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Descendants of Richard Leir


Generation No. 5


9. REV. THOMAS IV5 LEIR (THOMAS III4, THOMAS II3, THOMAS I2, RICHARD1) was born Bet. April 12 1738 - 1739, and died January 7, 1812. He married MARY SHORE 1764, daughter of JOHN SHORE and JANE KINGTON. She was born Bet. 1737 - 1743, and died Bet. 1824 - 1829.

Notes for REV. THOMAS IV LEIR:


Notes for MARY SHORE:
Margaret Shuffrey (Margaret Barratt) has a photocopy of Mary Shore's diary of that was given to her by Mr. Fuller, a subsequent owner of Jaggards. It is a catalogue of where and when they went any where and when they came back, although it does record her marriage and the birth of her children. It isn't easy to read.

Up until 1764 the Leir family had been based on Ditcheat and nearby Charlton
Musgrove. The Macie family had owned the Weston Estate, near Bath, since
the Reformation (Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries). A cousin of
the Macies, Jane Kington, married John Shore (father of Mary Shore) at Weston in 1740, and John
Macie, 1719-1761, left Weston to their son John. He died before
inheriting, and the estate passed to Mary Shore on the death of Elizabeth
Macie in 1800. (Gerald Schuch: "Weston Estates in the 19th Century")

     
Children of THOMAS LEIR and MARY SHORE are:
10. i.   THOMAS V6 LEIR, b. October 17, 1765; d. Bet. May 9, 1836 - June 24, 1849.
  ii.   JOHN LEIR, b. 1767; d. young, osp.
11. iii.   WILLIAM LEIR, b. September 10, 1768; d. December 23, 1863.
  iv.   PAUL LEIR, b. June 9, 1770; d. February 14, 1845, osp; m. FANNY MORTON PLEYDELL FRANCES FREKE, 1824; b. 1777; d. February 24, 1845.
  Notes for PAUL LEIR:
January 19, 1831 Leir, Paul - Charlton Musgrove clerk Somerset Quarter Sessions http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/brid31gm.txt

  v.   RICHARD LEIR, b. January 17, 1772; d. November 24, 1850, coelebs..
  Notes for RICHARD LEIR:
Lawyer of Bristol who built Ringwall House. - Hugh Leir

Ringwall House later became The Rectory, home of the last Leir Rector of Ditcheat

  vi.   MARY LEIR, b. 1773; d. 1773, infant.
  vii.   MARIA LEIR, b. 1775; d. 1826, no ch..
  viii.   ELIZABETH LEIR, b. 1777; d. 1836, no ch..
  ix.   CHARLES LEIR, b. 1779; d. 1803, coelebs..

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