{60} Edward III Descents for Lady Elizabeth (née Cosby) FitzRoy (c.1715-1788)

Cosby Coat of Arms

Another ancestor of Rachel Esme Newton, wife of Capt. (Lancelot) Geoffrey Moore, was Elizabeth Cosby, the wife of Lord Augustus FitzRoy, younger son of the 2nd Duke of Grafton.

ELIZABETH COSBY, b. c.1715; d. 21 Dec. 1788, er dau. of William Cosby of Soho Square (c.1690-1736, descended from Edward III - see Generation A12 below) and Grace Montagu (1687-1767, descended from Edward III - see Generation B below); m. 1st Mar. 1734 Ft George, New York City, Lord AUGUSTUS FITZROY of Marylebone, M.P. Thetford 1739-41, b. 16 Oct. 1716; d. 24 May 1741 Jamaica, 3rd son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683-1757, descended from Charles II) and Lady Henrietta Somerset (1690-1726, descended from Edward III), and had issue, two sons; m. 2nd (banns 18 Dec.) 1747, JAMES JEFFREYS of Westminster, Commissioner of Customs 1766-86, b. 2 July 1715 (per his M.I.); d. 27 Sept. 1786 Avington House, Hampshire, bur. 5 Oct. 1786 St Mary Church, Avington, est. son of John Jeffreys of Lincoln's Inn (1689-1741, descended from Henry IV) and Elizabeth Darrell (c.1693-1753), and had further issue, three daughters.

The first interesting item to note about Elizabeth Cosby's ancestry is that she is a 8-generation mtDNA descendant of 'The Other Boleyn Girl': Lady Mary Carey, the sister of Henry VIII's ill-fated second queen Anne Boleyn.

Lady Mary Boleyn (c.1499-1543, descended from Edward I) m. 1) William Carey of Aldenham (c.1496-1528, descended from Edward III), and had
1) Katherine Carey (c.1523-1569) m. Sir Francis Knollys of Rotherfield Greys (c.1512-1596), and had

Lettice (née Knollys), Countess
of Essex -see Generation 3

2) Lettice Knollys (1543-1634) m. 1) Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1539-1576, descended from Edward III), and had
3) Lady Dorothy Devereux (c.1564-1619) m. 2) Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632, descended from Edward III), and had
4) Lady Dorothy Percy (1598-1659) m. Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595-1677, descended from Edward I), and had
5) Lady Lucy Sidney (1625-1685) m. Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet of Laughton (c.1623-1703, descended from Edward I), and had
6) Elizabeth Pelham (c.1660-1723) m. 1) Edward Montagu of Horton House (1649-1690, descended from Edward III - see Line B below), and had
7) Grace Montagu (1687-1767) m. William Cosby of SoHo Square (c.1690-1736, descended from Edward III - see A12 below), and had
8) Elizabeth Cosby (c.1715-1788) m. 1) Lord Augustus FitzRoy of Marylebone (1716-1741, descended from Charles II)

William Cosby (c.1690-1736),
Governor of New York

Through her father, Elizabeth Cosby has a single line of descent from Edward III, given in Line A below. It is not through the Cosbys of Stradbally Hall. Many genealogies, including the Cosby pedigree in Burke's Irish Family Records (1976), as well as (unfortunately) the ODNB entry for Francis Cosby (c.1510-1580), the founder of the family, state that his wife was Lady Mary Seymour, daughter of the 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England (descended from Edward III). Though Protector Somerset did have a daughter named Mary, she was married 1st to Andrew Rogers of Bryanston (c.1551-1601), and 2nd to Sir Henry Peyton (d. 1624), and died childless in 1620.  Genealogist Paul C. Reed ably demonstrated, in a July 1999 post to the SocGenMed newsgroup, that the marriage of Francis Cosby to Lady Mary Seymour, which first occurs in an 18th-century Cosby pedigree notarized by the Ulster King of Arms, is incorrect, and that primary (16th-century) records show that Elizabeth Palmes was actually the wife of Francis Cosby and the mother of his children.

Elizabeth Cosby and her mother Grace Montagu appear on p. 622 of Ruvigny's Clarence volume. Line B below is an elaboration of her line from George, Duke of Clarence traced by Ruvigny.

Edward III had a 3rd surviving son:
A1) John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) m. 3) Katherine Roet (c.1350-1403), and had
A2) Lady Joan Beaufort (c.1377-1440) m. 2) Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364-1425), and had
A3) Richard Neville, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c.1398-1460) m. Alice Montagu 
(1406-1462, descended from Edward I), and had a dau A4 and a son B4 (see below)

Sir Thomas L'Estrange -
see Generation A6

A4) Lady Alice Neville (c.1434-aft.1503) m. Henry, 5th Lord Fitzhugh (1429-1472), and had
A5) Elizabeth Fitzhugh (1462-bef.1507) m. 2) Nicholas, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden (c.1460-1523, descended from Edward I), and had
A6) Anne Vaux (b. 1494) m. Sir Thomas L'Estrange of Hunstanton Hall (c.1490-1545), and had
A7) Richard L'Estrange of Kilkenny, Ireland (by 1526-aft.1589) m. Anne Astley, and had
A8) Thomas L'Estrange of Castle Strange, co. Roscommon (d. aft.1616) m. Elizabeth ---, and had
A9) Hamon L'Estrange of Castle Strange (c.1600-1639) m. Dorothy Moore (b. c.1605), and had
A10) Henry L'Estrange of Moystown House, King's Co. (c.1625-1666) [*1] m. Elizabeth Sandes (c.1625-1695), and had

Elizabeth (née L'Estrange) Cosby
- see Generation A11

A11) Elizabeth L'Estrange (c.1645-1692) m. Alexander Cosby of Stradbally Hall (c.1639-1694, descended from Edward I), and had
A12) WILLIAM COSBY of Soho Square, London, Governor of New York and New Jersey 1732-36, b. c.1690 Stradbally Hall, co. Laois, Ireland; d. 10 Mar. 1736 Ft. George, New York City, New York, bur. St Paul Church Cemetery, New York City; m. GRACE MONTAGU (see B14 below), and had
A13) ELIZABETH COSBY (c.1715-1788-see details above)

[*1] The early generations of the L'Estrange pedigree in BIFR (1976) are problematic. An extra generation - Thomas L'Estrange of Castle Strange (d. 1655), with unidentified wife - is inserted between Generations A9 and A10 above. But this is chronologically impossible, given that Dorothy Moore re-married after the death of Hamon L'Estrange, and had children with her second husband in the early 1640s. I have placed Thomas L'Estrange of Castle Strange (d. 1655) as a childless elder brother of Henry L'Estrange of Moystown House, in my database. Certainly more research is needed into Generations A8 through A10 above for a definitive account of this line.

Earl of Warwick 'The Kingmaker'
- see Generation B4

B4) Richard Neville 'The Kingmaker', Earl of Warwick (1428-1471) m. Lady Anne Beauchamp (1426-1492, descended from Edward III), and had

B5) Lady Isabel Neville (1451-1476) m. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (1449-1478, descended from Edward III), and had
B6) Margaret Plantagenet, 3rd Countess of Salisbury (1473-1541) m. Sir Richard Pole of Medmenham (1459-1504), and had
B7) Ursula Pole (c.1498-1570) m. Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (1501-1563, descended from Edward III), and had
B8) DOROTHY STAFFORD, b. 1 Oct. 1526; d. 22 Sept. 1604 Westminster, London, bur. 23 Sept. 1604 St Margaret Church, Westminster; m. 1545, as his 2nd wife, Sir WILLIAM STAFFORD of Chebsey, Staffordshire, b. c.1500; d. 5 May 1566 Geneva, Switzerland, son of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwycke (1478-1545) and Margaret Fogge (d. by 1532), and had

Lady Elizabeth (née Stafford) Drury
- see Generation B9

B9) ELIZABETH STAFFORD, b. c.1549 (in her 49th year at death, per her M.I.); d. 6 Feb. 1599, bur. St Mary Church, Nettlestead, Kent; m. 1st by 1574, Sir WILLIAM DRURY of Hawstead Hall, Suffolk, b. 8 Mar. 1550; d. 18 Jan. 1590 Bergen op Zoom, Brabant, bur. 6 May 1593 All Saints Church, Hawstead, Suffolk, son of Robert Drury, Heir of Hawstead Hall (1525-1557, descended from Edward III) and Audrey Rich, and had
B10) FRANCES DRURY, b. 8 June 1576 Hawstead Hall, bap. 13 June 1576 All Saints Church, Hawstead; d. 1637, bur. St Peter Church, Ashby cum Fenby, Lincolnshire; m. 2nd 1600, as his 2nd wife, Sir WILLIAM WRAY, 1st Baronet of Glentworth, b. c.1560; d. 13 Aug. 1617 Ashby cum Fenby, son of Sir Christopher Wray of Glentworth Hall (1522-1592) and Anne Girlington (d. 1593, descended from Edward I), and had

B11) FRANCES WRAY, b. Oct. 1610 Glentworth Hall, Lincolnshire, bap. 27 Oct. 1610 St Michael Church, Glentworth; d. 1628; m. 25 Oct. 1623 St Peter Church, Ashby cum Fenby, as his 1st wife, Sir ANTHONY IRBY of Irby Hall, Lincolnshire, b. 17 Jan. 1605; d. 2 Jan. 1682, bur. St Margaret Church, Westminster, son of Sir Anthony Irby, Heir of Irby Hall (1577-1610) and Elizabeth Peyton (b. c.1585, descended from Edward I), and had

Montagu of Horton coat of arms

B12) ELIZABETH IRBY, b. c.1628; d. 9 Feb. 1684 London, bur. St Katherine by the Tower, London; m. 21 May 1645, Hon. GEORGE MONTAGU of Horton House, bap. 28 July 1622 St Margaret Church, Westminster; d. 19 July 1681 London, bur. 23 July 1681 St Katherine by the Tower, London, son of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (c.1564-1642, descended from Edward I) and his 3rd wife Margaret Crouch (1582-1653), and had
B13) EDWARD MONTAGU of Horton House, b. 25 Sept. 1649; bur. 27 Feb. 1690 St Katherine by the Tower, London; m. 30 May 1678, as her 1st husband, ELIZABETH PELHAM, b. c.1660; d. 13 July 1723 Westminster, bur. 17 July 1723 St James Church, Westminster, dau of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet of Laughton (c.1623-1703, descended from Edward I) and Lady Lucy Sidney (1625-1685, descended from Edward III), and had
B14) GRACE MONTAGU, bap. 24 June 1687 St Margaret Church, Westminster; d. 23 Dec. 1767 Covent Garden, London, bur. 25 Dec. 1767 St Marylebone Parish Church, London; m. 1711, WILLIAM COSBY of Soho Square, London, b. c.1690 Stradbally Hall, co Laois, Ireland; d. 10 Mar. 1736 Ft George, New York City, NY, bur. St Paul Church Cemetery, New York City (see A12 above)

My next post will detail the Henry IV descent of Elizabeth (Cosby) FitzRoy's second husband, James Jeffreys of Westminster (1715-1786).

Cheers,                                ------Brad

{59} Roglo Addition: Edward III Descents for Georgiana (née Raikes), Lady FitzRoy (1789-1861)

Raikes Coat of Arms

The Raikes of Llwynegrin pedigree on pp. 2115-2116 of Burke's Landed Gentry 17th Edition (1952) begins with the successful London merchant, Thomas Raikes of Freelands, Kent (1741-1813) and his wife Charlotte Finch. It contains an incorrect death date for Charlotte (it has confused her date of death with that of her daughter-in-law, the wife of her eldest son), but does correctly identify her father as Hon. Henry Finch, son of Daniel, Earl of Winchilsea, conveniently leaving out the fact that she was his illegitimate daughter. Nor does the BLG account provide any information on the daughters of the couple, other than the fact that there were five in number. In addition to fourth daughter Georgiana Raikes, wife of Lord William FitzRoy, there was 1) Charlotte Finch Raikes (1779-1854), 2) Emma Raikes (1786-1799), and 3) Elizabeth Raikes (1787-1801), who all died unmarried. The fifth and youngest daughter Harriet Elizabeth Raikes (1791-1817) married, as his 1st wife, Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880), but died without issue.

Thomas Raikes (1741-1813)

The Raikes family can be traced back to three brothers in the early 17th-century, all successful merchants at Kingston-upon-Hull in Yorkshire. The great-grandson of the eldest brother was Robert Raikes of Gloucester (1690-1757), "an important figure in the history of English journalism and in the gradual spread of printing from London into the provinces" [ODNB bio]. His eldest son Robert Raikes (1736-1811) succeeded his father in the printing business and became a renowned philanthropist and founder of Sunday schools. Georgiana's father the London merchant Thomas Raikes was the younger brother of the Sunday school founder.

All of the peerage works, from Collins' Peerage in the 18th-century, to the pedigree of Winchilsea and Nottingham in Burke's Peerage 107th Edition (2003), state that Henry Finch, the fourth son of Daniel, 7th Earl of Winchilsea & 2nd Earl of Nottingham, died unmarried. None mention his four children, no doubt because they were illegitimate. But it is clear from his will, dated 7 Nov. 1758, proved 2 June 1761, that Henry Finch loved his children and wanted to ensure their financial security after his decease:
"And as I have at the time of making this my Will four children living namely Henry Elizabeth John and Charlotte, I give and bequeath to them all my four children all my goods, chattels money and personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever…to be equally divided amongst them Share and Share alike at the respective days of payment and in the manner and under the directions hereinafter mentioned that is to say I will that the Share of my said Son Henry of my whole personal Estate subject as aforesaid be paid to him by my Executors hereinafter mentioned (upon the fifteenth of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Six and that the Share of my daughter Elizabeth be paid her in like manner upon the Ninth of July One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Seven and that the Share of my Son John be paid him in like manner upon the sixteenth of October One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight and that the Share of my said daughter Charlotte be paid her in the like manner upon the Eighteenth of July One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one …  And I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me made and do hereby constitute and appoint my dear Brother John, Sr. William Owen of Pembrokeshire my nephew Mr. John Mason of Greenwich his brother Mr. George Mason now of the Temple John Freeman the Senior of the Custom house and now living in Charles Street Covent Garden parish Executors of this my last Will and Testament and Trustees of and for my said children, and to have the care of their maintenance and education and I do desire that every one of the abovementioned Executors will take out of my personal the sum of one hundred pounds as a small acknowledgement for the trouble I give them and for their goodness in taking upon them the care of my Effects for the benefit of my children who are not now capable of doing it.”

Charlotte (née Finch) Raikes
(1750-1822)

Henry also leaves a big clue as to the identity of the mother of his children in his will: "And as I have heretofore given a promisary note for Two Thousand pounds to Elizabeth Hands payable in case she the said Elizabeth Hands survives me my Will therefore is and I do hereby direct that in case the said Elizabeth Hands shall be living at the time of my decease my Executors do pay the Sum of Two Thousand pounds unto the said Elizabeth Hands within Six Calendar Months after my decease which I do hereby declare to be in full Satisfaction and in discharge of the said promisory note and not intended as any additional provision or bequest to the said Elizabeth Hands." Two thousand pounds was a considerable fortune in 1758, certainly not the kind of bequest a gentleman would leave to even the most devoted long-serving housekeeper. Considering that Henry mentions his four children immediately following the mention of Elizabeth Hands and her two thousand pounds, it seems very likely that she was the mother of the children, and there is also a sense that the couple was no longer together.

What became of the other three children of Henry Finch - namely Henry, Elizabeth and John Finch - is not so clear. Henry was most likely the Henry Finch who was a witness to the December 1774 marriage of Thomas Raikes and Charlotte Finch in Bloomsbury, London. And it may be that the association of Thomas Raikes to Freelands in Kent was through his wife Charlotte and her Finch siblings, but further research is definitely needed into this illegitimate branch of the Finches of Winchilsea and Nottingham.

GEORGIANA RAIKES, b. 17 May 1789 London, bap. 13 June 1789 St Botolph Bishopsgate, London; d. 2 Dec. 1861 Hastings, Sussex, 4th dau. of Thomas Raikes of Freelands (1741-1813) and Charlotte Finch (1750-1822, descended from Edward III - see Generation 14 below); m. 22 Aug. 1816 St George Hanover Square, Lord WILLIAM FITZROY of East Sheen, Surrey, b. 1 June 1782 London; d. 13 May 1857 East Sheen, bur. 20 May 1857 Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey, 5th son of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811, descended from Charles II) and his 2nd wife Elizabeth Wrottesley (1745-1822, descended from Henry VII), and had issue, one son and three daughters.

Tombstone of Lord William FitzRoy,
Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey

Issue of Lord William and Georgiana (Raikes) FitzRoy:

1) HARRIET ELIZABETH FITZROY, bap. 28 June 1817 St Marylebone Parish Church; d.s.p. 14 July 1875 Ladbroke House, Redhill, Surrey, bur. 19 July 1875 West Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth, Surrey; m. 8 May 1862 St Michael Chester Square, Belgravia, London, as his 2nd wife, Col. MICHAEL DAWES of Reigate, Surrey, b. 10 Dec. 1812 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, bap. there 13 Mar. 1813; d. 30 Mar. 1871 Westminster, London, son of Daniel Butler Dawes of Winchelsea (1762-1849) and Elizabeth Head.

2) ELIZABETH GEORGIANA FITZROY, b. 14 Jan. 1819 Westminster, bap. 8 Mar. 1819 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. unm. 5 Feb. 1868 Frogmore Park, Yateley, Hampshire, bur. 11 Feb. 1868 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, Hampshire.

3) CHARLOTTE LOUISA NEALE FITZROY, b. 28 Apr. 1821 Westminster, bap. 15 June 1821 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. unm. 28 Dec. 1837 Hastings, Sussex.

4) (FRANCIS) HORATIO FITZROY of Frogmore Park, b. 6 June 1823 London, bap. 16 July 1823 St Mary Church, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire; d. 20 Mar. 1900 Frogmore Park, bur. 24 Mar. 1900 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley; m. 17 Nov. 1849 St George Hanover Square, Hon. GERTRUDE DUNCOMBE, b. 4 Apr. 1827 Westminster, London, bap. 12 May 1827 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 24 Feb. 1916 Frogmore Park, bur. 28 Feb. 1916 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, 2nd dau. of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham (1798-1867, descended from Edward III) and Lady Louisa Stewart (1804-1889, descended from Henry VII), and had issue, two sons and four daughters.

The various lines of descent from Edward III for Hon. Henry Finch, and for his four children, can be rather easily worked out through peerage works, and are all already in the Genealogics database, as well as having been previously posted by me on the SocGenMed newsgroup. So I will just follow one line.

Elizabeth (née Plantagenet),
Duchess of Exeter- see Generation 2

EDWARD III had a 3rd surv son,
1) JOHN of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, b. 6 Mar. 1340 St Bavo Abbey, Ghent, Flanders; d. 3 Feb. 1399 Leicester Castle, bur. 16 Mar. 1399 St Paul's Cathedral, London; m. 1st 19 May 1359 Queen's Chapel, Reading, Berkshire, Lady BLANCHE PLANTAGENET, b. 23 Mar. 1342; d. 12 Sept. 1368 Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, bur. St. Paul's Cathedral, yr dau. of Henry 'of Grosmont' Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Lancaster (c.1310-1361) and Lady Isabel Beaumont (c.1318-c.1359), and had

2) Lady ELIZABETH PLANTAGENET, b. Feb. 1364; d. 24 Nov. 1425, bur. St John the Baptist Church, Burford, Shropshire; m. 2nd 24 June 1386 Plymouth, Devon, JOHN HOLLAND, 1st Duke of Exeter, b. c.1358; d. 15 Jan. 1400 Pleshey Castle, Essex, bur. Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Pleshey, yst son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (c.1315-1360) and Lady Joan Plantagenet 'The Fair Maid' of Kent (1327-1385, descended from Edward I), and had
3) Lady CONSTANCE HOLLAND, b. 1386 Galicia, Spain; d. 12 Nov. 1437, bur. St Katherine by the Tower Church, London; m. 2nd by 1410, as his 1st wife, Sir JOHN GREY of Badmondisfield Hall, b. c.1385; d.v.p. 27 Aug. 1439, son and heir of Reynold, 3rd Lord Grey of Ruthin (c.1362-1440) and his 1st wife Margaret de Ros (c.1367-c.1399, descended from Edward I), and had

Grey, Earls of Kent coat of arms

4) EDMUND GREY, 1st Earl of Kent, b. 26 Oct. 1416; d. 22 May 1490; m. c.1440, Lady KATHERINE PERCY, b. 18 May 1423 Leconfield, Yorkshire; d. 1493, elder dau. of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1394-1455, descended from Edward III) and Lady Eleanor Neville (1403-1472, descended from Edward III), and had
5) GEORGE GREY, 2nd Earl of Kent, b. c.1443; d. 21 Dec. 1503 Ampthill Castle, Bedfordshire; m. 2nd 1 Oct. 1490, Lady KATHERINE HERBERT, b. c.1468; d. by 1503, dau. of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (c.1423-1469) and Anne Devereux, and had
6) Lady ANNE GREY, b. c.1492; d. 1546; m. (settlement 18 Feb.) 1505, as his 2nd wife, JOHN, 1st Baron HUSSEY of Sleaford, b. 1465; d. 29 June 1537 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, est son of Sir William Hussey of Sleaford (d. 1495) and Elizabeth Berkeley (d. 1504), and had
7) AGNES HUSSEY, b. c.1515; living 1572; m. 2nd c.1547, as his 3rd wife, Sir HUMPHREY BROWNE of Ridley Hall, Terling, Essex, b. c.1480; d. 5 Dec. 1562 St Sepulchre's, London, bur. 15 Dec. 1562 St Martin Orgar, London, yr son of Robert Browne of Abbas Rodding and Mary Charlton, and had

Sir John Tufton, 1st Bt -
see Generation 8

8) CHRISTIAN BROWNE, b. c.1558; bur. St. Margaret Church, Hothfield, Kent; m. 10 Dec. 1575 All Saints Church, Terling, Essex, as his 2nd wife, Sir JOHN TUFTON, 1st Baronet of Hothfield, b. c.1545; d. 2 Apr. 1624 Hothfield Place, Kent, bur. 5 Apr. 1624 St Margaret Church, Hothfield, son of John Tufton of Hothfield Place (1520-1567) and Mary Baker, and had
9) NICHOLAS TUFTON, 1st Earl of Thanet, b. Ridley Hall, bap. 19 Jan. 1578 All Saints Church, Terling; bur. 1 July 1631 St Margaret Church, Rainham, Kent; m. by 1602, Lady FRANCES CECIL, bap. 28 Feb. 1581 St Martin in the Fields, London; d. 12 June 1653, bur. 18 June 1653 St Margaret Church, Rainham, yst dau. of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter (1542-1623) and Dorothy Neville (1548-1609, descended from Edward III), and had
10) JOHN TUFTON, 2nd Earl of Thanet, b. 15 Dec. 1608 Hothfield Place, bap. 20 Dec. 1608 St Margaret Church, Hothfield; d. 6 May 1664 Thanet House, London, bur. 10 May 1664 St Margaret Church, Rainham; m. 21 Apr. 1629, Lady MARGARET SACKVILLE, b. 2 July 1614 Dorset House, London; d. 14 Aug. 1676, dau. of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (1589-1624, descended from Edward III) and Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676, descended from Edward III), and had
11) Lady CECILY TUFTON, b. 2 June 1648; d. 29 Dec. 1672 Castle Cornet, Guernsey; m. 12 Feb. 1667, as his 1st wife, CHRISTOPHER HATTON, 1st Viscount Hatton of Gretton, bap. 6 Nov. 1632 St Bartholomew the Great Church, West Smithfield, London; d. Sept. 1706, son of Christopher, 1st Baron Hatton of Kirby (1605-1670) and Elizabeth Montagu (c.1613-1672, descended from Edward I), and had

Anne (née Hatton), Countess of
Winchilsea - see Generation 12

12) Hon. ANNE HATTON, b. 9 Oct. 1668 Thanet House, London; d. 26 Sept. 1743 Burley on the Hill House, Rutlandshire, bur. All Saints Church, Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire; m. 29 Dec. 1685 St Giles in the Fields, London, as his 2nd wife, DANIEL FINCH, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and 2nd Earl of Nottingham, b. 2 July 1647 London; d. 1 Jan. 1730 Burley on the Hill House, bur. All Saints Church, Ravenstone, son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682, descended from Edward I) and Elizabeth Harvey (1627-1676), and had
13) Hon. HENRY FINCH of Scotland Yard, M.P. Milton 1724-61, b. 1694 (age 17 on 19 August 1712, when admitted to Christ Church Cambridge) Exton Hall, Rutlandshire; d. unm. 26 May 1761; = (probably) ELIZABETH HANDS, living 1658, and had
14) CHARLOTTE FINCH, illegit., b. 18 July 1750 (assuming she received her inheritance 18 July 1771 on her 21st birthday); d. Petersham, Surrey, bur. 15 Mar. 1822 St Peter & St Paul Church, Bromley, Kent; m. 8 Dec. 1774 St George Bloomsbury, London, THOMAS RAIKES of Freelands, b. 28 Mar. 1741 Gloucester, bap. 17 Apr. 1741 St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester; d. 29 Dec. 1813 Stanwell House, Middlesex, bur. 5 Jan. 1814 St Peter & St Paul Church, Bromley, yr son of Robert Raikes of Gloucester (1690-1757) and his 3rd wife Mary Drew (1714-1779), and had
15) GEORGIANA RAIKES (1789-1861), wife of Lord William FitzRoy - see details above

My next post will look at the Edward III descents behind Elizabeth Cosby (c.1715-1788), paternal grandmother of Lord William FitzRoy.

Cheers,                                -------Brad

{58} Ruvigny Elaboration: Issue of Horatio Fitzroy of Frogmore Park (1823-1900)

All Souls College, Oxford

The only son of Admiral Lord William Fitzroy, a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Grafton, Horatio FitzRoy (he went by his second given name rather than his first, Francis) attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he became a lifelong friend of the poet Edward Lear. He earned a fellowship to All Souls College, where he studied law from 1847-1850. It was during this period that he married Hon. Gertrude Duncombe, the second daughter of the 2nd Baron Feversham. He was 26 and she was 22, and per Oxford statutes, Horatio had to give up his All Souls fellowship when he married.

Per Dr. Richard Johnston of The Yateley Society, "At first Horatio's seat was Over Worton House, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, but he also had a house in London. Between 1861 and 1863, he moved to Frogmore Park, where he lived the life of a country gentleman for the remainder of his life. Recruited by his cousin Lord Churchill, commander of Queen's Own the Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, a volunteer cavalry regiment, he continued as an officer until 1873, achieving the rank of major in 1868, even though he had moved away from Oxfordshire. Like his forebears he enjoyed horses, hunting and the country life. He also liked foreign travel, and was a member of the Travellers Club, members of which had to prove they had travelled 500 miles from London. The nearby proximity of Yateley Common for riding was probably a significant factor in his choice of Frogmore Park as a residence. He had a more serious side, and in addition to his literary and scholastic interests, he supported causes for social improvement. Locally he took a keen interest in Parish affairs. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire in 1863, soon after his arrival in Yateley, and towards the end of his life was created a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire."

Horatio and his descendants appear in Ruvigny's 1903 Tudor volume on p. 337. This was the first volume in Ruvigny's Plantagenet Roll series, and the marquis gave only years of birth, marriage and death, not even the full vital dates he would provide in the later volumes. So a detailed account of Horatio FitzRoy and his children follows. It's a family group I hope to return to early next year, as the seven spouses of Horatio's children all appear to have interesting ancestry and Edward III descents.

Ruvigny's account of the Children of Horatio Fitzroy on p. 337 of his 1903 Tudor volume

(FRANCIS) HORATIO FITZROY of Frogmore Park, Yateley, Hampshire, b. 6 June 1823 London, bap. 16 July 1823 St Mary Church, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire; d. 20 Mar. 1900 Frogmore Park, bur. 24 Mar. 1900 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, Hampshire, only son of Admiral Lord William FitzRoy of East Sheen (1782-1857, descended from Charles II) and Georgiana Raikes (1827-1916, descended from Edward III); m. 17 Nov. 1849 St George Hanover Square, London, Hon. GERTRUDE DUNCOMBE, b. 4 Apr. 1827 Westminster, London, bap. 12 May 1827 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 24 Feb. 1916 Frogmore Park, bur. 28 Feb. 1916 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, 2nd dau. of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham (1798-1867, descended from Edward III) and Lady Louisa Stewart (1804-1889, descended from Henry VII), and had issue, two sons and four daughters.

Tombstone of Horatio Fitzroy,
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley

Issue of Horatio and Hon. Gertrude (Buncombe) FitzRoy:

1) (GERTRUDE LOUISA) GEORGIANA FITZROY, b. 9 Dec. 1850 London; d. 17 July 1927 Elverham Hall, Hampshire; m. 5 July 1871 St Thomas Portman Square, London, ROBERT HAMILTON LLOYD-ANSTRUTHER of Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk, b. 21 Apr. 1841 Hintlesham Hall, bap. 31 May 1841 St Nicholas Church, Hintlesham; d. 24 Aug. 1914 Pimlico, London, son of Capt. James Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther of Hintlesham Hall (1806-1882) and his 1st wife Georgiana Charlotte Burrell (1811-1843), and had issue two sons and one daughter.

Sir Almeric FitzRoy (1851-1935)

2) Sir ALMERIC WILLIAM FITZROY of Eaton Square, London, b. 12 Nov. 1851 Westminster, London; d. 31 May 1935 Eaton Square, bur. 4 June 1935 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley; m. 30 July 1897 St Paul Knightsbridge, London, KATHARINE FARQUHAR, b. 7 Jan. 1865 Westminster, bap. 7 Mar. 1865 St James Church, Westminster; d. 24 Nov. 1933 Eaton Square, bur. 28 Nov. 1933 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, 2nd dau. of Sir Thomas Henry Farquhar, 4th Baronet of Cadogan House (1838-1916) and Hon. Alice Brand (1840-1925), and had issue, one son and one daughter.

3) KATHLEEN HORATIA FITZROY, b. 27 Feb. 1854 East Sheen, Surrey, bap. 5 Apr. 1854 St Mary Church, Mortlake, Surrey; d. unm. 19 Apr. 1935 Wintney House, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, bur. 23 Apr. 1935 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, Hampshire.

4) HELEN MARY FITZROY, b. 13 June 1857 Belgravia, London, bap. 13 July 1857 St Michael Chester Square, Belgravia; d. 31 Oct. 1935 Garats Hay Hall, Woodhouse, Leicestershire; m. 14 Oct. 1890 Holy Trinity Church, Hawley, CHARLES MILNES NEWTON of Brompton, b. 11 Apr. 1856 Castle Burke, St Croix, Virgin Islands; d. 18 Jan. 1932 Brompton, London, est son of Francis Rodes Newton of Castle Burke (1827-1886) and Anna Louisa Gyllich (1833-1862), and had issue, one daughter.

St Mary Churchyard, Woodhouse, Leicestershire

5) ESMÉ FITZROY, b. 21 Feb. 1859 Belgravia, London; d. 25 May 1939 Garats Hay Hall, bur. 27 May 1939 St Mary Churchyard, Woodhouse, Leicestershire; m. 1st 19 Oct. 1886 St Peter Eaton Square, London, Hon. MONTAGU CURZON of Garats Hay Hall, M.P. Leicester North 1883-85, b. 21 Sept. 1846 Mayfair, London, bap. 6 Nov. 1846 St James Church, Twycross, Leicestershire; d. 1 Sept. 1907 Garats Hay Hall, bur. 4 Sept. 1907 St Mary Churchyard, Woodhouse, son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1796-1870) and his 2nd wife Anne Frances Gore (1817-1877), and had issue, one son and one daughter; m. 2nd 26 Oct. 1909 St Saviour Church, Chelsea, London, Rev. (WILLIAM) ARTHUR KING, Vicar of Woodhouse, b. June 1864 Durham; d. 24 Sept. 1950 The Royal Infirmary, Leicester, son of Rev. Charles William King of South Bailey, Durham (1832-1872) and Mary Anne Sophia Douglas (1831-1919).

Fitzroy of Grafton coat of arms

6) CYRIL DUNCOMBE FITZROY of Chelsea, inspector Board of Education and landscape painter, b. 21 May 1861 London, bap. 29 June 1861 St Mary Church, East Barnet, Hertfordshire; d. 9 July 1939 Chelsea, London, bur. 11 July 1939 St Michael & All Angels Church, Bengeo, Hertfordshire; m. 1st 9 July 1903 Oxfordshire, LEILA MARGARET SMITH, b. 20 June 1872 Goldings Hall, Bengeo, bap. 28 July 1872 St Michael & All Angels Church, Bengeo; d. 12 Oct. 1904 Chelsea, bur. 15 Oct. 1904 St Michael & All Angels Church, Bengeo, dau. of Robert Smith of Goldings Hall (1833-1894) and Isabel Adeane (1839-1913), and had issue, one daughter; m. 2nd 25 Apr. 1908 St John the Baptist Church, Great Marlborough Street, London, MARGARET CUNINGHAME DURHAM, b. 22 Feb. 1881 Torquay, Devon; d. 7 Apr. 1948 Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, dau. of Rev. James Samuel William Durham of Ladbroke, Warwickshire (1852-1915) and Anne Duke, and had further issue, one son and one daughter.

The next post will look at the Edward III descents for Horatio FitzRoy's mother, Georgiana Raikes .

Cheers,                                 -------Brad

{57} Henry VII Descents for Helen (née FitzRoy) Newton (1857-1935)

FitzRoy of Grafton Coat of Arms

Helen Mary FitzRoy is No. 26698 on p. 337 of Ruvigny's 1903 Tudor Roll volume. She is shown married to Charles Milnes Newton, but Ruvigny was apparently unaware of the couple's only child, daughter Rachel Esme Newton (1891-1965), who was age 12 when the volume was published, and would go on to marry Col. Geoffrey Moore in 1917.

The third daughter of her parents, Mr. (Francis) Horatio FitzRoy of Frogmore Park in Yateley, Hampshire, and his wife Hon. Mrs. (Gertrude) FitzRoy, Helen was the last of their daughters to wed (the second daughter Kathleen FitzRoy died a spinster). It wasn't until she was 33 years old that she walked down the aisle of Holy Trinity Church in Hawley on the arm of her father.  Her eldest sister had been married for 19 years, and her youngest sister Esmé, the beauty of the family and Helen's junior by two years, had been married for the past four years and was already a mother. Helen chose Esmé's daughter Mary Curzon, almost age three, to be the youngest bridesmaid in her wedding party. Helen's marriage to the 34-year-old artist Charles Newton, would be the final wedding of his children that Horatio FitzRoy, the old esquire of Frogmore Park, would live to attend, and details of the event survive in a newspaper account:

Holy Trinity Church, Hawley, Hampshire

“On Tuesday last, the marriage of Mr. Charles Milnes Newton with Miss Helen Mary FitzRoy, third daughter of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Horatio FitzRoy, of Frogmore Park, Blackwater, Hants, was solemnised at Holy Trinity Church, Hawley, the officiating clergy being the Bishop of Guildford, assisted by the Rev. J.P. Wyatt, Incumbent of Hawley, and the Rev. T. James. The bride arrived at the church punctually at 2 30, and was given away by her father. The bride’s dress was of rich white ‘royale’ silk, draped with old Brussels lace, the gift of her mother, and she wore a Brussels lace veil, fastened with two diamond crescents, and a spray of orange blossom in her hair. The bridesmaids were Miss Rosalind Lloyd Anstruther and Miss Mary Curzon, nieces of the bride, Miss Eleanor Newton, sister, and Miss Vera Ridley, niece of the bridegroom, Miss Cecilia Peel, cousin of the bride, and Miss Anderson ... Mr. and Mrs. FitzRoy afterwards held a reception, at which the following company were present:— Hon. Lawrence and Mrs. Parsons, Hon. Cecil Duncombe, General Lord and Lady Alexander Russell, Sir Charles Cox, Sir Philip Currie, K.C.B., Sir Edward Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ridley, Mr. Henry Newton, Hon. Mrs. Cecil Peel, Miss Peel, Colonel Lloyd Anstruther, M.P., and Mrs. Lloyd Anstruther, Mr. FitzRoy Lloyd Anstruther, Mrs. Edward Clive, Captain and Mrs. Elliott, Colonel and Mrs. Edward FitzRoy, Lady (Houston) Stewart, Miss Grenfell, Hon. Randolph Stewart, Mr. Meynell, Miss Florence Duncombe, Miss Elizabeth Newton, Captain Horace Newton, Miss Eleanor Anderson, Colonel and Miss Rothwell, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Hankey, Hon. and Rev. Randal Parsons, Mrs. Arthur Culville, the Bishop of Guildford, Miss Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Harington Balfour, Mr. Nigel Balfour, Rev. J.P. and Mrs. Wyatt, Misses Wyatt, Miss Stapleton, Major and Mrs. Barrington Foote, Mr. Almeric FitzRoy, Mr. Walter Forbes, Mrs. Granet, Misses Connop, Colonel and Mrs. Harvey, Miss Ruddach, Major Harold Paget, Lady Glass, Mrs. Townshend Wilson, Misses Townshend Wilson, Miss Kathleen FitzRoy, Captain Leonard Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Stilwell, Miss Stilwell, Mr. Cyril FitzRoy, Mr. G.A. F. Shadwell, Mrs. Foard Harris, and Mr. Alfred Farquhar (who acted as ‘best man’).  Soon after four o’clock Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newton left for Eaglehurst, on the Southampton Water, lent for the honeymoon by Mr. Frederick Cox. The bride’s travelling dress was of electric blue cloth and silk, handsomely braided in the same colour, with felt hat to match, trimmed with cock’s feathers, and she wore a cock’s feather boa.  The wedding presents were very numerous and valuable.” ['Fashionable Wedding At Hawley', Reading Mercury, Saturday, October 18, 1890, p. 4]

Helen (née FitzRoy) Newton on p. 337 of Ruvigny's 1903 Tudor volume

The couple led a very low-profile married life for 41 years. They appear in newspaper announcements as guests at various family events, but otherwise do not generate copy. Helen, Mrs. Charles Newton, survived her husband three years, and died on Halloween in 1935 at Garats Hay Hall, in Woodside, Leicestershire, the home of her sister Esmé. I've so far not been successful in discovering where Helen and her husband Charles Newton were buried.

HELEN MARY FITZROY, b. 13 June 1857 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London, bap. 13 July 1857 St Michael Chester Square, Belgravia; d. 31 Oct. 1935 Garats Hay Hall, Woodhouse, Leicestershire, 3rd dau. of Horatio FitzRoy of Frogmore Park (see Generation A13 below) and Hon. Gertrude Duncombe (see Generation B13 below); m. 14 Oct. 1890 Holy Trinity Church, Hawley, Hampshire, CHARLES MILNES NEWTON of Brompton, b. 11 Apr. 1856 Castle Burke plantation, St Croix, Virgin Islands; d. 18 Jan. 1932 Montpelier Square, Brompton, London, eldest son of Francis Rodes Newton of Castle Burke (1827-1886) and Anna Louisa Gyllich (1833-1862), and had issue, one daughter.

Garats Hay Hall, Woodhouse, Leicestershire

As Ruvigny did not track illegitimate lines, Helen does not appear in his Tudor volume as a descendant of Charles II, with his two lines of descent from Henry VII through that monarch's elder daughter Princess Margaret Tudor. Rather, Ruvigny focused on Helen's two legitimate lines of descent from Henry VII, which are through his younger daughter Princess Mary Tudor. Helen's mother Hon. Mrs. Gertrude (née Duncombe) FitzRoy is No. 34089 (p. 501) in the Tudor volume.

Henry VII had a dau:
A1) Princess MARY TUDOR, b. 18 Mar. 1496 Richmond Palace, Surrey; d. 25 June 1533 Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, bur. 22 July 1533 Bury St Edmunds Abbey, Suffolk; m. 2nd 31 March 1515 Paris, France, CHARLES BRANDON, 1st Duke of Suffolk, b. c.1483; d. 22 Aug. 1545 Guildford, Surrey, bur. 9 Sept. 1545 St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, yr son of Sir William Brandon (c.1453-1485, descended from Edward I) and Elizabeth Bruyn (d. 1494), and had two daus A2 & B2 (see below)

Frances (née Brandon), Duchess of
Suffolk - see Generation A2

A2) Lady FRANCES BRANDON, b. 16 July 1517 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, bap. 18 July 1517 St Ethelreda Church, Hatfield; d. 21 Nov. 1559 Richmond Palace, Surrey, bur. 5 Dec. 1559 St Edmund Chapel, Westminster Abbey; m. 1st May 1533 Suffolk House, Southwark, Surrey, HENRY GREY, 1st Duke of Suffolk, b. 17 Jan. 1517 Bradgate Hall, Leicestershire; d. 23 Feb. 1554 Tower of London, est son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1477-1530, descended from Edward III) and his 2nd wife Margaret Wotton (d. 1541), and had
A3) Lady KATHERINE GREY, b. c.1540; d. 27 Jan. 1568 Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, bur. 21 Feb. 1568 St Peter Church, Yoxford; m. 2nd Dec. 1560 Beauchamp Place, London, EDWARD SEYMOUR, 1st Earl of Hertford, b. 22 May 1539 Beauchamp Place; d. 6 Apr. 1621 Netley, Hampshire, bur. Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, est son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c.1500-1552, descended from Edward III) and his 2nd wife Anne Stanhope (c.1510-1587, descended from Edward III), and had
A4) EDWARD SEYMOUR, Lord Beauchamp, b. 24 Sept. 1561 Tower of London, bap. there 26 Sept. 1561; d. 13 July 1612 Wick, Wiltshire, bur. St Mary Church, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire; m. 1581, HONORA ROGERS, dau of Sir Richard Rogers of Bryanston (c.1527-1605, descended from Edward I) & his 1st wife Cecilia Luttrell (d. 1566, descended from Edward I), and had
A5) Hon. HONORA SEYMOUR, b. c.1592; bur. 23 Mar. 1620 St Edmund Church, Dudley, Staffordshire; m. 16 July 1610, Sir FERDINANDO SUTTON, Heir of Dudley Castle, b. 4 Sept. 1588; d. 22 Nov. 1621 St Katherine Cree, London, bur. 23 Nov. 1621 St Margaret Church, Westminster, only son of Edward Sutton, 5th Lord Dudley (1567-1643, descended from Edward III) and Theodosia Harington (d. 1650, descended from Edward I), and had

Barons Dudley & Ward coat of arms

A6) FRANCES, 6th BARONESS DUDLEY, b. 23 July 1611 Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, bap. there 18 Aug. 1611; bur. 11 Aug. 1697 St Michael Church, Himley, Staffordshire; m. (settlement 17 Feb.) 1628, HUMBLE WARD, 1st Baron Ward of Birmingham, b. 1613; d. 14 Oct. 1670, bur. 17 Oct. 1670 St Michael Church, Himley, son of William Ward of Cheapside and Elizabeth Humble (d. 1616), and had
A7) EDWARD WARD, 7th Baron Dudley, b. 1631; d. 3 Aug. 1701, bur. 8 Aug. 1701 St Michael Church, Himley; m. 1655, FRANCES BRERETON, b. c.1635; bur. 21 Nov. 1676 St Michael Church, Himley, dau of Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet of Handforth (1604-1661, descended from Edward I) and his 1st wife Susanna Booth (1601-1637, descended from Edward I), and had
A8) Hon. KATHERINE WARD, b. c.1663; d. 21 Apr. 1691 Enville Hall, Staffordshire, bur. 25 Apr. 1691 St Mary Church, Enville; m. 5 Nov. 1683 St Edmund Church, Dudley, Hon. JOHN GREY of Enville Hall, b. c.1628; d. Feb. 1709, 3rd son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford (c.1599-1673, descended from Edward III) and Lady Anne Cecil (1602-1676, descended from Edward III), and had
A9) FRANCES GREY, b. c.1689; d. 22 Mar. 1769, bur. 1 Apr. 1769 St Michael Church, Tettenhall, Staffordshire; m. 15 Jan. 1704 St Mary Church, Enville, Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY, 4th Baronet of Wrottesley, b. c.1682; bur. 1 Nov. 1726 St Michael Church, Tettenhall, son of Sir Walter Wrottesley, 3rd Baronet of Wrottesley (1659-1712, descended from Edward III) and his 1st wife Eleanor Archer (1660-1694, descended from Henry IV), and had
A10) Sir RICHARD WROTTESLEY, 7th Baronet of Wrottesley, b. 12 Apr. 1721 Wrottesley Hall, Tettenhall, bap. there 19 June 1721; d. 20 July 1769, bur. 31 July 1769 St Michael Church, Tettenhall; m. 6 Oct. 1739 St Mary Church, Trentham, Staffordshire, Lady MARY LEVESON-GOWER, b. 30 Oct. 1717 Westminster, London, bap. 27 Nov. 1717 St Anne Soho, London; d. 30 Apr. 1778, bur. 9 May 1778 St Michael Church, Tettenhall, eldest dau of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754, descended from Edward III) and his 1st wife Lady Evelyn Pierrepont (1691-1727, descended from Edward III), and had

Elizabeth (née Wrottesley), Duchess
of Grafton - see Generation A11

A11) ELIZABETH WROTTESLEY, b. 21 Oct. 1745 Wrottesley Hall, bap. there same day; d. 25 May 1822 Mayfair, London, bur. 31 May 1822 St James Church, Westminster; m. 24 June 1769 Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, as his 2nd wife, AUGUSTUS HENRY FITZROY, 3rd Duke of Grafton, b. 28 Sept. 1735 Marylebone, London, bap. 17 Oct. 1735 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 14 Mar. 1811 Euston Hall, Suffolk, bur. 21 Mar. 1811 St Genevieve Church, Euston, son of Lord Augustus FitzRoy of Marylebone (1716-1741, descended from Charles II) and Elizabeth Cosby (c.1715-1788, descended from Edward III), and had
A12) Lord WILLIAM FITZROY of East Sheen, Surrey, Admiral of the White 1853-1857, b. 1 June 1782 London; d. 13 May 1857 East Sheen, bur. 20 May 1857 Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey; m. 22 Aug. 1816 St George Hanover Square, London, GEORGIANA RAIKES, b. 17 May 1789 London, bap. 13 June 1789 St Botolph Bishopsgate, London; d. 2 Dec. 1861 Hastings, Sussex, dau. of Thomas Raikes of Freelands, Kent (1741-1813) and Charlotte Finch (1750-1822, descended from Edward III), and had
A13) (FRANCIS) HORATIO FITZROY of Frogmore Park, Yateley, Hampshire, b. 6 June 1823 London, bap. 16 July 1823 St Mary Church, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire; d. 20 Mar. 1900 Frogmore Park, bur. 24 Mar. 1900 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, Hampshire; m. 17 Nov. 1849 St George Hanover Square, London, Hon. GERTRUDE DUNCOMBE (see B13 below), and had
A14) HELEN MARY FITZROY, wife of CHARLES MILNES NEWTON - see details above

Eleanor (née Brandon), Countess
of Cumberland - see Generation B2

B2) Lady ELEANOR BRANDON, b. 1519; d. 27 Sept. 1547 Brougham Castle, Westmorland, bur. Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, Yorkshire; m. June 1535 Suffolk House, Southwark, HENRY CLIFFORD, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, b. c.1517; d. 2 Jan. 1570 Brougham Castle, bur. Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, elder son of Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1493-1542, descended from Edward III) and Lady Margaret Percy (c.1495-1540, descended from Edward III), and had
B3) Lady MARGARET CLIFFORD, b. 1540; d. 29 Sept. 1596 Cleveland Row, Westminster, bur. 22 Oct. 1596 Westminster Abbey; m. 7 Feb. 1555 Whitehall Palace, Westminster, HENRY STANLEY, 4th Earl of Derby, b. Sept. 1531 Lathom Castle, Lancashire, bap. there 4 Oct. 1531; d. there 25 Sept. 1593, bur. 4 Dec. 1593 St Peter & St Paul Church, Ormskirk, Lancashire, son of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby (1509-1572, descended from Edward III) and his 2nd wife Lady Dorothy Howard (c.1514-c.1547, descended from Edward I), and had

6th Earl of Derby - see
Generation B4

B4) WILLIAM STANLEY, 6th Earl of Derby, b. Derby House, Cannon Row, Westminster, bap. 20 July 1561 St Martin Ludgate, London; d. 29 Sept. 1642 Chester, Cheshire, bur. there 1 Oct. 1642; m. 26 Jan. 1595 Greenwich Palace, Kent, Lady ELIZABETH DE VERE, b. 2 July 1575 Theobalds House, Hertfordshire, bap. there 10 July 1575; d. 10 Mar. 1627 Richmond Palace, Surrey, bur. 11 Mar. 1627 Westminster Abbey, est. dau. of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604, descended from Edward I) and his 1st wife Anne Cecil (1556-1588), and had
B5) JAMES STANLEY, 7th Earl of Derby, b. 31 Jan. 1606 Knowsley Hall, Lancashire; d. 15 Oct. 1651 Bolton, Lancashire, bur. St Peter & St Paul Church, Ormskirk; m. 26 June 1626 The Hague, Holland, CHARLOTTE DE LA TREMOILLE, b. Dec. 1599 Thouars Castle, Poitou, France; d. 22 Mar. 1664 Knowsley Hall, bur. 6 Apr. 1644 St Peter & St Paul Church, Ormskirk, dau of Claude de La Trémoille, 2nd Duke of Thouars (1566-1604, descended from Frederick IV of Naples) and Countess Charlotte Brabatine of Nassau (1580-1631), and had

1st Earl of Dunmore -
see Generation B7

B6) Lady AMELIA ANN SOPHIA STANLEY, b. 17 July 1633; d. 22 Feb. 1703, bur. Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire, Scotland; m. 5 May 1659, JOHN MURRAY, 1st Marquess of Atholl, b. 2 May 1631; d. 6 May 1703, bur. 17 May 1703 Dunkeld Cathedral, son of John Murray, 1st Earl of Atholl (d. 1642, descended from James IV) and Jean Campbell (descended from Edward III), and had

B7) CHARLES MURRAY, 1st Earl of Dunmore, b. 28 Feb. 1661 Knowsley Hall; d. 19 Apr. 1710 Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh; bur. there 24 Apr. 1710; m. 18 Dec. 1682, KATHERINE WATTS, bap. 7 Sept. 1666 St Andrew Church, Hertford, Hertfordshire; d. by 22 Jan. 1711 (when administration of estate was granted), only dau of Richard Watts of Garnons (c.1630-1666, descended from Edward III) and Katherine Werden (b. c.1643), and had
B8) Lady ANNE MURRAY, b. 31 Oct. 1687 Whitehall Palace; d. 30 Nov. 1710 Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; m. 3 Apr. 1706 Paisley Abbey, JOHN COCHRANE, 4th Earl of Dundonald, b. 4 July 1687 Paisley; d. 5 June 1720, yr son of John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald (c.1660-1690, descended from James I) and Lady Susanna Hamilton (1667-1737, descended from James IV), and had

Catherine (née Cochrane), Countess
of Galloway - see Generation B9

B9) Lady CATHERINE COCHRANE, b. 1709; d. 15 Mar. 1786 Bath, Somersetshire, bur. 20 Mar. 1786 St Swithin Church, Walcot, Bath; m. 5 Jan. 1729 Edinburgh, ALEXANDER STEWART, 6th Earl of Galloway, b. c.1694; d. 24 Sept. 1773 Aix-en-Provence, France, son of James Stewart, 5th Earl of Galloway (d. 1746, descended from James IV) & Lady Katherine Montgomerie (d. 1757, descended from James IV), and had
B10) JOHN STEWART, 7th Earl of Galloway, b. 13 Mar. 1736; d. 13 Nov. 1806 Galloway House, Sorbie, Wigtownshire, Scotland, bur. 27 Nov. 1806 Sorbie Parish Church; m. 2nd 13 June 1764 St George Hanover Square, London, ANNE DASHWOOD, b. 21 June 1742 Westminster, bap. 22 June 1742 St George Hanover Square; d. 8 Jan. 1830 Berkeley Square, London, bur. 15 Jan. 1830 St Mark Church, North Audley Street, London, dau of Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet of Kirtlington Park (1715-1779, descended from Edward I) and Elizabeth Spencer (1718-1798, descended from Edward I), and had

8th Earl of Galloway -
see Generation B11

B11) GEORGE STEWART, 8th Earl of Galloway, b. 24 Mar. 1768; d. 27 Mar. 1834 Hampstead, Middlesex, bur. 2 Apr. 1834 Kensal Green Cemetery, London; m. 18 Apr. 1797 St James Church, Westminster, Lady JANE PAGET, b. 1 Sept. 1774 Kensington, London; d. 30 June 1842 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London, bur. 7 July 1842 Kensal Green Cemetery, dau. of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (1744-1812, descended from Edward III) and Jane Champagné (1742-1817, descended from Edward III), and had
B12) Lady LOUISA STEWART, b. 18 Mar. 1804 Westminster, London, bap. 20 May 1804 St George Hanover Square; d. 5 Mar. 1889 Rievaulx House, Tonbridge Wells, Kent, bur. 11 Mar. 1889 All Saints Church, Helmsley, Yorkshire; m. 18 Dec. 1823 St George Hanover Square, WILLIAM DUNCOMBE, 2nd Baron Feversham of Duncombe Park, b. 14 Jan. 1798 Westminster, bap. 10 Feb. 1798 St George Hanover Square; d. 11 Feb. 1867 Hyde Park Gate, London, bur. 19 Feb. 1867 All Saints Church, Helmsley, son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham (1764-1841, descended from Edward III) and Lady Charlotte Legge (1774-1848, descended from Edward III), and had
B13) Hon. GERTRUDE DUNCOMBE, b. 4 Apr. 1827 Westminster, London, bap. 12 May 1827 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 24 Feb. 1916 Frogmore Park, Yateley, Hampshire, bur. 28 Feb. 1916 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley; m. 17 Nov. 1849 St George Hanover Square, (FRANCIS) HORATIO FITZROY of Frogmore Park (see A13 above)

My next blogpost will elaborate on the parents and siblings of Helen (née FitzRoy) Newton.

Cheers,                                   ----Brad

{56} Charles II Descent for Rachel (née Newton) Moore (1891-1965)

Col. (Lancelot) Geoffrey Moore (1886-1955)

I didn't expect that it would take me as long as it did to enter the ancestry of Rachel Esme Newton, wife of Col. (Lancelot) Geoffrey Moore, into my database. Her lines of descent from Edward I flow through many families that I didn't have, so a project that I initially thought would take only a couple days, has ended up taking a couple weeks. It's been a worthwhile endeavour, with many interesting lines of descent that will be elaborations and additions to Ruvigny's Plantagenet Roll series.

Regarding Rachel's father, Charles Milnes Newton, I haven't been able to uncover much information in my research. He was an artist and painter, a graduate of King's College Cambridge, attending the university where his uncle, the renowned ornithologist Alfred Newton (1829-1907), served as its first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, lecturing the Victorian students on Darwin's new theory of evolution. Charles also was an enthusiast of the game of golf, and in 1892 co-founded the Hillingdon Golf Club on part of the Middlesex estate of Hillingdon House, home of his aunt Lady Cox (née Elizabeth Newton).

Prof. Alfred Newton
of Cambridge (1829-1907)

This Newton family can be traced back to the late 18th-century, and one Samuel Newton on Saint Croix, one of the Virgin Islands. The Newtons made a fortune in the West Indies through sugar plantations, and Samuel's son William Newton (1782-1862) was able to purchase in 1815 the Suffolk manor, Elvedon Hall, and establish himself firmly in the upper levels of British society, representing Ipswich in the House of Commons for two years. William married Elizabeth Milnes, whose late father, Richard Slater Milnes of Fryston Hall (1759-1804), the heir of a Presbyterian cloth merchant from Wakefield, had represented the city of York in the House of Commons. The Milnes family continued to climb in the 19th-century, and Elizabeth (Milnes) Newton's nephew was raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Houghton in 1863. The Newton family never reached that height, and indeed, did not even make it into Burke's Landed Gentry, despite notable achievements by several of its members (in addition to the ornithologist Alfred Newton, who has a bio in ODNB, there was his younger brother Sir Edward Newton (1832-1897), Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica).

Rachel Newton's paternal grandfather, Francis Rodes Newton (1827-1886), was the fourth (and least remarkable) of the six sons of William Newton of Elvedon Hall, M.P.  Francis was the son who oversaw the family's West Indies business interests, and made the family's St Croix plantation, Castle Burke, his home. He took an island-born wife, Anna Louisa Gyllich, whose parents were of Dutch descent - her father Major Jacob Heitmann Gyllich (1795-1868) was an officer in the West Indian army. All of their children, including eldest son Charles Milnes Newton, were born on the Castle Burke plantation, though all were sent over to England for their education. Charles Milnes Newton, Rachel's father, is yet another example of a Victorian-era gentleman from the upper level of British society who has no traceable lines back to medieval Plantagenet rulers (Remember the claim of esteemed genealogist John Horace Round - that you can give him any man in England, aristocrat or tradesman, and he could trace him back to Edward III? It's ringing more and more hollow when put into actual practice).

Castle Burke Plantation, St Croix, Virgin Islands c.1833

Rachel's husband was of an established landed gentry family. The youngest son of the squire of Appleby Hall in Leicestershire, Geoffrey Moore (he didn't use his first name Lancelot) was "a brave and successful soldier," writes his cousin Peter Moore in the second edition of A Son of the Rectory. "He became a colonel and commanded his battalion of the 60th Rifles. He had the rare distinction of being awarded the DSO and Bar, he was badly wounded and he was taken prisoner. His lone attempt to escape was the model for an incident in a book written by Alec Waugh, a fellow prisoner with Geoffrey in Germany."

From Daily Mirror London 23 February 1917

Geoffrey married Rachel Newton while on leave in 1917. In January 1918, he asked his eldest brother Charles Moore for the £6,000 which was to be his inheritance per their father's will. He eventually received it after Appleby Hall was sold. In the 1920s, he moved with his wife Rachel and their daughter Katherine to Southern Rhodesia to set up a farm. Rachel's uncle (her father's younger brother), Sir Francis James Newton (1857-1948), was well established there as a colonial administrator and plantation owner. It was in Southern Rhodesia that Geoffrey and Rachel Moore's younger daughter Mary was born. Geoffrey was killed there in a riding accident in 1955, and Rachel returned to England, where she died ten years later.

St Mark Church North Audley Street

RACHEL ESME NEWTON, b. 4 Sept. 1891 Chelsea, London, bap. 7 Oct. 1891 St Mark Church, North Audley Street, London; d. 6 June 1965 Chelsea, only child of Charles Milnes Newton of Brompton (1856-1932) and Helen Mary FitzRoy (1857-1935, descended from Charles II); m. 22 Feb. 1917 St Peter Church, Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, Col. (LANCELOT) GEOFFREY MOORE of M'Sonnedi, Southern Rhodesia, b. 5 Feb. 1886 Eaton Square; d. 30 Mar. 1955 M'Sonnedi, ashes bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, yst son of George John Moore of Appleby Hall (1842-1916, descended from Henry VII) and Louisa Kekewich (1846-1921, descended from Edward IV), and had issue, one son (died an infant) and two daughters.

As interesting as Rachel's paternal ancestry and family are, it is through her mother Helen Mary FitzRoy, that Rachel can be traced back eight generations to Charles II, as follows.

CHARLES II = BARBARA VILLIERS, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709, descended from Edward III), and had a son,

1st Duke of Grafton -
see Generation 1

1) HENRY FITZROY, 1st Duke of Grafton, illegit., b. 20 Sept. 1663 Westminster, London; d. 9 Oct. 1690 Cork, co Cork, Ireland, bur. St Genevieve Church, Euston, Suffolk; m. 6 Nov. 1679, ISABELLA BENNET, 2nd Countess of Arlington, b. 1667; d. 7 Feb. 1723, only child of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (1618-1685, descended from Edward III) and Isabella van Nassau (1633-1718), and had
2) CHARLES FITZROY, 2nd Duke of Grafton, b. 25 Oct. 1683 Arlington House, London, bap. there 30 Oct. 1683; d. 6 May 1757 Euston Hall, Suffolk, bur. 13 May 1757 St Genevieve Church, Euston; m. 30 Apr. 1713 St Luke Church, Chelsea, London, Lady HENRIETTA SOMERSET, b. 27 Aug. 1690; d. 9 Aug. 1726 Grafton House, Bond Street, London, dau. of Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (1660-1698, descended from Edward III) and Rebecca Child (1667-1712), and had
3) Lord AUGUSTUS FITZROY of Marylebone, b. 16 Oct. 1716; d. 24 May 1741 Jamaica; m. Mar. 1734, ELIZABETH COSBY, b. c.1715; d. 21 Dec. 1788, dau. of William Cosby of Soho Square, London (c.1690-1736, descended from Edward III) and Grace Montagu (1687-1767, descended from Edward III), and had
4) AUGUSTUS HENRY FITZROY, 3rd Duke of Grafton, b. 28 Sept. 1735 Marylebone, London, bap. 17 Oct. 1735 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 14 Mar. 1811 Euston Hall, bur. 21 Mar. 1811 St Genevieve Church, Euston; m. 2nd 24 June 1769 ELIZABETH WROTTESLEY, b. 21 Oct. 1745 Wrottesley Hall, Tettenhall, Staffordshire, bap. there same day; d. 25 May 1822 Mayfair, London, bur. 31 May 1822 St James Church, Westminster, dau. of Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet of Wrottesley (1721-1769, descended from Henry VII) and Lady Mary Leveson-Gower (1717-1778, descended from Edward III), and had
5) Lord WILLIAM FITZROY of East Sheen, Surrey, b. 1 June 1782 London; d. 13 May 1857 East Sheen, bur. 20 May 1857 Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey; Admiral of the White 1853-1857; m. 22 Aug. 1816 St George Hanover Square, London, GEORGIANA RAIKES, b. 17 May 1789 London, bap. 13 June 1789 St Botolph Bishopsgate, London; d. 2 Dec. 1861 Hastings, Sussex, dau. of Thomas Raikes of Freelands, Kent (1741-1813) and Charlotte Finch (1750-1822, descended from Edward III), and had

3rd Duke of Grafton -
see Generation 4

6) (FRANCIS) HORATIO FITZROY of Frogmore Park, Yateley, Hampshire, b. 6 June 1823 London, bap. 16 July 1823 St Mary Church, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire; d. 20 Mar. 1900 Frogmore Park, bur. 24 Mar. 1900 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, Hampshire; m. 17 Nov. 1849 St George Hanover Square, London, Hon. GERTRUDE DUNCOMBE, b. 4 Apr. 1827 Westminster, London, bap. 12 May 1827 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 24 Feb. 1916 Frogmore Park, bur. 28 Feb. 1916 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hawley, dau. of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham of Duncombe Park (1798-1867, descended from Edward III) and Lady Louisa Stewart (1804-1889, descended from Henry VII), and had
7) HELEN MARY FITZROY, b. 13 June 1857 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London, bap. 13 July 1857 St Michael Chester Square, Belgravia; d. 31 Oct. 1935 Garats Hay, Woodhouse, Leicestershire; m. 14 Oct. 1890 Holy Trinity Church, Hawley, CHARLES MILNES NEWTON of Brompton, b. 11 Apr. 1856 Castle Burke plantation, St Croix, Virgin Islands; d. 18 Jan. 1932 Montpelier Square, Brompton, London, eldest son of Francis Rodes Newton of Castle Burke (1827-1886) and Anna Louisa Gyllich (1833-1862), and had
8) RACHEL ESME NEWTON (1891-1965), wife of Col. (Lancelot) Geoffrey Moore - see details above

My next post will elaborate on the two Henry VII lines of descent for Helen (née FitzRoy) Newton, one through each of her parents, that Ruvigny includes in his Tudor volume.

Cheers,                                                 -----Brad