WALKER, Mrs Richard (Margaret (Margot) A nee FIREBRACE) 1920-2018

[Richard R]

From the Times of 23 November 2018: WALKER Margot (née Firebrace) died peacefully on 20th November 2018, aged 98, at Erskine home. Devoted wife to Richard, beloved mother of Nick, Susie McAlpine and Fru Goudge. Much loved grandmother and great grandmother. Grateful thanks to her niece, Sarah Walker, for loving care during Margot's time in Scotland. A "Remembering Margot" service will be held at St John's Renfield, Kelvinside, Glasgow, at 2pm, on Saturday 1st December 2018, to be followed by tea in the hall. All welcome. Donations to Erskine Home. In May 2019, there will be a memorial service at Ashampstead Church in Berkshire. Enquiries Donald MacDonald. 

She was d of Brig Roy Charles Whitworth George FIREBRACE CBE (1889-74), [?scion of the gentry family of that name formerly of Elmstone Court], by his 1916 m (reg Q2 Surrey) to Esme LYALL (1895-1978). She m 1946 (reg Q4 London) Richard John Boileau (1916-2010) s of Cmdr Kenneth Ralph WALKER and Caroline Jean LIVINGSTONE-LEARMONTH (1884-1974), scion of the gentry family of that name formerly of Parkhall. They had a son (Nicholas (Nick) R b 1947 reg London) and two daus: 1. (Susan (Susie) Mary (b 1949 reg London) m 1973 David Douglas Christopher McALPINE (b 1949), scion of the Bts of that name and has a son and three daus; 2. Frances (Fru) E (b 1954 reg London) m 1975 (reg Q3 London) Peter C GOUDGE, and has issue.

[G. Willis]

R. C. W. G. Firebrace second s. of Lt-Col George Firebrace, R.A. (1841-1891), of Lismore, Waterden Road, Guildford, Surrey, and Agnes Adela, dau. of Henry Aylmer Porter, of Cranborne Court, Windsor Forest, Berks.

According to Google books sources, Robert Tarver Firebrace (1828-1903) was 'of Elmstone Court' (also, per his probate record, of Victoria, Australia; his son, Cordell William Firebrace [1865-1934], succeeded him at Elmstone Court); he was the elder brother of George Firebrace (above), both being sons of Capt. William Firebrace (1795-1865), of the 58th Regiment; his father was William Newton Firebrace, who according to Burke's Extinct Baronetcies was a member of the Hon. Court of Criminal and Civil Justice at Demerara. This family was said to be a branch of the extinct Firebrace baronets. Based on thepeerage.com, BP 2003 traces six further generations back, to Robert Firebrace, of Derby (according to Sir Henry Firebrace's ODNB entry, 'successively clerk in the households of Sir Robert Bradbourne and the Roper family of Heanor, Derbyshire'), fl. late 1500s-1600s.

Whilst the baronets descend from this Robert's sixth son Sir Henry Firebrace (1619-1691; his son Basil being created baronet), the family treated here descend from Robert's son John (d. 1650)

Some other details on the family here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/peerage-news/Firebrace%7Csort:date/peerage-news/4tny7UseqfE/gCPVw5TJKA8J