STRUTT, Mrs Stephen (Christina Mary Amoroso nee CENTENO) c1954-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 13 Jan 2023: STRUTT Christina Mary (née Amoroso Centeno) died peacefully on 28th December 2022, aged 68. Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. Full of grace, humour and kindness until the end. A memorial will be held in the spring of 2023 to celebrate her life.

She was the d of Eric Amoroso CENTENO. She m 1980 Maj Stephen Mark Alistair b 1948 s of Stephen Alastair STRUTT 1918-49 (gt gs of 2nd Baron RAYLEIGH 1796-1873, gt gs of 5th Baron BRAYBROOKE 1823-1902 and gs of Sir Walpole Lloyd GREENWELL 1st Bt 1847-1919) and as her 1st h Felicity Anne d 1976 dau of Mervyn Sorley MACDONNELL OBE 1880-1949 andd Ethel Gladys 1886-1973 d of J S JAMESON d 1888 and Countess Contardon Pes di Villamarina d 1933, and had a son and a dau.

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Judging from his name,was Mervyn Sorley MacDonnell,a member of the family of the Earls of Antrim?

[S R Eglesfield]

Melvyn Sorley MacDonnell's paternal grandfather, Hercules Henry Graves MACDONNELL (3 I 1819 - 1900), was the fourth son of the Rev Richard  MACDONNELL, DD (10 VI 1787 - 24 I 1867), Provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1852 until his death, and his wife (married 26 I 1810), Jane GRAVES (2 I 1793 - 8 I 1882), of that landed gentry family, of Cloghan Castle, King's County.

Mr MacDonnell's wife, née Ethel Gladys JAMESON, was his second cousin. Her father, James Sligo JAMESON (17 VIII 1856 - 17 VIII 1888), of that distilling family, was a famous naturalist and African explorer. Her mother,  née Ethel DURAND (21 V 1864 - 14 X 1933), whose second husband (married 16 VII 1901) was Roberto Henri PES DE VILLAMARINA, Count di Contadone (died 1916), was a step-sister of Col Sir Edward Law DURAND, 1st Bt (5 VI 1846 - 1 VII 1920).