Pottow / MAITLAND engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 4 Jan 2025: Mr A.G. Pottow and Miss J.J. Maitland - The engagement is announced between Andrew, elder son of Mr Bev Pottow, of Hilton, and Mrs Moira Pottow, of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and Jessica, daughter of Mr and Mrs Johnny Maitland, of Somersby, Lincolnshire.

Jessica Jane b 22 March 1992 (Times 24 March) d of John (Johnny) Whitaker MAITLAND b 1961 (heir to his f William Whitaker MAITLAND b 1931 head of that gentry family of Harrington Hall by his 1991 m reg Q2 Kent to (Moira) Jane b 1963 reg Q4 Kent d of Peter Wolseley BRACHER of Ashford, Kent by his 1960 m reg Q3 Chelsea to (Geraldine) Juliet GARNETT.

[S R Eglesfield]

Peter Wolseley BRACHER (27 III 1930 - 17 XII 2011) was the elder son of Philip BRACHER (21 V 1903 - 3 V 1975) and his wife (married 1929, as her first husband), Dorothy Ruth WOLSELEY LEWIS (13 VIII 1909 - 8 XII 1987). Dorothy Wolseley Lewis was herself the daughter of Dr Herbert WOLSELEY LEWIS (29 XI 1868 - 26 VI 1959) and his wife (married 3 IV 1907), Ruth FREMLIN (c.1876/7 - 26 VI 1959; she died a few hours before her husband).

Dr Herbert Wolseley Lewis was the second son of the Rev Thomas Wolseley LEWIS (c.1836 - 29 IX 1932) and his wife (married 1864), Emily Alicia BOWEN (c.1835 - 1924). The Rev Thomas Wolseley Lewis was himself the son of the Rev Thomas LEWIS (c.1804/5 - 12 I 1872) and his wife, Mary Anne Rebekah WOLSELEY (1806 - 18 I 1875), a sister of Sir John WOLSELEY, 8th Bt (9 VI 1803 - 26 I 1890) and great-granddaughter of Sir Richard WOLSELEY, 1st Bt, of Mount Wolseley (c.1696 - 8 IV 1769).

Ruth Fremlin was of that landed gentry (LG) and former brewing family, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's LG in the 1952 edition.

Mr Bracher and his wife, (Geraldine) Juliet GARNETT (1932 - 7 VII 2019) were also the parents of (Garnett) Piers BRACHER (born 4 XI 1963; a twin with his sister Jane) and Lucinda J BRACHER (born 1961). Piers Bracher is the husband (married 1990) of Candida Dorothy DRURY-LOWE (born 1963), of that LG family, who is a granddaughter maternally of Sir Hardman Alexander Mort EARLE, 5th Bt (19 VIII 1902 - 17 IX 1979).

[Richard R]

From the Country Life Frontispiece of 16 April 2025 (Vol CCXXIV, No 16)

MISS JESSICAN JANE MAITLAND

Jessica is a senior account director at Avalere Health and is engaged to Andrew Pottow, whom she will marry at St James' Church in Louth, Lincolnshire in September. She is the daughter of Johnny and Jane Maitland of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and follows in the footsteps of her mother (nee Bracher) who appeared on the Frontispiece on January 31, 1999. 

[Netty Leistra]

According to weddingpresentco.com they planned to marry on 20 September 2025.