, CO. Stafford, A. Mandi, 1752, who )«. Margaret Elizabeth, only <d>ild of Eear-Adniiral Jose]di Hamau, who accom- panied King George 1 from Jirunswick ; and d. ' ' had, I. 10th February, 1803, aged 51, having tl John, Major in the 3nl or King's Own Dragoons, m. Aune Maria, daughter of John Hoduso.n, of Wellingborough, co. INorlhaniptou, and (/. 2nd August, ISOi), aged 33, having had, John Humphrey Cotton, d. in India. Margaret Mary Anne, m. to Janica Ckalla.v, and had issue. Susannah Maria, »i. John liorr, of Colon Hall, co. Stallbrd, aud had issue. He was s. by his brother, the Rev. Erancis Edward -Vrden. 11. Francis Edward (Rev.), rector of