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History
& family research project of title, Baron "Lord
Delamere" from 1st Lord Delamere to the present 5th Lord
Delamere, and the Vale Royal, Cheshire, UK, branch of the Cholmondeley
family.
Note:
This brief history is only in its preliminary stages and we acknowledge
that errors may be contained in this brief report, but we request
that any information or additional details be submitted to our
research department, which is staffed by volunteers. Send your
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The
first recorded use of the title "Lord (Baron) Delamere
(Some records indicate Delamer)" referring or related to
an English family is in 1661 AD, when King Charles the Second
(1660-1685) created this title for Sir
George Booth (1622-1684) for his loyalty to the English
Crown, because Sir George was a staunch Royalist during the
Cromwell era. Sir
George Booth lived in the area north of Chester, England
at Dunham
Massey Hall, Dunham Massey, Cheshire. Sir George had a son
and heir named Henry. (Also visit this informative site for
Dunham
Massey Hall.)
Henry
Booth, 2nd Lord Delamere and Earl of Warrington (1652-1694) had
a son named George (1688-1758) who also upon the death of his
father Henry became Earl of Warrington and 3rd Lord Delamere,
but the Earldom became extinct in 1758 upon the death of George
who had no male heir. (Earldoms can only pass to a direct male
descendent).
George's brother Nathaniel had taken up the title 4th Lord Delamere
but this title also became extinct in 1770 on the death of Nathaniel,
as the son of Nathaniel also named Henry (1710-1784) refused to
take up the title Lord Delamere for personal reasons. This latter
Henry Booth was entitled to the designation of Lord Delamere,
but not having any child born in wedlock he refused to claim the
Title, and the barony of Delamere terminated in the person of
Nathaniel the 4th baron in 1770; and ownership reverted back to
the English Crown. The title was revived in 1821 by the Vale Royal
branch of the Cholmondeley family.
Thomas
Hugh Cholmondeley (1767-1855) therefore acceded to the
title of Lord Delamere by purchasing the Barony Title from the
English crown for £5000 in 1821 (which, by the way, is the
equivalent of over £1 million today in 2010) he overpaid
for the title as it was originally offered at £1200 but
other prominent individuals in the region of Cheshire were also
bidding for the title. He thus became the 1st
Baronacy, Lord Delamere and had his name entered into the
list of British Peers (House of Lords). Thomas Hugh (1767-1855)
also apparently spent massive amounts of the family funds inherited
from the Holford family through his Great-Grandmother Mary
Holford, to extravagantly refurbish and further renovate the
Great
House and Great Hall at Vale Royal in Cheshire. See also this
site about Vale
Royal.
Thomas
Hugh married Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, from Denbigh,
Wales, in 1810, and they had 5 sons (or more likely 4 sons) and
one daughter. Henrietta Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Hugh, died
in 1852 aged 66 years old and Thomas Hugh died in 1855 aged 88.
The eldest son was named Hugh Cholmondeley (1811-1887)
(Welsh Church records state 1812 as being the year of birth) and
he became the 2nd
Lord Delamere in 1855 upon the death of his father Thomas
Hugh.
Our
researchers are especially interested in obtaining additional
information on the 5 children of the 1st Lord Delamere. The
following are the recorded children. namely, Hugh Cholmondeley,
born 1811 (or 1812 according to Welsh Church records), Thomas
Grenville Cholmondeley, born 1818, Henry Pitt Cholmondeley,
born 1820 or 1823, Charles Watkin Neville Cholmondeley,
born 1826 and died in 1844 at the age of 17, (cause of death?),
and the only daughter Henrietta Charlotte Cholmondeley,
born in 1823 or 1835. We invite any of our readers or site visitors
to submit any information they have obtained or can be referenced.
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Outline of Research project:
"
Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st
Baron Delamere" (1767-1855)
"
Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd
Baron Delamere" (1811-1877)
"
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd
Baron Delamere" (1870-1931)
" Thomas
Pitt Hamilton Cholmondeley, 4th
Baron Delamere" (1900-1979)
"
Hugh George Cholmondeley, 5th
Baron Delamere" (1934-present)
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