The Hon Anne Crew (c1650 - ? )

Anne Crew was born in about 1650 the daughter of John, 1st Baron Crew of Steane or Stene (1598 - 1679) and Jemima Waldegrave (c1602 - 1675) daughter of Edward Waldegrave and Dame Sarah Bingham. Anne married Edmund Pye MD (c1656 - ? ).

Henry Pye (1683 - 1749)

Henry Pye was born in 1683 the son of Edmund Pye MD (c1656 - ?) and the Hon Anne Crew (c1650 - ?) widow of Sir Henry Wright (Bart) of Dagenham. He married Anne Bathurst (c1690 - 1729) daughter of Sir Bejamin Bathurst. Henry died in 1749.

Charles Pye

Charles Pye of Wadley House, Hertfordshire, was born in 1720 the son of Henry Pye (1683 - 1749) and Anne Bathurst (c1690 - 1729) daughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst. Charles married Anne Mainwaring (c1725 - ?) daughter of Henry Mainwaring, Rector of Etwall.

Isabella Pye

Isabella Pye was born in about 1753 the daugher of Charles Pye (1720 - ?) and Anne Mainwaring (C1725 - ?). She married The Rev George William Blathwayt (1759 - 1806) Rector of Langridge, Somerset.

Captain William Blathwayt

William Blathwayt was the son of The Rev George William Blathwayt (1858 -1806) Rector of Langridge, Somerset, and Isabella Pye (c.1753 - ?). William married Emilia Filmer (daughter of Captain Baronet Edmund Filmer and Emilia Skeene).

Emilia Blathwayt (1824 - 1899)

Emilia Blathwayt was born in 1824, the daughter of Captain William Blathwayt and Emilia Filmer (daughter of Captain Baronet Edmund Filmer). Emilia married Henry Lucas Bean (1823 - 1911, son of Reginald Henry Bean). She died in1899.

Reginald Blathwayt Bean (1855 - 1928)

Reginald Blathwayt Bean was born in 1855, the son of Henry Lucas Bean (1823 - 1911) and Emilia Blathwayt (1824 - 1899). He married Mary Slater (1860 - 1921, daugher of Thomas Slater), in 1884. Reginald and Mary had two children; Emilia Margaret Blathwayt (1885 - 1962) and Henry Sylvester Prior (1886 - 1904). Reginald died in 1928.

Emilia Margaret Blathwayt Bean (1885 - 1962)

Emilia Margaret Blathwayt (known as "Tiny") was born in 1885, the daughter of Reginald Blathwayt Bean (1855 - 1928) and Mary Slater (1860 - 1921). She married Francis Leigh Martineau (1874 - 1954, son of Francis Edgar Martineau), in 1907. Emilia and Francis had five children; Peter Leigh, Margaret Leigh, Barbara Leigh, Denis Leigh and Elizabeth Leigh. Emilia died in 1962 at Weston-Super-Mere.

Barbara Leigh Martineau (1912 - 2000)

Barbara Leigh was born at Fulham, London, on 26 December 1912, the daughter of Francis Leigh Martineau (1874 - 1954) and Emilia Margaret Blathwayt Bean (1885 - 1962). She married Raymond John Gething (1916 - 1965, son of Charles Gething), on 30 September 1939 at St Hilda's Church, Griffithstown, Monmouthshire. Barbara Leigh and Raymond John had five children; David John, Barbara Jane, Richard Martin, Eleanor Mary and Sarah Kathrine. She died at Carleen, Cornwall on 8 May 2000.

The Royal Connection

This blog illustrates just one line of the ancestry of Barbara Leigh Martineau (1912 - 2000), a direct descendant of William the Conqueror (1028 - 1087) . There are many others including a direct line from Gaston Martineau (1660 - 1726) who fled to England from persecution in France.