Middlemore Family Genealogy

Gatacre - This ancient Shropshire family claims to have been settled at Gatacre, in the parish of Claverley, a few miles from Bridgnorth, ever since the days of Edward the Confessor. John Gatacre sat in Parliament for Bridgnorth in 1472. His grandson, Robert Gatacre, who married Joan Hoord, of an ancient Bridgnorth family, long seated at Hoord's Park, near that town, was father of Margaret Gatacre, who married William Middlemore (47), of Hawkesley. The Gatacres still continue at Gatacre, the present representative being Edward Lloyd Gatacre, esquire, of Gatacre. Major-General Sir John Gatacre, C.B. and Major-General Sir William Forbes Gatacre are his brothers. The arms borne by Gatacre are, Quarterly, gules and ermine, in the second and third quarters three piles of the first, over all on a fess azure five bezants.