Incledon

Descent

Incledon

• Robert de Incledon, living in 1160. The Book of Fees lists Incledene as held from the Honour of Barnstaple by "Nicholas de Ferariis" and "Robert de Incledene".
• Walter I de Incledon, living in 1169
• Godefry I de Incledon, unspecified descendant, living in 1199
• Godfrey II de Incledene, unspecified descendant, husband of a certain Sarie, alive in 1319. In 1319 he purchased the adjoining estate of Buckland from Adam de Wickloe.
• William Incledene, unspecified descendant, living in 1334
• Walter II de Incledene, unspecified descendant, living in 1399
• Richard Incledene, unspecified descendant, living in 1407, husband of a certain Alice, also living in 1407
• John I Incledene, unspecified descendant, living in 1434. He settled his lands in Patchole, Kentisbury, on his son John II.
• John II Incledene , living in 1436. He married Joan Bradleigh, daughter of John Bradleigh of West Bradleigh, Somerset.
• Robert I Incledene, son and heir, who married a certain Joan. In 1509 he made a settlement of his lands in Incledon and elsewhere.
• John III Incledene, living in 1531. he married a certain Joan.
• Robert II Incledene, unspecified descendant, who married Agnes Wolfe, daughter and heiress of John Wolfe of Braunton. Buried at Braunton.
• John IV Inkleton , who in 1535 married Jane Davills, daughter of Lewis Davills of Little Marland in the parish of Petrockstowe, Devon, by his wife Philipa Beaumont, daughter of Henry Beaumont , lord of the manor of Gittisham, Devon. The senior line of the Beaumont family held the North Devon manor of Shirwell, where they resided at Youlston, from the time of the Domesday Book.
• Lewis I Inkleton, son and heir, who married twice, firstly to Grace Cranberie, daughter and heiress of Robert Cranberie of Bratton Clovelly, Devon; secondly to Willmot Pomeroy, daughter of Andrew Pomeroy of Colyton.
• John V Inckleton, son and heir by his father's first wife. He was buried at Bratton Clovelly. He married Phillipa Glinne, daughter of William Glinne of Glinne, Cornwall. Their only son Shilston Incledon died in infancy and their daughter Anne Incledon in 1630 married Thomas Tapson, a merchant of Plymouth, by whom she had a son Thomas II Tapson who predeceased her.
• Lewis II Incledon, half-brother, son of Lewis I Incledon by his second wife. He married twice, firstly in 1620 to Anne Wyott, who died apparently in childbirth. He married secondly in 1634 to Elizabeth Collamore, daughter of Thomas Collamore of Luscott in the parish of Braunton.
• John VI Incledon, eldest son and heir by father's first wife. Died without progeny.
• Lewis III Incledon, younger brother. He married twice: firstly in 1672 to Alice Addington, a daughter of John Addington of High Bickington in Devon and Harlowbury in Old Harlow, Essex, and a co-heiress to her brother Thomas Addington. The arms of Addington are shown at the bottom of the right margin on the mural monument to Lewis III Incledon in Braunton Church. Without progeny. Secondly in 1672 at Tawstock, he married Elizabeth Fane, daughter of Hon. Robert Fane of Combe Bank, Sevenoaks, Kent, 7th son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. Tawstock Court was the seat of Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath, whose wife was Rachell Fane, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Westmorland. By his wife Elizabeth Fane Lewis III had two surviving sons:
• *Henry Incledon of Buckland and Incledon

• *Robert Incledon of Pilton House, Pilton, near Barnstaple, Devon, whose 2nd son was Benjamin Incledon, of Pilton, the antiquarian, whose own granddaughter Frances was the last of the Incledons.
• Henry Incledon of Buckland and Incledon, eldest son of Lewis III Incledon. He married twice, firstly in 1698 to Mary Davie, a daughter of John Davie of Orleigh Court in the parish of Buckland Brewer, Devon, a prominent tobacco merchant from Bideford, Devon. secondly in 1715 he married Susannah Chichester, a daughter of Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet of Youlston Park, Shirwell, Devon, possibly the leading family of the ancient North Devon gentry. His eldest son and heir by his 2nd marriage was Chichester Incledon of Barnstaple, Attorney at Law, whose 3rd son was Vice-Admiral Richard Incledon-Bury, who inherited from his distant cousin the estates of the ancient Bury family of Colleton, Chulmleigh. Chichester Incledon's grandson Robert Incledon was the last in the male line of the Incledon family.
• John VII Incledon of Buckland, eldest son and heir from his father's first marriage to Mary Davie. In 1734 he married Elizabeth Northcote, a daughter of Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet, of Corffe, Tawstock, lord of the manor of Bishop's Nympton. His only son John Incledon died an infant, thus he left two daughters as his co-heiresses:
• *Mary Incledon, 2nd and eldest surviving daughter, who in 1759 married Philip Rogers Webber, JP and DL for Devon, great-grandson of John Webber, a merchant of Barnstaple, mayor of Barnstaple in 1702. In 1762 he rebuilt Pilton House with a Queen Anne style front. Their eldest son and heir was Lieutenant John Incledon Webber, Royal Navy.
• *Frances Incledon, 3rd daughter, who married Edward Pilcher of Riochester in Kent, by whom she had a daughter Frances Pilcher, who died unmarried.

  Webber

• Philip Rogers Webber, JP and DL for Devon, son of Alexander Webber, Mayor of Barnstaple in 1737, whose portrait by Thomas Hudson survives in Barnstaple Guildhall. Alexander Webber was the grandson of John Webber, a merchant of Barnstaple, Mayor of Barnstaple in 1702. The Webber family were leading pewterers in Barnstaple, of which Alexander Webber was the fourth generation.
• Lieutenant John Incledon Webber, Royal Navy, eldest son and heir. He died at Barbados on 18 September 1793, in command of the Royal Navy cutter Sea Flower. Without progeny. Buried at Bridgetown, Barbados with mural monument in Braunton Church.
• Major-General Henry Webber, younger brother, an officer of the East India Company Army at Madras. In 1810 at Bangalore, India, he married Elizabeth L'Ecolier. He was buried at Braunton, where survives his mural monument.
• Charles Henry Webber of Buckland House, eldest son and heir, born in India. He was JP for Devon and was Lieutenant in the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry and was Captain in the North Devon Militia. In 1832 he married his first cousin Henrietta Chichester, daughter of Charles Chichester of Hall in the parish of Bishop's Tawton, Devon, by his wife Henrietta Webber, 7th daughter of Philip Rogers Webber of Buckland.
• Edward Chichester Incledon Webber, 2nd and eldest surviving son, who in 1867 married Georgina Beare, daughter of Major William Gabbett Beare of Holland House, Kingsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, and 34 Devonshire Place, Westminster, London, and a co-heiress of her brother Arthur Cotton Beare.
• Duncan Harold Beare Incledon-Webber, eldest son and heir. In 1931 he disposed of his share of his paternal inheritance to his next younger brother William. His youngest brother was Brigadier-General Adrian Beare Incledon-Webber.
• William Beare Incledon-Webber, younger brother, of Buckland House, who in 1931 purchased his elder brother's share of their joint paternal inheritance. Lord of the manor of Croyde, North Devon. A Barrister at Gray's Inn and a JP, he fought in the Boer War and World War I. In 1903 he married Helen Sturdy, 2nd daughter of William Sturdy of Paxhill Park, Lindfield, Sussex.
• Lt.Col. Godfrey Sturdy Incledon Webber, eldest son and heir, formerly of the Grange, Leamington, Warwickshire. TD, a Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, Sheriff of the City of London. In 1931 he married Angela Florence Lacy, a daughter of the prominent stockbroker Sir Pierce Thomas Lacy, 1st Baronet a partner in Cutler & Lacy and chairman of the Birmingham Stock Exchange. She was a Roman Catholic and in 1957 built a Catholic chapel, dedicated in 1958, as a memorial to her parents. It is within the Buckland estate on the site on a ruined mediaeval chapel next to the ancient St Brannock's Holy Well, a few hundred metres south-east of Buckland House. He left three daughters:
• *Diana Mary Incledon-Webber, eldest daughter and heir, who lived at Buckland House in 2005. In 1961 she married John Edward Bury, a Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, son of Colonel John Bury and Ruth Alice Le Marchant.
• *Elizabeth Angela Incledon-Webber
• *Priscilla Incledon-Webber, who inherited her father's secondary seat, St Brannock's House, Braunton.