6 THE OLD ASHBURNE FAMILIES. 
founder of Repton Hospital. The elder branch ended in an 
heiress, Catherine Port, who, by will dated 1722, and proved 
1725, devised Ilam to her kinsman, Rowe Newel, who thereupon 
took the name of Port. His sister, and heiress, married Burslem 
Sparrow, of Wolverhampton, whose son marrying the grand- 
daughter of Mr. Bernard Granville, of Calwich, reassumed the 
name of Port; and to the fact of his grand-daughter Frances 
Waddington becoming the wife of Baron Bunsen we are indebted 
for many pleasing reminiscences of this charming locality in her 
husband’s interesting memoirs. Amongst other names which 
crop up in the registers, in old deeds and pedigrees connected 
with the district, are:—Ballidon, Bancroft, Bateman, Birom, 
Blore (the topographer, born here 1764), Blount, Bonshrant 
(of Thorpe), Browne, Corden, Carter, Chatterton, Chauncey, 
Coke ve/ Cooke, Doxey, Edensor, Etches, Fowne or le Fun of 
Yeaveley, Goodwin (an old Jaw family), Grammer, Graves (author 
of the too-little read “Spiritual Quixotey” which he wrote at 
Tissington), Greaves (of Beeley, Mayfield and Bradley), Hanson, 
Hartshorne, Hayne, Hieron (the honest Nonconformist), Kirkland, 
Longford, Lovell, Lee (of Lady-hole), Ley (of Mathfield), Manlove, 
Millward (of Bradley), Monjoye, Owfield (founder of almshouses, 
1630), Pegge, do., Riddlesden, Sadlier, Savage (of Tissington), 
Spalden (who founded the Clergymen’s Widows’ Almshouses in 
1710), Stopford, Taylor, Topleys, Vernon (?), Wise. 
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