De Burgh came from a minor gentry family about which little is known.
Francis was the only son of a gentry family.
The tobacco market collapsed, and proud gentry families found they could no longer pay their debts.
Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.
This gentry family was prominent in the county during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The most sought after positions were at the front, where the gentry families had their seats.
He was also a member of a landed gentry family.
It was the property of a gentry family, the Scotts.
The building included a family chapel, a requisite for Catholic gentry families.
Both his parents were from landed gentry families based in the southern half of Staffordshire.
