Humphrys genealogy

Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.


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McFarlane


Colin McFarlane,
born 1851 in South Australia.
He mar 1893 to Maud Evans [born 1867 in South Australia].
According to familysearch.org, Maud Evans descends through Evans and Cheetham from Alexander Cheetham (married in 1776 in Rochdale, Lancashire).
Colin and Maud had issue:


  1. Winifred McFarlane,
    Winifred Mary McFarlane, born 25 Oct 1897, South Australia.
    She mar 1stly, 1916, to Collis Carpenter [Vere Collis Nugent Carpenter, born 1 Sept 1885] and had issue in Australia.

    In 1925 she left her husband and children in Australia and went to Ceylon with a young man called Thomas Ryan.
    "The Register" (Adelaide), 30 July 1925, says they went to Ceylon in early 1925.
    "The News" (Adelaide), 21 Oct 1925, implies they were lovers.
    Ryan was convicted of a fraud in 1925 and jailed.
    Winifred travelled to Britain and met Blennerhassett.

    She mar 2ndly, 1926, to Sir Marmaduke Blennerhassett, 6th Baronet [born 20 Nov 1902]. No issue.
    The marriage was bigamous. Incredibly, she married him under a fake name, "Wynne M. Seaton-Roberts".
    Her real name and the bigamy were soon discovered. Marriage annulled 1927.





Incredibly, Winifred McFarlane used a fake name, "Wynne M. Seaton-Roberts", in the [GRO.UK] at her marriage to Blennerhassett in 1926.
She was already married, with a husband and children in Australia.
From here.


  


Possible Royal Descent for Winifred McFarlane

Lyn Hamblin (descendant of Winifred McFarlane) says that Winifred's ancestor Alexander Cheetham (married in 1776 in Rochdale, Lancashire) descends from Peter Seddon of Prestolee, Lancashire (will proved 1664, husband of Ellen Seddon).
Peter Seddon descends through his mother Mary Foxe from William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton, descendant of Edward III.

Lyn Hamblin gives the descent of Cheetham from Seddon as: "Mary Foxe - Peter Seddon - Peter Seddon - Robert Seddon - Thomas Seddon - Ann Seddon - John Cheetham - Alexander Cheetham".
There is a problem with this though.
The tree below shows Anne Seddon (bapt 1723) marrying William Yates, not Cheetham.

  

"The family of Peter Seddon of Prestolee".
Best seen in full size.
Family tree from The correspondence of Nathan Walworth and Peter Seddon of Outwood, The Chetham Society, vol.109, 1880.
From page before index.







Ann Seddon and Thomas Cheatham

This is probably the origin of the claimed Cheetham-Seddon descent.


The marriage of an Ann Seddon and Thomas Cheatham, 29 July 1729, Eccles, Lancashire.
Bishop's Transcripts for Eccles. From here.
This is probably the origin of the claimed Cheetham-Seddon descent.
However this is too early to be the Anne Seddon (bapt 1723) above. This is a different Seddon family.



Baptism of John Cheatham in Eccles, Lancashire (same parish as above), son of Thomas Cheatham of Swinton.
Baptised 24 Jan 1731 (new style year).
Eccles parish records. From here.
John may be son of Ann Seddon and Thomas Cheatham, but this requires proof.
Whether he is father of Alexander also requires proof.




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