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Ponsonby Family
April 10.
Mr. URBAN,
IN turning over the pages of Nicolson and Burn's History of
Westmorland and Cumberland, I find the following particulars
of the Ponsonby family, which seem to have escaped the
notice of our Genealogists. Vol.II. article Ponsonby.
"Ponsonby, the habitation of Ponson, was so denominated from
a family of that name of antient time, which family
afterwards took name from the place De Ponsonby, of which
family and name there are several yet remaining.
There was one Ponson in the reign of King Stephen and Henry
I. His son, John Fitz ponson, was fined in Henry the
Second's time, because he wanted pledges. Alexander, son of
Richard Ponsonby, lived about the
time
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