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Julia Monro

Female 1822 - 1908  (86 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Julia Monro was born in 1822 in London; died in Apr 1908 in Witney, Oxfordshire; was buried on 30 Apr 1908 in Filkins, Oxfordshire.

    Julia married Canon William Foxley Norris on 30 Dec 1851 in All Souls, St. Marylebone, London. William was born on 22 Jan 1825 in Chester, Cheshire; died on 24 Feb 1906 in Witney, Oxfordshire; was buried on 1 Mar 1906 in Filkins, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Very Rev Dr William Foxley Norris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Feb 1859 in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire; died on 28 Sep 1937 in Westminster, London; was buried in 1937 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Very Rev Dr William Foxley Norris Descendancy chart to this point (1.Julia1) was born on 4 Feb 1859 in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire; died on 28 Sep 1937 in Westminster, London; was buried in 1937 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 3. Evelyn Foxley Norris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Jan 1890 in Almondbury, Yorkshire; died on 17 Sep 1976 in East Coker, Somerset.
    2. 4. John Percivall Foxley Norris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 May 1886; died on 5 Apr 1924 in Scarborough, Yorkshire.
    3. 5. Arthur William Foxley Norris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Nov 1888; died in Sep 1977 in Radnorshire West, Powys, Wales.
    4. 6. Helen Foxley Norris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Aug 1887; died on 4 Oct 1894 in Witney, Oxfordshire.
    5. 7. Mary Foxley Norris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Apr 1886 in Medway, Kent; died on 16 May 1959 in Braintree, Essex.


Generation: 3

  1. 7.  Mary Foxley Norris Descendancy chart to this point (2.William2, 1.Julia1) was born on 5 Apr 1886 in Medway, Kent; died on 16 May 1959 in Braintree, Essex.

    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.

    Mary married Very Rev. Cecil Henry Rolt on 30 Aug 1910 in St John the Baptist, Calderdale, Halifax, Yorkshire. Cecil was born in 1865 in Limpsfield, Surrey; died on 14 Sep 1926 in Romford, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. John Baynton Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Oct 1913 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died in Jan 2000 in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire.
    2. 9. Charles David Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Jan 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died on 8 Apr 1985 in Exeter, Devon.
    3. 10. Captain Cecil Francis Burney Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Jun 1920 in South Africa; died on 6 Apr 1945 in Germany.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  John Baynton RoltJohn Baynton Rolt Descendancy chart to this point (7.Mary3, 2.William2, 1.Julia1) was born on 24 Oct 1913 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died in Jan 2000 in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 11. Mary Lavinia Constancia Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 12. Antony Baynton Francis Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 13. Peter Matthew Burney Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 14. Henry Mark Jonathan Rolt  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 9.  Charles David Rolt Descendancy chart to this point (7.Mary3, 2.William2, 1.Julia1) was born on 21 Jan 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died on 8 Apr 1985 in Exeter, Devon.

    Charles married Penelope Eve Bradford in Jun 1960 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London. Penelope was born in Mar 1940 in Sevenoaks, Kent; died on 31 Dec 2006 in Kentish Town, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 10.  Captain Cecil Francis Burney Rolt Descendancy chart to this point (7.Mary3, 2.William2, 1.Julia1) was born on 22 Jun 1920 in South Africa; died on 6 Apr 1945 in Germany.

    Notes:

    Killed in action aged 24
    Buried at Becklingen War cemetery Plot 10 Row J Grave 10

    Cecil Francis Burney Rolt was born in South Africa on the 22nd of June 1920 the youngest son of the Very Reverend Cecil Henry Rolt, Dean of Cape Town in South Africa, and Mary (nee Foxley-Norris) Rolt of Terling in Essex.

    He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from September 1933 to July 1937. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1937 and was appointed as a Prefect the same year.
    He went on to Grenoble University.
    He was known by the nickname of Nick

    He attended the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps on the 7th of December 1940.

    The 23rd Hussars landed in Normandy equipped with Sherman tanks but in January 1945 they re-equipped with Comet (95mm gunned) Cromwell tanks.

    According to records they lost two tanks in early April when both were hit in their engine compartments around morning teatime

    He married Hon Lavinia Mary Yolande (nee Lyttleton) on the 15th of February 1945. Following his death she remarried, in 1949, to Major John Edward Dennys MC.

    He is commemorated on the memorial at the Royal Military College Sandhurst.
    Burial place :- Heidekreis, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) Germany.

    Probate : - Llandudno 12 Jan 1945 to Lavinia Mary Yoland Rolt widow.
    Effects £430 4s.

    Cecil married Lavinia Mary Yolande Lyttleton on 15 Feb 1945 in St George Hanover Square, London. Lavinia (daughter of John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham and Violet Yolande Leonard) was born on 21 Aug 1921; died on 4 Jul 2007. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



 

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