ASTOR Hon Mrs David (Bridget Aphra nee WREFORD) 1928-2019

[Richard R]

From the Times of 6 November 2019: ASTOR Bridget (nee Wreford) died peacefully on 16th October 2019, aged 91. Artist. Beloved mother of Alice, Richard, Lucy, Nancy and Tom; stepmother of Frances; grandmother of Will, Jess, Adam, Rose, Bonny, Alfie, Leonard, Ramona, Cara, Jamie, Pamela, Mary and Cecilia; widow of David.

She was d of Maj Cyril Frederick WREFORD (1899-1978) by his 1926 m (reg Q3 Devon) to Aphra Mary Esther (1903-74) d of James Graham BUSH (1854-1921) by his 1899 m (reg Q4 Gloucestershire) to Esther Hastings WARNER (1878-1957). She m 1952 (as his 2nd w) Hon Francis David Langhorne ASTOR (1912-2001) s of 2nd Viscount ASTOR (1879-1952) and Nancy Witcher LANGHORNE (1879-1964). scion of the wealthy American family of that name.

[G. Willis]

I believe this Bush family descends from the regicide Cromwell, but I don't have access to my notes so can't check.

[G. Willis]

Having checked my files, the Cromwell descent:

- Oliver Cromwell

- Henry Cromwell 1628-1674 of Spinney Abbey, Cambs., Lord Deputy of Ireland m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Bt, of Chippenham

- Henry Cromwell -1711 of Spinney Abbey, Maj. of Foot, m. Hannah, dau. of Benjamin Hewling, Turkish merchant

- Thomas Cromwell 1699-1749 of Snow Hill, grocer m. 2nd, Mary, dau. of Nicholas Skinner, of London, merchant

- Oliver Cromwell -1821 attorney, Lord of the Manor of Theobalds, of Cheshunt Park (inherited from his first cousin Richard Cromwell [d. 1762; son of Richard Cromwell (1695-1759), solicitor in Chancery (younger brother of Thomas Cromwell [1699-1749], as above), and Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer Gatton, of Southwark, grocer], clerk to St Thomas's Hospital, m. Mary, dau. and co-heir of Morgan Morse

- Elizabeth Oliveria Cromwell 1777-1849 m. Thomas Artemidorus Russell, of Thruxtons Court, Herefs.

- Artemidorus Cromwell Russell 1803-1830 m. Avarilla Aphra, dau. of Rev. W. A. Armstrong, M.A.

- Avarilla Oliveria Cromwell Russell -1893 m. Rev. Paul Bush, M.A.

- James Graham Bush 1854-1921 m. 2nd, Esther Hastings (1878-1954), dau. of Maj. Ashton Cromwell Warner [a descendant of Emma Bridget (1816-1889), sister of Artemidorus Cromwell Russell (see above) and Capt. Richard Warner; they had a son, Ashton Warner, possibly the father of Esther Hastings Warner- would need to investigate this further; Ashton Warner's younger brother, Richard, was b. 1836, so the dates would fit]

- Aphra Mary Esther Bush 1903-1974 m. 1926, Maj. Cyril Frederick Wreford, of Yew Tree House, Goosey, Faringdon, Berks., solicitor

- Bridget Aphra Wreford (as in Richard's post)

[Jelena JS]

2019 m. lapkritis 11 d., pirmadienis 03:49:32 UTC+2, G. Willis rašė:

- James Graham Bush 1854-1921 m. 2nd, Esther Hastings (1878-1954), dau. of Maj. Ashton Cromwell Warner [a descendant of Emma Bridget (1816-1889), sister of Artemidorus Cromwell Russell (see above) and Capt. Richard Warner; they had a son, Ashton Warner, possibly the father of Esther Hastings Warner- would need to investigate this further; Ashton Warner's younger brother, Richard, was b. 1836, so the dates would fit]

IX. Emma Bridget, born 1816 ; married, 1834, to
Captain Richard Warner, 5th Foot, a descendant of Sir
Thomas Warner, who, as one of the early explorers of
Antigua, obtained a grant of land there from James I.,
who also presented him with the celebrated ring which
Queen Elizabeth had given to Essex. This gem, we are
informed, belonged originally to Mary, Queen of Scots,
and King James's gift of it to Sir Thomas Warner was
designed as an especial mark of favour. Since that time
it has descended from father to son in the elder branch of
the Warner family. Captain Richard Warner died 1863.
The issue of the above marriage was as follows :

I. Ashton Cromwell, born 1835. He served through-
out the Indian Mutiny campaign in 1857-58, received
a medal with clasps for " Defence of Lucknow " and
" Lucknow," and a brevet majority ; retired from the
20th Hussars in 1868 ; appointed Chief Constable of
Bedfordshire in 1871. Major Warner, married first
— 1S68 — Anne Geraldine, only daughter of M. B.
Jeffreys, Esq., and by her (who died 1871) had one
son, Ashton Darell Cromwell, who died in infancy.
He married secondly — 1872 — Florence Louisa, fourth
daughter of the late W. Stapleton Piers, Esq., and
grand-daughter of Sir John Bennett Piers, of Trister- 
nagh Abbey, co. Westmeath, Bart., and has issue :
Bridget Nora Cromwell, 1874 ; Lionel Ashton Piers,
1875 ; Marjorie Ellin, 1877 ; Esther Hastings, 1878. 

The house of Cromwell : a genealogical history of the family and descendants of the protector http://www.archive.org/stream/houseofcromwellg00wayl/houseofcromwellg00wayl_djvu.txt

[G. Willis]

Thanks Jelena- great to have confirmation of that!