This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crofton, Webster, Jones, Newcomen, Marsh, Lefroy, Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YWC.2ACI/606.759.2 Message Board Post: Burke's Landed Gentry cites four generations of Duke Crofton of Lakefield, Co. Leitrim. The first Duke married 1st Mary Crofton; 2nd Maria Webster, dau. James Webster, Esq., Longford. This Duke had a dau. Susan who married Rev. Henry Crofton, 2nd son of Sir Morgan Crofton, Bart. of Mohill House, and a son Duke, b. 1768, who in 1808 m. Alicia Jones, dau Wm. Jones of Belleville, Co. Westmeath. Duke 2 had nine children: Duke 3, of Lakefield, d. 1873 unmarried. William, late of Lakefield John (Rev.) m. Anne Newcomen Richard Henry m. Frances Mary Marsh, dau Arthur Cuthbert Marsh if Herts. ( Richard Henry and Frances had a son Duke Arthur Crofton, Commander R.N., b. 1850. This 4th Duke m.Augusta Lefroy and had Hugh, Philip John and Richard Marsh.) Henry Robert, Lieut. RN Travers, Capt. 52nd Madras Native Infantry Gustavus St. John, Capt. R. F. Mary, m. Charles Stanhope Crofton, son of Rev. Henry C. Alicia Maria