23RD GENERATION

604. Edward Bowles Knottesford FORTESCUE of Alveston⁽⁶⁹⁵⁾ was born on 23 Apr 1816 in Stoke-by-Nayland Suffolk. He was christened on 29 Jun 1816 in Stoke-by-Nayland Suffolk. He died on 18 Aug 1877 in Holloway, Middlesex. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, Middlesex. The Very Rev Edward Bowles Knottesford-Fortescue of Alveston, Dean of
Perth Cathedral resumed the name of Fortescue as his last name. He
was proprietor of Alveston Manor House, formerly Bridgetown House,
near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, about 20 miles from Cookhill. It
was built as a hospital for sick monks of Worcester. Dean Fortescue
married Miss Frances Anne Spooner and secondly Gertrude Robins.

He was married to Frances Anne SPOONER (daughter of Ven Archdeacon William SPOONER Rector of Elmdown and ANNA MARIA SIDNEY O'BRIAN) on 15 Nov 1838 in Elmdon, Warwickshire. Frances Anne SPOONER ⁽⁶⁹⁶⁾ was born on 11 Aug 1818 in Elmdon, Warwickshire. She was christened on 11 Sep 1818 in Elmdon, Warwickshire. She died on 30 Oct 1868 in Perthshire, Ireland. Edward Bowles Knottesford FORTESCUE of Alveston and Frances Anne SPOONER had the following children:

+697 i. Capt Edward Francis Knottesford FORTESCUE of Alveston Manor.
698 ii. Mary FORTESCUE⁽⁶⁹⁷⁾.
699 iii. John FORTESCUE⁽⁶⁹⁸⁾ was born in 1843 in Cookhill, Worcester.
700 iv. Laurence FORTESCUE⁽⁶⁹⁹⁾.
+701 v. George Knottesford FORTESCUE.
702 vi. Vincent Knottesford FORTESCUE M.A.⁽⁷⁰⁰⁾ was born in 1849 in Cookhill, Worcester. ⁽⁴⁴⁷⁾ He was a Curate in 1881 in Sratford on Avon. He appeared on the census in 1881 in Banbury Lane, Alveston, Warwick.
703 vii. Charles Ninian FORTESCUE⁽⁷⁰¹⁾ died in 1858.

He was married to Gertrude ROBINS (daughter of Rev Sanderson ROBINS) in 1871. Gertrude ROBINS ⁽⁷⁰²⁾ appeared on the census in 1881 in 40 Park Road, Hamstead.⁽⁷⁰²⁾ Gertrude Fortescue W 42 F London
Clara Fortescue 8 F London
Adrian Fortescue 7 M London
Gertrude Fortescue 5 F London Edward Bowles Knottesford FORTESCUE of Alveston and Gertrude ROBINS had the following children:

704 i. Clara Mary Katherine FORTESCUE⁽⁷⁰³⁾ was born in 1872. She appeared on the census in 1881 in 40 Park Road, Hamstead.
705 ii. Adrian Henry FORTESCUE⁽⁷⁰⁴⁾ was born in 1874. He appeared on the census in 1881 in 40 Park Road, Hamstead. He died on 22 Feb 1923. Taken from dates recorded in National Library Canberra about his Book
"The Misssal" published by Burns and Oates, London Also on the net as
11 Feb 1923 Winifred Fortescue in her book "THERE'S ROSEMARY... THERE'S RUE wrote
about a fascinating relation Adrian. He wrote to the historian John
(Winifred's husband) after being told indirectly that he was no
relation to them.

"We were cousins in the 14th century. Mine is the elder but
undistinguished branch. It did remain however loyal to its King and
Faith which is more than yours did. We discovered him to be, in spite
his early middle age a man of immense learning. He was a marvelous
linguist, and enjoyed in learning abstruse and difficult tongues and
dialects. He knew and loved the desert tribes; had traveled in the
east disguised as an Arab and once had to kill a man in self-defence.
He was an expert on old church music, on the liturgy, ritual and
vestments of the Roman Catholic Church of which he was an ordained
priest; a very good water colour artist besides being an erudite
scholar with a comprehensive knowledge of the classics; he appeared to
read every book that was written from abstruse scientific works to
trashy novels, which, when sleepless, he devoured at a rate of three a
night."

He was the Priest for Letchworth.

706 iii. Gertrude Rhaphael FORTESCUE⁽⁷⁰⁵⁾ was born in 1875. She appeared on the census in 1881 in 40 Park Road, Hamstead.