[Illustration] This family represents the eldest branch of the
Wilbrahams of Cheshire, descended from Richard de Wilburgkam,
sheriff of this county in the forty-third year of Henry III. In the
third of Edward IV. the Wilbrahams were seated at Woodhay, in
Cheshire, by a match with the heiress of Golborne: this, the elder
line, created Baronet in 1620-1, was extinct in 1692. The
present family are descended from the second son of Thomas Wilbraham
of Woodhay, and were seated at Townsend in Nantwich in the reign of
Elizabeth; they removed to Delamere the latter part of the
eighteenth century.
Younger branches: Wilbraham Baron Skelmersdale 1828; and Wilbraham
of Rode, in this county, both descended from Randle, younger brother
of Roger Wilbraham, of Nantwich, who died in 1754. Wilbraham of
Dorfold, sold in 1754, but existing at Falmouth in 1818, was sprung
from the youngest son of Richard Wilbraham, of Nantwich, who died in
1612. See Ormerod, ii. 65; iii. 31, 184, 199.
ARMS.--_Argent, three bends wavy azure_. The Dorfold branch bore for
distinction _a canton gules_. Additional coat, granted by Flower,
temp. Eliz.; _Azure, two bars argent, on a canton of the first a
wolf's head erased of the second_.
Present Representative, George Fortescue Wilbraham, Esq.