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The children of this marriage were Thomas, Grace and 

 Sarah. 



Sarah died unmarried about twenty years of age, and was 

 buried on May 16th, 1738, at Heanor. 



Thomas. — Thomas, of Denby Old Hall, was baptized 

 April 19th, 1 7 16, at Castle Donington. He seems to have 

 been very like his father in the peculiar bent of his mind and 

 habits, but of a worse disposition in that he apparently 

 possessed a morose temper. After being educated as an 

 attorney he emigrated to America, and after an absence of some 

 seven years he died unmarried in Philadelphia, December 21st, 

 1 763 : that was before his father. By his will, made March 7th, 



1754, "when last at Gravesend," and two codicils, March 26th, 



1755, and November 8th, 1763 (the latter made at Philadelphia), 

 he bequeaths his estates at Denby, Pinxton, Normanton, Heage, 

 and elsewhere in Great Britain to his friend Francis Green, 

 attorney, of Clement's Inn, co. Middlesex. 



Grace, who by survivorship became heir general to her father, 

 was buried at Heanor, April 16th, 1805, aged ninety, in the 

 same grave as her father and her daughter Lucy, who pre- 

 deceased her. She married at Tutbury, co. Stafford, June 27th, 

 1738, William Strelley, of Oakerthorpe.* He died in 1796 and 

 was buried at Pentrich. 



Strelley. 



The children of William and Grace Strelley were Robert and 

 Lucy. 



Lucy died unmarried March 24th, 1784, aged forty-one, and 

 was buried at Heanor as above mentioned. 



Robert, therefore, eventually inherited the whole of his 

 mother's third-share in the Denby and other estates : to this he 

 added the other two-thirds by purchase from Francis Green, 

 the devisee of his uncle Thomas Robey. He was born at Denby 

 Old Hall, August 17th, 1739, died August 31st, 1813, and was 

 buried at Pentrich. 



* For an account of the Strelley family see vol. xiv. of this Journal. 



