Joanna Trollope (1943-2025)

[Paul Theroff]

Is she really of the same family as the Baronets? I cannot find her, nor her father Arthur George Cecil Trollope, nor her grandfather, Andrew Harvey Trollope, in the genealogies of the Trollope Baronets.

Online I have found an article as early as 2001 (which has been copied and pasted into several other articles, including Wikipedia) which calls her a "fifth-generation niece" of the great Anthony Trollope (who was definitely of the Baronets.

His only brother to have children, I think, was the writer Thomas Adolphus Trollope. He did have a sister who had issue, I think.

Does anyone know what was her relationship to the Baronets?

[bx...@yahoo.com]

She's not in the index of the last print edition of DPB, so maybe her tie is tenuous at best.

Brooke

[Richard R]

Here's what appears to be her ancestry according to what I can quickly find in Ancestry:

Thomas TROLLOPE m Mary _
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Joseph TROLLOPE 1756-1808 m 1782 Sarah CHINNER 1751-
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George TROLLOPE 1792-1871 m Mary MANN
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George Francis TROLLOPE 1817-95 m 1844 Constance HOWARD
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Andrew Harvey TROLLOPE 1860-1952 m Caroline BISHOP
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Arthur George Cecil TROLLOPE 1914-2003 m c1941 reg Q1 Glos. Rosemary HODSON 1919-2014
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Joanna TROLLOPE CBE 1943-2025

The Times' obit of her describes her as 'an indirect descendant' of the novelist through her father Arthur, but doesn't show its workings for that connection.

[malcolm davies]

Richard,

              They can't get it right can they.She is not a descendant of Anthony Trollope-she may be a kinsman, in that they are both descended from a common ancestor.