• General Notes

  Charles D'Oyly, Esq. of Southrope, co. Gloucester, Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia,[438] only surviving son and heir, was born at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, prior to 1755; and about 1782 very considerably repaired his mansion at Southrope,[439] He was twice married; first in February 1777, at St. Sepulchre's, by the Rev. Dr. Bagot, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, pursuant to licence granted at the Vicar General's Office, Doctors' Commons, to Miss Christian Armstrong, of Oxfordshire or Berkshire; with whom Mr. D'Oyly had become acquainted at Begbrooke or Cassington, in the former county.[440] She died in giving birth to her youngest child in 1786, and, having property within her personal control, she left a will which was proved in 1787 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Charles D'Oyly, Esq. then wedded, secondly, in June 1788, Miss Anne Rosier, of Mill bank Street, Westminster,[441] sister of James and Fitzwilliam Rosier, Esquires, of London; but by her had no issue. He made his will May 1790, appointing Anne his wife and John Vernon, junior, Gent. of Lincoln's Inn, his executors, and leaves his said wife his house at Southrope for life; but by a codicil, dated May 1796, he directed that it should be sold under certain contingencies therein mentioned. He died and was buried at Southrope, in June 1802, and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, July 1802. Anne, his second wife, survived him, and dying s.p. æt. 66, May 1818,[442] in Lower Cadogan Place, Middlesex, was removed to Southrope for burial, and there interred the same month and year. Letters of administration to her effects (her personal estate being sworn under 30,000l.) were granted 10 July 1818, to her brother Fitzwilliam Rosier, Esq. by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. After Mrs. D'Oyly's death the mansion at Southrope was sold, and the purchaser razed the greater part of it. All now remaining are the kitchen and the rooms above it; this portion of the edifice being at present inhabited by a villager of Southrope. The garden and part of the walls enclosing it still exist, as also the dovecote, dairy, brew-house, coachhouse, and stable; but they are converted into dwelling-houses for cottagers of Southrope and their families.[443]—By his first wife, Miss Armstrong, Charles D'Oyly, Esq. left issue four daughters, his coheiresses,[444] viz.

Details of Charles' family with Christian Armstrong

Details of Charles' family with Anne Rosier