Day Thirty Six

Chatting online with my neice Julia who now now lives in Northern France I was told that she has two swords that belonged to Fitzmaurice Creighton, my great grandfather.  This started me off on another series of enquiries.  I decided to Google Fitzmaurice deVere Creighton, his son, also a military man

I had previously researched him, on Day Seven of the Chronicles,  but this search turned up new insights.  This excerpt from The London Gazette reveals not only that deVere had been ADC to the Sultan of Johore but more intriguingly that his full name was Fitzmaurice deVere Pennefather Creighton.  A check of the UK Birth Deaths and Marriages records confirmed that this was in fact his full name.  But why "Pennefather"?.  An unusual name and perhaps a clue to who Fitzmaurice's mother was.  Could it be that Fitzmaurice gave his first son the names of his mother's family.  Is there any record of a Pennefather or a deVere Pennefather or even better a Fitzmaurice deVere Pennefather?

Another search produced even more surprising results. Which I will post tomorrow.