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URL: www.natstand.org.uk/pdf/DeCrespignyEC000.pdf Root person: De Crespigny, Eyre N. C. (1821 – 1895) Description: Family file Creation date: 2015 – fully revised 2021 September Prepared by: Richard Middleton Notes:

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Richard Middleton James Robert Middleton - 1 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1Sir William de Crespigny 2nd Bart. MP (c1765 – 1829.12.28)  grandfather *** married Lady Sarah Windsor ( - 1825.9.21) on 1786.8.5  grandmother uncle Captain Claude Champion de Crespigny RN (c1787 – 1813) Unmarried uncle William Other Robert Champion de Crespigny (1789.7.5 – 1816.1.24) Unmarried uncle Captain Augustus James Champion de Crespigny RN (c1791 – 1825.10.24) *** married Caroline Smyth (1796.4.12 – 1876.1.25) on 1817.5.29 cousin Sir Claude William Champion de Crespigny 3rd Bart. (1818.6.25 – 1868.8.11) cousin Henry Other de Crespigny (1819.8.23 – 1883.2.16) cousin Rev Frederick John Champion de Crespigny (21822.?.12 – 1887.6.25) aunt Sarah Champion de Crespigny (1792 – c1805) aunt Frances Champion de Crespigny (1793 – c1794) aunt Patience Anne Champion de Crespigny (c1795 – 1831.3.22) *** married 3Rev Hon Paul Anthony Irby (c1784 – 1865.2.10) on 1814.12.2 cousin Major Claude Frederick Irby (1815 – 1898.8.19) Unmarried cousin Rev Thomas William (1817 – 1892.6.8) Unmarried cousin Lieut-Col Augustus Henry Irby (1818 – 1861.8.23) cousin Frances Ann Irby (1819 – 1895.1.21) [1850: Mrs J C Powell] cousin Edward Irby (1821 – 1900.7.27) Issue cousin Leonard Irby (1822 - ?1856) cousin Caroline Irby (1824 – 1894.1.29) [1849: Mrs Rev S Stockdale] [1859: Mrs R Gibbings] cousin Algernon Irby (1825 - 1876) Issue cousin Emma Irby (1828 – 1890.2.26) Unmarried

Rev Heaton Champion de Crespigny (1796 – 1858.11.15)  father *** married 4Caroline Bathurst (1797 - 1861.12.26) on 1820.7.19  mother

5Eyre Nicholas Champion de Crespigny (1821.5.7 – 61895.2.15) *** married Augusta Cunningham (1828.2.2 – 1912.3.5) on 1850.11.5 daughter Mary Augusta Champion de Crespigny (c1853 – 1930.3.14) Unmarried daughter Grace Caroline Champion de Crespigny (c1855 - 1905) Unmarried daughter Augusta Margaret Champion de Crespigny (1856.9.25 – 1935.1.20) Unmarried son Claude Champion de Crespigny (1859.2.19 – 1860.6.10) son 7Herbert Frederick Champion de Crespigny (1860.7.21 – 1941.3.27) *** married Rose Jones (c1871 - 1929) in 1898 granddaughter Grace Margaret de Crespigny (1901.3.12 - ) [1919: Mrs G B Foster] granddaughter Mary Augusta de Crespigny (1905.9.22 - ) [1939: Mrs B L H Castle] granddaughter Muriel Louise de Crespigny (1909.10.9 - ) [1947: Mrs A T Palmer] cont …

- 2 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 cont … children of Rev Heaton Champion de Crespigny (1796 – 1858.11.15) *** married 8Caroline Bathurst (1797 - 1861.12.26) on 1820.7.19

brother 9Major Albert Henry Champion de Crespigny (1824 – 1873.1.31)

?Issue brother 10Claude Augustus Champion de Crespigny (1828? – 1884.12.24) brother 11Augustus Champion de Crespigny (c1835 - 1905) to USA *** married 12Emily Marsh (c1860 – 1947.2.4) on 1886.7.2 aunt Mary Catherine Champion de Crespigny (1798 – 1858.6.7) *** married Rev John Brigstocke (c1789 - 1858.1.21) on 1830.7.20 cousin Mary Dorothea Emma Brigstocke (1831 - 1900.3.3) Unmarried cousin Harriet Brigstocke (1833 – 1865.10.2) cousin Fanny Brigstocke (1834 - 1874.8.14) Unmarried cousin Augustus Brigstocke (1836 – 1870.3.10) Issue cousin Sarah Anne Elizabeth Brigstocke (1838 – 1918.1.4) Unmarried aunt Emma Honoria Dorothea Champion de Crespigny (1800 – 1883.8.18) Unmarried uncle Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny (1806.2.26 – 1881.7.1) *** married Caroline de Crespigny née Smyth (1796.4.12 – 1876.1.25) on 1831.4.23 cousin Caroline Julia Champion de Crespigny (1828.3.6 - ) [1857: Mrs William Clay] cousin Rosalie Champion de Crespigny (1829.8.23 – 1902.8.18) [1856: Mrs T S Badger Eastwood] cousin Josephine Emma Lydia de Crespigny (1834.3.4 – 1911.7.16) Unmarried

Relationships shown are relative to Eyre Nicholas Champion de Crespigny (1821 – 1895)

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1786 August 5: Marriage Register, St George’s, Hanover-square, Westminster Marriage of William Champion de Crespigny Esq, bachelor of Surrey and the Rt. Honourable Lady Sarah Windsor, spinster of this parish, were married at the dwelling house of the Rt Honourable Lady Plymouth by special licence of the archbishop of Canterbury. Witnesses Plymouth, C Ch Crespigny and Ann Windsor.

1789 July 27: Baptism Register, St Marylebone, Westminster Baptism of Wm Other Robert of William Crespigny Esq. & Sarah; born 5 July.

1792 October 6: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Sarah Crespigny, daughter of William Champion and Sarah Windsor Crespigny, Honington, Warwickshire.

1793 June 16: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Francis Crespigny, daughter of Wm Champion and Lady Sarah Crespigny, Wanstead, Essex. [Despite this spelling it was indeed a daughter.]

1796 May 11: Baptism register, St George’s, Hanover-square, Westminster Baptism of Caroline Smyth, daughter of Sir William, Bart., and Ann, Lady Smyth; born April 12.

1796 May 23: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Heaton, son of William and Lady Sarah Crespigny at Draycot-Cerne, Wiltshire.

1797 October 24: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Caroline Bathurst in Durham cathedral.

1798 August 11: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Mary Catherine Crespigny, daughter of Willm. and Lady Sarah Crespigny, Draycot Cerne, Wilts.

1800 June 10: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Emma Honoria Dorothy Crespigny, daughter of Willm. and Sarah Crespigny, Draycot Cerne, Wilts. [The 1881 census states that she, like her brother Herbert, was born in France.]

1806 July 19: Baptism Register, St George’s, Hanover-square, Westminster Baptism of Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny, son of William and Sarah Champion de Crespigny; born February 26.

1813 September 25: *Morning Chronicle DIED. Lately, at Port Mahon, of the dysentery, Capt. de Crespigny, on board his Majesty’s ship Gorgon, which he commanded. [This is Claude Champion de Crespigny.]

1814 December 12: *Salisbury and Winchester Journal WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. On Friday the 2d instant was married, by the Hon. and Rev,. Thomas de Grey, the Hon. and Rev. P. Irby, to Patience Ann, eldest daughter of William and Lady Sarah de Crespigny, of Fawley, in this county.

1815 September 28: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Claude Frederick Irby, son of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1816 January 25: *Morning Chronicle DIED. Yesterday, at his grandfather’s house, in Lincoln’s Inn-fields, after a few days illness, W. Ch. de Crespigny, Esq. son of W. Ch de Crespigny, Esq. of King’s Rew, Hampshire. - 4 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 [This appears to relate to William Other Robert Champion de Crespigny.]

1817 April 15: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Thomas William Irby, son of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1817 May 29: Marriage Register, St George’s, Hanover-square, Westminster Marriage of Augustus James Champion de Crespigny Esq and Caroline Smyth, spinster, both of the parish. Witnesses Jns[?] Weyland, Henry Windsor, A Windsor, Letitia Cicely Smyth, Elizabeth Webb, Josia[?] Moss, Mary de Crespigny, Louise Dalling. [The Suffolk Chronicle of 1817 June 7 adds that she was the daughter of Sir William Smyth, Bart. of Hill Hall.]

1818 May 20: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Augustus Henry Irby, son of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1818 July 4: Baptism Register, St George, Hanover-square, Westminster Baptism of Claude William Champion de Crespigny, son of Augustus James Champion Esq. and Caroline de Crespigny of Upper Gros. Str.; born 1818 June 25.

1819 September 15: Baptism Register, St George, Hanover-square, Westminster Baptism of Henry Other de Crespigny, son of Augustus James Champion Esq. and Caroline de Crespigny of Upper Grosvenor-street Str.; born 1819 August 23.

1819 December 2: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Frances Ann Irby, daughter of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1819 December 18: *Norfolk Chronicle At an Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, on Sunday last, the following persons were admitted into Holy Orders; Deacons … Heaton Champion de Crespigny, Student in Civil Law, Trinity-hall, Cambridge; [Venn records that he matriculated at Trinity-hall in 1816 and was awarded LL. B. in 1825 – i.e. he was not a graduate when he was ordained.]

1820 July 22: *Norfolk Chronicle MARRIED. Wednesday morning, at St. Luke's Chapel, by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, the Rev. Heaton C. de Crespigny, second son of Sir W. de Crespigny, Bart. M.P. to Miss Caroline Bathurst, third daughter of his Lordship. After the ceremony the company partook of an elegant dejeune at the Bishop's Palace. Among the friends of the parties present were the Hon. Capt. Irby, the Hon. J. Thelluson, sir Wm. De Crespigny and the Miss de Crespignys, the Rev. Archdeacon Bathurst and Mrs. Henry Bathurst, the Rev. R. Bathurst, &c. &c. &c. The happy pair set out immediately after for the house of Sir W. De Crespigny, in London.

1821 May 23: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Edward Irby, son of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1822 April 7: Baptism Register, St Marylebone Baptism of Augusta Cunningham, daughter of George and Ann Cunningham of Upper Harley Street; born February 2.

1822 May 8: *Bury and Norwich Post The Rev. Heaton Champion de Crespigny has been Collated by the Bishop of Norwich to the Vicarage of Neatishead, in this county, vacated by the death of the Rev. A. Barwick.

- 5 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1822 October 28: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Leonard Irby, son of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1824 March 22: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Caroline Irby, daughter of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1824 August 22: Baptism Register, Dallington Baptism of Albert Henry Champion de Crespigny, son of Heaton and Caroline Champion de Crespigny, Cleryman of Stoke Doyle.

1825 July 26: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Algernon Irby, son of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1825 September 28: *Hereford Journal DIED. Thursday, the Right Hon. Lady Sarah, wife of Sir W.C. De. Crespigny, Bart. M.P. for Southampton.

1826 January 6: *Sun (London) THE LATE CAPTAIN DE CRESPIGNY. - By packetr received through the Post-office from Major-General Keane, commanding his Majesty's troops at Jamaica, we learn that on Monday, the of 24th October, 1825, died on board his Majesty's ship Scylla, to which he had been recently appointed, Captain Augustus Champion de Crespigny. He was first appointed to the Britomart, but unfortunately, on the death of Capt. Russell, who with many officers and seamen fell a victim to the ravages of the yellow fever, and notwithstanding the infection which raged on board the ship, Captain de Crespigny unfortunately applied for it, and with that esprit de corps, so familiar to him, being appointed to her by the Admiral on that station, took the command of her; he was taken ill on the Saturday, and died on the Monday following. Capt ain de Crespigny went first to sea under the patronage of Lord St. Vincent, and was with Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar; from thence he was taken under the patronage of Lord Collingwood, who tooke him under his guidance and tuition in his own cabin on board the Ocean, where he made him study the duties of a seamen under his particular care :—he distinguished himself in a variety of actions during the war, and was wounded several times, particularly on the coast of Calabria, having received a derperate sabre wound in an action on shore.

1828 March 20: Baptism Register, Cottesbrooke, Northants (Bishop’s transcript) Baptism of Emma Irby, daughter of Paul Anthony and Catherine Ann Irby, Clerk of Cottesbrooke Rectory.

1829 January 27 (death): 1832 Reports of Cases Argued and determined in the English Ecclesiastical Courts v II 1828 - 1829 – PEROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY. GLYNN v. OGLANDER p428, Philadelphia.

Jane Mary Oglander, late of Oxford, died leaving a paper which indicated a desire to give financial support (by liquidating £5000 of stock) to "those poor children of the two destitute families …". One of these families was that of Heaton and Caroline de Crespigny, the other that of Caroline's brother Robert. The discussion of the case brought to test the validity of this wish post mortem gives an insight into the family's condition.

" … that Mrs De Crespigny (Mr Bathurst's sister) the god-daughter of Mrs. Oglander, was also in distressed circumstances, and had two infant sons and was pregnant at the time of the deceased's death."

The judgement was that it had no standing and they did not get any money.

- 6 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1830 January 11: Hampshire Chronicle LONDON FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. … The late Sir Wm. Champion De Crespigny, Bart, whose dissolution occurred on Monday week, at his residence Champion Lodge, Camberwell, after a protracted indisposition, in the 67th year of his age, was the only son of the late Sir Claude Champion De Crespigny, created a baronet in 1805, and who died 1818. Sir William was connected by marriage with the noble house of Plymouth, having married, 1786, Lady Sarah Winsor, sister of the late and aunt of the present Earl of Plymouth, lady of amiable qualities and high accomplishments, and sister to the late Lady Catherine Sydney Tylney Long, who was married to Sir James Long, of Draycot and Wanstead, in 1785, and had issue three daughters, the eldest of whom was the late Mrs Long Wellesley, and one son, who died his infancy. Sir William had a family of 10 children by her ladyship, whom he survived—viz. Claude, a Lieutenant the Royal Navy, died 1813. William Other Robert, who also embraced the naval profession, who died unmarried in 1816. Augustus James (also deceased), married 1816, to Caroline, youngest daughter of Sir William Smith, Bart, of Hill-hall, Essex, and has left an only son, born 1818, who succeeds to the baronetcy. The Rev. Heaton Champion married, 1820, to Caroline Bathurst, youngest daughter of the Bishop of Norwich. Mary, deceased. Patience Ann, married 1814, Hon. and Rev. Anthony Irby, brother to Lord Boston. Francis, died in infancy. Herbert, in holy orders. Honorina. Sir William was an active magistrate for the counties of Hants and Surrey, and for many years represented the town of Southampton Parliament, from which he retired in 1826. Sir William was a Fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and he also enjoyed the honorary degree of Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law.

1830 July 21: *Morning Post MARRIED – On the 20th inst., at St. George’s, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Dr. Sampson, the Rev. J. Brigstocke, second son of Colonel Brigstocke, of Blaenpaut, Cardiganshire, to Mary Catherine, second daughter of the late Sir W. Champion de Crespigny, Bart. of Champion Lodge, Surrey.

1831 March 30: *Bury and Norwich Post DIED. On the 22d inst. at Cottesbrook Rectory, Northamptonshire, in her 37th year, Patience Anne, wife of the Hon. and Rev. Paul Anthony Irby, and daughter of Sir W. de Crespigny, Bart, of Champion Lodge, Surrey.

1831 April 23: Marriage Register, St leonard’s, Shoreditch Marriage by licence of Herbert de Crespigny, bachelor, and Caroline de Crespigny, Widow. Witnesses Sarah Burrell and Geo. Garrows. [Caroline was his brother Augustus’s widow, father of the 3rd Baronet.]

1831 October 1: Baptism Begister, St Mary’s, Cheltenham Baptism of Claude Augustus, son of Heaton Champion and Caroline de Crespigny of Cheltenham, Clerk. [Was he an infant? In the 1841 census he was a scholar at Christ’s Hospital, Newgate aged 12. He died in very late 1884 aged 56, both suggest he may have been born around 1828 and been baptised as a child.]

1834 December 31: Baptism Register, St Mary Magdalene, Richmond, Surrey Three children of Herbert Joseph Champion and Caroline de Crespigny, Barrister-at-law, Under the Hill, were baptised together Caroline Julia de Crespigny; born 1828 March 6 Rosalie de Crespigny; born 1829 August 23 Josephine Emma Lydia de Crespigny; born 1834 March 4.

1837: Henry Bathurst 1837. Memoirs of the late Dr Henry Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich, vol 1. London. Letter to Henry jun. 1828.1.25 "Heaton and Caroline continue to go on well; but "laudo manentem," and I dare not be sanguine upon that point: he is certainly possessed of considerable natural quickness and very gentlemanly manners; if to these he added a well regulated mind and better temper, I should be glad: it is not however my intention to intimate that she is never to blame."

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Commentary "… ; and in 1828 the violent but still more disagreeable publicity of the Rev. H. De Crespigny. The Bishop's son-in-law, harassed him; and still more was he harassed by the distressing state of the Rev. Gentleman's finances, materially affecting the comfort and situation in worldly circumstances of the Bishop's daughter, Caroline, his wife, - a young woman of great personal and intellectual endowments."

Commentary "… The Bishop must, on reflection, have been sensible, that his consent to the marriage of his son, (a studious and promising young man,) in circumstances advantageous to no party, was a step, like that of his daughter Caroline's marriage with Mr. De Crespigny, which as a parent he ought not to have sanctioned. But the facility of his temper, and his love of ease, and above all the sanguine complexion of his mind, and favourable anticipations which he always encouraged of the future, ruled the heart; and to these causes we may fairly attribute the like facility with which he admitted into orders without a degree his future son-in-law, the same Mr. De Crespigny; though, be it remembered, that there was no substantial objection, at the time, of any sort to the character or habits of that gentleman; of whom it was only charitable, as it was not unreasonable, to expect that he might turn out a character as good as others in general."

Letter from Rev Henry Bathurst sen. to son Henry 1830 January 25 " … the sad state of Caroline and her four boys, of whom I know not what is to become if the father's life should be spared; for as long as he exists, his creditors will seize upon the interest of everything but what I pay; and the mother, in her present nervous state, is little qualified to attend to the education of children"

Letter from Rev Henry Bathurst sen. to son Henry 1831 "I continue tolerably well, but have been sadly harrased by the accounts I receive from Cheltenham respecting the health and spirits of unfortunate Caroline: her poor little boys must be wretchedly attended to."

1839 August 25: Baptism Register, Burton, Pembrokeshire All of the Rev John Brigstocke’s children with Mary Catherine were formally baptised together at his church in Burton. They had previously been privately baptised – Mary Dorothy Brigstocke – on 1831 November 18 at Kingston Deverill Harriet Brigstocke – on 1833 February 18 Fanny Brigstocke – 1834 May 30 Augustus brigstocke – 1836 August 7 Sarah Anne Elizabeth – 1838 March 27

1841: Census – Pirton, Oxfordshire Heaton de Crespigny 45 Clergyman N Augustus de Crespigny 6 N Jane Lovegrave 15 FS Y

[Jane’s illegitimate son used the name “William Augustus Decripney Lovegrove” when he married Anne Penton at Houndslow in 1865. Here he declares that his father was “William Decripney, Clerk.” This suggests that Heaton may have been his (otherwise unacknowledged) father.]

1849 March 10: *Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser MARRIAGES. On the 27th ult., at Cottisbrooke, Northamptonshire, by the Rev. John Watson, the Rev. Septimus Stockdale, Rector of Wilby, Northamptonshire, to Caroline, second daughter of the Hon. and Rev. J. A. Irby, Rector of Cottisbrooke. [Septimus died very soon after this.]

- 8 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1850 May 17: *Daily News, London MARRIAGES. POWELL – IRBY. – May 14, at Cottisbrooke, Northamptonshire, by the Rev. J. D. Watson, Vicar of Guilsborough, J. C. Powell, Esq.. of Clapton, Middlesex, to Frances Ann, eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. P. A. Irby, Rector of Cottisbrooke. [Her step-mother was Wilhelmena Powell.]

1850 December 20: The Indian News 200 p548 MARRIAGES. Malligaum, Nov. 5, Eyre Nicholas Champion de Crespigny, esq., M.D. Bombay Medical estab., to Augusta, sixth daughter of the late George Cunningham. Esq. of Landsdowne-crescent, Bath, and Trelawney, Jamaica.

1856 April 10: *The Age (Melbourne) DEATHS FROM DELERIUM TREMENS. – Two persons, named John Johnson and Leonard Irby, have fallen victims to intemperence. The former died in the goal on Thursday, and the latter expired at the Star Hotel yesterday. [Leonard had been in partnership with his brother Edward at the Bolivia station until 1853.]

1856 August 19: Marriage Register, Emmanuel, Camberwell, Southwark Marriage by licence of Thomas Smith Badger (bachelor of full age) Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, son of Thomas Badger, solicitor, and Rosalie Champion de Crespigny (spinster of full age) of Emmanuel Parsonage, Camberwell, daughter of Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny, Esq. by Rev F de Crespigny [half-brother]. Witnesses Mary Ch. de Crespigny, William Howes[?], C C de Crespigny, George de Crespigny, Thos. Badger & Jos Badger. [Thomas added the name Eastwood in 1863.]

1856 December 7: India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Augusta Margaret Decrespigny, daughter of Eyre Nicholas Champin [sic] and Augusta Margaret Decrespigny at Rutnageree, Bombay, India; born 1856 September 25.

1857 May 20: Marriage Register, Emmanuel, Camberwell, Southwark Marriage by licence of William Clay (bachelor of full age) Gentleman of St Martin in the Fields, son of John Granbt Clay, General Officer in Her Majesty’s Services, and Caroline Julia Champion de Crespigny (spinster of full age) of Emmanuel Parsonage, Camberwell, daughter of Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny, Esq. by Rev F de Crespigny, Incumbent [half-brother].

1858 January 27: *Potter’s Electric News DEATHS. On the 21st inst., at Burton Rectory, the Rev. John Brigstocke, in the 69th year of his age.

1858 June 12: *Hampshire Telegraph DEATHS. BRIGSTOCKE – On the 7th inst., at Burton Rectory, Pembrokeshire, Mary Catherine, relict of the Rev. John Brigstocke, and daughter of the late Sir William and Lady Sarah Champion de Crespigny.

1858 November 19: The Star (Ballarat) DIED, On the 15th instant, at the Nightingale Hotel, Township of Ballarat West, of serious apoplexy, aged 62 years, the Rev. Heaton Champion de Crespigny, M.A., Incumbent of the livings of Neatishead, in the county of Norfolk, and Stoke Doyle, in the county of Northamptonshire, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; fourth son of the late Sir William Champion de Crespigny, Bart., M.P., and lady Sarah, fourth daughter of Windsor fourth Earl of Plymouth, and son-in-law of Bathurst, late Bishop of Norwich, and uncle to the present Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, Bart.

1859 April 6: Allens Indian Mail Crespigny, De, wife of Dr. E. De Crespigny, son, at Rutnagherry, Feb. 19. [Transcribed by John Bertram, John Gannon & Charlie Clark, Families in British India website http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=1229302 This will be Claude.]

- 9 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1859 May 14: *Northampton Mercury MARRIAGES. On the 5th instant, at Cottisbrooke Church, Northamptonshire, by the Rev. T. W. Irby, the Rev. Robert Gibbings, vicar of Radley, Berks, to Caroline, the relict of the late Rev. S. Stockdale, and daughter of the Hon. and Rev. P. A. Irby, rector of Cottesbrooke.

1860 March 23: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of the Reverend Heaton Champion de Crespigny, formerly of Bodegroes, Carnarvon but late of Ballarat, Victoria, on 1858 November 15. Executor was William Mosson Kearns Esq. Effects under £1000 (he was also a goldminer)[and a solicitor?].

1860 September 21: India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Herbert Frederick Champion Decrespigny in Rutnagairee, Bombay, India, son of Eyre Nicholas Champion and Augusta Decrespigny; born 1860 July 21. [This date of birth is confirmed by the 1939 Civil Register when he was living at the Probate Registry with his daughter Muriel in Blandford Forum, Dorset.]

1862 February 28: Probate Register Records the death of Caroline Champion de Crespigny in Heidleburgh on 1861 December 26. Letters of administration were granted to her son Albert Henry.

1862 August 6: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Lieut.-Col. Augustus Henry Irby, late of Man Meer, Punjab, India, on 1861 August 23. Administration to Claude Frederick Irby of Westminster, brother.

1865 April 26: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of the Hon. and Rev. Paul Anthony Irby, Rector of Cottesbrooke, Northants, at Moulton, Northants., on 1865 February 10. Will proved by his son Claude Frederick Irby of Westminster.

1865 October 17: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Harriette Brigstocke, spinster , late of Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, on 1865 October 3. Administration to her brother Augustus Brigstocke, Captain in the 51st Regiment of Foot.

1868 August 14: *Morning Post DEATHS. DE CRESPIGNY. – On the 11th inst., at Wyvenhoe Hall, Essex, after a long and painful illness, Sir Claude William Champion de Crespigny, Bart., aged fifty.

1870 May 6: Probate register, Principal Registry Records the death of Augustus Brigstocke, formerly a Captain in the %1st Foot Regiment, late of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, on 1870 March 10. Will proved by William Owen Brigstocke of Gelly Dywyll, Carmarthen.

1873 February 17: *Homeward Mail from India, China and the East DEATHS. De Crespigny – Jan. 31, at Metzleinsdorf, near Vienna, Major Albert Champion de Crespigny, of the Imperial Service, age 48.

1874 October 23: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Frances/Fanny Brigstocke, spinster, of Bovey Tracey, Devon, at Alresford on 1874 August 14. Administration to Mary Dorothea Emma Brigstocke of Speen, her sister.

1876 January 29: *London Evening standard DEATHS. DE CRESPIGNY. – 25th, at Brighton, Caroline, the wife of Herbert Champion de Crespigny, Esq., and youngest daughter of the late Sir William Smijth, Bart., of Hill Hall, Essex, and Attleborough Hall, Norfolk. [This confirms that she had been married to two of the De Crespigny brothers.]

- 10 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1876 February 10: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Caroline de Crespigny (wife of Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny Esq) late of Brighton, on 1876 January 26. Will proved by Josephine Emma Lydia Champion de Crespigny, spinster, her daughter, the sole executrix. [ 1876 December 7: The Maitland Mercury, etc. (New South Wales) We regret extremely to have to record the sudden death of Mr. Algernon Irby, which took place last week at Bolivia. The deceased had been in bad health- previously, but his friends did not consider that there was any immediate cause for alarm. Much sympathy is felt for his bereaved relatives.

1881 August 18: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Herbert Joseph Champion de Crespigny, late of the Union Club, Trafalgar- square, on 1881 July 1. Will proved by his sister Emma Honoria Dorothea Champion de Crespigny.

1883 April 10: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Henry Other Champion de Crespigny of Bettws-y-Coed, Carnarvon, on 1883 February 16. Administration to his widow Caroline.

1883 October 16: Probate Register, Principal Registry records the death of Emma Honoria Dorothea Champion de Crespigny, spinster of Pimlico, Middlesex, on 1883 August 18. Will proved by Fanny Ann Powell (wife of John Cotton Powell Esq.), the niece. [The Civil Registration index gives her age as 83.]

1885 February 19: Probate register Records that Claude Champion de Crespigny, formerly of Sarawak (officer in service of Raja Brooke) but lately of Beckenham, died on 1884 December 24. Proved by his brother Eyre Champion de Crespigny.

1886 July 2: Marriage Register, All Saints, Poplar Augustus Champion de Crespigny, 50, bachelor (gentleman) of Poplar, son of Rev. Heaton Champion de Crespigny, Clerk in holy orders, married Emily Marsh, 25, spinster of St Philip?, Kensington, daughter of James Marsh, ?Hooner? [In view of their age difference it seems unlikely that he would overstate his age here. This would suggest his birth was in or before 1836.]

1887 June 29: *Hampshire Advertiser DEATHS. On the 25th inst., at the Vicarage, Hampton Wick, Frederick John Champion de Crespigny, M.A., Vicar of Hampton Wick, aged 64.

1890 May 15: Probate Register, Principal Registry Records the death of Emma Irby, spinster, formerly of Oxendon Magna, Northants, but lately of East Grinstead, Sussex, on 1890 February 26. Will proved by her [half] brother Rev George Powell Irby.

1892 August 8: Probate Register, Ipswich Records the death of Rev Thomas William Irby of Rushmere, Suffolk, on 1892 June 8. Probate to Claude Augustus Irby, retired Major, and Rev George Powell Irby.

1894 March 30: Probate Register, Peterborough Records the death of Caroline Gibbings, widow, of Mears Ashby, Northants., on 1894 January 29. Probate to Agnes Fanny Gibbings, Caroline Mary Gibbings and Emma Louisa Gibbings, spinsters.

1895 October 28: Probate Register, London Records the death of Frances Ann Powell, wife of John Cotton Powell, of Selsfield, Sussex, on 1895 January 21. Probate to John Cotton Powell and Henry Minshull Stockdale the younger.

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1898: England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. Marriage of Herbert F C De Crespigny and Rose Jones registered in Lambeth, last quarter.

1900 March 22: Probate Register, London Records the death of Mary Dorothea Emma Brigstocke, spinster of Speen near Newbury, on 1900 March 3. Probate to Sarah Ann Elizabeth Brigstocke, spinster.

1900 July 27: The Maitland Daily Mercury (New South Wales) DEATH IRBY. – 27th July, at Tenterfield, New South Wales, Edward Irby, son of the late Revd. the Hon. Paul Anthony Irby, Rector of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, aged 79 years.

1901 June 16: Baptism Register, St Mary, Lambeth Baptism of Grace Margaret de Crespigny, daughter of Herbert Frederick and Rose de Crespigny, Civil Servant, of 110 Upper Kennington Lane; born March 12.

1902 August 21: *Daily News (London) DEATHS. EASTWOOD. – 18th august, at 67, Curzon-street, Mayfair, Rosalie, widow of T. S. B. Eastwood, Esq. M.A, J.P., Barrister-at-law.

1905: Civil Registration Index Birth of Mary A de Crespigny registered in Christchurch, Hants, last quarter. [The 1939 Civil Registration index (Bournemouth) gives her birth date as 1905 September 22]

1905: Civil Registration Index. Death of Grace Caroline Champion de Crespigny registered in Bromley, last quarter.

1905 October 1: Index to Obituary Notices in the Houston Chronicle (Houston, Texas). Vol.1: 1901-1905. Texas, USA: Linda Bennett, 1993. Mortuary report on A. C. de Crespigmy[sic] (69).

1911 October 18: Probate Register, London Records the death of Josephine Emma Lydia Champion de Crespigny, spinster, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 1911 July 16. Probate to Lieut-Col Tyrell Other William Champion de Crespigny and Charles Whitbread Graham, Esq.

1912 March 22: Probate Register Records the death of Augusta Champion de Crespigny at Beckenham on 1912 March 5. Probate to spinsters Mary Augusta and Augusta Margaret Champion de Crespigny.

1918 February 28: Probate Register, London Records the death of Sarah Anne Elizabeth Brigstocke, spinster of South Kensington, on 1818 January 4. Probate to Fanny Isabella Fegan (wife of Ardra Fegan) and De Crespigny Brigstock. [Fanny was a daughter of her brother Augustus.]

1919: Civil Registration Index Marriage of George B Foster and Grace M Champion de Crespigny registered in Christchurch, Hants, third quarter.

1929: Civil Registration Index Death of Rose de Crespigny (57) registered in Blandford, Dorset, third quarter.

1930 May 12: Probate Register Records the death of spinster Mary Augusta Champion de Crespigny on 1930 March 14. Probate granted to her sister Augusta Margaret.

- 12 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 1935 March 12: Probate Register, Blandford Records the death of spinster Augusta Margaret Champion de Crespigny on 1935 January 20. Probate granted to spinsters Mary Augusta and Muriel Louise de Crespigny, spinsters.

1939: Civil Registration Index Marriage of Mary A de Crespigny and Basil L H Castle registered in Bournemouth, Hants, first quarter.

1941 December 21: Probate Register, Llandudno records the death of Herbert Frederick Champion de Crespigny of the Probate registry, Blandford Forum, on 1941 March 27. Probate to Muriel Louise de Crespigny, spinster.

1947: Civil Registration Index Marriage of Albert T Palmer and Muriel L Crespigny registered in Poole, second quarter.

1949 July 5: Probate Register Records the death of Emily de Crespigny, widow, at Cheltenham on 1947 February 4. Administration to Charles Marsh.

Crawford, D.G. 1930. Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 vol 2 794. De Crespigny, Eyre Nicholas Champion. B. 7 May 1821, at Montreux, Switzerland. M.R.C.S. 1845. A.S. 20 Aug. 1846. Surg. 31 Mar. 1864. R. 1 April 1864. d. at Beckenham, 15 Feb. 1895.

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Thistlethwayte, T. 1853. Memoirs and Correspondence of Dr H Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich.

Bishop Henry Bathurst *** married Grace Coote () on 1780.8.15

Henry Bathurst ()

Sir James Bathurst (c1783 - )  her "second brother, 15 on 1798.2.11

Benjamin Bathurst ()  third son at Winchester School

Henrietta Bathurst ()

Tryphena Bathurst ()

Charles Bathurst (1886 – 1895.11)

Six before this (1795) →

Robert Bathurst (1795.11.27 - )  fourth son

Caroline Bathurst (late 1797/early 1798 - )

"After their marriage, my father and mother resided entirely for Many Years at Christ Church, Oxford, where he constantly attended to all the duties of his situation as Canon."

On 1795 March 2 the bishop of Durham offered Henry "the second-best stall in my church". It seems that he had to give up his canonry of Christ Church.

"My father accepted this offer, and with his wife and six children removed to Durham, whither he retired with some degree of reluctance …"

"During the first year of his residence in the North, he had the misfortune to lose his favourite son, Charles, at the age of nine years."

"At the time of the boy's illness my mother was expecting her confinement; and he died a few days after she had given birth to another son (Robert, born 1795 November 27)"

From a letter to the Rev. Mr Williams, written Durham 1798.6.2

“My three girls are healthy and pretty; of their characters I can form no judgement; the youngest is an infant of a few months old, and the other two very young.”

In a footnote she gives the names Henrietta, Tryphena and Caroline

This is crucial as it implies that Caroline was born late 1797 or early 1798 – in Durham? This ties perfectly with the baptism of Caroline Bathurst in Durham Cathedral on 1797 October 24.

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Notes:

1 1830 OBITUARY – Sir W. C. de Crespigny, Bart. The Gentleman’s Magazine Jan. 31-32.

SIR W. C. DE CRESPIGNY Dec. 28. At his seat, Champion Lodge, Camberwell, aged nearly 65, Sir William Champion de Crespigny, the second Baronet of that place, a magistrate for Surrey and Hampshire, LL. B. and F.S.A. Sir William was born Jan. 1765, the only son of Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, LL. D. the first Baronet, (so erected in 1805,) by Mary, sole daughter and heiress of Joseph Clark, Esq. He was (till his death) a member of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where his father had been a Fellow, and took the degree of LL. B. in 1786. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father, who died at the age of 83, Jan. 28, 1818. He was returned M.P. for Southampton at the general Elections of 1818 and 1820; but at that of 1826 Mr. Dottin was chosen. Sir William was Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons of Hampshire; he also held the commission of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Surrey Volunteers. Sir William married Aug. 4, 1786, Lady Sarah Windsor, *4th and youngest daughter of Other Lewis fourth Earl of Plymouth; and by that lady, who died Sept. 22, 1825, had issue five sons and as many daughters; 1. Claude, who died a Lieutenant R.N. in 1813; 2. William-Other-Robert, who died holding a similar commission June 24, 1816; 3. Augustus James Champion, a Captain in the same service; he married May 29, 1817, Caroline, younger daughter of Sir William Smijth, the late Baronet of Hill Hall in Essex, and died Oct. 24, 1825, leaving Sir Claude-William-Champion de Crespigny, born in 1818, who has now succeeded his grandfather in the Baronetcy; and other children; 4. the Rev. Heaton- Champion, Rector of Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, and vicar of Neatishead, Norfolk; he married in 1820 Caroline, youngest daughter of Bishop Bathurst, and has issue; 5. Mary, deceased; 6. Patience-Anne, married in 1814 to the Hon. and rev. Paul-Anthony Irby, brother to the present Lord Boston, and Rector of Cottesbrooke and Whiston, co. Northampton; 7. Frances who died an infant; 8. Mary-Catherine; 9. Emma-Honoria; and 10. Herbert, of Inner Temple.

2 There seems to be some confusion concerning his date of birth which is generally given as 1922 December 12.

Venn states that he was admitted to Magdalene College on May 4 1840 aged 18, putting his birth somewhere between May 1821 and May 1822.

There is a somewhat garbled transcription from Ancestry.com. Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019, based on registers in the Essex records office, which opines –

1822 March 13 – Baptism of Frederick John de Crespigay, son of Augustus Champan and Carobina da Crespigay – born 1821 December 12 – St Michael’s, Theydon Mount, Essex another version gives

1822 March 10 – Baptism of Frederick John Da Crespigny, son of Augustus Champin and Caroline Da Crespigny – Thoydon-Mount, Essex

This certainly relates to a family baptism; Hill Hall, Theydon Mount was the seat of the Smijth family and as Lords of the Manor and they regarded this small parish church as their chapel.

To confound matters he appears to have been re-baptised at St Luke’s, Chelsea on 1826 August 15.

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1826 August 15: Baptism register, St Luke’s, Chelsea Baptism of Fred John De Crespigny, son of Augustus Champion and Caroline De Crespigny, gentleman of W Cowes; born [?Nov] 12 [?1832]. By [?F R Hall/Hale] Fell of St John’s Coll Cambridge.

This register entry is untidy and difficult to read but does cast some doubt on his true age.

3 Rev Paul Irby re-married and had further children. 4 Caroline was a poet and translator, who lived in Heidelburg after leaving Rev. Heaton. This will be why Eyre decided to study at the University there. The article "Caroline de Crespigny Translates Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: Forgotten Romantic Poetess as Translator of Neo-Latin Verse." by Krzysztof Fordoński 2013, adds much more information – http://www.academia.edu/5120526/Caroline_de_Crespigny_Translates_Maciej_Kazimierz_Sarbie wski_Forgotten_Romantic_Poetess_as_Translator_of_Neo-Latin_Verse

While in Heidelburg she was closely associated with the poet Thomas Medwin (1788 – 1869) and is described by Segel, H. B. 2014. Travel Shadows by Justinus Kerner, as “ … a former mistress of Byron.” Thomas Medwin was a cousin of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

5 He appears to have been named after his maternal grandmother’s brother, Sir Eyre Coote (1726 – 1783).

6 Date of death taken from Brittan's obituary in the Journal of Botany.

7 Herbert was the Registrar at Blandford Probate Registry in 1911.

8 Caroline was a poet and translator, who lived in Heidelburg after leaving Rev. Heaton. This will be why Eyre decided to study at the University there. The article "Caroline de Crespigny Translates Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: Forgotten Romantic Poetess as Translator of Neo-Latin Verse." by Krzysztof Fordoński 2013, adds much more information – http://www.academia.edu/5120526/Caroline_de_Crespigny_Translates_Maciej_Kazimierz_Sarbie wski_Forgotten_Romantic_Poetess_as_Translator_of_Neo-Latin_Verse

9 Major Albert Henry Champion de Crespigny is listed as an officer of the Austrian Army in an 1867 directory. There is a portrait of Major Albert Champion de Crespigny (1824 – 1873) by Arthur Kemp Tebby at Kelmarsh Hall, Northants.

10 Claude was the first person to discover oil in Sarawak (1882).

11 In the 1841 Census Augustus (6) is recorded as living with his father in Pirton, Oxfordshire. His mother (and siblings?) were by now living in Heidelberg.

12 In 1881 Emily was a housemaid at the Chandos Club, 15 Langham Place, Augustus was the resident Secretary in charge. She had been born in Caldecot, Monmouth. They emigrated to America soon after.

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