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Broughton Gifford. 



but the more opulent, branch of the family, ceased to reside at 

 Broughton. 



John, the elder brother, had two sons, John and William, both 

 childless. On the death of the last named John in 1761, intestate, 

 Mary and Catherine Jacob, the two grand-daughters of his uncle 

 Thomas of Holt succeeded, as coheiresses. The property ultimately 

 centered in Mary, wife of Stephen Skurray of Beckington. Their 

 daughter Mary, wife of Samuel Day of Burnett, survived her only 

 son, Samuel Skurray Day, and bequeathed her estates in Broughton 

 and Hinton to Thomas Jones, Esq., who married the Honble. Mar- 

 garet Nugent Talbot of Evercreech, Co. Somerset, sister of Lord 

 Talbot de Malahide. Mr. Jones died in 1848, leaving two sons and 

 one daughter, Edward Talbot Day, Felix Thomas, and Margaret Ann 

 Mary, now living, and residing with their mother at Hinton House. 



I must now go back to Henry Harding, the elder brother of 

 William the clothier, and himself a clothier. In 1652 he pur- 

 chased of John Long of Monkton (who seems about this time to 

 have been in want of money) certain portions of the Broughton 

 manor. He married Margaret Gore, a Broughton lady, of many 

 namesakes at the present time, coheiress with her sister Mary (the 

 wife of William Hicks, gent.) of William Gore. 



I have traced Henry's descendants down to their present repre- 

 sentative, the Rev. Robert Bailey Fisher, Yicar of Basildon, Co. 

 Berks. It is noticeable that in both branches of the family male 

 issue failed in the same generation. I have no occasion to remark 

 on any individuals, except on Henry Harding and his two sisters, 

 Mrs. Ann Harding and Mrs. Betty Paradice. The latter, who was 

 the survivor of the three, " in compliance with the desire and to 

 fulfil the intention of her sister," as the monument to the memory 

 of the three in the Church says, "in the year 1782 vested in Go- 

 vernment securities £900 stock, which producing an annual interest 

 of £27, is to be applied for ever under the direction of three trus- 

 tees, appointed for that purpose, as also the Rector and Church- 

 wardens for the time being, to the following charities, viz. : — £20 

 per annum to a master for the education of 20 poor boys or girls, 

 £7 per annum to be distributed at Christmas among such 10 poor 



