• General Notes

  of Sion Hill near Thirsk, Yorks, JP and DL for the North Riding, Capt. WR Yeomanry Cavalry, and MP for NR of York,
  
  ==============================================
  http://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/scanned-sources/tpg2/pp001-027_88-89.pdf
  
  Edward D'Oyly, Esq., it must not, however, be concealed, was born under circumstances so singular and extraordinary, that, though little immorality can attach, it is extremely doubtful whether he and his posterity could inherit the Baronetcy.
  His connection with the Baronet, was thus: At least, it is acknowledged on both sides that he was the nearest male D'Oyly, cousin to Sir John: and thus it has always been detailed by the family; while there is no reason to doubt its truth,
  
  THOMAS D'OYLY, of Gray's Inn, attorney at law and solicitor, youngest son of Hadley D'Oyly, of Castle-yard, Holborn, London, solicitor, by Elizabeth Yalloppe his wife, and next brother of the Rev. Sir Hadley D'Oyly, Bart. A.M. (who, from a poor clergyman, became a Baronet on the decease of his cousin, Sir Edmund D'Oyly, in 1763, and died the following year.) married Jane, daughter of Richard Walker, Esq. of Petworth, in Sussex, and died in 1763, before the family honours devolved on his elder brother Hadley; having had issue, by his said wife, four sons, and as many daughters:
  
      I. EDWARD D'OYLY, of whom presently.
      II. John D'Oyly,
      III. Thomas D'Oyly, Both of whom died s, p. or unmarried, before 1770.
      IV. Hadley D'Oyly, who died young.
      I. Elizabeth D'Oyly, living unmarried 1768. She is believed to have embarked for India, but to have been lost at sea.
      II. Jane D'Oyly, who died an infant.
      III. Mary D'Oyly, who 'died s, p. before 1768.
      IV. Jane D'Oyly, second so christened, who is believed to have accompanied her sister to India, and to have shared her fate.
  
  EDWARD D'OYLY, only surviving son, entered the East India Company's Merchants' service; and was some time Purser of an East Indiaman, This gentleman, however, in the spring of 1767, was paying his addresses to one Anna Maria Black, the daughter and at last heiress of Jonathan Black, of Westminster, gent. a rich brewer in the metropolis, (by Elizabeth his wife, daughter, and at last sole heiress, of George Burnell, Esq. of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire,) and, unknown to her parents, succeeded in inducing her to elope with him, and was married to her at Gretna Green. They returned, hoping for the usual forgiveness; but, instead of this, her rich, purse-proud parents tore her from him, and forced her home, permitting no intercourse ; he soon after sailed for India, and determined, it would seem, to take no further trouble about the matter. But her parents had soon cause to repent their rashness: their daughter had proved pregnant; and Mr. D'Oyly was now beyond recall for a legal marriage to be solemnized before the birth of his child; Every attempt, however, was made to apprise him of the state of affairs; and though he, poor young man, made every haste to return, he only arrived in England Sept. 1768. But his child was born in the preceding March or April. Nevertheless, he was, immediately after his return, legally married to Miss Black; viz. on the 5th Oct. 1768, by licence granted the preceding day at the Vicar General's Office, Doctors' Commons: for privacy sake, the marriage was solemnized at St. Mary's Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey; and the whole was preserved a profound secret, His child so born, and christened after himself, was Edward D'Oyly, Esq. mentioned in the text. Edward D'Oyly, sen, made his will 4th• Feb. 1769, leaving all the little property he had, to his wife, sailed for India not long after, and died at Bencoolen, in Sumatra. Anna Maria, his wife, survived him many years, and lived for some time in Marylebone, but latterly, and principally, in Palace-yard, Westminster. She made her will, 11 Oct. 1783, leaving all her property to her only son the said Edward D'Oyly, and appointing him sole executor. She died at her residence in Palace-yard, Westminster, 10th July 1788, of a cancer; and her son being not quite of age, he proved her will in no court, but being principally a devise of lands, it was registered 31 Oct. 1788, at the Wakefield Registry for instruments affecting real property in the West Riding, Book C. Y. page 354, No. 449. By her Edward D'Oyly, sen., whose death occurred about 1770, but was not heard of in England before Feb. 1772, had only the said
  
     I. EDWARD D'OYLY: the singular circumstances of whose nativity were such as to have always been kept a family secret; and he appears on the court roll of the manor of Wakefield as "heir at law." Still it is presumed that his legitimacy, though unquestionable in Scotland, is doubtful in England. However, on the return to England of his cousin, Sir J. H. D'Oyly, after the long separation of the two branches of the family (both of them, Edward and Sir John, having been brought up by maternal relations), they made out their relationship, and it has ever since then been perpetuated, and a friendly acquaintance kept up, in India and elsewhere
  

Details of Edward's family with Hannah Marsten