Title:
ST OSYTH ESTATE AND NASSAU FAMILY
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
ST OSYTH ESTATE AND NASSAU FAMILY
Admin History:
The St Osyth estate was inherited by Frederick Nassau (1771- 1845) under the terms of the will of his father William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford (1717-1781). He was the earl's illegitimate son by Ann Labbee alias Johnson. The earl also had an illegitmate daughter, Martha Harrison known as Maria Nassau, daughter of Martha Harrison. Frederick Nassau married Catherine de Brackel (1771-1857). The estate was transmitted to their son William Frederick Nassau (1798-1857); a younger son, John Augustus, had been born in 1800. William Frederick Nassau married Elizabeth Garnet. On his death in 1857 part of the estate was sold and the remainder was divided in equal portions between their daughters Elizabeth Catherine (1827-1926), wife of John Roberts Kirby (1819-1906), and Eliza (1833-1912), wife of Charles Brandreth (1822-1892). The Brandreths had one daughter Margaret (1866-1924). The Kirbys had children Elizabeth Catherine who married Cecil Lamotte, D'Arcy Thomas (1859-1892) who assumed the surname Nassau, Ida Violet Nassau who married Sir Thomas Braddell, Adelaide Mabel Nassau and Ethel Maud Nassau.
Related Unit of Description:
See Kenneth Walker, 'The Nassau family of St. Osyth: a royal genealogy', Essex Review 51 (1942), pp. 75-85.