WREY / IMPEY engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 27 Sep 2025: Mr S.S.B. Wrey and Dr O.R.E. Impey - The engagement is announced between Simon, son of Mr and Mrs Mark Wrey, of Minsted, West Sussex, and Olivia, daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Impey, of Chilland, Hampshire.

Simon Sherard Bourchier b 8 Nov 1992 (Times 10 Nov) s of Mark Eliot Bourchier WREY b 1955 (gt gs of Sir Henry Bourchier Toke WREY 10^th Bt 1829-1900) and Loveday Elizabeth b 1957 d of Maj Simon BOLITHO MC 1916-91 sometime head of that gentry family of Trengwainton and Elizabeth Margaret 1926-2022 d of Rear Adm George Hector CRESWELL CB DSO DSC 1889-1967 of Waldringfield, Suffolk and Katharine STUART 1889-1972.

Olivia Rose E. b 1995 d of Andrew M IMPEY b 1962 (gt gs of Katherine 1867-1945 d of Cholmeley AUSTEN-LEIGH d 1899 gt nephew of the novelist JANE AUSTEN and scion of the KNIGHT of Chawton gentry family, etc, and Melesina Mary 1834-1918 d of Most Rev & Rt Hon Richard CHENEVIX TRENCH 1807-86 sometime Archbishop of Dublin and Hon Francis Mary TRENCH 1809-90 sister of 2^nd Baron ASHTOWN 1804-80) by his 1989 m to Katherine A L d of John LYNNE and Valerie NICOL.

[S R Eglesfield]

Katharine Stuart was a daughter of Maj John STUART, OBE and his wife (married 11 VIII 1886), Katharine Yseult CRAUFURD (11 II 1866 - c.1940), the second daughter of Edward Henry John CRAUFURD (9 XII 1816 - 29 VIII 1887), MP (Radical, 1852-59 and Liberal 1859-74) for Ayr Burghs, sometime head of that family, formerly of Auchenames, Ayrshire, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry (LG) in the 1937 edition. Her maternal grandmother, who married Mr Crauford on 6 October 1863, was Frances MOLESWORTH (23 I 1830 - 26 IX 1899), daughter of the Rev William MOLESWORTH (5 XI 1792 - 28 III 1851) and his second wife (married 9 II 1829), Frances Susanna BULLER (1796 - 1868), of that LG family, of Downes, Crediton, Devon.

 

The Rev William Molesworth was the younger son of Sir William MOLESWORTH, 6th Bt (30 VI 1758 - 22 II 1798); he himself was, by his first wife (married 6  XI 1817), Katherine TREBY (1789 - 26 V 1823; a scion maternally of the Trelawny baronets), the father of the Rev Sir Hugh Henry MOLESWORTH, 9th Bt (13 X 1818 - 6 I 1862) and Sir Paul William MOLESWORTH, 10th Bt (13 I 1821 - 23 XII 1889).

[S R Eglesfield]

The birth of Katherine A L LYNNE was registered in Marylebone in Q1 1965. The marriage of her parents, John Rhodes Spencer LYNNE (born 1932) and (Rosalind) Valerie Wilson NICOL (born 30 IX 1939), was registered in Surrey South Western in Q1 1961.

 

John Lynne was the son of Heron Spencer LYNNE (c.1900/01 - 11 VIII 1965) and his wife (married 1928), Beryl Amy BRADSTREET (1902 - 4 IV 1996).

 

Heron Lynne was the son of Spencer LYNNE (1838 - 9 IX 1903) and his wife (married 1884), May ATHERLEY (c.1859 - 6 I 1947), of the Atherley (now Cator) family, of Landguard Manor, near Shanklin, Isle of Wight, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry in the 1921 edition. She does not appear in the pedigree there, but she was a daughter of Mark Kerr ATHERLEY (1805 - 11 III 1884), who was himself a son of Arthur ATHERLEY (12 VI 1772 - 1 X 1844), MP (Whig) for Southampton 1806-07, 1812-18 and 1831-35, and his wife (married 16 VI 1793), Lady Louisa KERR (died 23 VI 1819), daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lothian.