SEELY, Hilton (1940-2022)

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Hilton Seely, aged 82, died unexpectedly on 6 April surrounded by family. Private cremation on 29 April. Thanksgiving Service at 1.30 p.m. on 13th May at St Peter's, Black Lion Lane, London.

Source: The Telegraph, 23 April 2022; announcement placed by Denise Seely


Charles SEELY, of Brooke House, IoW (3 Oct 1803-21 Oct 1887); m.28 Jun 1831 Mary Hilton (d.20 Aug 1884)
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Sir Charles, of Sherwood Lodge, and of Brooke House, IoW, cr Baronet 1896 (11 Aug 1833-16 Apr 1915); m.11 Aug 1857 Emily Evans (d.8 Dec 1894), sister of Sir Francis Evans, Bt.
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Sir Charles Hilton, 2nd Bt. (7 Jul 1859-26 Feb 1926); m.9 Dec 1891 Hilda Lucy Grant (d.24 Aug 1939)
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Nigel Richard William (13 Nov 1902-d.on active service 10 May 1943); m.24 Mar 1937 Isabella Elinor Margarete von Rieben (1913-17 Jan 1957)
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Hilton Nigel Matthew (2 Mar 1940-6 Apr 2022); m.1st 27 Jan 1971 Leonie Mary Taylor; m.2nd 1993 Denise M Muckle

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He was lately the second heir in line to the SEELY baronetcy behind the 6th Baronet (b 1983, unm) and his elder brother Charles (b 1937, unm).  He leaves 3 sons (2 by 1st m, 1 by 2nd m) born 1972, 1975, and 1993 respectively, all seemingly unm.

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Some of his German ancestry:

Hans Friedrich Christoph von Rieben; m.1st 1755 Benedikte Katharine von Blücher (d.1765); m.2nd 1766 Dorothea von Bassewitz (1741-1779)
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Hans Joachim Friedrich (1757-1827); m.1787 Wilhelmine Frn von Richthofen (d.1827)
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Hans Friedrich-Wilhelm (1793-1855); m.1819 Ida von Schkopp (1801-1879)
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Alfred Ludwig Ottomar (1834-1901); m.1874 Margarete von Philipsborn (1848-1928)
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Eugen Bernhard Adolf Erdmann (1878-1955); m.1912 (div 1936) Alison Bonsall (b.Morben, North Wales 8 Aug 1889-    )
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Isabella Ellinor Margarethe von Rieben (1913-1957); m.1st 1937 Nigel Seely (1902-k.a.1943), of the Baronets; m.2nd 1949 Edward Bromley Davenport (1909-    )

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Noticed the uniquely  'von Blucher' and 'von Richthofen'  connections in the ancestral line; so what the precise family relationship(s),in respect to the Napoleonic War general and wartime 'Red Baron'?

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I cannot determine the exact relationships.

The format of the German genealogical books is that generally they do not include daughters and younger sons without extant issue before the mid- to late-1700s.

On this page is what I find on the Rieben genealogy.

https://archive.org/details/gothaischesgenea1913goth/page/585/mode/2up

As can be seen, it does not specify the names of the parents of these Blücher and Richthofen brides.


For Blücher, I can see on this page

https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/8285274

that one Bernhard Joachim von Blücher (d.1758) married Friederike Sophie von Rieben (d.1781). Since siblings often married siblings, the Blücher daughter who married a Rieben was likely his sister. Note that in the Rieben genealogy she is said to come from the Gorschendorf branch of the Blücher family, and in the Blücher genealogy we can see that Bernhard Joachim was lord of Gorschendorf.

At any rate, this Bernhard von Blücher (d.1758) was second cousin of the Napoleonic general.


As for the Richthofen wife, again her parents are not named, nor is there any clue about which branch she may have belonged to. The Richthofens were quite a large family, so I cannot guess what relationship she had to the Red Baron.