The following Lineage is taken from Burke's Landed Gentry,  1839,  and was copied by Eardley Bryan on 11th May 1991.  The original is in  the library of the Society of Genealogists and  these  notes  were  copied from photocopies made from that original on 9th May 1991.
 

     HUYSHE, THE REV. FRANCIS, of Sand, in Devonshire, sometime  Rector  of Clisthydon, Prebendary of Cutton, in the Castle of Exeter, b.  29  Feb 1768; m. at Halifax, Yorkshire, 18 May, 1803, Harriet, third  dau.  of  John Waterhouse, Esq. of Wellhead, Halifax, and Elizabeth,  his  wife, second dau. and co heir of Charles Beaty, of Louth, by  Bridget,  dau. and co heir of Robert Saunderson, of Alford.  By this lady Mr. Huyshe  has had issue,

        Wentworth, b. 29 May, 1812; d. at Madeira, 22 Nov. 1829.  His early virtues, and the affection of his schoolfellows,  are  recorded on a cenotaph, erected by them to his memory in Harrow Church.
        Harriet, m. 20 Feb. 1838, to Arthur Abbott, Esq.

      Mr Huyshe s. his father 17 May, 1802.
 

                                    Lineage.

        This is a Branch of the ancient family of Huyshe, of Doniford, in Somersetshire, whose name, originally spelt Hywis, was taken from their residence, Lod Hywis, in the same county.

     RICHARD DE HYWIS, of Lod Hywis, living 'temp.'  King  John, had two sons, Richard de Hywis, and
     JOHN DE HYWIS, of Lynch, in the parish of Luxborough, father of
     JOHN DE HYWISH, who had a grant of a house and a caracute of land,  in Doniford, from John Fitzurse, 38 HENRY III.   Contemporaneous with this John lived Bartholomew, of Lod Hywis, and an Andrew of  the same name, whose dau. m. Andrew de Cottele.
     GEFFRY DE HYWIS, son of John de Hywish, was on the jury, 2 EDWARD  I., for the hundred of Willerton, in Somersetshire.  He had a son,
     JOHN DE HYWISH, of Lynch and Doniford, 19th EDWARD II., who had two sons and a dau., namely, GILBERT, his heir; William, living 3 and 5 EDWARD III., as appears by fines in the Chapter House, Westminster; and Joan,  m.  to Walter Perceval,  second son of Sir Richard        Perceval, Knt. of Corneville.  This lady was a widow in 1387.   She conveyed her lands in East Quantock to her brother.
     GILBERT DE HYWISH, of Doniford and Lynch, 4th EDWARD  III., by fine, dated 5 EDWARD III.  Together with John Durborough and others, Gilbert was a witness to a grant  made by John Mohun, Lord of Dunster, to that priory, 15 EDWARD III.  He m. Alice, dau. of  Sir John Durborough, Knt., and was s. by his eldest son,
     OLIVER HYWISH, of Doniford and Lynch, 42 and 49 EDWARD  III., who m. the dau. and heir of Simon de la Roche, and, in consequence, the arms of Rochr, "Arg., on a bend, sa., three roaches, of the first," was assumed by Oliver and his posterity, instead of the ancient bearing of the Hywis's, which had been  "A  chev. between three roundlets, and a chev., on a chief, three  leaves."  Contemporary with them was a William de Hywish, 3 and 5 EDWARD III.  Oliver  had  two sons,

        JOHN, his heir.
        Richard, to whom his father gave Lynch. He was living 10 HENRY  V., and had a son, Oliver, of Holnicault, in the parish  of  Selworthy,  whose dau, and heir m. John Woode, of North Tawton, and had a dau. (represented in some pedigrees as an heiress), who m. William Steynings.  Other pedigrees, those of Woode give her a brother, John, ancestor  of  the  Woodes  of North Tawton.

     The elder son,
     JOHN DE HUYISH, of Doniford, 10 HENRY VI., left, by Catherine,  his wife, a son,
     OLIVER HEWISH, of Doniford, 30 HENRY VI., who m. Johanna, dau. and co heir of John Avenell, of Blackpoole, in the parish of South Molton, Devon, and had (with two daus.  Elizabeth, wife of John Doddington, of Doddington; and Anne, m. to Alexander Vernie, son, by the third wife of John Vernie, of Fairfield, in Somersetshire,) a son and successor,
     OLIVER HEWISH, of Doniford, 10 HENRY VII., who m. a Cavendish and  had         (with a dau., m. to Chichester, of Hawle, in  Devonshire,)   three sons, viz.,

        I. JOHN, his heir.
       II. Humphrey, who m. Jacquet, dau. and co heir of John Hawle, of High Bray, in the parish of South Molton, Devonshire, and had four sons, 1.  HENRY, who purchased the estate of Sand, which his son Thomas, of Axminster, sold to his cousin, James Huyshe, of London; 2.  John, of Okeford, Devon,  d.s.p.; 3. Bartholomew, of Studley, Devon, d.s.p.; and 4. John, d. unm.
      III. Thomas, who was, according to the family pedigree, found at Sand, the ancestor of the Huyshes, of Tetton, in the parish of Kingston, and of "thos other Huyshes about Taunton; and  so of RICHARD HUYSHE, who lyeth buried in Taunton." This RICHARD HUYSHE was of New Inn, in 1589.  He died without issue, and bequeathed his  property in the Blackfriars,  London, and in Taunton, to trustees, for the maintenance of the alms house in Taunton, for aged men, with preference to any poor among his kindred, and for exhibitions at the Universities of Oxford and  Cambridge, to young men of his name and kindred, or of his kindred only, and in default of these, to young men born in the counties of Somerset and Devon.

     Oliver Hewish's eldest son,
     JOHN HEWYSHE, Gent. of Doniford, whose will, dated 24 July, 1551, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 8 Feb. 1552, m. Grace, dau. of Richard Walrond, Esq., and had issue,

        I. WILLIAM, of Doniford, who m. 1st, Ellen, dau. and co heir of  John Gaunt, Esq. of Dorsetshire; and 2ndly, Johanna, dau.of John Sydenham, Esq.  By the former he had two sons  and two daus., namely, SILVESTER, of Doniford; and John; Honora; and Dorothy: by the latter, one son, John, ancestor of HUYSH OF WELLS.
       II. ROGER, whose son, WILLIAM, was of Aller, in Somersetshire.
      III. JAMES, of whom presently.
        I. Dorothy. m. to Edward  Hensley, of Devonshire.
       II. Alice, m. to John Borne.

     The youngest son of John Hewyshe of Doniford,
     JAMES HUYSHE, was sometime of Cheapside, London, and a member of the Grocer's Company. He d. 20 Aug. 1590, and was buried in St. Pancras, Soper Lane.  His will, dated 7 July,1590, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 27 Oct 1590.  His monumental inscription is preserved in STOWE'S London. By his first wife he had eleven children, and by  the second, eighteen. Of these Rowland, William, James and Thomas, are the only sons named in his will. His first wife was Margaret, dau. and heir of Robert Bowser, or Bourchier, of London.  His second wife, Mary, dau. of Moffytt, of Barnet, in Herts. The eldest son by his first wife,
     ROWLAND HUYSHE, sometime of South Brent, in Somersetshire, and afterwards of Sand, in the parish of Sidbury, Devon, was  bapt. 11 April, 1560, and named after his godfather Sir Rowland Hill.   He had livery of his father's lands, 8 June, 1591, and by inquisition taken at Sherborne, 29 Aug., 9 CHARLES I., appears to have died  19 Jan. in the preceeding year.  He m. Anne, (this  lady,  through Spencer and Clare, was descended from EDWARD I.) dau. of John Wentworth, Esq.of Bocking, in Essex, by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of Sir Edward Capel, Knt., and had by her, who was buried at Sidbury, 7 Oct. 1629, a son and successor,
     JAMES HUYSHE, Esq. of Sand, bapt. at Sidbury, 2 May, 1604, who had livery of his father's lands granted him 25 June, 1634. During the civil wars, Mr. Huyshe engaged most actively in support  of the Royal cause, and thereby sacrificed a considerable portion of his private fortune. The estates he had inherited from his wealthy and industrious grandfather were, in part, sold, and on the remainder a fine was imposed of a tenth, viz., 283£.  By the Royalist composition papers, it appears that he took up arms against the parliament, laid them down in 1643, and compounded in 1646.  In 1660, he received the appointment of captain in the militia of foot raised in East Devon by the Duke of  Albemarle.  He  m. Deborah, co heir of her brother, Periam Reynell, Esq., and dau. (by  Mary, his wife, dau.and co heir of Sir John Periam, Knt.) of Richard Reynell, Esq. of Creedy Widger, co. Devon, fifth son of George Reynell, Esq. of Malston. (See family of REYNELL.)  Thus the  manor and advowson of Clisthydon came to the  Huyshes.   The old family toast at Ogwell commemorates her connexions:

                "Fulford, Otterton, Credy, Clisthydon, and Sand,
                 And all our relations by sea and by land."

     James Huyshe was buried at Sidbury, 26 May 1681; Deborah, his widow, was buried there 15 June, 1687.  By her Mr. Huyshe had issue,

        JAMES, his heir.
        John, bapt. 26 Feb. 1634 5, a merchant of Dublin in 1668, d. unm. at Barbados.
        RICHARD, a merchant in Dublin, bapt.29 Nov.1638,  m. Elizabeth More, of the Queen's County, and had two sons, RICHARD and FRANCIS, left orphans at an early age; of whom presently.

        Anne, bapt. 9 May, 1625, m. 1st, to John Vernon, Esq.,  Captain in the parliamentary army, who obtained from Cromwell the estate of Clontarf, but was dispossessed thereof by CHARLES II., in favour of Edward Vernon, Esq.  She m. 2dnly,      Courtneay, Esq.
        Mary, Bapt. 1 March, 1626,  d. in Dublin before 1657, wife of William Allen, Adjutant General in Ireland, living in 1675, when he dates from Sand the preface of his "Memoirs of  Deborah Huish."
        Deborah, bapt. 5 Sept. 1628, buried 21 Aug. 1661.
        Rebecca, bapt. 20 Jan. 1632, m. at Sidbury, 26 June, 1663 4, to the Rev. Elijah Dene, Rector of  Clisthydon, and was buried there, 27 July, 1670, leaving issue.
        Jael, bapt. 24 Dec. 1642, m. 2 Feb.  1663,  to Francis Drake, of Ide, merchant.
        Tryphoena, bapt. 5 Feb. 1645 6, wife of John Gay, of Frithelstock, d. in 1731.

     The eldest son,
     JAMES HUYSHE, Esq. of Sand bapt.15 July, 1630, m. 25 July, 1684, at Seaton, Urith, dau. of Edmund Walrond, Esq. of Bovey, and by her, who was bapt. 29 June, 1652, had issue, JAMES, his  heir; Deborah, m. to John Woolcott, of Bossel, in the parish of Sidbury; Anne, bapt. at Sidbury, 15 Sept. 1687; Mary, bapt. 3 July, 1691, m. to the Rev. William Symons, Vicar of Otterton; Urith, m. to    Wilsman.  Mr. Huyshe, whose will was proved in the Dean and Chapter's Court, Exeter, was buried 5 June, 1708, and s. by his son,
     JAMES HUYSHE, Esq. of Sand, bapt. 25 June 1689, who m. Catherine Drake. of Yarborough, and had a son, James, bapt. 31 March, and buried 14 April, 1717, and a dau., Anne, bapt. 24 Aug. 1720, buried 6 May 1721.  He d. in 1724, (his will proved in the Bishop of Exeter's Court, 4 June, 1725,) and was s. by his cousin,
     RICHARD HUYSHE, Esq. of Sand, eldest son of Richard Huyshe, of Dublin, aforesaid, who resided in  St. Martin's in the Field's, Westminster, at the date of his will, 6 Dec 1726, which was  proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in eleven days after.  He  had m. Marianne Synot, widow, but dying s.p. was s. by his brother,
     THE REV FRANCIS HUYSHE, b. 6 May, 1672, M.A. of Trinity College Dublin, Rector of Clisthydon.  He m. 16 Aug. 1706, Sarah, dau. of Richard Newte, of Duval, in Devon, son of the Rev.  Richard Newte, Rector of Tiverton, (see PRINCE'S Worthies,) and by her, who d. 19 March, 1747, in her 70th year, had four sons and four daus. The Rev. Francis Huyshe was b. 6 May, 1672, and d. 9  Feb. 1764; his  will was proved in the Prerogative Court, Canterbury, 10 Aug. in the following year.  His third son,
     THE REV. JOHN HUYSHE, Rector of Pembridge, co. Hereford, b. 29 June, 1717, changed the spelling of his name to HUISH.  He m.  20  March, 1766, at Oxford, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hornsby, Esq. of Durham, and by her, who was b, 17 June, 1738, and d. in June 1792, had issue,

        FRANCIS, who resumed the  ancient  name.  He  is  the  present  REV FRANCIS HUYSHE, owner of Sand.
        John, in Holy Orders, sometime of Heathenhill, parish of Clisthydon, now of Exeter, b. 10 Dec. 1772, m. at  Eardisley, Herefordshire, Oct. 1799, Milborough Anne, dau. of Thomas Harris, Esq., and by her, who d. 13 July, 1824, has issue, now living,
            John, now Rector of Clisthydon, b. 15 Sept. 1800, m. Ann Lydia, dau. of William Greaves, M.D. of  Mayfield, in Derbyshire.
            Rowland, Vicar of East Coker, co. Somerset, b. 26 Aug. 1801, m. Hannah. dau. of John Bullock, Esq. of east Coker.
            George, b. 2 Feb. 1804, Major 26th Bengal Native Infantry, late assistant commissary general, m. in India, Harriette Matilda Lightfoot, and has a son, John Troughton Huyshe, b. 10 Feb. 1832, and a dau. b. 20 Jan. 1837.
            Alfred, b. 8 Aug 1811, first Lieutenant in the Bengal Horse Artillery, m. in India, in 1836, Julia Maria, third dau. of the Rev. Mr. Hagar, and has issue, a son, b. 10 May, 1837.
            Milborough Anne, m. 25 Jan. 1832, to the Rev. Charles Walkey, of Lucton, in Herefordshire, and has, with a  dau., b. 24 Aug. 1837, two sons, John Charles Elliot Walkey, b. 14 Sept. 1833, and Francis Samuel Walkey, b. 6 Jan. 1836.

     The Rev. John Huish d. 17 May, 1802, and was buried at Pembridge; will proved in the Prerogative  Court, Canterbury,  22 June following.  His elder son is the present REV. FRANCIS HUYSHE, owner of Sand.

        Arms  Arg., on a bend, sa, three luces, of the first.
        Crest  An elephant's head, couped, arg., crowned and tusked, or.
 

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