{55} Edward III Descents for William David Coleridge Smith (1883-1963)

Smith of Winfrith Coat of Arms
[Or, a chevron between three bows
strung in pale, Gules]

Rev. Peter Smith (1651-1725) was rector of Winfrith in Dorset from 1679 to his death. He was admitted to Oxford University on charity, and his father was one Richard Smith of Leintwardine, in Herefordshire. Rev. Smith married very well, taking to wife Dorothy Bowman (d. 1733), the daughter of well-connected lawyer and M.P., Seymour Bowman of Harnham, Wiltshire (c.1621-1704, descended from Edward I), and Rev. Smith took the Bowman arms for himself and his descendants.  His grandson John Smith of Bucklersbury, London (1720-1791), was a member of Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, as was his eldest son John Paul Smith (1747-1804). John Paul married Grace Lodington (1755-1835) in 1780, and so began the close association between the two families. Grace's first cousin, Rev. Joseph Lodington, rector of Southwick in Northamptonshire, stood as godfather in 1784 to the couple's third child, then married John Paul's younger sister Joanna Maria Smith three years later in 1787. See Frederick Arthur Crisp's 1906 transcription of Bible entries from this 'Smith Family', in the 12th volume of his Fragmenta Genealogica series.

Rev. Joseph Lodington was, through his mother Anne Broade, descended from the gentry family of Hereford, seated at Sufton Court in Herefordshire. In 1823 his daughter Caroline Grace Lodington married her first cousin, Edward William Smith, who styled himself "esquire" and listed his occupation as "Fund Holder" in the 1851 UK Census, bringing to her descendants the line back to Edward III. It was Edward and Caroline Smith who first introduced the name 'Coleridge' into the family when in 1839 they made it the second given name of their fourth son Sidney, in honour of the late poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), whose birthplace Ottery St Mary in Devon, was where the Smiths were residing when their fourth son was born. Sidney Coleridge Smith used his full name throughout his interesting life. He went to sea in 1859 at age 20 as a Second Mate on a Merchant Marine vessel, and continued for nine years, eventually rising to the rank of First Officer. When he left that career in 1868, he enrolled in Gloucester Theological College, and was ordained in 1870. Rev. Smith held the curacies of Long Ashton and Pitcombe, both in Somersetshire, and ended his clerical career as Rector of Rodney Stoke in Somersetshire. Apparently fond of his second name Coleridge, he gave it as a middle given name to two of his children: his fourth daughter Evelyn Mary Coleridge Smith (1878-1961), and to his second son and youngest child William David Coleridge Smith.

Tombstone of Rev. Sidney and Alice (née Barber) Coleridge Smith
St Leonard Churchyard, Rodney Stoke, Somersetshire

Born in 1883 while his father was curate of Pitcombe, William David Coleridge Smith, as his father had before him, chose the sea as a career, qualifying as a Second Mate in 1904 at age 21, then as a First Mate in 1909. Meanwhile, Rev. Richard Valpy French had retired to Mendip Lodge in Axbridge, Somersetshire, where he died in 1907. Axbridge is just five-and-a-half miles from Rodney Stoke, and the two clerics, Rev. Smith and Rev. French, both the same age, must have become acquainted. Rev. French was 67 years old when he died, having five years previous taken a much younger wife, Winifred Kekewich, 38 years his junior. Left widowed and childless at age 29, Winifred came to know the neighbouring Rev. Smith's merchant mariner younger son, six years younger than herself. The two married in 1913, William qualified as Master in the Merchant Service in 1915, and served in the Merchant Marines throughout the Great War. He moved into Mendip Lodge with Winifred, and it was there that their three children were born, and where they both passed away. Perhaps as a way to distinguish themselves from the countless families with the surname of Smith, William and his elder brother Arthur Lodington Smith gave to each of their children their own additional given names, so Arthur's children all became Lodington Smith, and William's children all Coleridge Smith, and today William's descendants use both Coleridge and Smith as their surname, often hyphenated.

WILLIAM DAVID COLERIDGE SMITH of Mendip Lodge, b. 17 Sept. 1883 Pitcombe, Somersetshire; d. 8 May 1963 Mendip Lodge, Axbridge, Somersetshire, yr son of Rev. Sidney Coleridge Smith of Rodney Stoke (1839-1926, descended from Edward III - see Generation A19 below) and Alice Stroud Barber (1846-1930); m. June 1913 Somersetshire, WINIFRED JOAN (KEKEWICH) FRENCH, b. 29 Sept. 1877 Notting Hill, London, bap. 24 Jan. 1878 St John Church, Notting Hill; d. 31 Dec. 1963 Mendip Lodge, widow of Rev. Richard Valpy French (1839-1907), and 2nd dau. of Sir George William Kekewich (1841-1921, descended from Edward IV) and his 1st wife Hannah Lovegrove (1838-1890), and had issue, one son and two daughters.

Issue of William David and Winifred Joan (Kekewich) Coleridge Smith:

1) ELIZABETH JOAN COLERIDGE SMITH of Trebles Holford Farm, Taunton, Somersetshire, poultry farmer, b. 27 July 1914 Mendip Lodge; d. unm. 15 Nov. 1990 Beauchamp House Nursing Home, Hatch Beauchamp, Somersetshire.

2) MARY COLERIDGE SMITH, poultry farmer with her sister Elizabeth, b. 2 July 1917 Mendip Lodge; d. unm. 4 Apr. 1984 Trebles Holford Farm.

3) DAVID ARTHUR COLERIDGE SMITH, b. 21 Sept. 1920 Mendip Lodge; d. 7 Feb. 1995 Lancashire; m. 28 Dec. 1949, DAPHNE M TICKLE, b. 1927 Doncaster, Yorkshire, and had issue two sons.

Issue of David Arthur and Daphne (Tickle) Coleridge Smith:

Windmill Farm Equestrian Centre,
run by the Coleridge Smith family

3A) Dr. PHILIP DAVID COLERIDGE SMITH of Windmill Farm Equestrian Centre, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, vascular surgeon, b. 1953 Lincolnshire; m. 1980, ELAINE FLEET, and has issue, one son and two daughters.

3B) (STEPHEN) NEIL COLERIDGE SMITH of Lytham St Annes, aerospace engineer, b. 1955 Cumberland; m. 4 Oct. 1983 Lancashire, BEVERLEY ANNE SCHOFIELD, b. 1961 Lancashire, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

The following lines of descent from Edward III were first brought to my attention by British genealogist James R. Yeowell, a Lodington descendant, and it was his March 2014 post to the SocGenMed newsgroup which allowed me to work out William David Coleridge Smith's two lines of descent from that monarch.

Edward III had a 2nd surviving son:

A1) Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338-1368) m. 1) Lady Elizabeth de Burgh (1332-1363, descended from Edward I), and had

A2) Lady Philippa Plantagenet of Clarence (1355-1377) m. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352-1381), and had

A3) Lady Elizabeth Mortimer (1371-1417) m. 1) Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy (1364-1403), and had

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) Maud Clifford (b.

Dorothy (née Dudley) Wrottesley
- see Generation A7

c.1436) m. 2) Sir Edmund Sutton, Heir of Dudley Castle (c.1430-1482), and had

A7) Dorothy Dudley (c.1465-1517) m. Richard Wrottesley of Wrottesley Hall (1457-1521), and had

A8) Walter Wrottesley of Wrottesley Hall (d. 1563) m. Isabel Harcourt, and had

A9) Eleanor Wrottesley (d. 1596) m. Richard Lee of Langley (d. 1591, descended from Edward I), and had

A10) KATHERINE LEE, b. c.1560; d. 1579; m. 1578, as his 1st wife, JOHN HEREFORD of Sufton Court, Mordiford, Herefordshire, b. 8 Sept. 1558; d. 20 Oct. 1619 Priors Court, Dormington, Herefordshire, bur. Holy Rood Church, Mordiford, Herefordshire, son of Roger Hereford of Sufton Court (d. 1561) and Margaret Sturmy, and had

A11) RICHARD HEREFORD of Sufton Court, b. 12 May 1579; d. 1636; m. 2nd 1610, MARGARET PERSHALL, dau. of Ralph Pershall of Priors Court and Margaret ---, and had

Hereford of Sufton Coat of Arms
[Gules, three eagles displayed
argent]

A12) ROGER HEREFORD of Sufton Court, b. c.1612; d. c.1659; m. (settlement 20 Feb.) 1633, FRANCES RODD, bap. 15 Aug. 1611; bur. 8 Nov. 1689 Holy Rood Church, Mordiford, dau. of James Rodd of Hereford (d. 1666) and Margery Piggen, and had a son A13 and a dau B13 (see below),

A13) JAMES HEREFORD of Sufton Court, bap. 23 Dec. 1634 St Martin Church, Hereford; bur. 4 Jan. 1693 Holy Rood Church, Mordiford; m. HESTER HOLMES, bap. 6 Jan. 1637 St Michael Church, Eye, Herefordshire; d. Oct. 1676, dau. of Robert Holmes of Netherton (d. 1670) and Elizabeth Kyrle, and had

A14) ANNE HEREFORD, b. Sufton Court, bap. 29 Nov. 1670 Holy Rood Church, Mordiford; d. unknown, bur. Hereford Cathedral [*1]; m. by 1691, her first cousin, Rev. FRANCIS BROADE of Hereford (see B14 below), and had

A15) Rev. THOMAS BROADE, Rector of Benefield, Northamptonshire 1724-1753, b. 1692; bur. 24 Nov. 1753 St Mary Church, Benefield; m. 13 Oct. 1722 St Mary Magdalene Church, Turnastone, Herefordshire, ANNE LODINGTON, b. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, bap. 29 Dec. 1685 St Mary Church, Aylesbury; d. by 19 May 1767 (when will was proved), dau. of Rev. Isaac Lodington of Aylesbury (d. 1729) and Anne Bedford, and had

A16) ANNE BROADE, b. 1724; d. 10 Jan. 1808 Bloomsbury, London; m. 24 May 1747 Somerset House, Strand, London, her first cousin, THOMAS LODINGTON, of Westminster, merchant, bap. 26 July 1723 St Paul Covent Garden, London; d. 17 July 1766, son of Isaac Lodington (1691-1779) and Ann Page, and had

A17) Rev. JOSEPH LODINGTON, Vicar of Oundle, Northamptonshire 1796-1806, bap. 22 Oct. 1754 St Clement Danes, London; bur. 24 Dec. 1806 St Mary Church, Benefield; m. 5 June 1787 St Mary Colechurch, London, JOANNA MARIA SMITH, b. 15 Sept. 1755 London, bap. 8 Oct. 1755 St Mary Colechurch; bur. 5 Dec. 1825 St Mary Church, Benefield, dau. of John Smith of Bucklersbury, London, druggist (1720-1791, descended from Edward I) and Hannah Mills (1722-1789), and had

A18) CAROLINE GRACE LODINGTON, b. 1796 Southwick, Northamptonshire; d. 1 Apr. 1885 Clifton, Bristol, bur. 8 Apr. 1885 St Nathaniel Church, Redland, Bristol; m. 23 June 1825 St Peter Church, Oundle, her first cousin, EDWARD WILLIAM SMITH of Tonbridge, Kent "Fund holder", b. 16 July 1789 London, bap. 8 Sept. 1789 St Mary Colechurch, London; d. 15 May 1865 Mickleham, Surrey, son of William Edward Smith of London (1759-1823, descended from Edward I) and Mary Saffory (1763-1816), and had

A19) Rev. SIDNEY COLERIDGE SMITH, Rector of Rodney Stoke, Somersetshire, b. 5 June 1839 Ottery St Mary, Devon, bap. 14 Aug. 1839 St Mary Church, Ottery St Mary; d. 29 Sept. 1926 Rodney Stoke, bur. St Leonard Churchyard, Rodney Stoke; m. 4 Jan. 1871 St Andrew & All Saints Church, Willingale Spain, Essex, ALICE STROUD BARBER, b. 1846 Wanstead, Essex; d. 12 July 1930 The Barrows, Cheddar, Somersetshire, bur. St Leonard Churchyard, Rodney Stoke, dau. of Henry Stroud Barber of Wanstead (1811-1854) and Mary Parker (1817-1865), and had

A20) WILLIAM DAVID COLERIDGE SMITH of Mendip Lodge (1883-1963) - see details above

Hereford Cathedral

B13) MARGERY HEREFORD, bap. 28 Feb. 1637 St Martin Church, Hereford; bur. Hereford Cathedral [*1]; m. 13 Apr. 1665 Holy Rood Church, Mordiford, Rev. THOMAS BROADE of Hereford, d. 1709, bur. Hereford Cathedral; M.A., rector of Bromyard, Herefordshire (matriculated Brasenose College 23 July 1656, B.A., M.A. as well as a Vicar Choral of Hereford Cathedral (1660) and Custus of Hereford College (1707), son of Rev. William Broade of Westbury (d. c.1660) [*2], and had 

B14) Rev. FRANCIS BROADE of Hereford, bap. 31 Jan. 1666 Holy Rood Church, Mordiford; d. 9 Mar. 1728; m. by 1691, his first cousin, ANNE HEREFORD (see A14 above)

[*1] Per their M.I. in Hereford Cathedral (the inscription has been worn away, with only a few words decipherable in 1881): " .....Broade, ...and wife.....Vicar Choral," Rev. Thomas Broade and his wife Margery were both buried there, and it's very likely their son Rev. Francis Broade and his wife Anne were as well. The burials for Hereford Cathedral in this time period have not been published, or indexed in online databases. Luckliy, the Cathedral Library holds Bishop's Transcripts for this time period, which hopefully one day will make it online. In the meantime, researchers are welcome to comb through the bishop's transcripts in the Cathedral Library. I only had an hour to spare at the Library this past summer. I found the staff friendly and helpful, and the Cathedral itself is beautiful and well worth a visit.

[*2] James Yeowell has done extensive investigation into the Broades of Hereford Cathedral, and I thank him for sharing his findings with me. Rev. Thomas Broade's father Rev. William Broade was M.A., vicar of Westbury (previously vicar of Holmer), died circa 1660 -- he was also Vicar Choral of Hereford Cathedral (1633).

In my next blogpost I'll return to the Moores of Appleby Hall, and specifically to the Charles II descent for Rachel Esme Newton, wife of (Lancelot) Geoffrey Moore.

Cheers,                                   -------Brad

{54} Ruvigny Continuation: Issue of Louisa (née Buck) Kekewich (1811-1880)

Samuel Trehawke Kekewich
(1796-1873)

Louisa Buck, her husband Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, and their four children appear on p. 483 of Ruvigny's 1911 Mortimer-Percy volume. He clearly did not have contact with the family, as his account contains very little detail, and omits all but one of the six children of their son Sir George William Kekewich. William Fowler Carter (1856-1942) provides detailed evidence of the family's origins in his 1910 article 'The Kekewich Family' in volume 26 of The Genealogist. They derived their name from the Cheshire village of Kekwick, and their arms from those of the Wynnesbury family, with whom they married in the 15th-century, when they were settled in the Shropshire manor of Linley. Marriages to two consecutive heiresses in the early 16th-century brought them the manors of Catchfrench, in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, and Bardfield Hall in Margaretting, Essex. The first of the family to be returned to Parliament was George Kekewich of Catchfrench (1530-1582), and he was also the first to marry into the Edward I bloodline, when he took to wife Katherine Courtenay, from the Cornish branch of that family seated at Wotton House, in the parish of Landrake. The senior line of the Kekewich family at Catchfrench died out at the end of the 17th-century, but a junior branch of the family, descended from Edward Kekewich of Trehawke (1561-1621), a younger son of George Kekewich the M.P. and Katherine Courtenay, flourished as merchants in London in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Kekewich (1765-1822), a barrister from this branch of the family, bought Peamore House in the parish of Exminster, Devon, in 1810, and it was his son Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, who served in the House Commons 1826-30 and 1858-73.

Lewis William Buck (1784-1858)

After the death of his first wife in 1836, Kekewich was left a widower with seven young children, and  naturally he looked to marry again to help him raise his family. His second wife was the daughter of his fellow Devon M.P. in the Commons, Lewis William Buck. The Bucks were a mercantile family from Bideford who also were the lineal representatives of the Stucleys, a Devon family seated at Affeton Castle for centuries. After the death of Lewis William Buck in 1858, his eldest son George Stucley Buck assumed the surname of Stucley in lieu of Buck, and was created a baronet. The most comprehensive pedigree of the family is the 1887 'Kekewich of Catchfrench and Trehawke' one by John Lambert Vivian in his Visitations of Cornwall volume. Vivian names the four children of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich and Louisa Buck, but does not trace their descendants. The most recent account of the family is the 1969 'Kekewich formerly of Peamore' pedigree in the second volume of the 18th edition of Burke's Landed Gentry. It is much more helpful when it comes to the children of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich's second marriage and their descendants, but it also contains gaps. So my account below elaborates on and continues not only the account of the family by Ruvigny in 1911, but also that of BLG in 1969.

Moreton House, Bideford, Devon

LOUISA BUCK, b. 25 Feb. 1811 Moreton House, Bideford, Devon, bap. 14 Mar. 1811 St Mary Church, Bideford; d. 11 Apr. 1880 Park Lane, London, bur. 17 Apr. 1880 St Martin Church, Exminster, Devon, dau. of Lewis William Buck (1784-1858, descended from Edward IV) and Ann Robbins (1790-1879); m. 9 June 1840 St David Church, Exeter, Devon, as his 2nd wife, SAMUEL TREHAWKE KEKEWICH of Peamore House, b. 31 Oct. 1796 Bowden House, Ashprington, Devon; d. 1 June 1873 Peamore House, bur. 7 June 1873 St Martin Church, Exminster, son of Samuel Kekewich of Bowden House (1765-1822, descended from Edward I) and Salome Sweet (1773-1844, descended from Edward I), and had one son and three daughters.

Issue of Samuel Trehawke and Louisa (Buck) Kekewich:

1) Sir GEORGE WILLIAM KEKEWICH of St Albans House, Feltham, Middlesex, M.P. Exeter 1906-1910, education reformer, first honorary member of the National Union of Teachers, b. 1 Apr. 1841 Peamore House; d. 5 July 1921 Hove, Sussex; m. 1st 19 Nov. 1863, HANNAH LOVEGROVE, b. 1838 Oxford, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Mar. 1890 Notting Hill, dau. of George Lovegrove of Oxford, "college servant" (1809-1866) and Eliza Bryan (1805-1888), and had issue three sons and two daughters; m. 2nd 10 June 1890 St Mary Church, Reigate, Surrey, AGNES JANE SYMMONS, b. c.1860 Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; d. 24 Aug. 1931 Hove, Sussex, dau. of William Symmons, and had further issue, one daughter.

Sir George William Kekewich (1841-1921)

Issue of Sir George William and Hannah (Lovegrove) Kekewich:

1A) GEORGE ORMOND KEKEWICH of St Margarets, Middlesex, civil engineer, b. 16 Dec. 1863 Reading, Berkshire, bap. 6 May 1864 St Giles Church, Reading; d. 6 Feb. 1909 St Margarets; married Jan. 1888, ALICE MARY ADAMES, b. 1856 Chichester, Sussex; d. 15 Dec. 1922 York, Yorkshire, dau. of James Adames of Lewes, Sussex, draper (1831-1908) and his 1st wife Maria Elizabeth Crosskey (1830-1864), and had issue, one son [*1].

1B) TREHAWKE GEORGE WALTER KEKEWICH of Toronto, Canada, storekeeper, b. 19 Sept. 1870 Notting Hill, bap. 31 Dec. 1872 St John Church, Notting Hill; d. unm. 5 Jan. 1928 Toronto, cremated 9 Jan. 1928 Buffalo, New York.

1C) LOUISA KEKEWICH, b. 23 Dec. 1871 Notting Hill, bap. 9 Jan. 1872 St John Church, Notting Hill; d. young, before 1881 [*2].

1D) Rev. PENDARVES GEORGE KEKEWICH, Rector of Evesbatch, Worcestershire 1910-1933, b. 29 Sept. 1874 Notting Hill, bap. 20 Jan. 1875 St John Church, Notting Hill; d. unm. 22 Dec. 1933 Worcester, Worcestershire.

1E) WINIFRED JOAN KEKEWICH, b. 29 Sept. 1877 Notting Hill, bap. 24 Jan. 1878 St John Church, Notting Hill; d. 31 Dec. 1963 Mendip Lodge, Axbridge, Somersetshire; m. 1st 1 June 1901 St Marylebone Parish Church, London, as his 2nd wife, Rev. RICHARD VALPY FRENCH of Llanmartin, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, bap. 2 Apr. 1839 Holy Trinity Church, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire; d.s.p. 23 Feb. 1907 Mendip Lodge, son of Rev. Peter French of Reading (1799-1878) and Penelope Arabella Valpy (1798-1869); m. 2nd June 1913 Somersetshire, WILLIAM DAVID COLERIDGE SMITH, b. 17 Sept. 1883 Pitcombe, Somersetshire; d. 8 May 1963 Mendip Lodge, son of Rev. Sidney Coleridge Smith of Rodney Stoke (1839-1926, descended from Edward III) and Alice Stroud Barber (1846-1930), and by him had issue, one son and two daughters.

Issue of Sir George William and Agnes Jane (Symmons) Kekewich:

1F) AGNES VIOLET KEKEWICH, b. (before her parents' marriage) 13 May 1882 Marylebone, London; d. unm. 23 Oct. 1961 Hove, Sussex.

Kekewich Coat of Arms
[Argent, two lions passant in bend Sable,
between two cottises Gules]

2) EMMA KEKEWICH, b. 5 Dec. 1843 Peamore House; d. unm. 4 May 1904 Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

3) LOUISA KEKEWICH, b. 3 Mar. 1846 Peamore House; d. 12 Oct. 1921 Seaton Burn, Sidmouth, Devon, bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire; m. 6 Oct. 1874 St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, GEORGE JOHN MOORE of Appleby Hall, b. 19 Dec. 1842 Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, bap. 7 Feb. 1843 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 1 Oct. 1916 Appleby Hall, bur. 4 Oct. 1916 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, elder son of George Moore of Appleby Hall (1811-1871, descended from Henry VII) and his 2nd wife Isabel Clara Holden (1810-1867, descended from Henry IV), and had issue three sons and one daughter.

4) ANNE MAUDE KEKEWICH, b. 12 Aug. 1852 Peamore House; d. unm. 21 Dec. 1911 Sidmouth, Devon.

[*1] The only child of George Ormond Kekewich was Stanley Buck Kekewich of Deal, Kent, "inspector of taxes", b. 2 Oct. 1889 Bundeberg, Queensland, Australia, d. 8 Sept. 1964 Deal; m. 2 Sept. 1924 York, Amy Irene Lewis (1898-1990), dau. of Martin William Lewis of York, architect (1857-1945) and Amy Chapman (1867-1939), and had an only child, Fay Maureen Kekewich, b. 6 Mar. 1930 Lancashire, m. 1978 York, as his 2nd wife, Maurice Gordon Eagle (1925-2006), son of Cuthbert Gordon Eagle (1887-1970) and Eileen Miller. Fay Eagle, still living at age 85, is the last surviving descendant of Louisa (née Buck) Kekewich, to have been born a Kekewich.

[*2] Louisa is not included in the 1969 BLG Kekewich pedigree. She is not listed with the children of George William and Hannah Kekewich in the 1881 Census, so presumably had died by then, though I cannot locate an entry for her in the England Deaths Index 1837-1915.

Peamore House, Exminster, Devon

Peamore House was inherited by the eldest son (by his first wife) of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, and remained the seat of his descendants until it was sold in 1948. It was interesting to trace these descendants of his second marriage, as they clearly can be considered of the upper middle class, rather than the gentry. After the passing of Fay (née Kekewich) Eagle (see footnote *1 above), the only living descendants of Louisa (née Buck) Kekewich, will be those of her granddaughter Winifred (née Kekewich) Coleridge Smith and those of her grandson Capt. (Lancelot) Geoffrey Moore.

Before I leave the Kekewiches and return to the Moores of Appleby Hall, I will cover the Edward III descents for Winifred Kekewich's second husband William David Coleridge Smith in my next post.

Cheers,                            --------Brad

{53} Edward IV Descent for Louisa (née Kekewich) Moore (1846-1921)

Kekewich of Peamore Coat of Arms

When he inherited Appleby Hall in 1871, George John Moore was 28 years old and not yet married. The 4500-acre estate was generating an income of about £8400. This was a respectable estate, and the new squire of Appleby would go on to serve as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Leicestershire, as his father and grandfather before him had. Three years after inheriting, he chose a bride from a family far more prominent on the national level.

"Proud and extravagant" is how Louisa Kekewich was described by Aubrey Moore, her husband's nephew who grew up at the neighbouring Appleby Rectory, in his 1982 memoir A Son of the Rectory. Though born at her father's county seat, Peamore House in the Devon parish of Exminster, Louisa was very much a city girl, like her own mother, Louisa (née Buck) Kekewich, who seems to have inherited the London residence in Park Lane of her parents, Lewis William and Ann (née Robbins) Buck. When thinking back to a ball held at Appleby Hall in 1910 or 1911, Aubrey Moore recalled, "The catering would for sure be done by Harrods or the Army and Navy Stores. Louisa Moore could do nothing without one or other of these stores." Louisa also insisted that her four children be born in the city: "They could not be born among the common herd of their own home but a house had to be taken in London, with doctors and nurses in attendance," he caustically observed.

Peamore House, Exminster, Devon, in 1742

Louisa had cause for some pride. Comparing the Kekewiches of Peamore House to the Moores of Appleby Hall in 1874, purely on lineage, they come up rather equal. Both families rose from the merchant class in the 17th-century to become one of the leading gentry families within their home counties (Devon and Leicestershire, respectively) by the mid-19th-century. But the Moores were eclipsed by Louisa's family when it came to prominence on a more national level: her father Samuel Trehawke Kekewich served in the House of Commons for 25 years, up to his death in 1873, the year before Louisa's marriage. Her maternal grandfather Lewis William Buck, who had died when Louisa was age 12, served as a Member of Parliament for the same amount of time. Her full brother George William Kekewich (1841-1921) had a distinguished career as a civil servant, would go on to be returned to the House of Commons, and received a knighthood, as did their half-brother, the judge Arthur Kekewich (1832-1907). It's possible, through his new wife's family connections, that George John Moore envisioned a career for himself that moved beyond the county level. But he was burdened with financial difficulties, due in part to Louisa either wilfully or unknowingly insisting on maintaining a lifestyle that was beyond his means. In about 1880 he rented a smaller place, Witchingham Hall in Norfolk, and attempted (unsuccessfully) to sell the Appleby Hall estate in 1885. Afterwards the couple returned to Appleby Hall to live, and remained there until George Moore's death in 1916.

George John Moore of Appleby Hall (1842-1916)

"Were it not for your mother's fortune I would not live here [at Appleby Hall] and you will recollect that I always told you that you would not be able to do so unless you acquired some money in some way," George John Moore wrote to his eldest son and heir Charles in the summer of 1914. At that point, Louisa's own fortune was about £70,000, but the squire informed his son in the same letter (transcribed in A Son of the Rectory) that Louisa's fortune was designated for their only daughter Elsie, and recommended that Charles sell the Appleby Hall estate when he inherited it. With her husband showing little desire to maintain the ancestral home of his family, it's not surprising that Louisa had even less motivation towards doing so. In their final years at Appleby Hall, the couple began to strip away whatever was of value contained in it. In his will, George John Moore left his wife all his own watches, jewellery, and gave Louisa carte blanche to select from Appleby Hall whatever she wanted of its contents within three calendar months of his death. Three months after inheriting Appleby Hall, Charles Moore wrote to his cousin, "I regret to inform you that never as long as I have Appleby will she [his mother Louisa] set foot in it or on it again. I have given orders to this effect and if she does, some lawyers will take measures to prevent her doing so." Appleby Hall was in a deplorable state, and it seemed to Charles that his parents had attempted to just let it fall down. "The whole matter is very sad, but it is not my fault and I might add that I should have thought that my Parents might have had more pride in the family than to have treated and left the property in such a state." In 1919, after the farm tenants refused his proposal to increase the rents, Charles Moore followed his late father's advice and sold Appleby Hall, ending 320 years of ownership by the Moore family. The new owner sold the lead off the roof of the Hall and allowed it to become ruinous. It was eventually demolished in 1937.

Charles Moore had married Lilian Gostling, the daughter of a cement merchant from the Surrey suburbs of London. Lilian was the governess at Appleby Hall to Louisa's two youngest children, and the lady never overcame her disappointment in this marriage of love made by her eldest son. In 1913 her second son Gerald married Gwendoline Hersee, a 35-year-old woman whose late father had been a secretary in a brokerage firm. It's clear from census details that Gerald's wife was from a respectable, albeit unremarkable, middle class family, just as his elder brother's wife was. Louisa "bitterly disapproved" this match as well, and so found no consolation in her last years in her two eldest sons. Her only daughter Elsie was regarded within the family "as rather a simple soul" and efforts to marry her off, both before and after the Great War, came to naught. Louisa did live long enough to see her youngest son Geoffrey, a decorated Army officer, marry into the gentry class, and provide her a grandchild in 1920.

St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna

Louisa was living in London when she wrote to her eldest son in January 1919, the coast of her home county of Devon was calling to her in her final years: "I think I shall go to the Victoria Hotel, Sidmouth, for the Spring ... I am not well nor strong." She died in Sidmouth two years later in 1921, aged 75, and is buried next to her husband in Appleby Magna Church, ironically enough resting for eternity in the village which she never much respected in life.

LOUISA KEKEWICH, b. 3 Mar. 1846 Peamore House, Exminster, Devon; d. 12 Oct. 1921 Seaton Burn, Sidmouth, Devon, bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, 6th dau. of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich of Peamore House (1796-1873, descended from Edward I), and 3rd child by his 2nd wife Louisa Buck (1811-1880, descended from Edward IV - see Generation 12 below); m. 6 Oct. 1874 St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, GEORGE JOHN MOORE of Appleby Hall, b. 19 Dec. 1842 Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, bap. 7 Feb. 1843 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 1 Oct. 1916 Appleby Hall, bur. 4 Oct. 1916 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, elder son of George Moore of Appleby Hall (1811-1871, descended from Henry VII) and his 2nd wife Isabel Clara Holden (1810-1867, descended from Henry IV), and had issue, three sons and one daughter.

Issue of George John and Louisa (Kekewich) Moore:

1) CHARLES LOUIS GEORGE MOORE of Coleridge Place, Strete, Devon (built from the proceeds of the 1919 sale of Appleby Hall), b. 3 Mar. 1876 Marylebone, London; d.s.p. 31 July 1961 Coleridge Place, bur. St Mary Church, Slapton, Devon; m. [*1], LILIAN EMILY GOSTLING, b. Edgcombe Villa, Upper Tooting, Surrey, bap. 6 Dec. 1869 Holy Trinity Church, Upper Tooting; d.s.p. 12 Jan. 1965 Hollybank Nursing Home, Primley Park, Paignton, Devon, dau. of William Gostling of Edgcombe Villa, cement merchant (1832-1890) and Elizabeth Howse (c.1836-1893).

2) GERALD HENRY MOORE of Stellensbosch, South Africa, Royal Navy officer, b. 16 May 1877 Pimlico, London; d. 11 Oct. 1957 Stellensbosch, bur. Main Cemetery, Onderpapegaai, Stellenbosch; m. 1st 16 May 1913 St Leonard Church, Hythe, Kent, GWENDOLINE MARGARET HERSEE, b. c.1878 Peckham, Surrey; d.s.p. 18 Nov. 1920 Waterside, Parkstone, Dorset, dau. of Frank Ernest Hersee of Lee, Kent, secretary to Joint Stock Company (1843-1901) and Clara Seaton Hay (c.1844-1909); m. 2nd 1929 New Zealand, MINNIE FLORENCE THOMPSON, b. 1 Aug. 1897 Tatsfield, Surrey; d. 27 May 1975 Stellenbosch, bur. Main Cemetery, Onderpapegaai, Stellenbosch, dau. of John Samuel Thompson of Tatsfield, "gold & silver chaser"[*2] (1857-1917) and Emily Alice Mary White (c.1861-1947), and by her had issue, one daughter.

Grave of Gerald H. and Minnie F. (Thompson) Moore
Main Cemetery, Onderpapegaai, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Issue of Gerald Henry and Minnie Florence (Thompson) Moore:

2A) ANNE DELILLE MOORE, b. 1931 Australia; living 2000-2003 West Indies. Per her cousin Peter Moore in the 2nd edition of A Son of the Rectory, "She was born in Australia and she lives now in the West Indies." No mention of a marriage or children.

3) Capt. (LANCELOT) GEOFFREY MOORE of M'Sonnedi, Southern Rhodesia [today Zimbabwe], King's Royal Rifle Corps, b. 5 Feb. 1886 Pimlico, London; d. 30 Mar. 1955 M'Sonnedi, cremated ashes bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; m. 22 Feb. 1917 St Peter Eaton Square, London, 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 dau. of Charles Milnes Newton of Brompton (1856-1932) and Helen Mary FitzRoy (1857-1935, descended from Charles II), and had issue, two daughters.

Issue of Lancelot Geoffrey and Rachel Esme (Newton) Moore:

3A) KATHERINE RACHEL MOORE, b. 1920 Surrey; living 2000-2003 France ("Katherine continues to live in France" Peter Moore, Ibid); m. Southern Rhodesia, ANTHONY 'Tony' COLLIER JOHNSON, Rhodesian Air Force, prisoner of war in World War II, b. 18 Dec. 1917; d. 15 Oct. 1986 Wiltshire, England. Issue, if any, unknown.

Lord John Manners
(1922-2001)

3B) MARY DIANA MOORE, b. 10 Oct. 1933 Southern Rhodesia; d. 12 Sept. 1997 Park Hospital, Nottingham; m. 12 June 1957, Lord JOHN MANNERS of Reservoir Cottage, Knipton, Leicestershire, b. 18 July 1922; d. 24 Dec. 2001 Reservoir Cottage, 2nd son of John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (1886-1940, descended from Henry VII) and Kathleen Tennant (1894-1989), and had issue, one son and two daughters.

4) ELSIE LOUISE MOORE, b. 13 Feb. 1889 Belgravia, London; d. unm. 25 Dec. 1924 Stoke Fleming, Devon, bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna.

[*1] I cannot locate a marriage for Charles L.G. Moore and Lilian Gostling in the 1837-1915 England Marriage Index. Per Peter Moore's account in A Son of the Rectory, the couple was definitely married prior to World War I. Given the circumstances, it's very likely they eloped and married outside of England. The couple tried their hand at ranching in British Columbia(!!) the first few years of their marriage.

[*2] This is the most unusual occupation I've come across so far in the censuses. I picture John Samuel Thompson, pick-axe in hand, prospecting in the Klondike, though I'm sure the phrase must represent something completely different than my image.

Through her mother, Louisa (née Kekewich) Moore has a 13-generation illegitimate descent from Edward IV.

EDWARD IV had an illegitimate son,

Arthur, 1st Viscount Lisle - see
Generation 1

1) ARTHUR PLANTAGENET, 1st Viscount Lisle, b. c.1480; d. 3 Mar. 1542 Tower of London, bur. St Peter ad Vincula Chapel, Tower of London; m. 1st 13 Nov. 1511, ELIZABETH GREY, 6th Lady Lisle, b. c.1484; d. by 1526, dau. of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (c.1435-1492, descended from Edward I) and Elizabeth Talbot, 3rd Lady Lisle (1451-1487, descended from Edward I), and had
2) Hon. FRANCES PLANTAGENET, b. c.1515; d. before 1583; m. 2nd, as his 1st wife, THOMAS MONCK of Potheridge House, Merton, Devon, b. c.1515; d. by 20 Aug. 1583 (when administration of his estate was granted), son of Anthony Monck of Potheridge House (d. 1545) and Elizabeth Wood, and had
3) ANTHONY MONCK of Potheridge House, b. c.1545; d. 1620; m. 13 Sept. 1568, MARY ARSCOTT, bur. 30 Jan. 1575 St Peter Church, Ashwater, Devon, dau. of Richard Arscott of Ashwater (d. 1578) and Margaret Fitz, and had
4) FRANCES MONCK, b. 15 June 1571 Ashwater, Devon, bap. 22 June 1571 St Peter Church, Ashwater; d. after 1620; m. (lic. 9 Feb.) 1596 Exeter, Devon, Sir LEWIS STUCLEY of Affeton Castle, West Worlington, Devon, b. c.1570, bur. 30 May 1620 St Mary Church, West Worlington, son of John Stucley of Affeton Castle (by 1550-1610) and his 1st wife Frances St Leger (c.1550-by 1597, descended from Edward III), and had

Stucley Coat of Arms
[Azure, three pears or]

5) JOHN STUCLEY of Affeton Castle, b. Potheridge House, bap. 24 Apr. 1597 All Saints Church, Merton, Devon; d. 31 Jan. 1638; m. 1st by 1619, HONOR HALS, b. c.1600; d. by 1625, dau. of Richard Hals of Kenedon and --- Sutcliffe, and had
6) Rev. LEWIS STUCLEY of Affeton Castle, b. c.1621; bur. 21 July 1687 St Mary Church, West Worlington; m. 6 Jan. 1673 St Helen Church, Abbotsham, Devon, SUSANNA DENNIS, b. Bideford, Devon, bap. 25 Aug. 1644 St Mary Church, Bideford; bur. 12 Jan. 1692 St Mary Church, West Worlington, dau. of Robert Dennis of Bideford (d. 1656) and Sarah Heard, and had
7) SARAH STUCLEY, b. c.1675; d. 4 Feb. 1742 Moreton House, Bideford, bur. 9 Feb. 1742 St Mary Church, Bideford; m. 4 May 1697, GEORGE BUCK of Bideford, b. 14 Dec. 1671 Bideford; d. 3 Nov. 1743 Moreton House, bur. 8 Nov. 1743 St Mary Church, Bideford, son of Hartwell Buck of Bideford (d. 1691) and Sibella Ford (d. 1706), and had
8) JOHN BUCK of Moreton House, b. 30 Dec. 1703; d. 3 Apr. 1745, bur. 13 Apr. 1745 St Mary Church, Bideford; m. 1st 19 Sept. 1729 St Mary Church, Bideford, JUDITH PAWLEY, b. 25 Feb. 1712, d. 5 Oct. 1739 Moreton House, bur. 8 Oct. 1739 St Mary Church, Bideford, dau. of William Pawley of Bideford (d. 1728) and Dorothy Batt, and had
9) GEORGE BUCK of Moreton House, b. 7 July 1731; d. 26 Jan. 1794 Moreton House, bur. 5 Feb. 1794 St Mary Church, Bideford; m. 6 May 1754 St Nectan Church, Hartland, Devon, ANNE ORCHARD, b. 7 Dec. 1729 Hartland Abbey, Devon, bap. 26 Dec. 1729 St Nectan Church, Hartland; d. 11 Feb. 1820 Moreton House, bur. same day St Mary Church, Bideford, dau. of Paul Orchard of Hartland Abbey (1682-1740) and his 3rd wife Rebecca Smith (d. 1765), and had

George Stucley Buck -
see Generation 10

10) GEORGE STUCLEY BUCK, Heir of Moreton House, b. 8 Mar. 1755 Moreton House, bap. same day St Mary Church, Bideford; d. 30 Nov. 1791, bur. 8 Dec. 1791 St Mary Church, Bideford; m. 8 Apr. 1780 St Peter Church, Tiverton, Devon, MARTHA KEATS, b. 23 Dec. 1753; d. 30 Nov. 1833 Moreton House, bur. 6 Dec. 1833 St Mary Church, Bideford, dau. of Rev. Richard Keats of Kings Nympton (1731-1812) and Elizabeth Brookes, and had
11) LEWIS WILLIAM BUCK of Moreton House, M.P. Exeter 1826-32, Devon North 1839-57, b. 25 Apr. 1784 Moreton House, bap. 27 Apr. 1784 St Mary Church, Bideford; d. 25 Apr. 1858 Park Lane, London, bur. 1 May 1858 St Helen Church, Abbotsham; m. 18 Apr. 1808 St George Hanover Square, London, ANN ROBBINS, b. 5 Jan. 1790 Pilley, Boldre, Hampshire, bap. Apr. 1790 St John the Baptist Church, Boldre; d. 27 Apr. 1879 Park Lane, London, bur. 2 May 1879 St Helen Church, Abbotsham, dau. of Thomas Robbins of Binfield House, Berkshire (1749-1807) and Ann --- (1763-1835), and had
12) LOUISA BUCK, b. 25 Feb. 1811 Moreton House, bap. 14 Mar. 1811 St Mary Church, Bideford; d. 11 Apr. 1880 Park Lane, London, bur. 17 Apr. 1880 St Martin Church, Exminster, Devon; m. 9 June 1840 St David Church, Exeter, Devon, as his 2nd wife, SAMUEL TREHAWKE KEKEWICH of Peamore House, b. 31 Oct. 1796 Bowden House, Ashprington, Devon; d. 1 June 1873 Peamore House, bur. 7 June 1873 St Martin Church, Exminster, son of Samuel Kekewich of Bowden House (1765-1822, descended from Edward I) and Salome Sweet (1773-1844, descended from Edward I), and had
13) LOUISA KEKEWICH (1846-1921), wife of George John Moore of Appleby Hall

My next post will elaborate on Louisa Kekewich's mother Louisa Buck, whom Ruvigny includes in his 1911 Mortimer-Percy volume.

Cheers,                                    ----Brad

{52} Ruvigny Elaboration: Henry VII Descent for George Moore of Appleby Hall (1811-1871)

George Moore of Appleby Hall 
(1811-1871)

The Moore family seated at Appleby Hall in the 19th century is thought to have sprung from the Mores of More Hall and Bank Hall in Lancashire, and Sir John Moore (1620-1702), Lord Mayor of London 1681-82, assumed the coat of arms of the Lancashire Mores when he was knighted. But the line can only be traced today to a Charles Moore of Stretton in Derbyshire (grandfather of the Lord Mayor), who purchased the manor of Appleby Parva in 1599. A very comprehensive online account of the Moores of Appleby is that of historian Richard Dunmore, which can be found on the Appleby Magna website. For the next 320 or so years, the Moores continued as owners of the manor of Appleby, and made its manor house Appleby Hall their home.

By the mid-18th-century, the Moores were well established in the upper levels of Leicestershire society, and began serving terms as High Sheriff of the county. But it wasn't until the early 19th-century that a member of the family married into the Edward I bloodline: and, rather unusually, the first marriage of the Moores into that bloodline was to a descendant of Henry VII. How, in 1810, old George Moore, squire of Appleby Hall, was able to secure the granddaughter of an earl as a bride for his 31-year-old son and heir, requires a bit of explanation. The key to such a noteworthy marriage was the bride's father, John Drummond, the fifth of his family to be Laird of Megginch Castle in Perthshire. His family had strong ties to Quebec, the province of Lower Canada that Drummond's father lived in from 1764 till his death in 1776. Drummond himself succeeded his father as a member of the Quebec council and deputy commissary and paymaster to the British forces in Canada until 1782, when he seems to have returned to Britain. Four years later in 1786, he succeeded his uncle Adam Drummond to Megginch Castle and the Lennoch estate in Perthshire, as well as to his uncle's Shaftesbury seat in Parliament. Being the new head of the family brought Drummond some social cachet, but he was in constant financial difficulties. He sold the Lennoch estate shortly after inheriting it, and so probably had sufficient cash on hand when he married Lady Susan Fane, the half-sister of the 10th Earl of Westmorland. It was a prestigious match for Drummond, not so much for the Fanes. Lady Susan's father had died some years before, and she was raised by her mother and stepfather Col. John Woodford, which helps to explain why she and her two younger sisters married outside of the peerage. John Drummond only enjoyed four-and-a-half years of marriage to his well-connected wife before she died as a result of giving birth to their second child and only daughter in 1793. Two years later, Drummond made over Megginch Castle to his younger brother Robert, and by 1802 had purchased Snarestone Lodge in Leicestershire from Col. Samuel Madden, an Irish officer prone to heavy gambling, the widower of one of the two co-heiresses to the property.

Moore of Appleby coat of arms
[Ermine, three greyhounds courant, in pale,
sa., collared, gu., and on a canton of the third,
a lion, passant, guardant, or]

Once settled into Snarestone Lodge, it wasn't long before Drummond and his daughter came to the notice of the Moores at Appleby Hall, a mere two miles away. Since the Moores had evolved into one of the leading gentry families in Leicestershire, Drummond was assured they would provide his daughter a lifestyle similar in rank and grander in scale than what he had been able to give her. And so in 1810, Drummond's 17-year-old daughter Susan was married to George Moore, the 31-year-old heir to the Appleby Hall estate. History tragically repeated itself when the young Mrs. Moore, whose own birth had resulted in the early death of her mother, herself died at age 20 as a result of giving birth to her second child, a daughter who survived and was named Susan Drummond in honour of her just-departed mother.

Burke's Landed Gentry stopped tracking the pedigree of the Moores of Appleby Hall at the end of the 19th century. The family's last appearance in that series was in the 9th Edition of 1898. The most comprehensive pedigree of the Moores remains the 1909 Moore of Appleby Hall pedigree in Volume 16 of the Visitation of England and Wales series. Thankfully, historian Richard Dunmore, with the aid of George Moore descendant Peter Moore, have provided a detailed account of the family on the Appleby Magna website, linked to above, which allows us to trace the family down to the present day. My goal is to elaborate on and continue the descent of the family begun by Ruvigny in his 1903 Tudor volume, p. 485.

Ruvigny's account of George Moore & his children in his 1903 Tudor volume pp. 485-86

GEORGE MOORE of Appleby Hall, b. 17 Sept. 1811 Snarestone Lodge, Leicestershire, bap. 9 Jan. 1812 St Bartholomew Church, Snarestone; d. 26 Aug. 1871 Camisky House, Invernesshire, Scotland, bur. 2 Sept. 1871 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, only son of George Moore of Appleby Hall (1778-1827) and his 1st wife Susan Drummond (1793-1813, descended from Henry VII - see Generation 12 below); m. 1st 10 June 1833 St Marylebone Parish Church, London, SUSAN INGE, b. 15 Sept. 1804 Thorpe Hall, Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire,

Isabel (née Holden) Moore
(1810-1867)

bap. 1 Nov. 1804 St Constantine Church, Thorpe Constantine; d.s.p. 12 Mar. 1836 Thorpe Hall, bur. 18 Mar. 1836 St Constantine Church, Thorpe Constantine, 2nd dau of William Phillips Inge of Thorpe Hall (1773-1838, descended from Henry VII) and Lady Elizabeth Euphemia Stewart (1771-1855, descended from Henry VII); m. 2nd 8 Jan. 1839 All Saints Church, Aston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, ISABEL CLARA HOLDEN, b. Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent, bap. 28 Oct. 1810 All Saints Church, Aston-upon-Trent; d. 17 Jan. 1867 Appleby Hall, bur. 23 Jan. 1867 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, dau of Rev. Charles Shuttleworth [later Holden] of Aston Hall (1749-1821, descended from Edward III) and his 3rd wife Rosamund Amelia Deane (1772-1820, descended from Henry IV), and had issue, two sons and four daughters.

Issue of George and Isabel Clara (Holden) Moore:

1) CLARA ELIZABETH MOORE, b. 21 Feb. 1841 Aston Hall, Aston-Upon-Trent, bap. 4 May 1841 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 11 Jan. 1911 Dillington House, Whitelackington, Somersetshire; m. 7 Aug. 1861 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, VAUGHAN HANNING VAUGHAN-LEE of Dillington House, M.P. West Somerset 1874-1882, b. 25 Feb. 1836 Westminster, London; d. 7 July 1882 Dillington House, bur. 12 July 1882 St Mary Church, Whitelackington, son and heir of John Lee Hanning [later Lee] of Orleigh Court, Devon (1802-1874) and his 1st wife Jessie Vaughan (d. 1836) [*1], and had issue, four sons and four daughters.

George John Moore
(1842-1916)

2) GEORGE JOHN MOORE of Appleby Hall, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant Leicestershire, b. 19 Dec. 1842 Aston Hall, bap. 7 Feb. 1843 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 1 Oct. 1916 Appleby Hall, bur. 4 Oct. 1916 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; m. 6 Oct. 1874 St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, LOUISA KEKEWICH, b. 3 Mar. 1846 Peamore House, Exminster, Devon; d. 12 Oct. 1921 Seaton Burn, Sidmouth, Devon, bur. St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, 2nd dau of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich of Peamore House (1796-1873, descended from Edward I) and his 2nd wife Louisa Buck (1811-1880, descended from Edward IV), and had issue, three sons and one daughter.

3) SUSAN MOORE, b. Appleby Hall, bap. 30 Apr. 1845 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 8 Apr. 1906 Hyde Park, London; m. 26 Nov. 1863 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna, WALTER MAINWARING COYNEY of Weston Coyney Hall, Caverswall, Staffordshire, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant Staffordshire, b. 18 Sept. 1839 Weston Coyney Hall, bap. 19 Sept. 1839 St Peter Church, Caverswall; d. 6 Jan. 1884 Weston Coyney Hall, son and heir of Charles Coyney of Weston Coyney Hall (1801-1883) and his 1st wife Sophia Henrietta Mainwaring (1813-1871, descended from Edward III), and had issue, two sons and six daughters.

Appleby Hall, Leicestershire in 1916. It was demolished in the 1920s.

4) Rev. CHARLES THOMAS MOORE, Rector of Appleby 1877-1922, b. 3 Feb. 1847 Appleby Hall, bap. 15 Apr. 1847 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 21 July 1924 Hill House, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire; m. 7 Jan. 1880 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, MABEL CHARLOTTE BYRON, b. 20 Apr. 1853 Marylebone, London; d. 19 Dec. 1926 Lavender Cottage, Appleby Magna, est. dau. of Hon. and Rev. Augustus Byron of Kirkby Mallory (1828-1907, descended from Edward III) and Frederica McMahon (1829-1903, descended from Edward III), and had issue, four sons and two daughters.

5) ROSAMOND MOORE, b. Appleby Hall, bap. 8 July 1849 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. unm. 15 Mar. 1928 Earl's Court, London - the last surviving child of George Moore.

6) KATHARINE MOORE, b. 24 Oct. 1851 Appleby Hall, bap. 27 Jan. 1852 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d.s.p. 18 Aug. 1920 Earl's Court, London; m. 21 Aug. 1879 St John's Church, Paddington, London, WILLIAM WRIOTHESLEY MILLS WINGFIELD of Uxbridge, Middlesex, b. 17 Jan. 1841 Gulval, Cornwall, bap. 14 Feb. 1841 St Wolvela Church, Gulval; d.s.p. 18 Mar. 1903 Tower House, Uxbridge, bur. 23 Mar. 1903 St Lawrence Church, Cowley, Middlesex, only son of Rev. William Wriothesley Wingfield of Gulval (1814-1912, descended from Edward IV) and Elizabeth Frances Anne Fortescue (1816-1899, descended from Edward I).

[*1] Vaughan Hanning Lee [later Vaughan-Lee] is an example of an Englishman of the gentry class in the Victorian era whose four grandparents - William Hanning of Dillington House, Harriet Lee of Pinhoe, Devon, John Edwards Vaughan of Rheola, Glamorganshire, and Sarah Barwis of London - do not appear to have any traceable lines back to Edward I.

Princess Mary Tudor -
see Generation 1

George Moore of Appleby Hall has a 13-generation descent from Henry VII, as follows.

Henry VII had a dau:

1) 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 Mar. 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) & Elizabeth Bruyn (d. 1494), and had
2) 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) & Lady Margaret Percy (c.1495-1540, descended from Edward III), and had

Margaret (née Clifford), Countess
of Derby - see Generation 3

3) 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) & his 2nd wife Lady Dorothy Howard (c.1514-c.1547, descended from Edward I), and had
4) 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) & his 1st wife Anne Cecil (1556-1588), and had
5) 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) & Countess Charlotte Brabatine of Nassau (1580-1631), and had

Amelia (née Stanley), Marchioness
of Atholl - see Generation 6

6) 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) & Jean Campbell (descended from Edward III), and had
7) JOHN MURRAY, 1st Duke of Atholl, b. 24 Feb. 1660 Knowsley Hall; d. 14 Nov. 1724 Huntingtower, Perthshire, bur. 26 Nov. 1724 Dunkeld Cathedral; m. 1st 26 May 1683, Lady KATHERINE HAMILTON, b. Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, bap. 24 Oct. 1662 Collegiate Church, Hamilton; d. 11 Dec. 1707, bur. 17 Jan. 1708 Collegiate Church, Hamilton, 2nd dau of William Douglas [later Hamilton], 3rd Duke of Hamilton (1634-1694, descended from James IV) & Anne, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton (1632-1716, descended from James IV), and had
8) Lady (ANNA) SUSAN MURRAY, b. 15 Apr. 1699; d. 22 June 1725; m. 25 Apr. 1716, as his 2nd wife, WILLIAM GORDON, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, bap. 22 Dec. 1679; d. 30 Mar. 1745 Edinburgh, son of George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (1637-1720, descended from James I of Scotland) & Anne Lockhart (d. 1707), and had

Katharine, Duchess of Gordon -
see Generation 9

9) Lady KATHARINE GORDON, b. 20 Oct. 1718; d. 10 Dec. 1779 London, bur. Elgin Cathedral, Moray, Scotland; m. 1st[*2] 3 Sept. 1741 Dunkeld Cathedral, COSMO GEORGE GORDON, 3rd Duke of Gordon, b. 27 Apr. 1720; d. 5 Aug. 1752, son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon (c.1678-1728, descended from James IV) & Lady Henrietta Mordaunt (1682-1760, descended from Edward III), and had

10) Lady SUSAN GORDON, b. 1746; d. 11 Dec. 1814 Berkeley Square, London, bur. 20 Dec. 1814 St Leonard Church, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire; m. 1st[*3] 28 May 1767 Harley Street, Marylebone, London, JOHN FANE, 9th Earl of Westmorland, b. 5 May 1728 Bristol, Gloucestershire, bap. 22 May 1728 St Werburgh Church, Bristol; d. 26 Apr. 1774, bur. 3 May 1774 Holy Trinity Church, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland (1701-1771, descended from Edward III) & Elizabeth Swymmer (1698-1782), and had

Lady Susan (née Fane) Drummond
- see Generation 11

11) Lady SUSAN FANE, b. 3 Oct. 1768 Charminster, Dorset, bap. 24 Oct. 1768 St Mary Church, Charminster; d. 8 Mar. 1793; m. 4 Aug. 1788 St Marylebone Parish Church, London, JOHN DRUMMOND, 5th Laird of Megginch Castle, Perthshire, b. 1754; d. 13 May 1835 Boyce Court, Dymock, Gloucestershire, bur. 20 May 1835 St Mary Church, Dymock, eldest son of Colin Drummond of Quebec (1722-1776, descended from James II of Scotland) & Katherine Oliphant (d. 1810), and had
12) SUSAN DRUMMOND, b. Mar. 1793; d. 7 Apr. 1813 Snarestone Lodge, Leicestershire; m. 1810, GEORGE MOORE of Appleby Hall, High Sheriff Leicestershire 1821, b. 31 Dec. 1778 White House, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire, bap. 2 Jan. 1779 St Michael & All Angels Church, Appleby Magna; d. 23 June 1827, son of George Moore of Appleby Hall (1743-1813) & Elizabeth Darker (1754-1834), and had [*4]
13) GEORGE MOORE of Appleby Hall (1811-1871) - see details above

Staats Long Morris (1728-1800)

[*2] Katharine, Duchess of Gordon, m. 2nd 25 Mar. 1756, as his 1st wife, STAATS LONG MORRIS of Berrymead Lodge, Acton, Middlesex, Governor of Quebec 1797-1800, b. 27 Aug. 1728 Morrisania, New York; d. 2 Apr. 1800 Berrymead Lodge, bur. 7 Apr. 1800 Westminster Abbey (said to be the only American bur. there), son of Col. Lewis Morris of Morrisania (1698-1762) & Katrintje Staats (1697-1732), but had no further issue.

[*3] Susan, Countess of Westmorland, m. 2nd 28 Dec. 1778, Col. JOHN WOODFORD, bap. 1 June 1741 St Mary Church, Southampton; d. Edinburgh, bur. 17 Apr. 1800 Chapel Royal, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, yr son of Matthew Woodford of Southampton & Mary Brideoake, and further issue, two sons, Sir Alexander George Woodford (1782-1870) and Sir John George Woodford (1785-1879).

[*4] The only other child of Susan (née Drummond) Moore was a daughter, Susan Drummond Moore, b. 7 Apr. 1813 Snarestone Lodge, bap. same day St Bartholomew Church, Snarestone; d. 10 Sept. 1882 Bayswater, London, bur. 14 Sept. 1882 All Saints Church, Aston-upon-Trent; m. 22 Nov. 1832 St Bartholomew Church, Snarestone, EDWARD ANTHONY HOLDEN of Aston Hall, b. 2 Aug. 1805 Aston Hall, bap. 3 Aug. 1805 All Saints Church, Aston-upon-Trent; d. 28 Aug. 1877 Aston Hall, bur. 1 Sept. 1877 All Saints Church, Aston-upon-Trent, elder brother of Isabel Clara Holden, the 2nd wife of her brother George Moore of Appleby Hall, and had issue.

Cheers,                           -----Brad