Walrond of Dulford in the parish of Broad Hembury.
This is a younger branch of an ancient family seated at Bradfield, in Uffculm, as early as the reign of Henry III, For many years the Walronds, living at their venerable mansion of Bradfield, were a powerful family in Devonshire. The male line of this the principal branch has become extinct since the time of Lysons, and the representation devolved on the present family, descended from Colonel Humphry Walrond, a distinguished Loyalist during the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. On the fall of the Royal Cause he emigrated to Barbadoes, of which island with the aid of other Royalists he made himself Governor. Philip IV. of Spain conferred upon him the title of Marques de Vallado, and other Spanish honours, for, as the still existing patent states, "services rendered to the Spanish Marine."
See Lysons, clviii. and 540; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 484.
Arms.—Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable.
Present Representative, Bethell Walrond, Esq.
Bellew of Court, in the parish of Stockleigh-English.
This is a younger branch of the great Anglo-Irish family of Bellew of Bar-meath, in the county of Meath, settled in Devonshire in the reign of Edward IV., in consequence of a marriage with one of the coheiresses of Fleming of Bratton-Fleming.
See the Visitations of Devon in 1564 and 1620: Lysons, cxxxiv. and 455.