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- The following excellent posting on medieval genealogy shows that his wife was Susannah, dau. of Sir John Oglander:
From: "John Brandon"
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Subject: A few new ancestors for the Duchess of Cornwall
Date: 23 Jun 2005 13:56:34 -0700
The ancestor table for the Duchess of Cornwall on www.wargs.com gives
her ancestor 902 as "Matthew Combe, M.D., of Winchester."
http://www.wargs.com/royal/camilla.html
Dr. Combe's wife is apparently unknown (903 is left blank), but his
daughter Susan married Sir John Miller, 4th Baronet, and was mother of
Anne Miller, wife of the 3rd Earl of Albemarle.
However, Cecil Aspinall-Oglander's _Nunwell Symphony_ (a book about the
Oglander family) shows that Dr. Matthew Combe's wife was in fact Hannah
Oglander, daughter of Sir John Oglander, 4th Baronet:
p. 140--
But to return to Nunwell. There, in August, 1676, Mary (Oglander nee
Webb) herself had again been plunged in grief by the death of her
daughter Dolly at the age of four. Nor need there be any doubts of
Dolly's unusual charm, for even the village priest went out of his way
to break the dull monotony of his Burial Register by adding a special
description of the deceased, as 'a child of prodigious parts and
exquisite features.' Two years later, with mechanical precision,
another daughter arrived, and this infant, christened Susannah, and
known as Hannah for short, determined to make amends for her parents'
disappointment by becoming a raging beauty. Better still, she even
succeeded in transmitting her looks to her descendants, and her
granddaughter Anne Miller, Countess of Albemarle, was the inspiration
for Sir Joshua Reynold's masterpiece which now adorns the walls of a
London picture gallery.
p. 155 --
Hannah, the beauty of the family, had taken a long time to find the
husband of her choice, but was now the second wife of Dr. Matthew Combe
of Winchester. It was the youngest daughter of this apparently
inauspicious union who eventually married Sir John Miller of Froyle and
became famous as the mother of Sir Joshua Reynold's masterpiece.
chart between pp. 222-23 --
shows Sir John Oglander, 2nd Bart. with a daughter Susannah "m'd Dr.
Matthew Coombe, M.D., of Winchester," and had "Susan Combe, m'd Sir
John Miller, 4th Bt. of Frayle."
This identification seems supported by the records below-an extracted
marriage in the IGI and entries in A2A (from the Oglander Collection):
Droxford, Hampshire
(Marriage of) Matthew Combes to Hannah Oglander, 3 Dec. 1713
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Reference: OG/Z/61
Conveyance to Trustees to Bar an Entail
Creation dates: 4, 13 May 1729
Scope and Content
Manors of East Nunwell, West Nunwell, Sandham, Artingshute, Whitefield,
Edington, Smallbrooke with Park Farm, Feevens, Reads and Goddards, p.
Brading or Newchurch. Old Place Farm, p. West Hampnett, Sussex.
(1) Sir William Oglander of Nunwell, Bart. and his son, John Oglander
(2) Edward Stracey of Broad Street, London, gent.
(3) Matthew Coombe of Winchester, Doctor of Physic
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Reference: OG/Z/62
Exemplification of Recovery
Creation dates: 25 June 1729
Scope and Content
of East Nunwell, West Nunwell, Artingshute, Sandham, Whitefield,
Edington and Smallbrook.
Matthew Coombe, gent. Petitioner v. Edmund Stracey, gent.
John Oglander, gent. Common voucher
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Reference: OG/Z/63
Marriage settlement
Creation dates: 26 June 1729
Scope and Content
of John Oglander and Margaret Coxe, spinster, relating to manors of
East Nunwell, West Nunwell, Hartingshute, Sandham, Whitefield,
Edington, Smallbrook, Park farm, Reeds and Goddards in p. Brading, and
Old Place Farm in p. West Hampnett Sussex
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Reference: OG/Z/64
Reconveyance
Creation dates: 5 July 1729
Scope and Content
of mortgaged properties.
Whereas (2) mortgaged to his three sisters, (1) various properties in
the parishes of Brading, Newchurch and St. Helens.
(1) Amy Oglander of Droxford, Hampshire., spinster Margaret Myngs of
Droxford, widow, Mathew Combe of Winchester, Dr. of Physick and Hannah,
his wife, which Amy, Margaret and Hannah are the three sisters of Sir
William Oglander of Nunwell, Baronet
(2) The Said Sir William Oglander
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>From the American side, this would make the Duchess of Cornwall kin to
Mr. Edward-1 Bromfield of Boston and his descendants (including some (?
all) of the Josiah Quincys).
The pedigree chart in the Oglander book shows some of the wives who
would bring in different ancestral lines:
--"Mary, da. of Wm. Webb, Esq., Alderman of London"
--"Dorothy, da. of Sir Francis Clerke of Hitcham"
--"Frances, da. of Sir George Mere of Losely, Surrey, Chancellor of the
Garter"
--"Ann, da. of Anthony Dillington, Esq. of Knighton Gorges"
--"Alice, sister of Wm. Hammond, Esq. of Guilford, Surrey"
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