Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Majendie
Majendie. — This noble family both in France and in England has been so largely connected with the Church and with the Protestant Reformation, that I reserve my notes as to its antecedents for Chapter xxiii. We begin here with the Right Rev. Henry William Majendie, D.D., Bishop successively of the sees of Chester and Bangor (born 7th October 1754, died 28th July 1830). He had one brother, Lewis Majendie, Esq. (born 4th January 1756, died 13th August 1833).
(1) . Bishop Majendie married Anne Routledge in 1785. Their eldest son was Rev. George John Majendie (born 25th September 1795, died 2nd November 1842); he married, on 2nd May 1839, Susan Maria, widow of Rev. James Du Boulay, D.D. (she died on 13th June 1875). Their eldest son is Rev. Henry William Majendie, M.A. Oxon., born 12th February 1840, ordained by the Bishop of Oxford in 1868.
The next son of the bishop who left descendants was Rev. Stuart Majendie, Rector of Longdon (born 20th October 1799, died 28th September 1871); he married, on 13th October 1835, Mary Angelina, daughter of Michael Hughes, Esq. of Sherdley Hall (she died on 1st April 1857), and had four sons and eight daughters, The eldest son, William Henry Francis Majendie (born 3rd August 1842), married, on 30th April 1858, Christina Maria, daughter of Richard Martin Southcote Mansergh, Esq., of Grenane, near Tipperary, and has two sons, Richard-Stuart and Bertran.
The bishop’s son, John Routledge Majendie, Esq., was born on 12th December 1800, and died on 12th July 1850. He married Harriet Mary, daughter of George Dering, Esq. (son of Sir Edward, sixth baronet), and sister of George Charles Robert Dering, Esq. of Barham Court. This Mr. Majendie is numerously represented.
(2). We return to the bishop’s brother, Lewis Majendie. He became the proprietor of Hedingham Castle in Essex, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Hoghton, Bart., and grand-daughter and heiress of William Ashhurst, Esq.; he quartered the arms of Ashhurst and Hoghton with those of Majendie; the shield of the latter Huguenot family combines the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove. Mr. Majendie (as already stated) died in 1833, and was succeeded by his elder son, Ashhurst Majendie, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., who was married, but died in 1868 without heirs. He had been predeceased by his younger brother, Rev. Henry Lewis Majendie, vicar of Great Dunmow, who died on 6th January 1863, so that the next proprietor of Hedingham Castle was that vicar’s eldest son, Lewis Ashhurst Majendie, Esq.; the second son was Arnold Henry Ashhurst Majendie, who died in Queensland in 1873, aged thirty-five; the third son is the Rev. Severne Andrew Ashhurst Majendie, M.A. Oxon. Lewis Ashurst Majendie, Esq., M.A. Oxon., some time M.P. for Canterbury, died on 22nd October 1885, aged fifty. He had married, in 1869, Lady Margaret Lindsay, daughter of the twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford and Balcarras, and had two sons, minors. He took much interest in his ancestry, and compiled a documentary and genealogical family history, printed in 1878, “An Account of the De Majendie family, both French and English, from 1365 to the present century.”