English: Hatchment in the Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Felbrigg, Norfolk, to William Windham II (1717-1761) of Felbrigg Hall, MP for Aldborough in 1754. (husband/baron dexter half black). He married Sarah Hicks (born 1710), sister of Thomas Hicks of Tanfield, co. Essex, and widow of Robert Lukin (d.1744), Gent, of Braintree and Dunmow in Essex. Her grandson by her first marriage (Vice- Admiral William Windham (1768-1833) (born "William Lukin")) eventually inherited Felbrigg Hall. Arms:
Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or (Windham/Wyndham) of Felbrigg Hall, impaling
Gules, a fess wavy between three fleurs-de-lys or (Hicks); (Source: Farrer, Edmund,
The church heraldry of Norfolk: a description of all coats of arms on brasses, monuments, slabs, hatchments, &c., now to be found in the county. llustrated. With references to Blomefield's History of Norfolk and Burke's Armory. Together with notes from the inscriptions attached, Norwich, Vol II, Norwich, 1889, p.427
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Vice- Admiral William Windham (1768-1833) (born "William Lukin"), of Felbrigg Hall, Vice-Admiral of the White. See his portrait in Felbrigg Hall[2]. He was the eldest son of Very Rev Dr. George William Lukin (1739-1812), Rector of Felbrigg and Dean of Wells, by his wife Catherine Doughty, daughter of Robert Lee Doughty, Esq, of Hanworth Hall, Hanworth, Norfolk. George William Lukin was the son of Robert Lukin (d.1744), Gent, of Braintree and Dunmow in Essex, by his wife Sarah Hicks (born 1710) (sister of Thomas Hicks of Tanfield, co. Essex). Sarah survived him and remarried (as his first wife, having had a mistress (Mary Morgan) previously) William Windham II (1717-1761), of Felbrigg Hall, MP for Aldeburgh in 1754. Sarah's son was William Windham III (1750-1810) of Felbrigg, who married Cecilia Forrest (d.1824). William Windham III died childless and bequeathed Felbrigg to his half-nephew Capt. "William Lukin" (eldest son of his half-brother Rev George William Lukin ("Billy")) who following the death of Cecilia Forrest, William Windham III's widow, in 1824, succeeded to his surname, arms and property, including Felbrigg Hall. (Source: Ketton-Cremer, Felbrigg, The Story of A House, 1962; https://www.ashefamily.info/ashefamily/2823.htm). Vice-Admiral Windham married in 1801, Anne Thelluson, 2nd daughter of Peter Thelluson, Esq., of Broadsworth, co. York, by her he had issue seven sons and six daughters, all of whom survived him, with the exception of George, a lieutenant in the navy, who died at Malta, and Thomas who died an infant.
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