In the release of 12 December, 1730, he is described as fifth, but he is mentioned as fourth in order of the children named.
The choice of this occupation was probably due to the fact that one of the trustees
of his father's marriage settlement was Richard Savage, a Birmingham saddler, see p. 197 ante. The other trustee was Edward Moore, esquire, of Barnt
Green. Was he related to that John Moore of Birmingham, who, 1724, became, presumably, brother-in-law of Robert Middlemore by his marriage with Anna Amerongen P See also Appendix A.
That he, apparently a resident in Birmingham, and his infant children were interred at Edgbaston seems somewhat remarkable, since King's Norton, the ancient burial place of his family, was equally accessible, and he and his contemporaries are not likely to have been under any misapprehension as to their very distant connection with the Edgbaston Middlemores. In >1727-8, when his daughter Anne was buried at Edgbaston, Lady Shelley and Lady Fauconberg were still living, and it is hardly reasonable to suppose that Robert Middlemore would consider Edgbaston a more distinctively Middlemore burying place than King's Norton. But if, as is suggested, Barbara Middlemore were the daughter of " Justian Mayronghen," we have at once a reasonable explanation. What more natural than that she should desire to bury her infant children in the same churchyard as her father.
That being so we have very sufficient reason why Robert Middlemore himself was also interred at Edgbaston rather than at King's Norton.
The registers of St. Peter's seem at this period to have been but ill kept, for there are no entries from 1726 to 1735, which defect of course sufficiently explains the absence of any record of this and some other baptisms.
As to the connection of Loxley with the Middlemores, see p. 212.
Mucklow.-Although no detailed search has been made into the history of Elizabeth Mucklow's ancestry, it seems likely that they had been resident in the parish of Aston for some considerable time, as in the registers there the baptism of William, son of William Mucklow, occurs on 19 December, 1725. Probably all those bearing the surname of Mucklow, or Muckley, which still occurs in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, are descended from the family which gave its name to, or derived it from, the hill down which the Birmingham road descends to Halesowen in the northeast, and on the slope of which is the Leasowes estate, formerly the seat of the poet Shenstone. The Mucklows appear to have been originally tenants of Halesowen Abbey, and one branch, becoming wealthy in the early part of the sixteenth century, acquired the estate of Arley Kings on the Severn, close to the modern town of Stourport. They entered their pedigree at the Heralds' Visitation of Worcestershire in 1569, and gave for their arms, Girony of twelve or and azure a lion rampant ermine, on a chief argent an escalop between two fleur-de-lys sable. A detailed pedigree of ten generations, which goes back to the fifteenth century, is given in Nash's "Worcestershire," 11, 37. On the death, in 1766, of Mrs. Wragg, the sole daughter and heiress of Selby Mucklowe, of Arley Kings, that property passed to the descendants of her sister, Elizabeth Mucklowe, who had married Thomas Zachary, the son of a London physician, and the property is now vested in their descendant, Mr. S. Z. Lloyd, of Arley Hall. Another line of Mucklowe, using the same arms, appears to have been settled at Broughton Sulney, in Nottinghamshire.
Bagnall.-This ancient Staffordshire surname is derived, not improbably, from the hamlet of Bagnall, near Stoke-on-Trent. It was borne in medieval times by a family whose doings are often found in the records of the King's Courts. Ralph Bagnall of Grendon and William Bagnald of Berrihill declined knighthood, temp. Charles I, and paid the consequent fines. During a considerable part of the nineteenth century the Bagnalls were prominently connected with the iron trade of South Staffordshire, and their family history would doubtless be of interest, though of course not within the scope of the present work.
Price.-The Rev. Thomas Price was the eldest son of Benjamin Price (whose father came from Gloucester and settled at Birmingham), and Anne Waterhouse, also of Birmingham. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he matriculated, 30 March, 1844, aged eighteen, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1851, assistant master in King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1847-62, vicar of Selly Oak, 1862, and vicar of Claverdon, 1887,until his death in 1894. He married in 1854, Anne, daughter of the Rev. Charles Lord, vicar of Uffington in Berkshire, and Barbara Underhill Amphlett.
On the ship manifest records (Kroonland) at Ellis Island. September 17 1922. Ellis Island Records
