Kirk / MISKIN engagement

[Richard R]

From the Times of 2 November 2019: MISS J M C MISKIN AND MR S KIRK The marriage was celebrated on 19th October, at St Mary's, Stoke Abbott, and later at Southover House, Topuddle, between Samuel, eldest son of David Kirk and Carolyn Kirk and Julia, daughter of Charles Miskin QC and Kass Miskin.

Samuel David J (b 1988 reg Q2 Somerset) s of David S R KIRK (b 1960 reg Q3 London) by his 1987 m (reg Q4 Somerset) to Carolyn S ROBINSON (b 1954 reg Q3 Kent).

Julia Meryl Cosima (b 1990) d of Charles James Monckton MISKIN QC (b 1952, s of Nigel Monckton Miskin (1921-2004, s of Anne Dorothy MONCKTON (1897-1983) scion of (but nor descended from) the MONCKTON viscounts)) and Karen Elizabeth (b c1956 reg Q1 London) d of Ronald BOOTH of Whorton, Co Durham by his c1955 m (reg Q1 Kent) to Gillian R CARDER-GEDDES (b 1935 reg Q2 Croydon).

[G. Willis]

It seems Anne Dorothy Monckton was third cousin of the 1st Viscount Monckton.

A look at the Carder-Geddes family:

Gillian R. dau. (with a brother, Geoffrey) of Reginald Carder-Geddes (1904-2002), of York, formerly of Croydon, Surrey, and (m. 1930) Sybil Dorothy, dau. of - Barnett.

Reginald C.-G. elder s. (with a dau., Elsie Naomi) of William Henry Carder[-]Geddes (1880-1959), of 4, Picardy New Cottages, Picardy Hill, Belvedere, Kent, carpenter and joiner (inc. for a lift manufacturer) and (m. 1903) Edith Constance (1881-1953), dau. of William Henry Markham (1853-1882), of 72, Crampton Street, Newington, sign writer.

W. H. C.-G. appears in the 1881 census at Southwark alongside his mother, Emma (1855-), listed as 'wife of ship's steward'; William's 1903 marriage certificate (viewable, with much detail on this and related families, here: http://www.lyons-family.co.uk/Andrews/1820-andrews-charles/children-charles-andrews/frances-1849/frances-1849.html ) gives his father as 'William Joseph Carder Geddes', 'chief ship's steward'; there is an 1878 marriage of William Joseph Geddes and Emma, dau. of Henry Dolly. There is an Emma Dolley, b. 1855, daughter of Henry Dolley, born at Lambeth in the 1861 census; her father is a coach trimmer, of Tower Street, Southwark. The marriage record also gives William Joseph Geddes's father as William Geddes. There are several possibilities in records from this point onward; I tried a marriage between William Geddes and a Miss Carder but didn't find anything. Perhaps this took place in Scotland or, of course, elsewhere.