Message | Interested to see huddleston.org. I am the son of the late Reginald Mowbray Chichester Huddleston (1894 - 1970)who changed his surname to Abney-Hastings by Royal Licence at the time of his first marriage to Edith Maude Abney-Hastings the 12th Countess of Loudoun in 1916! He had one brother, Maurice, who was born in 1892 and was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 - I saw his grave in France last year and as far as I know am the only family member to have done so.
My Grandfather was Henry Huddleston Huddleston of Purse Caundle in Dorset, and my Grandmother was Baroness Anna Katerina von Guttenberg Steinhausen who died when my father was 2 in 1896. The two brothers were placed in a convent near Hereford, but later 'rescued' by "Uncle Loudoun" the 11th Earl of Loudoun and brought up at Willesley Hall in Leicestershire. The 3 older sisters, Violet, Dorothy ( later Greenish) and Margery (later McCann)were sent to a convent at Amiens in France to be brought up. My g-Grandfather also Henry moved from Sawston Hall (which I knew well when Capt Reggie Huddleston was alive)in I believe 1852, and prior to that my antecedants were as per the family tree in Cambridge County records.
I will try and search yor website to register or whatever and hope to learn more of your activities.
Best wishes with your endeavours
Maurice
See also www.captainfrank.co.uk and www.ashthorpemagna.co.uk |