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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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