de Crespigny family index

My grandparents

Kathleen and Geoff 1960
my grandparents Kathleen and Geoff in 1960

12 Richard Geoffrey Champion de Crespigny, son of Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny and Beatrix Hughes was born on 16 June 1907 in Glen Thompson, Victoria. He died on 12 February 1966 in Adelaide, South Australia. He married Kathleen Cavenagh Cudmore on 10 June 1933 in St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, South Australia.

13 Kathleen Cavenagh Cudmore, daughter of Arthur Murray Cudmore and Kathleen Mary Cavenagh-Mainwaring was born on 27 June 1908 in North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia. She died on 11 June 2013 in Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia (At Edgewood, Denhams Beach).

for more information on Kathleen’s family see the Cudmore family index

my de Crespigny great grandparents

CTCdeC miniature from GM
Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny

24 Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny, son of Philip Champion de Crespigny and Annie Frances Chauncy was born on 5 March 1882 in Queenscliff, Victoria. He died on 27 October 1952 in Adelaide, South Australia. He first married Beatrix Hughes, daughter of Edward Walter Hughes and Jeanie Hawkins on 11 September 1906 in St John’s Church, Beaufort, Victoria. He secondly married Mary Birks Jolley (1915-1994) on 13 December 1945.

Beatrix Hughes
Beatrix Hughes

25 Beatrix Hughes, daughter of Edward Walter Hughes and Jeanie Hawkins was born on 23 April 1884 in Ascot Vale, Victoria. She died on 11 November 1943 in Adelaide, South Australia.

for more information on Beatrix’s family see the Hughes family index

Trent and Beatrix had four children:

my de Crespigny great great grandparents

48 Philip Champion de Crespigny, son of Philip Robert Champion Crespigny and Charlotte Frances Dana was born on 4 January 1850 in St Malo, Bretagne, France. He died on 11 March 1927 in “Vierville”, Black St, Brighton, Victoria. He married Annie Frances Chauncy on 25 October 1877 in St Paul’s, Ballarat, Victoria. (Philip the bank manager)

49 Annie Frances Chauncy, daughter of Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy and Susan Augusta Mitchell was born on 25 April 1857 in Survey Office, Heathcote, Victoria. She died on 21 February 1883 in Hesse Street, Queenscliff, Victoria.

for more information on Annie Chauncy’s family see the Chauncy family index

Philip and Annie had two sons:

Philip married Barbara Wilhelmina “Birdie” Walstab 1874–1949. They had five children:

My great great grandfather Philip Champion de Crespigny (the bank manager married secondly to Sophia Montgomery Grattan Beggs (1870-1936). Sophia was the daughter of Hugh Lyons Montgomery Beggs and Lavinia Mary Eugene Heney.

Philip and Sophia had four sons:

my de Crespigny 3rd great grandparents 

96 Philip Robert Champion Crespigny, son of Charles Fox Champion Crespigny and Eliza Julia Trent was born on 4 October 1817 in Boulogne, France. He died on 13 September 1889 in Brighton, Victoria, Australia. He married Charlotte Frances Dana on 18 July 1849 at the British Embassy, Paris, France. (Philip the gold warden)

97 Charlotte Frances Dana, daughter of William Pulteney Dana and Charlotte Elizabeth Bailey was born on 22 February 1820 in Albrighton, Shropshire, England. She died on 9 November 1904 at Eurumbeen East, Eurambeen, Victoria, Australia.

for more information on Charlotte Dana’s family see the Dana family index

Philip and Charlotte had five children:

For earlier Champion de Crespigny forebears see part 2 of the de Crespigny family index