[Illustration] Of this family Mr. Hunter has remarked, that "it is a
single instance of the male line being maintained in its ancient
port and rank out of all the gentry of the Deanery of Doncaster,
summoned to appear before the Heralds in 1584." The pedigree begins
with Sir William de Anne, Constable of the Castle of Tickhill in the
time of Edward II. He married the coheiress of Haringel, from whom
came the manor of Frickley, sold in the latter part of the
eighteenth century. Burgh-Wallis came from the heiress of Fenton in
the reign of Elizabeth. Mr. Hunter observes, "The Annes, like too
many other families, have not been careful of preserving their
ancient evidences, and theirs was not one of the muniment rooms to
which our diligent antiquary Dodsworth had access."
See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. pp. 148, 485.
ARMS.--_Gules, three stag's heads cabossed argent attired or_.
Present Representative, George Anne, Esq.