Tuesday, May 26, 2015

{28} Edward III Descents for Charles M. T. Western, Postmaster of Bath (1824-1894)

Abington Hall, seat of the Western family in the 18th century
For over one hundred fifty years, from 1790 to 1947, there were four successive generations of fathers and sons who bore the name of Charles Maximilian Thomas Western, all of whom appear on p. 307 of Ruvigny's 1908 Essex volume. The Western family came to prominence in London in the 17th-century. Thomas Western (1623-1707) was a wealthy grocer and ironmonger who purchased the estate of Rivenhall Place in Essex in 1692, and made it his country seat. In 1697, he purchased Abington Hall in Great Abington, Cambridgeshire, and earmarked it for his third son Maximilian Western (1656-1720). Abington Hall was the seat of Maximilian's branch of the Western family until it was sold in 1784 by his great-grandson Rev. Charles Western. Rev. Western was the father of the first Charles Maximilian Thomas Western, a military officer who began his career in March 1807 at age 16 as an ensign with the 6th Infantry Regiment. Nine months later in November 1807, Portugal was invaded by a French army (under orders from Napoleon), which launched the Peninsular War, and the first English victory at the Battle of Rolica in August 1808. Charles was promoted to lieutenant with the 29th Infantry (aka Worcestershire) Regiment in May 1809, which assigned him to act as a training-liaison officer to an elite Portuguese Light Cavalry force, the 8th Cacadores. Under the command of Sir Dudley St Leger Hill, the 8th Cacadores stormed Badajoz in April 1812, participated in the battle of Salamanca in July were in the Burgos retreat, where they lost half their number during the passage of the Carrion river valley. Charles was severely wounded at the battle of Tordesillas on 25 October 1812. He was promoted to Major, cited for distinguished service, and received a pension of £100 per annum. A year later in October 1813 at Lisbon, he married Harriet Clarke, the daughter of Captain Christopher Clarke of Twickenham House, King's County [now County Offaly], Ireland, paymaster to the 40th Regiment of Foot from 1809 till his death in December 1813, and his wife Catherine Stanley, widow of Maj. Brinsley Hewetson, and daughter of James Stanley of Low Park, co. Roscommon.
Battle of Salamanca 22 July 1812
Promoted to captain in 1814, Charles M. T. Western didn't fight in the battle of Waterloo the following year, probably the severe wounds he received at Tordesillas prevented any further active service. He and his wife retreated to the picturesque coastal town of Tavira in southern Portugal, where their first child was born (and sadly died three months later) in May 1815. Capt. Western retired on half pay on Christmas day 1816. Perhaps for reasons of health, he and his wife remained at Tavira. The 18th (King's Irish) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) promoted Charles from half pay to Captain in December 1820, but it was disbanded in Ireland the following year. At some point in the early 1820s, Capt. Western returned with his family to Britain. He was a decorated (Portuguese Order of the Tower and the Sword) war veteran without a family seat - Abington Hall had been sold by his clergyman father six years before his birth. His father was still living, the rector of Kingham in Oxfordshire, with ties to the university, and in his early 60s when his only son retuned home, but Rev. Western must have disapproved of his son's Irish wife. Capt. Western, the reverend's only surviving child, and his family were completely omitted from the will of the reverend, who left his estate solely to his wife, save for a £600 bequest to his brother James Western, a solicitor in Bath. Capt. Western settled in South Mimms, in Hertfordshire, and died there at age 33 in 1824, leaving a 30-year-old widow with two young daughters and an infant namesake son, only weeks old. The death must have been sudden, for, unlike his father, he left no will [*1].
St Stephens Dublin in late 19th-century

On 21 July 1824, two months after the death of her husband, Harriet Western was granted administration of his goods. His estate was estimated at £1,000, not a large amount for a widow with a young family. Her in-laws were of no assistance to her. Rev. Western died in 1835, leaving a widow with a chequered ancestry: Mary Pennyston (née Goostrey) Western, born in Jamaica, the illegitimate daughter of a British officer. Even if the reverend's widow had a more generous attitude towards her only grandchildren, she may not have had the financial ability to help her daughter-in-law to remain in England. It's also possible that Harriet may have preferred to return to Ireland, her birth country, and the good graces of her family there. In 1842 in Dublin, Harriet Western married her first cousin, a prominent general surgeon in his mid-50s: Dr. Richard Thomas Ireland (c.1787-1875), who received his medical doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1814. Seven years later in 1822, when he successfully requested to be appointed principle medical officer to the police establishment, he claimed to have laboured as assistant medical officer in the district of Dublin for almost twelve years, stretching the amount of time he had spent in Dublin by at least five years. This ability to stretch the years would prove handy to the police surgeon when it came to his marriage, for his daughter Harriet Henrietta Ireland, who married Henry McCluskey in 1855 in Dublin, clearly had to have been born about five years before her parents' marriage. Harriet (Clarke) (Western) Ireland lived to see her two eldest daughters, those with her first husband, marry, and died in 1846 in Dublin, with the administration of her first husband's estate back in London uncertain of her fate as late as 1849, when her mother-in-law Mrs. Western died.
Edinburgh in 1847

Meanwhile, Harriet had sent her son, the second Charles Maximilian Thomas Western to Edinburgh to live with her childless younger sister Lady Jane née Clarke (c.1800-1853) and her husband Sir Edward Smith Lees (1783-1846). Lees had served decades as secretary to the General Post Office, first in Dublin, then, from 1831, in Edinburgh. In the 1841 census of Scotland, 17-year-old Charles Western was a clerk in the General Post Office of Edinburgh, living with his aunt and uncle. In 1844, 20-year-old Charles became the senior representative of the Western family when his kinsman, the politician Lord Western, died a bachelor in his late 70s. But Lord Western left his seat, Rivenhall Place in Essex, to another cousin, 50-year-old Thomas Burch Western, a decorated veteran of the Peninsular War, who had done his lordship cousin a good turn years before. Thomas would use his inheritance of Rivenhall Place as a springboard to a highly successful political career. He became a leading figure in the county, was returned to Parliament, and eventually received a baronetcy. Charles remained in Edinburgh, but instead of following in his father's footsteps with a career in the military, he continued his career with the postal service. When he married in 1850 at the age of 26, he was a surveyor for the General Post Office, a position which had a law enforcement element to it, and so was reflective of his stepfather's position as surgeon to the Dublin police force: in the mid-19th-century, a postal surveyor's duties included not just investigating prospective postal routes, but also investigating a range of crimes against the mail, such as post office robberies and employee assaults, and evasion of payment for postage. His new wife was the youngest daughter of a deceased naval officer from the Orkney Islands, and their first child, a daughter, was born in Edinburgh in 1852. In 1854, Charles moved his wife and daughter to Bath, where he had been appointed Postmaster, replacing the just-deceased Thomas Moore Musgrave, who, during his two decades as Postmaster of Bath, had been a secret agent for the British government. Charles Western was still Postmaster of Bath in the 1861 Census of England, but how long he held the position is uncertain. He seems to have removed to Brighton, then eventually to Italy, where he died in 1894.
Four generations of Charles Maximilian Thomas Western
on p. 307 of Ruvigny's 1908 Essex volume

CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN, Postmaster of Bath, Somersetshire 1854-aft.1861, b. 14 Feb. 1824 South Mimms, Hertfordshire; d. 15 Oct. 1894 Sanremo, Liguria, Italy, only surv. son of Capt. Charles Maximilian Thomas Western (1790-1824, descended from Edward III - see Generation A16 below) and Harriet Stanley Clarke (c.1792-1846); m. 13 Oct. 1850 St John Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, HARRIET BALFOUR, b. Cliffdale House, Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, bap. there 1 Aug. 1835; d. 15 July 1915 Bath, bur. Perrymead Catholic Cemetery, Bath, yst. dau. of Capt. William Balfour, 4th Laird of Trenabie House (1781-1846, descended from James V) and his 2nd wife Mary Margaret Baikie (1795-1869), and had issue, three sons and one daughter.

Issue of Charles M. T. and Harriet (Balfour) Western:
St Mary Church, East Hendred, Oxfordshire

1) MARY HARRIET JANE MARIA WESTERN, b. 25 July 1852 Edinburgh; living 1908 Belgrade, Serbia, d. unknown[*2]; m. 12 June British Embassy/14 June Greek Orthodox Church, Vienna, Austria, Col. KONSTANTIN D. MITRITCHEVITCH, Russian Army, b. c.1848; d. 26 May 1902, and had issue, four sons and two daughters.

2) Maj. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of The Coppice, Finchampstead, Berkshire, Royal Horse Artillery, b. 2 Sept. 1855 Bath; d. 1 Sept. 1913 Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, bur. 11 Sept. 1913 St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred, Oxfordshire; m. 1st 24 Dec. 1881 Bangalore, Karnataka, India, MAUD MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 18 Mar. 1860 Bangalore, bap. there 13 June 1860; d. 3 Mar. 1898 Jalandhar, Punjab, India, bur. there 5 Mar. 1898, dau. of Maj-Gen. Herbert Murray-Aynsley of North Kensington (1826-1887, descended from Henry VII) and Emily Elizabeth Hand (1829-1894), and had issue, two sons and one daughter; m. 2nd 23 Sept. 1902 Westminster, London, AGNES MARY EYSTON, b. 13 Aug. 1870 Hendred House, East Hendred, bap. 14 Aug. 1870 St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred; d.s.p. there 5 Jan. 1961, bur. St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred, dau. of Charles John Eyston of Hendred House (1817-1883, descended from Edward III) and Agnes Mary Blount (1834-1918, descended from Charles II).

3) EDWARD LEES WESTERN of Ceylon, b. 15 July 1857 Bath, bap. 9 Oct. 1857 St Swithin Church, Walcot, Bath; d.s.p. 10 May 1887 "Pansalaterne Estate", Ceylon; m. 15 Oct. 1886 St Peter Church, Colombo, Ceylon, (SARAH) NORAH BROWNE, bap. 15 Aug. 1858 St Andrew Church, Clifton, Gloucestershire; d.s.p. 13 Feb. 1939 Kensington, London, dau. of Nicholas Edward Browne of Plymouth, Devon, collector of customs (c.1803-1886), and his 2nd wife Catherine Frances Gibson (c.1819-1906).

4) Maj-Gen. Sir WILLIAM GEORGE BALFOUR WESTERN, KCMG (1919), CB, of St Benedicts, Exmouth, served in Egypt, India and South Africa before 1914; at Gallipoli, served at Mudros until appointed Major-General in charge of Administration, Southern Command 1916, b. 2 May 1861 Bath, bap. 14 June 1861 St Mary Church, Bathwick, Somersetshire; d. unm. 9 Jan. 1936 Exmouth, bur. 13 Jan. 1936 St John in the Wilderness Churchyard, Exmouth.

[*1] My primary source for the life of Capt. Charles M.T. Western is a very through online account compiled in 2004 by Peter Western and James Quinn, two of the Captain's descendants.
Ruvigny's 1908 account of the Mitritschevitsch family on p. 307 of his Essex volume

[*2] Ruvigny in 1908 seems to be the final British genealogist to have traced Mary (née Western) Mitritchevitch (the surname as spelled by the press in her marriage announcement). The marquis provides the date of death for Col. Mitritschevitsch (as spelled by Ruvigny), as well as lists the couple's six children, with full dates and places of birth - clearly, he had his information directly from the family. A search in British Newspapers Online resulted in only two instances of the surname (under either spelling) - the 1882 marriage announcement and an account of the 1933 murder in Belgrade of "a wealthy old woman named Mrs. Draga Mitritchevitch...one of the largest private shareholders of the Yugoslav National Bank, and had large property holdings in Central Belgrade and in the provincial towns of Serbia. Since she divorced her husband 40 years ago, she had become a man-hater" ['Goose as Watchdog: Fate of an Eccentric Man-Hater', Nottingham Evening Post, February 7th, 1933]. Mary would have converted to the Eastern Orthodox faith on her marriage to the colonel, and possibly have taken a new given name. One online genealogy database has Mary Mitritchevitch as dying "about 1930": could the wealthy Draga Mitritchevitch murdered in Belgrade in 1933 be the Mary Mitritschevitsch reported by Ruvigny as living a widow in Belgrade in 1908? Without any further hits on the surname, I've run into an online brick wall.

Major Western has five separate lines of descent from Edward III thru his paternal grandfather, the first Charles Maximilian Thomas Western.

Edward III had 4 sons A1, C1, D1 & E1 (see below)
A1) Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-1397) m. Lady Eleanor de Bohun (1366-1399, descended from Edward I), and had
A2) Anne Plantagenet, Countess of Buckingham (1383-1438) m. 3) William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (c.1374-1420), and had 2 sons A3 & B3 (see below)
A3) John Bourchier, 1st Lord Berners (c.1411-1474) m. Margery Berners (1409-1475), and had
A4) Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Heir of Berners (1443-1471) m. Elizabeth Tilney (1446-1497), and had
2nd Lord Berners 
- see Generation A5
A5) John Bourchier, 2nd Lord Berners (1467-1533) m. Lady Katherine Howard (c.1468-1536, descended from Edward I), and had
A6) Jane Bourchier (c.1497-1562) m. Edmund Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe (d. 1539), and had
A7) John Knyvett of Plumstead (c.1517-bef.1562) m. Agnes Harcourt (d. 1579, descended from Edward I), and had
A8) Sir Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe (c.1539-1618) m. Muriel Parry (d. 1616), and had
A9) Sir Thomas Knyvett, Heir of Ashwellthorpe (1567-1605) m. Elizabeth Bacon (1575-1632), and had
A10) Muriel Knyvett (b. 1594) m. Sir Charles Le Gros of Crostwight Hall (c.1596-1650, descended from Edward I), and had
A11) Katherine Le Gros m. Richard Harman of Wood Dalling (d. 1659), and had
A12) Charles Harman [later Le Gros] of Crostwight Hall (1652-1736) m. Elizabeth Turner (1673-1758), and had
A13) CATHERINE LE GROS, b. 1 Nov. 1700 Crostwight Hall, Norfolk, bap. 15 Dec. 1700 All Saints Church, Crostwight; d. 12 May 1776, bur. 21 May 1776 St Mary Church, Great Abington, Cambridgeshire; m. 19 Dec. 1726, THOMAS WESTERN of Abington Hall, b. 7 June 1694 London, bap. 8 June 1694 St Dunstan in the East, London; d. 18 Apr. 1754 Bath, bur. 23 Apr. 1754 St Mary Church, Great Abington, son of Maximilian Western of Abington Hall (1656-1720) and Anne Matthews (c.1656-1718), and had
A14) THOMAS WESTERN of Abington Hall, b. 22 July 1735 London, bap. 28 Aug. 1735 St Andrew Holborn, London; d. 30 June 1781 Bath, bur. 6 July 1781 St Swithin Church, Walcot, Bath; m. 7 May 1759 St George Hanover Square, London, JANE CALVERT (see B14 below), and had
Western coat of arms
A15) Rev. CHARLES WESTERN, Rector of Kingham, Oxfordshire 1785-1835, b. 22 Mar. 1760 Abington Hall, bap. 14 Apr. 1760 St Mary Church, Great Abington; d. 1 Oct. 1835 Rectory House, Kingham, bur. 9 Oct. 1835 St Andrew Church, Kingham; m. 7 July 1784 St James Church, Westminster, MARY PENNYSTON GOOSTREY, b. 22 Jan. 1762 Port Royal, Jamaica; d. 15 Jan. 1849 Coltham House, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, bur. 20 Jan. 1849 St Mary Church, Charlton Kings, illegit. dau. of Capt. William Goostrey (d. 1762) and Hannah Pennyston, and had
A16) Capt. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of South Mimms, Hertfordshire, Captain 18th Hussars 1820-24, fought in battle of Salamanca with Portuguese 8th Cocadores, b. 4 Jan. 1790 Tiverton, Devon; d. 14 May 1824 South Mimms, bur. 21 May 1824 St Giles Church, South Mimms; m. 4 Nov. 1813 Lisbon, Portugal, as her 1st husband[*1], HARRIET STANLEY CLARKE, b. c.1792; d. June 1846 Dublin, Ireland, bur. Harolds Cross Cemetery, Dublin, dau. of Capt. Christopher Clarke of Twickenham House, King's Co., Ireland (d. 1813) and Catherine Stanley, and had
A17) CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of Bath (1824-1894 - see details above)

1st Earl of Essex - see
Generation B3
[*1] Harriet (née Clarke) Western m. 2nd 17 July 1842 St Thomas Church, Dublin, her first cousin, Dr. Richard Stanley Ireland of Stephen's Green, Dublin, general surgeon, b. 1767; d. 14 Mar. 1875, son of De Courcy Ireland of Low Park, co. Roscommon (c.1747-1812) and Susanna Stanley.

B3) Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (1404-1483) m. Lady Isabel Plantagenet of York (see D3 below), and had
B4) William, Lord Bourchier (c.1428-1477) m. 2) Lady Anne Woodville (c.1448-1489), and had
B5) Cecily Bourchier (c.1473-1493) m. John Devereux, 9th Lord Ferrers of Chartley (1464-1501, descended from Edward I), and had
B6) Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford (c.1491-1558) m. 1) Lady Mary Grey (see C6 below), and had
B7) Sir William Devereux of Merevale Abbey (by 1525-1579) m. Jane Scudamore (c.1527-1607), and had
B8) Margaret Devereux (c.1555-1625) m. Sir Edward Littleton of Pillaton Hall (1549-1610), and had
B9) Anne Littleton (b. 1581) m. Humphrey Salwey of Stanford Court (c.1575-1652), and had
B10) Edward Salwey of Stanford Court (b. 1603) m. Dorothy Dryden (descended from Edward I), and had
Calvert of Albury coat of arms
B11) Elizabeth Salwey m. Sir Francis Winnington of Stanford Court (1634-1700), and had
B12) Mary Winnington (1673-1729) m. Felix Calvert of Albury Hall (1658-1736), and had
B13) Felix Calvert of Albury Hall (1699-1755) m. Mary Calvert (1703-1757), and had
B14) JANE CALVERT, b. 29 Feb. 1736; bur. 15 Mar. 1819 St Swithin Church, Walcot, Bath m. 7 May 1759 St George Hanover Square, London, THOMAS WESTERN of Abington Hall (see A14 above)

C1) John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) m. 3) Katherine Roet (c.1350-1403), and had
C2) Lady Joan Beaufort (c.1377-1440) m. 2) Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364-1425), and had
C3) Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury (c.1398-1460) m. Lady Alice Montagu (1406-1462, descended from Edward I), and had
C4) Lady Katherine Neville (c.1442-1504) m. 1) William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington (1442-1460, descended from Edward I), and had
Mary (née Grey), Lady Ferrers
of Chartley - see Generation C6
C5) Cecily Bonville (1460-1529) m. 1) Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (c.1456-1501, descended from Edward I), and had
C6) Lady Mary Grey (c.1492-1538) m. Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford (see B6 above)

D1) Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1403) m. 1) Isabel of Castile (1355-1392), and had
D2) Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385-1415) m. 1) Lady Anne Mortimer (see E4 below), and had
D3) Lady Isabel Plantagenet of York (1409-1484) m. 2) Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (see B3 above)

E1) Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338-1368) m. 1) Lady Elizabeth de Burgh (1332-1363, descended from Edward I), and had
E2) Lady Philippa Plantagenet of Clarence (1355-1377) m. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352-1381), and had
E3) Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374-1398) m. Lady Alianore Holland (1370-1405, descended from Edward I), and had
E4) Lady Anne Mortimer (1388-1411) m. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (see D2 above)

My next post will look at the Edward III descents for Major Western's second wife, Agnes Mary Eyston.

Cheers,                                       -------Brad

{27} James V Descents for Col. Charles M.T. Western (1855-1913)

Western coat of arms
[Sable, a chevron between two crescents in chief
and a trefoil slipped in base, or
]
Having looked at the ancestry of Maud Murray-Aynsley in my two previous blogposts, the next two will focus on the ancestry of her husband Col. Charles Maximilian Thomas Western, Royal Field Artillery (1855-1913). He descends from James V of Scotland, through Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, one of that monarch's several illegitimate sons. Col. Western's father, also named Charles Maximilian Thomas Western, served as Surveyor General of the Post Office, first stationed in Edinburgh, where, at age 26, he met the 15-year-old Harriet Balfour, from a gentry family seated in the Orkney Islands, the youngest child of her widowed mother. They married, and had four children. Col. Wilson was their second child and eldest son, born in 1855 in Bath, the year following his father's appointment there as Postmaster. Col. Western's military career is best summed up by his obituary:
"Col. Western passed out of the Royal Military Academy and obtained his commission as Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery Jan. 28, 1875, becoming Captain Jan. 1, 1884. He served during the Burmese Expedition, 1888-89, as Adjutant, Royal Artillery (medal with clasp). On April 1, 1889, he was appointed a District Staff Officer, 2nd Class, Madras, and on March 16, 1892, he was promoted to Major. On Jan. 25, 1893, he became a Deputy Assistant Adjutant General holding this post until March 31, 1894. On Oct. 23, 1899, he was appointed Assistant Military Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Wolseley, commanding at Madras, and on Nov. 14, 1900, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, but he continued to hold the post until Oct. 11, 1903. He was given the brevet of Colonel May 3, 1905, and on Nov. 14 he was placed on half-pay, while on Dec. 30 following he retired. Col. Western had been Secretary of the Berkshire Territorial Force Association since its inception in 1908” [The Army and Navy Gazette, September 13, 1913].
Col. Western, his first wife, and their children on p. 458 of Ruvigny's 1903 Tudor volume

Col. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of The Coppice, Finchampstead, Berkshire, Colonel Royal Field Artillery 1805-13, b. 2 Sept. 1855 Bath, Somersetshire; d. (on a fishing trip) 1 Sept. 1913 Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, bur. 11 Sept. 1913 St Mary Catholic Churchyard, East Hendred, Oxfordshire, est son of Charles Maximilian Thomas Western of Bath (1824-1894, descended from Edward III) and Harriet Balfour (1835-1915, descended from James V - see Generation A10 below); m. 1st 24 Dec. 1881 Bangalore, Karnataka, India, MAUD MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 18 Mar. 1860 Bangalore, bap. there 13 June 1860; d. 3 Mar. 1898 Jalandhar, Punjab, India, bur. there 5 Mar. 1898, 3rd dau. of Maj-Gen. Herbert Murray-Aynsley of North Kensington (1826-1887, descended from Henry VII) and Emily Elizabeth Hand (1829-1894), and had issue, two sons and one daughter; m. 2nd 23 Sept. 1902 Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho, London, AGNES MARY EYSTON, b. 13 Aug. 1870 Hendred House, East Hendred, bap. 14 Aug. 1870 St Mary Catholic Church, East Hendred; d.s.p. there 5 Jan. 1961, bur. St Mary Catholic Churchyard, East Hendred, dau. of Charles John Eyston of Hendred House (1817-1883, descended from Edward III) and Agnes Mary Blount (1834-1918, descended from Charles II).

Issue of Col. Charles Maximilian Thomas and Maud (Murray-Aynsley) Western:

1) Maj. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of North Richmond, New South Wales, Australia, Major Indian Army, b. 15 Dec. 1882 Sialkot, Punjab, India; d. 25 Feb. 1947 Windsor District Hospital, New South Wales; m. 22 Sept. 1911 Bombay, India, his first cousin, MAUD ALICE NORTON, b. 28 Aug. 1883 Trowbridge, Wiltshire; d. 4 Mar. 1946 NSW Masonic Hospital, Ashfield, New South Wales, er. dau. of Lt-Col. Gilbert Frederick Allan Norton of Barrackpore (1855-1902) and Alice Elizabeth Murray-Aynsley (1863-1896, descended from Henry VII), and had issue, one son and three daughters.
Headstone of Lt-Col. Charles E.M. Western &
2nd wife Marjorie (née Hoyne Fox)

[Image from findaagrave.com]

2) Lt-Col. CHARLES EDWARD MURRAY WESTERN of Exmouth, Devon, 37th Lancers, b. 22 Mar. 1885 Bombay, bap. there 13 May 1885; d. 7 Sept. 1965 Exmouth, bur. St John in the Wilderness Churchyard, Exmouth; m. 1st 5 May 1917 Jullundur, Bengal (divorce by 1928), as her 1st husband[*1], ELLEN MARY DONALD, b. 1898; d. 18 Jan. 1945 Bristol, Gloucestershire, dau. of Duncan Donald, and had issue, two sons; m. 2nd 1 Oct. 1936 Exeter, Devon, MARJORIE (HOYNE FOX) GREGORY, b. 22 Mar. 1888 Boscombe, Hampshire; d. 25 Nov. 1978 Caroline Nursing Home, Exmouth, bur. St John in the Wilderness Churchyard, Exmouth, widow of Maj. Alfred John Reginald Gregory (1883-1918), and dau. of Henry Hoyne Fox, civil engineer (c.1856-1926) and Alice Louise Elizabeth Hannah.

3) (MAUD HARRIET) ATHOLE WESTERN, b. 29 Dec. 1886 Notting Hill, London, bap. 13 Feb. 1887 St Mark Church, Notting Hill; d. unm. 30 Jan. 1976 New South Wales, Australia, bur. Woronora Cemetery and Crematorium, Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia.

[*1] Ellen (née Donald) Western m. 2nd, Lt-Col. Harold Lithgow Watkis of Clifton, Gloucestershire (1891-1966), and had further issue, two daughters.
1st Earl of Orkney - see
Generation 1

Through his mother, Colonel Western has two 11-generation double-illegitimate lines of descent from James V.

James V had 2 sons A1 & B1 (see below)
A1) Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, illegit. (1533-1593) = Janet Robertson (possibly descended from Edward III)[*2], and had
A2) James Stewart, 1st Laird of Graemsay, illegit. (c.1560-1629) m. Helen Monteith, and had
A3) Margaret Stewart (d. by 1626) m. her first cousin Francis Mudie, 3rd Laird of Melsetter (see B3 below), and had
A4) BARBARA MUDIEb. c.1605; d. unknown; m. (settlement 12 Nov.) 1623 PATRICK BALFOUR of Pharay, Orkney Islands, b. c.1595; d. 1664, son and heir of Michael Balfour of Garth and Pharay (c.1555-1619) and Margaret Sinclair, and had
Balfour of Trenabie coat of arms
A5) GEORGE BALFOUR of Pharay, b. c.1632; d. 1706; m. 2nd 4 Apr. 1678 MARY MACKENZIE, dau. of Rt Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, Bishop of Orkney (c.1600-1688) and Margaret Macaulay, and had
A6) JOHN BALFOUR, 1st of Trenabie House, Westray, Orkney Islands, b. c.1680; d. 3 Jan. 1742; m. (settlement 19 July) 1722, ELIZABETH TRAILL, dau. of Thomas Traill, 1st of Tirlet and Elspeth Traill, and had
A7) WILLIAM BALFOUR, 2nd of Trenabie House, b. 1719; d. 25 Oct. 1786 Edinburgh; m. 9 Feb. 1744 ELIZABETH COVINGTRIE, b. c.1725; d. 29 June 1796, dau. of Rev. Thomas Covingtrie of Newark and Elizabeth Loutit, and had
M.I. of Capt. William Balfour & his 2nd wife
- see Generation A9
A8) Col. THOMAS BALFOUR of Cliffdale House, Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, b. 3 Feb. 1752 Trenabie House, bap. 4 Feb. 1752 Westray Parish Church; d. 9 Aug. 1799 Bath, Somersetshire, bur. 11 Aug. 1799 St James Church, Bath; m. 18 Sept. 1775 St James Church, Westminster, FRANCES LIGONIER, b. 1742; d. 23 Feb. 1813 Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, illegit. dau. of Col. Francis Augustus Ligonier (1683-1746) and Anne Freeman, and had
A9) Capt. WILLIAM BALFOUR, 4th of Trenabie House, Captain Royal Navy 1840-46, b. 8 Dec. 1781 Orkney Islands, Scotland; d. 10 Feb. 1846 Edinburgh, bur. St John Episcopal Churchyard, Edinburgh; m. 2nd 27 Jan. 1823 Edinburgh, MARY MARGARET BAIKIE, b. 15 Feb. 1795; d. 3 Feb. 1869 Edinburgh, bur. St John Episcopal Churchyard, Edinburgh, dau. of Andrew Baikie of Kirkwall and Isabella Traill, and had
A10) HARRIET BALFOURb. Cliffdale House, Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland, bap. there 1 Aug. 1835; d. 15 July 1915 Bath, bur. Perrymead Catholic Cemetery, Bath; m. 13 Oct. 1850 St John Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN, Postmaster of Bath 1854-?, b. 14 Feb. 1824 South Mimms; d. 15 Oct. 1894 Sanremo, Liguria, Italy (1824-1894, descended from Edward III), and had
A11) Col. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of Finchampstead (1855-1913 - see details above)

[*2] The mother of the Earl of Orkney's illegitimate (and favourite) son James Stewart of Graemsay is said to have been Janet, daughter of "Alexander Robertson of Strowan". It is chronologically impossible for her to have been the daughter of Alexander Robertson, 9th Laird of Struan, who died in 1506. She was probably the daughter of his son (by his second wife Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of the 1st Earl of Atholl, a descendant of Edward III) Alexander Robertson, 1st of Faskally, who died by 1557, and had a thrice-married daughter Janet Robertson. [And thank you to John Higgins for pointing out in his comment below that the Clan MacFarlane database, following Stirnet, has chronologically erred in the placement of this thrice-married Janet Robertson.] Certainly further evidence is needed to make this identity of Orkney's mistress anything stronger than mere conjecture.
Mudie of Melsetter coat of arms
[Azure, a chevron ermine between three
pheons argent; in chief, a hunting horn, or
]

B1) John Stewart, 1st Lord Darnley, illegit. (c.1532-1563), had a dau[*3]
B2) Christian Stewart (d. aft.1611) m. Adam Mudie, 2nd Laird of Melsetter (c.1550-by 1603), and had
B3) Francis Mudie, 3rd Laird of Melsetter (d. by 1644) m. 1) his first cousin Margaret Stewart (see A3 above)

[*3] Ruvigny (yes, that Ruvigny) surmises in his 1906 The Moodie Book on p. 15 that Christian Stewart, mother of Francis Mudie, was an illegitimate daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Orkney. Genealogist and longtime SocGenMed participant John Brandon, in a well-detailed post in June 2016, deconstructs Ruvigny's placement of Christian, and argues convincingly for her as the known Christian Stewart, daughter of Orkney's half-brother John Stewart, Lord Darnley, who was a rocker in the nursery of the infant King James VI in 1567. I agree with John Brandon's observation that the chronology of this position strongly suggests that Christian's birth preceded the 1562 marriage of Lord John Stewart to Jean Hepburn, and so Christian was Lord John's illegitimate daughter. I've adjusted Christian Stewart's parentage accordingly in my database.

The next post will cover the lines of descent from Edward III for Colonel Western's father.

Cheers,                                ------Brad

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

{26} Edward III Descents for Alicia (née Mitford) Murray-Aynsley (1768-1813)

Aynsley of Little Harle coat of arms
[Gules on a bend ermine, between two
quatrefoils, or, three mullets of six
points azure]
Alicia Mitford was born in 1768, the elder daughter and second child of surgeon and apothecary George Mitford of Morpeth, and his wife Mary née Threlkeld. While Alicia was growing up, there would have been no indication that she would become an heiress. She had an elder brother, Gawen Aynsley Mitford (b. 1767), who attended Oxford University and Lincoln's Inn. But it was Alicia, and not her brother, who was designated heir of her childless and aged great-uncle Gawen Aynsley of Little Harle Tower (1710-1792), the younger half-brother of her maternal grandmother. Gawen's wife Alicia (née Ibbetson) Aynsley (1714-1769), given the same first name, most likely stood as godmother to the infant Alicia in 1768, and died the following year. It is likely for this reason that Alicia was chosen by her uncle as his heir over her younger sister Mary Mitford (1770-1861), but why her brother Gawen Aynsley Mitford, their uncle's namesake and probable godson, was passed over remains a mystery. A younger brother George Mitford had died in 1781 at age 11, as shown by the 'Mitford of Hexham' pedigree in A History of Northumberland Volume 3 (1896).
Little Harle Tower, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland
At any rate by early 1792, when her uncle Gawen Aynsley had written out his will (he died on 9 June 1792), Alicia had been designated his heir and executrix, and had assumed his surname Aynsley, and his coat of arms. She inherited the Aynsley family seat of Little Harle Tower, in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland. At age 24, Alicia was a landholder in her own right, and so a very attractive marriage prospect. She came to the attention of Lord Charles Murray, a divinity student at New College, Oxford University. He was three years her junior, the youngest brother of the 4th Duke of Atholl, and was authorized by the King on 15 June 1793 to assume the surname of Aynsley in
St Mary Church, Bocking, Essex
addition to and after that of Murray, and to bear the arms of Aynsley quarterly with those of Murray. Three days later he and Alicia were married at Reading, Berkshire. The couple made Little Harle Tower their home, and all seven of their children were born there (four of them - a son and three daughters - survived childhood). In 1803, Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley received the appointment of Dean of St Mary Church, in Bocking, Essex, and it was there that he died in 1808, aged only 36. Alicia did not long survive him, dying at Bocking in 1813. She was only 45. Though her 19-year-old eldest daughter Charlotte had married the previous year, her two sons were unmarried minors, aged 18 and 7, and her younger daughters only aged 11 and 10. Her youngest child, Charles Murray-Aynsley, would follow her to the grave a year later, while staying at Castle Mona in Douglas, residence of his uncle the Duke of Atholl on the Isle of Man.

ALICIA MITFORD, b. 16 May 1768 Morpeth, Northumberland, bap. 12 Aug. 1768 St James Church, Morpeth; d. 13 June 1813 Bocking, Essex, bur. 18 June 1813 St Mary Church, Bocking, er dau. of George Mitford of Morpeth, surgeon (1726-1815) and Mary Threlkeld (1741-1810, descended from Edward III - see Generation A15 below); m. 18 June 1793 Reading, Berkshire, Ven. Lord CHARLES MURRAY-AYNSLEY of Little Harle Tower, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, Dean of Bocking 1803-08, b. 21 Apr. 1771 Westminster, London, bap. 6 May 1771 St George Hanover Square, London; d. 5 May 1808 The Deanery, Bocking, bur. 9 May 1808 St Mary Church, Bocking, yst son of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729-1774, descended from Henry VII) and Charlotte Murray, 8th Baroness Strange (1731-1805, descended from Henry VII), and had issue, four sons and three daughters.
Gen. Sir John Oswald, GCB, 
GCMG (1771-1840)

Issue of Alicia (Mitford) and Ven. Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley:

1) CHARLOTTE MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 8 Apr. 1794 Little Harle Tower, bap. 12 May 1794 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. 22 Feb. 1827 Dunniker House, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland, bur. 27 Feb. 1827 Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy; m. 28 Jan. 1812 Dunkeld House, Perthshire, Scotland, as his 1st wife, Gen. Sir JOHN OSWALD of Dunniker House, GCB, GCMG, b. 24 Oct. 1771 Dunniker House, bap. 2 Nov. 1771 Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy; d. 8 June 1840 Dunniker House, bur. 13 June 1840 Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy, son of James Townsend Oswald of Dunniker House (1748-1814) and Janet Gray (d. 1842), and had issue, three sons and six daughters.

2) JOHN MURRAY-AYNSLEY of Underdown House, Ledbury, Herefordshire, b. 2 June 1795 Little Harle Tower, bap. 7 Aug. 1795 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. 25 Mar. 1870 Underdown House, bur. 30 Mar. 1870 St Helen Church, Olveston, Gloucestershire; m. 24 June 1820 St Mary Church, Olveston, EMMA SARAH PEACH, b. 2 July 1792 Tockington House, Olveston, bap. 12 Aug. 1792 St Mary Church, Olveston; d. 27 Feb. 1877 Kensington, London, bur. 3 Mar. 1877 St Mary Church, Olveston, dau. of Samuel Peach Cruger [later Peach] of Tockington House (1767-1845) and Clarissa Partridge (1769-1836), and had issue, five sons and one daughter.
St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington,
Northumberland

3) GEORGE EDWARD COLLINGWOOD MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 17 Sept. 1798 Little Harle Tower, bap. 10 Oct. 1798 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. in infancy there 21 Jan. 1799, bur. there 23 Jan. 1799.

4) GEORGE EDWARD COLLINGWOOD MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 17 Nov. 1799 Little Harle Tower, bap. 28 Nov. 1799 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. in infancy there 5 Dec. 1799, bur. there 7 Dec. 1799.

5) ATHOLL KETURAH MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 22 July 1801 Little Harle Tower, bap. 15 Aug. 1801 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. 26 Jan. 1844 Bocking, Essex, bur. 3 Feb. 1844 St Mary Church, Bocking; m. 5 June 1826 St Margaret Church, Westminster, Very Rev. Sir HERBERT OAKELEY, 3rd Baronet of Shrewsbury, Dean of Barking 1834-45, b. 10 Feb. 1791 Fort St George, Madras, India, bap. there 23 Mar. 1791; d. 27 Mar. 1845 London, bur. 4 Apr. 1845 St Mary Church, Bocking, 4th son of Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet of Shrewsbury (1751-1826, descended from Edward III) and Helena Beatson (1762-1839), and had issue, four sons and three daughters.

6) ELIZABETH ANNE MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 30 Oct. 1802 Little Harle Tower, bap. 27 Nov. 1802 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. unm. 7 June 1880 Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, bur. 11 June 1880 All Saints Church, Leamington Priors.

7) (EDWARD) CHARLES MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 7 Dec. 1805 Little Harle Tower, bap. 27 Dec. 1805 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. in childhood 31 July 1814 Douglas, Braddan, Isle of Man, bur. 4 Aug. 1814 Old Kirk, Braddan.

Alicia (née Mitford) Murray-Aynsley has nine definite lines of descent from Edward III, and one possible one (Line A below).

Edward III had 3 sons A1, D1 & J1 (see below)
A1) Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (1338-1368) m. 1) Lady Elizabeth de Burgh (1332-1363, descended from Edward I), and had
Philippa (née Plantagenet), Countess
of Marchsee Generation A2
A2) Lady Philippa Plantagenet of Clarence (1355-1377) m. Edmund Mortmer, 3rd Earl of March (1352-1381), and had
A3) Lady Elizabeth Mortimer (1371-1417) m. 1) Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy (1364-1403), and had a dau A4 & a son B4 (see below)
A4) Lady Elizabeth Percy (c.1395-1437) m. 1) John, 7th Lord Clifford (1388-1422, descended from Edward I), and had
A5) Thomas, 8th Lord Clifford (1414-1455) m. Joan Dacre (c.1417-c.1452, descended from Edward I), and had
A6) John, 9th Lord Clifford (1435-1461) m. Margaret Bromflete (c.1436-1493), and had
A7) Henry, 10th Lord Clifford (1454-1523) = unknown mistress, and had
A8) Elizabeth Clifford, illegit. m. 2) William Tonge of Eccleshall, and had
A9) Isabel Tonge (living 1572) m. Robert Threlkeld of Denton (living 1572), and had
Lords Clifford coat of arms
A10) William Threlkeld of Evenwood (d. 1613) m. Margaret Downes, and had
A11) Henry Threlkeld of Tudhoe (d. 1621) m. Margaret ---, and had
A12) Rev. William Threlkeld of Brancepeth (d. 1675)[*1] m. Thomasine --- (c.1620-1707), and had
A13) Deodatus Threlkeld of Tritlington House (1657-1733) m. 3) Margaret Moor (d. 1758), and had
A14) JOHN THRELKELD of Morpeth, Northumberland, postmaster, b. The Close, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, bap. 8 Sept. 1701 St Nicholas Church, Newcastle; d. 14 Feb. 1769 Morpeth, bur. 16 Feb. 1769 St James Church, Morpeth; m. 1st 30 Nov. 1731 St Mary Church, Gateshead, Durham, JANE AYNSLEY (see B14 below), and had
A15) MARY THRELKELD, b. 24 June 1741 Morpeth, bap. 23 July 1741 St James Church, Morpeth; d. there 7 Jan. 1810, bur. there 15 Jan. 1810; m. 18 Dec. 1764 St Mary Church, Morpeth, GEORGE MITFORD of Morpeth, surgeon, bap. 16 June 1726 St Mary Church, Hexham, Northumberland; d. 1815 Morpeth, son of George Mitford of Hexham (1694-1750) and Elizabeth Paxton (d. 1768), and had
A16) Alicia Mitford [later Aynsley] (1768-1813 - see details above) m. Lord Charles Murray [later Murray-Aynsley]

[*1] W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, the Victorian-era antiquarian and genealogist, in his article 'Stainton in the Street' for Archaeologia Aeliana New Series Volume 3 (1859), states, on p. 99, "William Threlkeld, clerk, was, I take it, son or grandson of Henry, because his family settled in Brancepeth, and the name of Henry occurs in his issue." This is hardly definitive evidence, and much further research is needed to validate Longstaffe's hypothesis. So Line A above is only a possible Edward III descent for Alicia Mitford. Generations A1 thru A11 are valid, and Generations A12 thru A16 are valid. But A12 as the son of A11 is only Longstaffe's conjecture, at this point.

B4) Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1394-1455) m. Lady Eleanor Neville (see D3 below), and had 2 sons B5 & C5 (see below)
B5) Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421-1461) m. Eleanor Poynings (1428-1484, descended from Edward I), and had
B6) Lady Margaret Percy (b. c.1447) m. Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe Hall (see E6 below), and had
Ogle coat of arms
B7) Margaret Gascoigne (b. c.1470) m. Ralph, 3rd Lord Ogle (1468-1513, descended from Edward I), and had
B8) Sir William Ogle of Causey Park (c.1492-1542) m. Margery Delaval (see F7 below), and had
B9) James Ogle of Causey Park (c.1525-1598) m. Isabel Clavering, and had
B10) John Ogle of Causey Park (c.1565-1636) m. 2) Alice Palmer, and had
B11) James Ogle of Causey Park (c.1616-1664) m. Jane Ogle (see C12 below), and had
B12) William Ogle of Causey Park (1653-1718) m. Elizabeth Strother (see H13 below), and had
B13) Jane Ogle (1680-c.1699) m. Gawen Aynsley of Little Harle Tower (1669-1750), and had
B14) JANE AYNSLEY, b. 1699; d. 5 Aug. 1743 Morpeth, bur. 7 Aug. 1743 St James Church, Morpeth; m. 30 Nov. 1731 St Mary Church, Gateshead, Durham, JOHN THRELKELD of Morpeth (see A14 above)
Percy of Northumberland coat of arms

C5) Sir Ralph Percy (1425-1464) m. Eleanor Acton (d. aft.1498), and had
C6) Sir Henry Percy of Dunstanburgh Castle (d. 1486) m. Constance ---, and had
C7) Margery Percy (c.1480-aft.1537) m. Sir Henry Widdrington of Widdrington Castle (c.1478-1517, descended from Edward I), and had
C8) Mary Widdrington (c.1510-by 1546) m. John Mitford of Seghill (c.1500-1566), and had
C9) John Mitford of Seghill (c.1530-1571) m. Barbara Lawson (see G9 below), and had
C10) Magdalen Mitford (d. aft.1626) m. Oliver Ogle of Burradon Tower (c.1545-1616, descended from Edward I), and had
C11) Lancelot Ogle of Burradon Tower (1582-1641) m. Mary Ogle (d. 1625), and had
C12) Jane Ogle (1622-1655) m. James Ogle of Causey Park (see B11 above)

Joan (née Beaufort), Countess of
Westmorland
- see Generation D2
D1) John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) m. 3) Katherine Roet (c.1350-1403), and had
D2) Lady Joan Beaufort (c.1377-1440) m. twice, and had 3 daus D3, E3 & F3, and a son I3 (see below)
D3) Lady Eleanor Neville, by 2nd husband (1403-1472) m. 2) Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (see B4 above)

E3) Mary Ferrers, by 1st husband (1394-1458) m. Sir Ralph Neville of Oversley (1395-1458, descended from Edward I), and had
E4) John Neville of Oversley (c.1415-1482) m. Elizabeth Newmarch (b. 1415), and had
E5) Joan Neville (c.1434-bef.1482) m. 1) Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe Hall (c.1428-1463), and had
E6) Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe Hall (c.1450-1487) m. Lady Margaret Percy (see B6 above)

F3) Elizabeth Ferrers, by 1st husband (1393-1434) m. John, 4th Lord Greystoke (c.1390-1436), and had a son F4 and 2 daus G4 & H4 (see below)
F4) Ralph, 5th Lord Greystoke (1414-1487) m. 1) Elizabeth Fitzhugh (c.1420-1469), and had
F5) Margery Greystoke m. Sir Thomas Gray of Chillingham Castle (c.1455-1498, descended from Edward I), and had
F6) Anne Gray (c.1477-aft.1519) m. 1) John Delaval of Seaton Delaval (d. 1498), and had
F7) Margery Delaval (b. c.1495) m. Sir William Ogle of Causey Park (see B8 above)

G4) Joan Greystoke (c.1409-by 1487) m. 1) John Darcy of Temple Hurst (1404-1458, descended from Edward I), and had
G5) Richard Darcy, Heir of Temple Hurst (b. 1424) m. Eleanor le Scrope (d. 1471), and had
G6) Sir William Darcy of Temple Hurst (1443-1488) m. Euphemia Langton (d. 1494), and had
G7) Isabel Darcy m. Sir Roger Grey of Horton (d. 1543), and had
G8) Edith Grey (c.1500-1575) m. 2) Thomas Lawson of Cramlington (d. 1547), and had
G9) Barbara Lawson m. John Mitford of Seghill (see C9 above)
Conyers of Sockburn coat of arms

H4) Anne Greystoke (c.1417-1477) m. Sir Ralph Bigod of Settrington (1410-1461), and had
H5) Anne Bigod (c.1450-1531) m. William Conyers of Sockburn Hall (c.1445-1490), and had
H6) Christopher Conyers of Sockburn Hall (c.1469-1497) m. Anne Markenfield (c.1470-1532, descended from Edward I), and had
H7) Sir Thomas Conyers of Sockburn Hall (1491-1520) m. 1) Margaret Radcliffe (d. by 1519), and had
H8) Sir George Conyers of Sockburn Hall (1509-1567) m. Anne Dawnay (see I7 below), and had
H9) Sir John Conyers of Sockburn Hall (1547-1610) m. Agnes Bowes (d. 1598), and had
H10) Eleanor Conyers (b. 1572) m. 1) Lancelot Strother of Fowberry Tower (d. 1611), and had
H11) John Strother of Fowberry Tower (1595-1631) m. Elizabeth Selby (d. aft.1661), and had
H12) Col. William Strother of Kirknewton (1625-1699) m. Jane Shafto (1633-aft.1705), and had
H13) Elizabeth Strother (1658-1699) m. William Ogle of Causey Park (see B12 above)

I3) George Neville, 1st Lord Latimer, by 2nd husband (c.1411-1469) m. Lady Elizabeth Beauchamp (c.1411-1480, descended from Edward I), and had
I4) Sir Henry Neville of Latimer (c.1435-1469) m. Joan Bourchier (see J4 below), and had
1st Duke of Gloucester - see
Generation J1
I5) Richard Neville, 2nd Lord Latimer (1468-1530) m. 1) Anne Stafford (d. by 1521), and had
I6) Dorothy Neville (1496-1532) m. Sir John Dawnay of Sessay (d. 1553), and had
I7) Anne Dawnay (b. c.1525) m. Sir George Conyers of Sockburn Hall (see H8 above)

J1) Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-1397) m. Lady Eleanor de Bohun (1366-1399, descended from Edward I), and had
J2) Anne Plantagenet, Countess of Buckingham (1383-1438) m. 3) William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (c.1374-1420), and had
J3) John Bourchier, 1st Lord Berners (c.1411-1474) m. Margery Berners (1409-1475), and had
J4) Joan Bourchier (c.1448-1470) m. Sir Henry Neville, Heir of Latimer (see I4 above)

Cheers,                                                 ------Brad

Saturday, May 16, 2015

{25} James IV Descent for Amelia Murray (1710-1766), Mother of 3rd Duke of Atholl

Lord George Murray of Strowan
(1694-1760)
I want to thank SocGenMed member Monica Kanellis for giving me the opportunity to take a break from the Howards of Corby Castle and their spouses. Monica asked me to take a look at the ancestry of her cousin, which she has been working on. Her cousin is descended from the Victorian-era couple Charles Western of Finchampstead and his first wife Maud Murray-Aynsley, who descends from Henry VII through the Dukes of Atholl, and can be found on p. 458 of the Tudor volume in Ruvigny's Planatagenet Roll series. Her three children are Numbers 31965-31967 on that page. Maud and her line of descent from Henry VII can be found online in Leo's Genealogics database, and in the Roglo database, so I won't repeat it here. What I would like to focus on in my next few posts are some of the interesting lines back to Edward III for the spouses of Maud's Murray ancestors, as they seem to be little explored.

The most thorough pedigree of these 19th-century Murray-Aynsleys remains the 'Murray-Aynsley of Hall Court, co Hants' one in Visitation of England and Wales Volume 7 (1893).

Maud's mother was Emily Elizabeth Hand who married in 1848 in India, Major-General George Herbert Murray-Aynsley. I can find very little on Emily's father Robert Hand of Cumberland Terrace, London, and Richmond, Surrey - not even a death date. He married 2 August 1817 at St John Church, Great Stanmore, Middlesex, Anne Learmonth, who was apparently the daughter of Alexander Learmonth of Great Stanmore. But again, I can't find much at all on her family. Going back one generation, we have Maud's paternal grandmother Emma (née Peach), wife of John Murray-Aynsley of Underdown. Emma's parents were Samuel Peach Cruger [surname later changed to Peach] of Tockington House, in Gloucestershire, and Clarissa née Partridge.

Tockington House, the seat of the Peach family in the 19th century, is today a boarding school
None of Emma Peach's four grandparents - Henry Cruger of Bristol & Hannah Peach, and Charles Partridge of Cotham Lodge & Sybella Pollard - appears to descend from Edward I, nevertheless it's a fascinating ancestry. Henry Cruger was an American, born in New York City, who moved to Britain and became a M.P., and so has a bio in HOP. The Peach family is covered well in the 1876 'Pedigree of the Families of Cleaver and Peach' in Volume 2 of Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica.

As for the ancestry of wives of earlier generations of Murrays, it seems best to begin with Amelia Murray, heiress of Strowan, the wife of the 2nd Duke of Atholl's younger brother Lord George Murray, by whom she was mother of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl. Amelia descends from Elizabeth Drummond, a granddaughter of James IV whom I hadn't yet encountered and was happy to enter into my database Royal Descent. Following is the 13-generation descent for Maud Murray-Aynsley from James IV thru Amelia Murray of Strowan.
James IV of Scotland

James IV of Scotland by a mistress Margaret Drummond (d. 1501), had a dau
1) Lady Margaret Stewart, illegit. (1497-aft.1562) m. 2) her 1st cousin Sir John Drummond, 2nd of Innerpeffray Castle (d. aft.1554), and had
2) Elizabeth Drummond (d. by 1562) m. Malcolm Drummond, 5th Laird of Bordland (d. 1588), and had
3) Maurice Drummond of Auchtermuthill (d. aft.1593) m. Agnes Drummond of Balloch, and had
4) Annabella Drummond m. James Murray, Heir of Strowan (d. bef.1630), and had
5) Alexander Murray, 7th Laird of Strowan (d. 1654) m. Margaret Drummond of Balloch (descended from James II), and had
6) John Murray, 8th Laird of Strowan (d. 1725) m. Margaret Dow, and had
7) Amelia Murray of Strowan (d. 1749) m. James Murray of Glencarse (1661-1712), and had
8) AMELIA MURRAY, b. c.1710; d. 29 Mar. 1766 Invercauld Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; m. 3 June 1728, Lord GEORGE MURRAY of Strowan, Perthshire, b. 4 Oct. 1694 Huntingtower, Perthshire; d. 11 Oct. 1760 Medemblik, The Netherlands, 5th son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660-1724, descended from Henry VII) and his 1st wife Lady Katherine Hamilton (1662-1707, descended from James IV), and had
9) JOHN MURRAY, 3rd Duke of Atholl, b. 6 May 1729; d. 5 Nov. 1774 Dunkeld House, Perthshire, bur. Dunkeld Cathedral; m. 23 Oct. 1753 Dunkeld Cathedral, his 1st cousin, CHARLOTTE MURRAY, 8th Baroness Strange, b. Dunkeld House, bap. 3 Oct. 1731 Dunkeld Cathedral; d. 13 Oct. 1805 Barrachnie House, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, bur. Dunkeld Cathedral, yr dau. of James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl (1690-1764, descended from Henry VII) and his 1st wife Jane Frederick (1693-1748), and had
10) Ven. Lord CHARLES MURRAY-AYNSLEY of Little Harle Tower, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, Dean of Bocking, Essex 1803-08, b. 21 Apr. 1771 Westminster, London, bap. 6 May 1771 St George Hanover Square, London; d. 5 May 1808 The Deanery, Bocking, bur. 9 May 1808 St Mary Church, Bocking; m. 18 June 1793 Reading, Berkshire, ALICIA MITFORD, b. 16 May 1768 Morpeth, Northumberland, bap. 12 Aug. 1768 St James Church, Morpeth; d. 13 June 1813 Bocking, bur. 18 June 1813 St Mary Church, Bocking, dau. of George Mitford of Morpeth (1726-1815) and Mary Threlkeld (1741-1810, descended from Edward III), and had
Maj-Gen. Herbert Murray-
Aynsley
- see Generation 12
11) JOHN MURRAY-AYNSLEY of Underdown House, Ledbury, Herefordshire, b. 2 June 1795 Little Harle Tower, bap. 7 Aug. 1795 St Bartholomew Church, Kirkwhelpington; d. 25 Mar. 1870 Underdown House, bur. 30 Mar. 1870 St Helen Church, Olveston, Gloucestershire; m. 24 June 1820 St Mary Church, Olveston, EMMA SARAH PEACH, b. 2 July 1792 Tockington House, Olveston, bap. 12 Aug. 1792 St Mary Church, Olveston; d. 27 Feb. 1877 Kensington, London, bur. 3 Mar. 1877 St Mary Church, Olveston, dau. of Samuel Peach Cruger [later Peach] of Tockington House (1767-1845) and Clarissa Partridge (1769-1836), and had
12) Maj-Gen. (GEORGE) HERBERT MURRAY-AYNSLEY of North Kensington, b. 4 Sept. 1826 Tockington House, bap. 25 Sept. 1826 St Helen Church, Olveston; d. 10 Dec. 1887 North Kensington, London, bur. 14 Dec. 1887 Kensal Green Cemetery, London; m. 12 Feb. 1848 Ballard, Karnataka, India, EMILY ELIZABETH HAND, b. 11 Oct. 1829 Marylebone, London, bap. 2 Mar. 1830 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 18 Aug. 1894 Bayswater, London, bur. 22 Aug. 1894 Kensal Green Cemetery, dau. of Robert Hand of Richmond, Surrey and Anne Learmonth, and had
13) MAUD MURRAY-AYNSLEY, b. 18 Mar. 1860 Bangalore, Karnataka, India, bap. there 13 June 1860; d. 3 Mar. 1898 Jalandhar, Punjab, India, bur. there 5 Mar. 1898; m. 1st 24 Dec. 1881 Bangalore, as his 1st wife, Col. CHARLES MAXIMILIAN THOMAS WESTERN of Finchampstead, Berkshire, Royal Horse Artillery, b. 2 Sept. 1855 Bath, Somersetshire; d. 1 Sept. 1913 Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, son of Charles Maximilian Thomas Western of Bath (1824-1894, descended from Edward III) and Harriet Balfour (1835-1915, descended from James V)
The Bazaar in Jalandhar, Punjab in the late 19th-century
The next post will cover the Edward III descents for Alicia Mitford, wife of Ven. Lord Charles Murray-Aynsley (see Generation 10 above).

Cheers,                                -------Brad

Thursday, May 7, 2015

{24} RD600 Additions: Baroness Marie (née Howard) von Recum & Lt-Col. Derik von Recum

Baroness Marie (née Howard) von Recum in 1908
[From the Howard-von Recum Collection at the Library of Congress]
I can never quite figure out the criteria for inclusion in Gary Boyd Roberts's series The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. In addition to individuals who immigrated to colonial America and remained with their families, such as Rev. John Oxenbridge (1609-1674) and James Claypoole of Philadelphia (1634-1687), many colonial governors and their spouses are included, who never became permanent residents in America. 20th-century British-born celebrities such as Peter Lawford and Christopher Isherwood, and their spouses such as Prunella Rollo (who died only six weeks after moving to Los Angeles), the first wife of David Niven, are also included, even if their only real tie to the States is a Hollywood association. It seems that Roberts includes anyone he finds interesting, as long as the person spent some time in the U.S. In the spirit of that broad definition of immigrant, I'd like to turn the light on a lady descended from the Howard dukes of Norfolk, born in Maryland, but raised in Germany & Britain, married to a German baron, who immigrated to the States in 1940 and became a permanent U.S. citizen. And also her present-day descendant, an officer in the U.S. Army who served two tours of duty in Iraq and who (to me, at least) seems a model all-American, who immigrated as a child with his parents and siblings from Germany in the late 1970s.

Green Hill, Maryland, birthplace of Marie Ernestine Howard, 
is today the Pallottine Seminary
Since the family's archive is housed in the Library of Congress, they seem notable enough to me to warrant inclusion.

Marie Ernestine Howard was born 22 August 1868 at Green Hill, the plantation in Prince George County, Maryland, owned by her maternal grandfather, the Washington, DC banker George
George Washington Riggs
Washington Riggs (1813-1881). She was the eldest child of her parents, the British diplomat Sir Henry Howard, who was posted to Washington DC in 1866, where he met Cecilia Dowdall Riggs and married her the following year. When Marie Ernestine, was 6 years old, her father was posted to the Hague, and Marie spent her teenage years with her family, splitting their time between London and various countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, Russia) where her father was posted.

On 5 September 1894 in Kensington, London, Marie married Baron Rudolf von Recum. I'm looking forward to reading her diaries when I'm next at the Library of Congress to see how she and the Baron met, but it's not surprising that she would marry a German noble, as her paternal grandmother, for whom she was named, Marie Ernestine, Lady Howard, was from a German noble family.

The von Recums were originally cloth manufacturers from Holland who immigrated to the Rhineland Palatinate in the early 18th-century. Andreas von Recum (1765-1828) was an accomplished civil servant and politician who was made a Baron of the French Empire by Napoleon in 1809. In 1822, the Elector of Bavaria confirmed the title of Baron to Andreas von Recum and made it hereditary to his descendants. In 1803, von Recum purchased the castle of Kauzenburg, in Bad Kreuznach, which became the family seat and was the birthplace of his grandson Baron Rudolf von Recum. But it was sold in 1881, so eventually Baron Rudolf and Marie, and their three sons, made their home at the Villa Baronin von Recum (which unfortunately I can't find an online picture of), in Götzenhain, Hesse.
Kauzenburg Castle, in Bad Kreuznach, birthplace of Baron Rudolf von Recum
As a British citizen, Baroness Marie Ernestine von Recum was held in protective custody by the Germans during World War I. With her three sons grown and married by the mid-1930s, she left her husband the Baron in Götzenhain, and returned to England before the outbreak of World War II, joining her unmarried sister Alice Lawrason Howard (1876-1942) in Painswick, Gloucestershire,
Beekman Tower, residence of
Marie von Recum in New York
where Alice had founded in 1934 the Chapel of Our Lady and St Teresa, for Catholic worship. From there, Baroness Marie left for New York to join her youngest son, the widowed and childless Baron Franz von Recum (1906-1974), who had fled Switzerland in 1939, and arrived in New York in December that year. Marie arrived on 21 August 1940, and set up residence in the art-deco Beekman Tower, which is where she was living when she applied for U.S. citizenship. Franz von Recum, the family historian and genealogist, became a U.S. citizen in 1952, and eventually made Hampton Bays, Long Island, his home. Baroness Marie (née Howard) von Recum died in New York City on 21 January 1954 at age 85.

Clearly, Marie Ernestine instilled in all three of her sons a strong sense of their British and American heritage. Her eldest son Baron Otto von Recum (1895-1964) served in the German Navy during World War I, but after the end of World War II performed liaison duties between the American troops and the Ger­man municipal authorities in Frankfurt from 1945 until 1957. He received a plaque from the United States Army in recog­nition of his services. He served in an advisory and public rela­tions capacity until his retire­ment in 1962, per his obituary in the New York Times.
Baroness Marie (née Howard) von Recum
(1868-1954)

MARIE ERNESTINE HOWARD, b. 22 Aug. 1868 Green Hill, Prince George County, Maryland; d. 21 Jan. 1954 New York City, New York, est dau. of Sir Henry Howard of the Strand (1843-1921, descended from Edward III) and Cecilia Dowdall Riggs (1844-1907, descended from Edward III); m. 5 Sept. 1894 Kensington, London, Baron RUDOLF HEINRICH VON RECUM of Götzenhain, b. 16 Aug. 1861 Kauzenburg Castle, Bad Kreuznach, Palatinate, Germany; d. 14 Mar. 1944 Villa Baronin von Recum, Götzenhain, son of Baron Otto von Recum of Kauzenburg Castle (1821-1885, descended from Edward I) and Therese Johanna Nilkens (1844-1889), and had issue, three sons.

Issue of Marie (Howard) and Baron Rudolf von Recum:

1) Baron OTTO HEINRICH GEORGE ANDREAS VON RECUM of Götzenhain, b. 28 June 1895 Brunswick, Germany; d. 30 July 1964 Villa Baronin von Recum, Götzenhain; m. 6 Feb. 1936 Frankfurt-am-Main, Hesse, Germany, HILDEGARD ELIZABETH VON HILLEBRANDT, b. 2 Apr. 1912 Hanau Steinheim, Hesse, Germany; d. 22 Feb. 1998 Villefranche-sur-Mer, Provence, France, dau. of Walter von Hillebrandt and Clara Rang, and had issue, two sons.

2) Baron BOGDAN RUDOLF ALFRED VON RECUM, b. 31 July 1896 Brunswick; d. 27 Apr. 1990 Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany; m. 19 Aug. 1932 Klecewo, Kwidzyn County, Pomerania [Poland], Baroness ILSE MARIE-LUISE SOPHIE AGNES VON ROSENBERG, b. 9 Sept. 1907 Klecewo; d. 1998, dau. of Baron Adalbert von Rosenberg of Klecewo (1866-1934) and Marie-Luise Wilhelmine von Arnim (1877-1957, descended from Edward I), and had issue, three sons and two daughters.

3) Baron FRANZ JOSEPH GEORG ALBRECHT VON RECUM of Hampton Bays, New York, genealogist, b. 9 Sept. 1906 Brunswick; d.s.p. 1974 New York; m. 5 Dec. 1933 Paris, France, SUZANNE FORTUNÉE CHARLOTTE ULRICH-ROUARQUE, b. 7 Aug. 1901 Morsang-Sur-Orge, Île-de-France, France; d.s.p. 16 Nov. 1936 Château de Dorigny, Vaud, Switzerland.
Baron Franz von Recum as an infant
[From the Howard-von Recum Collection at the Library of Congress]
Baroness Marie von Recum had seven grandchildren in total. From what I can find from various European online databases, five of her grandchildren still reside in Germany, one is deceased, and one is a retired professor of mathematics in Columbus, Ohio.

(Torsten-)Derik von Recum was born in 1966 in Berlin, the eldest child of Dr. Andreas Horst von Recum. When he was aged about 10, his parents emigrated with him and his next three siblings to South Carolina, where his two youngest siblings were born. In 1983, Derik's parents became U.S. citizens. Derik joined the U.S. Army, and served two tours of duty in Iraq, where in 2010 he was instrumental in helping to re-start the Iraqi Bundles of Love program, an aid effort that supplied Iraqi women with bundles of fabric and sewing supplies. He did this at the instigation of his mother Gudrun von Recum, who, as this article details, was especially interested in keeping it going because, as a child in post-World War II Germany, she recalled how her family benefited from charitable food and clothing shipments from Americans. Derik's wife Ann von Recum, is also an officer in the U.S. Army, and the couple have two daughters. Indeed, all five of Derik's younger siblings are now married with children, so Baroness Marie von Recum not only has 2nd, 3rd and 4th- generation descendants living in Germany, but 3rd and 4th-generation American descendants as well.
U.S. Lt-Col. Derik von Recum (l.) and his German cousin Johannes von Recum (r.),
both great-grandsons of Baroness Marie Ernestine von Recum
Following is the likeliest line of descent from Edward III for Lt-Col. Derik von Recum, that would be added in to an already existing line in RD600 for the author P.G. Wodehouse on pp. 173-174.

1. Edward III, King of England, d. 1377 = Philippa of Hainault
2. Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence = Elizabeth de Burgh
3. Philippa Plantagenet = Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March
4. Elizabeth Mortimer = Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy
5. Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland = Eleanor Neville
6. Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland = Eleanor Poynings
7. Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland = Maud Herbert
8. Eleanor Percy = Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and Catherine Woodville, sister of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV
9. Elizabeth Stafford = Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
10. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, the poet = Frances Vere
11. Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (brother of Lady Berkeley) = Margaret Audley
12. Lord William Howard (brother of the 1st Earl of Suffolk) = Elizabeth Dacre
13. Sir Francis Howard of Corby Castle (brother of Lady Cotton) = Mary Widdrington
14. William Howard of Corby Castle = Jane Dalston
15. Thomas Howard of Corby Castle = Barbara Musgrave
16. Philip Howard of Corby Castle = Anne Witham
17. Henry Howard of Corby Castle = Catherine Mary Neave
18. Sir Henry Francis Howard of Munich = Maria Ernestine von Schulenburg
19. Sir Henry Howard of the Strand = Cecilia Dowdall Riggs
Cover of one of Marie's Diaries
in the Howard-von Recum Collection
at the Library of Congress
20. Marie Ernestine Howard (1868-1954), immigrated to New York 1940 = Baron Rudolf von Recum (1861-1944)
21. Baron Bogdan von Recum (1896-1990) = Baroness Ilse von Rosenberg (1907-1998)
22. Dr. Andreas Horst von Recum (b. 1939) = Gudrun Mathilde Bredenbröcker-Hardt (1941-2014)
23. Lt-Col. (Tersten-)Derik von Recum (b. 1966), U.S. Army, chief of operations, 94th AAMDC

It's very interesting to follow the Howard-von Recum family, generation by generation, and see how their combined British, American, and German heritages blended together in the 19th and 20th centuries, through two World Wars, leading to the multi-national clan that it is today. It's too bad the Who Do You Think You Are genealogy TV series, which I love, only focuses on celebrities, as the von Recums would make a fascinating episode.

Cheers,                                     -----Brad