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Title: Interesting Name
Post by: KathMc on Wednesday 18 October 06 11:07 BST (UK)
I was on the family search site, looking for something for another Roostchatter when I came up with this name:

ALSWITHA PLANTAGENET ALICIA DE MOUSFORT COLLETON , born in England in 1830. A relative you think or parents with high dreams.

Kath
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: Tephra on Wednesday 18 October 06 14:00 BST (UK)


Just a teeeeeeeeensy bit pretentious methinks     ;)


Barbara             8)
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: linmey on Wednesday 18 October 06 14:31 BST (UK)
I wonder if they shortened it to anything!!!

Linda.
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: KathMc on Wednesday 18 October 06 17:29 BST (UK)
I think they had a pension for different names: her mother was Septima Beata Colleton.  ::)
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: kerryb on Wednesday 18 October 06 18:51 BST (UK)
Hmmm  Ideas above their station I should think ::) ::) ::)

But interesting choice of names nevertheless!!!

Kerry
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: Lydart on Monday 11 December 06 15:59 GMT (UK)
I suspect she was called Alice, and her mother Beattie !!
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: Gadget on Monday 11 December 06 16:55 GMT (UK)
Interestingly, her father was James Roupett Colleton - wonder if this was Rupert wrongly transcribed  :-\

I can't find the family on the 1841 but there is a Sir James Colleton Bt., living in Park Street, Islington, aged 55-59 and (possibly) a son Robert, aged 15-19.

Ho107/665/3 Folio 55 page 11

Can't do any serious look ups - the weather is creating havoc with my line

 ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

Gadget  :)
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: AmyUK on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:19 GMT (UK)
Certainly a unique name, beats having a long line of ancestors with the same names and having to number them.

Following Gadget's information in the death index for 1848 in Pancras there is a James Roupel Colleton.
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: AmyUK on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:23 GMT (UK)
Her parents marriage in the Pallot's index.
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: KathMc on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:39 GMT (UK)
I did do a quick search on ancestry and found a tree with the brother but Alwitha wasn't on it. I wonder if I should contact the person who put the tree up. What do people think? Not even my family, just a name that caught my eye, but you do tend to get caught up in it all.  :)

Kath
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: AmyUK on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:53 GMT (UK)
Have done some digging and they might not have had high dreams after all, it seems Alswitha via her Great Great Grandmother Anne Chichester was the 13x Great Grandchild of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 12 December 06 14:11 GMT (UK)
Fantastic name! Certainly redolent of her family history.

Alswitha Plantagenet Alicia de Montfort Colleton died at Tiverton, Devon in the Sep qtr of 1852.

Anna
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 12 December 06 14:17 GMT (UK)
Sir James' middle name is definitely Roupell. There must be a connection with the Roupells of Lambeth who were a prominent family of land developers in the early-mid 19th century. William Roupell MP was jailed for 14 years for destroying his father's Will and forging a new one.
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: Lydart on Tuesday 12 December 06 14:46 GMT (UK)
Why oh why do my lot have names like Mary and John Williams ?  Could have done with an Alswitha or two !
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: KathMc on Tuesday 12 December 06 14:58 GMT (UK)
Quote from: AmyUK on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:53 GMT (UK)
Have done some digging and they might not have had high dreams after all, it seems Alswitha via her Great Great Grandmother Anne Chichester was the 13x Great Grandchild of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.

And all this just from a fluke sighting on the family search site.  ???

Kath
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 12 December 06 16:10 GMT (UK)
Quote from: KathMc on Tuesday 12 December 06 14:58 GMT (UK)
Quote from: AmyUK on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:53 GMT (UK)
Have done some digging and they might not have had high dreams after all, it seems Alswitha via her Great Great Grandmother Anne Chichester was the 13x Great Grandchild of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.

And all this just from a fluke sighting on the family search site.  ???

Kath

Oh dear, she might be a distant cousin of mine through my Puleston line - they were all descended from the Royals!

 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

Cousin Alswitha no less

 :D

Gadget
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: kerryb on Tuesday 12 December 06 19:36 GMT (UK)
Should that be Lady Gadget!!!!! ::) ::) ::)

Kerry
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: G Mlx on Tuesday 13 February 18 20:30 GMT (UK)



Oh dear, she might be a distant cousin of mine through my Puleston line - they were all descended from the Royals!

Which Puleston family?, as I have a gt.gt.uncle who married Annabella Puleston of Pendebw Flintshire.
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 13 February 18 21:59 GMT (UK)
I fit in here:

http://www.puleston-jones.com/page16.htm

My many times great is 'Katherine, baptised on 15 October 1670 '

Gadget


Added - through my  grandmother in my avatar
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: marcie dean on Tuesday 13 February 18 22:12 GMT (UK)
Quote from: KathMc on Tuesday 12 December 06 14:58 GMT (UK)
Quote from: AmyUK on Tuesday 12 December 06 13:53 GMT (UK)
Have done some digging and they might not have had high dreams after all, it seems Alswitha via her Great Great Grandmother Anne Chichester was the 13x Great Grandchild of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
thats somewhere in holand isnt it o sm i wrong, not unusual if i am

And all this just from a fluke sighting on the family search site.  ???

Kath
Title: Re: Interesting Name
Post by: G Mlx on Tuesday 13 February 18 22:28 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Gadget on Tuesday 13 February 18 21:59 GMT (UK)
I fit in here:

http://www.puleston-jones.com/page16.htm

My many times great is 'Katherine, baptised on 15 October 1670 '

Gadget

Thanks for the update my gt.gt.uncle Thomas Molyneux married on the 6th June 1836, Annabella Puleston, she was the daughter of Philip Puleston of Pickhill and granddaughter and heiress of Richard Williams of Penbedw by his third wife Annabella Lloyd. She died in Geneva on the 2nd April 1862, aged 84.