'Madan1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Madan of Ibstock, Madan of Nevis
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(1) Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Sable, a falcon Or, preying on a duck Argent; on a chief of the second, a cross botonny Gules".
(2) HoP reports that the MP's father was "of an old Waterford family, emigrated from Ireland to the West Indies about 1682 and acquired plantations in Nevis and St. Kitts" and mentions his sister. We show them as children of ...
?? Madan in Ireland
1. Martin Madan of Nevis, West Indies (a 1682)
m. Penelope Russell (dau of Colonel Sir James Russell of Nevis)
  A. Martin Madan of London (b 01.07.1700, d 04.03.1756, Lt. Colonel, Groom of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, MP) the first mentioned by Nichols
  m. (14.12.1723) Judith Cowper (b c1702, d 1781, dau of Spencer Cowper of Hertingfordbury, poetess)
  i. Martin Madan (b 1726, d 02.05.1790, barrister, cleric, author)
  m. Jane Hale (dau of Sir Bernard Hale)
a. Martin Madan of Bushey, Hertfordshire (dsp 1809)
  m. (1792) Anna Maria Ibbetson (dau of James Ibbetson, archdeacon of St. Alban's)
  ii. Spencer Madan, Bishop of Bristol then Peterborough (b 1729, d 08.11.1813)
  m1. Charlotte Cornwallis (b c1726, d 1794, dau of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis)
  a. Spencer Madan (b 1758, d 09.10.1836, Rector of Ibstock, Chancellor of Peterborough, translator)
  m. (05.01.1791) Henrietta Inge (a 1810, dau of William Inge of Thorpe Constantine)
  (1) Henrietta Ann Madan (b 1795, d 1829) who married ...
  m. (10.08.1819) James Henry Keith Stewart (b 10.1783, d 07.1836)
(2)+ other issue - Spencer (b 1791), William (b 1793), Frederick (b 1797), Charles (b 1798), Henry (b 1800, d infant), George (b 1807), Charlotte (b 1794), Penelope Frances (b 1802), Maria (b 1804)
  b. William Charles Madan (Colonel)
  m. (16.01.1793) Frances Falconer (dau of James Falconer, archdeacon of Derby, etc.)
  c. Charlotte Madan
  m. (1781) George Warde (b 1725, d 1803, General)
  m2. (sps) Mary Vyse (dau of William Vyse of Lichfield, sister of William, Archdeacon of Coventry)
  iii. Maria Frances Cecilia Madan
  m. (05.08.1749) William Cowper of Hertingfordbury (cousin)
  iv. Penelope Madan (d 22.12.1805)
  m. (27.06.1754) Sir Alexander Maitland (b 1728, d 1820, General)
  v.+ other issue - Charles, Frederick (Colonel), 3 other sons
2. Penelope Madan
  m. Augustus Schutz (Master of the Robes & Keeper of the Privy Purse to King George II)

Main source(s): HoP ("Martin Madan"), Wikipedia ("Martin Madan (politician)", "Martin Madan (barrister)", "Spencer Madan (bishop)" & "Spencer Madan (translator)") with some input/support from 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 4, part 2, 1811, 'Pedigree of Madan of Ibstock', p760)
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