Ava Lily Sparrow

[Michael Rhodes]

Katrina Sparrow (nee Fleming) wife of Jeremy A.S. Sparrow, gave birth
to a daughter, Ava Lily, 29 Dec, 2008, a sister for India, b 28
September, 2004, and for Jack.

Jeremy Sparrow is the younger son of Mr and Mrs Anthony Sparrow, &
Katrina is the youngest daughter of Mrs John Floyd (b. 1946) and the
late Mr David Algernon Fleming (1938-75).


Katrina is a granddaughter paternally of Capt Michael Valentine Paul
Fleming (1913-40) and a great-niece of the author Ian Fleming
(1908-64). Michael Fleming married Letitia Blanche Borthwick [of the
Borthwick Baronets].


Katrina's mother, Jocelyn Ishabel Ann Floyd, a former Lady-in-Waiting
to the Duchess of York, is a daughter of Sir John MacLeod by his wife
Rosemary Wills [of the Barons Dulverton]. After the death of David
Fleming, his widow married John Edmund Kincaid Floyd [of the Floyd
Baronets].


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[Shinjinee]

On Jan 3, 2:05 am, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> Katrina Sparrow (nee Fleming) wife of Jeremy A.S. Sparrow, gave birth
> to a daughter, Ava Lily, 29 Dec, 2008, a sister for India, b 28
> September, 2004, and for Jack.
>
> Jeremy Sparrow is the younger son of Mr and Mrs Anthony Sparrow, &
> Katrina is the youngest daughter of Mrs John Floyd (b. 1946) and the
> late Mr David Algernon Fleming (1938-75).

'
How is Jeremy Sparrow related to
a) Millicent Sparrow (1798-1848), wife of the 6th Duke of Manchester
(1799-1855). She was only daughter and heiress of Brigadier-General
Robert Bernard Sparrow (1773-1805), of Tanderagee Castle, County
Antrim, Ireland and Brampton Park, Huntingdonshire, England. Her
mother was Lady Olivia French Acheson (later Lady Olivia Sparrow d
1863), eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Gosford, who was apparently
responsible for the Duke of Wellington finally marrying his faded
fiancee Kitty Pakenham. The Sparrows mrarried in 1797.
[http://groups.google.co.in/group/Peerage-News/browse_thread/thread/
adb74db9afdaae19] Her paternal aunt
Mary Sparrow (1777-1841), wife of the 2nd Earl of Gosford, was sister
of the above Robert Bernard Sparrow (who married her sister-in-law);
their father was Robert Sparrow, of Worlingham Hall, Suffolk.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p22235.htm#i222347 Robert Bernard Sparrow
http://www.thepeerage.com/p3232.htm#i32318 his father Robert Sparrow,
of Worlingham Hall, Suffolk


b) Hannah Maria Sparrow (d 1861), wife of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Bt
(1783-1850), and daughter of John Sparrow, of Bishton Hall,
Staffordshire, by his wife Elizabeth Moreton, daughter of Ralph
Moreton. Her sister Elizabeth Sparrow (d by 1819) married 1805 Sir
James Macdonald, 2nd Bt. (1784-1832), son of Sir Archibald Macdonald,
1st Bt., of East Sheen [cr. UK 1813]. and his wife Lady Louisa Leveson-
Gower, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Stafford, but had no issue (her
widower had issue by a subsequent marriage).
[http://www.thepeerage.com/p3742.htm#i37420]

c) James Sparrow, of Flax Bourton, Somerset, whose daughter Frances
Hariot Sparrow married 1812 Rev. Charles Mordaunt, son of Rev Charles
Mordaunt, and had issue two sons. Her elder son Captain John Mordaunt
lived at Gatcome Court, Flax Bourton, Somerset.
[http://www.thepeerage.com/p3217.htm#i32166]

d) Cecily Kathleen Sparrow, former wife of the 3rd Baron Avebury
1938-1945, and daughter of Dr Nathaniel Alexander Knox Sparrow.
[http://www.thepeerage.com/p6852.htm#i68519]

d) Arthur Christopher Goldsmith Sparrow, who married Winifride Mary
Harding (b. 1900), daughter of Francis Egerton Harding and Hon. Emma
Mary Agnes Clifford, daughter of the 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh,
on 9 December 1919, and is believed to have had a son and daughter.
[http://www.thepeerage.com/p7604.htm#i76036]

e) Guy Sparrow, of Gillingham, Dorset, and his daughter Celia Sparrow,
wife of James Newman Gilbey, and mother of three sons, including Guy
Newman Gilbey (1952-2006) whose death was announced on this group.
An aside: Guy Newman Gilbey and his siblings were first cousins of
James Newman Gilbey (b. 1956) aka the James Gilbey of Squidygate. The
three sons of Celia Gilbey nee Sparrow are descended from a brother of
the 1st Gilbey baronet, from whom also sprang Maureen Gilbey, Baroness
Vaux of Harrowden (nee Gilbey; d 1992) who married her second cousin
Lord Vaux of Harrowden; their youngest son also married a Gilbey
cousin, of the Gilbey baronets.


Thei Sparrow descendants include one Mark Bence-Jones (b. 1930),
husband of Gillian Pretyman
[http://groups.google.co.in/group/Peerage-News/browse_thread/thread/
d3ba5e78f34879d3]
[http://www.thepeerage.com/p22289.htm#i222889 for Mark Bence-Jones]

More Sparrows are listed at
http://www.thepeerage.com/i1704.htm#s31572

On the family
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~heraldry/bga_somerville_sotherton.html

the following familes are noted (details on arms, crests and mottoes
omitted)


Sparow - (Somersham and Ipswich, co. Suffolk; arms granted by Lee,
Clarenceux, 1594,
to ROBERT SPAROW, of Ipswich, son and heir of JOHN SPAROW, of
Somersham).



Sparrow - (Worlingham Hall, co. Suffolk; descended from THOMAS
SPAROWE, Esq., of
Somersham, temp. Henry lV.;

a) ROBERT BERNARD SPARROW, Esq., of Worlingham, Brigadier-Gen. in the
Army, d. 1805, leaving, by Lady OLIVIA ACHESON, his wife, dau. of
ARTHUR, first Earl of Gosford,
1) a son, ROBERT ACHESON BERNARD ST. JOHN SPARROW, who d. 1818,
aged 19, and
2) a dau., MILLICENT SPARROW, eventual heiress of the family, who
m. 1822, GEORGE, sixth Duke
of Manchester, and was mother of WILLIAM DROGO, seventh Duke of
Manchester, K.P.)



Sparrow - (Stanborn, co Essex).


Sparrow (Gosfield Place, co. Essex).

Sparrow (Bishton, co. Stafford).


Sparrow (Penn, co. Stafford, Albrighton Hall, co. Salop, and Campston,
co.
Monmouth;

WILLIAM HANBURY SPARROW, Esq., of Penn, eldest son of WILLIAM
SPARROW, Esq., of Pattingham, co. Stafford, by MARY, his wife, dau.
and
co-heiress of THOMAS HANBURY, of Birmingham, great-grandson of FRANCIS
HANBURY, of Norton Hall, a descendant of HANDURY, of Hanbury, co.
Worcester, claimed to descend from SPARROW, of Bishton).


Sparrow (Blackburn, co. Lancaster).

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On Millicent Sparrow's inheritances:

Millicent, Duchess of Manchester, brought her parental property
Brampton Park in Huntingdonshire into the Montagu ducal family.
[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66135]

"Brampton Park, the property of the Duke of Manchester, covers about
100 acres to the south-west of the village. The history of Brampton
Park (q.v.), and probably that of the house, goes back to the 12th
century. In 1328 the house was said to be ruinous. An Elizabethan
house seems to have been built here, probably by the Throckmortons,
which is described as a fair brick house. (fn. 15) This building was
incorporated in a house probably built by Sir John Bernard, who
succeeded to the property in 1666. (fn. 16) The mid 17th-century house
was rebuilt by Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow about 1820. Over her front
door were the arms of Bernard, Bernard with St. John, and Sparrow and
Bernard quarterly impaled with Acheson. Lady Olivia lived here until
her death in 1863. In 1889 it became an institution for the cure of
stammerers and was completely burnt down in 1907, when a smaller house
was built on the site, which is now the residence of Viscount
Mandeville. "

and later

"[a previous owner in] 1653 conveyed the manor to John Bernard, son of
Robert Bernard of Huntingdon, Judge of the Isle of Ely. John Bernard,
who took a leading part in county affairs, married Elizabeth, daughter
of Oliver St. John of Bletsoe. His father was created a baronet in
1662 and John succeeded in 1666. He was succeeded by his son Sir
Robert and he by his son Sir John, whose son Robert, the last baronet,
died in 1789 and left an estate of £14,000 a year to the son of his
sister Mary [Bernard, later Mrs Robert Sparrow], Robert Bernard
Sparrow, then at Westminster School. Robert, afterwards Brigadier
General, married Lady Olivia Acheson (1775-1863), daughter of the
first Earl of Gosford, and died in 1805 leaving a son Robert Acheson
Bernard St. John Sparrow, and a daughter Millicent. The son died in
1818 and his sister and heir Millicent married Viscount Mandeville,
afterwards 6th Duke of Manchester. Lady Olivia outlived the Duke and
Duchess and died in 1863. She made Brampton Park her home and was a
philanthropist and a friend of Wilberforce and Hannah More. Brampton
Park descended to her daughter's great-grandson, the present Duke of
Manchester. "

What happened to Brampton Park later is a matter for those interested.

http://wilkinson-topley.rootsweb.com/DOCS/tandaragee.htm on Tanderagee
Castle, County Antrim, Ireland
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More on Lady Olivia Sparrow, mother of Duchess Millicent

as a matchmaker
http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557638_3/Duke_of_Wellington.html


Portrait of Lady Olivia Sparrow:
http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/english-school,-19th-century-1-c-teu7imffm9
She outlived her daughter (d 1848), her son-in-law the 6th Duke who
had remarried, and the property eventually passed to her grandson the
7th Duke of Manchester.

www.leighsociety.co.uk/pdf/Issue9%2520April2002.pdf

Lady Olivia Sparrow's inheritance of the estate of Leigh came
through her husband's mother from his grandfather Sir Robert
Bernard who in 1789 left the estate to his daughter who married
Robert Sparrow of Worlingham in Suffolk. They had one son,
another Robert, who married Olivia , the eldest daughter of the Earl
of Gosford.
Tragically Robert Sparrow died on active service with the army
and left Olivia a young widow the estate of Leigh.
Olivia was a compassionate woman and soon became popular with
the people of Leigh who recognised her true interest and concern
for their well-being.
She quickly set about improving their lives. Special day schools
were built and opened in December 1834. Although not a popular
act to some people who thought education for all was a dangerous
thing, Olivia was not deterred
She joined forces with the Rev Ridley Herschell, a Polish Jew who
had converted and who came to Leigh. We now, of course, have
Herscheli House as a reminder of his stay which, surprisingly, was
only about 2 years. But what an impact he must have made on the
little isolated community.
He worked at the schools in the town where illiteracy was nit
amongst children and adults alike. At first his congregations were
small but his fame spread and he attracted more and more people
until his congregation swelled to over 700.
When he eventually left a subscription was taken up of a penny a
person and he went with a new Bible and prayer book. The names
of all the donors were inscribed in the Bible.
Lady Olivia's estate included Hadleigh and in 1885 she granted a
site for a Church of England school
There ts no evidence that Lady Olivia lived in Leigh but along
with the precious gift of education she gave the town two nr,w
water supplies in wells on the Strand and near Beit Wharf.
Olivia died in 1863 and her heirs having little interest in Leigh,
sold the estate.

[Ridley Herschell's son became the 1st Lord Hershell]

Of her grandsons
the eldest the 7th Duke is best known for being cuckolded by Lord
Hartington,
later 8th Duke of Devonshire.
The second Lord Robert Montagu led an interesting life. He tried to
sell the letters
his grandmother Lady Oliviae had received from the 1st Duke and his
Duchess
but was prevented by an injunction
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=DSC18650712.2.23&cl=&srpos=0&e=-------10--1----0-all
He converted to the church of Rome in 1870, but reverted to the church
of England in 1882.

The 3rd son Lord Frederick Montagu, of the 12th Foot Regiment, was
briefly (from
February 1851) a drunken nuisance in Canterbury, and died (1854) aged
26 in
Australia.