Francis Stewart Cokayne

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London

Notes:

4th son. Baptised 7 September 1871 at St. John's, Putney. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, 1884-90; matric. Oxford (Oriel College) Michaelmas 1890; BA 1893.

In Racquets pair for Charterhouse 1889: for Oxford University, Racquets, 1891-92, Royal Tennis, 1892.

Member of the London Stock Exchange from 1899 and partner of David Bevan & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London. Residences, 54 Montagu Sq., London, W, 1909-29, 1 Bryanston Sq. from 1929.

Portraits: Chalk, age 23, by P. Downes 1894; pencil by Francis F. Crawley-Boevey, 1894; chalk by Geoffroi de Chaume 1924; and chalk by the same 1925; all four last in his own possession.

1 son and 3 daughters. Thomas Probyn, born 1920
(d. 1943); Elizabeth,born 1913, m. Peter Duke Doulton and has issue; Anne, born 1916, m. Walter Arbuthnot Prideaux and has issue; Susan, born 1923, who has in her possession a portrait by George Richmond of Mary Dorothea Cokayne.

Francis married Dorothy Emily Probyn on 30 Dec 1909 in Exeter House, Roehampton, Surrey. Dorothy (daughter of Sir Leslie Probyn and Emily Rosalie Davis) was born on 10 Jan 1889 in Fairfield, Acton, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1963 in Surrey South Eastern, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Probyn Cokayne was born on 27 Apr 1920 in Marylebone, London; died on 6 Oct 1943 in Italy; was buried in Bolsena, Provincia di Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
2. Elizabeth Cokayne was born in 12 sep1913 in Marylebone, London; died on 3 Aug 1990 in Kensington and Chelsea, London.
3. Anne Cokayne was born on 2 Aug 1916 in Marylebone, London; died on 19 May 2002 in Horsham, Sussex.
4. Susan Cokayne was born on 14 Sep 1923 in London; died on 15 Dec 2012.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 16 Jan 1850, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Middlesex, England; Law student
• Education: 1852, Oxford, Oxfordshire; MA
• Name Change: 15 Aug 1873; Assumed surname Cokayne
• Occupation: 1894; Clarenceux King of Arms
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wandsworth, London; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

From 1873 he was Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms, 4th son of William Adams and brother of Louisa Anne, Lady Aldenham. Baptised 20 June 1825 at St. George's Bloomsbury. Educated privately. Matric. Oxford (Exeter College) 6 June 1844; BA 1848, MA 1852.

Barrister (Lincoln's Inn) 1853. Entered The College of Arms, 1859; Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, 1859-69; Lancaster Herald, 1870; Norroy King of Arms, 1882; Clarenceux King of Arms, 1894-1911. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1866-1911. By Royal Licence, 1873, took the name Cokayne in lieu of Adams under the testamentary direction of his mother, Louisa Anne Adams of Thorpe.

Member of Nobody's Friends, 1850-84 (secretary 1869-84, hon-member 1884-1911).

Author of The Complete Peerage (8 vols., pub. 1887-98)—see VII, n22; The Complete Baronetage, 1611-1800 (5 vols. published 1900-06) and of other Genealogical Works; also Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601-25, published 1897, and Memoirs of the Members of Nobody's Friends 1st vol. privilege printed 1885, reprinted 1920; 2nd vol. 1902. Residences—sometime, up to 1868-92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington (number since changed); Ashbourne House, Putney, 1868-85; Exeter House, Roehampton, 1885-1911. For his "royal descent" see entry for his mother Louisa Anne Adams; (for his wife's see also entry for George Abraham Gibbs and the Right Hon. Sir Vicary Gibbs). His life is in Dictionary National Biography (vol. I of 2nd supplement).

Buried 9 August 1911 at Putney Vale Cemetery. Will proved 1 September 1911.

Portraits: pastel by Edward Havel (1887?); min. in Herald's (Norroy) uniform, 1890, both last in possession of his son Francis.

Oil 3/4, seated, by C. Kay Robertson (1901); crayon head by E. U. Eddis (1859); water-colour, small, by "Mr. Foster" (c. 1836); oil, ? reproduced from the last; all four last in possession of his son Lord Cullen.

George married Mary Dorothea Gibbs on 2 Dec 1856 in Wraxall, Somerset. Mary (daughter of George Henry Gibbs and Caroline Crawley) was born on 4 May 1833 in Bedford Sq, Bloomsbury, London; died on 11 Mar 1906 in Exeter House, Roehampton, London; was buried on 15 Mar 1906 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jun 1833, England
• Residence: 1881, London; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 67; Relation: Wife

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3rd and youngest daughter of George Henry Gibbs. Baptised 3 June 1833 at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn.

Portraits: oil, 3/4, seated, by C. Kay Robertson 1905; crayon head, E. U. Eddis, 1859; last both in possession of her son Lord Cullen. Small water-colour by Alf. H. Taylor 1843; pastel by Edward Havell 1887; both in possession of her son Francis. Watercolour with her brother Robert by Mrs. Gray, 1847, in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - George Medley in 1980).

Buried 15 March 1906, at Putney Vale Cemetery.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Doctor of Law
• Baptism: 24 Jan 1772, Saint Andrew, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1851, Thorpe, Surrey

William married Mary Anne Cokayne on 6 Apr 1811 in St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone Road, London. Mary (daughter of William Cokayne and Barbara Hill) was born on 11 Dec 1781 in Rushton Hall, Rushton, Northamptonshire; died on 16 Jun 1873 in Thorpe, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Mar 1782, Saint Mary-St., Marylebone Road, St. Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1851, Thorpe, Surrey
• Residence: 1871, Thorpe, Surrey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Partner with his father in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London
• Residence: Bedford Square, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 26 Sep 1785, St Mary Major, Exeter, Devon

Notes:

Trained in his father's business, from the age of 15 he paid 6 visits of 6 to 10 months each to the Peninsula (Portugal and Spain) between 1801 and 1807. Present in Cadiz at the Spanish revolt against the French in June 1808, he reopened his father's house of business there and remained till 1810. Partner with his father in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, (and in the Cadiz branch) from the founding of the firm in Sep. 1808. From 1815 till he died he was head of Antony Gibbs & Sons, who, under him and his brother William, opened branches at Gibraltar 1818, Lima 1822, Arequipa and Guayaquil 1823, Valparaiso 1826 (see the History of the Business in the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs). A director of the London Assurance Corporation 1822-42. A member of the club 'Nobody's Friends' 1832-42 and of the 'City of London Club' 1840-2. A member of the London Committee which (1832-5), with the Bristol Committee, promoted the Great Western Railway, and an original Director of that Company 1835-42. Between 1819 and 1840 he and his brother William voluntarily completed the payment of those of their father's and grandfather's debts which were still outstanding from their bankruptcy in 1789.

A few months before he died in 1842 he succeeded to most of the properties (for particulars see the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs) which his cousins Sarah (died April 1842) and Anne Noyes (died Dec. 1841) had inherited in 1814 from their uncle Robert Hucks of Aldenham, Herts (his mother's 2nd cousin): namely as heir at law to Sarah he received Aldenham House and other estates in Herts, and Middlesex; and under Anne's will, on Sarah's death, estates in Oxon and Berks, and in Lambeth, Surrey. With these properties he became lord of the manors of North Moreton, Berks (sold by his son Henry), Burston, Herts. (sold by his grandson, Alban), and Clifton Hampden, Oxon; and patron and lay rector of the last named. His residence was 2 Powis Place 1817-21, 11 Bedford Square 1821-42 (both in the Borough of Holborn). For note of portraits and sculptures of him see the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 435 and the Additions of 1927, to which add that a replica or copy of the portrait by Edmund Gill was in possession of Lord Cullen in 1932, who also had a miniature by Miss Ross (1860) (? founded on a portrait by Gill of 1843); and that a portrait in oils belonged to A. Gibbs and Sons (in 1932) after the min by Ross in Lord Aldenham's possession.

George married Caroline Crawley on 7 Jul 1817 in Stowe-nine-Churches, Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire. Caroline (daughter of Rev. Charles Crawley and Mary Gibbs) was born on 25 Apr 1794 in Clyst St George, Devon; died on 13 Feb 1850 in Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 21 Feb 1850 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Caroline sold the lease of 11 Bedford Square in 1849 and resided at Aldenham House 1846-50. In 1843-6 she built at Clifton Hampden, where her brother in law Joseph Gibbs was Perpetual Curate, a new parsonage to take the place of the old one which Anne Noyes gave in 1832. By a re-exchange in 1905 the former is now the Manor House and the latter has since been demolised.

She also completely restored the church of St. Michael of All Angels there, mainly with money set aside by her husband when he inherited the property, but with contributions added by herself, and her son Henry. G Gilbert Scott was her architect in both cases. The Living was augmented under her Will. See article on Clifton Hampden in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs pp. 447-50. For her 'Royal Descent' see entry for her father, Rev. Charles Crawley.

For note of portraits of her see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p. 435, to which add that a copy was in possession of Lord Cullen (in 1932) of Sir William Ross's miniature, done by Ross's daughter under her father's supervision. Caroline was buried at Clifton Hampden. Monumental Inscription in church and church yard there and in Aldenham church. Her Will was printed on 16 July 1950 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London.

Died:
Belmont

Patience married Martha Marsh on 18 Aug 1761 in St Dunstan in the West, London. Martha (daughter of Thomas Marsh and Martha) was born on 5 Jun 1741; died on 19 Feb 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 May 1756

William married Barbara Hill on 11 Oct 1777 in Rothwell Manor, Rothwell, Northamptonshire. Barbara (daughter of George Hill and Anne Barbara Medlycott) was born in 1753 in Rothwell Manor, Northamptonshire; died on 2 Jun 1838 in Northampton, Northamptonshire; was buried in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Educated at Exeter Grammar School
• Memorial: Hayes, Middlesex; Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes
• Occupation: Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London
• Residence: 14 Dec 1773, Exeter, Devon
• Will: 16 Mar 1816; Will proved in C.P.C.

Notes:

After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.

Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.

In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.

He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.

After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.



For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons

Antony married Dorothea Barnetta Hucks on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Dorothea (daughter of William Hucks and Eleanor Barnett) was born in Dec 1760 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 24 Feb 1820 in Redland, Gloucestershire; was buried on 10 Mar 1820 in St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Saint George Martin, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1761, Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Notes:

For the full history of her life, see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (also for history and portraits of the Hucks family, from whom her son, George Henry Gibbs, derived his properties, and for references to pedigrees (which contain also references to their wills). The Hucks family became extinct in the male line at the death of her brother John in 1836. She was a beneficiary under the will of Henry Townley Ward (d. 1816) the husband of her elder sister Eleanor (d.1800). As a widow her home was with her daughter Harriett at Redland 1816-17, with her son George Henry at 2 Powis Place in London 1817-19, and again with Harriett July 1819, till her death. For note of portraits, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 434. For her descent from King Henry III see Ellacombe's 'Clyst St. George'(1864), and Burke's 'Royal Descents' (1858).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Stowe Nine Churches; Rector of Stowe Nine Churches
• Occupation: Broadway, Worcestershire; Vicar of Broadway, Worcestershire

Notes:

His mother Susanna was sister of Rev. John Lloyd, D.D. (d. 1788), rector and patron of Stowe-nine-churches, Northants. His elder brother was Sir Thomas Brawley-Boevey of Flaxley Abbey (successor as 2nd bart. to the baronetcy of Sir Charles Barrow of Highgrove, Gloucestershire, and grandfather of Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, the wife of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Their sisters were Catherine (1753-1842), the wife of Rev. Duke Yonge (1750-1823), vicar of Cornwood, Devon, who has descendants; and Susanna (b. 1748, died childless 1880), who married (1) Edmund Bastard, (2) Sir Thomas Hyde Page, whose daughter by a second marriage, Mary Albinia, was mother of Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey above mentioned.

Charles Crawley and Mary (Gibbs), their children and numerous members of the Crawley and Crawley-Boevey families and of families connnected with them enter into 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs or are mentioned in it. There are also there pedigrees (pp 445-6) and references (e.g. pp. 35n and 445-6) to other books, pedigrees, etc., the most ont he Boevey family and their connections entitled 'The Perverse Widow', Ruvigny's 'Plantaganet Roll (Clarence, Vol. 1905) and Burke's Peerage. In 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs, pp. 439-43, and in the Additions of 1922 and 1927, there is also a list of portraits of members (born before 1820) of the Crawley and connected families.

Charles Crawley was curate, first of Broad Clyst nr. Clyst St. George, next till 1789 - of Whitestone, nr. Exwick. In 1789, inheriting from his uncle Dr. Lloyd aforesaid the living of Stowe-nine-churches, he moved there from Devon, and lived there for the rest of his life. From 1784 for at least 50 years he was also vicar of Broadway, co. Worcester, but never resided there. He bought Pytte in Clyst St. George (1790) when his father-in-law was compelled to give it up but sold it out of the family in 1796 or 7.

For his and Sir Thomas's and their sisters' descent from King Edward III, see Ruvigny's 'Clarence' Vol. above mentioned, Burke's 'Royal Descents' (1858) and Ellacombe's Clyst St. George (1862).

The children of Charles Crawley and Mary (Gibbs) were:
(a) Charles (1st son), born at Whitestone, Devon, 25 September, 1788; educated at Rugby School (entered 1797); matric Oxford (Univ. College) 26 June 1807; 2nd Cl. Classics School and B.A. 1811; married 14 May 1825 Eliza Catherine, daughter of Abraham Grimes (for which family see the book Antony & Dorothea Gibbs by J.A. Gibbs, p. 377 n6); died 30 September 1871 at his house (now called Lawn Upton and (1931) in the ownership of Lord Wraxall of Chart XVIII) in Littlemore, Oxon, and was buried at Littlemore. He was in Antony Gibbs & Sons 1814-46, and a partner 1820-38 (in Spain for them 1818-19, in Chile and Peru for them 1828-33). A director of the London Assurance Corporation, 1842-65. A member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends' 1813-71. Alternate patron with Oriel College, Oxford, of the living of Littlemore, to the church of which (built in 1835 by his friend, Rev. John H. Newman-Cardinal later) he gave the chancel. For note of portraits of him and his wife, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.441. The eldest child of his only child, Charles Edward, was William Scott Crawley of Charlbury, Oxon. (b. 1858).
(b) George Abraham Crawley (2nd son), born at Stowe aforesaid 26 September 1795; educated at Rugby School (entered 1808); married 29 September 1826 Caroline, daughter of David Powell (for whose family see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p. 377, n6); died at Ambleside 24th and was buried 31 July 1862 in Highgate Cemetry. He was articled in 1812 to Jones & Green, solicitors in London, admitted solicitor 1817, afterwards partner in Pemberton Crawley & Gardener, London, later Crawley Arnold & Co. Marshal to Chief Justice Sir Vicary Gibbs 1815. Many years legal adviser to teh National Society and Treasurer to the Additional Curates Fund. Member 1819-62, Secretary 1833-62, of 'Nobody's Friends'. A spcial memoir of him by G.E.Cokayne is in the book, 'Nobody's Friends' (privileged printed 1885). His home from 1839 onwards was Fitzroy Farm, Highgate, which he built. By his two married sons and four married daughters he has numerous descendants, and one of his grandsons, Canon A. Stafford Crawley, married Anstice Katharine, grand-daughter of William and Matilda Blanche Gibbs, above mentioned.
(c) Anne Crawley (1st daughter), born 4 August 1785 at Whitestone; married 21 April 1806, her 1st cousin, Rev. John Lloyed Crawley (Boevey), born 1775, died 1850, record of Heyford, Northants, 2nd son of Sir T. Crawley-Boevey; died 2 January 1865 and was buried at Heyford. She had eight sons and three daughters and numerous descendants of hers are still living.
(d) Mary Crawley (2nd daughter), born at Whitestone 25 October 1786; died at Rugby unmarried on 16 April 1865, and was buried at Stowe aforesaid.
(e) Susanna Crawley (3rd daughter), born at Exeter 28 April 1790; died at Rugby unmarried on 14 April 1865, and was buried at Stowe.
(f) Elizabeth (4th daughter), born at Stowe 29 July 1791; died 3 January 1884; married 24 September 1811 Rev. George William Daubeny (1784-1860), for whose family see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, pp. 254 and n, and 446, and Burke's 'Landed Gentry' under Daubeny of Cote. She had six sons and three daughters, and numerous descendants of hers are living.
(g) Isabella (5th daughter), born at Bristol 23 October 1792; died young.
(h) Caroline (6th daughter), 1794-1850, married her 1st cousin, George Henry Gibbs, brother of William Gibbs, mentioned at the beginning of this note.
(i) Charlotte (7th daughter), born at Stowe 25 February 1799; married 7 October 1822 her 1st cousin, Rev. William Crawley (1790-1856) (5th son of Sir T. Crawley-Boevey, 2nd baronet), perpetual curate of Flaxley; died 14 December 1878. She had one son and three daughters and numerous descendants of hers are living.

Charles married Mary Gibbs on 12 Apr 1784 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon. Mary (daughter of George Abraham Gibbs, of Pytte and Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell) was born on 2 Jan 1759 in Exeter, Devon; died on 31 Oct 1819 in Stowe-nine-Churches, Northamptonshire; was buried on 8 Nov 1819 in Stowe, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

For a note of portraits see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs, p. 441 and Additions to it of 1922.