Mary Bridget Fetherstonhaugh Frampton (d 2014)

[Michael Rhodes]

__. Miss Mary Bridget Fetherstonhaugh Frampton, who died 28 Aug, 2014, aged 86, was a scion of the Fetherstonhaugh Frampton landed family of Moreton, Dorchester.

She was born circa 1928, daughter of Cdr Roger Henry Charles Fetherstonhaugh Frampton (1899-1985), by his wife the former Bridget Sybil Findlay (1903-85). Miss F F worked as a personal assistant at the House of Commons.

Her grandfather Harry Rupert F F married in 1893, Violet Edith Millicent, dau of Colonel Fox Reeve, Coldstream Guards, by his wife the Hon Mrs Fox Reeve. &c.

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[Harry Merritt]

Hon. Mrs. Fox Reeve was a sister of two Viscounts Melville. Beyond that, Mary Bridget FF had one of the more obscure lines of descent from King Charles II, thus:

Charles II & Lucy Walter

James Crofts (Scott), Duke of Monmouth (1649-85), by Elizabeth Waller

Mary Hicks (c. 1676-1737 or 1731, cannot decipher my scribbles)

m. James de Cardonnel (1667-1744)

Mansfeldt de Cardonnel (1699-1780 or 1786), m. Anne Hilton

Adam Mansfeldt de Cardonnel, later Lawson (1747?-1820) of Cramlington,

Northumberland, m. Mary Kidd

Hannah Mary de Cardonnel Lawson, m. Joseph Edward Greaves Elmsall (1791-1851)

Georgiana de Cardonnel Elmsall (d. 1892), m. Charles Bannatyne Findlay (1821-77)

Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (1861-1932), m. Cora Sybil Alexander (d. 1959)

Bridget Sybil Findlay (1903-85), m. Roger H.C. Fetherstonhaugh Frampton

Mary Bridget FF (1928-2014)

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