The Hildyards of Flintham Hall

Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard (1744 –1814, 4^th Baronet) died without issue and the baronetcy became extinct. The estate passed to his niece and heiress, Anne Catherine Whyte (b 1784) who married, in 1815, Col Thomas Blackbourne Thoroton, Coldstream Guards, of Flintham Hall, Notts. In accordance with the will of Sir Robert, he assumed the surname of Hildyard.

They had eight children;

The eldest son; Thomas Blackbourne Thoroton Hildyard 1821-1888. MP for South Notts 1846-52 and 1860-85	The second son; Robert D'Arcy Hildyard 1823-1882
married Ann Margaret Rochfort 1842	married Anna Burne
Issue; Thomas Blackbourne Thoroton Hildyard 1843 Robert Charles Hildyard 1844 Henry John Hildyard 1846 Evelyn Thoroton Hildyard 1851 Edith Mary Hildyard	Issue; Robert Maxwell D'Arcy Hildyard Anne Catherine Hildyard married her cousin (Robert Charles Hildyard) Mary Hildyard m C.J. Urquhart, 87th Regiment, Irish Fusiliers Florence Hildyard Wilhelmina Hildyard m Charles Irwin, 87th Regiment, Irish Fusiliers

The marriages of Mary and Wilhelmina caused a minor scandal -a newspaper at that time reports; An elopement of two sisters with two captains of the same regiment, quartered near a fashionable watering-place in the south of England, took place a few days ago, and has caused considerable sensation among the residents of that neighbourhood. The young ladies belong to a very good family.

The Myers Family History -Hildyards of Flintham Hall

Cathy Clarke, Wellington, New Zealand
email: catherine.clarke@clear.net.nz
Last updated: 9 Oct 2009

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