Middlemore Family Genealogy

Shuckburgh. -This was a family of great antiquity in the county of Warwick, which derived its name from the village of Over Shuckburgh in Knightlow Hundred, where they appear to have been settled at least as early as the reign of King John. In 1138 Richard de Shuckburgh gave twenty acres of land to Wroxall Abbey. John de Shukburgh was a coroner for the county in 3 Edward III, 1330. John Shuckburgh, who married Margery Middlemore, was a son of Anthony Shuckburgh, who died in 1593, by his wife Anne Foxley. The monument of John Shuckburgh and Margery Middlemore, which represents the recumbent effigy of a man in armour and his wife, formerly stood against the north side of the chancel, but is now against the south wall of the mortuary chapel of Upper Shuckburgh. The inscription is in capital letters as follows:

Figure 22 Marker for John Shukburgh

Arms over the inscription: In the centre, Shuckburgh impaling Medley; on either side, Shuckburgh impaling Foxley and Shuckburgh impaling Skeffington. At the top is a large shield : in the centre is Shuckburgh, Quarterly of 6, and on either side, Shuckburgh impaling Napton, Shuckburgh impaling Fulwood. Also two shields in the spandrils of the arch; dexter, Shuckburgh impaling Sydenhall; sinister, Shuckburgh impaling Vaux. On base of tomb, 3 shields; (i) Shuckburgh impaling Middlemore, (2) Shuckburgh impaling Holt, (3) Shuckburgh impaling Skeffington. There are also two blank shields, one at each end of base of tomb. In 1660 Sir John Shuckburgh, the grandson of Margery Middlemore, was created a baronet, and the family is now represented by SirStewkley Frederick Draycott Shuckburgh, of Shuckburgh, tenth baronet. A good tabular pedigree of the family, with particulars of the monumental inscriptions at Shuckburgh and elsewhere, will be found in the "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica," iii., 2nd ser. It was compiled by Lord Hawkesbury, F.S A., who is descended from Margery Middlemore, through his grandmother Julia, the only daughter and heiress of Sir George Augustus Shuckburgh-Evelyn, the sixth baronet, and wife of the Right Hon. Charles Cecil Jenkinson, third and last Earl of Liverpool. The arms of Shuckburgh are, Sable, a chevron between three mullets, argent.