A LINEAL DESCENDANT OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 37, 14 February 1894, Page 4

A LINEAL DESCENDANT OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

A correspondent writes to tlio Times with reference to tho death of Mib Avaiilla Oliveria Cromwell IJush .— '-Mra Bush was the eighth iu direct descent (five of the eight generations being through tho mole line) from tbo Protector. In every generation of tbo F. otectoi's deECcndauiß there has beca a remarkable mortality among tho mules— of the Protoctoi's five sou p, all of them except Henry, the fourth eon, wbo was the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, died Bonloßg. Again, of tho Lord-Lieutcnanl'B five none only Major Henry, his second son, born in 1058, had soup, and althongh there were seven of them, by one only, 'Jhornns, tbe seventh and youngest, boin in 1699, was tbo name of Cromwell handed down, Thomas liad two wives— by tbo first thoro were tw.O Bonß and two daughterfl, and by the feoond three sons oud three daughtoif, V"b Oliver, tho eldest eou of the secm-d

wife, born in 1712, wus tho laet of tho fnruily who boro tbo name of Uromwoll. He had two soiis, who died, tho ono in infancy and tbo other unnamed, and ouo duglitc, Elizabeth Olivciia, iho KiciU-jireat-grcat grand-dauuhU-r cf the i'lotpctor, born iu 1777, who inhuiitid maiiy of tho Ciomwoll heirloomp, ummu which were portraits of her ancestors for more than 200 yoarp, aiid who, in 1801, a. a'licd Thomaß Artcmidovus lUibs.-.1, v. In 8c cldus-t eon, (Jiomwell, had oac child, a daughter, bom July 19, 182(5. It. hv« been reported that George IY. was petitioned to allow Air T, A, Eusfcli to tako tlio name oi Oromwoll on his lnnriia^o with Wiss ( romwcll, aud Hiat hie Majesty's an?\vor «•»«, 'A'o,uo;^v have had enough of Cromwell,' but ilio family maintain that, this was uot lho ensp. It is true that Sir Jsaau Heard, at that time Gaiter King of A run and a great friend of Mr Cromwell, was very desirous that tho uaino of Cromwell should bo perpetuated, and promised to use hia influence to have it perpotu -itcd ; but a century ago tho namo of Oromwc'l was not held in tuch repute as it is now, and Mr Cromwell, who was a solicitor iu Chancery, had found the uarae a groat disadvantage to him, aud obj\cttd to his .' on- in- law assuming it.' 1