Who Am I? No. 1 - Photos with possible connections to WAI No. 10

[Ruskie]

Sorry, made a mistake here ....

Re The Red House. For one moment I thought it might be William Morris's (my hero) Red House but that is in Bexley Heath. 

[cazza59]

I am so fascinated by all of this family, I have been doing a little digging

If you go to thepeerage.com person page 51639 there is an entry there for

one of the Count and his wife's children that says she was adopted by an unknown person. Then it

goes on to give who she married.

I wonder what that was all about

All of the children are mentioned on that site with spouse names and GG/Grandchildren's names

of Sir Ernest Moon and Emma Lamb.

I just thought it was interesting

Joy

It is fascinating and every time we turn a corner there's something else that's equally if not more fascinating about these families and their very upper class lives!

Caz

[cazza59]

A novel indeed, perhaps like an Agatha Christie one who lived up the road from Braziers in her later life and passed away there. Interestingly perhaps, I've found a letter d/d 2 Nov. 1924 written from Braziers Park congratulating Conservative MP, Sir William Bridgeman on his election victory. signed W Mount. I think this W Mount is possibly Sir William Mount, MP for Newbury and also a barrister. He must have been visiting the Moon's residence as his own estate was near Aldermaston. He had a son of the same name who got married in 1929 at the village church in Moulsford, Berks. Not that far from Braziers as it happens. But an odd choice of place to have his marriage for its a small place even today, but it did used to have the training school for staff of the Berkshire Lunatic Asylum at Cholsey.
Still, his newly married son had a daughter named Mary Fleur Mount who would later marry a Scottish stockbroker named Ian Cameron, and their son is David Cameron, PM. With their estate in Scotland shown on the thread, a nice house in London I'm sure, it made me wonder why Herbert Moon bothered buying Braziers Park off Valentine Fleming? The school bought it in 1950 for £8,600.   Paul

It's just a virtual Who's Who isn't it?  I don't know where you are finding this information Paul, but keep it coming…brilliant stuff!

Caz

[Ruskie]

I know people bag them, but I quite like the upper classes. 

[cazza59]

Hey Caz, I was looking at The Peerage at all the descendants who are still well and truly living and wondered if any of them have photos of any of these Moons? I'd like to see some more photos of Arthur. 

How about chasing some of them up and sending them a nice email including photo/s and link to the appropriate threads? I'll bet they will be findable via social media and other means.

They may also be able to confirm if you have put the right names to the right faces?

And, maybe you will even be able to enlighten them about their family. 

Yeah, do it! 

I'll try and trace some on the obvious genealogy websites and see how we go.  I think they might be slightly gobsmacked to learn about the fascination we have for their family!  There are a couple of private family trees containing the Moons on Ancestry, which gives me hope they are near descendants (as opposed to 32nd cousins, 25 times removed!  ).

Watch this space…..


Caz

[cazza59]

I know people bag them, but I quite like the upper classes. 

Hey look..I'm coming back as:

a) a descendant of fabulously wealthy Edwardians
b) and I will own multiple mansions
c) mainly in Scotland! 

And I certainly would not knock back a title or two!!!   

Lady Caz 

[Joyful]

    Me too

[cazza59]

Of course, we are over looking the obvious. If you are a direct descendant of any of these families, your family tree is already done, so there would be no point in them reinventing the wheel.  Consequently, finding a contact that would have intimate knowledge or photos, might prove quite difficult.

Caz

[Ruskie]

  Me too

And me!!!!