Researching Walter Long
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The name Walter means "powerful warrior" and is of German origin.
Records of Walter Long on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Walter Long and the Long Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Walter Long
Walter Long (of South Wraxall)
Walter Long of South Wraxall, near Bradford-on-Avon ( 1712–1807), the great-great-great grandson of Sir Walter Long of South Wraxall and Draycot, was born in Wiltshire, and inherited along with other family estates, the 15th-century house known as South Wraxall Manor. His ancestors made their wealth initially as clothiers. He served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1764.
Long died in Bath in 1807, aged at least 93 years. He bequeathed the bulk of his fortune to the sons of his cousin Richard Long of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire.
Source: Walter Long (of South Wraxall), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWalter Long (of Preshaw)
Walter Long of Preshaw House, Hampshire, JP, DL (24 November 1788 – 5 January 1871) was an English landowner.
Descended from the Long family of Wiltshire, he was born at Corhampton, Hampshire, the only son of John Long and Ellen Hippesley Trenchard. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford where he gained a BA in 1809, and MA in 1812. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1809. He became a justice of the peace in 1815 and was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1824.
On the death of his father in 1797 he inherited the estate of Preshaw at Upham with its Elizabethan mansion, surrounded by approximately, and in 1810 commissioned John Nash to make alterations to the house. He also inherited a moiety of the estates of his maternal uncle J. W. H. Trenchard in 1801 including the manor of Overcourt, Gloucestershire. Prior to ownership by the Trenchards (from 1617), Overcourt had been owned by Henry Long, Lord of the manor of Southwick, and was at one time a royal hunting lodge. The present building dates from the late 14th century, and was restored by Edward IV for his mother Cecily, Duchess of York. Walter Long also inherited the estates in Somerset and Dorset on the death of his uncle, the eminent surgeon of St Bartholomew's Hospital, William Long of Marwell Hall, in 1818, and those in Oxfordshire on the death of his cousin John Blackall in 1829, which included Haseley Court.
Source: Walter Long (of Preshaw), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWalter Long (lieutenant)
Walter Hillyar Colquhoun Long (20 October 1858 – 18 February 1892) was a British Second Lieutenant who fought in the First Boer War. He was originally a second lieutenant in the 6th Dragoons, but was then transferred to the 94th Regiment of Foot on 27 March 1880. As part of the 94th Regiment, he played a crucial part in the defence of Lydenburg during a three month siege in 1881. He was the son of the British politician Walter Long. He took his life after being court-martialled and criticised for his conduct of the defence of Lydenburg.
Source: Walter Long (lieutenant), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Long
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