PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Hon Mrs Richard ((Gillian M.) Victoria nee WALDRON) d 2019

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 27 November 2019: PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE Victoria died after a long illness on November 22nd, aged 68. Beloved wife, mother and grandmother. Funeral at Kimpton Church SG4 8RA at 11 a.m. on December 5th. Details from Phillips Funeral Services...

She was d of Frank WALDRON. She m 1978 Hon Richard Oakley PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE (b 1947) s of 7th Earl of RADNOR (1895-1968) and Anne Isobel Graham OAKLEY (1908-98), and had two sons and a dau.

[G. Willis]

I had a look at Frank Waldron in case he was of that Irish family of Helen Park, Tipperary last treated in BLGI 1912 [that volume also lists the Waldron-Hamiltons of Ashford House, Roscommon, with that Waldron family tracing back to a Henry Waldron of Dromellan Castle, County Cavan, temp. James II]. 'Francis' is a commonly-used name in these Waldron families, as- when later armed with Frank Waldron's second name I noted- is 'Arthur', indicating a possible link.

Victoria M. Waldron's father given at thepeerage.com [citing ]and elsewhere as of 'Pond House, Kidmore End, Berks.'; per Google books, 'The Social Register' (1979) [presumably an American publication(?)] indicates a 'Miss Victoria Waldron' to be daughter of Frank A. L. Waldron, and notes her marriage to Hon. Richard Pleydell-Bouverie.

Per U.K. B.M.D. records, a Frank A. L. Waldron m. 1968, Elizabeth Giles (this presumably not being the mother of Victoria Waldron); there is also a 1916 birth record, at Newbury, Berks., mother 'Jay' [I couldn't locate a Waldron/ Jay marriage however]. The 1988 death record of 'Frank Arthur L. Waldron' b. 1916 is supported by a probate record which corroborates the Pond House address and gives his second middle name, 'Lovegrove'. The combination of 'Lovegrove' and 'Waldron' would seem to be distinctive enough as to greatly aid tracing this family.

F. A. L. Waldron has an NPG entry: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp98096/frank-arthur-lovegrove-waldron , the biographical details below being useful albeit failing to identify his parents:

[the following a much-truncated version of the full details of his military career etc. given there]

'Waldron, Frank Arthur Lovegrove

Younger son of ... Waldron, and ... Jay, of Newbury.

Married 1st (1948, Kenya) Tatiana Blackwall, widow of Richard Blackwall, RNVR.

Married 2nd (11.06.1968, Surrey South Eastern district) Elizabeth Mary Giles.

Education: Trinity College, Oxford (rowed for Oxford).

5th (Ski) Battalion Scots Guards, Hon. Capt. R.A.F.V.R.

Tatiana Blackwall was therefore presumably the mother of Victoria M. Waldron.

Other 'Lovegrove Waldron' results include John Lovegrove Waldron (1909-1975), K.C.V.O., London Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1968-72- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waldron_(police_officer) [given year and place of birth, he presumably the brother of F. A. L. Waldron]

The combined names appear in numerous Google books results, including:

- The Victoria History of Wiltshire (1953): 'Thomas Shefford or Shelford, possibly in 1760, owned an estate at Marridge Hill which James Lovegrove bought in 1785. From Lovegrove the estate passed c. 1800, presumably by will, to either his brother-in-law Cheyney Waldron or...'

- Sessional Papers- Inventory Control Record 1 (1908): '... should be transferred into the joint names of Lovegrove Waldron, lord of the manor of Berwick Bassett...'

etc.

[EDIT: Kelly's Handbook 1969 gives Sir John Lovegrove Waldron as son of 'Frederick Waldron (d. 1930) of Wargrave, Berks.', presumably therefore also the father of F. A. L. Waldron- the 1930 death record at Wokingham, Berks. of a Frederick Waldron b. 1867 would seem the most likely. A probate record gives: 'WALDRON Frederick of Thatched Cottage Wargrave-on-Thames Berkshire died 27 July 1930... probate to Thanetta Jemima Waldron widow and Archibald Waldron and Reginald Stephen Waldron gentlemen.' None of these names appear in the BLGI pedigrees, which in connection with the apparent Wiltshire origin of this particular Waldron family leads me to conclude any link to be extremely distant, or non-existent.

I couldn't locate a marriage between Frederick and Thanetta; some online sources indicate her (1883-1977; corroborated by death records) to have been née Hofland, dau. of Robert Newton Hofland, and to have been married in 1908.

Frederick Waldron appears to be he b. 1866 at Ramsbury, Wilts. to Stephen Waldron and his wife Mary; there is an 1865 Ramsbury marriage record between Stephen Waldron and Mary Waldron, probably indicating a familial relationship, or being quite the coincidence. Census records indicate Stephen Waldron (b. 1836 at Shefford, Berks.), of 'Marridge Hill, Hungerford, Ramsbury (Wilts) Berkshire' to have been the farmer of over 700 acres, lending support to the notion of the Waldrons being an established Wiltshire family as suggested by the Victoria History of Wiltshire etc above, including the mention of the Marridge Hill estate [see the quote from the british-history.ac.uk link below for reference to Stephen Waldron as of a line of owners of Marridge Hill]

Several other sources for 'Waldron of Marridge Hill', inc. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp12-46 [a full version of the above Victoria History of Wiltshire: 'Thomas Shefford or Shelford, possibly in 1760, owned an estate at Marridge Hill which James Lovegrove bought in 1785. (fn. 334) From Lovegrove the estate passed c. 1800, presumably by will, to either his brother-in-law Cheyney Waldron or to Waldron's son and namesake: (fn. 335) the son held it at his death in 1819. Waldron devised his MARRIDGE HILL estate to his nephew John Waldron, a minor, who entered on it c. 1827. (fn. 336) John held the estate, 325 a. in 1839, until 1851 or later. (fn. 337) It was held from 1867 or earlier to 1880 or later by Stephen Waldron and from 1895 or earlier until his death in 1901 by James Lovegrove Waldron, John Waldron's son, (fn. 338) whose relict sold the estate, 554 a., in 1904. (fn. 339) It was apparently bought by Arthur Edward White but in 1911 belonged to Moses Woolland (d. 1918), under whose will its name was changed to BAYDON MANOR estate. (fn. 340) It passed to Woolland's son Walter who in 1947 sold the estate, then over 3,000 a. in Ramsbury, Baydon, and elsewhere, to Edwards & Sons (Inkpen) Ltd., timber merchants. That company sold it c. 1949 to a group of farmers, John White, Sidney Watts, and Albert Pembroke, who immediately divided it. (fn. 341) The land north of Baydon Manor which had been John Waldron's in 1839 was part of Marridge Hill farm in 1947. (fn. 342) It was bought c. 1950 by Maj. H. O. Stibbard, the owner of over 600 a. at Marridge Hill in 1981. (fn. 343) Baydon Manor, formerly Marridge Hill House, is a red-brick house of c. 1820 with an east entrance front of three bays. A water tower was added to the north side of the house in the late 19th century, and the house was extended westwards for A. E. White in 1905–6. West of it a large detached winter garden was built c. 1900 mainly of cast iron, glass, and wood.'] and https://www.falklandsbiographies.org/biographies/474 ['WALDRON, JAMES LOVEGROVE 1829-1901 colonist, was born, like his brother Henry, at Marridge Hill in Wiltshire, the second son of John and Jane Waldron' etc]

At any rate this family, even if of near-gentry status as long-term farmers of a substantial estate, seems to have been more-or-less established as unrelated (certainly no evident close relation whatever, albeit entirely possible a shared origin exists) to the gentry Waldrons.