Aeneas

Aeneas Perkins (1834-1901) married Janet Wilhelmina Cathrey (1840-1917)

Janet Wilhelmina was the daughter of Werner Cathrey and Jane Janette Hoseason. They were married in Calcutta in 1863.

General Sir Aeneas Perkins had a distinguished military career, serving in Indian Army from 1854 to 1891, seeing action during the Indian Mutiny. He took part in the Bhutan exhibition and served in Afghanistan, taking part in the march to Kandahar and the subsequent battle in 1880. His commanding officer praised Aeneas Perkins as 'a talented and indefatigable officer' but a fellow officer described him as ‘about the worst tempered fellow I know’ and considered his departure from India to be ‘the third relief of Lucknow’.

The Royal Collection Trust possesses a photograph of General Sir Aeneas Perkins:

https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/2/collection/2501442/general-sir-aeneas-perkins-1834-1901

Aeneas and Janet had two sons and three daughters. All but one of their children were born in India.

1. Arthur Ernest John Perkins (1866-1921) married Evelyn Minnie Louisa Foster (1868-1929), daughter of John Edward Foster, a barrister, and Mary Poole Kinglake, in Kensington in 1890.

Arthur Ernest John Perkins was an officer in the India Army.

They had one son and a daughter who died in infancy.

1.1. Aeneas Francis Quinton Perkins (1893-1940) married Dorothy Claire Martin Tompson (1891-1970) in London in 1915.

Col. Aeneas Francis Quinton Perkins MC was killed in action in the Second World War.

https://twgpp.org/information.php?id=1688911

2.2 Joan Evelyn Perkins (1899-1901)

2. Alice Eleanor Jane Perkins (1867-1945) married William Walter Lean (1854-1936), son of James Lean, a judge in India, and Maria Burville Holmes, in Brompton, Kensington and Chelsea, in 1892. They had two daughters.

Lt Col William Walter Lean served in the Indian Army. Alice changed her surname from Lean to Maclean in 1938. She died in Kenya.

They had two daughters.

2.1 Janet Winifred Lean (1893-1984) married Robert Hugh Holmes Jackson (born 1891), son of Brigadier-General Sir Robert Whyte Melville Jackson and Frances Mary MacTernan.

Janet was awarded an MBE in 1920 for services to FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). In the 1920s she settled in Kenya; she and her husband were farmers in the Nakuru area.

2.2. Margery Nancy Lean (born 1894) married Reginald Arthur Manby (born 1891), son of Arthur Maling Manly, in Kensington in 1918.

Reginald Arthur Manby was a Lieutenant in the Welsh Regiment in action in the First World War and he then joined the Royal Airforce. It would appear that he remarried in 1944.

3. Marie Elizabeth Perkins (1869-1929) married Alexander James Badcock (1866-1912), son of General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock and Theophilia Lowther Dumerrgue, in Lucknow in 1890. They had no children.

Major Alexander James Badcock was an officer in the India Army.

4. Aeneas Charles Perkins (1872-1915) married Mary Hepworth, daughter of Joseph Hepworth, Manor House, Morley, Yorkshire, in London in 1903. They had no children.

Major Aeneas Charles Perkins served in the Indian Army. In 1914 he proceeded to France. He died at the Battle of Ypres serving with the 40th Pathans.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205387032

5. Frances Claire Perkins (1876-1952) married Arthur Vyell Vyvyan (1875-1935), son of Richard Octavius Vyvyan, Indian Army officer, and Maria Sleeman, in Chelsea in 1914. They had no children.

Air Vice-Marshall Sir Arthur Vyell Vyvyan was an officer in the Royal Navy who then became involved in naval aviation and joined the Royal Air Force in 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyell_Vyvyan