STRATTON, Mrs John

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph and Times of 8 July 2022: STRATTON Carole Jane died peacefully at home on 30th June, aged 81. Much loved wife of Mark and the late Christopher Eugster. Funeral at St Catherine’s, Ringshall, Suffolk on Monday 18th July at 2.30pm. Family flowers only, donations, if wished to Cancer Research UK…

She m 2nd 2013 (as his 2nd w) John Mark b 1931 s of Capt Charles Michael STRATTON 1906-91 and Anne 1911-95 d of Vice-Adm Hon Edmund Rupert DRUMMOND 1884-1965 (s of 8th Viscount STRATHALLAN 1839-93 f of 15th Earl of PERTH 1871-1937)  and Lady Evelyn Frances BUTLER 1887-1978 d 4th Marquess of ORMONDE 1849-1953

[S R Eglesfield]

The late Mrs Stratton, née Carole Jane BOUWENS, was born in 1941 (registered Q2 - Ripon) as the only child of Sqn-Ldr John Theodore BOUWENS, DFC (1916 - 22 IV 1942) and his wife (married 1940, as her first husband), Mary Gwendoline FRENCH (15 XII 1917 - 25 II 1985). Her mother was married secondly, in 1945, to Edward Warren Darby MADOC (formerly MADOC-JONES; 1900 - 17 II 1982), one of the three largest commercial beekeepers in Britain, by whom she had another daughter, Sally E MADOC (birth registered Q1 1950 - Wayland, Norfolk).

Sqn-Ldr John Theodore BOUWENS was the second son of Bethell Godefroy BOUWENS (9 II 1884 - 24 X 1942) and his wife (married 20 VII 1912, as her first husband), the Hon Margaret Henrietta ("Peggy") DE GREY (15 XI 1889 - 13 VII 1978), daughter of the 7th Baron Walsingham. For more information on the Bouwens family, see https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/2LozsLbm0gg/m/DgXaZWDOHQAJ.

Mrs Stratton's stepsister, Sally E MADOC, was married, firstly, in 1971 (registered Q2 - Wayland) to (as his first wife) Dirk Murray BOUWENS (1947 - 20 VI 2021), who was the eldest son of Derek BOUWENS (1913 - 23 XI 1983), the eldest brother of Mrs Stratton's father, Sqn-Ldr John Bouwens. Mrs Sally Bouwens, née Madoc, was married secondly, on 6 August 1976, to (as his third wife) Sir Thomas Agnew BEEVOR, 7th Bt (6 I 1929 - 21 I 2017).