SCHILIZZI, Miss Helena Margaret (1939-2010)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of April 8th 2010
SCHILIZZI
Helena Margaret (Henny) on 3rd April 2010 aged 70. Dearly loved sister
of Stephen and the late Gabrielle, much loved aunt and great-aunt.
Funeral Service at St Peter and St Paul Church, Chacombe on Thursday,
15th April at 2.30 p.m. followed by interment. Family flowers only.
Donations and all enquiries to.— J & M Humphris, tel: 01295 265424.

She was the dau of Maj John Stephen SCHILIZZI (1896-1985) sometime
head of that gentry family of Chacombe House, Oxon, and Lady
(Gabrielle) Sophia Annette WALDEGRAVE (1908-98) dau of Rev 11th Earl
WALDEGRAVE and Anne Katherine (dau of Rev William Pollexfen BASTARD,
sometime head of that gentry family of Kitley, Devon). She was
unmarried

[Turenne]

If like me anyone is intrigued by the name 'Bastard'; this from
“Généalogie de la Maison de Bastard”.

The name originated with Rahier, Lord of Bastardiene-sur-Sevre c1040.
The name derived from an illegitimate son of Alan Short-Beard, Duke of
Brittany c950, himself a descendant of Rivallon, Count of Poher in
Cornwall c850. In 1066 Robert le Bastard, one of the descendants of
the French Bastardiene line, was amongst the Breton followers of Alan
Fargent who sailed with William, Duke of Normandy, and after the
Conquest he settled in Devon.

William le Bastard held estates in and around Efford and Eggbuckland
at the time of the Doomsday Survey, later generations moving back to
their ancestral homeland in Cornwall, before the family seat was
transferred to Gerston near Kingsbridge, and later to Kitley in
Yealmpton. The Lords of the Manor of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries were descendants, through female lines, of the Plantagenet
Kings. One maternal line can even be traced way back to Cerdic, self-
appointed King of the West Saxons, AD494 – the lineage can be followed
in an unbroken descent through no less than fifty one generations to
the present.

Richard L