Antigua and the Antiguans Volume II Part 24

But the encroachment of the Saxons in his son Tegyd's time became more formidable than ever, considerably circ.u.mscribing his limits, that had originally embraced all the territories lying between the two rivers of Wye and Severn; and

Tangwyd, his son, succeeded to very straitened limits, being reduced to the lords.h.i.+p of Radnor, with parts of Montgomery and Brecon; and

Anarawd, his son, succeeded as regulus of Radnor and Brecon, in the time of Egbert, king of the West Saxons, who united the whole heptarchy into one entire kingdom, henceforward called that of "England." To Anarawd succeeded his son,

Gwyngwy, who, though greatly reduced in territory, still affected the regal t.i.tle, calling himself "Brenhin" Ferlex a Brecheiniog.

And to Gwyngwy succeeded his son,

Hugan, called by John de Castares, "Prince of West Wales," but by the Welsh historians, more modestly, the "Prince of Brecknock."

To Hugan succeeded

Druffin, so humbled as to be persuaded or compelled to row King Edgar in his barge on the river Dee, being one of the tributary kings who acted that derogatory part, which served to inflate the pride of that vain-glorious but powerful English monarch. Druffin m. Crusella, dau. of Idwal ap Meyrick, and was succeeded by his son,

Maynarch, who m. Ellen, dau. of Eineon ap Seliff, Lord of the Cantred of Seliff. Maynarch was succeeded by

Blethin, the last prince of his house and family; for William Rufus promising to Bernard Newmarch (England at that time having been effectually conquered and possessed by the Normans) all he could conquer in Wales, that adventurer (at the time gentleman of the bedchamber to this the second of the Norman kings) set out for the princ.i.p.ality, and the enfeebled prince collecting, on a sudden, all his diminished forces, a battle ensued in the neighbourhood of Brecknock, in which he was worsted and himself slain. The conqueror and his eleven Norman knights (whom, tempted by the prize, he had invited to partake of his enterprise) entered into possession; and the last act of royalty shewn to this unhappy prince by his subjects and followers was the conveying his corse to the Abbey of Strata Florida, in Cardigans.h.i.+re, and there interring it amongst the princes of Wales, with all the pomp the circ.u.mstances allowed. Thus, after a possession of between five and six hundred years, was this family divested of every mark of regal dignity. Rhys Goch, however, his brother, was permitted to retain a small possession on the confines of the county, ent.i.tled the lords.h.i.+p of Ystradew, (afterwards usurped by the Clares, and came into possession of the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke.) Rhys Goch, or Rhys the Red, married Joan, daughter of Cadogan[78] ap Elistan Glorith, (whose arms are still quartered by the Byam family,) and by her had Kynwillen, who married Jonnett, dau. and co-heir of Hawell, Prince of Caerleon, (to whom Henry II. allowed that city, and twelve miles around circ.u.madjacent country,) and by her, whose arms are still likewise borne by the Byams, Kynwillen had Kynwell, who married Gladwys, dau. of Sitsilt ap Duvenwall, Lord of Gwent, and seventh Baron of Abergavenny, by right of tenure of the castle thereof, (from the Norman conquest,) and by her had Arthur, who married Ellen, the dau. of Meirick ap Cradog, (ancestor of the Matthews, and of the present Earls of Llandaff,) and had Howell, who married Jone, dau. of Grono ap Llowarth, Lord of Kebor, and had Griffith, who married Jonnett, dau. and sole heir of Grono ap Treherne ap Blaith ap Elvarch, Lord of Penrose, in Monmouths.h.i.+re, a possession which she conveyed to her husband's family, in whose family it remained several centuries, and the ruins of the mansion are still extant, and by her (whose arms the Byams still bear) Griffith had David. David marrying Maud, dau. to Llewelyn Vaughan, of Lansamllo, had Howel Gam, who marrying Joan, dau. to Adam ap Rees ap Eineon Sais, had Meiric, and Meiric marrying Gwenllian, dau. to Gwyllim ap Jenkin, had Ievan ap Meirick, of Penrose, Esq., (from whom, in the time of his son and grandson, and by the blending of ap that followed their name with his of Ievan, or Evan, came the name of Abyam, and at length Byam;) for this Ievan, or Evan, had a son, Jenkin, or John, that was the first to whom the surname was a.s.signed, and was of Maerdy, in Monmouths.h.i.+re, and he a son, Thomas, of same place, and who marrying Johanna, dau. of Llewelyn ap Gwyllim, had a son, Edward, who was both of Maerdy, in Monmouths.h.i.+re, aforesaid, and of Bath, in Somersets.h.i.+re, in Subsidy Rolls of which city he is included, 45 of Henry VIII., 1545, under the name of Edward Abyam, (the ultimate name as now used being scarcely, as yet, determined,) and this Edward Abyam dying in Jan. 1594, was buried at the Abbey Church, 2 Feb. following, leaving by Welthian, his wife, the dau. of Robert Gamage, (of the Glamorgans.h.i.+re family of that name,) Thomas Byam, his son and heir, of Bath, and Lawrence Byam, ancestor of the family now in question.

Lawrence Byam was of Brasennose College, Oxford, and entering into holy orders, he was, on 17th June, 1575, by letters patent under privy seal from Queen Elizabeth, presented to the rectory of Luckham. He married Anne, or Agnes, dau. of Henry Yewings, of Capton, in Stogumber, in co. of Somerset, by whom (who survived her husband, and was buried at Bicknoller, 8 Dec. 1623) he had four sons, all great loyalists in their day, and the three eldest, Henry, John, and Edward, all in holy orders, and of Exeter College, Oxford, (which they entered at the respective dates of 1597, 1599, and 1600.)

Henry, the eldest, succeeding his father in the rectory of Luckham, was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II., and the companion of that monarch in his exile, both by sea and land. "He engaged," says Wood, in his "Athenae Oxoniensis," "his five sons in the royal cause, four of whom were captains in the regiment raised by their father in his majesty's behalf. In 1636, he had become prebendary of Wells, and afterwards canon of Exeter. For his faithful adherence to the royal cause he was severely pointed at by the opposite party. His wife and daughter perished at sea, in their attempts to escape into Wales, in order to avoid the cruelties of the enemy. He attended the king in his exile to Jersey and the Scilly Islands. He was universally esteemed for his great sanct.i.ty, his knowledge of literature, his loyalty to his sovereign, and his charity to his fellow-creatures. His sermons were afterwards published by Hamnet Ward, vicar of Sturminster Newton Castle, in Dorsets.h.i.+re, and who also wrote the epitaph on his tomb, still extant in Luckham church, (for which see 'Collinson's Somersets.h.i.+re;' and also for further account of him, 'Echard's History of England,' under the year 1669.) He died at the advanced age of 89."

His brother, John, D.D., rector of Clotworthy, in same county, following his footsteps, shared his fate, in suffering in his own person, and those of all his children, unmerited persecutions, but which to recount would fill a volume. Edward was the son from whom the Antigua Byams came. He was admitted a student of Exeter College, Oxford, 31 Oct. 1600, then aged 16, and inst.i.tuted to the vicarage of Dulverton, co. of Somerset, 4 Aug. 1612. On 22 July, 1613, he married, at Walton, in same county, Elizabeth, the dau. of Anthony Eaglesfield, rector of that place, and vicar of Chewton Mendip, some time fellow of Queen's Coll., Oxford, (being of kin with founder;) but in 1625, this Edward Byam transported himself into Ireland, where he became precentor of Cloyne Cathedral, (the next dignity therein to that of dean,) and dying at his seat at Kilwillin, on the river St. Bride's, in co. of Cork, on 6 June, 1639, he was buried in the chancel of the parish church of Castle Lyons. His funeral certificate, signed by his widow, who survived him, being given in to Ulster's office, Dublin, and letters of administration taken out for him in prerogative court of same place, his second son,

William Byam, born at the house of his uncle, (the aforesaid Dr.

Henry Byam,) at Luckham, 9 March, 1622-3, entered at Trinity Coll., Dublin, as "Scolarium Commensalis," 24 May, 1639, just before his father's death, and he it was that was first of the name and family in the West Indies. The civil wars breaking out soon after the above-mentioned period, he entered on a military life, and distinguished himself in the manner already recounted, at Bridgwater and elsewhere. He married Dorothy Knollys, dau. of Frances Knollys, of Standford-in-the-Vale, co. Berks, Esq., son of Richard Knollys, next brother of William, the only lawful Earl of Banbury, K.G. By this marriage the Byams became connected with the first families in England, and even with royalty itself, as shewn by the following table[79]-viz., Edward 1st, King of England, m. (2nd) Margaret, dau. of Philip III. of France, and had issue, Thomas Plantagenet, surnamed "of Brotherton," Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and grand mareschal of England, m. Alice, dau.

of Sir Robert Halys, Knt., and had issue one dau., Margaret Plantagenet, d.u.c.h.ess of Norfolk, m. John Segrave, Lord Segrave, and had issue a dau., Elizabeth, one of the heirs of Lord Segrave, m. John Mowbray, Lord Mowbray, and had issue, Thomas Mowbray, created Duke of Norfolk, 1398, earl marshal of England, and Earl of Nottingham. He m. Elizabeth, sister and one of the heirs of Thomas Fitz-Allen, Earl of Arundel; died in 1400, and left issue, Margaret, eldest dau. and one of the heirs of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, m. Sir Robert Howard, Knt., and had issue, John Howard, created Duke of Norfolk, 1483, m. Catherine, dau.

of William, Lord Moleyns. The Duke of Norfolk was slain at Bosworth Field, 22 Aug., and was buried at Leicester, 1485, leaving issue a son, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. His father having been attainted, he was restored to the t.i.tle, and m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Sir Frederick Tilney, Knt., and died in 1524, leaving issue a dau., Elizabeth, m. Thomas Boleyne, Viscount Rochford, created Earl of Wilts.h.i.+re and Earl of Ormond, by Henry VIII., and had issue two daus. and one son, 1. George Boleyne, Viscount Rochford, beheaded, May, 1536.

2. Anne, youngest dau. of Thomas, Viscount Rochford, m. Henry VIII., King of England. She being beheaded, 19 May, 1536, left issue, Elizabeth, Queen of England, born a.d. 1533, died a.d.

1603.

3. Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas, Viscount Rochford, Earl of Wilts.h.i.+re and Ormond, m. William Cary, esquire to the body of Henry VIII., and had, among other issue, a dau., Catherine, (sister of Henry Cary, created Lord Hunsdon,) lady of the bedchamber to her cousin-german, Queen Elizabeth, m. Sir Francis Knollys, K.G., and dying in 1568, was buried at Westminster Abbey, leaving issue a dau., Lettice, who m. Walter Devereaux, Earl of Ess.e.x, by whom she had Robert, Earl of Ess.e.x, the far-famed favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and a son, Richard Knollys, (brother and heir to William Knollys, created Earl of Banbury,) m. Joan, dau. of John Higham, co. Suffolk, and had issue, Francis Knollys, of Standford-in-the-Vale, co. Berks, m. Alice, sister and co-heir of Sir Wm. Beecher, Knt., clerk to privy council, and dying 4 Aug. 1640, left issue a dau., Dorothy, who, as already mentioned, m. Lieut.-Gen. Wm. Byam.

Lieut.-Gen. William Byam dying at Antigua, (will proved there 1670-1,) left, by Dorothy, his wife, among other issue, two sons, Willoughby and Edward. In this way the Byam family became divided into two distinct branches, Willoughby being the ancestor of the present Byams of "Cedar Hill," and Edward that of "Pensive Hall,"

or "Martin Byam's," and a dau., Mary, m. to Col. George Needham, of the island of Jamaica, the son of Sir Robert Needham, first Viscount Kilmoray, and by whom she was ancestress of the present Gen. Needham, of that island, and of the Lords Seaford and Howard de Walden.

Edward Byam, youngest son of Lieut.-Gen. Byam, was governor of the Leeward Islands,[80] 1715, and president of the council of Antigua in 1707, born at Surinam, 1663-4, and m. 1st, Mary, dau.

of Samuel Winthorpe, and granddau. of John Winthorpe, first governor of New England, and of Groton Hall, co. Suffolk; 2ndly, Lydia, dau., of William Thomas, aunt of Sir George Thomas, and relict of Samuel Martin, of Green Castle, Antigua, (ancestor of the present Sir Henry and Sir Byam Martin.) Col. Edward Byam is described by Oldmixon, in his "British Empire in America," as a man of the best head and fortune in British America; and also as the most popular man in the Leeward Islands. He commanded, in the attack upon the island Guadaloupe, on the breaking out of the war of succession, in the reign of Queen Anne, a regiment raised by himself in Antigua, and a part of the Enniskillen, or 27th regt.

of the line. At the head of this force, he attacked and carried in gallant style the port called "Les pet.i.ts Habitans," and obliged the enemy to retire. He is honourably mentioned in the London Gazette, No. 3912, from May 6th to May 10th, and also in the "Annals of the Reign of Queen Anne." By his first wife, Mary, he had one son and one dau.-viz., Edward, m. Walthian Devons.h.i.+re, and died at Antigua, 29 May, 1745.

Mary, born 13 Oct. 1690, m. Col. Thomas Williams, of the Old Road, Antigua.

By his second wife, Lydia, relict of Samuel Martin, he had three sons and two daus.-viz., i. George, born at Antigua, 24 April, 1704, m. Henrietta- Maria, dau. of Col. John Ffrys, of Antigua, and died 12 Nov.

1734, leaving issue two sons and four daus.-viz., 1. George, of Apps Court, co. Surrey, m. Louisa, dau. of Peter Bathurst, Esq., M.P., of Clarendon Park, co. Wilts, and niece of Earl Bathurst, and was buried at St George's, Antigua, 7 Nov. 1779, had issue, 1. George Byam, died an infant, in 1774; 2. Selina, m. Rev. William Hony, of Liskeard, co. Cornwall, and has issue; 3. Elizabeth, m.

Mark Batt, of Lawell House, Co. Devon, and d. s. p.; 4 and 5. Louisa and Henrietta-Maria, both d. unm.

2. John, died at Antigua, 26 Oct. 1754, unm.

3. Mary, m. 1st, -- Lyons, of Antigua, and 2ndly, Daniel Mathew, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, co. Ess.e.x, some time high-sheriff for that county, had issue, 1. Daniel-Byam Mathew, of Felix Hall, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward Deering, Bart.; 2. George, who m. Euphemia Hamilton, and had issue a son, the present George B. Mathew, capt. in Coldstream Guards, and late M.P. for Shaftesbury, who m. at St George's, Hanover Square, April, 1835, the dau. and heir of Henry h.o.a.re, Esq., and granddau. of the celebrated antiquary, Sir Richard Colt h.o.a.re, Bart.; 3. Elizabeth, who m. Robert, fourth Viscount Galway; 4. Louisa, who m.

Admiral Lord Gambier; and 5. Jane, who m. Samuel Gambier, commissioner of the navy.

4. Elizabeth, d. unm. in 1806.

5 and 6. Henrietta Maria and Lydia, both d. unm.

ii. William, of Byams, Antigua, and of Westbourn House, co.

Middles.e.x. He was a colonel in the army, and member of the privy council, Antigua; born 3 July, 1706; admitted of Christ's Coll., Cambridge, 21 June, 1720, B.A. 1724, m. 1735, Anne, dau. of Col. John Gunthorpe, member of council, Antigua, and had issue, 1. Martin, member of the council, Antigua, born 29 Sept.

1742, admitted a fellow commoner of Sidney Coll., Cambridge, 30 April, 1761, m. in 1771, Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas, Antigua, and relict of William Warner, of Antigua. He died June, 1805, s. p., and was buried at Lyndhurst, Hants.

2. Edward, lieut. R.N., born 15 Sept. 1743, m. Anne, dau. of William Gunthorpe, of Antigua, Esq. He was lost in the "Ville de Paris," after her capture, in 1782, leaving, by Anne, his wife, a son and dau., 1. William-Henry, capt. R.N., who m. his first cousin, Alicia, dau. of Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died 26 Nov. 1838, s. p.

1. Louisa, only dau. of her father, Edward Byam, d. unm. at Kensington, in 1835.

3. Anne, eldest dau., born 27 Sept. 1744, m. 13 Jan. 1763, to Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died 18 June, 1814, leaving a dau., Alicia, m. to her first cousin, William Henry Byam, (see above.) 4. William, capt. in 68th regt. of foot, and of Woodborough, in Somersets.h.i.+re, born 7 Nov. 1753, m. in 1781, Mary, only dau. of Rev. Richard Burgh, of Mount Bruis, co. Tipperary, Ireland, and died in France, 27 April, 1830, leaving issue three sons and three daus.-viz., 1. Martin-William, born 19 Aug. 1783, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Bull, of Bostock Hall, co. Chester, and died 22 April, 1836.

2. Rev. Richard-Burgh, member of council, Antigua, fellow of King's Coll., Cambridge, vicar of Kew and Petersham, Co. Surrey, born 26 Jan. 1785.

3. Edward-Samuel, late commissary-general of the police in the Mauritius, and civil commissary of Port Louis, in which situation he distinguished himself by his undaunted zeal and inflexible efforts to suppress the slave trade in that island, as may be seen in a recent work of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. on the slave trade, p. 220.

Mr. Byam is also a gentleman of great antiquarian research, and a Celtic scholar, as well as the compiler of a "Genealogical Table of the Kings of England,"

reckoned one of the best that has been published; born 5 Aug. 1788, m. at the amba.s.sador's chapel, Paris, 26 March, 1818, Eleanor, eldest dau. of Andrew Murray, prior of Rathdowney, in Queen's County, and of Claremonts, co.

Wicklow, and niece of Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency, and had issue, Edward de Montmorency Byam, who died an infant, and was buried at Harpenden, in co. of Herts.

4. Martha, eldest dau., born 7 May, 1782, and living unm.

5. Anna-Maria, born 15 March, 1786, living unm.

6. Alicia-Juliana, born 10 April, 1787, m. 21 Aug. 1805, Wm. Leeves, Esq. of Tortington House, co. Suss.e.x.

5. Alice, second dau. of William Byam, born 29 Sept. 1746, m.

23 April, 1763, Samuel Eliot, Esq. of Antigua, and died 13 Dec. 1827, and was buried in the family vault of Lord Lee Despencer, at Mereworth, leaving four daus., 1. Anne, m.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Crosby, of Barnesville Park, co.

Gloucester; 2. Elizabeth, m. Sir Thomas Stapleton, Lord Lee de Spenser; 3. Mary, m. Robert Cambden Cope, colonel of Armagh militia; and 4. Alice, m. to William Hay Carr, Earl of Errol, father of the present peer.

iii. Alice, born 19 May, 1711, m. 11 July, 1728, Robert Freeman, of Antigua, Esq., and had issue.

iv. Lydia, born 14 Aug. 1713, m. 9 Nov. 1734, to her cousin, Edward Byam, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, and of Clay Hill, co.

Middles.e.x, from whom descends that branch of the family.

v. Francis, clerk, M.A., rector of St. John's, Antigua, and member of the privy council at that island, born 8 May, 1709, admitted a student of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1728, and m.

1738, Jane, dau. and co-heir of Edward Warner, of Eltham, co.

Kent, member of privy council, Antigua, dying at Antigua, left issue four sons and one dau.-viz., 1. Edward Byam, judge of the court of vice-admiralty, and president of the council of Antigua for near half a century, born 21 Dec. 1740, and m. 7 July, 1763, Rebecca, dau. of Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas, Antigua, dying 8 Feb. 1817, left issue an only child and heir, Jane, m. 10 June, 1784, Thomas Norbury Kerby, of Weir's Estate, Antigua, who died while in the execution of his office of commander-in-chief, (for the time being,) his wife, Jane, dying at Hampton Court Palace, in 1837, left by him an only child, Anne-Byam Kerby, born in 1796, and m. the Hon. Miles Stapleton, rector of Mereworth, co. Kent, third son of Lord Lee de Spencer, by whom she had issue, Adelaide, for whom her majesty the queen-dowager most graciously stood sponsor, born 22 Oct. 1822; Ann-Byam, born in 1823; and two other daus.

2. Sir Ashton-Warner Byam, Knt., A.B. of Sidney Coll., Cambridge, attorney-general of Grenada, and a great luminary of the law in the Western world, born 1 June, 1744, d. unm. 25 Dec. 1790, and was buried in St John's, Antigua.

3. William, of Santa Crux, d. s. p.

4. Richard-Scott, M.D., born 20 Dec. 1753, and died at Bath, unm., 17 Dec. 1832.

5. Grace, only dau., born 1 Jan. 1752, and m. 3 March, 1767, to Thomas Ottley, Esq. of the island of St. Vincent, by whom she had a numerous issue-viz., 1. George W. Ottley, of Parry's Estate; 2. Francis-Byam Ottley, of Wier's Estate; 3. Matilda Ottley, m. to Hastings Elwyr, barrister; 4.

Jane, m. 1st, Valentine Horsford, Esq., by whom she had five sons, and 2ndly, to Lord James...o...b..ien, brother and presumptive heir to the Marquis of Th.o.m.ond; and 5. Rebecca Ottley, m. to the Hon. Langford-Lovel Hodge, who dying 24 Jan. 1817, left issue a son, Langford-Lovel Hodge, Esq., m.

the dau. of - Hart, Esq. of Dorset Square, Brighton, by whom he has issue.

The remaining son of Lieut.-Gen. William Byam was Willoughby Byam, (from whom the present family of the Cedar Hill Byams descend.) He was a lieut.-col. in the army, and commanded the body-guard of the commander-in-chief, Gen. Codrington, in the expedition against the island of St. Christopher's, in 1690, when he received a mortal wound in the neck, of which he soon after died. He is honourably mentioned in the London Gazette of that period, Nos. 2590 and 2602, and left, among other issue, two sons, William and Samuel. Samuel Byam, the younger son, was a major in the army, and dying early in life, (in 1712,) left, by Elizabeth, his wife, the dau. of George Clarke, of Parker's Hill, in Antigua, (and who re-married Ashton Warner, Esq.,) a son, a second Samuel, who marrying Grace, dau. of Col. Edward Warner, left Phillis, the heir of her brother, a third Samuel, (that d.

unm.,) and she (Phillis) m. 1st, Charles Wollaston, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., (physician to her majesty Queen Charlotte,) and 2ndly, James Frampton, Esq. of Moreton, in Dorsets.h.i.+re, and for whose issue, _vide_ "Burke's _Commoners_"-1st, "s.h.i.+rley, of Eatington Park, co. Warwick," vol. i. p. 49; 2ndly, "Wollaston, of Shenton," vol. iii. p. 419; 3rdly, "Frampton, of Moreton, in co.

Dorset," vol. iv. p. 193.

William Byam, son and heir, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, colonel in the army, member of the privy council, and also one of the general council of the Leeward Islands, m. Mary, dau. of John Yeamans, of Mill Hill, Old Road, Antigua, lieut.-governor of that island, and had issue, i. Willoughby, died young, and was buried, 7 July, 1714, at Oxford.

ii. Yeamans, died young, and was buried at Oxford, in 1714.

iii. Edward, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, and Clay Hill, co.

Middles.e.x, admitted a student of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, m.

(his first cousin) Lydia, dau. of Edward Byam, governor of Antigua, in 1734.

iv. John-Sampson, died in 1766, unm.

v. Willoughby, (second of the name, the first having died an infant,) died unm. in 1764.

vi. Henry, D.D., m. Hester, dau. of John Gunthorpe, of Antigua, Esq., and dying, left issue by his wife, 1. Hester Byam, m. 7 Aug. 1781, Anthony Munton, d. s. p.; 2. Mary-Gunthorpe Byam, born 9 Nov. 1748, m. in 1771, to Col. William Dundas, brother to Lord Viscount Melville; 3. Anne Byam, living at Pear Tree Lodge, near Southampton, unm. in 1838; 4 and 5. Henry and Edward Byam, died infants.

vii. Anne, (second dau. living,) m. in 1727, Crooke Thomas, of London, merchant.

viii. Mary, (eldest dau.,) m. 21 March, 1738, to Warner Tempest, Esq. of Antigua, and of Moulsey, co. Surrey; and ix. Rebecca, m. to Thomas Freeman, Esq. of Antigua.

Edward Byam, son and heir of William Byam, dying 13 June, 1768, left by Lydia, his wife, issue, i. William, of Cedar Hill, son and heir.

ii. Samuel, who m. 30 June, 1764, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Thos. Sheppard, Esq. of Antigua, and died in 1786, leaving issue one dau., Lydia, m. to the Rev. Robt. Sutton, of East Dereham, Norfolk, and has issue.

iii. Edward, buried at Antigua, in 1795.

iv. Lydia.

v. Rebecca, m. to - Davies, R.N., died s. p.