Additional cousins of Frances Rapp - Military Brabazons

The Lineage of Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC

 Rees was born at 5 Castle Street, Caernarfon, on 31 July 1884, the son of Charles Herbert Rees, a solicitor and honorary colonel in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and his wife Leonara Rees attended Eastbourne College before entering the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1902.

 He was commissioned in on 23 December 1903 into the Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to Gibraltar.  Promoted to lieutenant in 1906 he moved to Sierra Leone in 1908 and in May 1913 was seconded to the Southern Nigeria Regiment.    (Wikipedia)

Lionel Rees’s connection to the Brabazon family in Ireland, is through his grandmother.  Like English families it was almost a tradition to include the surname of a grandparent as a second name.

He joins many other famous Military persons whose lineage he shares, including Col Anthony William Durnford.

He also is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror, through his Ward lineage.

His parents, Charles Herbert Rees and Leonora Maria Davids were married in 1881 in Carnavon in Wales.  Their two children were Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees and a daughter Muriel Brabazon Rees, 1886 – 1965.

Charles was the son of James Rees (1803 – 1880) a newspaper owner in Wales, and his wife Anne Woodcock Wilmot (1803 – 1878)

Anne was a direct descendant of Lord Edward Collin Ward, 2^nd Lord Warde of Birmingham, and 7^th Baron of Dudley, of Dudley Castle.

His mother, Leonora Maria Davids was the daughter of Smith William Davids (1824 – 1894) and his wife Anna Maria Brabazon 1824 – 1875 , whom he married in 1852 in Carnavon. 

Grandparents               Rev George Brabazon 1780 – 1851 and Leonora Jane Heyland 1780 – 1880

G.Grandparents             Phillip Brabazon 1733 – 1828 and Elizabeth Adams. 1734 – 1793

GG Grandparents           Anthony Brabazon and Mary Donagh.

GGG Grandparents        James Brabazon and Mary Colley

GGGG Grandparents     James Brabazon and Alice Bates

GGGGG Grandparents    Sir Anthony Brabazon and Margaret Hovendon  (His brother was William)

GGGGGG Grandparents  Sir Edward Brabazon 1^st Lord Ardee and Mary Smythe 

GGGGGGGG Grandparents Sir William Brabazon and Elizabeth deClifford

His mother was Leonora Maria Davids

Comparing the Brabazon ancestors of Col Anthony William Durnford

Parents General Edward Durnford and Elizabeth Langley

Grandparents Anthony William Durnford and Barbara Brabazon

G. Grandparents  Hon William Brabazon MP and his wife Catherine Gifford.

GG Grandparents Edward Brabazon, 7^th Earl of Meath and Martha Collins

GGG Grandparents Chambre Brabazon, Earl of Meath and Juliana Chaworth

GGGG Grandparents Sir William Brabazon and Jane Bingley         (His brother Anthony)  **

GGGGG Grandparents  Sir Edward Brabazon 1^st Lord Ardee and Mary Smythe 

Another relationship is with General John Palmer Brabazon

BRABAZON, Major-Gen. Sir John Palmer, K.C.B. Mil. (1911), C.V.O. (1901), C.B. (1893). Served as a Volunteer in Ashanti War, 1874: in Afghan War, 1878-80; Soudan, 1884; Nile Expedition, 1884-5; Commanded 2nd Cav. Brig., S. Africa Field Force, 1899-1900, and Imp. Yeo., 1900; A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, 1889-1901; and to King Edward, 1901-1910; Gentleman Usher to King Edward, 1901-08: Knt. Commander. 1st Class, Order of Danuebrog. Only surviving son of late Major Hugh Brabazon, late 15th Hussars, D.L., of Brabazon Park, Co. Mayo; b. 1843. Res.: 10 Wilton Crescent, London, S.W.; Glen Corrib, Headford, Co. Galway. Clubs: Guards, Marlborough, and Turf.

http://lafayette.org.uk/bra3426.html

 

GGGGGGGG Grandparents Sir William Brabazon and Elizabeth deClifford

GGGGGGG Great Grandparents were Sir Edward and Mary Smythe. 

GGGGGG Sir Anthony Clifford Brabazon m Margaret Hovenden

GGGGG Sir Anthony Clifford Brabazon married Ursula Burke Malby. 

GGGG  Anthony Brabazon  He married Eunice Dillon and had a son William Brabazon

GGGWilliam Brabazon married Catherine Fitzmaurice and they had a son George Brabazon

GGGeorge Brabazon married Sarah Burke. Among their children was Catherine Brabazon

GG Catherine Brabazon married Luke Higgins. They had a son Hugh Brabazon Higgins

G Hugh Brabazon Higgins was born 1797 and died 1864 He married Eleanor Palmer, their son was

John Palmer Higgins born 1843 and baptised in Marylebone London

His father Hugh Brabazon Higgins changed his name according to the will of Sir Anthony Brabazon.    (His mother Catherine Brabazon was the great granddaughter of Anthony Brabazon, he died in 1699)

William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath (c.1580 - 18 December 1651) was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Brabazon was descended from an English family that was seated in Leicestershire from the reign of the Henry III, and came to Ireland in the 1530s. He was the second but eldest surviving son of Edward Brabazon and Mary Smythe, daughter of Thomas Smythe, Clerk of the Green Cloth. His father had been created Baron Ardee in 1616. His grandfather, also William Brabazon, had served as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for 23 years and the family owned large estates there.

Brabazon was knighted in 1604 by James I. On 7 August 1625 he succeeded his father as Baron Ardee.^[3] He was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1627 and held various appointments in the government of Ireland. He also served as Custos Rotulorum of County Dublin. On 16 April 1627 he was created Earl of Meath in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder in default of male heirs to his brother Sir Anthony Brabazon and his male heirs.^[4] In 1631 at Kilruddery House (which is still the family home) he hosted the marriage of his widowed sister Elizabeth to Sir John Bramston, the Lord Chief Justice (a marriage which their father had forbidden many years earlier, but of which her brother evidently approved). In 1644, at the height of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Brabazon was sent by the Irish Parliament to the Royalist court at Oxford to consult with Charles I. He was subsequently taken prisoner by the Parliamentarians and imprisoned in the Tower of London for 11 months.

He married Jane Bingley (died 1644), the daughter of Sir John Bingley MP, Comptroller of the Musters and Cheques, and his first wife Anne Henshaw, and together they had one son, Edward.^[5] Edward succeeded his father in his titles in 1651

The Peerage

Edward Smith held the office of Clerk of the Green Cloth, to Queen Elizabeth I.¹ He lived at Mitcham, Surrey, England  He was also known as Thomas Smythe.

Child of Edward Smith

1.      Mary Smythe+¹ d. 13 Aug 1625

Citations

1.      [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 269. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

2.      [S7331] Heatehr Fitzgerald, "re: Brabazon Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 17 November 2014. Hereinafter cited as "re: Brabazon Family."