[From Manx Soc vol 10]

APPENDIX E.

GENEALOGY OF THE DERBY FAMILY AND HOUSE OF ATHOL, SO FAR AS RELATES TO
THE SEPARATION OF THE ISLE OF MAN FROM THESE FAMILIES.

JAMES, LORD STRANGE, Lord of Man,         =   Charlotte, daughter of Claude de la Tremouille 
   summoned to Parliament 3 Charles I.,   |    afterwards (Duke of Thouars), who defended Lathom
   Seventh Earl of Derby, and beheaded at |    House against the Parliamentarians, in 1644. 
   Bolton, in Lancashire, for his loyalty,|
   anno 1651.                             |
       +--------------------------+-------+----+--------------+-------------------+------------------+
       |                          |            |              |                   |                  |
   Charles, who  = Helena Rupa, Edward, died   William, died  Mary, married to    Katherine, mar.    Amelia = John, Third
   succeeded     |  a German   without issue. without issue. the Earl of         to the Marquis     Sophia. | Earl of Athol.
   him as Eighth |  Lady.                                    Strafford,and left  of Dorchester,             +------------------+
   Earl of Derby.|                                           no issue.           and left no issue.                            |    
       +---------+----------------+-------+----+--------------+------------------------+-------------+---------------+         |
       |                          |            |                                       |             |               |         |
   William    =  Eliz. dau.      Robert,      James, the Tenth=Mary, daughter         Charles,    Charlotte, mar.   And other  |
   who        | of              died         Earl of Derby,   |     and sole heir to    died      to Thomas,       children,   |
   succeeded  | Thomas,         without     succeeded in 1702,|    Sir William        without     Lord Colchester,  who died   |
   in 1672, as| Earl of         issue.       and gave the Act |     Morley, of        issue.      who died        young without|
   Ninth Earl | Ossory.                      of Settlement in |     Halnaccar.                   without issue.   issue.       |
   of Derby.  |                           1703, to the Isle of|                                                                |
              |                              Man. He was the  |                                                                |
              |                              last Earl of that|                                                                |
              |                              family which had |                                                                |
              |                              governed the Isle|                                                                |
              |                              for more than 300|                                                                |
              |                              years            |                                                                |
     +--------+-------------+-------------------------+       +---------+              +---------------------------------------+
     |                      |                         |                 |              |
   One son       John = Henrietta  = John,         Elizabeth         One son,         John,    = Katherine,
   who died    Earl of|            | Lord             died             who died    first Duke  | daughter of
   without   Anglesea.|            | Ashburnham       without          without        of Athol.|   Wm.& Ann,
   issue.             |            | her              issue.           issue                   |   Duke and
                      |            | second husband.                                           |  Duchess of
        +-------------+   +--------+                                                           |  Hamilton.
        |                 |               +---------+----------------+---------+---------+-----+---------------------------+
        |                 |               |         |                |         |         |                                 |   
   One daughter       One daughter      John        William,         James,  Charles,  George, Lt.-   = Amelia, sole     Basil,
   only, who          only, who         Marquis     attainted for    second   died 1720  General of   |  daughter and      died
   died without       died without      Tullibane,   rebellion,      Duke of          Prince Charles' | heiress of James   young  
   issue.             issue.            who fell     and died in     Athol.              army in 1745.|   Murray, of
                                       in battle at    the Tower,    became Lord      Attainted, and  |   Glencarse and
                                        Malplaquet,     1747.         of Man         died in Holland  |    Strowan.
                                         in 1709.                     in 1735.        11th Oct. 1760, |
                                     +-------------------------------------------------------------+--+
                                     |                                                             |       
                             Charlotte, Baroness = John, Third Duke of Athol, who                 Ten other children.
                              Strange, only child,         succeeded in 1764, and sold his
                               married to her cousin.       rights in the Isle of Man A.D. 
                                                            1765, to the BRITISH CROWN. 


 

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