[Illustration] "The most ancient among all the very ancient families
in this county," writes Mr. Harwood in his notes to Erdeswick's
Staffordshire. Siward, mentioned as Lord of Wlselei in a deed
without date, is the first in the pedigree of this venerable house,
who are said to have been resident at Wolseley even before the
Norman Conquest, and it has ever since remained their seat and
residence.
Younger Branch. Wolseley of Mount Wolseley, in the county of Carlow,
Baronet of Ireland (1744), descended from the third son of the
second Baronet.
See Erdeswick, p. 203; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 133.
ARMS.--_Argent, a talbot passant gules_.
Present Representative, Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, ninth
Baronet.