Mackworth Praed (Delamore)

William Mackworth Praed held 967 acres in Cornwood and South Brent. The family is the Cornish and Buckinghamshire Praeds, bankers and lawyers; the poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed belongs to it. Little in the books so far ties the Delamore branch to the tithe owner, so this page is short.

In 1840 the tithe lists them as William Mackworth Praed. 967 acres on the Dartmoor-parish tithe maps: Cornwood 966, South Brent 1.

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Click a name to see everything the sources say about that person, with the exact words quoted, below the chart. Yellow marks the 1840 tithe owner.

William Praed

William Praed, born 1694 as William Mackworth, who took the surname Praed. Married Martha, daughter and heir of John Praed of Trevethow, Cornwall. S1

Children shown: William Mackworth Praed, married Susan Stokes

Where this comes from

S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Mackworth, Bart.

William, b. 3 Nov. 1694, who took the surname of Praed. He m. Martha, dau. and heir of John Praed, Esq. of Trevathow, co. Cornwall.

William Mackworth Praed, married Susan Stokes

William Mackworth Praed, married Susan Stokes; one son and three daughters. S1

Child of William Praed. Children shown: William Mackworth Praed, serjeant-at-law, Juliana Praed, Arabella Praed

Where this comes from

S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Mackworth, Bart.

William, b. 3 Nov. 1694, who took the surname of Praed. He m. Martha, dau. and heir of John Praed, Esq. of Trevathow, co. Cornwall.

William Mackworth Praed, serjeant-at-law

William Mackworth Praed, serjeant-at-law; married and had issue. S1

Child of William Mackworth Praed, married Susan Stokes

Where this comes from

S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Mackworth, Bart.

William, b. 3 Nov. 1694, who took the surname of Praed. He m. Martha, dau. and heir of John Praed, Esq. of Trevathow, co. Cornwall.

Juliana Praed

Juliana Praed, married Thomas William Shore, vicar of Sandal (Burke calls her daughter of William Mackworth Praed of Teignmouth). S1, S2

Child of William Mackworth Praed, married Susan Stokes

Where this comes from

S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Mackworth, Bart.

William, b. 3 Nov. 1694, who took the surname of Praed. He m. Martha, dau. and heir of John Praed, Esq. of Trevathow, co. Cornwall.

S2 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Shore, Baron Teignmouth

Thomas-William, in holy orders, vicar of Sandal, co. York; m. Juliana, dau. of William-Mackworth Praed, Esq. of Teignmouth.

Arabella Praed

Arabella Praed, lady-in-waiting to Queen Adelaide, married 1792 the 4th Earl of Mayo (as the peerage prints it). S3

Child of William Mackworth Praed, married Susan Stokes

Where this comes from

S3 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Bourke, Earl of Mayo

m. 24 May, 1792, Arabella, lady-in-waiting to Queen Adelaide, 4th dau. of William-Mackworth Praed, Esq.

Stories from the record

Each story is backed by at least two independent sources, at least one of them a printed or official record. The sources are listed under it.

A single-arched granite bridge over a stream in woodland — Piall Bridge, Cornwood. Photograph by Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0. Geograph, via Wikimedia Commons

Praed pays for Piall Bridge

Piall Bridge at Cornwood, a single granite arch over the Piall river, carries a plaque saying it was erected at the cost of William Mackworth Praed, Esquire, and accepted by the County of Devon. The parish history says he was a barrister on the Western Circuit and a judge of the County Court, and a considerable benefactor of Cornwood, making and improving roads and building bridges where there had been only fords. Historic England dates the bridge only to the mid or late nineteenth century, because the lower part of the plaque, which may carry a date, is now under the road surface.

Sources: Historic England listing for Piall Bridge (NHLE 1162503), as reproduced by British Listed Buildings; Cornwood Online Parish Clerk, Parish History: The Three Manors (from Cornwood Notes, 1918)

Places on this family's land

Places on this site that stand on, or beside, the fields this family held in 1840.

On their 1840 fields (1)

Cornwood Inn business

Where the sources differ

Burke (1869) names 'Wm. Mackworth Praed, Esq. of Delamore' as father of an only child, Anne Elizabeth, who married in 1857. Delamore is in Cornwood, which fits the tithe land, but no source seen links that William to the serjeant-at-law line above, so the identity of the 1840 owner is not settled.

Praed pays for Piall Bridge. The listing spells the name 'MacWorth'; the parish history spells it Mackworth.

Sources

S1 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Mackworth, Bart.

William, b. 3 Nov. 1694, who took the surname of Praed. He m. Martha, dau. and heir of John Praed, Esq. of Trevathow, co. Cornwall.

S2 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Shore, Baron Teignmouth

Thomas-William, in holy orders, vicar of Sandal, co. York; m. Juliana, dau. of William-Mackworth Praed, Esq. of Teignmouth.

S3 Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), entry Bourke, Earl of Mayo

m. 24 May, 1792, Arabella, lady-in-waiting to Queen Adelaide, 4th dau. of William-Mackworth Praed, Esq.

Tithe polygons: Devon Tithe Mapping Polygonisation Project (Adnams 2023), © Devon County Council and Devon Heritage Centre, CC BY 4.0. Transcriptions: Devon County Council.