Crowe family tree

This family tree shows Eyre Crowe's ancestors, and the children and grandchildren of his siblings. More recent branches of the family are listed on the Coke-Smyth family website, http://www.coke-smyth.com

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Richard Robert Crowe (c.1650-1713), of Dowhill, co. Limerick, Ireland. Married Elizabeth. Son:

Revd William Crowe, Dean of Clonfert, Ireland (c.1693-1766) m Emilia Eyre Evans (b c.1695), daughter of the Rt Hon George Evans, barrister, of Bulgaden Hall, co. Limerick (c.1650-1720) and his wife Mary Eyre, daughter of the Rt Hon John Eyre of Eyre Court, co. Galway, Ireland. Sons:

• Revd William Crowe, Archdeacon of Clonfert (b c.1727)
• Richard Robert Crowe (1728-1821), army officer. Fought in America. Died in King's County, Nova Scotia.
• George Evans Crowe
• Captain Eyre Evans Crowe (d 1804), army officer. Fought with the 84th Regiment of Foot in India with his cousin Sir Eyre Coote, and later in America. Retired to Sindlesham, Berkshire. Children:
• Anne Crowe (d 1840)
• Elizabeth Crowe
• Mary Crowe (c.1782-5 May 1842)
• Captain David Crowe (d c.1809), army officer. Of the 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) and the 30th Regiment of Foot (Cambridgeshire Regiment). Married Amy Hayman of Walmer, Kent, in 1797 (d February 1800). One son:

EYRE EVANS CROWE (1799-1868). Born Redbridge, Hampshire, 25 March 1799. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Married (1) at St Peter's, Dublin, 20 October 1823, Margaret Archer (c.1803-1853), only daughter of Captain Joseph Archer of Kiltimon, co. Wicklow (d 1835) and Hester Bury (c.1774-1856). Margaret aged 48 in 1851 census, died in Paris on 22 October 1853.

Eyre Evans Crowe married (2), at St John's Church, Waterloo, London, on 1 November 1854, Frances Jane Milne, daughter of John Milne, Captain in the Army.
Eyre Evans Crowe died in London, 25 February 1868. Buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

Image: Eyre Evans Crowe's grave, Kensal Green Cemetery, 2002

Children of his first marriage:

1. Eyre Crowe (1824-1910). Born Chelsea, Middlesex, 3 October 1824. Baptised at St Luke's parish church, Chelsea, 10 November 1824. Elected A.R.A. 1876. Died at 88 Hallam Street, Marylebone, London, 12 December 1910. Buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

Image: Eyre Crowe in 1891. Published in Ralph W. Robinson, 'Members and Associates of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1891, photographed in their studios' (1892).

2. (Sir) Joseph Archer Crowe (1825-1896). Born Chelsea. Baptised at St Luke's parish church, Chelsea, 16 November 1825. Married Asta von Barby (c.1841-1908), daughter of Baron Gustav von Barby and Eveline von Ribbentrop, in Gotha, Germany, 11 April 1861. A.C.B. 14 March 1885; K.C.M.G. 21 May 1890. Died at his brother-in-law's baroque mansion, ‘das untere Schloss’, in the village of Gamburg-an-der-Tauber, near Würzburg, in present day Baden-Württemberg in Germany, 6 September 1896. Memorial stone at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Probate of will granted at London to Dame Asta Crowe, widow, 15 December 1896. Asta living in Chelsea in 1901 census (aged 60), death registered in the March quarter of 1908.

Image: Joseph Archer Crowe, by L. Kolitz (1877). National Portrait Gallery

Children:

• Evan Barby Crowe (1862-1941). Born Germany, 1862. Married Ellen Robie. Ellen born in Finland, c.1872 (aged 29 in 1901 census). Evan and Ellen living in Kensington, London, in 1901 census. Evan died at Radway, Warwickshire, 19 July 1941. Children:
  • Harold Crowe (1895-1915). Born Streatham, Surrey. Aged 6 in 1901 census.
  • Oliver Crowe (b 1898). Born in South Hampstead, Middlesex. Aged 2 in 1901 census. Married (1) Daphne, (2) Mary Lowe. Had issue.
• (Colonel) Percy Barby Crowe (1863-1933). Born Germany, 1863. Married Annie Allen. Not found in 1901 census. Died 12 December 1933. Buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Children:
  • (Lieutenant) Hugh Barby Crowe (1894-1915). Served in the Royal Fusiliers. Died at sea on H.M.S. Pythey, 25 October 1915. Headstone at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
  • Doreen Mary Crowe (1897-1962). Married Ronald Aldred-Brown. Had issue.
• (Sir) Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe (1864-1925). Born Leipzig, Germany, 30 July 1864. At the Foreign Office, Westminster, aged 26, in 1891 census. Living at Chelsea, London, in 1901 census, aged 36. Married Clema Gerhardt (d 1953), daughter of Professor Dr Gerhardt and Wanda von Barby, and widow of Eberhardt von Bonin, 1903. K.C.M.G. 1911. Lived in Chelsea, died on holiday at Swanage, Dorset, 28 Apr 1925. Probate of will granted at London to Percy Barby Crowe, 12 June 1925. Children:
  • Asta Eyre Crowe (1904-1953)
  • Eric Eyre Crowe (b 1905). Married Virginia. Had issue.
  • Una Eyre Crowe (1906-1926)
  • Sybil Eyre Crowe (1908-1993)
• Mildred Piccola Margaret Crowe (1867-). Born Germany, 1867. Visting the Holland family in Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1891 census. Marriage to Thomas Mulvany (1839-1907), consul general in Düsseldorf, registered in Kingston, Surrey, June quarter of 1891. Not found in 1901 census (living in Germany). Thomas died 16 August 1907, at Düsseldorf. Mildred alive in 1925.
• Victoria Crowe (1868-1929). Born Germany, 1868. Married Professor Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1853-1937). Living in Chorlton-cum-Medlock, Manchester, in 1891 census (age given as 28). Living in Chelsea in 1901 census (age given as 35). Died 1929.

Image: Victoria Spenser Wilkinson, by Eyre Crowe A.R.A. (1905)

Children:

• (Lieutenant) Eyre Spenser Wilkinson (1889-1915). Born in Manchester, Lancashire. Aged 10 in 1901 census, at school at Westgate on Sea, Kent. Married Bessie Watson. Had issue.
• Eveline Spenser Wilkinson (1891-1976). Born in Manchester, Lancashire. Aged 9 in 1901 census. Married Professor Francis Clarke. Had issue.
• Mildred Roberts Spenser Wilkinson (1893-1968). Born in Manchester, Lancashire. Aged 8 in 1901 census.
• Helen Mary Spenser Wilkinson (1894-1976). Born in Streatham, Surrey. Aged 6 in 1901 census. Married (1) Harold Child, d 1945, (2) John Blunt, d 1980. Had issue
• Victoria Adele Spenser Wilkinson (1895-1994). Born in Streatham, Surrey. Aged 5 in 1901 census
• (Sir) Thomas Crowe Spenser Wilkinson (1899-1982). Born in Chelsea. Aged 1 in 1901 census. Married Betty Horner (d 1980). Had issue.

• Vera Crowe. Married Admiral Rudolf Siegel in Düsseldorf, 5 December 1893. Not found in 1901 census (living in Germany). Alive in 1925.
• Anka Crowe. Died aged 8 months.

3. Eugenie Maria Crowe (1827-1899). Born La Capelle near Boulogne, France, 20 April 1827. Married Robert William Wynne, M.D. (1822-1869), of Llanddulas, Denbighshire, at Hampstead parish church, Middlesex, on 30 October 1850. Robert born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, 20 September 1822, and died at Llanddulas, 4 January 1869. Eugenie living at 11 Hampstead Hill Gardens, Hampstead, in 1871, and at Little Warley Lodge near Brentwood, Essex, in 1881. Not found in 1891 census. Died at Boulevard Victor Hugo, Nice, France, 18 January 1899. Buried in Nice.

Image: Eugenie Wynne, by J. Dalou, 1875 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Children:

• Eugenie Maria Wynne (1851-1939). Birth registered St Asaph, December quarter 1851. Living at Little Warley Lodge, aged 29, in 1881 census. Not found in 1891 or 1901 censuses. Living in Churt, Surrey, in 1920s. Died at Inglenook, Churt, 12 October 1939.
• Amy Mary Anne Wynne (1853-1932). Birth registered St Asaph, March quarter 1853. Living in Hampstead, 1871. Married Revd Thomas Constable, 1878. Thomas was curate of Navestock, Essex, 1874-76; curate of Shenfield, Essex, 1876-77; curate of Boxley, Kent, 1877-81; and vicar of High Hurstwood, Sussex, from 1881. Amy not found in 1891 or 1901 censuses. Widowed and living in Churt, Surrey, in 1920s. Death registered in Farnham, March quarter 1932. Children:
  • Hester Amy Constable (1880-1887). Birth registered December quarter 1880; death, aged 6, registered at Uckfield, June quarter 1887.
  • Archibald Thomas Wynne Constable (1882-1915). Born Brighton, Sussex, 1 January 1882. 2nd Lieutenant Infantry Militia, living in Essex, in 1901 census, aged 18. Died 16 October 1915.
• Blanche Maria Wynne (1854-1918). Born 19 August 1854, birth registered St Asaph, September quarter 1854. Living in Hampstead, 1871. Living at Little Warley Lodge, aged 26, in 1881 census. Married Henry George Lefroy, 1881. Henry born c.1847, Canada, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Family living in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, in 1891. Living in Edgbaston by 1898. Blanche (aged 46) and Henry (aged 54) living in Brentwood, Essex, in 1901 census, and in Farnham, Surrey in the 1910s. Death, aged 63, registered in Farnham, 1918. Children:
  • Aline Dundas Lefroy (1884-). Born Eastbourne, Sussex, 20 August 1884. Living in Westbury-on-Trym in 1891, and in Brentwood, Essex, in 1901, aged 16. Married Piers Edgecumbe.
  • Marjory Emily Lefroy (c.1886-). Born Kensington, London, c.1886. Living in Westbury-on-Trym in 1891, and in Brentwood, Essex, in 1901, aged 15. Married Jack Knyvett. Had issue.
• Frances Margaret Wynne (1855-1909). Birth registered St Asaph, December quarter 1855. Living in Hampstead, 1871, and at Little Warley Lodge, aged 25, in 1881 census. Not found in 1891 or 1901 censuses. Died 12 December 1909 in Germany.
• Robert William Wynne (1857-1933). Born Llanddulas, 11 June 1857. Living at Garthewin, Llanfairtalhairn, Denbighshire, in 1901 census (aged 48). Died 1933. Buried in Llanddulas churchyard.

Image: Garthewin, Denbighshire, 1994

• Richard Wynne (1858-1932). Born Llanddulas, 25 May 1858. Living at Little Warley Lodge, aged 22, in 1881 census. Farmer in Oxstead, Surrey, in mid-1890s. Living at Headley, Hampshire, in 1901 census (aged 42). Married Frances Anna Macrory (1878-1962), 14 April 1903. Richard died 29 December 1932, buried in Llanddulas churchyard. Son:
• Robert Oliver Francis Wynne (1907-1993), of Garthewin, Llanfairtalhairn, Denbighshire. Born 25 September 1907. Married Nina More O'Ferrall, 1938. Died 5 March 1993. Had issue.

4. Edward Crowe (1829-1873). Born France, 1829. Married Elizabeth (Bettina) Elliot Marconi (c.1829-1904) at the British Consulate General Chaplaincy, Warsaw, Poland, 28 April 1860. Elizabeth born in Poland (British subject), c.1829. Family moved to Redcar area, 1863. Living in Kirkleatham near Redcar in 1871 census, Edward described as a civil engineer. Edward died Marton, Middlesbrough, 20 December 1873. Probate of will granted at York to Elizabeth Crowe, widow, 14 January 1874. Elizabeth living in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1891 and 1901 censuses. Death registered, aged 76, in Middlesbrough, March quarter of 1904. Children:

• Edward Crowe (1861-1924). Baptised at the British Consulate General Chaplaincy, Warsaw, 26 May 1861. Living in Kirkleatham near Redcar in 1871 census. Living in Marton, Middlesbrough, in 1881 census. Married his relative Eyrielle Frances Crowe (b 1869), c.1890. Living in Coatham near Redcar, in 1891 census, aged 30 (civil engineer). Living at Dore, Derbyshire, in 1901 census, aged 40 (electrical engineer), with wife Eyrielle, aged 30, and children. Living at Eaglescliffe, county Durham, in 1911. Married Mrs Emily Barnley as his second wife, marriage registered at Guisborough, Yorkshire, March quarter 1917. Died at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, 26 May 1924. Probate of will granted at London to George William Wynne Barnley, solicitor, 23 August 1926. Children:
  • Eyrielle Edith Crowe (1891-). Aged 3 weeks in 1891 census, born Coatham, Redcar. Aged 10 in 1901 census, in Dore, Derbyshire. Married Frank Foster at St Peter's Church, Redcar, Yorkshire, on 28 February 1916.
  • Cyril Marconi Crowe (1894-1974). Born at Oakengates, Shropshire. Birth registered at Wellington, Shropshire, March quarter 1894. Aged 7 in 1901 census. Married Elena Temperly. World War I fighter pilot. Died 1974. Had issue.
• Eyre Crowe (1862-). Born Poland, 1862. Living in Kirkleatham near Redcar in 1871 census. Living in Marton, Middlesbrough, in 1881 census. Living in Neithrop near Banbury, age 28, in 1891 census. Marriage with Beatrice Stockton registered in Banbury, June quarter 1896. Living at Neithrop in 1901 census, aged 38. Beatrice aged 36 in 1901 census, born Banbury, Oxfordshire. Box and cabinet file manufacturer in Banbury. Living at Berkhamsted in 1911, and Felbridge, East Grinstead, Sussex, in 1917. Children:
  • Beatrice Evelyn (1897-). Born Warkworth, Northamptonshire, birth registered Banbury, December quarter 1897. Aged 3 in 1901 census.
  • Henry Crowe (1899-1966). Born Banbury. Aged 1 in 1901 census. Married Sybil. Had issue.
  • Sylvia Crowe, D.B.E. (1901-1997)
• Henry Crowe (1863-). Born Poland, 1863. Living in Middlesbrough in 1871 census. Married Edith Graham. Living in Seaton Carew, co. Durham, in 1901 census (chief engineer at steel works). Edith born Darlington, Yorkshire, c.1870 (aged 31 in 1901 census). Living at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, in 1911. Children:
  • Edith Crowe (b 1893). Also known as Kitty. Aged 8 in 1901 census.
  • Elsie Crowe (1895-1990). Aged 6 in 1901 census.
  • Eileen Crowe (1900-1990). Name given as Ellen in 1901 census, aged 4 months.
  • Bettina Crowe (b 1905). Married Richard Hoops. Had issue.
  • Henry Marconi Crowe (b 1907). Married Christina Routledge. Had issue.
  • Eyre Graeme Crowe (b 1908). Married Mary May. Had issue.
• Margaret Crowe (1864-1910). Born Redcar, Yorkshire, 1864. Living in Kirkleatham near Redcar in 1871 census. Living in Marton, Middlesbrough, in 1881 census. Married Johann Hermann H. Ronnebeck (c.1851-), marriage registered Banbury, December 1890. Hermann born in Berlin, Germany, became a naturalised British subject: aged 31 in 1881 census, living in Redcar, Yorkshire (commercial clerk, iron trade); aged 41 in 1891 census, living in Marton, Middlesbrough (iron merchant); aged 51 in 1901 census, living in Marton, Middlesbrough (iron and steel merchant). Margaret died in Middlesbrough, June quarter 1910. Children:
  • Heinrich Richard Ronnebeck (c.1892-). Born Middlesbrough. Aged 9 in 1901 census
  • Edward Hermann Ronnebeck (1894-). Birth registered at Middlesbrough, December quarter 1894.
  • Rupert Allan Ronnebeck (1898-). Birth registered at Middlesbrough, March quarter 1898. Married Dorothy. Had issue.
• Robert E. Crowe (1866-1883). Born Middlesbrough. Birth registered at Stockton, June quarter 1866. Living in Kirkleatham near Redcar in 1871 census. Living in Marton, Middlesbrough, in 1881 census. Died 1883.
• Eleanora Crowe (1868-). Born Middlesbrough. Birth registered at Stockton, March quarter 1868. Living in Kirkleatham near Redcar in 1871 census. Living in Marton, Middlesbrough, in 1881 census. Married Allen Dunnell in Banbury, September quarter 1894. Children:
  • Margaret Bettina Dunnell (1898-). Birth registered Banbury, March quarter 1898.
  • Hugh Robert Dunnell (1900-). Birth registered Banbury, June quarter 1900.
  • John Dunnell.
• Child, premature and probably still-born, born in September 1869.
• Amy Bettina Crowe (1872-). Born Middlesbrough. Birth registered at Stockton, June quarter 1872. Living in Marton, Middlesbrough, in 1881 census. Married Hewett Sidney Carey (1866-1928) in Middlesbrough, September quarter 1895. (Details of the family tree of Hewett Sidney Carey can be found at http://www.careyroots.com/PS02/PS02_188.htm.  Hewett born Cleveden, Somerset, 21 October 1866, and died 2 May 1928. Hewett and Amy living in Radway, Warwickshire, in 1901 census. Children:
  • Hewett Fiennes Carey, born and died 1899.
  • Armorel Carey (1901-1967). Birth registered Banbury, September quarter 1901.
  • Bettina (Betty) Carey (1903-1979). Birth registered Banbury, September quarter 1903.
  • Hewett Clive Carey (1905-1997). Married Charlotte (d 1992)
  • Gaspard Patrick Carey (1916-1957)

  Image: Radway Grange, 2003

5. Amy Crowe (1831-1865). Born Paris, 1831. Married, 5 December 1862, (Colonel Sir) Edward Talbot Thackeray (b 1836). Amy died in Allahabad, India, 9 July 1865. Daughters:

• Amy Margaret (Margie) Thackeray (1863-). Born India, 1863. Living in Kensington, London, aged 7, with aunt Harriet Stephen ('Minny', daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray), in 1871 census. Living in Kensington, London, aged 17, in 1881 census, with stepmother and step-siblings. Married John Gerald Ritchie (1853-1921) of the Indian Civil Service in 1885. Not found in 1891 census - in Calcutta until c.1896. At Brighton, Sussex (as Amy Ritchie, aged 37), in 1901 census. Lived in Chelsea. Daughters:
  • Theo, died of peritonitis at sea, May 1896.
  • Margaret Angela, 'Peggy', birth registered Hambledon, Surrey, December quarter of 1896. At Brighton in 1901 census.
• Anne Wynne Thackeray (1864-1944). Born Allahabad, India, 2 July 1865. Living in Kensington, London, aged 5, with aunt Harriet Stephen ('Minny', daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray), in 1871 census. Living in Kensington, London, aged 15, in 1881 census, with stepmother and step-siblings. Not found in 1891 or 1901 censuses. Of 'Larkbeare', Cumnor Hill, Berkshire (near Oxford), by 1920s.

6. George Crowe (1841-1889). Born Paris, 27 October 1841. Educated at University College, London. Married Kate Josephine Bateman, actress (1842-1917) in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., on 13 October 1866. Kate born Baltimore, U.S.A., 7 October 1842. Both living at Henbury, Gloucestershire, in 1871 census. Living at Taviton Road, St Pancras, in 1881 census. George died at Fisherton Anger asylum, Wiltshire, 6 October 1889, and was buried in Devizes Road cemetery in Salisbury.

Kate living at Portsea, Hampshire, in 1891 census. Living in Kensington, London, in 1901 census, aged 58. Died in London, 8 April 1917, buried at Hendon parish church.

Image: Kate Bateman as Leah, 1865

Daughter:

• Sidney Kate Bateman Crowe (1871-1962), actress. Born March 1871, at Henbury, Gloucestershire. At school in Westbury-on-Trym in 1881 census. Married (1) George Harrison Hunter, actor (born London c.1871, died Boston, U.S.A., January 1923), at Marylebone parish church, 12 October 1891. In 1901 census, Sidney boarding with two other actors in Gorbals, Glasgow. (Harrison listed in 1901 as George Hunter, travelling entertainer, in Sunderland, co. Durham. Children:
  • Sidney Kate Leah Hunter, actress (1892-1941). Born Kensington, London, c.April 1892. Living in Kensington in 1901 census (aged 8). Married James Ernest Richey, geologist, in Edinburgh, on 4 December 1919 (marriage dissolved 1920). Second spouse, Terence O'Brien (1887-1970), actor. Used stage names Leah Hunter and Leah Bateman Hunter.
  • George Jarron S. Hunter, shipping clerk (1894-1926). Birth registered in Kensington, London, March quarter 1894. Death registered in West Ham, as George S.J. Hunter, June quarter 1926. Married Edna Adelaide Beckett (1893-1944) in Croydon registration district, June quarter 1918. Had issue.

  Sidney married (2), in the registration district of Leeds, March quarter 1923, Charles Herbert Skardon. Daughter:

  • Valerie K. Skardon, birth registered in South Shields, June quarter 1913. Had issue.

  Sidney's death registered in Leeds, March quarter 1962.

Children of Eyre Evans Crowe's relationship with Frances Jane Milne (all probably born in Paris between 1831 and 1843):

7. Eyrielle Jane Crowe. Born Paris. Exhibited at Paris Salon, 1874 and 1875. Alive in 1909.

8. Ulrich Milne Crowe (c.1840-1921). Born Paris c.1840. Married Harriet Nailer (named Helen in the 1881 census). Living in Hackney, London, in 1881, a railway clerk (aged 40). Founder of Crowe & Co., commercial transportation company, of Basel, Switzerland, in 1890. Harriet/Helen born c.1846 (aged 36 in 1881 census). Not found in 1901 census (living in Switzerland). Ulrich died 14 January 1921 at Vevey. Children:

• Andrew Basil Crowe (1868-). Birth registered Romford, Essex, March quarter 1868. Not found in 1901 census.
• Eyrielle Frances Crowe [Ella] (1869-). Birth registered Romford, Essex, June quarter 1869. Married her relative Edward Crowe junior. Living in Coatham near Redcar in 1881 census, aged 22. Living in Dore, Derbyshire, in 1901 census, age given as 30. Children:
  • Eyrielle Edith Crowe (1891-). Aged 3 weeks in 1891 census, born Coatham, Redcar. Aged 10 in 1901 census, in Dore, Derbyshire. Married Frank Foster at St Peter's Church, Redcar, Yorkshire, on 28 February 1916.
  • Cyril Marconi Crowe (1894-1974). Born at Oakengates, Shropshire. Birth registered at Wellington, Shropshire, March quarter 1894. Aged 7 in 1901 census. Married Elena Temperly. World War I fighter pilot. Died 1974. Had issue.
• Alethea Helen Crowe. Birth registered Romford, Essex, June quarter 1870. Death registered September quarter 1870.
• Arthur Ulrich Crowe (1871-). Birth registered Romford, Essex, December quarter 1871. Not found in 1901 census. Married Mary Mcdonald.
• Falconer Evans Crowe (1873-). Birth registered Romford, Essex, June quarter 1873. Not found in 1901 census. Married Mary Lowengreen. Shipping agent and President of the British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland, based in Basel, 1920-1930s. Son H.E. Crowe was President in 1940.
• Thomas Eyre Crowe (named John E. in 1881 census) (c.1876-). Born Belgium, aged 5 in 1881 census. Not found in 1901 census. Married Annie Regina Muddiman and had issue.

9. Edith Crowe   

Image:Edith Crowe, by Henry Fantin-Latour (Armand Hammer collection)

10. Piccola Crowe

11. Henry Crowe. Died (Paris?), 1898.

12. (boy, name unknown).