The descendants of Sir Matthew Hale still live at Alderley, near Wotton
Underedge, in Gloucestershire. I believe a Mr. Blagdon married the heiress
of Hale, and took her name. The late Robert Blagdon Hale, Esq., married
Lady Theodosia Bourke, daughter of the late Lord Mayo, and had two sons.
Robert, the eldest, and present possessor of Alderley, married a Miss
Holford. Matthew, a clergyman, also married; who appears by the Clergy List
to be Archdeacon of Adelaide, South Australia. Mr. John Hale, of
Gloucester, is their uncle, and has a family.