(Vol. viii., p. 387.)
Although I may not be able to furnish your inquirer with full pedigree of
this family, my Notes may prove useful in making it out.
From a settlement after marriage in 1663, of Vincent Amcotts of Laughton,
in the county of Lincoln, gentleman, I find his wife's name to be Amy; but
who she was is not disclosed. It appears she survived her husband, and was
his {519} widow and relict and executrix living in 1687. Their eldest
daughter Elizabeth married John Sheffield, Esq., of Croxby, and I have
noted three children of theirs, viz. Vincent, who died s.p.; Christopher,
who, with Margaret, his wife, in 1676 sold the Croxby estate; and Sarah.
What farther as to this branch does not appear, although my next Vincent
Amcotts may be, and probably was, a descendant. This Vincent Amcotts was of
Harrington, in the county of Lincoln, Esq.; and who, from his marriage
settlement dated May 16 and 17, 1720, married Elizabeth, the third of the
four daughters of John Quincy of Aslackby, in the county of Lincoln,
gentleman: and I find the issue of this marriage to be Charles Amcotts of
Kettlethorpe, in the county of Lincoln, Esq., who died in 1777 s.p.; Anna
Maria, whom married Wharton Emerson; Elizabeth, who died previous to her
brother Charles; and Frances, who married the Rev. Edward Buckworth of
Washingborough, in the county of Lincoln, Clerk, Doctor of Laws.
After the death of Charles Amcotts, we find Wharton Emerson at
Kettlethorpe, having assumed the name of Amcotts: he was created a baronet
in 1796, the title being limited in remainder to the eldest son of his
daughter Elizabeth. Sir Wharton Amcotts married a second wife, Amelia
Campbell, by whom he had a daughter, but what became of her does not
appear. Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Sir Wharton Amcotts by his
first wife Anna Maria Amcotts, married in 1780 John Ingilby, Esq., of
Ripley, who in the next year was created a baronet: and they appear to have
had eleven children, viz. John Charles Amcotts, the present Sir William
Amcotts Ingelby, in whom both titles are vested, Elizabeth, Augusta, Anna
Maria, and Ann; which last three died in infancy; Diana, Vincent Bosville,
who died at a year old, and Julia and Constance. Thus far my Notes extend.