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Wray of Glentworth and Sleningford — Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet

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Wray of Glentworth and Sleningford — Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet

Family / house
Wray; Wray of Sleningford; Ullithorne; Norcliffe
Family / cadet branch
Sleningford branch descending from Cecil Wray, son of Sir Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil
Armiger / bearer
Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet
Entity type
individual
Social rank / class
baronet
Heraldic authority
George Edward Cokayne; Cracroft's Peerage; The Peerage
Record basis
recording
Issued / first recorded
1736
Until / superseded
1752
Historical period
Georgian period
Grant / record reference
Succeeded his uncle Sir Cecil Wray, 11th Baronet, on 9 May 1736.
Blazon
Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.
Plain-English description
A blue shield with a gold chief bearing three red martlets, with the inherited Wray ostrich crest and baronet's Ulster badge when displayed as a baronet's achievement.
Tinctures
Azure; Or; Gules
Charges / ordinaries
chief; three martlets
Crest
An ostrich Or.
Motto
ET JUSTE ET VRAY
Exterior ornaments
Baronet's canton of Ulster; hereditary Wray crest.
Difference / variant
The Sleningford branch descends through Cecil Wray, a son of Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil, and returned to the baronetcy after the extinction of the Rathcannon male succession.
Source reference
Cracroft's Peerage, Wray (E Baronet, 1611–1809)
Linked historical person
Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet

Genealogical context

Father
William Wray of Sleningford
Mother
Isabella Ullithorne
Spouse(s)
Frances Norcliffe, daughter and sole heiress of Fairfax Norcliffe of Langton
Children / next generation
Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet; Isabella Wray, later wife of John Dalton; Mary Wray

Documented depiction

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Notes / sources

The title and arms were inherited through a collateral male line of the Albinia Cecil-descended family, making this a key cadet succession rather than an unrelated later Wray.