Served in the Kaffir Wars of 1846-7 and 1852-3. Sold out 1866.
Colonel, Assistant Adjutant General, Royal Guernsey Militia 1866 until his death in 1885.
He was Constable of St Peter Port 1870-71 and Director of Elizabeth College 1869-75. Buried with military honours.
They lived at Grange Villa, St Peter Port.
There is a memorial to him and his wife in Candie Cemetery.
Her father the Rev R. Potenger was Rector of St Martins from 1832-60. Her sister married Capt Oswald Borland R.N. and they lived in Guernsey at The Maytrees, Hauteville from about 1871-90.
Did not marry.
She died aged 16.
He was commissioned Ensign in 1843 and Captain in 1857. He served with a detachment of Lt.Col. Outram's Light Brigade in the South Mahratta campaign 1844-5 and was present in all its operations, including the capture of Gotea and storming of
Monoghur stockades.During the Indian Mutiny he was DAQMG to Windham's force at Cawnpore. In Nov 1857 he was killed in action when a "determined and gallant effort was made by part of the 64th to capture four of the enemy's guns." He was mentioned in the despatch
of Maj. Gen. Windham as "that fine gallant young man" and was promised the V.C. had he lived to receive it.
In 1857 she had erected the east window of St Martin de la Bellouse church, in memory of her husband and their second daughter who died in 1854.
Ensign, 28th Regt. 1870. Lieutenant 1871. Captain 1880. Retired 1885.
Charles Brooke Potenger McCREA
He was later employed in a bank in the USA.
He lived in La Fosse, St Martins, Guernsey for many years.
He entered the Navy in August 1842 and saw service as a midshipman aboard HMS Iris in Borneo. He was made Sub-Lieutenant in September 1848 and commissioned Lieutenant in September 1850. From 1851-54 he was on the west coast of Africa and in
1853 was in HMS Alecto, five-gun steam-sloop, in the expedition against Kosoko, Chief of Lagos. Highly commended for his services and also for the destruction of a slave vessel. As a lieutenant on HMS Penelope he was at the bombardment of
Bomarsund in 1854 and was mentioned in despatches. In Feb 1855 he was appointed first lieutenant of HMS Hastings, sixty-gun screw, and served in her that year in the Baltic at the bombardment of Sweaborg. He was commissioned Commander on 10 May
1856. In Feb 1859 he became commander of HMS St Jean d'Acre, 101-gun screw, and remained in her in the Mediterranean until her return home in 1861, when he was placed on half-pay. Towards the end of that year however, when the audacious and
piratical seizure by Captain Wilkes of the four Confederate commissioners to board the British steam-packet 'Trent' in the West Indies rendered hostilities probable with the Northern States of America, Commander McCrea commissioned the
'Devastation', six-gun paddle-steamer, and in Jan 1862 he left England in her for the English squadron in the Pacific. On 15 April 1862 he was promoted Captain and left his ship there. From 1874-77 he was Captain and Senior Officer at
Gibralter, during which time he was offered the Spanish Order of the White Cross for assisting to save a Spanish gun-boat. He was made Admiral Superintendent of the Malta Dockyard in 1879, where he was at the time of the 1881 Census, and
Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard in May 1882.According to the 'Monthly Illustrated Journal' he "was a clever and extremely popular officer, ever genial and ready to do a kind action to all who had the good fortune to come in contact with him. As captain of the 'Triumph', in the Channel
Squadron, he won the love of all who served with him, and he never forgot a friend when serving as Senior Officer at Gibraltar, and Admiral Superintendent at Malta, in both of which posts he was noted for his genial hospitality. His service in
these warm climes appears to have unfitted him for a treacherous English spring, and some three weeks previous to his death he was seized with an attack of bronchitis, which, to the grief of his friends, terminated fatally."
She was the daughter of J.Anderson of Cox Lodge Hall, Northumberland.
Their marriage in the GR is Castle Ward 10 b 271 June 1857.
He served in the Royal Artillery for 30 years and settled in Guernsey on his retirement. In 1881 he was a Lieutenant in the RA Shoeburyness Garrison in Essex. He was in the South African and First World Wars, serving in France and being badly
wounded before Kut. He commanded the Royal Guernsey Artillery and Engineers from 1908-1915.He was elected a Jurat of the Royal Court in 1922 and served in that office until 1934 when he retired due to failing health. He was a tower of strength in local affairs, being elected to States Committees of importance, including Finance (of
which he was a President). He also served on the Appointments Board, the Education Council, the Elizabeth College Directorate, and was a former Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Income Tax Authority.
Died young whilst in command of a gun-boat.
Alfred Coryton McCREA Lieut. Col.
Served in the Hazara Expedition (1891) and in Chitral (1895) was with the Relief Force at the storming of the Malakand Pass and in the action at Khar. Served in the European War, Mesopotamia 1914-7; wounded 1916. Temp. Brig. Gen. Sept 1918.
Brigade Commander, Royal Indian Marine Dec 1919. C.M.G. 1916. Mentioned in despatches 1916, Basrah.
She died of gas poisoning at her home; the coroner's verdict was one of death by misadventure.
She never married.
John Cromie Blackwood De Butts Maj. Gen.
He was the son of the late General Sir Augustus De Butts, R.E., K.C.H. (1766-1853) who as a Lieutenant served under Nelson. The family still had in 1897 a letter written by Lord Hood on board the Victory thanking him for the valuable service he
had rendered.The name is spelt De rather than de, although this latter variant is used by many of their American descendants in Virginia.
In 1881 he was in charge of the School of Military Engineering at the Brompton Barracks, Gillingham, Kent.
Their marriage was conducted by the Rev R. Potenger MA, Rector.
He was a Captain in the 3rd Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Militia.
Katharine Mary McCREA De Butts
She contracted severe influenza in 1906 and never fully regained her health.
Annie Georgina Louisa De Butts
She was known as Ina.
Frederick Robert McCREA De Butts Capt.
He was educated at Guernsey College, which he entered in 1871. He was an accomplished linguist, speaking several Eastern languages. He became a Lieutenant in the RA in 1882, serving in the Burmese War (1886-7). He was appointed Captain in 1891.
He was with the Indian Contingent at Suakim (1896). He was in command of No. 5 Bombay Native Mountain Battery, a post he had held for six years, and died of wounds received in action at the capture of the Sempagha Pass.
Brownlow Stanley Cromie De Butts Dr.
Although severely handicapped of late years by his health, his enthusiasm for work never left him and he died in harness. After qualifying he held resident appointments at St Mary's Hospital, the East Suffolk Hospital, and the Chichester
Infirmary, and was for some time Surgeon to the Union Steamship Company. Having obtained the post of inspecting medical officer to the Army and Navy Stores (probably around 1891) he commenced practice in Eaton Terrace, but directed his
attention from the first especially to the administration of anaesthetics. He held the post of anaesthetist to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, to the London Lock Hospital, and to the Royal Ear Hospital, and his skill in this department of
work was marked. By his capability no less than by his personal character he had endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact. (The Lancet 30.9.1899).Known as Stanley to the family, he never married.
In Jan 1892, according to a letter from his uncle Robert to Frederick Bradford McCrea, he had a fencing accident and was obliged to have some splinters of bone removed from his face under chloroform.
She never married.
An amateur genealogist whose notes of the War Service of the McCreas of Guernsey and America have been included in this database. She was known as Nell.
He was an Army Chaplain in the Crimea and probably held a number of other clerical appointments before becoming Chaplain at Parkhurst Prison at Northwood, Hants, which position he held in 1881.
She was staying with her McCrea grandparents at Choisi Terrace, St Peter Port at the time of the 1881 Census.
Haydon d'AUBREY Potenger Taylor Major
He was a Lieutenant in the 28th Regiment in 1881.
The following is on a plaque in the Winchester Cathedral:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND
IN SACRED MEMORY OF
BROWNLOW POULTER.
BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
FORMER SCHOLAR OF
WINCHESTER COLLEGE
AND
FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE. OXON
SON OF
THE REVd. BROWNLOW POULTER
RECTOR OF BURITON HANTS.
WHO DIED
ON THE 8th. DECEMBER 1907
AGED 81 YEARS.
THIS MEMORIAL WAS
ERECTED BY HIS WIFE
HARRIET AMELIA POULTER.
He and his family lived at Lee in Kent.He had been married earlier, having two children born in Paddington from that marriage: Nina (born c.1858) and Edmund (born c.1859).
Sponsors at her baptism were Hon. Richard James Dobree, Martha Harriet Saumarez & Katherine Carteret McCrea.
Brownlow Poulter the beloved father of the above children died at 15 Western Parade Southern Hunts on the 8th December 1907 and was buried at the Portsmouth Cemetery on the 11th December 1907.
Harriet Amelia the beloved mother of the above children died at Maycroft Sikemp Kent, on the 16th November 1919 and was buried at the Portsmouth Cemetery on the 20th November 1919 in the same grave as her husband Brownlow Poulter.
She was living with her McCrea grandparents in Guernsey at the time of both the 1871 and 1881 Censuses.
10. Mabel Catharine born at 38, Lee Park, Blackheath.
Friday, October 30th. 1863. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee,
December 9th. 1863.
Sponsors:
Vice Admiral Mc Crea
Mrs. Mc Crea.
Mrs. Montagu Osborn.
Dr. Mable Poulter opened and ran a health clinic and was among Britains first woman doctors. She died in the Late 1930's.
Creighton McCREA Poulter Capt.
11. Creighton Mc Crea, born at 38, Lee Park Blackheath.
Thursday, February 2nd. 1865. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee.
March 15th. 1865.
Sponsors;
Capatin James Mc Crea.
Revd. Haydon Aldersey Taylor.
Mrs. Haydon A. Taylor. Died March 25th. 1896 from a shooting accident, in Upper Burma, aged 31 years and 27 weeks
12. Aline Marian, born at 28 Lee Park, Blackheath.
Thursday, May 3rd. 1866. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee.
June 13th. 1866.
Sponsors:
Captain John Dobree Mc Crea. R. N.
Mrs. John Mc Crea,
Miss. Sophia Frances Eyre Aline died at St Leonards on Sea.
1942Leicester14. Murial Alice, born at 38 Lee Park, Blackheath.
Tuesday August 24th. 1869. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee,
November 3rd.1869.
Sponsors:
Lieut. Colonel Robert Barlow Mc Crea R. A.
Mrs. R. B. Mc Crea.
Miss. Alice Drake. She died on the 10th August 1942 at
24 Springfield Road Leicester and was
buried in Leicester, in the same grave as Nina
16. Julia Harriette, born at 30 Lee Park, Blackheath.
Wednesday, February 19th. 1873. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee,
April 16th. 1873.
Sponsors:
Revd. Haydon Adersey Taylor,
Mrs. Haydon A. Taylor,
Miss. Amelia Dobrie.
Muriel and Julia were Christian Missionaries and went to China for the Church Missionary Society.(CIM).
Julia was the Last of the family to die in about 1959 or 1960.
Richard Charles McCREA Poulter
17. Richard Charles Mc Crea, born at 30 Lee Park, Blackheath.
Tuesday, November 24th. 1874. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee,
March 30th. 1875.
Sponsors:
Mrs. Mc Crea.
Brownlow Poulter Sena. in place of Admiral Mc Crea.
Graham Osborn Poulter.
Richard Charles Mc Crea Poulter died on 7th June 1958 at a Nursing Home in Southampton.
6. *Brownlow Poulter born Jan. 8th. 1789 Christened Feb. 22d. 1789, in Portman Square London --- Godfathers: The Right Revd. Brownlow North Bishop of Winchester and Ralph Willett Esq. - Godmother: Mrs. Banister, all of them standing in person.
The Revd. Brownlow Poulter was married to Harriette Morley at Trinity Church Marylebone, May 17th 1825 and had issue:
1. *Brownlow, born June 17th. 1826 at Bariton, Hants.
2. Dorithea Julia, born October 10th. 1827 at Bariton - died April 21st 1852 at Maderia.
The Revd. Brownlow Poulter died in London, March 30th. 1829.
Harriette Poulter died at the Close, Winchester, November 16th. 1843.
____________________________________ In a Vault near this Monument
D. O. M.
BROWNLOW POULTER, A. M.
ECCLESLE BURITON. IN AGRO HANTON RECTORL
FH., NAT. MIN. EDMUNDI POULTER.
HDJUS ECCLESLE PR. EBENDARIL
VIRO POLITIORE HUMANTTATE VERSATO.
CANTABRIGLE ERUDITIONE IN DISDLINIS MATHEMATICS
INTER .EQUALS PRINCIPL
PAROCHIS SUIS UNICF CARO,
OB SINGULAREM MORUM COMITATEM
PERGRATO CUNCTIS ATQ: ACCEPTO,
SACERDOTI RELIGILNIS ONTEGRITATK EGREGIO,
QUI MAJORA INDIES HONITATIS SU E INSIGNIA DATTRUS
ACERBA MORTE PILEREPITS IN MEDIO VITE CURSE
SUMMA OMNIUM CUM LAUDE
ET DOLORE DECESSIT
PARENTES CONTRA VOTTM SUPERSPTTES
UNOR ENFELICISSIMA
FRATER ET SORORES
MOERENTES POSTERE.
VINIT ANNOS XXXX MENSES III
ORBITT XXX MART MDCCCXXIX
___________________________________
Reverend Donald Francis Ogilvy Poulter
9. Donald Francis Ogilvy, boen at 13 Lee Park, Blackheath,
Sunday August 17th 1862. baptized at Christchurch,
Lee, September 23rd. 1862.
Sponsors:
Donald Ogilvy Esqre. of Clova.
The Revd. Francis John Eyre.
Miss. Maria Dorothea Ogilvy of Clova. died 15th. February 1940
at Saulsbury and was burried at Pulham Churchyard,
Dorchester, Dorset on the 20th. February 1940.
The Reverend Donald Francis Ogilvy Poulter was married to Marie Natalie Chrestien second daughter of Chrestien Esqie. at St Margaret's Lee, on the 3rd. June 1903.
Marie Natalie Poulter died on the 8th January 1934 at Pullam rectory, Dorsat.__________________________
The Reverend Donald Francis Ogilvy Poulter was married to Marie Natalie Chrestien second daughter of Chrestien Esqie. at St Margaret's Lee, on the 3rd. June 1903.
Marie Natalie Poulter died on the 8th January 1934 at Pullam rectory, Dorsat.__________________________
13.*Arthur Brownlow, born at 38 Lee Park, Blackheath.
Sunday November 17th. 1867. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee,
April 22nd. 1868.
Sponsors:
Lient. Colonel John Cromie Blackwood De Butts R. E.
Mrs. J. C. B. De Butts.
Brownlow Poulter.
Arthur Brownlow Poulter immigrated to South Africa, probably due to a family argument. See below for family. He was known to be a gambler.Arthur Brownlow Poulter was married to Eliza (Ella) Petronella Smith born 3rd. February 1885, at St John the Baptist Church at Fort Beaufort, Cape Province, South Africa on the 19th. June 1913.
They had issue:
1.*Donald Torrens, born 23rd. February 1915.
2. Gordon Cyril, born 11th February 1919.
3. They also adopted Lorain born
Arthur Brownlow died at Johannesburg S. Africa 18th. May 1938.
Eliza Petronella died at the age of 94 on the 12th March 1979 in a Home, Nazareth House in Pretoria S.A.
15. Douglas Ryley, born at 30 Lee Park Blackheath.
Saturday, August 19th. 1871. Baptized at Christchurch, Lee,
November 1st. 1871.
Sponsors:
Thomas Marshale Ryley Esqre.
Frederick Escourt Poulter.
Laura Mary Poulter. He died 26th. November 1945 in a hospital in
Neuton Abbot,Lientenaut Douglas Ryley Poulter was married to Jessie Smith youngest daughter of
George T. Cleather Smith R. N. I. P. Hollymount Rathmullon. Co. Donegal
at Karachi, India, in November 1895.
They had issue:
Hugh Michael Douglas, Born 15 March 1897.
Killed in action at rras, in the Great War 15 July 1916 (World War I)