{82} Ruvigny Elaboration: Exeter Descent and Issue of Hon. Annette (née Palk) Baird (1851-1884)

Annette Palk with her brothers
Walter (l.) and Edward (r.) in 1860

Muriel Jane Baird, the wife of Byron Noel, appears (unmarried) on p. 130 of Ruvigny's 1907 Anne of Exeter volume, along with her mother and siblings. Following is a full account of Hon. Annette (née Palk) Baird and her children, which provides full dates of birth, marriage and death, elaborating on and continuing the account begun by Ruvigny.

Hon. ANNETTE MARIA PALK, b. 19 Sept. 1851 Haldon House, Kenn, Devon, bap. 19 Oct. 1851 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock, Devon; d. 21 May 1884 Ury House, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, bur. Howff Park, Ury, er dau. of Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon (1818-1883 - see Generation A19 below) and Maria Harriet Hesketh (1826-1905, descended from Edward III); m. 16 July 1873 St Peter Eaton Square, London, Sir ALEXANDER BAIRD, 1st Baronet of Ury, b. 22 Oct. 1849 Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland; d. 20 June 1920 Cairo, Egypt, son of John Baird of Ury House (1798-1870) and Margaret Findlay (d. 1883), and had issue, two sons and five daughters.

Issue of Hon. Annette Maria (Palk) and Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet:

1) JOHN LAWRENCE BAIRD, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, b. 27 Apr. 1874 Eaton Square, London, bap. 28 May 1874 St Peter Eaton Square; d. 20 Aug. 1941 Ury House, bur. 23 Aug. 1941 Howff Park, Ury; m. 16 Feb. 1905 St Paul Knightsbridge, London, (ETHEL) SYDNEY KEITH-FALCONER, 11th Countess of Kintore, b. 20 Sept. 1874 Marykirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland; d. 21 Sept. 1974 Surrey, England, er dau. of Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (1852-1930, descended from James IV) and Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu (1851-1932, descended from Henry VII), and had issue, two sons and three daughters.

1st Viscount Stonehaven (1874-1941)

2) EVELYN MARGARET BAIRD, b. 25 Apr. 1875 Eaton Square, London, bap. 25 May 1875 St Peter Eaton Square; d. 12 Oct. 1944 Blighmount Nursing Home, Southampton, Hampshire; m. 5 Dec. 1907 Holy Trinity Church, Kensington, London, ALBERT EDWARD STANLEY CLARKE of Chelsea, b. 19 Jan. 1879 Kensington, London, bap. 24 Feb. 1879 St Peter Cranley Gardens, Kensington; d. 8 June 1926 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, only son of Sir Stanley de Astel Calvert Clarke of Hyde Park (1837-1911) and Mary Temple Rose (1844-1913, descended from Edward III), and had issue, one son and one daughter.

3) Brig-Gen. ALEXANDER WALTER FREDERICK BAIRD of Westminster, b. 2 Oct. 1876 Ury House; d. 20 Feb. 1931 Popham, Hampshire, bur. 24 Feb. 1931 Howff Park, Ury; m. 16 Feb. 1907 Registry Office, Bombay, India, MAUD CONSTANCE (WAYLEN) BELL, b. 4 Aug. 1866 Allahabad, Bengal, India, bap. there 5 Jan. 1867; d. 15 June 1952 Folkestone, Kent, formerly wife of Francis Carbutt Bell of Hammersmith (1860-1936)[*1], and dau. of Charles William Waylen of Marylebone, surgeon (1839-1900) and Eliza McIntosh (1835-1911)[*2], and had issue, one son.

Issue of Alexander and Maud (Waylen) (Bell) Baird:

3A) ALEXANDER 'Sandy' WILLIAM BERTIE GORDON BAIRD, b. 23 Jan. 1908 Peshawar, Bengal, India, bap. 18 Apr. 1908 St John Church, Peshawar; d. (apparently) unm. and s.p. 1972 Devon, England. "Aunt Prim said Sandy owned an island in the South Seas and he was a lot of fun
to be with" [Kit Withers, 'Waylen of Devizes, Wiltshire', 2008]. Immigration records show that Sandy Baird travelled to Polynesia at least twice in the 1930s.

Ruvigny's account of Hon. Annette (née Palk) Baird and her children
[Anne of Exeter volume, p. 130]

4) JANET NORAH BAIRD, b. 7 Jan. 1878 Knightsbridge, London, bap. 6 Feb. 1878 St Saviour Church, Chelsea; d. 3 Oct. 1943 Aberdeen, Scotland, bur. 6 Oct. 1943 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cuckfield, Sussex; m. 1 Oct. 1902 St Peter Eaton Square, London, Sir ARTHUR GEORGE FERGUSON of Cuckfield House, Sussex, b. 22 June 1862 Mayfair, London, bap. 21 July 1862 St George Hanover Square; d. 14 Feb. 1935 Cuckfield House, bur. 18 Feb. 1935 Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cuckfield, son of Lt-Col. George Arthur Ferguson, 6th Laird of Pitfour House (1836-1924, descended from James II of Scotland) and Hon. Nina Maria Hood (1841-1923, descended from Edward III), and had issue, four sons and one daughter.

5) EDITH ANNETTE BAIRD, b. 6 Jan. 1880 Cairo, Egypt; d. 20 Oct. 1881 Ury House, bur. Howff Park, Ury.

6) NINA ISABEL BAIRD, b. 20 Mar. 1882 Torquay, Devon; d. unm. (of typhoid fever) 10 Aug. 1919 Deaconess' Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt.

7) MURIEL JANE BAIRD, b. 4 Apr. 1884 Ury House, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland; d.s.p. 31 Dec. 1968 Scotland; m. 17 July 1909 Fetteresso Parish Church, BYRON VINER BASIL NOEL of Browns Hill, Irstead, Norfolk, b. 28 Nov. 1880 Achmetaga, Euboea (Evia), Greece, bap. 31 May 1881 St Paul Anglican Church, Athens; d.s.p. 23 Apr. 1959 Norwich Hospital, Norfolk, only son of Francis Edward Noel of Achmetaga (1844-1919, descended from Edward III) and Edith Ellen Viner (1856-1893).

Baird of Ury Coat of Arms

[*1] Maud Waylen married her first husband Francis Carbutt Bell in 1886, and bore him a son and two daughters before their divorce in 1906. She and her second husband Brig-Gen. Alexander Baird became estranged after the Great War, and lived apart. He took up with various lady companions, the last of whom, Florence Gwendolen Anderson Pelham, was with him in a fatal motor accident in February 1931. Driving an MG Midget from London to Bournemouth, Baird was involved in a headlong collision with a motor coach and died instantly at the scene of the accident. His passenger,  aged 49, died later in hospital. Maud Baird, who had been receiving an income of £1,800 a year while separated from her husband, found herself reduced to a pension from the War Office of £120/year. She sued the motor coach company in 1932, and was awarded £9,000 in damages by the jury. These details are from a Facebook post by the 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. Interestingly, just over a year previous, in December 1929, Brig-Gen. Baird and a different lady companion, Theophalia Yeatman, were admitted to London Hospital with minor injuries to the head, resulting from the car that Baird was driving colliding into "a runaway horse" on Chiswick High Road (Dundee Evening Telegraph, Monday, December 2, 1929, p. 3). If the jury had been aware of this in 1932, Maud may not have been awarded such a large settlement.

[*2] Eliza McIntosh was the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish-born surgeon in the Bengal Army and an East Indian woman. Eliza married Arthur Tulloch, a major-general in the Indian Army in 1857 in Mussoorie, but later took up with Charles Waylen, a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. Though it's certain that Eliza's firstborn child, daughter Jessie May Tulloch (1860-1945), was her husband's, the next four children she bore in India--Frank Arthur in 1864, Maud Constance in 1866, Hermione in 1869, and Ella Mabel in 1870--were baptized with the surname Tulloch, but later in England assumed the surname Waylen, so are presumed to be the biological children of the surgeon. Maj-Gen. Tulloch and Eliza were divorced on 21 July 1874, and she married Charles Waylen on 5 September following. She bore her second husband three more daughters in England. Most of these details are from this account of the Waylens by genealogist Kit Withers.

Ury House, Kincardineshire, Scotland

The two lines of descent for Hon. Annette Baird from Anne, Duchess of Exeter (sister of Edward IV & Richard III), traced by Ruvigny, are as follows, with elaboration.

Edward III had a 2nd surviving son:

Anne (née Plantagenet), Duchess
of Exeter - see Generation A6

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) Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374-1398) m. Lady Alianore Holland (1370-1405, descended from Edward I), and had
A4) Lady Anne Mortimer (1388-1411) m. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385-1415, descended from Edward III), and had
A5) Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (1411-1460) m. Lady Cecily Neville (1415-1495, descended from Edward III), and had
A6) Anne Plantagenet, Duchess of Exeter (1439-1476) m. 2) Sir Thomas St Leger (by 1438-1483), and had
A7) Lady Anne St Leger (1475-1526) m. George Manners, 11th Lord Ros (1470-1513, descended from Edward I), and had a son A8 and a dau B8 (see below)
A8) Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (c.1497-1543) m. 2) Eleanor Paston (c.1505-1551, descended from Edward I), and had

2nd Earl of Rutland -
see Generation A9

A9) Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland (1526-1563) m. 2) Lady Margaret Neville (c.1525-1559, descended from Edward III), and had
A10) Lady Elizabeth Manners (c.1555-by 1596) m. Sir William Courtenay of Powderham Castle (1553-1630, descended from Edward III), and had
A11) ELIZABETH COURTENAY, b. c.1580 (the 3rd daughter of parents married in 1573); living 24 Dec. 1634 (mentioned in husband's will); m. by 1600, Sir WILLIAM WREY, 1st Baronet of Trebeigh, b. c.1560 (his elder brother was returned as age 40 in 1596); d. June 1636 [Complete Baronetage], will proved 11 Dec. 1636, 2nd son of John Wrey of Trebeigh House, St Ives, Cornwall (d. 1577) and Blanche Killigrew (d. 1596), and had
A12) Sir WILLIAM WREY, 2nd Baronet of Trebeigh, b. c.1600 (aged 20 in 1620 Visitation of Devon); d. Aug. 1645 [Complete Baronetage]; m. 4 Nov. 1624 All Saints Church, Eggesford, Devon, Hon. ELIZABETH CHICHESTER, b. 29 June 1607 Ruxford Barton, Sandford, Devon, bap. 12 July 1607 St Swithin Church, Sandford; d. by 30 June 1670 (when administration of estate was granted), dau. of Edward, 1st Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus (1566-1648, descended from Edward III) and Anne Copleston (1588-1617), and had

Wrey of Trebeigh Coat of Arms

A13) Sir CHICHESTER WREY, 3rd Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 1628 [Complete Baronetage]; d. 14 May 1668 London, bur. 17 May 1668 St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex; m. c.1652, as her 2nd husband, Lady ANNE BOURCHIER (see B12 below), and had
A14) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 4th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. c.1653 [HOP]; d. 28 July 1696, bur. 18 Aug. 1696 St Peter Church, Tawstock, Devon; m. 3 May 1681 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, Devon, FLORENCE ROLLE, b. 26 Nov. 1657 Bicton House, Devon, bap. 29 Nov. 1657 Holy Trinity Church, Bicton; d. 24 Aug. 1724, bur. St Peter Church, Tawstock, dau. of Sir John Rolle of Stevenstone House (1627-1706) and Florence Rolle (1631-1705, descended from Edward III), and had
A15) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 5th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 15 July 1683 Stevenstone House, St Giles in the Wood, Devon, bap. 22 July 1683 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; bur. 12 Nov. 1726 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 17 Feb. 1708 St Peter Cornhill, London, as her 2nd husband, his first cousin, DIANA (ROLLE) SPARK, b. 25 June 1683 Stevenstone House, bap. 12 July 1683 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; d. 1721, widow of John Spark of Plymouth, Devon, M.P. Newport (c.1673-1707), and dau. of John Rolle of Bicton House (c.1649-1689, descended from Edward III) and Lady Christiana Bruce (c.1658-1720, descended from Edward III), and had
A16) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 6th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 7 Jan. 1715 Westminster, London, bap. 13 Jan. 1715 St James Church, Westminster; d. 13 Apr. 1784, bur. 22 Apr. 1784 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 2nd 1 May 1755 St Bartholomew Church, Corsham, Wiltshire, ELLEN THRESHER, bap. 20 Aug. 1733 Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire; d. 3 Dec. 1813 Bath, Somersetshire, bur. 13 Dec. 1813 St Peter Church, Tawstock, dau. of John Thresher of Bradford on Avon (1689-1741) and Ellen Long (1711-1753, descended from Edward III), and had

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Bt
- see Generation A16

A17) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 7th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 22 Feb. 1757 Tawstock Court, Devon, bap. 23 Feb. 1757 St Peter Church, Tawstock; d. 20 Nov. 1826 Holne Chase House, Ashburton, Devon, bur. 2 Dec. 1826 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 1st 14 Mar. 1786 St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, ANNE PALK, bap. 3 Aug. 1764 Fort St George, Madras, India; d. 5 Sept. 1791 Tawstock Court, Devon, bur. 16 Sept. 1791 St Peter Church, Tawstock, dau. of Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet of Haldon House (1717-1798) and Anne Vansittart (1738-1788, descended from Henry IV), and had
A18) ANNA ELEANORA WREY, b. 12 Jan. 1787 Tawstock Court, bap. 18 Jan. 1787 St Peter Church, Tawstock; d. 25 Jan. 1846 Dieppe, Normandy, France; m. 2nd 9 Dec. 1815 St Peter Church, Tawstock, as his 1st wife, her first cousin, Sir LAWRENCE VAUGHAN PALK, 3rd Baronet of Haldon House, b. 25 Apr. 1793 Westminster, London, bap. 30 May 1793 St George Hanover Square; d. 16 May 1860 Haldon House, Kenn, Devon, bur. 23 May 1860 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock, Devon, son of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet of Haldon House (1766-1813, descended from Henry IV) and Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Vaughan (1764-1849, descended from Edward III), and had
A19) LAWRENCE PALK, 1st Baron Haldon of Haldon, b. 30 Jan. 1818 Marylebone, London, bap. 26 Feb. 1818 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 22 Mar. 1883 Haldon House, bur. 29 Mar. 1883 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, Devon; m. 15 Nov. 1845 St Mary Church, Rufford, Lancashire, MARIA HARRIET HESKETH, bap. 26 Nov. 1826 St Mary Church, Rufford; d. 18 Dec. 1905 Eastfield House, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, bur. 21 Dec. 1905 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, only dau. of Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh, 4th Baronet of Rufford (1799-1843, descended from Edward III) and Annette Maria Bomford (c.1799-1879, descended from Edward III), and had
A17) Hon. ANNETTE MARIA PALK (1851-1884 - see details above) m. Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet of Ury

3rd Earl of Bath-see Generation B10

B8) Eleanor Manners (c.1507-1547) m. John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (c.1499-1561, descended from Edward III), and had
B9) John Bourchier, Lord FitzWarin (1529-1557) m. Frances Kitson (c.1536-1586), and had
B10) William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (1557-1623) m. 2) Lady Elizabeth Russell (1555-1605), and had
B11) Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (1590-1637) m. 1) Dorothy St John (1601-1632, descended from Edward I), and had
B12) Lady ANNE BOURCHIER, b. 29 June 1628; bur. 9 Sept. 1662 St Giles in the Fields; m. 2nd c.1652, Sir CHICHESTER WREY, 3rd Baronet of Trebeigh (see A13 above)

The whole of Line B above appears in Table XLV (p. 50) of Ruvigny's Exeter volume.

The next blogpost will look at a line of descent for Hon. Annette (née Palk) Baird from George, Duke of Clarence that is an addition to Ruvigny's Clarence volume.

Cheers,                                    -------Brad

{81} Henry IV Descents for Muriel (née Baird) Noel (1884-1968)

Byron Viner Basil Noel (1880-1959)
[Image from An Isle of Greece: the Noels of Euboea]

Continuing with the descendants of Rev. Thomas Noel, we have Byron Noel, the uncle of Francis Noel-Baker, M.P.  Since Byron was the only son of Frank Noel of Achmetaga, the beautiful estate on the Greek island of Euboea (today called Evia), it would have been natural for Byron to have inherited the property on his father's death in 1919. But instead it was left to his only sister Irene Noel-Baker. Irene's daughter-in-law Barbro Noel-Baker explains in An Isle of Greece: the Noels of Euboea, her 2000 book on the family (p. 280): “Unable to come to Achmetaga immediately after her father’s death, Irene unwisely, but inevitably, had put her brother Byron in charge. Her father disliked Byron’s wife, Muriel, nee Baird. He predicted that ‘that hairy woman’ would have no children, nor did she. And he was not overfond of Byron either. So he left the main Achmetaga Estate to Irene, Drazi half and half to her and Byron—she later bought his half—and to him alone the smaller estate at Pharakla, bought in 1876, fifteen kilometres away. Later Muriel’s pet monkey, Marco, bit the Pharacla peasants and their children, so they poisoned him. Byron then piled up his furniture and cartridges in the village square and set fire to them, after which he emigrated, first to Lady Anne Blunt’s house at Sheykh Obeyd near Cairo, then to Wroxham in Norfolk. Meanwhile, acting for Irene, Byron had run down the Archmetaga Estate, sold the horses and other animals, cut down the vineyards in the field below the house and let the garden grow wild with weeds. The whole place had a general air of neglect.”

Though Frank Noel disliked his son Byron's wife Muriel Baird, "that hairy woman" with the pet monkey, she was from a rather unconventional Scottish family, one that the famous poet Lord Byron, for whom her husband was named, would have undoubtedly approved. The Bairds were originally a minor landholding family in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire. Alexander Baird acquired Ury House, the centrepiece of a 1,500-acre estate in Kincardineshire (today Aberdeenshire) in 1854 for ‎£120,000. On his death in 1862, childless, it was inherited by his brother John Baird (1798-1870), and then eight years later by John's 21-year-old elder son Alexander. In 1873, Alexander Baird of Ury House married Annette, daughter of Conservative party politician Sir Lawrence Palk, baronet (later 1st Baron Haldon). They had six children in nine years, before Annette Baird died at Ury House from complications resulting from the birth of their seventh child, Muriel Jane, in 1884. Alexander, who was created a baronet in 1897, never remarried. He was fluent in Arabic, and had a lifelong fascination with Egypt, where he had a house in Mattarieh, just outside Cairo. He spent increasing amounts of time there as the years went on, with his motherless children often joining him. He was involved in philanthropic projects, and served as president of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt.

Cairo in 1922

Muriel Baird married Byron Noel when she was age 25. They had in common a dual upbringing - splitting their time growing up between a conventional life in Britain, and the exotic cultures of Mediterranean countries. Muriel never knew her mother, and Byron Noel barely knew his: she had been involved in a scandalous affair with a neighbouring playboy, which resulted in a pregnancy, divorce and exile from society, and by the time Byron was age five, his mother was not a part of the Achmetaga household. It was probably at her father's home outside Cairo where Muriel acquired her ill-fated pet monkey. Once Byron and Muriel returned to England they spent the remainder of their years living quietly in Norfolk. They are not among the list of mourners at the funerals of any of Muriel's siblings, all of whom they outlived, which suggests they kept themselves isolated from family. Byron Noel died in 1959 at the age of 78. Muriel returned to her native Scotland, where she died nine years later at the age of 84.

MURIEL JANE BAIRD, b. 4 Apr. 1884 Ury House, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland; d.s.p. 31 Dec. 1968 Scotland; m. 17 July 1909 Fetteresso Parish Church, BYRON VINER BASIL NOEL of Browns Hill, Irstead, Norfolk, b. 28 Nov. 1880 Achmetaga, Euboea (Evia), Greece, bap. 31 May 1881 St Paul Anglican Church, Athens; d.s.p. 23 Apr. 1959 Norwich Hospital, Norfolk, only son of Francis Edward Noel of Achmetaga (1844-1919, descended from Edward III) and Edith Ellen Viner (1856-1893).

Muriel (née Baird) Noel has an interesting ancestry, with her royal lines all coming to her through her maternal side, the Palks. First up are her two 18-generation lines of descent from Henry IV thru that monarch's illegitimate granddaughter Antigone, countess of Tancarville.

Henry IV

Henry IV had a son:
A1) Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), who had
A2) Antigone of Gloucester, illegit. (b. c.1420) m. 1) Henry Gray, 2nd Count of Tancarville (1420-1450, descended from Edward I), and had
A3) Richard, 1st Lord Gray of Powis (1436-1466) m. Margaret Audley (c.1441-1481, descended from Edward III), and had
A4) John, 2nd Lord Gray of Powis (1460-1494) m. Lady Anne Herbert (b. c.1460), and had
A5) John, 3rd Lord Gray of Powis (c.1485-1504) m. Margaret Dudley (c.1485-by 1525, descended from Edward III), and had
A6) Edward, 4th Lord Gray of Powis (1503-1551) = Jane Pount (d. 1583), and had
A7) Edward Gray of Buildwas Abbey, illegit. (c.1542-1592) m. Chrysogona Gifford (descended from Edward III), and had
A8) Chrysogona Gray (c.1590-c.1675) m. Sir Moreton Briggs, 1st Baronet of Haughton (c.1587-by 1647, descended from Edward I), and had
A9) Robert Briggs of Shrewsbury (c.1615-1701) m. Sarah Moreton (c.1620-1699), and had
A10) Martha Briggs (c.1640-1705) m. 2) Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet of Radley (c.1639-1700), and had
A11) Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet of Radley (c.1672-1733) m. 1) Mary Mellish (c.1675-1704), and had

Martha (née Stonhouse) Vansittart
- see Generation A12

A12) MARTHA STONHOUSE, b. 28 Aug. 1697 Westminster, London, bap. 31 Aug. 1697 St Anne Soho, London; d. 13 June 1782, bur. 24 June 1782 St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke, Berkshire; m. 23 May 1723, ARTHUR VANSITTART of Shottesbrooke Park, b. 26 Dec. 1691; d. 16 Sept. 1760 Shottesbrooke Park, bur. 19 Sept. 1760 St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke, son of Peter van Sittart of London (1651-1705) and Susanna Sanderson (d. 1725), and had
A13) ANNE VANSITTART, b. 1738; d. 19 Aug. 1788 Haldon House, Kenn, Devon, bur. 26 Aug. 1788 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock, Devon; m. 7 Feb. 1761 St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke, Sir ROBERT PALK, 1st Baronet of Haldon House, b. Ambrooke, Ashburton, Devon, bap. 16 Dec. 1717 Old Mission House, Ashburton; d. 29 Apr. 1798 Haldon House, bur. 7 May 1798 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock, son of Walter Palk of Lower Headborough Farm and Frances Abraham, and had a son A14 and a dau B14 (see below)
A14) Sir LAWRENCE PALK, 2nd Baronet of Haldon House, bap. 6 Mar. 1766 Fort St George, Madras, India; d. 20 June 1813 Mayfair, London, bur. 3 July 1813 St George Church, Shillingford, Devon; m. 15 May 1792 Marylebone, London, Lady DOROTHY ELIZABETH VAUGHAN, b. 13 May 1764 Mamhead House, Devon, bap. 6 Jan. 1765 St Thomas Church, Mamhead; d. 15 Feb. 1849 Mayfair, bur. 23 Feb. 1849 St Andrew Church, Enfield, Middlesex, dau. of Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (1728-1800, descended from Edward III) and his 2nd wife Dorothy Shafto (c.1733-1805, descended from Edward III), and had
A15) Sir LAWRENCE VAUGHAN PALK, 3rd Baronet of Haldon House, b. 25 Apr. 1793 Westminster, London, bap. 30 May 1793 St George Hanover Square; d. 16 May 1860 Haldon House, bur. 23 May 1860 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock; m. 1st 9 Dec. 1815 St Peter Church, Tawstock, Devon, as her 2nd husband, his first cousin, ANNA ELEANORA WREY (see B15 below), and had

1st Baron Haldon -
see Generation A16

A16) LAWRENCE PALK, 1st Baron Haldon of Haldon, b. 30 Jan. 1818 Marylebone, London, bap. 26 Feb. 1818 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 22 Mar. 1883 Haldon House, bur. 29 Mar. 1883 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, Devon; m. 15 Nov. 1845 St Mary Church, Rufford, Lancashire, MARIA HARRIET HESKETH, bap. 26 Nov. 1826 St Mary Church, Rufford; d. 18 Dec. 1905 Eastfield House, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, bur. 21 Dec. 1905 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, only dau. of Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh, 4th Baronet of Rufford (1799-1843, descended from Edward III) and Annette Maria Bomford (c.1799-1879, descended from Edward III), and had
A17) Hon. ANNETTE MARIA PALK, b. 19 Sept. 1851 Haldon House, bap. 19 Oct. 1851 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock; d. 21 May 1884 Ury House, bur. Howff Park, Ury; m. 16 July 1873 St Peter Eaton Square, London, Sir ALEXANDER BAIRD, 1st Baronet of Ury, b. 22 Oct. 1849 Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland; d. 20 June 1920 Cairo, Egypt, son of John Baird of Ury House (1798-1870) and Margaret Findlay (d. 1883), and had
A18) MURIEL JANE BAIRD (1884-1968 - see details above), wife of Byron Noel

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Bt -
see Generation B14

B14) ANNE PALK, bap. 3 Aug. 1764 Fort St George, Madras, India; d. 5 Sept. 1791 Tawstock Court, Devon, bur. 16 Sept. 1791 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 14 Mar. 1786 St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke, as his 1st wife, Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 7th Baronet of Trebigh, b. 22 Feb. 1757 Tawstock Court, bap. 23 Feb. 1757 St Peter Church, Tawstock; d. 20 Nov. 1826 Holne Chase House, Ashburton, Devon, bur. 2 Dec. 1826 St Peter Church, Tawstock, son of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet of Trebigh (1715-1784, descended from Edward III) and his 2nd wife Ellen Thresher (1733-1813, descended from Edward III), and had
B15) ANNA ELEANORA WREY, b. 12 Jan. 1787 Tawstock Court, bap. 18 Jan. 1787 St Peter Church, Tawstock; d. 25 Jan. 1846 Dieppe, Normandy, France; m. 2nd 9 Dec. 1815 St Peter Church, Tawstock, as his 1st wife, her first cousin, Sir LAWRENCE VAUGHAN PALK, 3rd Baronet of Haldon House (see A15 above)

The next blogpost will expand on the entries for Muriel (née Baird) Noel, her mother and her siblings, in Ruvigny's Anne of Exeter volume.

Cheers,                                        ----Brad

{80} James V and mtDNA Descents for Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

I want to thank my friend John Higgins for bringing my attention to a line of descent for the famous poet George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron from James V of Scotland's illegitimate son the Earl of Moray. It's a 11-generation descent through Lord Byron's maternal grandmother Katharine Abercromby.

The Abercrombys of Glassaugh House, in the parish of Fordyce, Banffshire, were a collateral branch of the Abercromby baronets of Birkenbog House, also in Banffshire. Though Burke's Peerage 107th Edition (2003), pp. 7-8, provides a nice pedigree of the Abercromby baronets of Birkenbog, it doesn't trace the Glassaugh House branch. Nick Kingsley, in his blog Landed Families of Britain and Ireland, has a post 'Abercromby of Birkenbog and Forglen, baronets', which includes much more detail than Burke's, and which does trace the Glassaugh House line. It doesn't however identify the spouses which provide that line with the descent from James V and earlier Stewart monarchs.

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

1st Earl of Moray -
see Generation 1

1) James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, illegit. (1531-1570) m. Lady Agnes Keith (c.1544-1588, descended from James I of Scotland), and had
2) Elizabeth Stewart, 2nd Countess of Moray (1565-1591) m. James Stewart, 2nd Lord Doune, Earl of Moray (1565-1592, descended from Edward III), and had
3) Lady Grizel Stewart (b. c.1590) m. Sir Robert Innes, 1st Baronet of that Ilk (1584-1658, descended from James IV), and had
4) ELIZABETH INNES, b. c.1613; d. 12 Aug. 1640; m. 2nd[*1] 28 Oct. 1635 Innes, Morayshire, Scotland, ALEXANDER BRODIE, 15th Laird of Brodie, b. 25 July 1617; d. 17 Apr. 1680, son of David, 14th Laird of Brodie (1586-1632) and Katherine Dunbar (d. aft.1664), and had
5) GRIZEL BRODIE, b. 28 Aug. 1636 Brodie Castle, Dyke, Morayshire, Scotland, bap. 2 Sept. 1636 Dyke Parish Church; d. unknown; m. 7 Sept. 1654, Sir ROBERT DUNBAR, 3rd Laird of Grangehill House, Elginshire, Scotland b. c.1625; d. (21 Sept. 1689?)[*2], son of Ninian Dunbar, 2nd Laird of Grangehill House (c.1585-aft.1647) and his 1st wife Marion Ogilvy of Dunlugas House (c.1595-by 1629, descended from James I of Scotland), and had
6) KATHERINE DUNBAR, b. 7 Aug. 1655; d. unknown; m. 2nd[*3] 22 July 1675 Dyke Parish Church, ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY, 2nd of Glassaugh House, b. c.1650; d. 1690, son and heir of John Abercromby, 1st of Glassaugh House (c.1610-1691) and Katherine Gordon of Lesmoir Castle (descended from James I of Scotland), and had
7) ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY, 3rd of Glassaugh House, M.P. Banffshire 1706-27, b. 5 Nov. 1678; d. 23 Dec. 1729; m. by 1703, HELEN MELDRUM, b. c.1685; d. aft.1744, dau. of Rev. George Meldrum of Crombie, Minister of Glass (1616-1692) and Jean Duff of Keithmore (c.1660-1725, descended from Edward III), and had[*4]
8) KATHARINE ABERCROMBY, b. Glassaugh House, bap. 9 May 1708 Fordyce Parish Church; d. 8 Oct. 1784, bur. Banff Parish Church, Banffshire; m. 26 Nov. 1729, ALEXANDER INNES of Rosieburn House, Banffshire, b. Dec. 1701; d. 16 Apr. 1761, bur. Banff Parish Church, son of John Innes, 6th of Edingight House (1662-1719, descended from James IV) and Helen Strachan, and had
9) KATHARINE INNES, b. c.1742; d. 16 Aug. 1782; m. 2 June 1763 Banff Parish Church, GEORGE GORDON, 12th Laird of Gight Castle, bap. 14 Nov. 1740 Ardlogie, Morayshire, Scotland; d. 9 Jan. 1779 Bath, Somersetshire, bur. 15 Jan. 1779 Bath Abbey, son and heir of Alexander Gordon, 11th Laird of Gight Castle (1716-1760, descended from James I of Scotland) and Margaret Duff (1720-1801, descended from Edward III), and had

Katharine (née Gordon), Lady Byron
- see Generation 10

10) KATHARINE GORDON, bap. 22 Apr. 1764 Banff Parish Church ("Katharine, daughter of George Gordon of Gight and Mrs. Katharine Innes, Lady Gight, was baptised and named after Mrs. Katharine Abercrombie, relict of Alexander Innes of Rosieburn, the grandmother by the mother"); d. 1 Aug. 1811 Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, bur. 9 Aug. 1811 St Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire; m. 12 May 1785 St Michael Church, Bath, as his 2nd wife, Capt. JOHN BYRON of Marylebone, b. 7 Feb. 1757 Plymouth, Devon, bap. 17 Mar. 1757 St Andrew Church, Plymouth; d. 2 Aug. 1791 Valenciennes, France, er son of Hon. John Byron of Plymouth (1723-1786, descended from Edward III) and Sophia Trevanion (1730-1790, descended from Edward III), and had
11) GEORGE GORDON, 6th Baron BYRON of Rochdale, b. 22 Jan. 1788 Marylebone, London, bap. 1 Mar. 1788 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 19 Apr. 1824 Missolonghi, Greece, bur. 16 July 1824 St Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire - the famous Lord Byron

[*1] Elizabeth Innes m. 1st by 1632, John Urquhart, 3rd of Craigston Castle, d. 30 Mar. 1634, son of John Urquhart, 2nd of Craigston Castle (d. 1631) and Isabel Irvine of Drum Castle (descended from James I of Scotland). Elizabeth's second marriage to Alexander Brodie, the birth and marriage dates of their only daughter Grizel Brodie, plus the birthdate of their eldest granddaughter Katherine Dunbar, are all found in The Diary of Alexander Brodie of Brodie.

Grangehill House (today Dalvey House), Elginshire
[Image from Castles and Manor Houses of the Clan Grant]

[*2] Many genealogies give 21 Sept. 1659 as the date of death of Sir Robert Dunbar. But as The Dunbar Pedigree makes clear, he was M.P. for Elgin and Fores-shire 1669-70, and he and his wife Grizel Brodie had eleven children, so 1659 is incorrect for his death. Perhaps '1659' was originally a mis-transcription of '1689'?

Abercromby Coat of Arms
[Argent, a chevron, Gules,
between three boars' heads]

[*3] Katherine Dunbar m. 1st 6 Nov. 1673 Dyke Parish Church, Charles Gordon (1631-1674), a yr son of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet of Gordonstoun. Katherine m. 3rd, James Ogilvy of Badintoul (living 1707), a man for whom I can find little information. By her third husband she had further issue, two daughters, one of whom was Anna Ogilvy, wife of Rev. Walter Turing, minister of Rayne (c.1671-1743). Katherine had by her second husband three sons Alexander (see above), James Abercromby (bap. 14 June 1683 Fordyce) and George Abercromby (bap. 1 Dec. 1684 Fordyce), and two daughters: Elizabeth Abercromby (1686-1756), 2nd wife of William Baird of Auchmedden (1676-1720) and Grizzel Abercromby, wife of Malcom Fraser of Culduthell.

[*4] Alexander Abercromby and Helen Meldrum had two sons and five daughters: Jean Abercromby (b. 1704) m. 1729 George Joass of Colleonard (1707-1755); Ann Abercromby (b. 1705, d. young); Gen. James Abercromby, 4th of Glassaugh House (1706-1781); Katherine (see above); Isabel Abercromby (b. 1710, d. unm.); Helen Abercromby (1712-1781) m. 1732 James Duff of Craigston; Alexander Abercromby (b. 1721), an artist, with a life patent as King’s limner in Scotland.

This has also opened up Lord Byron's matrilineal (mtDNA) line ten generations in my database:

1) Jean Barclay (d. 1607) m. Robert Innes, 4th Laird of Invermarkie Castle (c.1555-1595, descended from Edward III), and had
2) Margaret Innes m. Patrick Og Grant of Easter Elchies (c.1575-by 1640, descended from Edward III), and had

Innes Coat of Arms

3) Margaret Grant m. Alexander Grant of Allachie (d. aft.1672), and had
4) Helen Grant (c.1635-1694) m. Alexander Duff of Keithmore (1623-1696, descended from Edward III), and had
5) Jean Duff (c.1660-1725) m. Rev. George Meldrum of Crombie (1616-1692), and had
6) Helen Meldrum (c.1685-aft.1744) m. Alexander Abercromby, 3rd of Glassaugh House (1678-1729, descended from James V), and had
7) Katharine Abercromby (1708-1784) m. Alexander Innes of Rosieburn House (1701-1761, descended from James IV), and had
8) Katherine Innes (c.1742-1782) m. George Gordon, 12th Laird of Gight Castle (1740-1779, descended from James I of Scotland), and had
9) Katharine Gordon (1764-1811) m. Capt. John Byron of Marylebone (1757-1791, descended from Edward III), and had
10) George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824)

Jean Barclay above has no apparent descents from Edward I so her lineage falls outside the scope of my project. For anyone interested in taking Lord Byron's mtDNA line further back, the parents of Jean Barclay were Walter Barclay of Towie (d. 1587) and Elizabeth Hay of Dalgety.

There is an another James IV line for Lord Byron thru his Abercromby of Glassaugh ancestry, in addition to this one thru James V. The former blogpost 'James IV Descents for Katharine (née Gordon) (1764-1811), Mother of Lord Byron' has been updated to include it.

Thanks again to John Higgins for opening up the Abercromby of Glassaugh ancestry.

Cheers,                                 ------Brad

{79} Edward III Descents for Francis Noel-Baker, M.P. (1920-2009)

Francis Edward Noel-Baker (1920-2009)

The most notable descendant (to date) of Rev. Thomas Noel of Kirkby Mallory (1775-1853) is Francis Noel-Baker, a Labour Party politician who was returned to Parliament for Brentford and Chiswick in the 1945 general election, unseating the Conservative, becoming at age 25 the youngest member in the House. Noel-Baker shares an entry in ODNB with his father, Philip Noel-Baker, a remarkable man who won a Silver Medal for the men's 1500 metres event at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 for his efforts in disarmament.

The Bakers were a Quaker family for generations. Philip's father, (Joseph) Allen Baker, was born in Canada, where the family had emigrated from Ireland in 1819. In the late 1870's Allen Baker was sent by his father to England to take charge of a newly established branch of the family engineering business, Baker & Sons, of which he became chairman in 1892 on the death of his father. In 1879 they set up business in Finsbury but the trade expanded and, in 1890 a move was made to a large, newly built engineering works in Hythe Road, Willesden, where it remained for the next 43 years. As Quakers, the Baker family tried to run a model business taking a paternal interest in the welfare of their workforce and introducing schemes such as shorter working days, encouraging employees to participate in health and insurance plans and fostering a relaxed approach on the shop floor, perhaps to the detriment of profits. The company had interests in Britain, Canada, Australia and the USA. In Britain, Allen Baker married the deeply religious Scotswoman Elizabeth Balmer Moscrip, whose family lived at Morebattle, in Roxburghshire, a Border village seven miles from Kelso, through which the railway passed along the valley of the Tweed. Philip was the sixth of the couple's seven children.

Philip and Irene Noel-Baker during World War I,
when their romance began
[Image from An Isle of Greece: the Noels in Euboea]

During the First World War he served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and in Italy, where he was awarded medals for bravery and met Irene Noel, who was working as a nurse. She was a friend of Virginia Woolf, and the daughter of Frank Noel, the British owner of a Greek estate, Achmetaga (today Prokopi) on the island of Euboea (today, Evia). The Achmetaga estate had been purchased from its Turkish owner in 1832 by Edward Noel, who had been educated at the agricultural school of Hofwyl near Bern in Switzerland which had been founded by Emanuel von Fellenberg, a leading educationalist in Europe, whose aim was to bring, through agriculture, rich and poor people closer together. Inspired by these ideas, and in the wake of the great wave of philhellenism that had passed through Europe following the 1821 Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman occupiers of Greece, Edward Noel together with von Fellenberg's youngest son, Fredrick, traveled to Greece in 1832 with the hope of contributing to the betterment of the lot of impoverished Greek peasants by creating an agricultural school in Greece along the lines of Hofwyl. The acquiring of the estate on Euboea, where they envisioned establishing the school, was bedeviled by the then Greek Government's policy concerning privately-owned land; both Edward and Fredrick fell ill from malaria which was endemic in northern Euboea, and Frederick died. But then in partnership with another school fellow from Hofwyl, Karl von Müller, and with the support of Edward's cousin Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (later 11th Baroness Wentworth) and others, the resuscitation and working of the Achmetaga estate eventually went ahead. The family has been in continuous possession of the estate for over 175 years, and a detailed history--An Isle of Greece: The Noels in Euboea--was written and published by Barbro, the second wife of Francis Noel-Baker, in 2000. When Irene Baker inherited the estate from her father Frank Noel in 1919, her husband Philip adopted the surname Noel along with his own, and by the 1940s, he hyphenated his surname as Noel-Baker, which his descendants have adopted to the present day.

Achmetaga in the 1870s

After suffering two miscarriages, Irene Noel-Baker gave birth in 1920 at the age of 41 to their only child Francis Edward, whom she named after her recently-deceased father. When Irene's friend Virginia Woolf first met Philip Baker, she had dismissed him: "Irene has got engaged to a commoner who runs." But Philip ended up appreciated by both Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf, due to their shared commitment to the progressive Fabian Society, and the two couples became close friends. As the years went on, the age difference between the Noel-Bakers (Irene was eleven years older than her husband) grew more pronounced, and they spent much time separated, with Irene in Greece focused on running the estate and Philip in England focused on his political career. For twenty years, from 1936 until Irene's death in 1956, Philip had an affair with Liberal (and later Labour) MP Megan Lloyd George (1902-1966), daughter of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George. In 1977, Philip Noel-Baker became a life peer, Baron Noel-Baker of Derby.

Philip, Baron Noel-Baker
(1889-1982)

Since Philip's five years as a life peer occurred within the large gap between the 1970 105th edition of Burke's Peerage and the 1999 106th edition, the Noel-Bakers do not appear in that series. There is an entry for Baron Noel-Baker in the 1980 edition of Debrett's Peerage. It is very scanty on genealogical details (it completely overlooks Francis Noel-Baker's first marriage, for example), so hopefully the information below will serve as a helpful addition to the 1980 account in Debrett's.

FRANCIS EDWARD NOEL-BAKER of Kandili, Prokopi, Evia, Greece, M.P. Brentford & Chiswick 1945-50; Swindon 1955-69, b. 7 Jan. 1920 Kensington, London; d. 25 Sept. 2009 Kandili, only son of Philip John, Baron Noel-Baker of Derby and Irene Noel (1878-1956, descended from Edward III - see A21 below); m. 1st 1 Aug. 1947 House of Commons Crypt, Westminster, London (divorce 1955), as her 1st husband[*1], ANN LAVINIA SAUNDERS, b. 1928, dau. of Hilary Aidan St George Saunders of Broad Oak (1898-1951) and his 2nd wife Joan Wilhelmina Bedford (1902-1984), and had issue, two sons; m. 2nd 26 July 1957 Swindon, Wiltshire, BARBRO KRISTINA SONANDER, b. 1924 Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden; d. 2004 Kandili, dau. of Josef Karl Sonander, engineer, and had further issue, two sons and a daughter.

Issue of Francis Edward and Ann Lavinia (Saunders) Noel-Baker:

1) EDWARD PHILIP NOEL-BAKER of Notting Hill, b. 1948.

2) MARTIN HILARY JOHN BYRON NOEL-BAKER, b. 25 July 1951; d. 30 Nov. 1990, leaving issue, one daughter.

Michael Chance (b. 1955)

Issue of Francis Edward and Barbro Kristina (Sonander) Noel-Baker:

3) PHILIP FRANCIS NOEL-BAKER of Kandili, travel agent, b. Aug. 1958, has two sons.

4) IRENE IDA NOEL-BAKER, psychologist, translator, poet, b. 1960; m. 1991 London, MICHAEL EDWARD FERGUSON CHANCE, CBE, countertenor and founder The Grange Festival,  b. 7 March 1955 Penn, Buckinghamshire, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

5) (JOSEPH) ALLAN FREDERICK NOEL-BAKER of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, financial public relations, b. 1962; m. 31 May 1997, LOUISE SEYDLITZ, b. 1966, dau. of Slawomir Seydlitz of Harefield, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

Ann (née Saunders) Noel-Baker

[*1] Ann (née Saunders) Noel-Baker m. 2nd 1956 Buckinghamshire, John H. B. Irving, b. 1924. Ann's father Hilary Saunders was the co-author, with John Palmer (both men publishing their collaborative fiction using the pseudonym Francis Breeding), of four novels, the best known being The House of Dr. Edwardes (1927), which was adapted in 1945 into the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound. Saunders also was the librarian of the House of Commons from 1946-1950. Footage of Ann's first wedding to Francis Noel-Baker can be viewed, here.

Through his mother, Francis Noel-Baker has six lines of descent from Edward III. The three through Lionel, Duke of Clarence are as follows.

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

Wentworth/Clifford impalement in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace

A5) Mary Clifford (c.1420-by1458) m. Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead (1424-1464), and had
A6) Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead (1448-1499) m. 1) Anne Say (c.1448-aft.1489), and had a son A7 and a dau C7 (see below)
A7) Sir Richard Wentworth of Nettlestead (by 1480-1528) m. Anne Tyrell (descended from Edward I), and had
A8) Thomas, 1st Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead (1501-1551) m. Margaret Fortescue (b. 1504, descended from Edward III), and had a son A9 and a dau B9 (see below)
A9) Thomas, 2nd Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead (1525-1584) m. 2) Anne Wentworth (d. 1571, descended from Edward I), and had

1st Earl of Cleveland -
see Generation A11

A10) Henry, 3rd Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead (1558-1593) m. Anne Hopton (d. 1625, descended from Edward I), and had
A11) Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591-1667) m. 1) Anne Crofts (see B12 below), and had
A12) Anne, 7th Baroness Wentworth of Nettlestead (1623-1697) m. John, 2nd Baron Lovelace of Hurley (1634-1670), and had
A13) Hon. Margaret Lovelace (1642-1671) m. Sir William Noel, 2nd Baronet of Kirkby Mallory (c.1640-1675, descended from Edward III), and had
A14) Sir John Noel, 4th Baronet of Kirkby Mallory (1667-1697) m. Mary Clobery (c.1672-1751), and had
A15) Sir Clobery Noel, 5th Baronet of Kirkby Mallory (1694-1733) m. Elizabeth Rowney (c.1695-1743), and had
A16) Edward Noel, 1st Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough (1715-1774) m. Judith Lamb (1725-1761), and had
A17) Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough (1745-1815) = Anna Caterina van Loo (c.1750-1781), and had
A18) Rev. Thomas Noel of Kirkby Mallory, illegit. (1775-1853) m. 1) Catherine Smith (see C16 below), and had

Francis Edward 'Frank' Noel
- see Generation A20

A19) EDWARD HENRY NOEL of Hampstead, Middlesex and Achmetaga, Euboea [today Evia], Greece, b. 18 June 1811 Kirkby Mallory, bap. 17 Nov. 1812 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. 29 Feb. 1884 Hampstead, bur. 5 Mar. 1884 St Mary Church, Hendon, Middlesex; m. 18 June 1838 St Mary Church, Ealing, Middlesex, FRANCES ISABELLA DOYLE, b. 1819 Bengal, India; d. 5 Nov. 1845 Torquay, Devon, bur. 11 Nov. 1845 St Saviour Church, Tormohun, Devon, dau. of Maj-Gen. Carlo Joseph Doyle (1787-1848) and "Chiano Begum" (d. by 1820)[*2], and had
A20) FRANCIS EDWARD 'Frank' NOEL of Achmetaga, b. 31 July 1844 Leamington Priors, bap. 4 Sept. 1844 All Saints Church, Leamington Priors; d. 28 Sept. 1919 Achmetaga, bur. there; m. 26 Feb. 1876 St Stephen Kensington, London (divorce c.1885)[*3], EDITH ELLEN VINER, bap. 8 Aug. 1856 All Saints Church, St John's Wood, Middlesex; bur. 19 Aug. 1893 St Peter Church, Turnham, Buckinghamshire, yst dau. of Thomas Viner, coffee merchant, of Ceylon & Wavendon Lodge, Woburn, Buckinghamshire (c.1808-1884) and Emma ---, and had
A21)  IRENE NOEL, b. 26 July 1878 Achmetaga; d. 8 Feb. 1956 Belgravia, London, bur. St James Churchyard, Heyshott, Sussex; m. 12 June 1915 Crabbet Park, Surrey, PHILIP JOHN BAKER [later NOEL-BAKER], Baron Noel-Baker of Derby, b. 1 Nov. 1889 Brondesbury Park, Brent, Middlesex; d. 8 Oct. 1982 Belgravia, bur. St James Churchyard, Heyshott, yr son of (Joseph) Allen Baker of Brondesbury Park, M.P. (1852-1918) and Elizabeth Balmer Moscrip (1849-1930), and had issue,
A22) FRANCIS EDWARD NOEL-BAKER, M.P. (1920-2009 - see details above)

Frances Isabella 'Fanny' (née Doyle) Noel (1819-1845)
[Image from An Isle of Greece: the Noels in Euboea]

[*2] Frances Isabella 'Fanny' Doyle was of inter-cultural parentage. As Fanny herself relayed in a letter in the 1830s: “My mother’s country was Rajasthan. Her name was Chiano Begum. My father called her Sishina. She was a Moglanee, that is a Mogul woman and a Mohammedan of the sect of Ali. She had been the wife of a Mogul of some rank, but he abandoned her and was afterwards killed in service of some native power. All Moglanees add Begum or ‘Khanian’ to their names if they have any pretension to rank. Moglanee is princess and the second lady" [Transcribed in An Isle of Greece: the Noels in Euboea, p. 102]. Barbro Noel-Baker shared the little further that she could on Fanny's East Indian mother: “It would not have been possible for her to be a Rajput unless she was a Hindu who had married a Muslim of some rank in the Mogul court. This did happen occasionally. The names given in her daughter’s letter sound like Muslim names. Mogul is another way of saying Mongol or Mongolian. Sections of the army of Genghis Khan invaded Russia and then came into India at the end of the fifteenth century. By the end of the eighteenth century, the language of the Mogul Court was Persian and Urdu, a Persian form of Hindi...We do not know much about our own Rajput lady. Apparently Fanny and her sister were very young when she died. Colonel Doyle returned to England in 1820 with his two little daughters, Selina and Fanny. Selina was named after Carlo’s sister and Fanny after his brother, Sir Francis Doyle. Fanny kept a miniature of her mother, which unfortunately has disappeared...the other daughter, Selina, had died in 1831." Barbro Noel-Baker also researched Fanny's father Maj-Gen. Carlo Doyle: "Doyle was a nephew of Sir John Doyle who had raised the 87th Prince of Wales’ Irish Regiment in 1793. Carlo became an ensign in 1803 when his uncle commanded the Regiment. He rose in rank while serving in the Peninsular War and was made Lieut. Colonel in 1815. Around this time he went to India as Military Secretary to the first Governor General of British India, Lord Hastings. Doyle’s regiment was based in Bengal and, to judge from existing manuscripts, he seems to have been prominent during and after the final Mahratta War which brought the whole of India under British control…Colonel Doyle did not marry again. He stayed on in England till 1834. Like many other officers returning home from India in those days, he seems to have suffered from a shortage of money and was happy to settle for a regular occupation. In 1834 he was appointed Government Secretary to Jamaica. He was promoted full Colonel in 1837 and four years later he was made Governor of Grenada in the West Indies, at which post he remained for the rest of his career. As a pensioner in England, he went into decline, enjoyed his port and died in 1848. In his will he cared mainly for his sister but left legacies to his daughter, Fanny, and her children." So far this is the second Anglo-Indian line I've encountered while building my database. I find it fascinating, but as there aren't any readily apparent lines back to Edward I in the ancestry of Carlo Doyle, further research into this branch of Francis Noel-Baker's ancestry is outside the scope of my project.

Edith (née Viner) Noel (1856-1893) 
[Image from An Isle of Greece: the Noels in Euboea]

[*3] The marriage of Edith and Frank Noel disintegrated rather dramatically amidst their quiet rural existence at Achmetaga. Edith was a dozen years younger than her husband, and had enjoyed the busy social scene back in England. She succumbed to the charms of the married Apostolos Papadopoulos, who had bought Dafnonda, the neighbouring estate to Achmetaga. Papadopoulos was a compulsive gambler and a playboy who never allowed a pretty woman to pass unnoticed, and was left to his own devices by his philanthropic wife. Edith Noel's affair with him resulted in a son, whom she bore in Paris and named Jim de la Haye. Edith returned to England, was formally divorced from Frank Noel, saw her children infrequently and died in 1893 in insolation, socially disgraced, at the young age of 37. The Viners were a successful mercantile family and her father Thomas Viner had established a coffee plantation in Ceylon, returning to England in the mid-19th century with the fortune he had made from it. There are no apparent lines back to Edward I in his ancestry. I'm unable to further identify Edith's mother Emma. It appears she and Thomas Viner had married in Ceylon, but the register books for the relevant period have not survived. Edith had only two children with Frank Noel before her affair, separation and divorce--daughter Irene Noel-Baker, and a son, Byron Viner Basil Noel (1880-1959).

Crofts Coat of Arms
[Or, three bulls' heads, cabossed sable]

B9) Anne Wentworth (c.1523-1575) m. John Poley of Badley Hall (d. 1589), and had
B10) Susan Poley (c.1545-1604) m. Thomas Crofts of West Stow Hall (c.1540-1612, descended from Edward I), and had
B11) Sir John Crofts of Little Saxham Hall (c.1565-1628) m. Mary Shirley (d. 1649, descended from Edward I), and had
B12) Anne Crofts (c.1593-1638) m. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (see A11 above)

C7) Margery Wentworth (c.1478-1550) m. Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall (c.1474-1536), and had
C8) Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector (c.1500-1552) m. 2) Anne Stanhope (c.1510-1587, descended from Edward III), and had
C9) Lady Elizabeth Seymour (1550-1602) m. Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley Hall (1533-1615, descended from Edward I), and had
C10) Sir Seymour Knightley of Norton (1580-1640) m. Dorothy Bedell (d. 1633), and had
C11) Anne Knightley (c.1620-1699) m. Dr. Jonathan Holled of Cottingham (1612-1680), and had
C12) Rev. Knightley Holled of Barby (c.1650-1700) m. Anne Mayne (d. 1730), and had
C13) Anne Holled (c.1680-1766) m. John Smith of Leire (1672-1742), and had
C14) Knightley Smith of Leire (c.1710-1740) m. Darell Jervis (1713-1740), and had
C15) Holled Smith of Normanton Turville Hall (1732-1795) m. Elizabeth Grace (1738-1786), and had
C16) Catherine Smith (1773-1832) m. Rev. Thomas Noel of Kirkby Mallory (see A18 above)

The next post will examine the Edward III descents of Muriel Jane Baird, wife of Byron Noel, maternal uncle of Francis Noel-Baker.

Cheers,                          -------Brad

{78} Descendants of Rev. Thomas Noel of Kirkby Mallory (1775-1853)

"In my foolish notions of right and wrong I have always thought Tom Noel unhappy, or unhappiest in being situated as dependant where by dint of a few words from infallible Church said over his parental congress, he needed not to have recurred to her for tithes instead of the nine remaining parts of ye property." - Lord Byron, December 1822.

2nd Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough (1745-1815)
[Portrait by Daniel Gardner c.1780]

Rev. Thomas Noel, rector of Kirkby Mallory, is one of the rare instances of an illegitimate child of a peer receiving mention in Burke's Peerage (107th Edn., 2003, p. 2442, sub Lytton). Conceived four months after his father had succeeded as 2nd Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough, and born at the end of 1775, Tom lived with his sister Anna Catherine, six years his senior, and their mother Anna Caterina van Loo, the Belgian-born Catholic mistress of Viscount Wentworth, for the first six years of  his life, until his mother's death in 1781. "My chief anxiety is about the poor Children," Viscount Wentworth wrote to his aunt Mary Noel (1725-1802) two days later, "which are truly dear to me, & as fine ones as can be...The Boy I shall educate well, & inculcate into him that his future livelihood must depend on some profession he may chuse." Viscount Wentworth stayed true to his word, sending his son to Rugby School in Warwickshire, where, in his last half-year, his father proudly wrote that Tom had "grown a devilish handsome strapping fellow." In April 1792, Viscount Wentworth sent his son to his own alma mater, Christ Church Oxford, and Tom Noel seems by that point to have decided on the career of a clergyman, for he was baptized in the Anglican church two days prior to his admission.

In the summer of 1795, having completed his third year at Christ Church, Tom Noel accompanied his cousin Sophia Curzon (1779-1849) to Ravensworth Castle in county Durham, the seat of Sir Thomas Liddell, 6th Baronet (1775-1855, later 1st Baron Ravensworth) and his widowed mother. There, Tom and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Liddell, the 21-year-old eldest sister of the baronet, fell in love. Thinking that Viscount Wentworth would settle a generous inheritance on his only son, the dowager Lady Liddell encouraged the romance. "Nothing could make me happier than seeing Tom so very respectably settled & his forming so enviable a connection," Viscount Wentworth wrote to his sister Judith, Lady Milbanke, "but surely I could wish that no Step might be taken without giving time & particularly to the Lady to reflect on future consequences." Once it became clear to Lady Liddell that Viscount Wentworth was both unwilling and unable (he had many debts and his properties were heavily mortgaged) to provide immediately for his son, she insisted that her daughter break off with Tom Noel. Two months later, Viscount Wentworth discovered that his son's "vanity was the only part much hurt by his dismission." Seven months later in May 1796, Tom Noel received his bachelor's degree from Oxford and eloped.

1811 engraving of Normanton Turville Hall, Leicestershire

"Tom has Stole a Match with Kitty Smith" and "must lie in the bed he had made for himself," Viscount Wentworth reported to his sister Judith Milbanke.  Catherine Smith was the 22-year-old daughter of Holled Smith, a Leicestershire attorney who had died the previous summer. Having lost her mother when she was thirteen years old, Catherine, the fourth of five surviving daughters, was a close neighbour to Viscount Wentworth and his son, for Normanton Turville Hall, her father's seat, was less than 5 miles from Kirkby Mallory. Left to her own devices immediately following her father's death, as her only brother Thomas Grace Smith (1770-1812) was distracted with the £33,000 sale of Normanton Turville, Catherine and Tom Noel found sympathy for their secret romance from Catherine's elder sister Susannah (née Smith) Coxe (1768-1836), and were married by her husband Rev. Richard Coxe, Vicar of Bucklebury. Though only recently elevated to the status of landed gentry - Holled Smith hadn't inherited Normanton Turville Hall, he had purchased it in the early 1780s - the Smiths could nevertheless claim descent from the Lord Protector Somerset (and so two lines from Edward III).

Edward III had two sons A1 & B1 (see below)
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

Lord Protector Somerset -
see Generation A8

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) Mary Clifford (c.1420-by 1458) m. Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead (1424-1464), and had
A6) Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead (1448-1499) m. 1) Anne Say (c.1448-aft.1489), and had
A7) Margery Wentworth (c.1478-1550) m. Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall (c.1474-1536), and had
A8) Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector (c.1500-1552) m. 2) Anne Stanhope (see B6 below), and had
A9) Lady Elizabeth Seymour (1550-1602) m. Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley Hall (1533-1615, descended from Edward I), and had
A10) Sir Seymour Knightley of Norton (1580-1640) m. Dorothy Bedell (d. 1633), and had
A11) Anne Knightley (c.1620-1699) m. Dr. Jonathan Holled of Cottingham (1612-1680), and had
A12) Rev. Knightley Holled of Barby (c.1650-1700) m. Anne Mayne (d. 1730), and had
A13) Anne Holled (c.1680-1766) m. John Smith of Leire (1672-1742), and had
A14) Knightley Smith of Leire (c.1710-1740) m. Darell Jervis (1713-1740), and had
A15) Holled Smith of Normanton Turville Hall (1732-1795) m. Elizabeth Grace (1738-1786), and had
A16) Catherine Smith (1773-1832), first wife of Rev. Thomas Noel of Kirkby Mallory

Anne (née Stanhope),
Duchess of Somerset -
see Generation B6

B1) Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-1397) m. Lady Eleanor de Bohun (1365-1399, descended from Edward I), and had

B2) Anne Plantagenet, Countess of Buckingham (1383-1438) m. 3) William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (c.1374-1420), and had
B3) William Bourchier, 9th Lord FitzWarin (c.1409-1469) m. 1) Thomasine Hankford (1423-1453), and had
B4) Fulk Bourchier, 10th Lord FitzWarin (1445-1479) m. Elizabeth Dinham (c.1450-1516), and had
B5) Elizabeth Bourchier (c.1478-1557) m. 3) Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton (1469-1511), and had
B6) Anne Stanhope (c.1510-1587) m. 1) Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (see A8 above)

Likely it was Tom Noel's stepmother Countess Ligonier who smoothed things over between her husband Viscount Wentworth and his impulsive son, for Tom named his firstborn child, which followed nine months after his wedding, 'Mary' in his stepmother's honour. In 1798, Viscount Wentworth was reconciled enough to Tom that he presented him the livings of Kirkby Mallory and Elmsthorpe. Rev. Noel received his Master's degree from Oxford in 1801, and settled down for the next dozen years as the rector of Kirkby Mallory. In 1812, he asked for, and was granted, the honour of performing the wedding ceremony of his cousin Anne Isabella Milbanke, the legal heir of Viscount Wentworth, to Lord Byron. The poet took a ring from his finger and gave it to Rev. Noel as a souvenir of the occasion, but one of Tom's daughters wrote to a friend, "Papa expects something more substantial for the service he has rendered Lord Byron."

Judith Noel, Lady Milbanke
(1751-1822)

Byron's observation of Rev. Noel's unhappiness proved right on the mark. In his later years, Tom was increasingly frustrated by the inheritance situation following his father's death in 1815. To provide for his two illegitimate children Viscount Wentworth stipulated in his will that his Gloucestershire estates were to be sold for payment of his debts and to provide legacies for his children. Judith Milbanke had laboured determinedly for the past two decades to insure that Viscount Wentworth designated her and her only daughter as his legal heirs, and Judith even agreed to her brother's stipulation that she, her husband, her daughter and even her son-in-law Lord Byron all had to legally assume the surname Noel. Judith triumphantly moved into Kirkby Hall immediately on inheriting it, and never left it again. With her usual incapacity for seeing any perspective other than her own, she then legally blocked her brother's executors from selling his Gloucestershire estates. In 1816, Rev. Noel and his sister Mrs. Biscoe, both with large families, sued their father's trustees, Judith, and her husband for a settlement under the terms of their father's will. Not blessed with the several manors and estates of the Milbankes and Noels which Judith had successfully combined, Viscount Wentworth's two children needed the cash he had stipulated for them to help provide for their families, and didn't have the luxury of waiting for property values to increase, which seemed to be Judith's goal in delaying the sale. Judith once referred to Tom's wife Catherine as "a poor timid low-spirited creature," so it's no surprise that when she took possession of Kirkby Hall, Rev. Noel appointed a fellow prelate to perform the clerical duties of the parish, and vacated Kirkby Mallory.

Kirkby Mallory Rectory in late 19th-century

Judith's death in 1822 prompted Rev. Noel's request to Lord Byron to intercede with Lady Byron, the new legal owner of Kirkby Hall, to obtain a promise that, following his death, the living of Kirkby Mallory should be given to one of his sons. Though Annabella, Lady Byron (later 11th Baroness Wentworth) was a far more generous lady of the manor than her mother had been, the damage Judith had caused Rev. Noel ran too deep. He wrote bitterly to Annabella in 1846: "Madam a stranger has afforded me the assistance of the loan of £60 which your silence or contempt on my application denied me, & from which the Consanguinity betwixt us and your ample means derived from my late Father you could so readily afford to his Publicly acknowledged son. Much of his property you are now enjoying had he not been so suddenly seized with paralysis he meant to leave to me & my sister, as He stated to me previous to his leaving Kirkby for London for the purpose of altering his will."

Lady Byron's refusal to loan money to Rev. Noel could have been a result of his own foolish behaviour. After the death of his wife Catherine in 1832, Rev. Noel seems to have moved to Calais, perhaps fleeing creditors. In 1838, at the age of 62, he made a second marriage there, to the 30-year-old Henrietta Fisher, an Englishwoman from Kent, and in 1846, when he was refused the loan by Lady Byron, they had two infant sons. His five surviving children from his first marriage, grown-up and starting families of their own, with the financial support of Lady Byron, were dismayed by their father's second wife and family. Rev. Noel felt betrayed enough by one of his sons, Charles Noel, who had accepted Lady Byron's offer in 1831 to serve as her resident land agent at Kirkby Mallory with an annual income of £100, that he cut him out of his will. Rev. Noel died in Plymouth at the age of 77 in the summer of 1853, leaving dual families: a 45-year-old widow with two young sons, aged 10 and 8, and grown children with families of their own scattered throughout England, Germany and Greece. It's evident that, thanks to the support of Lady Byron, the children of Rev. Noel's first marriage did much better in life than the two young sons of his second marriage. When his widow Henrietta died in Plymouth in 1878, her estate was valued at less than £300. Her elder son Vincent Noel had become a physician, but sadly died of scarlet fever at age 23 while treating an outbreak of it in Plymouth. The younger son Henry Noel, was the only one of Rev. Noel's six sons to follow in his footsteps and become a clergyman. He became rector of a parish in Manchester, and died there in 1893 leaving two sons of his own. The elder, Ternan Noel, a labourer who immigrated to Canada and died in a psychiatric facility, and the younger, Archibald Noel, a bookkeeper in Manchester - a far cry from the lectures at Christ Church and summers at Kirkby Hall and Ravensworth Castle that their grandfather had experienced.

Gatehouse of Christ Church Oxford

Rev. Noel spent the last four decades of his life focused on his father's will and the unfairness of the Wentworth inheritance. The bitterness is completely understandable. Viscount Wentworth spent the last twenty years of his life at Kirkby Mallory with his son Tom the young rector, and the county locals certainly viewed Tom as the natural heir to the manor. The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century (1871) even goes so far as to say (pp. 157-8): "The family is now represented by Lord Wentworth, the grandson of the late Lady Noel Byron, and by the male descendants of the last Viscount, who (it is believed) duly contracted a marriage on the Continent with Catherine Louisa Van Loo--a Belgian lady--but not according to the rites of the Church of England. The offspring of this union was Thomas, afterwards the Rev. Thomas Noel, Rector of Kirkby Mallory." If his mother's Catholicism was indeed the only reason keeping Tom from legitimacy, it's a real shame as there's every indication that Tom Noel would have made a worthy peer. His marriage to Elizabeth Liddell would have been a far more brilliant match than his father's to Countess Ligonier, and demonstrates Tom had the ability and personality to surpass his father's limited achievements and influence at court and in the political arena. That Rev. Noel ended his life stewing under the assumption that he had been cheated from an inheritance is sad, for the appointment of Charles Noel as land agent shows that Lady Byron, unlike her obsessively ambitious mother, recognized an importance in keeping the Noel line at Kirkby Mallory.

Charles, the son Rev. Noel felt inclined to cut out from inheritance, was able to reach a state his father never could: forgiveness. He wrote to Lady Byron: "Relating to the will of my late Father I wish to place on record my earnest desire in relation to that document. First I freely forgive the dead. Next I wish to prove to the widow that I cannot in hope of a future world before my eyes use the same weapons in defence...and I trust that I may be enabled to live and die without receiving in any way benefit from my Father's property." That a son engaged in a material career proved more spiritual in the end than a father engaged in a clerical one may not be so unusual among the 19th-century English clergy. Lord Byron deferred to his estranged wife on the matter of Rev. Noel, "she is a better judge of parsons than me."

Rev. THOMAS NOEL, Rector of Kirkby Mallory 1798-1853, b. 28 Dec. 1775 England, bap. 25 Apr. 1792 St Marylebone, London; d. 22 Aug. 1853 Plymouth, Devon, bur. 29 Aug. 1853 Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, illegitimate son of Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough (1745-1815, descended from Edward III) and Anna Catherina Vanloo (d. 1781); m. 1st 7 May 1796 St Mary Church, Bucklebury, Berkshire, CATHERINE SMITH, b. Claybrooke, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, bap. 21 Aug. 1773 St Mary Church, Lutterworth; d. 11 Mar. 1832 Norris Hill, Hampshire, dau. of Holled Smith of Normanton Turville Hall (1732-1795, descended from Edward III) and Elizabeth Grace (1738-1786), and had issue, five sons and five daughters; m. 2nd 1 Mar. 1838 Town Hall, Calais, France, HENRIETTA ELIZABETH FISHER, b. 27 July 1808 Gravesend, Kent, bap. 28 Jan. 1812 St George Church, Gravesend; d. 27 Aug. 1878 St Stephen-By-Saltish, Cornwall, bur. 30 Aug. 1878 Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, dau. of Thomas Fisher of Gravesend (d. 1814) and Mary (?)Milgate, and had further issue, two sons.

Town Hall, Calais, France

Issue of Rev. Thomas and Catherine (Smith) Noel:

1) MARY GEORGIANA NOEL, b. 11 Feb. 1797, bap. 11 May 1797 St Peter & St Paul Church, Yattendon, Berkshire; d. unm. 25 Sept. 1815 Malvern, Worcestershire.

2) CATHARINE JUDITH NOEL, b. 6 Apr. 1798, bap. 29 May 1798 St Peter & St Paul Church, Yattendon; d. unm. 19 May 1815 Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire.

3) THOMAS NOEL of Boyne Cottage, Cookham, Berkshire, poet, b. 11 May 1799 Kirkby Mallory, bap. 13 May 1799 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. 22 May 1861 Brighton, Sussex; m. 29 Jan. 1831 All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, as her 1st husband, EMILY ANNE HALLIDAY, b. 13 Oct. 1812 Ham Lodge, Surrey, bap. 6 Nov. 1815 All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames; d. 7 Dec. 1882 Rochdale, Lancashire, yr. dau. of Capt. Francis Alexander Halliday of Ham Lodge (1773-1830, descended from Henry VII) and Anne White (1777-1840), and had issue, two sons and one daughter.

Issue of Thomas and Emily Anne (Halliday) Noel:

3A) THOMAS HALLIDAY NOEL, b. 1845 Boyne Cottage; d. 1859 Brighton.

3B) EMILY ELIZA NOEL, b. 1849 Boyne Cottage; d. 31 Jan. 1934 West Norwood, Surrey; m. 29 June 1869 St Nicholas Church, Brighton, JOHN GEORGE CHARLES SCHULER of West Norwood, language instructor, b. 16 Jan. 1847 Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany, bap. there 7 Feb. 1847; d. 27 Mar. 1919 West Norwood, son of Johann Georg Schuler of Stuttgart and Friedrike Regine Menninger, and had issue, six sons and four daughters.

Noel of Kirkby Coat of Arms

3C) BYRON BRUCE NOEL of Evenwood, Ockham, Surrey, land agent to Earl of Lovelace, b. 14 Nov. 1851 Boyne Cottage; d. 3 Apr. 1909 Evenwood, bur. 8 Apr. 1909 All Saints Church, Ockham;  m. 1874 Kensington, London, AMY ELFORD ADAMS, b. 6 Nov. 1854 Aberdeen, Scotland, bap. 26 Nov. 1854 Old Machar, Aberdeen; d. 1 Mar. 1940 Heathfield House, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, only dau. of Capt. William Elford Adams  of Aberdeen (1822-1856) and Anna Maria Bannerman (1829-1904, descended from James I of Scotland), and had issue, six sons and seven daughters.

4) ROWNEY NOEL [son], b. 20 June 1800 Kirkby Mallory, bap. there same day; d. 25 June 1800 Kirkby Mallory, bur. there same day.

5) JANE NOEL, bap. 31 Aug. 1801 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; bur. there 13 Oct. 1801.

6) Maj. ROBERT RALPH NOEL of Brompton, Middlesex, Leicestershire Regiment Militia, phrenologist, bap. 28 Oct. 1802 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d.s.p. 3 July 1883 Brompton; m. 1838 Germany, LOUISE VON HENNIGEN, b. 1813 Bohemia; d.s.p. 27 Apr. 1885 Brompton.

7) SOPHIA ANNE NOEL, b. 26 July 1805 Kirkby Mallory, bap. 17 Nov. 1812 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. 2 June 1876 Richmond, Surrey; m. 20 Aug. 1833 St Martin Church, Bryanston, Dorset, Lt. LIONEL HALLIDAY of St Helier, Jersey, b. 5 Mar. 1803 Ruxbury, St Anne's Hill, Surrey, bap. 2 May 1803 St Peter Church, Chertsey, Surrey; d. 23 Jan. 1846 Dinan, Brittany, France, est son of Capt. Francis Alexander Halliday of Ham Lodge (1773-1830, descended from Henry VII) and Anne White (1777-1840), and had issue, three sons and three daughters.

All Saints Church, Leamington Priors

8) CHARLES NOEL of Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, land agent for Lady Byron, b. 7 June 1809 Kirkby Mallory (twin with sister Anna Frances), bap. 17 Nov. 1812 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. 7 May 1857 Leamington Priors, bur. 9 May 1857 All Saints Church, Leamington Priors; m. 2 June 1836 St Catherine Church, Burbage, Leicestershire, MARY ANNE DYKE, bap. 30 Apr. 1802 St Catherine Church, Burbage; d. 20 Apr. 1857 Leamington Priors, bur. 23 Apr. 1857 All Saints Church, Leamington Priors, dau. of Rev. Jerome Dyke of Burbage (1771-1837) and Mary Sheppard (1775-1826), and had issue, one son and two daughters.

Issue of Charles and Mary Anne (Dyke) Noel:

8A) MARY AUGUSTA NOEL, governess, b. 1837 Kirkby Mallory; living 1861 - further history not known[*1].

8B) CATHERINE EMMA NOEL, bap. 4 Aug. 1838 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; living 1857 - further history not known[*1].

8C) CHARLES EDWARD NOEL of Purbrook Cosham, Hampshire, bap. 24 July 1840 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. unm. 19 May 1876 Portsmouth, Hampshire.

9) ANNA FRANCES NOEL, b. 7 June 1809 Kirkby Mallory (twin with brother Charles), bap. 17 Nov. 1812 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. unm. Apr. 1833 Bloomsbury, London, bur. 27 Apr. 1833 St Mary Church, Hanwell, Middlesex.

Edward Henry Noel (1811-1884)

10) EDWARD HENRY NOEL of Hampstead, Middlesex and Achmetaga, Euboea [today Evia], Greece, b. 18 June 1811 Kirkby Mallory, bap. 17 Nov. 1812 All Saints Church, Kirkby Mallory; d. 29 Feb. 1884 Hampstead, bur. 5 Mar. 1884 St Mary Church, Hendon, Middlesex; m. 18 June 1838 St Mary Church, Ealing, Middlesex, FRANCES ISABELLA DOYLE, b. 1819 Bengal, India; d. 5 Nov. 1845 Torquay, Devon, bur. 11 Nov. 1845 St Saviour Church, Tormohun, Devon, dau. of Maj-Gen. Carlo Joseph Doyle (1787-1848) and Chiano Begum (d. by 1820), and had issue, two sons and three daughters.

Issue of Edward Henry and Frances Isabella (Smith) Noel:

10A) IRENE SELINA NOEL, b. 22 May 1839 Athens, Greece, bap. 23 May 1839 St Paul Anglican Church, Athens; d. unm. 1855 Piraeus, Attica, Greece, bur. Athens.

10B) EDITH CATHERINE NOEL, b. 25 Oct. 1840 Athens, bap. 25 Dec. 1840 St Paul Anglican Church, Athens; d. in infancy 5 July 1841 Trieste, Italy.

10C) EDGAR CARLO NOEL, b. 12 Feb. 1842 Leamington Priors; d. in infancy there Oct. 1842.

10D) ALICE MARY NOEL, b. 27 Feb. 1843 Leamington Priors, bap. 4 Sept. 1844 All Saints Church, Leamington Priors; d.s.p. 10 Apr. 1929 Hampstead; m. 2 July 1885 St John Church, Hampstead, JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY MACDONALD of Browns Copse, Heyshott, Sussex, M.P. Bow & Bromley 1892-95, M.P. Falkirk Burghs 1906-18, b. 9 Oct. 1854 Strachur, Argyllshire, Scotland; d.s.p. 16 Jan. 1939 Browns Copse, son of Rev. Hugh Ferguson MacDonald of Strachur (d. 1901) and Christina McIver (d. 1883).

Alice (née Noel) MacDonald
(1843-1929)

10E) FRANCIS EDWARD NOEL of Achmetaga, b. 31 July 1844 Leamington Priors, bap. 4 Sept. 1844 All Saints Church, Leamington Priors; d. 28 Sept. 1919 Achmetaga, bur. there; m. 26 Feb. 1876 St Stephen Kensington, London (divorce c.1885), EDITH ELLEN VINER, bap. 8 Aug. 1856 All Saints Church, St John's Wood, Middlesex; bur. 19 Aug. 1893 St Peter Church, Turnham, Buckinghamshire, yst dau. of Thomas Viner, coffee merchant, of Ceylon & Wavendon Lodge, Woburn, Buckinghamshire (c.1808-1884) and Emma ---, and had issue, one son and one daughter.

Issue of Rev. Thomas and Henrietta Elizabeth (Fisher) Noel:

11) Dr. VINCENT EDMUND NOEL of Plymouth, Devon, physician, bap. 11 June 1843 St Andrew Church, Plymouth; d. unm. 6 Dec. 1866 Plymouth, bur. 11 Dec. 1866 Ford Park Cemetery.

12) Rev. HENRY ANTHONY NOEL, Rector of St Clements Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire 1881-93, b. 27 Mar. 1845 Plymouth, bap. 12 June 1845 St Andrew Church, Plymouth; d. 12 May 1893 St Clements Rectory, Longsight; m. 26 May 1869 St Clement Danes, London, JANE ELIZABETH O'NEIL, b. 1842 Rame, Cornwall; d. Dec. 1909 Chorlton, Manchester, bur. 4 Jan. 1910 Southern Cemetery, Chorlton, dau. of Capt. Henry O'Neil of Plymouth (1812-1884) and Mary Cole, and had issue, two sons and one daughter.

Issue of Rev. Henry Anthony and Jane Elizabeth (O'Neil) Noel:

12A) IRENE MAY NOEL, b. Halifax, Yorkshire, bap. 28 Mar. 1870 All Saints Church, Salterhebble, Yorkshire; d. 24 Jan. 1925 Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire; m. 19 Apr. 1894 St Clements Longsight, as his 1st wife, ROBERT ASTLEY HOPWOOD of Manchester, Master Merchant Marines, bap. 3 Nov. 1868 St Philip Hulme, Manchester; d. 1942 Lancashire, est son of Richard Hopwood of Manchester, lithographic printer (1847-1906) and Maria Louisa Robinson (1845-1933), and had issue, two sons and two daughters.

12B) TERNAN OSWALD NOEL of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, labourer, b. 29 Jan. 1873 Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; d. unm. 11 Apr. 1924 Protestant Hospital for the Insane, Verdun, Quebec.

Protestant Hospital for the Insane, Verdun, Quebec

12C) ARCHIBALD RANDOLPH PERCY NOEL of Manchester, "invoice clerk", bap. 7 Oct. 1877 St Stephen Church, St Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall; d.s.p. 2 Nov. 1940 Levenshulme, Manchester; m. 1 Aug. 1903 St Agnes Church, Birch in Rusholme, Manchester, ANGELINA MAY GREGORY, b. 1875 Manchester; d.s.p. 11 May 1943 Levenshulme, dau. of William Gregory of Manchester, bookkeeper, and Sarah Elizabeth Peers.

[*1] Mary Augusta Noel last appears on record in the 1861 Census as a governess, while her sister Catherine Emma last appears on record in their father Charles Noel's 1857 will. It's possible either or both sisters married, though neither has a readily apparent entry in the England Marriages 1837-1915 Index. Nor is there a readily apparent death entry for either sister in the England Deaths 1837-1915 Index. Administration of the estate of their brother Charles was granted in 1876 to their uncle Robert Ralph Noel, which suggests both sisters had predeceased their brother, though it's also possible one or both had emigrated from England.

The next blogpost will examine the Edward III descents for Francis Noel-Baker, M.P., a descendant of Rev. Thomas Noel.

Cheers,                                   ------Brad