{15} James IV Descents for Brigadier Edward Williams (1892-1977)

In addition to his James V descent in the previous post, Brigadier Edward 'Ted' Williams has twelve other lines of descent from James IV, through three of that king's illegitimate daughters, half-sisters of James V.

James IV had three illegitimate daus A1, G1 & J1 (see below)
A1) Lady Janet Stewart (c.1508-by 1563) m. Malcolm, 3rd Lord Fleming (c.1494-1547), and had a son A2 & two daus C2 & D2 (see below)
A2) James, 4th Lord Fleming (1535-1558) m. Lady Barbara Hamilton (see G3 below), and had
A3) Jean Fleming (1554-1609) m. 1) John, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane (1543-1595), and had

1st Earl of Lauderdale -
see Generation A4

A4) John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale (1594-1645) m. Lady Isabel Seton (1594-1638, descended from James I), and had
A5) Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale (1620-1691) m. Elizabeth Lauder, and had a son A6 & a dau B6 (see below)
A6) John Maitland, 5th Earl of Lauderdale (c.1655-1710) m. Lady Margaret Cunningham (c.1662-1742, descended from James II), and had
A7) Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale (1688-1744) m. Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy (see C8 below), and had
A8) Lady Janet Maitland (1721-1805) m. Thomas Dundas of Fingask (c.1708-1786), and had
A9) Maj-Gen. Thomas Dundas of Fingask m. Lady Eleanor Elizabeth Home (see B9 below), and had

Maj-Gen Thomas Dundas -
see Generation A9

A10) Clementina Dundas (1785-1861) m. Thomas Bruce of Arnot Tower (1777-1852), and had
A11) Thomas Bruce of Arnot Tower (1808-1892) m. 1) Henrietta Dorin (1806-1859), and had
A12) Charlotte Clementina Bruce (1829-1872) m. Sir Edward Charles Sparshott Williams of Kensington (1831-1907), and had
A13) Sir Hugh Bruce Williams of Crowborough (1865-1942) m. Mabel Augusta Heward (1867-1945), and had
A14) Edward 'Ted' Stephen Bruce Williams of Bramdean (1892-1977)

Isabel Maitland, Lady Elphinstone
- see Generation B6

B6) Lady Isabel Maitland (c.1654-1706) m. John, 8th Lord Elphinstone (see E6 below), and had
B7) Charles, 9th Lord Elphinstone (1682-1757) m. Elizabeth Primrose (1680-1738, descended from James I), and had
B8) Hon. Primrose Elphinstone (1725-1759) m. Rev. Alexander, 9th Earl of Home (see H10 below), and had
B9) Lady Eleanor Elizabeth Home (1759-1837) m. Maj-Gen. Thomas Dundas of Fingask (see A9 above)

C2) Margaret Fleming (c.1529-by 1587) m. 3) John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl (c.1530-1579, descended from Edward III), and had
C3) Lady Janet Stewart (d. 1593) m. Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Baronet of Glenorchy (1551-1631, descended from Edward III), and had
C4) Anne Campbell (b. c.1590) m. Sir Patrick Ogilvy of Inchmartine (1585-1651, descended from Edward III), and had

Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Bt
- see Generation C3

C5) Patrick Ogilvy, 2nd Earl of Findlater (c.1610-1659) m. Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy (b. c.1612), and had
C6) James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater (c.1630-1711) m. 1) Lady Anne Montgomerie (see D6 below), and had
C7) James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater & Seafield (1663-1730) m. Anne Dunbar (1672-1708), and had
C8) Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy (1692-1778) m. Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale (see A7 above)

D2) Agnes Fleming (c.1537-1597) m. William, 6th Lord Livingston (d. 1592, descended from James I), and had a son D3 & a dau E3 (see below)
D3) Alexander Livingstone, 1st Earl of Linlithgow (c.1555-1621) m. Lady Helen Hay (c.1566-1627, descended from James II), and had

7th Earl of Eglinton -
see Generation D5

D4) Lady Anna Livingstone (c.1592-1632) m. Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton (see L4 below), and had
D5) Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton (1613-1669) m. 1) Lady Anne Hamilton (see I5 below), and had
D6) Lady Anne Montgomerie (1632-1687) m. James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater (see C6 above)

E3) Jane Livingston (d. 1621) m. Alexander, 4th Lord Elphinstone (see below), and had 2 sons E4 & F4 (see K3 below)
E4) James Elphinstone of Barns (1580-1628) m. Margaret Forbes, and had
E5) Alexander, 6th Lord Elphinstone (d. 1654) m. his first cousin Hon. Lilias Elphinstone (see F5 below), and had
E6) John, 8th Lord Elphinstone (1649-1718) m. Lady Isabel Maitland (see B6 above)

F4) Alexander, 5th Lord Elphinstone (1577-1648) m. Elizabeth Drummond (b. c.1585), and had
F5) Hon. Lilias Elphinstone (1613-1675) m. her first cousin Alexander, 6th Lord Elphinstone (see E5 above)

G1) Lady Katherine Stewart, illegit. (c.1494-aft.1554) m. James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton (d. 1550, descended from James I), and had
G2) Lady Margaret Douglas (c.1516-aft.1579) m. James Hamilton, Duke of Châtelherault (c.1519-1575, descended from James II), and had 2 daus G3 & H3, and a son I3 (see below)
G3) Lady Barbara Hamilton (b. c.1533) m. James, 4th Lord Fleming (see A2 above)

H3) Lady Anne Hamilton (b. c.1542) m. George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (see J3 below), and had
H4) George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (1562-1636) m. Lady Henrietta Stuart (c.1573-1642,

1st Marquess of Huntly -
see Generation H4

descended from James II), and had
H5) Lady Anne Gordon (b. c.1591) m. James Stewart, 3rd Earl of Moray (c.1581-1638, descended from James V), and had
H6) James Stewart, 4th Earl of Moray (d. 1653) m. Lady Margaret Home (d. 1683, descended from Edward III), and had
H7) Lady Mary Stewart (c.1630-1668) m. Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (1629-1685, descended from James I), and had
H8) Lady Jean Campbell (c.1665-1712) m. William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661-1722, descended from James II), and had
H9) Lady Anne Kerr (c.1687-1727) m. Alexander, 7th Earl of Home (c.1680-1720, descended from James I), and had
H10) Rev. Alexander, 9th Earl of Home (c.1715-1786) m. 1) Hon. Primrose Elphinstone (see B8 above)

I3) John, 1st Marquess of Hamilton (c.1540-1604) m. Margaret Lyon (c.1545-1625, descended from James I), and had
I4) James, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton (1589-1625) m. Lady Anne Cunningham (d. 1647, descended from James II), and had
I5) Lady Anne Hamilton (c.1615-1632) m. Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton (see D5 above)

J1) Lady Margaret Stewart, illegit. (b. 1497) m. three times, and had a son J2 and two daus K2 & L2 (see below)
J2) George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, by 1st husband (1513-1562) m. Lady Elizabeth Keith (b. c.1515, descended from James I), and had
J3) George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (c.1534-1576) m. Lady Anne Hamilton (see H3 above)

4th Lord Elphinstone -
see Generation K3

K2) Margaret Drummond, by 3rd husband (c.1532-1590) m. Robert, 3rd Lord Elphinstone (1530-1602), and had
K3) Alexander, 4th Lord Elphinstone (1552-1638) m. Jane Livingston (see E3 above)

L2) Agnes Drummond, by 3rd husband (d. 1589) m. Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton (c.1531-1585, descended from James I), and had
L3) Lady Margaret Montgomerie (c.1564-1624) m. Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton (c.1552-1603, descended from James I), and had
L4) Alexander Seton [later Montgomerie], 6th Earl of Eglinton (1588-1661) m. Lady Anna Livingstone (see D4 above)

As these Scottish lines are well-covered in peerage works and other online databases, I won't lay out all of the remaining descents from James I and James II of Scotland, and from Edward III of England. If anyone has any questions on the Scottish lines back to those earlier monarchs, just let me know.

This post wraps up the ancestry of Brigadier Edward 'Ted' Williams. He married twice. It was his second wife, Evelyn Agnes Clay, who was the mother of his four children, including younger son Edward Bruce Williams, husband of Catherine Jane Howard. My next post will explore the interesting ancestry of Evelyn Clay.

Cheers,                            -----Brad

{14} James V Descent for Brigadier Edward 'Ted' Williams (1892-1977)

Continuing on with the ancestry of the spouses of the Howards of Corby Castle in the Norfolk article of Burke’s Peerage 107th Edition (2003), we come to Edward Bruce Williams (b. 12 June 1946), husband of Catherine Mary Howard[*1], great-granddaughter of Sir Henry Howard (1843-1921) and Cecilia Dowdall Riggs (1844-1907), his American-born wife, whose 18-generation line of descent from Edward III was covered in my post to SocGenMed on March 6th.

Edward’s father, Edward ‘Ted’ Stephen Bruce Williams, was a distinguished British Army officer who served in both World Wars, and rose to the rank of Honorary Brigadier. He was also a first-class cricketer. He was born 2 November 1892 at Pinhoe, Devon, and died 20 January 1977 at Winchester, Hampshire. He has a Wikipedia entry.

Brigadier Ted Williams has a 14-generation illegitimate line of descent from James V of Scotland, through that monarch’s son the Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland.

James V = Margaret Erskine (d. 1572), and had

1st Earl of Moray -
see Generation 1

1) James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, illegit. (1531-1570) m. Lady Agnes Keith (c.1544-1588, descended from James I of Scotland), and had
2) Elizabeth Stewart, 2nd Countess of Moray (1565-1591) m. James Stewart, 2nd Lord Doune, Earl of Moray (1565-1592, descended from Edward III), and had
3) James Stewart, 3rd Earl of Moray (c.1581-1638) m. Lady Anne Gordon (b. c.1591, descended from James IV), and had
4) James Stewart, 4th Earl of Moray (d. 1653) m. Lady Margaret Home (d. 1683, descended from Edward III), and had
5) Lady Mary Stewart (c.1630-1668) m. Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (1629-1685, descended from James I), and had
6) Lady Jean Campbell (c.1665-1712) m. William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661-1722, descended from James II), and had
7) Lady Anne Kerr (c.1687-1727) m. Alexander, 7th Earl of Home (c.1680-1720, descended from James I), and had
8) Rev. Alexander, 9th Earl of Home (c.1715-1786) m. 1) Hon. Primrose Elphinstone (1725-1759, descended from James IV), and had
9) Lady Eleanor Elizabeth Home (1759-1837) m. Maj.-Gen. Thomas Dundas of Fingask
(1750-1794, descended from James IV), and had

Monument to Maj-Gen. Thomas Dundas (see Generation 9)
in St Paul's Cathedral, London

10) Clementina Dundas (1785-1861) m. Thomas Bruce of Arnot Tower (1777-1852), and had
11) Thomas Bruce of Arnot Tower (1808-1892) m. 1) Henrietta Dorin (1806-1859)[*2], and had
12) Charlotte Clementina Bruce (1829-1872) m. Sir Edward Charles Sparshott Williams of Kensington (1831-1907)[*3], and had
13) Sir Hugh Bruce Williams of Crowborough (1865-1942) m. Mabel Augusta Heward (1867-1945)[*4], and had
14) Edward Stephen Bruce Williams of Bramdean (1892-1977)

[*1] Edward Bruce Williams, his wife Catherine Howard and their three sons are given on p. 2908 in the Norfolk article in Burke's Peerage. Since 2003, the couple have become grandparents.

[*2] The most thorough account of the Bruces of Arnot Tower, in Kinross-shire, are the notes made by this Thomas Bruce between 1860 and 1869, and included in the memoir of his son Sir Charles Bruce, Milestones on My Long Journey: Memories of a Colonial Governor (1917). Thomas Bruce’s account of the parentage of his first wife Henrietta Dorin is more thorough than that given in the ODNB bio of her brother Joseph Alexander Dorin (1802-1872).

Arnot Tower, the seat of the Bruce family in the 19th century

[*3] Sir Edward Williams has an entry in both Who Was Who: Volume I 1897-1915, 7th Edition (2014), p. 683, and Who Was Who in British India. Sir Edward was the son of a Royal Navy surgeon, John Williams of Southsea, Hampshire (born about 1786, died 8 November 1856 at Southsea), and his first wife, whom I cannot further identify. Sir Edward was born at the Royal Navy base at Devonport, Plymouth, but the registers are not yet available online. Dr. Williams’s second wife, married 27 January 1846 at Sherborne, Dorset, was Emily Elizabeth Ashford, and per their marriage certificate, Dr. Williams’s father was “William Williams, yeoman”.

[*4] I was excited to finally come across a Canadian in my research. Though Mabel Heward does not appear to have any descents from Edward I, her ancestry does take her back to a family in Burke’s Peerage. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Robinson, was the elder sister of Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet of Toronto, and their ancestry can be traced in the article for that title in the 2003 BP. Her paternal grandfather, Major Stephen Heward of the Grenadier Guards, was a United Empire Loyalist who settled in Toronto and served as Auditor-General of Upper Canada. Their son (Mabel’s father), Stephen Heward Junior (1826-1881), a Toronto stockbroker, married Catherine Crookshank (1829-1917), daughter of George Crookshank (1773-1859), who has an entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Brigadier Ted Williams’s 12 other lines of descent from James IV of Scotland, through three of that monarch’s illegitimate daughters, will be laid out in my next post.

{13} Spouses of the Howards of Corby Castle: A Summary of Where I'm At With It

Entrance to Corby Castle, Cumberland

The Howards of Corby Castle are covered on pp. 2907-2908 of the Norfolk article in Burke's Peerage 107th Edition (2003). Starting this past New Year's Eve, as I've entered these Howards into my Royal Descent database, I've made posts to SocGen Med on the ancestry of eleven of their spouses:

1) Hon. Maria Archer, first wife of Henry Howard of Corby Castle (1757-1842).

2) Jane Dalston, wife of William Howard of Corby Castle (d. 1708)

3) Hon. Barbara Lowther, first wife of Thomas Howard of Corby Castle (1677-1740)

4) Eliza Minto Canning, wife of Philip Henry Howard of Corby Castle (1801-1883)

Cecilia Dowdall (née Riggs) Howard
(1844-1907)
[From the Howard-von Recum Collection
at the Library of Congress]

5) Alice Constable-Maxwell, wife of Philip John Canning Howard of Corby Castle (1853-1934)

6) Sir Henry Lawson, 3rd Baronet, first husband of Ursula Mary Howard of Corby Castle (1879-1960)

7) Lt-Col. Hugh Levin, second husband of Ursula Mary Howard of Corby Castle (1879-1960)

8) Mary Smith, third wife of Thomas Howard of Corby Castle (1677-1740)

9) Hon. Sevilla Erskine, first wife of Sir Henry Francis Howard of Munich (1809-1898)

10) Cecilia Dowdall Riggs, wife of Sir Henry Howard of the Strand (1843-1921)

11) Mary Allen Clagett, wife of George Howard of Washington, DC (1869-1919)

John Hutchinson Aspinall
(1834-1884)

Henry Mowbray Howard of Kensington (1873-1953) was the younger son of Cecilia Dowdall Riggs and Sir Henry Howard above. He married Norah Florence Annie Watson (born 28 March 1885 at Madras, India; died 1974 in Surrey, England). Her father was a Scottish officer stationed in India: Major John Dunlop Watson, born 20 October 1858 at Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and died 28 February 1946 at Banchory, Kincardineshire, Scotland. He married 15 March 1884 at Coonoor, Madras, India, Margaret Aspinwall (born 1863), daughter of John Hutchinson Aspinwall (23 October 1834-11 September 1884), an Englishman who owned a successful mercantile business in Fort Cochin (now Kochi) in Madras, and was one of the leading town officials in the 1870s. There doesn't appear to be any Edward I lines behind either of Norah Watson's parents, so I haven't traced her ancestry further back.

Aspinwall Office Building on the waterfront in Kochi, India

Capt. Henry Edmund Howard of Wickham (1923-1999), the only son of Henry Mowbray Howard and Norah Watson above, married in Glasgow in 1945, Sheila Brown (born 15 July 1923; died 14 August 2007). Her father was Colin McNab Heys Brown, but other than the fact that he served in the British Army in World War I, I can find no further information on him: no birthdate, death date, nor the identity of his spouse.

Kenneth Charles Harold Rowe
(1913-2006)

Katherine Rowe, the wife of Maj. (Henry) Colin Francis Howard, only son of Henry Edmund Howard and Sheila Brown, is the daughter of Kenneth Charles Harold Rowe (1913-2006), who was Chairman of Rowe Brothers & Co, and the Mayor of Exeter, Devon 1962-1963, and his wife Roma Dampier Freeman (1917-2010). Again, no immediate Edward I lines are apparent, so I haven't traced her ancestry further back.

The next Howard spouse however - Edward Bruce Williams, the husband of Catherine Jane Howard, only daughter of Henry Edmund Howard and Sheila Brown - does have traceable lines going back to the Stewart kings of Scotland, and to a first cousin of novelist Jane Austen, among others. I'll explore his ancestry in the next few posts.

Cheers,                  ----Brad

{12} Bringing the Blog Back to Life

Dukes of Norfolk full heraldic achievement

One of my goals this year was to start back up my Royal Descent Blog. Since last fall, my genealogy research has been focused on entering the Howard Dukes of Norfolk into my database. As I go along, I've been researching the ancestry of the spouses of all of the Howards that are given in the Norfolk article in the 107th Edition (2003) of Burke's Peerage. I've been sharing these lines with the newsgroup SocGenMedieval, but that is not really the proper forum, as most of the research concerns individuals born after the 16th-century.

Originally, I had hoped my Royal Descent Blog would be more biographical in nature, and so I put it aside five years ago to focus on building up my database. I realize now that the biography posts on the Plantagenet monarchs and their families need not be the only type of writing I do on my blog, and that it's perfectly okay to make posts that are purely genealogy-oriented.

So, I'm very excited to continue my series of posts on the ancestry of the Howard spouses, and revive my Royal Descent Blog at the same time. Five years is far too long to let it lay dormant!

Arundel Castle, Sussex, October, 2010

I hope to have the first official post - a descent from James V of Scotland for British Army officer and cricketer Edward Stephen Bruce Williams, uploaded later tonight after work.

Thanks and Cheers,           ----Brad