Peerage Record – 55885

     Commander Simpson Hicks Ricketts was born on 26 May 1816.¹ He was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Tristram Ricketts, 1st Bt. and Rebecca Eliza Gumbleton.² He married Emma Gertrude Pigou, daughter of William George Pigou and Jane Mildred Smith, on 14 June 1855.¹ He died on 12 March 1858 at age 41.¹
     He gained the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy.¹

     William George Pigou was born on 28 February 1798.² He was the son of William Henry Pigou and Elizabeth Arabella Comyn.² He married Jane Mildred Smith.² He died in 1853.²
     He gained the rank of officer in the 2nd Dragoon Guards.¹

     Emma Gertrude Pigou was born in 1837.² She was the daughter of William George Pigou and Jane Mildred Smith.^3,2 She married Commander Simpson Hicks Ricketts, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Tristram Ricketts, 1st Bt. and Rebecca Eliza Gumbleton, on 14 June 1855.¹ She died on 6 May 1906.¹
     From 14 June 1855, her married name became Ricketts.

     Reverend Richard Ernest Ricketts was born on 28 May 1856.¹ He was the son of Commander Simpson Hicks Ricketts and Emma Gertrude Pigou.² He married Mabel Rose Williams, daughter of Major Arthur Wellesley Williams and Rose Charlotte Stoddart, on 25 October 1884.² He died on 7 July 1941 at age 85.¹
     He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, with a Master of Arts (M.A.)¹ He was Vicar between 1893 and 1936 at Crambe, Yorkshire, England.¹ He was Rural Dean of Bulmer between 1915 and 1928.¹

     Major Arthur Wellesley Williams was born on 6 October 1817.² He is the son of Sir Robert Williams, 9th Bt. and Anne Hughes.² He married Rose Charlotte Stoddart, daughter of Reverend William Stoddart, on 11 December 1854.² He died on 17 November 1891 at age 74.²
     He gained the rank of Major in the 10th Hussars.²

     Mabel Rose Williams was born on 11 October 1856.² She was the daughter of Major Arthur Wellesley Williams and Rose Charlotte Stoddart.² She married Reverend Richard Ernest Ricketts, son of Commander Simpson Hicks Ricketts and Emma Gertrude Pigou, on 25 October 1884.² She died on 1 November 1956 at age 100.¹
     From 25 October 1884, her married name became Ricketts.

     Thomas Bannatyne of Knraes married Agnes Macdonald, daughter of Sir Donald ‘Balloch’ Macdonald and Joan O’Donnell.¹

     unknown daughter Holdsworth is the daughter of Godfrey Holdsworth and Hon. Andrina Forrestdale Weir.¹

     Jane Elizabeth Knowles was born circa 1849 at Lisbon, Portugal.¹ She married Alfred Campbell Bazett, son of Reverend Alfred Young Bazett and Catherine Frances Norton, in 1879 at Croydon, London, England.¹
     From 1879, her married name became Bazett.¹

     Michael Rodney Ricketts was born on 29 September 1923.¹ He was the son of Rt. Rev. Clement Mallory Ricketts and Dorothy Frances Eden.² He married Judith Anne Caroline Courtenay-Clack, daughter of Colonel Thomas Stanley Courtenay-Clack and Margery Gladys Fremlin, on 1 January 1958.¹ He died on 21 November 2004 at age 81 at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall, England.³
     He was educated at Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset, England.¹ He gained the rank of Major in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.¹ He fought in the Second World War, where he was wounded.¹ He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, in 1951 with a Master of Arts (M.A.)¹ He was a Housemaster at Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, Berkshire, England^G.¹ He was the headmaster between 1967 and 1980 at Sutton Valence School, Maidstone, Kent, England^G.¹ He lived in 2003 at Breakers, Atlantic Terrace, New Polzeath, Wadebridge, Cornwall, England.¹