WALKER / DE RITTER engagement

[Richard R]

From the Times of 18 September 2019: MR H C C WALKER AND MISS V F H DE RITTER The engagement is announced between Harry, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Adrian Walker of Allargue, Abderdeenshire and Venetia, daughter of Lt-Col and Mrs Anthony De Ritter of Huntingford, Dorset.

Harry Charles Cosby (b 1995) s of Adrian Jeremy WALKER (b 1956) and Rosemary Jean Winter TUCK (b 1963), scion of the FORBES Bts of Newe, Aberdeenshire.

Venetia Frances Helen (b 1995) d of Lt-Col Anthony Philip DE RITTER (b 1949) and Mary Henrietta Stewart (b 1961) d of Maj George Stewart NICKERSON (1925-87) by his 1958 m (reg Q3 London) to Elizabeth Helen Feltrim FAGAN (b 1929) scion of the Irish gentry family of that name of Feltrim House and of the TARLETON of Breakspears and TENNYSON-D'EYNCOURT gentry families, the dukes of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE, etc etc.

[G. Willis]

A minor addition: A. P. de Ritter, per thepeerage.com (citing an e-mail from a Henrietta de Ritter; following details supplemented by other internet sources), s. of Lt-Col Ronald Birch de Ritter (1912-1955), R.A.S.C., of 23, Mount Hermon Road, Woking, Surrey (per probate record) and (m. 1940) Joan Talbot Coke (1918-1998; presumably a member of that family- later Coke-Steel- of Trusley, Derbys.? BFI has them (in hyphenated form) last in BLG 1972, and Google books shows the 1898 edition to include a John Talbot Coke of Trusley, so logically they're in intervening volumes also; I'll check 1952 tomorrow and update if relevant)

R. B. de Ritter's birth record gives mother 'Birch'; 1912 marriage of Ernest G(eorge per probate record) de Ritter (a death record indicates 1875-1955), of 11, Curzon Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire, and Edith V(ictoria per husband's probate record). Birch. No evident birth record for Ernest (an Ernest Edward de Ritter born 1876 d. 1954, clearly another individual entirely); possibly of foreign origin?