Count Richard Bethell Parkyns Warmingham (Gian) Metaxa & Alexandrina ‘Maude’ (Arthur) Vesey

Family Group Sheet

NameCount Richard Bethell Parkyns Warmingham (Gian) Metaxa, 11G Grandson

Birth10 Oct 1851, Corinthia House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Death5 Jul 1888

Baptism31 Dec 1851, St Mary’s Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Note 1Count Richard Metaxa, Lieutenant in the 74th Highlanders. Captain of the 5th Lancers,

Note 2Strangely he is described as having an “only” daughter Ida who married Colin Stracey Guillum Scott, RIM, and died aged 30 on 21 Aug 1901 (all this according to The Times in London). Presumably this was a different Count Richard...

FlagsMetaxa

FatherCount Gian Battista ‘Baptiste’ (Spiro) Metaxa (1806-1875)

MotherSelina Rancliffe Barrow (1814-1869)

Marriage19 Jun 1877, St James, Piccadilly, Westminster, London, England

SpouseAlexandrina ‘Maude’ (Arthur) Vesey

Birth28 Nov 1858, Calcutta, India

Death14 Jul 1923

MemoProbably in India.

Note 1She left for India with her second husband and her elder daughter, Ida. She apparently left Norah, an infant of fragile health, in England to be brought up by the widow of her childless brother. Alexandrina may never have seen her daughter Norah again.

FatherColonel Arthur George Vesey (?-?)

MotherHelena Augusta Dawson (?-?)

Other spousesColonel Frederick George Steuart

Children

1 MCount Richard (Richard) Metaxa, 12G Grandson

Birth1878

Death1878

2 FCountess Maude Selina Constance ‘Ida’ (Richard) Metaxa, 12G Granddaughter

Birth1881

Death21 Aug 1909

MemoAfter a long illness.

SpouseColin Stracey Guillum Scott Lieutenant RIM (?-?)

Marriage27 Jan 1906, Bombay, India

3 FNorah Martin Pierce (Frederick) Metaxa, 12G Granddaughter

Birth24 Feb 1889, Chelsea, London, England

Death5 Jun 1935, Reims, France

SpouseAlphonse van der Linden (?-?)

Marriage25 Jun 1913, London, England

ChildrenJacqueline Eugénie (Alphonse) (1914-1988)