Cator/Hillier engagement

[Michael Rhodes]

The engagement was announced 1 Dec 2007, between Ralph R.A. Cator,
scion of the L family of Cator of Woodbastwick, son of Mr & Mrs Kit
Cator, of Woodbastwick, Norfolk, and Catherine J. Hillier, elder dau
of Mr & Mrs Martin Hillier,of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.



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[Shinjinee]

For more on the family see
www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=Cator1-123

CATOR OF WOODBASTWICK. LT.-COL. HENRY JOHN CATOR, MC , of Woodbastwick
Hall, Norwich, DL (1948), JP (1930), Norfolk, High Sheriff 1957,
formerly Capt ....
(I don't have access, but the record seems rather out of date!)

His marriage is listed here: [http://worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/
m02/maryenglanddesc1496-94.htm]
Anne Laetitia Mary
Cayley
Born 17 March
1899
Married 5 February
1925
Henry John Cator, son of John Cator, of Woodbastwick
Hall
and Maud
Adeane
Born 25 January 1897
I would assume that this marriage produced Francis Cator, below, and
others

His second son was Francis Cator (1928-2007) whose second son (of
three sons and a daughter) Mark, b 30 Oct 1960, m the Hon Isabel
Crossley, dau of 3rd Baron Somerleyton, KCVO
http://groups.google.com/group/Peerage-News/browse_thread/thread/dca4db6b7d29e99f

For the descent of Elizabeth Margaret Cator (and Henry John Cator
above), paternal grandmother of the present Earl of Strathmore;
daughter of John Cator of Woodbastwick and his wife Maud Adeane:
http://www.thepeerage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4183&sid=9ecd0dfb655e6fee8104641439172ce8
http://www.william1.co.uk/c10.htm (for the Bowes-Lyon marriage and its
descendants, not updated recently)



A book on the family exists authored by Pat Manning: "The Cators of
Beckenham and Woodbastwick"
http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/book/The%20Cators%20of%20Beckenham%20and%20Woodbastwick/

An earlier Elizabeth Margaret Cator, daughter of Albemarle Cator
married 1885 Rev Lord Victor Alexander Seymour (b. 1859) and had
issue.

A Georgina Marguerite Cator, + 1955, d. of Albemarle Cator, of
Woodbastwick Hall, Norwich, married 1909 John Francis Baker, * 1860, +
1925, fourth son of Henry John Tower (later Baker by Royal Licence in
1844), of Elemore, Hall, * 1822, + 1871, and his wife (md 1849),
Isabella Allgood, + 1896, d. of Robert Lancelot Allgood, of Nunwick,
Northumberland. They had issue two daughters, who married and left
issue.
[http://www.william1.co.uk/w147.htm]

Albemarle Bertie Cator (1877-1932) son of Albemarle Cator of
Woodbastwick Hall, Norfolk, and thus presumably brother of Georgina
Marguerite above, married 1903 Violet Eveleen Sutton (b. 1883-1948)
and had issue, Peter Harry Cator (b. 1908) who md 1934 Kythe Susan
Blofeld, d. of John Calthorpe Blofeld, and had issue 2 sons and 1 dau
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=freer&id=I12408
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/e/Alan-G-Freer/ODT8-0040.html

The younger son is Christopher Harry Cator; is he the Kit Cator of
Woodbastwick, below? An older brother was Simon Albemarle John Cator
b: 1937.



On Jan 9, 8:29 pm, Michael Rhodes <migx73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

[Michael Rhodes]

Thanks, I do believe that Christopher and Kit are one and the same.