Middlemore Family Genealogy

Middlemore's of Edgbaston

11. Robert Middlemore, of Edgbaston, esquire, born about 1624. Of his history we know nothing. He survived his father but five years, dying in 1652, aged about twenty eight, and on .4 March, 1652, letters of administration of the goods of Robert Middlemore, late of Edgberton (sic), were granted to Francis Bagshaw, esquire, his cousin german.

He married Henrietta Maria, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of Sir Maurice Drummond, knighted by King Charles, in 1625, at Hampton Court, by his wife, Dorothea Lower.  She was a benefactor for £10 to the Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter at Birmingham.  She remarried, 1652-3, William Roper, of Brentford, Middlesex, by whom, as will be seen from her will, she left children.

Text Box: Drummond. -This is one of the most distinguished Scottish families, of which the Earl of Perth and Melfort is the head. Sir Maurice Drummond was son of David Drummond and Margaret Graham, of Ardbennie, being fifth in descent from Sir John Drummond, first Lord Drummond, a distinguished statesman and ambassador to the English Court, who died, aged seventy-nine, in 1519. Penelope, the third sister of Mrs. Middlemore, married Edmund Plowden, of Plowden, and Jane, the youngest, married john Trevanion, of Cornwall. William Roper was born 12 and baptized 14 December, 1623, at Eltham, and was buried at St. Dunstan's, Canterbury,Text Box: Roper.-William Roper was son and heir of Thomas Roper, of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, and grandson of Sir William Roper, of Wellhall, Eltham, in Kent, which latter was son of Thomas Roper, and grandson of William Roper by the well-known Margaret, daughter of Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More.
 16 March, 1684-5.  Letters of administration dated 27 May, 1685.         Mrs. Roper survived both husbands, and was buried 14April, 1694, at St. Giles-in-the-Fields.

 

Her will, as Henrietta Maria Rooper, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, dated 13 December, 1692, was proved 13 April, 1694: to son, Edward Rooper, ₤100; to her three grandchildren, Mary, Bridget and Penelope, 20s. each for a ring; to her housekeeper, Jacomine Tipper, ₤100; to her coachman, Thomas Busby, ₤20. Debts to be paid, viz., Mr. Charles Tasbourg,₤100 ; Mrs. Margaret Heveningham (presumably her first husband's niece), ₤50; Francis Yeoman-,₤200; her son, John Rooper, residuary legatee and sole executor.

 

Robert Middlemore left issue a son and daughter.

i.  Richard Middlemore,. of whom next (12).

ii. Mary, who on the death of her only brother became heiress and the representative of the. senior line of Middlemore, and also of the family 0f Edgbaston of Edgbaston.  She died 28 July, 1686, having married Sir John Gage, bart., who also was a Roman Catholic, and her descendants and present representatives are shown in Tables D and E.

iii. A child who evidently died young, being mentioned in the appointment of Sir Edward Nichols, bast., the guardian of Robert Middlemore's children.