Colley
The motorsport enthusiast
Dudley Colley was
supposed to have bought the engine from
Thomond no.4
after 1940.
He has a very exotic family, so I have sketched it.
Henry FitzGeorge Colley,
born 1827.
See
wikitree
and
thepeerage.
He was a
descendant
of
James IV, King of Scotland
and of
Edward III.
He
mar Elizabeth Isabella Wingfield.
She was a
descendant
of
Edward I.
They had issue:
- Florence Colley,
Florence Isabella Pomeroy Colley.
She mar Henry Cole Bowen
[of Bowen's Court, Farahy, near Kildorrery, Co.Cork].
They had issue:
- Elizabeth Bowen,
the author, born 7 June 1899, Dublin.
See her
descent
from Edward III
by Ed Mann.
She inherited Bowen's Court, lived there for a time,
sold it.
It was demolished 1959.
She died 22 Feb 1973, age 73 yrs.
-
Gertrude Colley.
She mar 1895 to Alberic Arthur Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes and had issue.
Great-grandparents of the actors
Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
- George Colley,
George Pomeroy Arthur Colley, born 1866.
He mar 1909 to Edith Finlay [Edie, Edith Maud Olivia Finlay].
She was dau and heiress of Col. Henry Thomas Finlay,
of Corkagh House, Clondalkin, Co.Dublin.
They had issue:
- Noreen Helen Colley,
born 1910.
She mar George Gilbert Butler and had issue.
Their dau Jessica Butler is mother of Turtle Bunbury, historian and genealogist.
- Dudley Colley,
George Dudley Pomeroy Colley,
born 19 Sept 1911.
Lived Corkagh House.
Author of [Colley, 1951].
He died 25 Feb 1959, age 47 yrs.
Corkagh House
was sold 1960. It was demolished in early 1960s.
He had issue:
- Finlay Colley.
- Tony Colley.
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