Talbot de Bashall Hughes

Talbot de BASHALL-HUGHES: b. 15 Dec 1836, Gayton - d. ?

cf.

p.76-7. The Seize Quartiers of the Family of Bryan Cooke, Esq of Owston, Hafod-Y-Wern, and Gwysaney, and of Frances His Wife, Daughter and Heir of Philip Puleston

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Seize_Quartiers_of_...

and ...

p.78-9. The Seize Quartiers of the Family of Bryan Cooke, Esq of Owston, Hafod-Y-Wern, and Gwysaney, and of Frances His Wife, Daughter and Heir of Philip Puleston

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Seize_Quartiers_of_...

"By Dorothea his wife, who died in Cleveland Row, St. James's, 27th of January 1848, and was buried within Gayton Church, Mr. John Hughes has one child: Talbot de BASHALL HUGHES, born at Gayton Mansion, 15th. December 1836; Ensign Cape Mounted Riflemen, who descending paternally from the heirs male, derives through his mother, from the heirs-general, of the Hugheses of Gwerclas, Barons of Kymmer-yn-Edeirnion." Talbot is reported as having "retired from the British army in South Africa in 1861" but all trace of him afterwards seems lost. The eventual fate of the last of the Welsh Princes remains a mystery ...

cf. e.g.

RootsWeb: SOUTH-AFRICA-L Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] HUGHES http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2008-10/...

cf. under "Media" cropped detail showing reference to Talbot de Bashall HUGHES in The Edinburgh Gazette Edition of 4 Dec 1855:

"Cape Mounted Riflemen - Talbot de Bashall Hughes, gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Minto, promoted in 97th. Foot. Dated 30th November 1855."

cf. also ...

Subject: Naval Chronicle, Saturday, December 1, 1860, Page 2

http://newspaperarchive.com/uk/middlesex/london/naval-chronicle/186...

“ ... WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. SO, ...

vice Talbot de Bashall Hughes who retires.

...”

According to the 1884 catalogue, the following family portrait was displayed in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London:

Exhibition of the Royal Academy - Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - Google Books

http://books.google.de/books?id=HGQEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA6-PA13&lpg=RA6-PA...

“Middle Room:

...

No. 228. - Portrait of the late Mrs. Hughes*, John Hughes, Esq., Mrs. John Hughes** and Master Talbot de Bashall Hughes (J.Wood)***”

• i.e. Mrs. Elisabeth HUGHES, née DAVIES, who died on 4 April 1844
  • i.e. Mrs. Dorothea HUGHES, née HUGHES-LLOYD, first wife of John HUGHES, mother of Talbot de Bashall HUGHES.
• John Wood, history & portrait painter, 1801-1870 ...?