On 14th June 1818 Massey Lopes 3rd Baronet was born to Ralph Franco aka Lopes 2nd Baronet [aged 29].
On 26th March 1831 Manasseh Masseh Lopes 1st Baronet [aged 76] died. His nephew [his father] Ralph [aged 42] succeeded 2nd Baronet Lopes of Maristow-House in Devon.
In 1854 [his brother] Henry Lopes 1st Baron Ludlow [aged 25] and [his sister-in-law] Cordelia Lucy Clark were married.
On 23rd January 1854 [his father] Ralph Franco aka Lopes 2nd Baronet [aged 65] died. His son Massey [aged 35] succeeded 3rd Baronet Lopes of Maristow-House in Devon.
Before 24th March 1859 Massey Lopes 3rd Baronet [aged 40] and Bertha Yarde-Buller Lady Lopes were married. She by marriage Lady Lopes of Maristow-House in Devon.
On 24th March 1859 [his son] Henry Lopes 1st Baron Roborough was born to Massey Lopes 3rd Baronet [aged 40] and [his wife] Bertha Yarde-Buller Lady Lopes. He married 1891 his fifth cousin Alberta Louise Edgcumbe Baroness Roborough, daughter of William Henry Edgecumbe 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Mount Edgcumbe, and had issue.
In 1872 [his wife] Bertha Yarde-Buller Lady Lopes died.
After 1872 Massey Lopes 3rd Baronet [aged 53] and Louisa Newman Lady Lopes were married. She by marriage Lady Lopes of Maristow-House in Devon.
In 1891 [his son] Henry Lopes 1st Baron Roborough [aged 31] and [his daughter-in-law] Alberta Louise Edgcumbe Baroness Roborough [aged 30] were married. She the daughter of William Henry Edgecumbe 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe [aged 57] and Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Mount Edgcumbe. They were fifth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Volume 25 1893. Dartmoor Menhirs
"On Langstone Moor, near White Tor, in Peter Tavy, is a stone row 330 feet long, running N. by N.E. and S. by S.W. It consists of about 35 stones in single line, mostly small. It leads oflF from a menhir that had fallen, but which had given its name to the moor and formed one of the way-signs for the lychway after passing White Tor, before Whitabarrow was reached. The lychway, in fact, has passed athwart the stone row, close beside the men.hir, which is eleven feet eight inches long. By the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Bedford this stone has been raised and re-planted. The old hole was discovered in the original soil below the peat and turf, but this was deepened somewhat, and the menhir sunk two feet three inches below the surface and well packed with stones. "
By permission of Sir Massey Lopes [aged 74], Bart, I have also been able to re-erect three fine stones, connected with the three interesting stone rows of Drizslecombe, in the Plym valley. One of these is a splendid stone, measuring eighteen feet in height and from two feet seven inches to three feet eight inches in width. It stands at one end of a stone row, and a cairn surrounded by a double circle of stones at the other. The original hole in which the monolith stood was found. Anciently only about two feet six inches had been buried. This was insuflBcient, and we sank the original pit, and have buried four feet six inches, so that it now stands thirteen feet six inches above the soil. The stones at the ends of the other rows measure respectively twelve feet three inches and six feet six inches. They have also been re-erected, sinking each about two feet three inches in the ground.
"The re-erection of these fine stones was performed by Messrs. Turpin, of Plymouth, under the supervision of the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr. R. Burnard, and Mr. R Hansford Worth. (S. Baring-Gould)."
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In 1897 [his brother] Henry Lopes 1st Baron Ludlow [aged 68] was created 1st Baron Ludlow of Heywood in Wiltshire.
On 25th December 1899 [his brother] Henry Lopes 1st Baron Ludlow [aged 71] died. His son [his nephew] Henry [aged 31] succeeded 2nd Baron Ludlow of Heywood in Wiltshire.
On 20th January 1908 Massey Lopes 3rd Baronet [aged 89] died. His son Henry [aged 48] succeeded 4th Baronet Lopes of Maristow-House in Devon.
The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art Volume 25 1893. Drizzlecombe
To make these notes complete it is necessary to record here the re-erection of the three menhirs of the rows at Drizzlecombe, one of which, eighteen feet in length, now stands about fourteen feet above ground, and is by far the finest in the West of England. The work was executed by the kind permission of Sir Massey Lopes, under the superintendence of the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr. R Burnard, and Mr. R Hansford Worth; and a reproduction from a photograph taken by the latter gentleman immediately on the completion of this process is here annexed. The Rev. S. Baring-Gould and Mr. Bumard are on the left next the menhir; the Rev. W. Gray, of Meavy, on the right.
Grandfather: Abraham Franco
father: Ralph Franco aka Lopes 2nd Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Mordecai Lopes
Grandmother: Esther Lopes