natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 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: Press items reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) About Natstand family documents: A Natstand family document is intended to provide background information concerning the family of a deceased naturalist. It is hoped that such information will form a framework which will help interpret their surviving correspondence, specimens and records. In some cases it will also give an insight into the influences on their early lives and the family constraints within which they worked and collected. We have found that published family data concerning individuals rarely contain justification for dates and relationships and not infrequently contain errors which are then perpetuated. 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The most important source of this material is the International Genealogical Index compiled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah. National Civil Registration Indexes are considered reliable, as are probate records. 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) - 3 of 16 - natstand: last updated 24/09/2021 Sources: 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.