Manuscript transcription: the Howard Stafford "parchment"

Source S01. Transcribed on 26 Sep 2026 from a 2026 photo (sources/original/Howard-Stafford parchment photo (2026).jpg), checked against the 1999 typed layout and scans in S02. According to S03, the author was Berkeley Buckingham Smythe Howard Stafford (1797–1847) of Mayne and 17 French St, Dublin. Square brackets mean the word is lost to a stain or fold; "(S02: …)" gives the 1999 transcriber's reading where it differs or fills a gap.

Readings settled by the 1999 transcription and scans (S02)

• Edward Smythe Stafford: "of Mayne Esq., died 1802, Grand Chamberlain … and a Colonel in the service of that Duchy" (the Duke of Brunswick's service, per S03).
• Rev. William H. Stafford: "married first Hannah, widow of Brent Spencer, Esquire, 2ndly to … daughter of … Jones, Glamorganshire(?). S.P. 1808".
• Lt-Gen Hugh H. Stafford: "Esquire, Lieut. General in the Hon'ble East India Company's Service, died 1819 January".
• Harriet (Hugh's 2nd wife): "only daughter and child of Lt Col [?] … died [?]". Burke's (S05) names him Lt-Col Spencer.
• Thomasine: "daughter to Reverend … Sullivan of Clonakilty, [Co.] Cork".
• Mary Berkeley's father: S02 reads "Theckeley?". The correct place is Spetchley, Worcestershire (S06).
• Anne Tytler: "died 1832".
• Edward William Stafford: "of Aldowne, Nelson, New Zealand".
• Mary Paton: "died 3rd Sept 1823 at Fettehgurh". Both readings give 1823; FamilySearch has 1824.
• Charles Stewart Paton: S02 reads "born 14th January 1826"; my reading and FamilySearch give the 11th.
• Letitia's husband: "son of Very Reverend Dean Caulfield of ??? Westmeath".

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Transcript of manuscript pedigree (working notes)

TITLE (boxed, top left): "Pedigree of the Family of Howard Stafford of Mayne, County of Louth Ireland"

LINE OF HOWARD (left column, top down)

• Fulco
• Galfridus, son of Fulco
• Alan, son of Galfridus
• William of Wiggenhall, son of Alan
• John Howard of Wiggenhall = Lucy, daughter to Germund [St Omer? text: "Germunde"]
• Sir William Howard, Knight, Justice of the Common Pleas [? "Justice of the Com Pleas"] 25 Edw 1 1297; died Edw 2 [date illegible] = Alice, daughter to Sir Edward Fitton, Knight
• Sir John Howard of [? illegible], Knt = Joan, sister of Richard Cornwall, Esq.
• Sir John Howard of [illegible, heavy stain] = Alice, daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Boys [? "Sir Robert de Boys" reading uncertain], Knt
• Sir Robert Howard, Knt = Margaret, daughter of Robert Lord Scales [? "Robert Lord Scales" – only "Robert" and "Lord Scales" partly legible]
• Sir John Howard, Knt = Alice, daughter and heir of Sir William Tendring of Stoke Nayland, Knt
• Sir Robert Howard, Knt = Margaret, daughter of Thomas [Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk] and cousin and coheir to John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
• Sir John Howard, Knt, [created] Baron Howard 12 Edw 4, Duke of Norfolk 1 R[ic] 3 = Catherine, daughter and heir of William Lord Molines [Moleyns]
• Sir Thomas Howard, created Earl of Surrey, also Duke of Norfolk = Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Frederick Tilney, Knt
• "Robert" [sic – historically THOMAS] 3d Duke of Norfolk = Lady Elizabeth Stafford, daughter to Edward, Duke of Buckingham
• Henry, Earl of Surrey, beheaded Henry 8th = Lady Frances, daughter of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford
• Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, attainted = Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas Lord Audley
• Philip, Earl of Arundel, attainted = Anne, sister and heir to [George] Lord Dacre of Gilsland [partly stained: "Anne sister and heir to ... Lord Dacre of Gilsland"]
• Thomas, Earl of Arundel, created Duke [sic – Earl Marshal?] of Norfolk [by] Charles 1st [partly stained] = Alathea, daughter and coheir to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury

LINE OF STAFFORD (right column, top down)

• Malahulcius, Uncle to Rollo Duke of Normandy & Progenitor to [the Staffords / Toeni – line partly legible]
• Roger Count de Toeni, Standard Bearer of Normandy and a great Baron in that Dukedom = Alice, daughter to William FitzOsborne, Earl of Hereford
• Robert de Stafford, [1st? "1st"/"2d"] Son to Roger de Toeni, gifted by William the Conqueror with nearly 150 Lordships in England, died temp. H[enry] 1 = Avice, daughter to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare
• Nicholas 2d Baron of Stafford – 2 Hen 1, 1101 = Maud, daughter & heir to Howel ap Edneth ap Cadwgan ap Elystan
• Robert 3d Baron of Stafford, alive 22 of Henry 2d 1121 [sic] = Anastasia, daughter to Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland
• Sir Hervey de Bagot, 5th Baron of Stafford (in right of his wife) = Milicent de Stafford, daughter of Robert 3d Baron & sister & heir of Robert 4th Baron of Stafford, 5 Rich 1st 1193
• Hervey de Stafford, 6th Baron of Stafford, 1st son and heir of Hervey de Bagot & Milicent de Stafford, died 21st Henry 3d 1236 = Petronel [Petronilla] de Ferrers, daughter to Robert Earl de Ferrers and sister of William Earl de Ferrers and Derby
• Robert 8th Baron and brother and heir to Hervey 7th Baron of Stafford, died 10 Edw 1 1261 [sic] = Alice, one of the daughters and coheirs of Thomas Lord Corbet of Caus Castle
• Nicholas 9th Baron of Stafford, died 15 Edw 1 1286 = Margaret, daughter of Thomas Lord Bardolph
• Edmund 10th Baron of Stafford, died 2 Edw 2 1308 = Margaret, daughter of Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton, whose great grandson Thomas Earl of Stafford was heir to the [Basset? "the P[?]t Basset"]
• Ralph 11th Baron and 1st Earl of Stafford, K.G., died August 31 1372, 46 of Edw 3 = Lady Margaret de Audley, sole daughter and heir to Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester
• Sir Hugh de Stafford, K.G., 2d Earl of Stafford, died 10 Ric 2 1386 = Lady Philippa de Beauchamp, 2d daughter of Thomas [11th?] Earl of Warwick
• Sir Edmund Stafford, K.G., 5th Earl of Stafford, brother and heir of Wm 4th Earl of Stafford, who was brother and heir of Thos 3rd Earl; slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury 1403 = Lady Anne Plantagenet, eldest daughter and at length only surviving child and heir of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester and Albemarle, youngest son to King Edward 3d
• Sir Humphrey Stafford, K.G., 6th Earl of Stafford, created Duke of Buckingham by King Henry 6th, slain at the Battle of Northampton 1460 = Lady Anne Nevill, 3d daughter of Ralph 1st Earl of Westmorland by the Lady Joan Beaufort, only daughter of King Edward's 3d son John of Gaunt
• Sir Humphrey Stafford, K.G., called Earl of Stafford, killed in his father's lifetime fighting for King Henry 6th at the Battle of St Albans May 22, 33 of H6, 1455 = Lady Margaret Beaufort, sister and coheir of Edmund, last Beaufort Duke of Somerset, great grandson of John of Gaunt
• Sir Henry Stafford, K.G., 2d Duke of Buckingham and Hereditary Lord High Constable of England, beheaded 1st Rich 3d and attainted by Act of Parliament 1483 = Lady Catherine Widdeville [Woodville], youngest daughter of Richard Earl Rivers by Jacquetta, daughter of Peter of Luxembourg, Count de St Pol
• Sir Edward Stafford, K.G., 3d Duke of Buckingham & Lord High Constable of England &c., beheaded 13 Henry 8th 1521 = Lady Eleanor Percy, eldest daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, K.G.
• Henry 19th [reads "19d"] Baron Stafford, restored to the Barony of Stafford 1 of Edward 6, died 5th of Elizabeth 1562 = Lady Ursula Pole, only daughter of Sir Richard Pole K.G. by Lady Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, daughter & sole heir [of] King Edward 4th's brother George Duke of Clarence
• Edward 21st Baron of Stafford, brother & heir to Henry 20 Baron, died 1 Jac[obus] 1 1603 = Lady Mary Stanley, 3d daughter of Edward 3d Earl of Derby
• Edward 22d Baron of Stafford, died 1625 [crease] = Isabel, daughter of Thomas Forster of [illegible – crease]
• Honble Edward Stafford, son and heir of Edwd 22 Baron, died in his father's lifetime April 6 1621 = Anne, daughter of James Wilford of Newnham Hall in Essex, Esquire

THE JUNCTION (full-width paragraphs)

• Sir William Howard, Kt of the Bath, third son of Thomas Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk, Earl Marshall of England. Created Baron of Stafford by Patent dated Sept 12th 1640 [stain], also in the same year created Viscount Stafford. On Dec 7th 1680 had judgment of High Treason on the testimony of the infamous Titus Oates, for a charge of conspiracy in the pretended Popish Plot. Beheaded 29th of same month. In 1824 the attainder was reversed by Act of Parliament. = Mary Stafford, sister of Henry 23d Baron of Stafford, who died 1637 aged 9 years. Claimed to be Baroness of Stafford by descent; created Baroness of Stafford by same patent by which her husband was created Baron, and created Countess of Stafford in Oct 1688 by the same patent as created her son an Earl. Died Jan 7 1693, aetat 74, & interred in St Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, next to the tomb of her ancestor Lady Eleanor de Bohun.

CHILDREN OF THE VISCOUNT

• [1st son] Henry Howard Stafford, created Earl of Stafford [by same patent] ... died 1719 [partly legible] = Claude Charlotte, eldest daughter of Philibert Count de Grammont
• 2d son: Honorable John Howard Stafford, second son of Viscount Stafford, died 1714 = (1) Mary, daughter of Sir John Southcote of Merstham in Surrey, Knight – Issue; = (2) Teresa, daughter of Robert Strickland of Sizergh in County Westmorland, Esqr – Issue
• 3d son: Honorable Francis Howard Stafford, 3d son, died 1708 = Eleanor, daughter of Henry Stanford [? "Stamford"] of [illegible] County Stafford, Esqr
• Daughters: Lady Alethea, Lady Isabella, Lady Ursula, Lady Mary, Lady Anastasia, Lady Helena

NEXT GENERATION

• Henry Howard Stafford, died 17[4]3 at Paris = Mary, daughter to Thomas Berkeley of Spetchley in Worcestershire, Esquire

CHILDREN OF HENRY (d. Paris)

• Ursula H. Stafford, married Sir Geo[rge] Morres of Castle Morres, County Kilkenny, Baronet; died S.P. April 1763
• 1st son: Hugh H. Stafford of Mayne, County Louth, Esquire, eldest son, died 178[3] = 1st wife Mary, daughter and heir of Edward Smith of Mayne, Esquire; = 2d wife Catherine, daughter to [blank] Cumming of Killough, County Down, Esqr – S.P.
• 2d son: Robert H. Stafford of Dublin, Esquire, 2d son = 1st wife Mary, daughter and coheir to Theobald Bourke of Carrowkeel, Mayo, Esqr, cousin to Earl of Mayo – Issue; = 2d wife [blank] sister to General Madden – S.P.
• Frances H. Stafford, married Henry Moore of Dublin, Esqr

CHILDREN OF HUGH OF MAYNE & MARY SMITH

• 1st son: Edward Smythe Stafford [text below mostly lost in crease: "... High Sheriff ... [1777?] ... of Holt[?] ..."] = 1st wife Frances, daughter & sole heir of Francis Palmer of Palmerstown [...] – [S.P.]; = 2d wife Mary Agnew, daughter of Robert Agnew of Howlish, County [Durham] Esquire
• 2d son: Reverend William H. Stafford, B.A., T.C.D., married first Hannah, widow of Brent Spencer [...] [2d marriage lost in crease] ... S.P. 18[0?]8
• 3d son: Hugh H. Stafford, Lieut. General in the Honble East India Company's Service [death line lost in crease] = 1st wife Thomasine, daughter to Reverend [H.] Sullivan of Clonakilty [Co. Cork]; = 2d wife Harriet, only daughter and heir of Lt Col [Spencer?] ... [died 18..]

CHILDREN OF EDWARD SMYTHE STAFFORD & MARY AGNEW

• Edward Norton H. Stafford, b. 1793, died same year
• Augusta Buckingham H. Stafford, died 1807
• Berkeley Buckingham Smythe H. Stafford, b. 1797 at Mayne, Esqr, died 1847 = Anne, daughter of Patrick Duff Tytler, Esquire, of Edinburgh, died 18[3/5]2
• 1 Clementina Marianne
• 2 Thomasine Palmer, married Reverend John Stafford, Incumbent of Saint Matthew's, Liverpool; died 1834
• 3 Frances Anne, married Revd [Patrick] Brewster; died 1831

CHILDREN OF LT-GEN HUGH & THOMASINE SULLIVAN

• 1 John H. Stafford, Major General in His Majesty's Service, died 1846, leaving issue 9 children, 5 sons and 4 daughters = Frances, daughter of Francis Whalley of Winscombe Court, Co. Somerset [also "Norton Hall, Somerset and Hinton House, Hants"], died Dec 1847
• 2 Edward H. Stafford, a Major in 31st Regt of Foot, died 1826 [August?], unmarried
• 1 Eliza H. Stafford
• 2 Harriet, married Col. Layton of Drayton Hall, County Norfolk, Esqr; issue 2 children, daughter [&] son; son dead
• 3 Letitia, married General Caulfeild, Esq., son of the Venble [Archdeacon John] Caulfeild of Benown, Co. Westmeath; died August 1826; issue 4 [sons], 3 of them dead
• 4 Frances, married H. S. Mercer, Esquire, of Edinburgh, N.B.; no issue
• 5 Emily, married 1st John Forbes Paton, Esq., Captain Bengal Engineers; 2d John Brown, Esq., of the Co. Roscommon, Barrister, formerly of the Irish Bar and now of the English Bar

CHILDREN OF LT-GEN HUGH & HARRIET (2nd wife)

• Eliza H. Stafford; Mary H. Stafford; Hugh Stafford; Harriet Stafford ["the 2 last named ... " – partly legible]

CHILDREN OF BERKELEY BUCKINGHAM & ANNE TYTLER

• 1 Edward William H. Stafford of Nelson, New Zealand, married 24th Sept 1846 Emily Charlotte, only child of Col. William Wakefield and niece to Lord de Lisle and Dudley
• 2 Berkeley Buckingham de Bohun H. Stafford, Clerk
• 3 Hugh Henry T. de Toeni H. Stafford
• 4 Patrick Plunket Leslie H. Stafford, in the Honble East India Company's Military Service, Presidency Madras
• 1 Isabella Erskine H. Stafford
• 2 Mary Montgomery H. Stafford

EMILY'S ISSUE

• Issue from First Marriage – 4 children, 3 sons & 1 daughter, viz.:
  • 1st son John Stafford Paton, born 3d March 1821
  • 2d son Robert Mercer Paton, born 12th Sept 1824
  • 3d son Charles Stewart Paton, born 11th January 1826
  • Mary Paton, born Aug 1822, died 3d Sept 182[3/4] at Futtyghur, Bengal, East Indies
• Issue from Second Marriage – 1 son, viz.: John Hugh Brown, born 3d March 1829

FOOTNOTE

"For a more detailed account of the Stafford Pedigree, see Banks's Dormant and Extinct Peerage of England, compiled by the late Sir E[gerton] Brydges. Also Dugdale's Baronage of England for the Old Family."

STRUCTURE (connector lines, checked 26 Sep)

• The descent line from Francis Howard Stafford (3rd son) = Eleanor drops down and runs left to "Henry Howard Stafford, died 1743 at Paris". So Maine branch = Viscount > Francis (3rd son) > Henry (d. Paris 1743) > Hugh of Mayne.
• John (2nd son) has "Issue" under each marriage; Henry 1st Earl none shown.
• Right column opening: "Malahulcius, Uncle to Rollo Duke of Normandy & Progenitor to" → Roger Count de Toeni.