[Illustration] There was a family who took the local name of
Wombwell from that manor in the thirteenth century, but this cannot
with certainty be connected with it. The pedigree therefore
commences with Hugh Wombwell of Wombwell, son of Henry Lowell de
Wombwell, living in the reign of Edward III. The elder branch of
this family became extinct in the male line on the death of William
Wombwell of Wombwell, Esq. in 1733. Part of the estate from whence
the name is derived belongs to the present family, who represent a
junior line, descended from George Wombwell, of Leeds, who died in
1682, by purchase of the coheirs.
See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 124.
ARMS.--_Gules, a bend between six unicorn's heads cooped argent_;
and so borne in the sixth of Henry IV.
Present Representative, Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet.