VIVIAN
VIVIAN and its spelling variants goes back mainly to Cornwall, especially the area around Truro; there are a lot of VIVIANs and also VYVIANs, and a large wall at Truro Cathedreal is devoted to the VIVIAN family, with many details carved on plaques very high up.
More VIVIANS are being added to the tree, and we know there are records further back than Diggory VIVIAN as well. Also, more information will be added as Sir Richard Hussey VIVIAN led the cavalry charge at Waterloo, and both he and his son John Cranch Walker VIVIAN, plsu other relatives, were MPs. Note also that De CRESPIGNY is a Hugenot name.
Below are seven generations of VIVIANs in line of direct ascent and Sybiil Agnes is the eighth.
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Diggory VIVIAN married Mary STONE; they had two children: Thomas and another son
Thomas VIVIAN (1645- 1707) married Hannah HUSBAND (1662- ) and they had one son Thomas
Thomas VIVIAN (1685- 1759) on 15 Feb 1712 married Lucy GLYNN (1689- 1761) and they had four children: Thomas, Hannah, Lucy, Mary
Thomas VIVIAN (1718- 1792) on 21 Dec 1747 married Mary HUSSEY (1719- 1807) and they had five children: Lucy, John, Thomas, Richard, William Henry
John VIVIAN (1750- 1826) on 24 Aug 1774 married Elizabeth [Betsy] CRANCH (1755- 1816) and they had four children: Richard Hussey, Lucy Ann, Thomas, John Henry/
Richard Hussey VIVIAN (1775- 1842) on 14 Sept 1804 at Gretna Green married Eliza CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY (1784- 1831) and they had five children: John Cranch Walker, Charles Crespigny, Charlotte Eliza, Jane Frances Ann, Georgina Agnes Augusta.
John Cranch Walker VIVIAN married firstly in 1841 Louisa Isabella Elizabeth WOODGATE, and secondly in 1861 Florence Grosvenor ROWLEY, and they had three children: Sybil Agnes, Violet Jane Henrietta and Florence Adeline. Note that the father of Florence Adeline was in doubt as John himself pointed out the coincidence of her birth being 38 weeks after Florence Grovenor Rowley had fled to Paris with the Marquis of Waterford. However Florence Adeline had no offspring as she died on a grand tour in India in 1891, unmarried and aged 22 so we cannot have any DNA evidence to prove she was the Marquis’s child.
There is quite a lot on John VIVIAN (1750-1826) on wikipedia, which I have yet to verify, but here it is below.
John Vivian (1750 – 7 December 1826) was a British industrialist. Himself a descendant of the Vivians of Trewan,[1] Cornwall, he was the first member of this branch of the family to settle in South Wales, where he became the ancestor of the Vivian baronets and barons. He was the son of Reverend Thomas Vivian (died 17 March 1793)[2] and Mary Hussey (1 February 1719 – circa 24 December 1807), of Truro St. Mary, Cornwall,[3] who had been married on 30 November 1747 at Kenwyn, Cornwall.[2]
Career: About 1800, John Vivian moved from Truro in Cornwall to Swansea in South Wales and assumed the post of managing partner in the copper works at Penclawdd and Loughor owned by the Cheadle Brasswire Company of Staffordshire. By 1806 his second son, John Henry Vivian (1785–1855), was made manager of the copper works at Penclawdd. In 1808–1810, the Vivians leased land at the Hafod in Swansea from the Duke of Beaufort and the Earl of Jersey for use by their new firm of Vivian & Sons. The Vivian copper mining, smelting and trading businesses in Swansea eventually developed into the largest conglomerate of its kind in South Wales, and the Vivian family did much to develop Swansea into a city, in much the same way as the Marquesses of Bute drove the development of Cardiff. The partners in the family business were John Vivian and his two elder sons, John Henry (1785–1855) and Richard (1775–1842). Richard was the older but was fully occupied in his military career; it was John Henry who became managing partner in the company.[4][5] Richard later commanded the 6th Brigade of the Earl of Uxbridge's Cavalry Division in the Battle of Waterloo and was created Baron Vivian in 1841.[6] John Henry's son Henry was created Baron Swansea in 1893.[7]
Marriage: On 24 August 1774, John Vivian married Elizabeth Cranch (died 1816), a daughter of the Reverend Richard Cranch,[8] by whom he had four children:[9]
1. Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian (28 Jul 1775–20 Aug 1842), b Truro died Baden Baden and who married and had children (see the Vivian barons) THIS IS OUR ANCESTOR RICHARD HUSSEY VIVIAN AND HIS SON IS JOHN CRANCH WALKER VIVIAN.
2. Lucy Ann Vivian (31 August 1776 – c. 29 June 1779), who died in infancy
3. John Henry Vivian (9 Aug 1785– 10 Feb 1855), b Singleton, Glamorgan and died Singleton, industrialist, who married and had children, including:
1. Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (1821–1894), who married and had children (see the Swansea barons)
2. Sir Arthur Vivian (1834–1926), who married and had children
3. Glynn Vivian (1835–1910), founder of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
4. Thomas Vivian (16 January 1800 – 13 September 1821), who died unmarried[10]