Davidson

Mary

 

Daughter of:
Duncan Henry Caithness Reay Davidson
and:
Georgina Elizabeth Mackenzie
born on:
1861 in Inverness
died on:
† Sunday 28 October 1923

  1. Thomas George Dundas x December 1879 


the following children were born of this union: 

    1. Thomas Archibald Dundas o Wednesday 22 December 1880  
    2. Ronald George Dundas o Monday 14 June 1886  


 

Davis

Hart

 

Son of:
Richard Hart Davis
and:
Sarah Whittingham
born on:
6th March 1791
died on:
1854
Occupations :
M.P
 
 
 

  1. Dundas Charlotte x Sunday 11 July 1813 


 

de Bunsen

Henry

 

 
Son of:
Christian, Baron de Bunsen
 
and:
 
 
born on:
1819
 
died on:
1885
 
Occupation:
Rector of Donington, Shropshire

  1. Mary Louisa Harford Battersby X 1847
the following children were born of this union:
Laura Emily De Bunsen


 

de Bunsen

Mary Charlotte

 

 

 
Daughter of:
Christian, Baron de Bunsen
 
and:
 
 
born on:
 
 
died on:
1919
 
Occupations :
 

 
 
  1. John Battersby   X 1850
  the following children were born of this union:

1. Mary Edith  Harford Battersby married Alban Gwynne and died 1917

2. Charlotte Louisa Harford Battersby, born 1857

3. Agnes Clementine Harford Battersby, born 1859
  4. John Charles Harford (Major),. Lord of the Manor of Lampeter, of Blaise Castle, Gloucestershire, and Falcondale, Lampeter, D.L., J.P. Co. Cardigan and Co. Gloucester, High Sheriff Co. Cardigan 1885. Born  28/7/1860, married 1893, Blanche Amabel Raikes and died in 1934 leaving issue:
a. John Henry Harford. Lieutenant, 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers. Born February 7th 1895. Killed in action October 26th 1916.
b. Sir (George) Arthur Harford, 2nd Bt., O.B.E. Born December 29th 1897. Educated Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Served 21st (E. of I.) Lancers 1917-23, 17/21st Lancers and General Staff 1940-45; J.P., D.L., Cardiganshire; High Sheriff 1938-39; D.P. Hampshire 1953. Married 1931 Anstice Marion Tritton
5. Frederick Dundas Harford born 1862, married 1896, Amy Mary Josephine Stourton and died 1934, leaving issue; Joan Mary Harford, born 1897.
6.  Eleanor Dorothy Harford, married 1889, John Iltyd Dillwyn Nicholl


 

Deans Dundas

Ann

 

 

Daughter of:

 

and

Janet Dundas
 

born on:

19/3/1809 in Clifton, Gloucestershire
 

died on:

8/8/1847
 
 
 

  1. John Archer Houblon May 1829 

No issue


              Deans Dundas

                   Charles Albert Whitley


                                                

Son of:

Charles Frederick Whitley Deans Dundas

 and:

Adelaide Horridge

born on:

1910, Windsor, Berkshire.

died on:

 25/12/1962

Occupation:

Major Intelligence Corps
 
   X  31/7/1943 Priscilla Noel Cecilia Barclay and had issue:
  Charles Jeremy Deans Dundas, born 14/10/1946
  X 2ndly, 1958, Daphne Vincent Dennis, died 1979, Southampton

              


             

           Deans Dundas

                   Charles Jeremy


Son of:

Charles Albert Whitley Dundas

 and:

Priscilla Noel Cecilia Barclay

born on:

14/10/1946

died on:

 

Occupation:

 
 
  X 1967, Irene Arthurs

                                                                                                                                                                                                        


              Deans Dundas

                      Charles Amesbury Whitley Deans Dundas


 

Son of:

Charles James Deans Dundas

and

Janet Lindsay Jardine
born on:
30/11/1845
died on:
9/9/1874 in Bristol
  Charles Amesbury Whitley Deans Dundas inherited the estates in Flintshire and Berkshire from his grandfather, Admiral Sir James Deans Dundas.                         
  Charles Amesbury Whitley Deans Dundas was declared bankrupt, 1872 in his business of newspaper proprietor, printer and publisher.

Charles Amesbury at his death left 1200 Press Association shares to his son Charles Frederick Whitley Deans Dundas.

 
  X  1867, Lucy Emma Furze
 

the following children were born of this union: 

  1. Florence Mary Whitley Deans Dundas. b.1868 in Bath. Married 1889 in Hampshire, Henry Le Blanc, who died 1910  in Hampshire and had issue:
    Lindsay Florence Le Blanc b. 1890  who married in 1912 Charles C Bradley in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
  2. Charles Frederick Whitley Deans Dundas
  3. Amy Gertrude Deans Dundas, born 1871 in Gloucestershire, married Oswald Robert Mounsey in 1891 and had issue:
    Guy Oswald Mounsey. Born 1894. Went to the Far East and was last heard of in Singapore in 1929. he was officially presumed dead in 1962
    Amy Gertrude Deans Dundas and Oswald Robert Mounsey's marriage ended in divorce in 1901. In 1902, Amy married James Dalzell Niven. They had no children. Later Amy lived with Charles Kenneth Preston-Cole. She was never divorced from Niven but took Preston-Cole's surname by deed poll. Preston-Cole was a bon viveur and a regular habitué of the Carlton Club. The couple lived a luxurious lifestyle, often in the south of France. On her death in 1944, Amy left a mere £359, including the "worthless" Press Association shares (left to her by her grandfather and brother) to her lover. Preston-Cole continued to live in a lavish manner until his death, almost penniless in 1956. He earmarked the residue of his estate- which appeared to be worth hardly anything to four charities: Dr Barnodos, The Royal National Lifeboat Association, The National Institute for the Blind and The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A quarter of a century later, the "worthless" shares were worth some £1,500,000!
(Reading Mercury 19/9/1874) - THE LATE MR. C. A. W. D. DUNDAS. Mr. Charles A. W. Deans Dundas, whose death at an early age we announced in last week's Mercury, was the great grandson of Baron Amesbury (who sat in Parliament for more than half a century, representing Berkshire many years), and grandson of Sir James Dundas (Admiral of the White, commander of the Mediterranean and Black Sea fleets.) The deceased was proprietor of the Western Telegraph, a Bristol daily paper, the publication of which ceased some months ago. He subsequently purchased the Bath Argus, but his experience in the newspaper world proved anything but lucrative and successful. He was of a very liberal disposition, and closely identified with the High Church party at Clifton, where he was known for some time as Brother Cyprian, of the Order of St. Benedict. About two years ago the deceased became lord of the manor of Kintbury, and possessor of the Barton Court estate, a valuable family property, through the decease of his uncle, the vicar of that parish, the Rev. James Whitley Deans Dundas, second son of the distinguished Admiral.

The deceased, Mr. Charles Dundas, was but 28 years of age, and his only son, a little boy, succeeds to the estate. On Monday morning, there was a funeral service at All Saints' Church, Clifton, commencing at the somewhat early hour of half-past nine, conducted by the Hon. and Rev. A. Hanbury-Tracy, who, with the choir, met the corpse at the western entrance to the church. The mourners were the widow, with the heir, Master Charles Dundas, and the eldest daughter, Miss Florence Dundas ; his mother ; and cousin, Mrs. Kidston. At the conclusion of the service, which was full choral, there was a celebration of the Holy Communion. The body was subsequently conveyed by Great Western Railway to Kintbury.

The Funeral at Kintbury - Within the short space of two years and one month after the obsequies of the late lamented Vicar of Kintbury, the Rev. James W. Deans Dundas, the family vault was re-opened on Tuesday, to receive the mortal remains of his nephew and heir, Mr. Charles Dundas. The corpse reached Kintbury by rail at 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, and was met at the station by the estate steward, Mr. Thomas Owen, and Mr C. Leroux.' the latter an old and faithful servant of the family, who accompanied Admiral Dundas through the exciting engagements which took place in the Black Sea and elsewhere. The body was borne from thence to the parish church on the shoulders of several labourers in Mr. Owen's employ, where it was received by the Vicar (Rev. J. F. Campbell) and placed upon a bier in the nave, being covered by a rich velvet pall, of violet colour, with a cross of red velvet; over this was laid a beautiful floral cross, sent from Clifton by the deceased's mother, (the widow of Capt. Charles Dundas, who was the Admiral's eldest son). The brass plate on the coffin bore the following inscription:

" Jesu Mercy. Charles Amesbury Whitley Deans Dundas, Died September 9th, 1874, Aged 28 years."

Wax candles were lighted on either side of the coffin, and kept burning throughout the night. Shortly before 10 o'clock the relatives, friends, and tenantry, assembled at the residence of Mr. William Heath, and walked to the churchyard entrance in the following order ”The widow and mother of deceased, between whom was the only son and heir, about six years of age ; Miss Florence Dundas, the eldest of the two daughters of the deceased; Mrs. J. P. Kidston ; Mr. N. T. Lawrence, the family solicitor; Mr. Charles Howard, Mr. Charles Leroux, Mr Thomas Owen, Mr. Oliver Owen, and the tenantry ”Messrs. Wright, Romaine, Stephen White, Ash by and Truman. The corpse was brought from the church to the entrance gate of the burial ground, and it was then followed by the mourners into the sacred edifice, the Vicar reading the opening sentences of the Burial service, the church was thronged with people of all masses, and among those who occupied seats were General Butler, Mrs C. Howard, Mr. Grigg of Bristol, Mr. Sterling of Bath, and others who had been more or less associated with the deceased gentleman. The service was choral, the singing being conducted by the curate (Rev. A. W. H. Edwards who presided at the organ, and played the Dead March in Saul, as the corpse was borne for the last time out of the church. Many were the tears shed over the open vault, into which the coffin was carefully lowered, the choir singing hymn 163, " When our heads are bowed with Woe. ' The 142nd hymn " Brief life Is here our portion, was also sung, and the widow and other chief mourners descended the vault and deposited immortelles and flowers upon the coffin. Thus closed the obsequies of the young lord of the manor, who had for so brief a period enjoyed the possession of an estate capable of affording an the pleasures a country gentleman could possibly desire. We learn that Mr. Dundas had been suffering from consumption for some months, and that he died somewhat unexpectedly on Wednesday week. The management of the estate is vested in trustees, and Mr. Owen, of Clapton, will continue to act as steward.


              Deans Dundas

                      Charles Frederick Whitley


 

Son of:

and:

Lucy Emma Furze

born on:

1870 in London

died on:

 8/6/1938

Occupation:

Major, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

  Charles Frederick had left to him by his father, Charles Amesbury Whitley Deans Dundas 1200 Press Association shares, which at the time appeared worthless. On his death he left half to his son, Charles Albert Whitley Deans Dundas and a quarter each to his sisters,  Florence Mary Whitley Deans Dundas and Amy Gertrude Deans Dundas. (see Amy Gertrude Deans Dundas for continuation of story)

X 28th January 1891, Lucy Forbes Lumsden who was born 11th May 1869 and died 1948. The marriage was dissolved in 1908 on the grounds of adultery by Charles Frederick Whitley Deans Dundas.

No children were born of the union with Lucy Forbes: 
X 2ndly, 1908, Adelaide Horridge
the following children were born of this union:
Charles Albert Whitley Deans Dundas
Adelaide Whitley Deans Dundas, married 1929 in Marylebone, Hubert T Honeybourne
 

             Deans Dundas

                     Charles James Whitley 


Son of:
and:
born on:
18/1/1811 in Richmond, Surrey
died on:
11th April 1856 in Scotland
Occupations :
  1. M.P.
  2. Captain in the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia 
His cousin Janet Lindsay Jardine x Friday 24 March 1837 in Edinburgh. Janet died 1886 
  The following children were born of this union:
  Charles Amesbury Whitley Deans Dundas



 
 

Deans Dundas

James Whitley Rev.

 


Son of:
and:
born on:
1812 in Richmond, Surrey
died on:
12/8/1872 in Hungerford

Kintbury Vicarage.

Occupation :
 

 

Vicar of Kintbury, Berkshire 

 

13th Feb. 1836, in West Woodhay, Hants, Olivia Flora Burslem, daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Burslem (d. 1857) and Sarah of Harewood Lodge, Hampshire. Olivia died 4/6/1881 in London, having had a daughter with James Whitley Deans Dundas prior to their marriage. See below-

  There is a mystery here in that Olivia Flora Dundas is shown as dying at 2, Charles Street, Knightsbridge in June 1881, and yet on the 1881 census at the same address, she is shown as Olivia Flora Deans (no Dundas addition), and with her is a daughter, also named Olivia Flora Deans, shown as being born in 1843. In the 1871 census, Olivia Flora Deans is shown again with her daughter, who this time is shown a Flora A Dean, and this time there is also a son, named Henry Dean, born 1844. In the 1861 census, she is living alone and simply shown as Flora Dean. Newspaper reports tell us that there was a daughter born before the marriage, and it was for this reason that the parties were encouraged to marry. What became of the daughter is unknown, but it is possible that she was the daughter shown in the 1881 and 1887 census. This does not however account for the son, not the discrepancy in the birth date, although this could simply be to disguise the truth..
 

 

Dundas v. Hoet —The court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, tried an action brought by the Rev. Mr. Dundas, son of Captain Deans Dundas, against Mr. Hoey, a gentleman residing in Bath, for criminal conversation with Mrs. Dundas. From the speeches of counsel, and from the evidence, it appeared that Mrs. Dundas is the daughter of Colonel Burslem, of Harewood- lodge, not far from Barton-court, Captain Deans Dundas's residence is in Berkshire; that the plaintiff paid attention to Miss Burslem, a young lady of great personal beauty, twenty-two years old, and was received in the house as her acknowledged suitor; that he took advantage of the familiarity allowed him to seduce the lady, whom he then deserted, and who was delivered at Bath of a child by him; that, with great difficulty, he was persuaded to marry her some time after the birth of the child ; that 10,0001. was settled by colonel Burslem on his daughter, and 5,000/. by Captain Dundas on his son ; that the married pair had violent quarrels, and were twice separated ; and it was after the last separation that Mrs. Dundas formed the illicit connexion with Mr. Hoey. It was proved that at various places they had lived together as man and wife. Mrs. Burslem was produced to state the circumstances of the courtship, the seduction, the delivery, and the subsequent marriage of her own daughter. The plaintiff's counsel, Mr. Thesiger, did not, under the circumstances, claim more than nominal damages. Lord Denman summed up. rather favourably for the plaintiff. The jury, in a few minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff— damages one farthing; and added, " We think he had morally deserted her."

Lord Denman—' Do you think he had completely abandoned her, and given her to understand so '"'

The Jury—" My lord, we find for the plaintiff, with one farthing damages."

Mr. Thesiger asked his lordship to certify that it was a proper case to be tried by a special jury.

Lord Denman—" Yes, I shall."

Mr. Watson—" May I ask your lordship to certify to deprive the plaintiff of his costs."

Lord Denman—" I will consider of it"

 

Deans Dundas

James Whitley Sir

 

 
Son of:
 
and:
 
born on:
4th April 1785
 
died on:
3/10/1862 in Weymouth, Dorset
 
Occupations :
Admiral of the White, Royal Navy
 
 
 

  1. 2nd April 1808 Dundas Janet who died 1846 


the following children were born of this union: 

    1. Charles James Deans Dundas  
    2. James Whitley Deans Dundas 
    3. Ann Deans Dundas   
    4. Janet Deans Dundas, died 1818 (Blackwoods Magazine)
    5. Janet Deans Dundas 
    6. Sophia Deans Dundas  

  Married 2ndly 1847; Lady Emily Moreton who died 1900 in Kensington, London

                                    

 
 

Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, son of Dr. James Deans of Calcutta, was born on 4th December 1785 and entered the navy on 19th March 1799. After serving six years in the Mediterranean, on the west coast of France and in the North Sea, he was promoted by Lord Keith to be lieutenant of the Cambrian, on 25th May 1805, and, the following year, after being for a few weeks flag-lieutenant to the Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley, he was made commander on 8th October 1800. On 13th October 1807, he was posted, and continued actively employed in the Baltic or the North Sea to the peace. On 2nd April 1808, he married his first cousin, Janet, only daughter and heiress of Charles Dundas, Lord Amesbury, and, at the same time, took the surname of Dundas. From 1815 to 1819, he commanded the Tagus frigate in the Mediterranean. From 1830 to 1832, he was flag captain to Sir William Parker on board the Prince Regent of 120 guns, on the coast of Portugal; and, from 1836 to 1838, commanded the Britannia at Portsmouth as flag captain to Sir Philip Durham. On 25th October 1839, Dundas was nominated a CB and was advanced to the rank of rear-admiral on 23rd November 1841. For some months in 1841, and again in 1840, he had a seat at the board of admiralty. In January 1852, he was appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, was advanced to be vice-admiral on 17th December 1852, and was still in the Mediterranean when the Russian War broke out in 1854. He had, thus, the chief naval command of the operations during the Summer and Autumn of that year, including the transport of the army to the Crimea, the support of the allies in the Battle of the Alma and the engagement with the sea-forts of Sebastopol on 17th October.   On 5th July 1855, he was nominated a GCB and his services were acknowledged by the British allies with the grand cross of the Legion of Honour and the Medjidie of the first class. He attained the rank of admiral on 8th December 1857, but had no further service, and died 3rd October 1862. His first wife died in April 1846 and, in August 1847, he married Lady Emily Moreton, daughter of the first Earl of Ducie and younger sister of Lady Charlotte Moreton who had married, in 1834, Admiral Berkeley, afterwards Lord Fitzhardinge and for many years a lord of the admiralty. By his first wife, he had a life interest in large estates in Flintshire and Berkshire - centred on Barton Court in Kintbury - which, at his death, passed to his grandson, Mr. Charles Amesbury Deans Dundas. On the passing of the Reform Bill, he was elected member for Greenwich and represented that borough in several subsequent parliaments.


 
 

Deans Dundas

Janet

 

Daughter of:
and:
born on:
 1819
died on:
 
Occupations :

 

29/7/1845 at Marylebone, Henry Christopher Roberts


 

Deans Dundas

Sophia

 

 

Daughter of:

and:

born:

1822

died:

1852
 
  11/1843 James Coutts Crawford
the following children were born of this union: 
James Dundas Crawford, b. at Admiralty, London 11 Nov 1850, died at Edinburgh unmarried.

Janet Crawford b. at Kintbury Vicarage, 8th Sept 1844. Died at Red Lodge, Cold Ash. Berks. m. 11th June 1873 John Armine Willis (b. 1839, d. 21 Dec 1916), son of Dr. Sherlock Willis and had issue:

Janet Isabel Willis b. 20 Feb 1875, m. June 1909, Eric Blackwood Wright.
 
Katherine Emily Dundas Willis, b. 11 March and d. 15 April1876.
 
Olive Margaret Willis, b. 26 Oct 1878.
Dorothy Sibyl Willis, b. 11 June 1880.
Charles Armine Willis of the Soudan Civil Service, b. 18 March 1881, m. 26 Nov 1919 Clare, 5th d. of the Rt. Hon. the 1st baron Holm Patrick.
Evelyn Patience Willis b. 13 May 1884, m. Dec 1907 Charles Godfrey, Civil head of Staff, Osborne Naval College etc.
James Coutts Crawford, generally known as Coutts, was born at Overton, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 19 January 1817, the only son of Captain James Coutts Crawford, RN, and his second wife, Jane Inglis. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, he received the gold medal before joining the Prince Regent in June 1831. He served on several ships on both coasts of South America and in the Mediterranean as a midshipman. In 1836 he qualified as a sub-lieutenant, but through lack of promotional prospects took his discharge the following year. He was awarded the Royal Humane Society's honorary medallion in 1836 for rescuing two seamen from drowning.

In 1838 Crawford sailed on the Coromandel to Sydney where, accompanied by an overseer, he drove a herd of cattle to Adelaide, one of the first to make the overland journey. He sailed from Australia in November1839 on the Success , landing at Korohiwa, Titahi Bay, New Zealand, and after visiting Kapiti and Mana islands walked to Port Nicholson (Wellington). He visited Queen Charlotte Sound and French Pass, returning to Port Nicholson just after the arrival of the first immigrant ships. Early in March 1840 he returned to Sydney to purchase horses and cattle for a property he had bought from the New Zealand Company. On Watts Peninsula, later named Miramar, he established the Glendavar cattle farm. He also acquired land in Auckland.

Crawford was active in local affairs in Wellington. He seconded the motion asking for Governor William Hobson's recall in 1841, and promoted the formation of a cattle company and an association to consider ways of dressing flax for export. In 1841 he returned to England, and on 29 November 1843 married Sophia Whitley Deans Dundas at Kintbury, Berkshire. Returning to New Zealand in 1846, he developed his farm near Wellington and constructed a tunnel, apparently the first in New Zealand, to drain Burnham Water into Evans Bay. He explored Wairarapa with Charles Clifford and Edward Stafford, and was present when Governor George Grey arrested Te Rauparaha.

Crawford later returned to England, where Sophia Crawford died in 1852, leaving two children. On 28 July 1857 he married Jessie Cruickshank McBarnet, at Forres, Elgin, Scotland, and returned once more to New Zealand. He settled permanently in Wellington, where he and Jessie Crawford raised three sons. He expanded his cattle farm, bought land at Ahuriri, Wairarapa and the Hutt Valley, invested in mining companies in New Zealand and Australia and was active in local affairs. Interested in geology, he was appointed provincial geologist in 1861, and from 1862 to 1864, in a search for mining potential and routes for road and rail communication, explored the Wanganui and Rangitikei rivers, the central plateau as far as Tokaanu, Northern Wairarapa and crossed the Tararua Range. His reports made a significant contribution to the knowledge of the province.

Crawford held many official positions. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1859 to 1867, and was appointed resident magistrate in 1864 and sheriff of Wellington in 1866, holding both posts until his resignation in 1878. In 1864 he established and presided over the Resident Magistrate and Warden's Court at Havelock in Pelorus Sound for some months.

James Coutts Crawford

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