Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle
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The marriage certificate of Gregory Paul Highfield and Andrea Paula Dale, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, 6 September 1970.
Andrea Paula Dale, daughter of George Edward Dale and his wife Iris May Jones, married Gregory Paul Highfield at Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, on 6th September 1970. Her father is noted as an Insurance Clerk, while her husband's father is recorded as a Qualified Chemist. The young couple were early in their careers, with Gregory Paul working as a Stock Control Clerk and Andrea Paula as a Punch Card Operator, reflecting the early days of computing of the time. Their marriage certificate confirms that Andrea was living at Quaint Ways, a substantial house on Broad Lane, Wood End, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire. The property included stabling and a paddock beyond its gardens, where as a teenager Andrea kept Charmaine, her thoroughbred, with whom she enjoyed show-jumping in her youth.
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Andrea Paula Dale's father's line
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Andrea's father, George Edward Dale, was the son of Frederick William Dale and his wife, Florence Emily Farley, and was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham. George served as a Military Policeman in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and also as a Special Constable for Birmingham City Police. His mother Florence Emily's paternal grandparents were Michael and Ann Farley, who were born in Ireland, whence Mark Paul Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle's Irish ancestry stems. Through this connection, he is a member of the Ó Faircheallaigh sept. George's father, Frederick William Dale, was a Guardsman in the Welsh Guards, who served in the Great War.
Frederick William Dale's father, Emmanuel Dale, was born in Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire. The Poll Book of the Township of Sibford Gower of 1885 confirms that Emmanuel Dale's father, Joseph Dale, was eligible to vote based on his occupation of a dwelling-house East of the Vicarage. In 1891, the census notes Emmanuel Dale's residence in the village, and that he was a Shepherd. By 1901, he had moved to Grandborough, near Rugby, Warwickshire, and was described as a Cattleman on a Farm. At the time of his son, Joseph John Dale's marriage to Ada Amelia Rackley at St Luke's Church, West Norwood, Lambeth, London on 20 June 1918, Emmanuel Dale was working as a Farm Bailiff. His grandfather, John Dale, was also born in Sibford Gower, whose predecessors came from Sandford (now Sandford St Martin), Oxfordshire.
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Emmanuel Dale's daughter and Frederick William's sister, Kate, married Arthur Frank Truslove early in 1909. The 1939 England and Wales Register reveals that Arthur and Kate Truslove lived at Manor Farm in Napton, Southam, Warwickshire. Andrea fondly recalls visiting her Great Aunt Kate's manor farmhouse in her childhood.
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Emmanuel Dale's wife, and Frederick William's mother, was Mary Ann Banwell, whose paternal grandmother was Mary Cooper. Mary Ann Banwell was born in Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, as was Frederick William Dale himself. Her grandmother's family, the Coopers, were well established in the areas of Tilsworth and Stanbridge in Bedfordshire.
The 1861 Census for Tilsworth notes Mary Cooper's brothers William Willison Cooper and John Cooper as co-farmers of 200 acres of land at Manor Farm, Tilsworth. The Coopers' relationship with this property dates back in time to a lease from the 1700s, although it had been in varying occupation since. In 1732, the mansion house of Tilsworth and its farm were leased to Joseph Cooper of Stanbridge, yeoman, six times great granduncle of Andrea Paula Dale. Some 99 years later in 1831, Mary Cooper's father, Joseph Cooper, was still a freeholder in Tilsworth, based on the ownership of a house and land in the occupation of one of his sons, Abel Cooper, and held a number of other interests in land.
Three years later, in 1834, it is believed that this Joseph Cooper took on the lease of the Manor House and its farm in Tilsworth on behalf of the Cooper family once again. The Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions of 1836 record a theft of pigeons from the said Joseph Cooper's farm (QSR1837/1/5/25). The 1829 Land Tax Records reveal that this Joseph Cooper, Andrea Paula Dale's four times great grandfather, was the second largest landholder in Tilsworth by taxable value, holding a lease of this land from Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Baronet, as well as being a freeholder in his own right.
The current Arms of the
Page-Turner family
Through this four times great grandfather, Joseph Cooper, she is related to the Hollywood star Gary Cooper, her third cousin twice removed. Gary Cooper converted to Roman Catholicism as an adult.
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In the 1600s, Edward Cooper of Stanbridge, yeoman, Andrea Paula Dale's eight times great grandfather, is recorded in a lease of 30th June 1669 between John Iremonger, Gentleman, of St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex and his wife Jane, executor of Jane Nutting, late of Stanbridge, and the said Edward Cooper of Stanbridge, yeoman, held by the Bedfordshire Archives Service (Ref: GA522).
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Back to Oxfordshire, another Oxfordshire family link is with Middle Barton, near Chipping Norton, from where Andrea's Boddington ancestors stem. Timothy Boddington of Middle Barton, yeoman, was her nine times great grandfather. Through Timothy's son John, she shares ancestry with Henry Boddington, Gentleman, who descends from John's son Timothy and was the founder of Boddington's Brewery, her fifth cousin four times removed, and the progenitor of the gentry family of Boddington of Pownall Hall (Burke's Landed Gentry 1937) through his son, Henry.
The Arms of Boddington
of Pownall Hall
John Boddington, son of Timothy Boddington of Middle Barton, yeoman (and father of the Timothy Boddington from whom Henry Boddington descends), was married to Joan Buswell, daughter of Robert Buswell of Middle Barton, who is an ancestor of Henry Boddington of Pownall Hall and is the nine times great grandfather of Andrea Paula Dale. The entry for Westcott Barton in the Victoria County History of the County of Oxford confirms that, 'There were several prosperous yeomen or minor gentry in the village in the 17th century, notably members of the Ford, Dandridge, Buswell, and Wright families who occupied Park, Manor, and Elm Grove Farms.' The Rev. Jenner Marshall, MA, Lord of the Manor of Westcott Barton, wrote in Memorials of Westcott Barton in the County of Oxford (1870, p.48), 'In 1624, 22nd James I, the manor, with its lands, tenements, and appurtenances, was assigned by John Martin to Richard Eford, who seems to have disposed of it during his lifetime, he died 1638, 14 Charles I. About this time the Buswell family came to reside in Westcott Barton, being possessed of almost the entire parish besides the manor.' The Victoria County History of the County of Oxford adds, 'By 1687 Robert Buswell had acquired one or both moieties of the manor, which descended in his family until the late 18th century. In 1770 John Buswell settled one moiety of his manor on himself and the other moiety on himself for life with reversion to his wife and his daughter Ann who in 1772 married John Carter. [...] The manor house of the Buswell family was Manor Farm, just outside the village on the west. It is an earlier 17th-century house in two ranges which was refronted and partly refitted late in the 18th century.' The Robert who became lord of the manor of Westcott Barton was the brother of Joan Buswell, and son of Robert Buswell, Andrea Paula Dale's nine times great grandfather.
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Through her Boddington line, Andrea is the 8th cousin once removed of Major James William
Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie, Maryculter; the saviour of Kincardineshire, Scotland; an historic
county with which Andrea has family connections. Illustrated here are the Arms of his father,
Colonel Archer Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie. Her 7th cousin twice removed, Ruth Olive
Boddington, married Colonel Archer Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie, the three times great
grandson of Matthew, 2nd Baron Fortescue and second great grandnephew of Hugh,
1st Earl Fortescue.
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Andrea Paula Dale's mother's line
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Andrea's mother, Iris May Jones, was born in Treherbert, Wales, although of mixed Welsh and English ancestry. Her mother and father were of humble circumstances. Her great grandfather, William Dunscombe, had been an operative stonemason, who moved from Delverton in Somerset to Cardiff, and worked on the restoration of Cardiff Castle. His descendants are noted in the Obituaries of the Operative Society of Masons.
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Another of Iris' great grandfathers, Thomas Crowther, was born in Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, and was the son of his namesake, Thomas Crowther, of Llananno, Knighton, Radnorshire. By 1871, Thomas was a freeholder of 18 acres, having previously been a tailor like his father. They descend from Evan Crowther, who is mentioned in the Court of Great Sessions at Llanbadarn Fynydd of 15 February 1746, where he is noted as a yeoman. The Crowthers or Crowders of Knighton, Radnorshire, were a significant family and appear in the Heraldic visitations of Wales and part of the marches between the years 1586 and 1613 by Lewys Dwnn, vol. 1. Bryan Crowther, Esq., of Knighton, was High Sherriff of Radnorshire in 1639 and 1645.
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Through a different line, Iris May jones' four times great grandfather was James Ricketts of Coombe Keynes, Dorset, yeoman, whose wife was Eleanor Galton. Through Eleanor's father, Edward, and in turn his father Samuel, Iris descends from the Rev. John Galton, MA, who was sometime Chaplain of New College, Oxford, before becoming vicar of East Lulworth and chaplain to the Dowager Viscountess Howard of Binden, whose husband was a descendant of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk. John Galton studied at University College, Oxford, receiving his BA in 1601 and his MA a few years later. Qualified Genealogist Valerie Brenton has explored the sixteenth and seventeenth century documents to verify the connection. The Rev. John Galton, MA, is the eight times great grandfather of Andrea Paula Dale. Through the Rev. John Galton's father, Hubert Galton, Andrea is related to the Galton family of Duddeston House. Hubert Galton was the five times great grandfather of Samuel Tertius Galton, Andrea Paula Dale's sixth cousin four times removed; the father of Sir Francis Galton. Samuel Tertius Galton was an armiger. His mother, Lucy Barclay, was the daughter of Robert Barclay, 5th of Ury, Kincardineshire, Scotland, who was the son of Une Cameron, daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, 17th Chief of Clan Cameron. Samuel Tertius Galton married Frances Ann Violetta Darwin, aunt of the naturalist Charles Darwin, whose half brother and father of the same, Robert Waring Darwin MD, married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood. Frances Ann Violetta Darwin was the daughter of Elizabeth Colyear and Erasmus Darwin. Elizabeth Colyear was the illegitimate daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. Charles Colyear was, in turn, the son of Catherine Sedley, Countess of Portmore and wife of Sir David Colyer, 1st Earl of Portmore. Catherine had been the mistress of King James VII of Scotland and II of England and Ireland, and was created Countess of Dorchester for life, by whom King James had the daughter Catherine Darnley, later Duchess of Buckingham (Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore's half-sister), and also half-sister of The Old Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, father of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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Andrea Paula Dale's first cousin eight times removed, Edward Galton, Gentleman, son of Rev Edward Galton, MA, and grandson of Rev John Galton, MA, is a descendant of the Turberviles of Bere Regis and Woolbridge. His grandmother was Bridget Tubervile, daughter of William Turbervile and niece of John Turbervile, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Bere Regis, husband of Anne Howard, daughter of the 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon and granddaughter of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Through these connections, he is related by marriage to the Royal family, since Anne Boleyn was the daughter of Elizabeth Howard, sister of the third Duke of Norfolk, and through Mary Howard, the third Duke's daughter, he is connected to her husband Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII’s son through Elizabeth Blount. Through his father's auspicious marriage to his mother, this first cousin eight times removed is, through his grandmother Bridget Turbervile, a direct descendant of William Longsword and his father Rollo, forebears of William the Conqueror, and is a seventh cousin ten times removed of His Majesty King Charles III.
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Andrea's seventh cousin three times removed, Theodore Howard Galton Esquire of Hazdor House, with his wife and children converted to Roman Catholicism. Two of his children became Jesuit Priests and one of these became a Bishop.
One of Theodore Galton's brothers, Captain Herman Ernest Galton (also Andrea's seventh cousin three times removed) married Mary Abercromby, daughter of Arthur Duff (son of Robert William Duff of Fetteresso, another of Andrea's family connections with Kincardineshire, Scotland), who assumed the surname of Abercromby on inheriting the Glassaugh estate through his mother. Arthur's paternal grandmother was Lady Helen Duff, the daughter of William Duff, Lord Braco and later 1st Earl Fife, who commissioned the building of Duff House, Banff.
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A genealogical table taken from the The Book of the Duffs, by Tayler & Tayler, vol.2.
Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle, Andrea's son, shares DNA with George Anthony Rhys Wingfield and his son Rupert Bolingbroke Rhys Wingfield, descendants of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt, and the Wingfields of Barrington Park, Oxon.
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