Fetherston Of Packwood

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The Fetherstons of Packwood first appear, in the fifteenth century, as yeomen but by the early seventeenth century had gravitated into the gentry. Their residence was Packwood House, acquired in 1599, and they bought up other nearby properties, in Knowle, Lapworth, Warwick and elsewhere, in the seventeenth century. On the death of Thomas Fetherston in 1720, the estates passed to his sister, Dorothy, who married Thomas Leigh. He assumed the name Fetherston Leigh. Their only daughter, Catherine, died unmarried in 1769, leaving Packwood to the husband of her half-sister, William Dilke of Maxstoke. He took the name Fetherston Dilke, as did his son and grandson. The next in line, who was known simply as John Fetherston, sold Packwood in 1869. For further details, see J.J. Belton, The Story of Packwood, 1951.