Felix
Tracy
* 03.03.1788 Lisbon, New London County, Connecticut
+ 20.03.1861 Oramel, Allegany County, NY
[WEITER BEI BRADHURST] 		Henrietta Magdalena
Wilmerding
* 07.11.1788 New York City
+ 25.12.1873 Beechwood, Reigate, England

Elizabeth
Tracy
* 18.08.1825
+ 18.08.1879 Versailles, France


1. Kinder mit Russell George (Gay?) Noyes (* Geneseo, Livingston County, NY) (oo 04.05.1848) :
Henrietta Clarissa
Noyes
* 1850 ?
+ 23.12.1928 		Margaret Elizabeth
Noyes
* ?
+ 10.04.1882 Bogota, Kolumbien
oo 16.12.1874: Augustus Henry Mousey
?

2. Kinder mit Henry Maunsell Bradhurst(1822-1894) (oo 30.09.1857):

Elizabeth Wilmerding (Lillie)
Bradhurst
* 28.07.1858 Pinehurst
+ 17.12.1863 Pinehurst 		Theodore Falkenhahn
Bradhurst
* 20.02.1860 Pinehurst
+ 23.11.1863 		Augustus Maunsell
Bradhurst
* 17.09.1865 Pinehurst
+ ?

Quellen:
- Ihre Seite bei Pumyea/Venedam.
- A. Munsell Bradhurst: "My forefathers, their history from records & traditions": Elizabeth, the only daughter of Felix Tracy by Henrietta Magdalena Wilmerding, was born at Moscow, Livingston County, New York, i8th August, 1825 ; and her education was carefully supervised by her learned father. She married firstly, in 1848, Russell George Noyes, of Geneseo, in the above County and State, whose family was of French extraction. (He was a nephew of the late Richard Gay, of Senecca Falls.) By this marriage she had two daughters :
I. Henrietta Clarissa Noyes, married, ist June, 1870, in Berlin, Gerald Francis Talbot,' 2nd Prussian Dragoon Guards after- wards Lieut. -Colonel Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry son of the late Hon. and Rev. William Chetwynd Talbot. By him, who died 2nd January, 1904, Mrs. Talbot had issue :
(i) Henry Charles Augustus Talbot, born 9th April, 1871 ; died 20th October, 1875.
(2) Victor Adelbeii Williavn Gerald Talbot, born 23rd July, 1872 ; married, 28th December, 1903, Florence, daughter of John Bland, of the Grove, Eccles.
(3) Bertram William Chetwynd Talbot, born 15th December, 1876 ; married, 19th October, 1904, Edith Marian, only daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Knight Pearson, C.B., K.C.M.G., and has a daughter, Marian Adelaide.
(4) Stafford Cecil Talbot, born 3rd May, 1880; married, 30th October, 1905, Ethel Lilian, daughter of the late Robert Gault, of Montreal, and has a daughter, Charlotte Henrietta.
(5) Gerald Francis Talbot, born 21st August, 1881.
■ By an odd coincidence, he was a cousin (through his mother, »ee Coventry) o£ the late Lady Holland, daughter-in-law of that Elizabeth Vassall, the celebrated Lady Holland mentioned in an earlier chapter. {Fide Genealogy, showing " Descendants of Elizabeth, Lady Holland.")
362 THE TRACY FAMILY
(6) Louise Victoria Gisela Talbot, to whom H.R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (then Marchioness of Lome), stood sponsor.
2. Margaret Elizabeth Noyes, married i6th December, 1874, at Reigate, Surrey, Augustus Henry Mounsey, British Minister to the United States of Columbia (where he died loth April, 1882, at Bogota), author oi The Satsuma Rebellion, etc, son of G. G. Mounsey, of Castletown, Cumberland. They had issue :
(i) George Augustus Mounsey, born 21st December, 1879.
(2) Evelyn Isabella Mounsey.
(3) Margaret Elizabeth Anna Mounsey.
At little more than thirty years of age, Mr. Noyes died in San Francisco, his two daughters, Mrs. Talbot and Mrs. Mounsey, being then small children. His unimpeachable honour and force of char- acter had already won for him a wide circle of friends, and the Press mourned him as one whose life was full of promise.
His widow married secondly, 30th September, 1857, her cousin, Henry Maunsell Bradhurst, of Pinehurst. In i860, Mr. Bradhurst was one of the Committee of the Ball given in New York in honour of King Edward VII., then Prince of Wales, on which occasion the hot- houses at Pinehurst were stripped of their rarest blossoms. But the charm of this country home on the Hudson, within a drive of the City, was already on the wane. There was no room for the continu- ance of such an estate within reach of the City of New York. Streets and avenues were opened irrespective of the landowner's consent; heavy taxation and the removal of old landmarks ensued, not always quickly, but always inevitably. In 1863 Mr. Bradhurst lost, within a month, both his elder children :
1. Elizabeth Wilmerding Bradhurst (" Lillie "), born at Pinehurst, 28th July, 1858 ; died 17th December, 1863.
2. Theodore Falkenhan Bradhurst, born at Pinehurst, 20th February, i860; died 23rd November, 1863.
The associations of his home having now grown painful beyond endurance, Mr. Bradhurst and his family (after the birth of his third
...
and youngest child, Augustus Maunsell, in 1865) departed for Europe, where he had previously travelled, having driven from Paris to Rome by Diligence, as was then the fashion. Some ten years passed ere he returned to his native land, and then only for a few months, when he saw the changes which marked alike the rapid growth of New York City and the destruction of Pinehurst. The old Colonial house, changed almost beyond recognition, was for a time a suburban hotel, and now it is no more. One of the streets opened through the estate was at first called "Coogan Avenue" by the authorities, through the influence of a person of that name, who pretended to be the representative of General Maunsell, who, it was stated, was the original owner of the property, having received a grant of it from the Duke of York ! The Duke of York became James II. of England, and died in 1701, and General Maunsell was not born until after that date ! Neither is there any of the name of " Coogan " among the relatives of General Maunsell in Ireland, nor among those of his wife in America. The residents and owners of property in the new " Avenue " were indignant. They protested, and petitioned that its name should be altered to " Brad- hurst Avenue," partly in honour of John Maunsell Bradhurst, and no less in honour of his son, Henry Maunsell Bradhurst ; because the latter, after selling the sites which it was supposed would have frontage on this street, having found that, by a deviation of the original plan, he was still possessed of a long strip depriving them of frontage, presented it to the purchasers by Deed of Gift, thus fulfilling the spirit of his sale to them. This strip of land, depriving these lots of free access to the new avenue, would be of considerable value. Although Bradhurst Avenue thus owes its name to the generosity of Henry Maunsell Bradhurst, it is generally supposed to have been named solely after his father.
Henry Maunsell Bradhurst died 26th October, 1894, at The Moat, Pebmarsh, Essex, aged seventy-two, and was buried in the family vault at Reigate, Surrey, with his wife and her mother. His wife (Elizabeth Tracy, widow of R. G. Noyes) had predeceased him, having died at Versailles, near Paris, on her fifty-fourth birthday, 18th August, 1879. Her only son, and his only surviving child, is :
Augustus Maunsell Bradhurst, born at Pinehurst, 17th September, 1865. He married 24th June, 1893, at Wakes Colne,
364 THE TRACY FAMILY
Essex, Minna Evangeline, only daughter of Charles Page Wood (son of Sir John Page Wood, Bart.), of Wakes Hall, Essex, by Minna, daughter of Thomas White, of Wethersfield Manor and Berechurch Hall, Essex (and granddaughter of Sir G. H. Smyth, of Berechurch, 6th and last Bart, of Upton). They have issue one daughter :
Christine Evangeline Minna Elisabeth Bradhurst, whose name shall be the last, as it also is the first, in these pages which to her are Dedicated.


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