Addendum dated 22/07/09 to Tim Sandberg's article about the Floyer family.

"I am a descendant from the Flyer's (later Floyer!) of Uttoxeter who purchased the manor of Hints in c 1601, it does seem they had a connection as lawers with the Inner Temple as I have seen there is an early tree saying they were of The Inner Temple.We come from Peter Floyer of Marsh Gate, Richmond and the City of London who died about 1780 and married to Dorothy (nee Girle?- Caroline Lybbe Powys the diarist only! daughter of John Girle FRS the surgeon of Lincoln's Inn stated that she was a half sister of her mother who was Barabara Slaney. So some mystery as to her origins here. Dorothy was first married to John Phelp of Hampton Wick, Surrey who d.1760. Peter Floyer hailed from Worcester.I think Sir Peter Floyer d.1702 was a cousin,the brother of the famed Sir John.

Peter Floyer and Dorothy were father of (among others) Elizabeth Floyer who married Penyston Portlock Powney MP of Old Windsor Berks (d.1794) and Mary Floyer who married Rev. Frederick William Count Blomberg DD who was brought up by Queen Charlotte in the royal household. The Powney's daughter Elizabeth married Capt Sydenham Teast Wylde late 7th Hussars, of Burrington, Somerset, whose daughter Elizabeth married my father's great grandfather the Reverend James Collett Ebden, of Caius College & Trinity Hall,Cambridge,in 1828.

It seemed that they changed their name to Floyer in the mid 17th century unless I am wrong. I would love to know if there is any proof of connection and descent from the Devon Floyers, perhaps Tim Sandberg may know? If they were not does the name simply come from an arrow maker or Fletcher?

The great question is to me whether there is or is not a connection between the Floyers Hayes (Devonshire) Floyers and the Hints (Staffordshire) Floyers. Perhaps it's an answer that will never be settled apart from DNA. It does seem that the Hints Flyers spelt the name Flyer first rather than Floyer, but exact spelling is a modern thing anyway. My name is Ebden, the parent family is Hebden from the West Riding of Yorkshire where its pronounced 'Ebden', dropping their H's. The thing about the Floyers is that how few lines of them there are, Floyers Hayes and Hints. If it is named from an occupation, i.e. an arrow maker, why are there so many Fletchers and so few Floyers?

Best Regards
Edward Ebden
Monmouthshire