Rodriguez Tijerina / CATTO engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 28 Jan 2023: Mr L.R. Rodriguez Tijerina and Miss H.C.M. Catto - The engagement is announced between Luis, elder son of Mr and Mrs Luis Rodriguez, of San Pedro, Monterrey, and Holly, only daughter of Mrs Judith Catto and the late Mr Robert Catto, of Blackboys, East Sussex.

Holly Caroline M b c1989 reg Q1 London  d of Robert Jeremy Adam Inch CATTO 1939-2018 (gt gs of William CATTO d 1880 f of the 1st Baron CATTO 1879-1959) by his 1979 m reg Q2 E.Sussex to Judith M b c1951 reg Q1 E.Sussex d of Herbert John MONDAY 1923-98 by his 1947 m reg Q4 Sussex to Joan Edith May BLACKFORD 1922-95.

Post reporting Robert J A I Catto’s death in 2018: https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/SV0yqSkDyys/m/NB2qetMrBQAJ

[Davina Byrne]

Are we sure that Holly is the daughtter of Robert, given that there is no mention of her, or indeed or his marriage in the death notice from 2018?

[Richard R]

The simple answer is I'm pretty sure she is Robert Catto's dau. Given that:

1. The only Catto / Monday marriage reg on BMD between 1969 & 1989 is the above union, and

2. The only Holly C M Catto (mother Monday) birth reg on BMD between 1969 & 1989 is this person

I'm confident as to our Holly's parentage. But I'm very glad for other posters to prove otherwise, and give Holly a different parentage!

[Davina Byrne]

I don't have full access to the Ancesty records at the moment but I can see that Judith M Monday married Robert J W Catto in East Sussex. This is not the Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto, whose obituary mentions a special friend of 56 years and no wife and daughter.

So while Holly's father is definitely Robert Catto, I don't think it's the same Robert Catto who died in 2018.

[David Beamish]

I think Davina must be right. There was a Daily Telegraph announcement (http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/240605/catto) of the death on 21 March 2020 of Robert (Bob) James Wilson Catto, "Much loved husband of Judith, beloved father of Charles, George and Holly, and grandfather to Bertie."

[Henry W]

I knew Jeremy CATTO (1939 - 2018), not all that well but we were acquainted in the late 90s/early 2000s.  I would not rule out that he had somehow married and had a dau years earlier, but I would be very surprised - that he was gay was incredibly well known and my sense was that he had always lived in Oxford, so East Sussex seems unlikely.

[Richard R]

These are very useful amends/builds thanks.