HOCKIN, Liberty (Bertie) Winifred Keevil b 21 Oct 2025

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 8 Nov 2025: HOCKIN On 21st October 2025, to Cordelia and George, a daughter, Liberty Winifred Keevil (known as Bertie), a sister for Rosabel Elizabeth.

George Richard N b 1987 reg Q3 Hants s of William Richard John HOCKIN b July 1951 by his 1980 m reg Q3 Herefs to Diana N M VON BARTH b 1956 reg Q3 Wilts. He m 2 July 2018 Cordelia Jane b 1988 d of Richard James KEEVIL 1944-2023 scion of that gentry family and Caroline Elizabeth b 1950 d of Sir Horace Algernon Fraser RUMBOLD KCMG 1906-93 (gs of Sir Horace RUMBOLD GCMG 8th Bt 1829-1913) and Margaret Adel HUGHES 1916-2001. Their dau Rosabel Elizabeth Keevil b 7 Nov 2022.

G Willis’ extensive notes on the Keevil family: https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/lWPxWP1Tj2M/m/_4lAo7GhAgAJ

[S R Eglesfield]

Per company records, Mrs Diana Marguerite Norreys HOCKIN, née VON BARTH (note the order of her christian names) was born in July 1956. She is one of, it seems, eight daughters of Klaus VON BARTH (1922 - 2010; also at one time known as Nicholas R GOLD), and his wife (married VII 1947), Frances Prudence Edith Rosemary RUSSELL (1925 - 7 IV 2008). The story of how this couple met and married can be found at https://www.frometimes.co.uk/frome-times-past-scandal-at-the-abbey-a-dangerous-liaison/.

 

Mrs Hockin's mother, née Frances Russell, was the daughter of Cdr Geoffrey Philip RUSSELL (2 XI 1881 - 26 VI 1965) and his wife, Noel Theodora Brougham HINSHELWOOD (11 XII 1891 - 1975). Cdr Russell was a son of John Thomas Norreys RUSSELL (26 VII 1842 - 7 VIII 1915) and his wife, Isabella Margaret Parker DEANE (16 IX 1847 - 7 VIII 1940), who was the youngest daughter of the Rt Hon Sir James Parker DEANE (25 VI 1812 -3 I 1902), of that family, formerly of Eastcote, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry (LG) in the 1952 edition.

 

Cdr Geoffrey Russell's grandfather, Francis Richard RUSSELL (3 VI 1800 - 30 VIII 1871) was MP (Whig, then Liberal) for Limerick City from 1852 until his death. His great-grandfather, John Norris RUSSELL (1774? - 30 IV 1859), was a son of Francis RUSSELL (c.1735 - 25 VIII 1800) and his wife, Elizabeth NORRIS (1736 - 1813), who was herself a daughter of John NORRIS (1713 - 1793) and his wife, Anne MAUNSELL (1718 - 1799), of that LG family.