Peter Matthew Burney Rolt

Peter married Jill Potterton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Patrick Elliott Rolt was born in 2006.
2. Matthew George Rolt was born in 2008.

Notes:

Registered in Huddersfield V 9a. Page 499. (FBMD)

Immigration & Travel.
14 July 1924. Arrival at Southampton, "SS Windsor Castle" from South Africa.
With parents and brothers.

John married Ann Rachel Benita Fortescue-Brickdale on 14 Jul 1951 in Westminster, London. Ann (daughter of Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale, Knt. OBE and Cicely Muriel Bankes) was born on 19 Apr 1930 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire; died on 28 June, 2022. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Immigration & Travel.
29 June 1940 - Listed as a passenger on the "Athlone Castle" sailing from Durban, S. Africa to Southampton.

Notes:

Married:
Chapel of King Henry VII, Westminister Abbey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Jul 1865, Limpsfield, Surrey

Notes:

1911 CENSUS - Living at "The Vicarage" , Huddersfield. Occ. Vicar of Huddersfield.
1917 - 24 Dean of Cape Town, South Africa.
Visited Canada in 1924, departing Montreal on "Windsor Castle", arriving Southampton 17 July 1924.



Cecil Henry Rolt, MA (Oxon) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family in 1865 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1888, he held curacies at St Thomas’s Sunderland, Christ Church West Hartlepool, St Hilda’s South Shields and St Cuthbert’s Bensham before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Darlington. He later held further incumbencies in Batley and Huddersfield before his appointment as Dean of Cape Town. He died on 14 September 1926

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rolt

Cecil married Mary Foxley Norris on 30 Aug 1910 in St John the Baptist, Calderdale, Halifax, Yorkshire. Mary (daughter of Very Rev Dr William Foxley Norris and Mary Blanche Pott) was born on 5 Apr 1886 in Medway, Kent; died on 16 May 1959 in Braintree, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 May 1885, St Mary, Catham, Kent

Notes:

Father Very Rev. William Foxley - Norris, Dean of Westminister, until 1936 & previously Dean of York.
Buried in Westminster Abbey.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Baptism: 20 Dec 1890, All Saints with St Margaret, Upper Norwood, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 20; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 29 Jun 1940, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 49

Notes:

1891 CENSUS - Living with parents @@ 12 Gatestone Road, Upper Norwood, Croydon.
1901 CENSUS - @@ private school, "Parkside", Kingston Rd. Ewell, Surrey.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington, London. with parents Sir Charles and Mabel and Laura and Edmund.
Died at 2 Gonville House, Manor Fields, London SW15 on 22 Oct 1969.

Probate read, 30 April 1970 London. Left £21714.

Immigration & Travel.
20 June 1919 - Listed as a passenger on "Cap Polonio", sailing from Plymouth to Mauritius.
29 June 1940 - Listed as a passenger on the "Athlone Castle" sailing from Durban, S. Africa to Southampton.

Birth:
12 Gatestone Road

Matthew married Cicely Muriel Bankes on 21 May 1921 in Vacoas, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius. Cicely (daughter of Jerome Nugent Bankes and Muriel Frances Wingfield-Digby) was born on 9 Oct 1890 in Westminster, London; died on 14 Apr 1983 in Sutton Veney, Warminster, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 6/12; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Charminster, Dorset; Age: 20; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Great Niece
• Baptism: 8 Nov 1980, Pimlico, London

Notes:

Daughter of Jerome Nugent Bankes, banker (for whose lineage see 'Bankes of Corfe Castle' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' 1846 and 1925 editions), by Muriel Frances, daughter of Richard Henry Wingfield-Digby. Baptised 8 November 1890 at St. Saviour's, Pimlico.

In the Great War she was employed in decoding, first by the Canadian and American Dept. of the Ministry of Munitions; next by the "Women's Royal Naval Service", at first at Holyhead Station, afterwards at Admiralty Headquarters. After the War and till marriage employed in the Admiralty Hydrographic Dept.


Baptised 8 November 1890 at St. Saviour's, Pimlico.
In the Great War she was employed in decoding, first by the Canadian and American Dept. of the Ministry of Munitions; next by the "Women's Royal Naval Service", first at Holyhead Station, afterwards at Admiralty Headquarters. After the War and untill married employed in the Admiralty Hydrographic Dept.

1891 CENSUS - Living with parents at 85 Belgrave Rd. London.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 10, Visiting at Newlands House, Mr Charles T. Palmer and Frances.
Also, Beatrix Digby, aged 32, step daughter.
1911 CENSUS - Aged 20, Visiting at Wolfeton House, Dorchester, Dorset, Mr Wynne Albert Bankes.

Immigration & Tavel.
18 Feb 1921 - Dep. Southampton for Natal, S. Africa. (probably going to Mauritius to get married.)
24 May 1928 - Arr. London from Mauritius, aboard SS Gascon. With children, Antony 5, Eleanor 4, & Barbara 2.
29 June 1940 - Listed as a passenger on the "Athlone Castle" sailing from Durban, S.Africa to Southampton.
Buried at Pine Lawns Cemetery, Warminster, Wiltshire.

Probate read, 17 Nov 1983 in London. Left £4893.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Almondbury, Yorkshire; Age: 42; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Halifax, Yorkshire; Age: 52; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Son of Canon William Foxley Norris, vicar of Witney, Oxon, by Julia, daughter of Henry Thomas Monro, MD. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, 1873-7, matric. at Oxford (Trinity College) 12 October 1877, 3rd class theology and BA 1881, MA 1884, DD 1917, Student at Leeds Clergy School, 1881. Buried in Westminster Abbey.

Deacon 1882; Priest 1883; Curate of Eton, Bucks., 1882-5; Curate of St. Mary, Chatham, 1885-7; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxon., 1887-8; Vicar of Almondbury, Yorks., 1888-91; Rector of Barnsley, Yorks., 1901-9; Canon resident of Wakefield 1909-17; Archdeacon of Halifax 1906-17; Dean of York 1917-25; Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation of York 1919.

Dean of Westminster from 1925; Vice-chairman 1922-5, Chairman 1925-9, of the House of Clergy of The National Assembly. Provost of the Northern Division of the "Woodard" schools from 1906. F.S.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A.,Hon. Chaplain to the Royal Academy from 1925. Dean of the Order of the Bath from 1926. Chaplain to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem from 1921. A chaplain in the Territorial Army. An Ecclesiastical Commissioner.

A member of Nobody's Friends from 1916 and of the Athenaeum Club, London.

Portrait by his son Arthur.



Dean of Westminster from 1925 until his death in 1937. An exceptionally talented artist he wrote widely on Church treasures whilst Dean of Westminster.
A much respected cleric he died on 28 September 1937 and his ashes buried in the nave in Westminster Abbey.

Also, was a Trustee of Speke Hall, Liverpool: later passing to the National Trust.

(Rolt family allowed weddings in Henry VII Chapel.)

For more informations see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foxley_Norris

William married Mary Blanche Pott on 17 Apr 1884 in Sonning, Berkshire. Mary (daughter of Ven. Archdeacon Alfred Percivall Pott and Emily Harriett Gibbs) was born on 31 Dec 1858 in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire; died on 15 Aug 1940 in Trent, Dorset; was buried in Aug 1940 in Trent, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Jan 1859, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised at Cuddesdon, Oxon 23 January 1859. Buried at Trent, Dorset.

2 sons and 2 daughters.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 54; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale, Conveyancing Counsel to the Court of Chancery of Lincoln's Inn, and of Newland (for pedigrees see Note), by Sarah Anna, daughter of Edward John Lloyd, QC, judge of the Bristol County Court. Baptised 12 April 1857 at St. Leonards-on-Sea. Educated at Westminster school (in College) 1870-5; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 20 May 1875, 2nd class Classics and BA 1879.

Barrister (Lincoln's Inn), called 1883. Advocated Registration of Title of Land, 1886; Assisting barrister, Land Registry, 1888; Asstistant Registrar, 1894; Chief Registrar, 1900-23. Carried out, under successive Lord Chancellors, the effective first establishment of compulsory registration of title in the County of London. See fully in his evidence before Royal Commission of 1908-10 on the Land Transfer Acts. On Departmental committee on Ordnance Survey, 1893. Reported to Government on Registration of Title in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1896. On Royal Commission on Registration of Title in Scotland, 1907. Chairman of Departmental committee on Stewards' Fees, 1925. Retired from public service, 1923. Author of several works on Land Titles, Transfer and Registry (for a list of these and for other information see Who's Who of 1930 and earlier). Editor of Sir Henry Hallam Parr's Recollections (1917). Justice of the Peace co. Glos., from 1923. A Verderer of the Forest of Dean from 1929. Sometime Member of the Reform Club, London.

For pedigrees see Brickdale of Birchamp House, co. Glos., and Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh, Devon, in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', 1848; Burke's Royal Descents 1848; and Lord Clermont's History of Fortescue Family 1869.

Two oil portraits of Sir Charles by his sister Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (one at the Land Registry, one in possession of the family); another by Ralph Peacock in possessionof Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.

He was knighted in 1911



1861 CENSUS - Living @@ 18 Endsleigh St. St Pancras. London, with parents, aged 4. Also sister Kate.
1871 CENSUS - At school, 1 Little Deans Yard, St. Margarets, Westminister. Aged 14.
1881 CENSUS - Living at Birchamp Villa, Norwood, Croydon, with family, aged 24, occ. Student of Law.
1891 CENSUS - Living in (12 Gatestone ??), Upper Norwood. Aged 34, occ. Barrister.
1901 CENSUS - Living in 40 Clanricarde Gdns. Kensington, London. Aged 44, occ. Barrister,
Registrar of Land Registry.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 54, occ. Barrister, Registrar of Land Registry. Family listed,wife Mabel, aged 46; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St.Albans, Herts. on 29 Sept 1944.

Probate read on 29 January 1945 at Llandudno to Matthew F-B OBE company director.
Effects £3909 9s 1d.
{ Watercolour painting, entitled "From the Meadow Building, Christchurch, Oxford. 1876" by C.F.Brickdale. } #
# At 10 Shady Grove, Hilton,Derby.

Charles married Lady Mabel Beatrice Gibbs on 5 Sep 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Mabel (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 27 Sep 1864 in Paddington, London; died on 11 Mar 1944 in 10 Sheen Gate Gardens, East Sheen, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Paddington, London; St John's
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 6; Relationship: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Photo of Mabel at Cevedon Court with the Elton family, see marriage scrapbook of Sir Edmund Harry Elton.
Photo of Mabel with Sir Charles & Laura with Gibbs family, see marriage scrapbook of George Louis M. Gibbs.

1891 CENSUS - Aged 26. Living with Charles, and children Laura, aged 1, and Matthew aged 1 month.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 36. Living with husband and family.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 46. Family listed, husband Charles, aged 54; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at 10 Sheen Gate-gardens, East Sheen, Surrey on 11 March 1944.

Probate read 24 August 1944 at Llandudno "the said Sir Charles F-B knight and Matthew F-B OBE company director . Effects £2668 8s 4d."

Birth:
14 Devonshire Terrace

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 25; Relation to Head of House: Head

Jerome married Muriel Frances Wingfield-Digby. Muriel (daughter of Richard Henry Wingfield-Digby) was born about 1866 in Weymouth, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 25; Relation to Head of House: Wife