DE COURCY-IRELAND, Baptiste Theodore (Teddy) c2010-2022

[Richard R]

From the Times of 27 April 2022: DE COURCY-IRELAND Baptiste Theodore (Teddy), of Wormit, unexpectedly on 3rd April 2022, aged 12. Beloved son of Matthew and Fleur, loving brother of Yves and Casimir and loyal friend. Funeral service in St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Newport-on-Tay, on Wednesday 27th April, at 4.30pm, to which family and friends are respectfully invited. No dress code. Cremation private. Family flowers only, please, but donations, in lieu, to Save the Children can be made in memory of Teddy...

He was s of Matthew John DE COURCY-IRELAND b 1974 reg Q4 Devon s of (Harry) Garth DE COURCY-IRELAND b 1932 (s of Stanley Brian DE COURCY-IRELAND 1900-2001) presume collateral of that gentry family of Abington Pigotts and Margaret Adeline LUCKOCK b 1943 scion of that gentry family of Hormead Hall, by his 2003 m reg Q4 Glos. to Fleur Jade F b 1974 reg Q2 London d of Keith L DARKIN of Bristol by his c1972 m reg Q1 London to Damhnait M S WALSH.

[S R Eglesfield]

Abington Pigotts Hall was built by the Pigott family circa 1500. It is in South Cambridgeshire, although the postal town is Royston, Hertfordshire.

The article on the De Courcy-Ireland family in Burke's Landed Gentry gives the descent of the Pigott family down to the eventual heiress, Elizabeth Mildred GRAHAM-FOSTER-PIGOTT (VIII 1868 - 12 IX 1937), who was married on 22 September 1898 to the Rev Magens DE COURCY-IRELAND, MA (15 III 1867 - 11 III 1955), Vicar of Litlington, then Rector of Abington Pigotts. The only members of the De Courcy-Ireland family who appear in the pedigree in Burke's LG are descendants of this marriage.

The Rev Magens De Courcy-Ireland was the fourth and youngest son of the Rev William Stanley DE COURCY-IRELAND (c.1826 - 30 VIII 1904) and his wife (married 3 I 1860), Mary Anne BROWNE (31 I 1836 - 6 IV 1928), a great-granddaughter of the 1st Baron Kilmaine. The third son of this couple was the Rev Edmond Stanley DE COURCY-IRELAND (1866 - 17 VI 1955), who was married in 1894 to Harriet Naylor PEPPER (1869 - 19 XII 1962), by whom he had three sons, the youngest of whom was Captain (Stanley) Brian DE COURCY-IRELAND, RN (5 V 1900 - 11 XI 2001), mentioned in Richard's above posting.

Captain Brian De Courcy-Ireland was married in 1927 to Ruth Rhys JONES (11 XII 1905 - 2007), the daughter of Harry JONES (1865 - 1914) and his wife (married 1898), Theodora Sophia Comyn PLATT (c.1870 - 7 III 1940), the sister of Sir Thomas Walter COMYN-PLATT (1869 - 18 III 1961), who, by his marriage on 22 May 1917 to Mrs Henrietta Julia NIVEN, née DEGACHER (11 I 1878 - 12 XI 1932) became the stepfather of (James) David Graham NIVEN (1 III 1910 - 29 VII 1983), the well-known actor.