Perkins family
Context
Bertie Fenwick 1870-1937 married Violet Edith Perkins. After they divorced, Violet married Col. Robert Clayton Swan.
Bertie and Violet's daughter, Rachel Fenwick married John G L Harding - see Harding of Packington website
Violet’s great-great grandfather was John Perkins 1731-1812
Rachel Harding nee Fenwick's son is Nicholas John Harding b1937, the author of this website
Information
Important sources of information have included the Burke's Landed Gentry entry for G A Perkins linked here and Notes on the Perkins family in the 19th century linked here. In 1937 descendants of John Perkins 1730-1812, Charles Alan Carlos Perkins and George Algernon Perkins commissioned a long and apparently authoritative document about John Perkins and his family. Also, very useful information has been received from two visitors to this page who were able to provide information on John Perkins' son, also John who fought in South America with one of Bolivar's lieutenants and on the adventures of the Barkley family.
(2018) A source recently found due to contact made by people living in the Feltham area of London, is the Facebook sites of Hanworth Park House. This site is available to all. This only to those who belong to the History group - several descendants have joined. Hanworth Park House belonged to Henry Perkins (9.2 above and below). He was the 2nd oldest son of John Perkins snr, John Perkins jnr having reputedly disgraced himself by eloping with the family nanny. Hanworth Park House is in a sad state of decline but the new owner/developer plus a very enthusiastic band of local people are struggling to getting planning permission to enable it to be saved. Anyone who feels this might be of interest is strongly advised to get in touch with them. Alternatively email me njhnw5@gmail.co.uk
Structure
We start with John Perkins Bpt 1731-1812. He is not only the earliest Perkins ancestor we could find much detail on but as we show, he started a prosperous and interesting dynasty. He is shown as being generation 8 in order to fit in with the Fenwick of Lambton Tree page so that Charles Perkins 1851-1905 is generation 11 on both pages. Charles and Edith Hunter's daughter Violet who married Bertie Fenwick is generation 12. Lower down a section headed the Earlier Perkins Family shows some of John Perkins' ancestors
Barkley Family History website
This site provided by a descendant of one of the brothers of Jane Hornby Perkins includes pages on her descendants and is recommended reading. https://sites.google.com/site/barkleyfamilyhistory/home/jane-hornby
Jane who married Charles Perkins (one of 8.1 John Perkins’ sons), was the daughter of the first European woman to sail round the world – details are on other pages on this site.
Perkins Family Tree starting with John Perkins 1731-1812 as generation 8
8.1. John Perkins 1731-1812 m1 Miss Polhill m2 Amelia Moseley
He died having been kicked by a horse owned by Lord Bolingbroke at Brighton races. He is buried in Southwark Cathedral where there is a tombstone in the north transept.
m1 Miss Polhill (we can't trace her first name anywhere!), 1st cousin of Nathanial Polhill MP. banker and tobacconist with whom he was in business in Borough (see Polhill connection lower down) in 1766. She died childless in 1769 or 1770.
m2 on 13.9.1774 or 30.11.1774 he married Amelia 1747-1830 (or 1826) dau of Edward Moseley (see Moseley connection below), widow of Timothy Paul Bevan (d. 1774 or 1829?) and from a wealthy family.
John or his half brother are thought to have been painted by Johann Zoffany
John was the chief clerk at Thrales “Anchor” Brewery and eventually went into partnership with David and Robert Barclay (of Barclays Bank) and his brother in law Sylvanus Bevan (who became the first Chairman of Barclays Bank) to take over the brewery which in 1796 became Barclay, Perkins & Co. In 1955 it was taken over by Courage. During John Perkins’ lifetime, Mrs Thrale was a well known hostess. Dr Samuel Johnson, a close family friend spent much of each year at the Thrales' house and advised Mrs Thrale on the brewery. His advice was very supportive of John Perkins, its chief clerk. See “The Thrales of Streatham Park” by Mary Hyde, this article on the Anchor Brewery "Bank Notes and Pints of Beer" and this on the Thrale family and brewery.
On 6th June 1780, according to the linked press cutting here "Thrale Brewery Gordon Riots" from the Gentleman's Magazine, the brewery was attacked by the Gordon rioters. John had the presence of mind to provide them with beer and they moved on.
This summarises his career according to one source (Stephen Barber) -
1752-1763. Working for the Polhills, 1763-1770. Clerk to Henry Thrale,
1770-1781. Superintendent to Henry Thrale, 1781-1812. Partner in Barclay, Perkins
John and Amelia had 5 sons and one daughter. It was the 5th son Charles who was Violet’s great grandfather,
His will as obtained recently - see John Perkins Will 1 linked here and John Perkins Will 2 linked here. both JPG files, The start of Will 1 and end of Will 2 appear to contain some text related to another person's Will. As it is difficult to read, an attempt at translation is also linked here- see John Perkins Snr Will.Docx. . Broadly speaking, it appears to leave his widow with a substantial income for life and his sons, Henry, Frederick, Alfred and Charles excluding John the eldest, his interest in the brewery. However, more work is needed to correctly "translate" the original document and it is possible that in one place there is a reference to his son, John which might mean that he was not entirely disinherited. His daughter had pre-deceased him.
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9.1. John Perkins MD 1775-1818 m Caroline Cook
He eloped with the family governess (Caroline Cook) when 19 and was disinherited. They married in about 1793 (“a happy marriage, however”). His mother who died in 1830 left Caroline £100 pa in her will. He took a medical degree at Edinburgh and became a distinguished doctor in Brussels. Burke’s records him as having been killed in South America fighting under Simon Bolivar and for a long time nothing could be found to confirm this until a Perkins relation provided this link showing a death notice in The Gentlemans Magazine. "Deaths 1818 July. At Old Guyana, in South America, in his 43rd year, Dr John Perkins, late of Brussels, eldest son of the late John Perkins Esq of Park St, Southwark”. It seems that there were 6000 or so recruited over a two year period starting in 1817.
This was followed up by Gord Sellar who had also been in contact over the Perkins family and he included this on his web site here.
"This led me to attempt a second search, which turned up gold! That is, it turned up a book titled A Narrative of the Expedition to the Rivers Orinoco and Apure in South America by G. Hippisley (1819), which includes a lot of detail regarding the fate of Dr John Perkins, Esq., of Brussels–written by someone who travelled with him during his last days. The book discusses in passing Perkins’ service under General Bermudez in the Venezuelan War of Independence and provides details of his death. Apparently Perkins regretted joining up with Bolívar, who reportedly screwed him over in the end and left him penniless; the poor fellow was trying to get back to Europe when he died.
Moreover, by that point Perkins had a female traveling companion (whom the author, one G. Hippisley, describes as a “petite chere amie”) who had apparently been with Perkins all the way back to Brussels. This was not the Ms. Cook mentioned in Harding’s earlier source (supposedly the Perkins family governess, with whom John Jr. supposedly eloped) but rather a Flemish woman named Eugenia. What happened to that Mrs. Perkins, I cannot say, nor whether Perkins was by then a widower and Eugenia the successor to his affections; the book seems not to dwell on the question, though it seems to me to attempt to make it clear by its innuendo that they were, at least, not married. (Hippisley would surely just call Eugenia the man’s wife, and not his “petite chere amie”, were they married.)
(Eugenia also sounds like a real tough cookie, as Hippisley observed: wading through rivers in the bush and so on.)
Ultimately, John Perkins Jr. succumbed to an unexplained fever, by the way; there is mention of a detailed journal of his trip and of the campaign, though its ultimate fate was unknown… the author speculates that it went to Martinique with Eugenia, but he doesn’t know for sure.
Other little bits and ends come up; Perkins’ subscription to The Medical-Chirurgical Review and Medical Science Quarterly, for example, seemed not to have run out even by 1821–he’s listed among the subscribers for both 1820 and 1821, the former listing him at Rue d’Orangerie in Brussels. There’s also some mention in one genealogical survey seems to confirm Perkins did marry a Caroline Cook, and at least one child, and died in South America, though I cannot access the entry directly.
Anyway, it’s possible Hippisley’s book will yield more information: I’ve only skimmed it. But quite a life!"
In a detailed document written in 1937 by Stephen Barber for Charles Alan Carlos Perkins and George Algernon Perkins - gt gt grandsons of John Perkins snr, they confirm John jnr's involvement with Bolivar and say he died in Caracas. They also say that he was a friend of the Prince of Orange
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10.1. Dr John Perkins b9.5.1795 m Emily Jones
m 10.8.1820 in Stamford Baron, Northants, Emily Jones. Described as "disinherited, m against father's will. Lived in Brussels. 4s 2dau
11.1. Dr (Richard) Henry Jones Perkins m Ann Campbell
b23.4.1824 Brussels d14.1.1888 Castletown Road, West Kensington Surgeon General in Bengal m Ann Bowden Campbell 1844-1933. She died in Hove. 3s 1 dau
12.1. John Charles Campbell Perkins 1866-1916 m1 Emma Victoria Augusta Grant in India m2 Charlotte Mary Beauchamp in New Zealand
12.2. Dr Henry Campbell Perkins 1868-1955 m Lena Hannah Beaumont in India. 2dau
13.1. Marjorie Campbell Perkins 1903-1979 m Eustace Foster Godfrey Bird
13.2. Anne Campbell Perkins b1906
12.3. Dennis Campbell Perkins 1872-1948 m Isabel Goodwin. Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Company
12.4. Emily Banner Campbell Perkins 1871-?1966 unmarried
11.2. Maj General John Perkins 1826-1910 m Maria Jackson
or 1825-1913 m Maria Jackson 1836-1904 a relative of his mother
12.1. Bertram Perkins. Army Officer
12.2. Richard Perkins
12.3. Doris Perkins
12.4. Amelia Perkins
12.5. Ethel Jemima Nevill Perkins 1856-1886 m Hamilton John Baker. She was b in India and d in Queensland, Australia. 1 dau
13.1. Dr Ethel Mary Dorathea Nevill Baker
12.6. Maud Maria Ann Perkins 1857-1858. born in Simla and died from dysentery at Mazagon during Indian mutiny.
12.7. Florence E Perkins b1859 New York
12.8. John Denis Perkins 1861-1889, 14th Bengal Lancers. Died playing polo.
12.9? Alfred Armyn Richard Perkins b1873 Isle of Wight d Brussels 1901
11.3. William Perkins 1826-1887 m1 ? m2 Matilda Driou
b Brussels, married twice. Settled in USA, died in Chicago, 2nd wife Mathilda Driou (French) 1834-1887 1s 3dau
12.1 Matilde Perkins Duthil Koester (11/1862) m1. Ernest/Edward Duthil (5/1849) m2. 15 Jun 1926, Charles E. Koester (b1866)
12.2. Alice Perkins Bussard (1863-1897) m. Randolph J. Bussard (m2.1905)
13.1 Mildred Bussard (1888- 1975)
12.3. Juliette Perkins (Oct 1868 - 30 Mar 1908)
12.4. Henri Perkins (1865-1940) m. Mary Belz
11.4. Alfred Perkins ?1830-1862 married and settled in USA
Another source says b1830, he served with the Bengal Police and d cholera 1862
11.5. Amelia Perkins 1827-1886 m1852 Stallmeister Ernst Heinrich Wissel, Berlin. 5 children
11.6. Tottie Perkins "married a foreigner and settled abroad"
10.2. William Henry Perkins 1799-1879 m Jane or Jeanne Benson 1dau.
Lived in Rue de Tuliipe Belgium. Courier of the English Embassy
11.1. Jane of Jeanne Perkins b1842 Brussels m Francois de Honsteyn
m Francois de Honsteyn, b1841 in Brussels - record from Belgium archives in Perkins Belz Bunn Swanson document. There is a curious comment about the bride daughter of her father, unrecognized by her mother.
12.1. William de Honsteyn
10.3. Amelia Carolina Sophronia Perkins m1 Thomas Farmer-Bailey m2 William Smith
m1 Thomas Farmer-Bailey of Hale Place, Kent1799-1828 m2 William Smith
Amelia Perkins (wife of 8.1. John Perkins) left her house in Royal Crescent, Brighton to Amelia Carolina Sophronia nee Perkins Perkins and her son, Charles Perkins (9.6.) as tenants in common
11.1. Thomas Farmer-Bailey d1876 no issue
10.4. Rosa Maria Secunda Perkins b1803 Brussels m Joseph Gustave Collignon and had issue
11.1. Jane Perkins
11.2. Dr Henri Frederique Callignon b1838
9.2. Henry Perkins 4.12.1776 -15.4.1855 m1803 Susanna Jane Latham 1776-1830
2s 4 dau. Henry may have contracted a 2nd marriage though it seems more likely that he took a long-term partner after his wife died as "Elizabeth Randall, commonly called Elizabeth Perkins" appears in the 1851 census and similarly elsewhere. Henry and Jane and later their son Algernon lived in Hanworth Park House, Middx. It was built by the Duke of St Albans to replace Old Hanworth Park which burnt down in 1797. In 2021 Hanworth Park House is in a poor state but the subject of a vigorous local campaign to have it restored - its Facebook group has over 2,400 members. Latest news Oct 2021 the Council are approving a development proposal which includes Council support and which should ensure the house is fully restored.
This video is worth watching by anyone interested in its history and current situation.
Although Henry died in his house in Dover, he was buried in the family vault in St George's Church, Hanworth.
Henry's estate amounted to £180,000. Algernon received £80,000 plus 3/4 of an eighth share in the Barclay Perkins Brewery, the other 1/4 having been given to Algernon earlier. Elizabeth, his wife, received £1,300 plus £800 pa for life.
He joined Barclay, Perkins. 2 sons 3 dau
10.1. Henry Perkins ?-1827. Accidentally killed when undergraduate at Oxford
A report in the Times recently found by the friends of Hanworth Park House, reads "We regret to learn that on Saturday a melancholy accident occurred at St John's College, Oxford. H. Perkins, Esq., Gentleman Commoner, New College, son of the eminent brewer, was leaving an evening party, and as he was passing down steps, his foot slipped, and he fell to the bottom and his neck was dislocated by the fall, and he died in a few hours afterwards. His father had, on Wednesday, the melancholy duty of removing the corpse to London. What renders the circumstance more particularly melancholy, is the fact, that the whole family had taken apartments in the town, and were on the point of setting out for Oxford, when the intelligence was communicated to them.
10.2.Matilda Perkins 1807 died in infancy
10.3. Algernon Perkins 1808-15.11.1872 m1835 Sophia Clementina Soltau 1809-1885, no issue
Extract from University of Toronto library re heraldic arms stamped on book covers reads
"Perkins, Algernon (1808 -1872). Algernon Perkins, of Hanworth Park, Middlesex, was the second but eldest surviving son of the well known book collector, Henry Perkins, of Hanworth Park, Middlesex, and Jane Latham.
Educated at Oriel College Oxford, where he matriculated 20 October 1826 age seventeen, and took his B.A. in 1831 and his M.A. in 1833. He then entered as a Student of the Inner Temple in 1831.
He married Sophia, daughter of George William Soltau, of Little Efford in Devon. He died without issue in 1872. After his death the library was sold at auction by Gadsden, Ellis & Co at Hanworth on 3-6 June 1873, when the 865 lots produced £26,000. It contained no less than two copies of the Gutenberg Bible, one printed on vellum and a second on paper. See here and here.
Following his death, Hanworth Park, including Hanworth Park House, comprising 468 acres was sold in lots by auction. A brief description is in the linked Hanworth Park Auction Extract.
Seat / Residence(s): Hanworth Park, Middlesex"
Extract from his Will reads
"The will and codicil of Algernon Perkins of Hanworth park were proved on the 23rd ult by Raymond South Paley and John Bagot Escriven, the ?, the personal estate including leaseholds being sworn under £250,000.
The testator had left to his wife, Sophia Clementina, all the household furniture and effects at his residence 81 Harley Street and 26 Waterloo Crescent, Dover and all his plate and horses and carriages, wherever they may be, his said residence 26 Waterloo Crescent and two pecuniary legacies amounting to £1,500.
To Frederick Keen, gamekeeper at Hanworth park £750; and to George Keen, the under-gamekeeper, William Sealey, lodge-keeper and Ellisa Sashy, the housekeeper at Hamworth park legacies of £250 each.
The testator gives to his trustees a sum of ...."
10.4. Sophia Perkins 1805-15.10.1899 m1833 Thomas or John Paley d1860 5s 4dau
11.1. Grace Sophia Paley 1836-1925 m Stephen Lancelot Koe 4s 3dau
12.1. Lancelot Charles Koe b1862
12.2. Lilian Alice Koe b1864
12.3. Archibald Stephen Koe b1865
12.4. Shephenson Edward Lawrence Koe b1868
12.5. Marion Agnes Koe b1870 m Thomas Wedderburn Ogilvy
13.1. Donald Stephen Wedderburn Ogilvy m Myra Caroline Henrietta Eustace
12.6. Hilda Koe b1872
12.7. Francis Paley Koe 1877-1908
11.2. Lt Charles Thomas Paley 1837-1859 died in Murree, Punjab
11.3. Raymond South Paley b c1838
11.4. Alice Jane Paley c1839-1864 m1862 James Walker Robertson.
She died in Malta
11.5. Amelia Susannah Paley 1840-1858
11.6. Ethel Ann Paley 1842-1882 m1861 Capt Marmaduke Constable 1833-1916 8s 2dau
12.1. Ethel Margaret Constable b1863
12.2. Percy Marmaduke Constable b1864
12.3. Charles Roy Constable b1865
12.4. John Montague Constable 1866-1931 m Harriet Gordon Ingram
12.5. Alice Constance Edith Constable b1868
12.6. Harry Paley Constable 1870-1901
12.7. Ernest Algernon Constable b1873
12.8. Hugh Cecil Constable b1874
12.9. Clifford Edward Constable b1876
12.10. Douglas La Coste Constable b1881
11.7. Algernon Herbert Paley 1843-1891 m1869 in Paris, Antonia Fernanda Maria del Valle 2s 3dau
12.1. Frieda Sophia Paley b1877
12.2. Lt Edric Algernon Paley 1878-1907
12.3. Ivor Stephen Paley b1880
12.4. Edith Maud Paley 1882-1967 m Robert Cecil Hamilton RN
12.5. Tephie Ethilda Paley b1883
11.8. Cuthbert Henry Paley 1845-1890 m Francisca Saratjee Campbell 1s 3dau
12.1. Reginald Henry Paley b1875
12.2. Clare Gertrude Paley b1876
12.3. Mabel Paley b1878
12.4. Gladys Paley b1880
11.9. Edward Groves Paley b1849
10.5. Matilda Perkins 1814-1889 m1Frederick Oswald Perkins m2 Major General Edward Richard Bago
m1 Frederick Oswald Perkins (her cousin 10.1. below, dau of Frederick Perkins 9.4. below) m2 Major General Edward Richard Bagot 1804-1874 Colonel Commandant, 4th Battalion, Royal Middlesex Militia of Ashtead Park 2s 2dau
11.1. Evelyn Bagot m Capt Augustus Woodley Bernal 1825-1908,
5th Madras Cavalry (brother of Sir Richard Bernal-Osborne MP whose dau Grace m the 10th Duke of St Albans) 1dau
12.1. Adeline Bernal 1870-1927
11.2. Ethel Bagot m Major General George Paton CMG 1841-1931
Colonel Commandant, South West Borderers. 2s
12.1. Major Ian Valentine Paton DSO 1875-1961. 1 dau
13.1. Dau m Lt Col Basil Jerome Murphy 1908-2001. RA
12.2. Basil George Bagot Paton 1876-1902
11.3. Lt Col Ponsonby Bagot. Scots Guards, unmarried
11.4. Lt Col Villiers Bagot. Rifle Brigade, unmarried
10.6. Selina Perkins 1811-1858 m Lt Col. John Scriven 1808-1878 barrister
2s, perhaps 1 other. Selina shown on burial plot as 2nd dau ie not 3rd as shown here
11.1. John Bagot Scriven 1836-1893
11.2. Horace William Scriven d1896 KOSB
11.3. Susanna Mary Scriven 1839-1929 m Rev. John Lovell Robinson 1821-1879
Rev. Robinson became Rector of Hanworth. They had at least 2 children who were baptised in Hanworth including Herbert Robinson.
12.1. Algernon Perkins Robinson 1868-1945 m Isabelle Hoggan 1876-1944 (Canadian). Algernon moved to Canada. Occupations shown as labourer, farmer and salesman. He died in British Colombia.
13.1. Norah Leslie Robinson 1896-1961 m Ford Small 1893-1983
14.1. Darrel Lovell Small 1915-2008 m Margaret Hannah Edna Bell 1916-1949
15.1. Carol Margaret Small
9.3. Amelia Sophia Perkins 1779-1796. Spinster
9.4. Frederick Perkins 1780-1860 m1801 Susanna Sanders.
Lived at Chipstead Place. Joined Barclay, Perkins. 6 sons 7 dau
Extract from University of Toronto library re heraldic arms stamped on book covers.
"Frederick Perkins, of Chipstead Place in Kent, was the third son of John Perkins, founder of the brewing firm of Barclay, Perkins of Southwark, and Amelia, sister of Benjamin Moseley M.D. of Chelsea Hospital and of Kingston Jamaica, and widow of Timothy Paul Bevan.
He succeeded his father as head of the brewery. He married, 12 November 1801, Sophia, daughter of Samuel Sanders of Denmark Hill in the County of Surrey. He served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1843. He started collecting books about 1820 and left his library to his second son George who died in 1879. A portion, chiefly musical, was sold by auction in London by Puttick and Simpson 17 July 1861, and a second sale, rich in Shakespeare quartos and folios took place at the rooms of Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on 10 July 1889".
10.1. Frederick Oswald Perkins 1804-? m Matilda Perkins (his cousin 10.4. above, son of Henry Perkins 9.2. above)
10.2. George Perkins 1805-1879 m1 1840 Baroness Louisa de Beers m2 1865 Elizabeth Casendick
1s 1dau
11.1. George Perkins 1843-? m 1866 Florence Jane George
Described as "married an actress". 2s. He may also have had a dau Irene who married Scholl a French journalist.
12.1. (George) Frederick Perkins ("disinherited"..) 2s
12.2. Algernon Edward Perkins 1869-1926 m Meriel Gundrede Leighton, dau of Sir Baldwin Leighton 1s 2dau
13.1. George Algernon Perkins of Bure House, Lamas, Norwich 1896- m Marjorie Emily Morse. He fought in the Archangel campaign. 1s 1dau
14.1. John Douglas Leighton Perkins 1929-
14.2. Alison Marjorie Gundrede Perkins m 1952 Stephen Richard Trappes-Lomax 1913-1982 2s 2dau
15.1. Mary Alison Catherine Trappes-Lomax m Alexander Cockburn b1953 2s
16.1. George Stephen Denison Cockburn b1986
16.2. Alastair William Richard Cockburn b1989
15.2. Francis George Trappes-Lomax b1955 m Annettte Chalkley 1s 1dau
16.1. Catherine Ruth Trappes-Lomax b1988
16.2. Christopher Michael Trappes-Lomax b1990
15.3.Clare Gundrede Trappes-Lomax b1957 m 1983 Brian Ronald Weir Gibson 1dau
16.1. Emma Clare Gibson b1987
15.4. Richard Nicholas Henry Trappes-Lomax b1960
13.2. Meriel Elizabeth Perkins
13.3. Cynthia Gertrude Perkins m Rev Ronald Charles Lambart Williams d1963
11.2. Irene Perkins m ? Scholl (a French journalist)
10.3. Emily Perkins 1806-1858 m William Newton or Nathaniel Shaw or both
2 sons
10.4. Augustus Samuel Perkins 1809-1866 m 1832 Adelaide Perkins
Adelaide Perkins (also referred to as Amelia) was his cousin, dau of Alfred Thrale Perkins. Described as at one time being in business with James Mullen, son of Jane Rebecca Mullens nee Trevor ie sister of Frances Barkely. 1 son only (Augustus) according to one tree, 5 dau also on another and shown here with their descendants
11.1. Augustus Frederick Perkins 1837-1921 m Cecilia Marion
Cecilia was dau of Rev. Charles Carlos Clarke 2 sons 4 dau
12.1. Ada Marion Carlos Susanna Perkins b1870 m Col. Cartwright
12.2. Elsie Adelaide Carlos Perkins b1873 m H F Bowyer
13.1. Frederick Hugh Bowyer m Clare Mason
14.1. George Bowyer
12.3. Ernest Algernon Carlos Perkins 1868-1869
12.4. Major Charles Alan Carlos Perkins 1875-1961/62 married three times, 2dau?. However, on one pedigree he is shown as having died in 1875!
11.2. Emily Jane Perkins b1833 m.1836 Sidney Glendinning 1s 1dau
12.1. Douglas Glendinning no issue
12.2. (Lily) Blanche Glendinning m Charles Leverson Lane 1s 2dau
13.1. Blanche Evelyn Lane m Capt. H Clutton
13.2. Gerald Philip Charles Lane
13.3. Dorothy Mary Lane
m (Louis) Charles de Montigny 1805-1868 (assumed to be the same as is linked). 1s 3dau
12.1. Marguerite Clotilde Adelaide Montigny m1896 Capt Edouard Solenti 1s 2dau
13.1. Marcelle Solenti
13.2. Germaine Solenti
13.3. Louis Solenti
12.2. Cecile Montigny m Hector Millot
12.3. Rosamond Montigny m Naliaghte?
12.4. Godefroi Montigny m Julia?
11.4. Ada Perkins died in infancy
11.5. Grace Perkins 1843-1873 m Dr Edouard Fauconnet
11.6. Blanche Rosamund Perkins m1 Major Henry Chilton m2 Hamilton Piffard 1dau
12.1. Sybil Perkins m Lt Col. Walter Kerrich m Naomi Clarke 1s 1dau
13.1. Henry Adrian Walter Kerrich
14.1. Michael William Walter D'Oyly Kerrich
13.2. Magarette Sybil Kerrich
10.5. Edward Moseley Perkins b and d 1810
10.6. Percival Perkins 1812-1842 m 1839 Eden Thackrah d1899
She subsequently married Sir Charles Henry Ibbetson 5th Bt and then Henry John Selwyn-Ibbetson 1st and only Baron Rookwood. No issue
10.7. Helen Perkins 1812-1891 m Capt Nathaniel Boyle Frend Shaw,
17th Lancers. 1s 1dau
10.8. Laura Susanna Perkins1814-1899 m Alfred Smith
1s who died 1886 2dau both unmarried
10.9. Charles James Perkins 1815-1849 RN unmarried
10.10. Clara Perkins 1816-1873 m William F Sykes
10.11. Anna Maria Perkins 1818-1896 m Robert Hobson had issue
10.12. Julia Perkins 1821-1855 m1842 Frederick Hennessy of Cognac
m 1842 Frederick Hennessy of Cognac 1807-1878, son of James/Jacques Hennessy and Martha Martell. 4s. Lived at Chipstead Park
11.1. Armand Hennessy 1845-1899 no issue
11.2. Robert Hennessy 1846-1908 no issue
11.3. Martha Lucy Hennessy 1854-1941 m1 1872 Richard Hennessy m2 1888 Lord James Sholto Douglas 1855-1891 (suicide),
Lord James Sholto Douglas was the son of 8th Marquess of Queensberry. Martha was a racehorse breeder. 2s 3dau
12.1. Henriette-Lucie Frederique Hennessy 1873-1965 m1 1892 Gabriele-Louis Venant le Bailly de la Falaise, Comte de la Falaise, m2 1912 Comte Antoine Hocquart de Turton 3s 1dau
13.1. Louise de la Falaise 1894-1910
13.2. Henri de la Falaise, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye 1898-1972 m1 1925 the actress Gloria Swanson -it was her 3rd of 6 marriages; m2 1931 the actress Constance Bennett - it was her 3rd of 5 marriages; m3 Emma "Emmita" Rodriguez Restrepo de Roeder, described as a Colombian socialite. Henri had no children.
13.3. Alain Richard le Bailly de la Falaise, Comte de la Falaise m1 1931 Margaret Webb m2, 1946 Maxine Gabrielle Birley 1s 1dau
14.1. Alexis Richard Dion Oswald de la Falaise, Comte de la Falaise m 1970 Louise Ogilvie
14.2. Louise "Loulu" Vava Lucia Henriette de la Falaise 1948-2011 m1 1966 div 1970 Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, m2 1977 Pierre Henri Sylvestre Thadee Klossowski . Loulu was a fashion designer closely associated with Yves St Laurent 1dau
15.1. Anna Klossowski
13.4. Richard Rene Gabriel de la Falaise, Comte de las Falaise 1910-1945 kia m Rayliane Gallineau between 1937 and 1938 1s
14.1. Gabriel Richard Antoine de la Falaise, Marquis de las Falaise b1940 m 1965 Martine Rossi 1s
15.1. Richard Gabriel de la Falaise b1969
12.2. Alice Hennessy 1874-1901 m James Richard Hennessy 2s
13.1. Raymond Hennessy 1895-1916 kia Lt in French navy
13.2. Maurice Hennessy 1896-1990 m1923 Vivianne Renardieres. Officer Legion Honour. 1s
14.1. James Hennessy 1923-1995 m Lucie Flornoy 3s 1dau
15.1. Maurice Hennessy b1950 m Catherine Ladoucette 3dau
16.1. Marie Hennessy b1977
16.2. Pauline Hennessy b1978
16.3. Alice Hennessy b1982
15.2. Anne Hennessy b1952 m1971 Comte Etienne de Sovres 2s 3dau
16.1. Axelle Soyres b1971. A religious sister Emmanuel
16.2. Adeline Soyres b1976 m 2000 Gregoire de Viry1dau
17.1. Lucie de Viry b2002
16.3. Pierre Soyres b1978
16.4. Henri Soyres ,b1987
16.5. Jean Soyres b1989
15.3. Frederic Hennessy b1953 1s
16.1. Alexis Hennessy b1993
15.4. Isabelle Hennessy b1958 m 1995 Fabrice Hugot 1s
16.1. Cassien Hennessy b1996
12.3. Richard Hennessy 1876-1953 m Ethel Frederica Selmes 2s 2dau
13.1. Aileen Frederika Hennessy b1903
13.2. Sheilah Irene Alice Hennessy 1905-1984
13.3. Francis Richard Blennerhasset Hennessy b1907
13.4. Robert Angus Martin Hennessy DSC MVO b1914 m Valerie Marion Stokes. Commander RN WW2. 1dau
14.1. Caroline Bridget Hennessy b1942
12.4. George Richard James Hennessy, 1st Baron Windlesham 1877-1953 m Ethel Mary Wynter 2s 4dau
13.1. Violet Ethel Mary Hennessy m1935 Charles Elphinstone Fordyce 1s 1dau
14.1. John Stewart Elphinstone Fordyce b1936 m 1961 Patricia Rose Noyce, ed Ampleforth 3s
15.1. Andrew John Elphinstone Fordyce b1963
15.2. Nicholas Charles Fordyce b1965
15.3. Dominic James Fordyce b1967
14.2. Sheila Mary Rose Fordyce b1939 m1 1960 div 1971 Jeremy Charles Peel m2 1976 Michael J Foster 2s
15.1. Robert Frederick Peel b1962 m1991 Elizabeth Mary Green 2dau
16.1. Katherine Sheila Anne Peel b1995
16.2. Alice Lucy Elizabeth Peel b1998
15.2. James Arthur Lennox Peel b1964 m1987 Belinda Margaret Emma Smith
13.2. Dorothy Lucy Hennessy d.1961 m1924 and divd Commander William Frederick George North
13.3. James Bryan George Hennessy 1903-1962 2nd Baron Windlesham 1903-1962 m1 1929 Angela Duggan m2 1957 Pamela Joan Kennedy. Brigadier Grenadier Guards WW2. Died in a helicopter crash. 1s 3dau
14.1. Marie Louise Hennessy b1930 m 1955 Sir Philip Francis de Zulueta 1925-1989 1s 1dau
15.1. Louise Angela Mary de Zulueta b1956 m1982 Mark Donald Seligman 1s 2dau
16.1. Jocelyn David Seligman b1983
16.2. Lucinda Marie Joanne Seligman b1985
16.3. Iona Louise Seligman b1990
15.2. Francis Philip Harold de Zulueta b1959 m1 1981 Miranda Jane Howden m2 1987 Pandora Jeffreys 1s 1dau
16.1. Gala Marie-Louise Philomena de Zulueta b1988
16.2. Sebastian Philip William de Zulueta b1990
14.2. David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham 1932-2010. Lord Privy Seal, Leader of House of Lords. Became Baron Hennessy so that he could continue sitting in the House of Lords following the House of Lords Act 1999; m1965 Prudence Loveday Glynn 1s 1dau
15.1. Victoria Jane Hennessy b1966
15.2. James Rupert Hennessy, 4th Baron Windlesham b. 1968 m Deborah J Wallace 1s
16.1. George Rupert James Hennessy b2006
14.3. Rosalie Ann Hennessy b1934 m1960 Peter John Gervase Elwes
14.4. Annabel Jane Hennessy b1937 m1963 Dr Ian Duncan Chisholm 4s
15.1. Rory Bryan Duncan Chisholm b1964
15.2. Daniel Hugh Chisholm b1966 m1995 Juliette Elizabeth Chalmers Dow
15.3. Alexander James Chisholm b1968 m1993 Hon Eliza Pakenham 2s
16.1. Aidan Carus Chilholm b1996
16.2. Ciaran Thomas Chisholm b1998
15.4. John Malcolm Chisholm b1970
13.4. Major Frederick Francis George Hennessy MBE 1906-1969 m 1932 Merritt Jean Longsdon 1s 2dau
14.1. Maunagh Jean Hennessy b1933 m1953 Timothy William Jacques Leopold Koch de Gooreynd 2s 3dau
15.1. Stella Antoinette Jeanne Koch de Gooreynd b1954 m1976 Kenneth Mannering 2s 3dau
16.1. William Mannering b1977
16.2. Olivia Mannering b1981
16.3. Alexia Mannering b1983
16.4. Miranda Mannering b1986
16.5. Maximilian Timorth George Mannering b1977
15.2. Manuela Enriqueta Maria Koch de Gooreynd b1957
15.3. Peter Frederick Leopold Koch de Gooreynd b1958 m1990 Carolyn Antonia N Parker 2s 1dau
16.1. Tamara Manuela Koch de Gooreynd b1992
16.2. Timothy Luke Ladislas Koch de Gooreynd b1995.
16.3. Anthony Koch de Gooreynd b1998
15.4. Annabel Maria Therese Koch de Gooreynd b1963 m1990 Christopher Alexander 1s
16.1. Joseph Timothy Lloyd Alexander b1994
15.5. Alexander Francis William Koch de Gooreynd b1969
14.2 Susan Jane Hennessy b. 1938 m1, 1963 Charles Edward Morley-Fletcher; m2 1999 David L Pickett 3s 1dau
15.1. Michael Francis Morley-Fletcher b1964 m1991 Elisabeth Anne Gurney 2s 1dau
16.1. Oliver Charles Morley-Fletcher. b1994
16.2. Joshua George Morley-Fletcher b1997
16.3. Hebe Alice Morley-Fletcher b1999
15.2. Patrick Edward Morley-Fletcher b1966
15.3. Frederick Maurice Morley-Fletcher b1969
15.4. Caroline Angela Elisabeth Morley-Fletcher b1971
14.3. Peter Grant Auguste Hennessy b1944 m 1968 Sally Ann Royden Johnson 2s 2dau
15.1. James George Hennessy b1970
15.2. Katherine Ann Hennessy b1973
15.3. Benedict John Hennessy b1978
15.4 Sophie Elizabeth Hennessy b1981
13.5. Noreen Madeleine Mary Hennessy b. 1910 m1931 divd Michael Herbert Perkins Bull 2s
14.1. Michael Matthew Bull MBE 1932-2002 m Jane Inglis 2s 1dau
15.1. Richard Matthew Charles Bull b1963
15.2. Emma Jane Bull b1964
15.3. Philip Henry Bull b1969
14.2. Sir George Jeffrey Bull b1936 1dau
15.1. Tamsin Emily Mary Bull b1972 m2002 Mark Sandys 1dau
16.1. Grace Marie Therese Sandys b2003
13.6. Kathleen Irene Mary Hennessy b1914 m1947 Wilfred Ernest Barnett 2s
14.1. Robin George Barnett b1951 m1973 Carolyn Seward Plummer. 1s 3dau
15.1. Annabel Penelope Barnett b1978
15.2. Julia Seward Barnett b1980
15.3. Max Robin Nicholas Barnett b1983
15.4. Stephanie Lucinda Barnett b1987
14.2. Nicholas James Barnett b1955 m1998 Margaret Katherine Morrison
12.5. Lucy Hennessy 1880-1908 m 1901 Rene Forney de St Louvent
11.4. Gerard Hennessy 1859-1880
9.5. Alfred Thrale Perkins 1781 or 83-1828 (or 1858) m1 1807 Jane Bailey m2 1827 Charlotte Pemberton
Barrister at Lincolns Inn. 3 sons 4 dau
10.1. Adelaide Perkins b1808 m1832 Augustus Samuel Perkins
m 1832 Augustus Samuel Perkins (cousin, 10.4. son of 9.4. Frederick Perkins) for possible issue see Augustus Samuel 10.4. above
10.2. Marianne or Mary Ann Bailey Perkins 1809-? m Dr Julian Evans
m Dr Julian Evans d1878 1s 1dau
11.1. Dr Julian Evans
12.1. Dr Julian Augustus Michael Evans unmarried
11.2. Mabel Marian Gwendoline Evans mFrank ? Wisley RN
m Frank ? Wisley RN (may have been dau of 11.1 Dr Julian Evans
10.3. Alfred Perkins 1812-1867 m1842 Fanny Valpy Shuter
1 son (See Valpy family) One table shows a 2nd son Bertrand and dau Hilda
11.1. Col Alfred Thrale Perkins CB b1843 m Bangalore 28.8.1866 Mary Frances Falls 2.s 2dau
12.1. Eveleen Fanny Perkins b1867. Corresponded with Maud Terry nee Perkins about ancestors including "..the rest I will see if there is anything at home to help - but if Father has things in his Deed box I am afraid we shall not be able to get at them."
12.2 Alfred Thrale Perkins 1869-1935 m Naomi Kirwan Sylvester
12.3. Bertram Perkins
12.4. Hilda May Perkins
10.4. Jane Perkins b1814 died young, aged about 16
10.5. Harriet Perkins 1815-? m Alfred William Handley
1s (Alfred Eugene, died young), 3dau two of whom died young,
11.1. Annie Zuhlcki? Handley b1844 m William James Baines of Toronto
one of them d1929
10.6. Hugh Perkins 1818-1898 m1857 Emily dau of Sir Hardman Earle 1st Bt
2 sons 3 dau
11.1. Oswald Thrale Perkins 1858-c1931
Assistant master at Wellington College
11.2. (Hugh) Frederick Perkins b1859 died young
11.3. Helen Perkins 1861-1870
11.4. Mary Perkins 1867-1943
11.5. Georgina Perkins b1865
10.7. Oswald Perkins 1820-1834
9.6. Charles Perkins 1785-1851 m1816 Jane Hornby Barkley
(buried in Florence). Became a merchant in Birtley, Co Durham, part owner of Birtley Iron Company and Ouston (and other) collieries. Married 1816 at Sunbury, Jane Hornby Barkley 1796-1884, dau of Charles William and Frances nee Trevor Barkley (See "Frances Hornby Barkley " page) . Lived in Southend (now part of Lewisham) - referred to as Blackheath in Jane's aunt Martha's diary. Not to be confused with Southend Essex. London office in Mark Lane. Also owned 1 Upper Harley Street.
His mother, Amelia Perkins left her house in Royal Crescent, Brighton to Amelia Carolina Sophronia nee Perkins Perkins and Charles Perkins as tenants in common
7 sons, 7 dau: below. Amelia Perkins, his mother is recorded as having left Charles' daughter Janet her pearl earrings but there is no record of a daughter called Janet.
10.1. Frances "Fanny" Jane Perkins 1818-1906 Spinster
10.2. Louisa Perkins 1819-1831
10.3. Charles Frederick Perkins. 1820-1882 m 1847 Mary Griffiths
m 1847 Mary Griffiths 1822-1894 JP of The Grange, Kingston St Mary, Somerset. 1dau Amelia Susannah b. 1849, died same year
of Birtley (where there is a memorial statue), owner of Birtley Iron Company and various collieries including the Ouston collieries See article linked here about Perkins and Birtley m 9.11.1848 Octavia Shuter (dau of Francis nee Valpy, see Valpy Family) 1826-1861. Also linked here is a picture of Birtley Hall. In her will, Hannah Ovington of Gilesgate, niece of John Perkins and daughter of George Ovington left Edward Moseley Perkins £200 "in consideration of the kindness and attention evinced and bestowed by his grandfather the late John Perkins of Camberwell, Surrey, Porter Merchant, in allowing the poor old servants of my late father and mother and our family generally to reside in and occupy a dwelling house and premises belonging to the said John Perkins without requiring rent or other compensation."
1 son 3 dau
11.1. (Augusta) Maud Perkins 1849-1933 or 1935 m1875 Herbert Durrel Terry 1847-1911 no issue.
Herbert was Chief Constable of Northumberland and later, head of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary for England and Wales.
11.2. Charles “Charlie P” Perkins 1851-1905 m15.1.1874 Edith Law Hunter 1854-1929
of Birtley Hall. Edith was the 2nd daughter of William Hunter of Moor Lodge, Newcastle.
Charles Perkins died following a motor accident. Two reports of his death, inquest and funeral are linked here and here. The accident happened on Monday 19th August 1905 and he died at 2am on 25th August. A transcript of his Will dated 24th August 1905 is also linked here. There is a memorial in the Bolam Church donated by his sister Augusta Maud. See also linked here is CP Racing Career notes about his interest in racing.
The trainer of his racehorses, Capt Percy Wentworth Bewicke, received a legacy in his will. He lived at Bedford House and is described as
"a notable Newmarket gentleman trainer of long experience", Captain Percy Bewicke (late of the 15th Hussars) initially had a very successful career as a 'gentleman jockey' between 1890 and 1903. He started training at Grateley in Wiltshire, where he brought off many great handicap coups. He was then for a time near Belsay, in Northumberland, where he had a number of horses owned by the late Mr. Charles Perkins and moved into Bedford House stables in 1920 where he stayed until about 1928.Captain Percy Wentworth Bewicke died on 20th May 1950. .. "
The 1881 census show Charles, Edith and their daughters living in Kirkley Hall, Kirkley, Durham - see here - with a substantial number of servants
Since writing the above, the linked document "Notes on the Perkins Family in the 19th Century has been received and will hopefully substantiate and add to the above when fully reviewed.
2 dau
12.1. Violet Edith Perkins 20.11.1874-20.5.1972 m 14.8.1895
Herbert “Bertie” George Fenwick 1870-1937. They had 3 sons and 1 daughter. She divorced him (Oct 1917) and married in 1920, Robert Clayton Swan. (See Fenwick Tree page and "Robert Clayton Swan", below).
12.2. Nancy Perkins 1880-1967
m1 13.5.1903 Capt William Matthew Burrell 1876-10.11.1914 He died in England en route to join war in France. Fought Boer War 1 son 2 daus
m2 1924 Donald Cawley d1967
13.1. Cornelia Mary “Skip” Burrell 1911-? m1937 John Eustace-Smith. He died 1949 following a fall racing at Catterick. 1 dau
14.1. Tania Anna Eustace-Smith d2020 m1 Mark Ranulph Allsopp m2 David Lyle. 3s 1dau (all Allsopp)
15.1. Jonathan Ranulph Allsopp 1962-2016
15.2. Richard Mark Allsopp b1963 m Alexandra Dominica Grosch
16.1. Matilda May Cornelia Allsopp b1993
16.2. Miles Johnie Mark Allsopp b1996
15.3. Charles Samuel Allsopp b1970
15.4. Arabella Sarah Georgiana Allsopp b1972 m James A M Woods 2dau
16.1. Rosie Woods
16.2. Popsie Aileen Woods b2008
13.2 Philippa (Phil) Burrell 1912-? m1 Dickie Black, amateur jockey who won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1947. m2 ? de Vallois 1 son 2 dau
14.1. Valpy Black
14.2. G Marcus V Black 1947-2013 m Amanda Charrington 3 sons 1 dau
15.1. Toby Black
15.2. Henry Black
15.3. Hugo Black
15.4. Sophie Black
14.3. Hermione Black
13.3. Dominic Charles (“Dom”) Burrell b1914
14.1. Duff Burrell. Farms Broome Park m Anneli Uloth 2 sons
14.2. Matthew Burrell
11.3. Ada Perkins 1853-1932 m Major General Trevor Bruce Tyler
m Major General Trevor Bruce Tyler 1841-1923 son of Rev. Roper Tyler
Windows and Tablets in memory of Major General Tyler (above) and Lt Col Tyler (below) are in church of St Nicholas nr Cardiff
12.1. Isobel Maud Tyler 1874-1951 m1897 Lt Col Reginald Copleston Bond 1866-1936 (PoW in 1st WW who wrote and painted amusingly) son of Rev. Frederick Hookey Bond. No issue
12.2. Lt Col Roper Maxwell Tyler DSO 1878-26.2.1919 no issue
11.4. Claire Perkins 1856-1949 m 1879 George Hawkins Hext 1854-1929
12.1. Major John Edward Hext 1879-1921 m1907 Catherine Gordon McLeod dau of John McLeod in Meerut. Indian Army, served in the Boer War and, in WW1 in Mesopotamia with Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers. He died in Rawalpindi. Catherine m2 Major GVC Hughes, Indian Army
13.1. George Ramsey Hext 1908-1931 (murdered in India). A short book "the Punjab Mail Murder" by Roger Perkins tells the story of this murder which was a botched attempt on the part of pro independence Indians at burglary on the train.
12.2. Col George Trevor Barkley Hext DSO 1881-1949 m1904 Ellen Blanche dau of Lt Col James Campbell Stratford. No issue
10.5. Louisa Perkins b. 1823 died in infancy
10.6. Amelia Sophia Perkins 1825-1906 Spinster
10.7. Arthur Perkins 1827-1842
A letter written to him by his sister has his address as Gas Erleuchtungs Anstalt (Gas Enlightenment Institute), Berlin. The London-based Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA) had a concession to build and operate a gas lighting system for the streets of Berlin and other German cities so it seems likely that Arthur Perkins was working in Berlin in the 1840s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Continental_Gas_Association
See Martha Shaw's journals. On 6.10.1849, during a visit to Berlin, Martha wrote "Mrs Drory a good family woman has been pretty. She went with me to poor Arthur’s grave, I was never more shocked. In a large vault in the cemetery are rows of coffins & in the first row is Arthur’s, just near it a young child of Mr Drory. A new coffin had just been placed there. I cd not command my feelings sufficiently to stay, but hurried back to the carriage in which I had left Emily. Mrs Drory gave me many melancholy details of poor Arthur’s death & above all she seems thankful for his having advised her never to go again to the theatre on Sunday. She promised him she wd not & now she wd do any thing rather than go. It appears that he suffered but little. Mrs Drory sat up with him the last 5 nights. At last he said he wd not take any more medicine. Mrs Drory begged him to do so, he said “Do you think I shall get well”. After this he took his medicine & immediately saying “Good bye", he threw his arms round her neck & died, with his head on her bosom. She speaks most highly of him, his untimely fate caused great sympathy & his remains were followed to their sad resting place by many of their friends".
10.8. Henrietta Selina Perkins 1828-1912 Spinster
Her Aunt Martha said she was marked by smallpox
10.9. Henry George Perkins 1830-1857
KIA "Lieutenant Henry George Perkins - killed in action at Ghazee-od-deen Nuggur - 31st May 1857. Aged 27. Memorial at Meerut - "In memory of 1st Lieutenant Henry George Perkins ..... of the 2nd Troop, 1st Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery who fell in action with the mutineers at the Hindan river on the 31st May 1857, nobly doing their duty. This monument is erected by their Commanding Officer Colonel H. Tombs in token of esteem and regret." "
10.10. Octavia Perkins 1831-1914 unmarried
10.11. Reginald Perkins b. 1832-1871 m Ethel Scullin?
Reginald had a complex family and business life and we are indebted to the research carried out by his descendent, Jeff Stockdale (see 14.1 below) and Jim Attwood. What follows is copied almost verbatim from the latter's Barkley Family History website
Reginald emigrated to Australia as a young man.
Together with a business partner, Richard Netterfield, he owned a sheep station in Queensland known as Mundubbera, located about 400 kilometres north-west of Brisbane. It seems likely that the station did not make money. Reginald died in Gympie, Queensland, about 160 km north of Brisbane. His death certificate describes his occupation as 'Commission Agent' and the cause of death was phthisis (Tuberculosis).
Reginald's death certificate states that his death was reported by his wife, Ethel Scullin and they were married in Gayndah, less than 40 km from Mundubbera. However, documents related to Reginald's will include a statement from Reginald's 'wife' admitting that she was never married to Reginald and furthermore she stated that her real name was Bedelia Daly!
The death certificate and will documents both refer to Reginald's two children, Arthur Reginald and Ethel. The will documents describe them as natural children 'begotten on the body of Bedelia Daly'.
In his will Reginald Perkins appointed two people to be his executors and trustees. They died before obtaining probate. Fifteen years after his death a notice in the Brisbane Courier (1886) stated that Edward Knox of Sydney 'the nearest kin of the said deceased within the Australian colonies' would be granted Letters of Administration. This notice also stated that Herbert Perkins of Sydney, brother of the deceased, had 'renounced and abandoned all his right or claim to a grant of Letters of Administration'. Edward Knox was a prosperous sugar merchant and banker. He was the son of George Knox and Elizabeth Frances Mullens. Elizabeth Frances Mullens was the daughter of John Mullens and Jane Rebecca Trevor, who was a sister to Frances Barkley, nee Trevor, Reginald Perkins' grandmother. Edward Knox was related to Reginald Perkins but it is not clear why he took control of Reginald's estate and not Reginald's bother. In 1889 Administration was granted to the solicitor representing Arthur Perkins 'one of the Residuary Legatees now residing in New South Wales'. By this time Arthur would have become an adult and been able to claim his inheritance.
Two years after Reginald's death Bedelia Daly, calling herself Mary Ann Perkins, married John Charles Henry Schirmer in Gympie. In September 1873 she gave birth to a daughter, Mary Martha Schirmer; the daughter died in December the same year.
11.1. Arthur Reginald Perkins 1867-1919 m1889 in Victoria, Annie Louisa Crump
m 1889 in Victoria, Annie Louisa Crump 1864-1904
Arthur's adult life was spent living in the Melbourne area. Electoral roll records list his occupation as clerk or civil servant. It is thought that his (and his sister's birth was never registered and his middle name was sometimes given as Charles or none was given. Arthur and Annie had a son and daughter who died in infancy.
Arthur was married, for the second time, in 1907, to Ruby Olive Thomson b.1882.
1s 1dau
12.1. Ethel Maud Perkins b and d1889
12.2. Ernest Charles Perkins 1890-1970 m1915 in Victoria Agnes Evangelina Edwards 1894-1979.
He was employed as a tailor's cutter when he enlisted in the 5th Australian Imperial Force in 1914 and he continued working in the tailoring trade after military service. Ernest and Agnes made their home in Essendon, a northern suburb of Melbourne.
11.2. Ethel Perkins 1869-1939 m1886 in Sydney, John Joseph Fahey
m 1886 in Sydney, John Joseph Fahey 1858 (Ireland) -1912 (Victoria). (There is also a record of an Ethel Fahey b. 1871 whose mother was Mary Murray), It is thought that her birth was never registered. John was a carpenter. 5s 4dau
12.1. Mary Fahey 1887-1974 m 1914 in Victoria, Stanley Bennett Simpson 1893-1958
13.1. Marjorie Simpson m Stockdale
14.1. Jeff Stockdale
12.2. Alice M Fahey 1869-1890
12.3. Eileen Anne Fahey b1890
12.4. John Patrick "Jack" Fahey 1893 - kia 1917 Polygon Wood, Belgium serving as a sergeant in the 58th Australian Infantry Battalion. Buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Flanders.
12.5. Ethel Francis Fahey 1898-1971 m James Vincent Gannon 1897-1957 2s 1dau
13.1. Francis Vincent Gannon 1930-2003 m Elizabeth Anne Bradshaw c1932-1973 2s 2dau
14.1. Elizabeth Frances Gannon b1957
14.2. Jim Gannon
14.3. John William Gannon b1962 m Julie Margaret Blackshaw b. 1965 2s 1dau (all born in Taunton, England)
15.1. Thomas Robert Gannon b2001
15.2. Emma Frances Gannon b2004
15.3. Benjamin James Gannon b2008
14.4. Catherine Margaret Gannon
13.2. Dorothy Fay Gannon b1932 m William Francis Giles 1923-1985 2s 2dau
14.1. Anne Dorothy Giles b1956 m Mr Moylan
14.2. Michael William Giles b1958
14.3. Helen Mary Giles b1959
14.4. Anthony John Giles b1962
13.3. Philip John Gannon b1942 m Elaine Pickersgill
12.6. Francis Arthur Fahey 1900-1915
12.7. Wilfred Arthur Fahey 1903-1969 m1933 in Hendon, Elizabeth Redhead b1910
12.8. William Fahey 1907-1909
12.9. Edward Thomas Fahey b1910
10.12. Major General Sir Aeneas Henry Barkley Perkins 1834-1901 m in Calcutta, Janet Wilhelmina Cathrey 1840-1917
He served in the 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’.
Janet(te) Cathrey was the dau of Capt Werner Cathrey 1817-1889 and Jane Janet Hoseseason1817-1861.
2s 3dau (there is also a mention of Frederick Perkins drowned? 1895)
11.1. Alice Eleanor Jane Perkins 1864-1945 m William Walter Lean or Lane1854-1936 2dau
12.1. Janet Winifred Lean 1893-1984 m Robert Hugh Holmes Jackson b. 1891. In the 1920s they settled in the Nakuru area of Kenya
12.2. Margery Lean b. 1894 m 1918 Reginald Arthur Manby b. 1891. Reginald served in the Welch Regiment and the RAF in WW1 and may have remarried in1944
11.2. Frances Claire Perkins 1865-1952 m Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Vyell Vyvyan 1875-1935. No issue
11.3. Arthur Ernest John Perkins 1866-1921 m Evelyn Minnie Louisa Foster 1868-1929 1s 1dau
12.1. Col. Aeneas Francis Quinton Perkins MC 1893-1940 kia m Dorothy Claire Martin Thompson
13.1. Lt Col Aeneas John Martin Perkins 1918-1996 m Ursula Henrietta Pendlebury
14.1. Aeneas Clive Nigel Ashley Perkins b. 1949 m Jean Manley
12.2. Joan Evelyn Perkins 1899-1901
11.4. Marie Elizabeth Perkins 1869-1929 m 1890
Thought to have married in Simla, India Alexander James Badcock ob s p
He died at Ypres serving with the 40th Pathans no issue
10.13. Edith "Kate" Perkins 1835-1919 m 1859 George Andrew Barkley 1826-1913
m 1859 George Andrew Barkley 1826-1913 son of Rev. John Charles Barkley and Mary nee Yanker 3s 1dau. Also on Frances Barkley page here
11.1. Henry Yarker Barkley 1861-1895. No issue
11.2. Margaret Jane Barkley 1863-1928 m Holt Waring Ridley.
In the 1881 and 1891 censuses Holt Waring Ridley is listed as a merchant of Ceylon and a coffee and tea planter living in Tormoham Devon. By 1901 he was living at Broughton Hall in Staffordshire. Broughton Hall which is now the home of a mobile phone company millionaire who says the place is haunted. The story is that no elder son will live to inherit it. I am aware of Holt Waring Ridley and Margaret Barkley having one son who died in infancy.
No issue. He was a railway engineer who spent most of his life working in India, where he married, and China. He and his wife died quite young within a few weeks of each other.
11.4. William Andrew Barkley 1870-1946
joined the Royal Navy and rose to the rank of Commander. After leaving the Royal Navy in 1901 he seems to have spent most of his life in Africa. He and his wife both died in Zambia in 1946. 2s
12.1. Andrew Barkley 1919-1940. KIA
12.2. George Barkley b.1919
10.14. Herbert Perkins b. 1840 m 9.8.1858 in Southampton Lucy V Horn
(What follows about Herbert and his descendants is largely taken from much more detailed information on the Barkley Family site here).
m 9.8.1858 in Southampton Lucy V Horn 1837-1889, dau of Gabriel Weare Horn 1805-1854, a coachman and Harriett nee Davis 1801-1885. Emigrated to Australia, like his older brother Reginald. On Reginald's death in 1871, Herbert renounced any right to act under Reginald's Will. Lucy was buried in Brisbane. 2s 1dau all born in Balmain, Sydney.
11.1. Frances J Edith Perkins 1860-1930 m 1884 in Balmain, Benjamin Burt b. 1850-1902.
She may have died in Woollahra, NSW. Benjamin worked constructing railways, followed for the last 10 years of his life by manufacturing tobacco products as B Burt & Co. 3dau
12.1. Beatrice Mary Burt b1885 m1908 Scott Mcleod 1879-1937.
Scott was born in Queensland, descended from pioneering settlers of Scottish origin. He took over a station property known as Terrica from his father, Roderick (Rory) Mcleod 1828-1924. Terrica Station, situated about 250 km south west of Brisbane, came to be regarded as one of the best managed stations in Queensland and in December 1934 he and Beatrice were hosts to the Duke of Gloucester, who stayed with them when on his 10 week royal visit to Australia.(The Duke returned to Australia in 1945 as Governor General for two years).
12.2. Winifred Edith Burt b1886 m1921 Ernest Spencer William Carruthers 1885-1939.
Ernest’s father was a surgeon in the Indian Army Medical Corps before settling in Balmain and establishing a medical practice there. Ernest was a motor salesman.
12.3. Dorothy Frances Burt 1888-1919 m1918 Charles Ernest Wassell 1889-1994.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ernest Wassell D.S.O., M.B., Ch.M, F.R.A.C.S. was born in Queensland, the son of Water Police Officer James William Wassell 1841-1926 and Rebecca Lake 1844-1898. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War and was awarded a D.S.O. in 1918. He was a medical officer, working first in Sydney, later in Brisbane. Charles Wassell died of gunshot wounds at his home in New Farm, Brisbane; it was not clear whether he had accidentally shot himself or, suffering pain from a duodenal ulcer, had decided to take his own life. Dorothy died a year after getting married. In 1921 Charles married Linda Kell.
11.2. Edward Algernon Perkins 1863-1950 m1890 Mary Frances Moore b 1865.
Edward was a manufacturer in Ascot, nr Brisbane, then grazier at a station called Humeburn 800 km from Brisbane nr Eulo and Cunnamulla. 3s 2dau (there may have been more).
We have found the following obituary of E A Perkins from Queensland Country Life 27.7.1950
After a varied career, Edward Algernon Perkins died in Brisbane on July 26 after 90 years. He was a son of Herbert Hornby Perkins, British Army officer, author and one time owner, in the early days of Mundubbera Station, where the town of that name now stands.
Edward Perkins was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Grammar School. After early mining and commercial experience in N S Wales he came to Queensland and was appointed Private Secretary to the then Premier, Sir Thomas McIlwraith. He later jointed his brother in law, the late Benjamin Burt in carrying out railway building contracts in North Queensland. Then followed a period when he was involved in pastoral work in Western Queensland from which he returned to Brisbane to rejoin Mr Burt in the firm of B Burt and company tobacco manufacturers. After the death of Mr Burt he managed the company for many years until it ceased operations in 1922.
He was keenly interested in the growing of tobacco in Australia and did much to encourage growers in a time when they were struggling against the unsympathetic and disinterested governments and the hostility of smokers.
In 1923, he purchased Marramella holding in the Cunamilla district and a few years later purchased Homeborn station, Wyandra in conjunction with his son, H A Perkins. He lived in Homeburn until its sale in 1947, when he returned to Brisbane.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters (Miss L Perkins and Mrs Hilton Hodgetts of Clare N.Q) and 3 sons (S E and V H Perkins of Brisbane and HA of Deepwater).
12.1. Sydney Edward Perkins 1892-1971 m 1930 Marie Stuart Massy b. 1897.
Auctioneer in Brisbane. Capt with 49th Battalion 1st Australian Imperial Force in WW1. 1dau died young
12.2. Herbert Algernon Perkins 1895-1968 m1928 Grace Thelma Thomas 1903-1976.
.2nd Lt with 2nd Australian Motor Transport Company in WW1 Lived in Marano 500 m west of Brisbane. 1s
13.1. Barry Duncan Herbert Perkins b1935
12.3. Lucy Frances Violet Perkins b1897
12.4. Victor Benjamin Hornby Perkins b1905 m Nena "Betty" Baskerville 1922-2007.
Victor served in the 2nd World War obtaining the rank of Captain. On returning to Australia he remained in Queensland, living in Griffith and then Moreton. 1s
13.1. Harry Baskerville Perkins
12.5. Phyllis Dorothy Perkins 1910-2007 m1941 Hilton Alan Hodgetts 1911-1979. 2 sons
Hilton was born in Tasmania, son of Thomas Allan Hodgetts 1886-1963 and Isabel Lenore Barker 1893-1949
11.3. Sydney Herbert Perkins 1865-1917. Died in Queensland
Polhill Connection
John Perkins 1730-1812 who is shown at 8.1 as starting the dynasty, was first married to a Miss Polhill who died childless. Here are some of her Polhill relations. Much of what follows is taken from the research done by Stephen Barber and from Renhold church records. Where they conflict, the church records are usually preferred. Dates of baptism and birth are assumed to be the same. Generations shown to align with John Perkins (8)
6. Edward Polhill of Burwash 3s
7.1. Edward Polhill of St Saviour’s, Southwark b1688
7.2. William Polhill of Burwash 1689-1765 m1731 Hannah Lade 2s
8.1. Nathaniel Polhill II 1723 or 1732-1782,
banker, brewer and tobacconist MP for Southwark 1774-1782, m1750 Elizabeth d1782, daughter of William Coppard, who was five times Mayor of Hastings. In 1780 he sought re-election. This time he had Dr Johnson and Mrs. Thrale canvassing for the opposition. Mrs. Thrale in a letter to her daughter, Queeney of 15th May 1780 said that "she fears poor Mr. Polhill will lose his seat as all the folks are mad for Sir Richard Hotham". Hotham headed the poll with 1300 votes but Polhill scored 1138 and was also elected. Thrale was a bad third, with 855 votes and was not elected.
According to the Librarian of the House of Commons, "Nathaniel appears not to have spoken in the House; this restraint was less unusual in his days than ours". He acquired Howbury Hall from the Becher family in 1781 for £17,500 (£1,235,000 in money of 2000) and in that year sold his brewery business to Henry Thrale and Robert Barclay. 4s 2dau
9.1. Hannah Polhill 1752-1769, spinster
9.2. Nathaniel Polhill III 1752 or 1756-1782, m Ursula Maitland and was MP for Camberley, 1s 1dau
10.1. Elizabeth Polhill m1805 Robert Joseph Chambers, Barrister
10.2. Nathaniel Polhill d1802 two years after being admitted at Lincolns Inn
9.3. John Polhill 1757-1828 m1793 Mary Bennett d1833.
Succeeded to Howbury on death of his nephew Nathaniel. As a Captain he distinguished himself in the Birmingham riots of 1791 when the mob took umbrage at the Unitarian Divine and Scientist Dr Joseph Priestley, for his support of the French Revolution. The mob burned down the Old and New Meeting Houses and many residences including that of Priestley with all his books, papers and scientific apparatus. Wylie's History of the regiment says that Captain Polhill's conduct in connection with the riot was highly commended. After four days' turmoil the Dragoons were brought from Nottingham and their timely arrival saved the city from destruction. Capt. Polhill was presented with a ceremonial sword and testimonial and a very handsome gold and jewelled medallion. 3s
10.1. Thomas Polhill 1794-1828 ed Eton. Admitted a Pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge on 24th May 1813. He graduated BA. in 1817 and MA in 1820. He died on 15th October 1828 at Bath, six weeks after his father, unmarried
10.2. Charles Polhill 1796-1813
10.3. Frederick Polhill 1798-1848 m1 1824 Frances Margaretta Deakin b 1803. 1st. King's Dragoon Guards. On the death of his father in October 1828 he succeeded to the family estate, resigned his commission as a Captain and settled down to the life of a country gentleman at Howbury Hall. In the summer of 1830 he started to cultivate an interest in theatrical matters, and in the autumn was persuaded by local politicians to contest the Bedford constituency for Parliament. His Parliamentary venture was more successful than his theatrical one. He stood as an Independent against the Whigs and defeated Lord John Russell by one vote. With the exception of the 1832 election, Capt Frederick Polhill represented Bedford in Parliament from 1831 to 1847 - a free trade conservative. He was also a J.P.
In association with the composer George Alexander Lee he took a lease of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Lee subscribed the musical knowledge while Polhill put up the cash. Despite many favourable notices from the dramatic critics the productions lost money. Lee dropped out of the arrangement in 1831 and in the next year Capt Polhill made Alfred Dunn his manager and nominal lessee of Drury Lane. In the next year he added Covent Garden Theatre to his cares. Profits continued to elude him and in December 1834 he withdrew from his theatrical ventures having lost a very considerable sum of money. He did not entirely cease his interest in the theatre and in May 1836 produced his opera 'Rose of the Alhambra' at Covent Garden and in the following July at the English Opera House (the Lyceum) with good notices.
The theatrical ventures were strongly disapproved of by his mother and contributed to causing a rift with his wife, culminating in a final separation in 1834. In July of that year Capt Polhill signed an Indenture of Release and Settlement by which his various manors and estates were settled for life on her and her children at his decease.
Captain Frederick pursued his parliamentary and local duties, which included those of a trustee for the Harpur Foundation, (an important Bedford Charity). He took an interest in the railway boom and became a director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway in 1845.
Frederick and Frances Margaretta separated and in 1850 (2 years after Frederick’s death), she married Rev. Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1798-1876, the eldest son of the first bishop of Quebec.
M2. 1837 Mary Jeans, The children by her were Frederick, Victoria and Alexander? Or as below-
11.1. Frances Sarah Polhill 1824-1832
11.2. Frederick Charles Polhill b. 1826 inherited the Estate from his father.
11.3. William Henry Polhill1827-1832
11.4. Georgiana Petrina Polhill 1829-1915. Spinster. In 1891 she was living at the Cottage in Blunham, with her niece, Alice Kate Frances Polhill.
11.5. Adelaide Emily Sophia Polhill 1831-1838
11.6. Edward Brooke 1834 -1844
9.4. Edward Polhill b1761 m1787 Sarah Ward, dau of John Spooner of Barbados, 2s 2dau
10.1. Louisa Polhill b1788, m Edward Henley Acton and had issue
10.2. Edward Polhill 1789-1859 m1824 Anne Margaret Graham, 3s
11.1. Robert Graham 1828-1854 – kia at the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War
11.2. A son
11.3. Charles Davenport 1840-1860
10.3. Sarah Polhill 1793-1828 spinster
10.4. William 1796-1867. Lt, as a Cornet, fought at the Battle of Waterloo
9.5. Robert Polhill 1764-1816
(gave a bond to Benjamin Moseley, brother in law of John Perkins). In addition to being a partner in the tobacco business, he travelled to China and so gained a considerable fortune. Unmarried.
9.6. Mary Polhill b1770 m1797 Rev. Charles Bond, 3s 4dau
8.2. John Polhill d1766
7.3. Nathaniel Polhill I of Newington Butts b1702 m1 Ann ? d1722 m2 1732 Sarah Furner
8.1. Miss Polhill d1769 or 70 who in 1766? married John Perkins 1730-1812
Earlier Perkins Family
The main tree shown above is that of John Perkins 1731-1812 who is shown as starting a dynasty followed by the considerable amount we know about his descendants down to the present day. John came into prominence when he came to London from Durham, joined Thrales brewery and made a second marriage into the prosperous Bevan family. His father, also John Perkins 1697-1740 was from several generations of “Joyners”. He married twice, the second time to Hannah nee Fisher. After he died in 1740, his widow married in 1741, John Overton who was the widower of Margaret Metcalf and father of sons John and Matthias. The result was that John Perkins 1731-1812 had many siblings of one kind or another. The Ovington connection seems to have been important as they were at one time prosperous. What follows is a summary showing some of John Perkins’s earlier family – generation numbers to connect with the main tree ie John is generation 8.
5. Thomas Perkins 5th child of ? m1661 Jane Walton
6.1 Mary Perkins 1662-1665
6.2. Robert Perkins 1664-1730 m1691 Margery Robinson d1746
7.1. Anne Perkins b1693
7.3. Robert Perkins b1705
7.2. John Perkins 1697-1740
m1 1719 Thomasina Eales b1696 m2 1724 Hannah Fisher 1704-1769 - see below for her later marriage, following her husband's death
8.1. Thomas Perkins 1720 died in infancy with mother, Thomasina
8.2. Ralph Perkins 1725-1732
8.4. Hannah Perkins b1734
8.3. John Perkins 1730/1 or 1740-1812 m1 1766? Miss Polhill, dau of Nathaniel Polhill I of Newington Butts and niece of Nathaniel Polhill MP; m2 1774 Mrs Amelia Bevan nee Moseley 1747-1830
(7.2 Hannah Fisher 1704-1769 widow of John Perkins 1697-1740 m2 1741 John Ovington 1695-1758, brewer of Durham City, widower of Margaret Metcalf and father of John Ovington 1727-1760 and Mathias Ovington) 1s
8.1 George Ovington 1746-1794 m1769 Mary Deanham. George’s uncle was George Ovington m Margaret Fisher, Hannah Ovington’s sister
9.1. Hannah Ovington 1772-1856
9.2. George Ovington 1780-1834
9.3. John Ovington 1771-1818
9.4. Robert Ovington d1846)
Mosley Connection (sometimes spelt Moseley)
? Edward Mosely d1571
4. Samuel Mosley ?1622
5. John Mosley d1650 Clerk to the Crown, Ireland
6. Benjamin Mosley c1651-1734 of Inner Temple
7. Edward Mosley 1706-1779
8.1. Dr Benjamin Mosley 1742-1819.
A PS to a letter refers to him as having been born in 1746 and married in Jamaica in 1746
9.1. Martha Elizabeth Mosley 1775-1848 unmarried
9.2. Dr William Henry Mosley MD d1823 unmarried, fought in the Peninsula War 1807-1814
9.3. Henry Crewe Mosley d. aged 16.
9.4. Priscilla Hicks described as adopted and elsewhere as "illegitimate" dau "for whose sake he [her father] had exposed himself to much anxiety, expense and derision and upon whom he foolishly doted, [she] eloped from his house at Southend, Essex with a young man of seventeen, for whom he had got an appointment in the quarter-master general’s office.”
9.5. Dr John Mosley. A note or letter said to be from Amelia Perkins circa 1906 talks of a Dr John Mosley who was a physician at Chelsea Hospital and son of Dr Benjamin Mosley. Perhaps referring to Priscilla Hicks above, though using a different name, she says ".. Chelsea Hospital where two legitimate daughters died unmarried. I believe Amelia was his illegitimate child..." It goes on to say "I would rather she were Edward M's daughter than Benjamin's - don't tell Aunt E my horrid ?! but you might ask if she knows her great grand father's true name or anything about her grandmothers' youth
8.2. Sarah Moseley
8.3. Amelia Mosley 1747-1830
m1. Timothy Paul Bevan
m2. 30.9.1774 at St Saviours, Southwark, John Perkins 1730-1812
9.6. Charles Perkins 1785-1851 m Jane Hornby Barkley. They lived in Southend - according to a note "looks as if the house came to him from his uncle Benjamin, through his mother Amelia. None of Benjamin's own children was married."
10.4. Edward Mosley Perkins 1821-1871
Robert Clayton Swan 1864-1929
Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Colonel 3rd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment; Master of Morpeth and Sinnington Foxhounds; formerly of Rockliffe Park, Darlington; Wellbourn Manor, Lincoln; Ceannocroc, Inverness and Barrowby Grange. He left £441,000 (equivalent of about £30m in 2015)
In 1920, Violet Fenwick, nee Perkins, having divorced Bertie Fenwick, married Colonel Robert Clayton Swan, then a widower with 4 daughters (see below). It seems that they both remained in their own houses and the marriage in effect, only lasted a few years before there was an amicable separation.
Robert Clayton Swan was the son of Robert Swan 1833 – 1899 of The Quarry, Lincoln; Ed. Rugby and Trinity College Cambridge who married 1864 Lucy eldest dau and co-heiress of Nathaniel Clayton of Eastcliff, Lincoln, JP, DL and Sherriff of Lincolnshire.
R C Swan’s 1st marriage
Colonel Robert Clayton Swan m1 1892 Mildred Mary 2nd dau of Sir George William Elliot 2nd Bt JP DL d1895 of 1 Park St, Park Lane, London W1, Houghton Hall, Durham and Scruton Hall, Bedale - a Colliery Owner. MP for Northallerton 1874-5 and North Riding of Yorkshire from 1886.
In 1911 Robert petitioned for divorce, citing Capt. Percival Wentworth Bewicke and George Cambourne Beauclerk Paynter as co-repondents. However, in 1913 the petition was withdrawn. Mildred joined the Royal Army Service Corps, died in France 24.2.17 and is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetary. Capt Bewicke was a well-known amateur jockey and trainer of racehorses, including those of Charles Perkins (Violet's father) who left him his horses in training at the time of his death. Charles Perkins died in 1905 as a result of a motor accident when being driven by Capt Berwicke's chauffeur after staying with him.
Mildred was also the granddaughter of Sir George Elliot 1st Bt. - See end also for linked articles
“He had exhausted himself working on a plan to amalgamate the entire coalfields of Great Britain. Sir George had proposed that, to improve the working conditions of the miners, a proportion of the coal industry profits should be paid into a fund for retired miners. Mr and Mrs R Clayton-Swan, the tenants of Solberge Hall, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, attended the funeral of Sir George Elliot Bart, grandfather to Mrs Swan. Fire swept through Solberge Hall while they were away. Sir George was buried at Houghton Hillside Cemetery on December 28th 1893”
In the same article “1873 - Sir George Elliot and William Hunter, of Sandhoe, Northumberland, opened Kimblesworth Colliery”.
This was the same family as shown under Enid Swan below (her 2nd husband Tony Hunter). Also, Violet Swan (nee Perkins)’s mother was born Edith Law Hunter 1854-1929, 2nd daughter of William Hunter of Moor Lodge, Newcastle - see here.
12. Robert Clayton Swan and Mildred Mary Elliot had 4 dau
13.1. Dinah Mary Estelle Swan b1893 m1 1913 (div 1931). Capt James Richard Tylden
Capt James Richard Tylden of Milstead Manor in Kent. 5 dau (a)-(e)
14.1. Sylvia Tylden b1914 m1 Rev. Austin Binning m2 Robert Greaves
14.2. Susan Tylden b1919 m Frederick Andrews who was her gardener
14.3. Stella Tylden b1921 m1 1941 (div 1944) Walter Sutcliffe
14.4. Serena Tylden b1923 m Colin McCallum from Canada
14.5. Sonia Tylden b1927
m1 1948 (div 1953) The Hon. Alan Mackay, son of 2nd Earl of Inchape 2 dau
15.1. Siobhan Amanda Mackay b1949; m Christopher Carver
15.2. Kristina Mary Mackay b.1951; m Simon Lamb
m2 Willis Fleming
m3 Vice Admiral Sir Philip Tower
13.2. Enid Clayton Swan b1895 m1 James Turner m2 Tony Hunter
m1 James Turner 1s 1dau
14.1. Pat Turner
m1. David McConnell 1s 2dau
15.1. Sara McConnell m ? Steve Allday 1s
16.1. Jamie Allday
15.2. Ian McConnell m Sue Smail 3dau
16.1. Nicola McConnell
16.2. Amanda McConnell
16.3. Alix McConnell
15-.3. Eildon McConnell m Martin Letts
16.1. Charles Letts
16.2. Diana Letts
m2 Tony Hunter 1923-2009 (who also features on the Hunter connection page being the son of Joseph Charles Hunter and grandson of William Slingsby Hunter). 1s 1dau
15.1. Carol Veronica Hunter m David Nesbitt 3s
16.1. Benjie Nesbitt b1987
16.2 Freddie Nesbitt b1988
16.3. Archie Nesbitt b1994
15.2. William R S Hunter m Nadine Biscaretti di Ruffia 2s
16.1. Joseph Anthony Slingsby Hunter b1994
16.2. Guy Hunter b1987
14.2. Ian Turner d1942
m2. Chris Leyland
m3. 1941 Lt Col Sir Alfred Lassam Goodson 2nd Bt – heir to baronetcy shown as his nephew, Mark Goodson b. 1925.
m1 Capt Geoffrey “Tuppy” Henry Bennet– amateur jockey who won the 1923 Grand National
14.1. Tuppina (Twink) Cicely Bennet d1984 m1945 (div 1954) James Hugh William Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale
15.1. Lady Jane Helen Harbord Lowther b1947
m1 Gary Ray
m2. Robert Charles Benson. 2 dau
16.1. Louise Jane Benson b1980
16.2. Sophie Camilla Benson b1984
15.2. Hugh Clayton Lowther 8th Earl of Lonsdale b1949
m1.1971 Pamela Colleen Middleton 1s
16.1. Oliver Lowther (see the link to the 8th Earl of Lonsdale concerning the succession). Also this from the same link “The first marriage, contracted to a student nurse who was the daughter of a railway crossing keeper, apparently led to an estrangement between his father and the then Viscount Lowther. He is a substantial landowner with up to 5,000 acres (20 km2) along with the Lonsdale Settled Estates”.
m2. 1986 Angela Mary Wyatt
m3. Elizabeth Arnison
m2 Air Commodore Victor Bruce Bennett 1 son
14.2. Peter Bennett m. Kinga
13.4. Hester Swan b1.6.1897 m Charles Tonge, Lived at Barrowby. 1 dau
14.1 Jill Tonge m Mr Hall Wilson ?1s 2 dau
15.1 Tim Hall Wilson of Barrowby Grange.
15.2. Mandy Hall Wilson
15.3. A daughter