Pamela, Lady Wolseley, 83, mother of Baronet
Michael Rhodes
Pamela Wolseley was the daughter-in-law of one Baronet, and mother of
another, and as the widow a man who would have succeeded to a
baronetcy had he survived the war, was, in 1955, granted the style,
rank and precedence as a baronet's widow.
She was the former Pamela Violette Barry Power, the younger daughter
fo Capt. F. Barry, of County Cork, and Mrs W.N. Power, of Wolseley
Park, Rugeley, Staffordshire.
She married, 12 January, 1942, Capt Stephen Garnet Hubert Francis
Wolseley, of the Royal Artillery, eldest son and heir of Sir Edric
Wolseley, 10th Baronet, [1886-1954].
Her husband was killed in action in France, 31 August, 1944. He was
machine-gunned in Normandy, leaving Pamela with an infant son,
Charles, who had been born in June, 1944, and a daughter, Patricia,
who had been born in 1942.
The Wolseleys had been seated at Rugeley, Staffs, for a millennium.
They claimed that the estate was granted by the Saxon King, Edgar, in
975 to an ancestor, who, according to legend, had rid Staffordshire of
wolves.
The first Baronet was Sir Robert Wolseley, Clerk of the King's Letters
Patent, who received his title in 1628.
After the Second World War, Pamela's father-in-law, riddled with
arthritis caused by the damp at Rugeley, took off to the United
States, and when he died in 1954, Pamela felt that her son, the
10-year-old 11th Baronet, should return to Staffordshire to take up
his inheritance.
Trustees managed Rugeley for her son until he attained the age of 21.
The mansion was a 60-room 1820s Gothic house, neglected since 1939 and
riddled with dry rot. The cost of restoration would have been over
£1m. It was a sum that the Wolseleys could not raise. The National
Trust didn't want the place and eventually Pamela's son demolished the
pile.
The family continued to live on the estate at Wolseley Park House.
Pamela's son opened a 40 acre garden and leisure centre there in 1990,
at a cost of £1.73m, but its takings were poor. By the mid 90s the
Baronet was bankrupt and he placed his 1,000 year heritage on the
market.
Pamela Lady Wolseley, whose home was a cottage on the family estate,
is survived by her son, and a daughter, Mrs Patricia Moor.
A Requiem Mass takes place at St Joseph and St Etheldreda Roman
Catholic Church, Rugeley, Friday 22 November, 2002, at 11.30 a.m.
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Michael Rhodes.
Greg
Greg
"Michael Rhodes" <mig73alle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Michael Rhodes
> Who cares about these parasites!
> Greg
If she's worth a mention in the reference books, then she's worth a mention here.
Michael
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Louis Epstein
> What you might not know about this ?parasite? is that she bought up two
> in ww2. She also looked after a disabled sister and mother as well. The
> estate passed to my uncle not my grandmother (because inheritance goes
> down the male line) when my Great grandfather died as a result she was
> not entitled to use any of it. My uncle was 13 so equally unable to use
> it at the time. My grandmother worked hard running her own tea shop and
> looking after her sister and mother until they dies when after a short
the label out of blinkered class hatred.
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