Descendants of John DE BELASIS

Twenty-Ninth Generation

256. John Henry BELLASIS [scrapbook] (William DALGLISH BELLASIS , Edward BELLASIS , George BELLASIS , Joseph BELLAS , George BELLASIS , George BELLASIS , William BELLASIS , Bryan BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , Richard BELASYSE , Thomas BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , Robert BELASYSE , John BELASYSE , John BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , John BELASISE , John BELASISE , Robert DE BELASISE , Thomas DE BELASISE , Roger DE BELASISE , Rowland BELASISE , William BELASIS , Robert BELASIS , William DE BELASIS , Ralph DE BELASYSE , Rowland DE BELASYSE , John ) was born in 1880. He died on 9 May 1949.

They had the following children.

+	291	M	i	John William Melville BELLASIS was born on 5 Jun 1914. He died on 8 Dec 1989.
+	292	M	ii	Richard Lumsden BELLASIS was born on 20 Jun 1915. He died on 1 Mar 2007.
	293	F	iii	Francesca Mary Walmesley BELLASIS.
				Francesca married RITSON.

258. Richard Fauconberg "Dick" BELLASIS [scrapbook] (William DALGLISH BELLASIS , Edward BELLASIS , George BELLASIS , Joseph BELLAS , George BELLASIS , George BELLASIS , William BELLASIS , Bryan BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , Richard BELASYSE , Thomas BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , Robert BELASYSE , John BELASYSE , John BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , John BELASISE , John BELASISE , Robert DE BELASISE , Thomas DE BELASISE , Roger DE BELASISE , Rowland BELASISE , William BELASIS , Robert BELASIS , William DE BELASIS , Ralph DE BELASYSE , Rowland DE BELASYSE , John ) was born on 23 Aug 1886. He died on 9 Sep 1963 in St John's Hospital, London. Gold Staff Officer at the Coronation of King George VI Dick finished his schooling at Downside and began studying to be an Engineer at the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall.  From letters, Dick left for Rhodesia in 1905 with his brother Bill, but returned to England in 1906 and continued his studies at Camborne.  After qualifying in 1908, he left for Australia with only £10.  He worked at Broken Hill, mining zinc; then at Koolgardy (near Kalgoorly) surveying for gold.  He later joined his brothers mining for gold near Bulawayo and Queque in Southern Rhodesia.  Dick then went to Kenya, where he initially surveyed for gold and had a moment of triumph when he struck quite a valuable gold seam at Kakamega. In 1914, he enlisted in the East African Mounted Rifles to fight in the 1st World War as a munitions supplier taking ammunition to the front line with bullock and cart.  Upon completing his deliveries, he was required to join in the fighting.  He helped to chase the Germans out of East Africa down to Mozambique.  He was twice mentioned in despatches and promoted to Second Lieutenant. For a while, Dick took up Bill's role running the Doondu coffee estate as a working partner for the Dormers.  On dissolution of the partnership, he bought 714 acres of scrub land at Rioki and started his own coffee farm from scratch in 1924.  He had to fight off lions and other game and re-plant the entire plantation three times due to various deseases affecting the trees. By 1941, he had 150 acres under coffee and this was increased to 600 acres. The neighbouring Lioki mission was established by Italian missionaries and Dick gave them several more acres to develop a school, a clinic and a convent.  The Holy Ghost Fathers took over the mission, which is deemed to be one of the most successful in Kenya.  The St Anne's School for girls is doing very well and still growing.  There is also a strong Roman Catholic youth movement there. Despite the distance from and slow travel to England, Dick kept in touch with  friends and family back 'home', eventually marrying at the age of 48 his bride of 25. The farm was sold after Dick's death to a co-operative of 3,000 local people for two thirds of the asking price.  This was the right thing to do for those Kikuyus who defended the family against their own kind during the Maou Maou Rebellion of 1952.  Rioki Farmers (1970) Limited has been replacing trees from their nursery by grafting onto the original root stock, and the trees now have an immunity to the deseases against which Dick had to spray.  The farm is now organic.

They had the following children.

	294	M	i	William Thomas Joseph BELLASIS [scrapbook] was born on 24 Aug 1935 in Nairobi, Kenya. He died on 17 Jan 2023 in London. William joined the Benedictine monastery at Ampleforth to become Fr Miles and was henceforth known as William Miles Bellasis.  Some details of his life may be found in the attached Tribute.
	295	F	ii	Mary Susan BELLASIS.
				Mary married Nicholas MAXWELL-LAWFORD OBE. Nicholas died on 13 Aug 2022 in Higham, Suffolk. Nicholas lost his parents in a train crash when he was very young and was taken in by his godmother Lady Iddesleigh and was brought up in Devon. He was at school at Stonhurst College, became ADC to the Governor General of Rhodesia, Director of Barcleys Bank plc with posts in Paris and Exeter. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Devonshire and was the finance director for the Exeter race course.  He was treasurer for the Bishop of Portsmouth, became a member of the Drapers' Company in London and held other directorships including a charitable fund and a school for the blind.
	296	F	iii	Anne Margaret Mary "Anna" BELLASIS.
				Anna married Colin Charles FIRMIN "Col" [scrapbook]. Col was born on 11 Apr 1940. He died on 3 Mar 2013 in Buddina, Queensland, Australia. He grew up near Perth and later settled in Darwin selling insurance policies.  This he passed to Anna whilst he entered politics. He served as an Alderman for the City of Darwin from 1976 to 1983 before his pre-selection by the ruling Country Liberal Party (CLP) for the Electoral Division of Ludmilla in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and his subsequent election at the 1983 Northern Territory election. (Courtesy Wikipedia.) As the children progressed, they decided to move to the east coast.  Col was a very keen sailer, owner of Brumby-Jack, and so they joined the marina fraternity at Buddina, near Mooloolaba.  Col took part in ocean racing, including the South China Sea, and Sydney to Hobart.  He got his Mate's Certificate to take guided tours into the crocodile region on the north coast.  He and Anna would go on long expeditions to the Solomon Islands and Phuket and many other destinations. Col was a key player in the Legacy charity for veteren servicemen.  He was a vintage rally enthusiast, maintaining two of his own: an MG sport and a Triumph automatic.
	297	F	iv	Agnes Mary Theresa "Pippa" BELLASIS.
+	298	M	v	John Philip Joseph BELLASIS.

They had the following children.

	299	M	i	Robin Victor MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON was born on 23 Jun 1915 in Mayfair, London. He died on 3 Apr 2007 in Evenlode, Gloucestershire. Robin was christened Robin Victor Montgomerie. He was educated at Eton. After World War II, he was manager of the airport at Kidlington, Oxfordshire (Oxford Airport). At that time, Oxford was busier then Heathrow (and is now on the rise again and being called London-Oxford). He took up 500cc Formula 3 motor racing in 1950 through to 1951 (when Bernard Charles Ecclestone was doing the same thing before moving on to a business level in motor racing). Robin then drove an Aston-Butterworth Formula 1 car in the World Championship Grand Prix on 22 June 1952 at Chimay but had to retire with engine trouble. The car was produced out of the partnership of Bill Aston and Archie Butterworth. The enterprise could not meet the expenses arising from the F1 Regulations of 1954. He later moved to the States before retiring in England and taking up sailing.
	300	F	ii	Susan MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON.
	301	F	iii	Victoria MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON.
	302	M	iv	Henry MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON.

They had the following children.

	303	M	i	Patrick FRENCH was born in 1921. He died in 1926.
	304	F	ii	Marie Isobel "Mariebelle" FRENCH was born in 1923. She died on 25 Feb 2015.
				Mariebelle married Sir Thomas Brian WELDON 8th Baronet in 1942. Thomas was born in 1905. He died in 1979.
				Mariebelle also married 6th Earl Alan CATHCART CB DSO in 1984. Alan was born in 1919. He died in 1999. He was the widower of Rosemary Smyth-Osborne, who died in 1980. They had at least one son.
	305	F	iii	Eleanor Mary FRENCH MBE [scrapbook] was born on 8 Mar 1925. She died on 20 Oct 2018 in Foulis Castle, Evanton, Ross-shire.
				Timmy married Capt Patrick MUNRO (GASCOIGNE) [scrapbook] on 11 Jan 1946. Patrick was born on 30 Aug 1912. He died on 24 Feb 1995. Changed his name to Munro of Foulis in 1937. Fought with the Seaforth Highlanders in World War II. Recognised as Chief of Clan Munro in 1952. Made Vice-Lieutenant of the County in 1969.

They had the following children.

	306	M	i	Lancelot CHARLTON was born in 1892. He died in 1961.
				Lancelot married Theresa BYRON. Theresa was born in 1906. She died in 1993.

They had the following children.

	307	F	i	Anne CHARLTON.
	308	F	ii	Joan CHARLTON.
	309	F	iii	Dorothy CHARLTON.
+	310	F	iv	Frances CHARLTON.

They had the following children.

	311	M	i	Hubert Bellasis SCHNEIDER.
	312	F	ii	Blanche Annette SCHNEIDER.
	313	F	iii	Maude SCHNEIDER.

They had the following children.

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Capt. Brian Maude BELLASIS MC.

They had the following children.

	315	M	i	Eric Montalt BELLASIS was born in 1888. He was a prisoner of war in Turley from 1916 to 1918.  He was on board H.M.Yacht "Zaida" when it sank.
	316	M	ii	Lieut. Guy Roland John BELLASIS was born in 1896 in Reading, Berkshire. Fought in the First World War in the Army Service Corps from 1914.
	317	F	iii	Gwendolen Edith BELLASIS MBE was born in 1891 in Dalhousie, India. She died on 11 Feb 1980 in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. Gwendolen had the title of MBE<5 in 1918>. She passed with honours the Cambridge Junior and Senior Exams.  After the First World War, in which it seems she played a significant role, she became a nun, entering the Ursuline Community of Angers (then exiled in Cheltenham).  Her religious name was Sister Magdalen.  In 1925, the year of her final profession, she obtained an MA (Hons) at Oxford.  She was Novice Mistress at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, from 1932 to 1935; then the English Provintial from 1945 to 1952.  She spent many years in the Ursuline Generalate in Rome, partly as Prioress of its community and also as Principal of the Pontificate Institute, Regina Mundi.

284. Capt. Richard John Erskine OLIVER-BELLASIS JP [scrapbook] (Flora BELLASIS , Daniel Hutchins BELLASIS , John BELLASIS , Joseph BELLAS , George BELLASIS , George BELLASIS , William BELLASIS , Bryan BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , Richard BELASYSE , Thomas BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , Robert BELASYSE , John BELASYSE , John BELASYSE , William BELASYSE , John BELASISE , John BELASISE , Robert DE BELASISE , Thomas DE BELASISE , Roger DE BELASISE , Rowland BELASISE , William BELASIS , Robert BELASIS , William DE BELASIS , Ralph DE BELASYSE , Rowland DE BELASYSE , John ). Richard was named By Royal Licence assumed the name of Bellasis in 1879. Served with 20th Hussars in the Sudan Expedition.  Made JP for Warwickshire in 1899.

They had the following children.

	318	M	i	John OLIVER-BELLASIS JP DL was born in 1904 in Marlborough. John entered into a marriage contract in 1939. He fought with the 1st battalion Royal Fusiliers in India and the 2nd battalion in Eritrea and Syria.  He was captured in Damascus and wounded, but escaped to North Africa.  He took command of 8th battalion in 1943 and fought at Salerno, Anzio, Monte Casino, Camino and Gariglarno Crossing.  He retired from the army in 1946 and became JP for Hampshire and Deputy Lieutenant of the County.
	319	M	ii	Capt. Richard OLIVER-BELLASIS RN [scrapbook] was born in 1914. He died in 1964. He solved the problem of the Nazi accoustic mine in the 2nd World War.

They had the following children.

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Jonathan LANCASTER was born in 1840. He died in 1909.

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