MARTELLI / KERR engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 18 Sep 2023: Mr B.M.A. [?Marrelli] MARTELLI and Miss A.M.A. Kerr The engagement is announced between Barty, younger son of Mr and Mrs Amyas Martelli, of Netherbury, Dorset, and Amabel, elder daughter of Lord and Lady Ralph Kerr, of Melbourne, Derbyshire. 

Bartholomew (Barty) Michael Augustus b 1989 s of Amyas Michael George MARTELLI b c1940 by his 1980 reg Q2 Dorset to Gabrielle Mary Frances b 6 Oct 1950 d of Lt-Col Humphrey Jospeh Giles WELD MC 1912-1998 sometime head of that gentry family of Chideock and Frances Mary 1916-2000 d of Maj Hon Alastair Thomas Joseph FRASER 1877-1949 (s of 13^th Lord LOVAT 1828-87) and Lady Sibyl GRIMSTON 1828-87 d of 3^rd Earl of VERULAM 1852-1924 and Margaret Frances 1853-1927 d of Sir Frederick Ulric GRAHAM 3^rd Bt 1820-88 and Lady Jane Hermione ST MAUR 1832-1909 d of the 12^th Duke of SOMERSET 1804-85.

Amabel Mary Antonella b 1995 d of Lord Ralph William Francis Joseph KERR b 7 Nov 1957 (s of 12th Marquess of LOTHIAN and presumptive heir to his bro the 13^th Marquess who was cr 2010 LP Baron KERR OF MONTEVIOT) and his 2nd w Marie-Claire d of (Michael) Donald Gordon BLACK MC 1932-2009 of Cupar, Fife, and his 1st w Priscilla HOLT d 1996.

[Richard R]

The Times of 18 Sep 2023 also carries the announcement where they correctly spell the prospective groom's surname as MARTELLI

[Olivier]

Bartholomew Martelli is a 9th cousin of a parent of Amabel Kerr.

    Indeed,
        Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll (1629-1685)    
        Mary Stuart (-1668)   
    are at the same time
        ancestors of the 11th generation of Amabel Kerr
ancestors of the 10th generation of Bartholomew Martelli 

[Patricia Light]

According to the Peerage Blog https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/

the couple we married on 19th October 2024

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Technically, she married as Lady Amabel Mary Antonella, as her father succeeded his brother in the Marquessate a few weeks earlier.  

DPB Online has not, as yet, updated its page with the marital information.

Brooke

[Patricia Light]

The Royal Watcher Blog shows pictures of the wedding of Lady Amabel Kerr & Bartholomew Martelli - their wedding was attended by Countess of St Andrews, Lady Marina Windsor, Lady Amelia Windsor & Lord Downpatrick

https://royalwatcherblog.com/2024/10/21/wedding-of-lady-amabel-kerr/