ANTROBUS OF EATON

Peter de Figueiredo and Julian Treuhertz (Reference 1) describe the manor house as Jacobean, of diapered brick built by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus, the great-nephew of Sir Edmund Antrobus, 1st Bt., to the design of Lewis Wyatt in 1829-30. It was similar to Cranage Hall and was demolished in 1980. The following tree has been adapted from Earwaker, Vol. II, 650 (2) and Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.  It shows the family from the late 18th to the early 20th century

Stuart Raymond in Cheshire: A Genealogical Bibliography, quotes the following sources, which I have not yet been able to obtain.  Antrobus Pedigrees: the story of a Cheshire Family, by Sir Reginald L. Antrobus, published by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1929 and Pedigree of Antrobus extracted from the records of the Herald's College in London, by R. H. Antrobus, published in Congleton by B. Hood in 1969, dealing with the 17th and 18th centuries.

This is an ancient Cheshire family but their principal seat, Antrobus Hall, was sold in 1460 to Thomas Venables. The village of Antrobus lies south of Lymm.

• 1. Philip Antrobus of Congleton, eldest son of Philip Antrobus of Congleton and his wife, Anne, dau. of John Vardon of Congleton. He died 4 Nov. 1788 aged 68, buried Astbury.
  + Mary dau. of Thomas Rowley of Overton, Staffs in 1745. She died 29 Sept. 1791 aged 71, buried Astbury.
  • 2. Sir Edmund Antrobus of Eaton Hall, Esq. 1st Bart. FRS and FSA. Purchased Antrobus Hall, Cheshire, baronet 22 May 1815 with remainder to his nephews. Died unmarried 6 Feb. 1826.
  • 2. John Antrobus, married 1791, died 29 April 1794.
    + Anne only dau. of Gibbs Crawford, Esq. MP for Queenborough. Died 1793.
    • 3. Sir Edmund Antrobus, 2nd Baronet, born 17 May 1792, married 16 Oct. 1817. He succeeded his uncle the 1st Bart. in 1826. He died 4 May 1870.
      
    • + Anne, only dau. of Hon. Hugh Lindsay, youngest son of James 5th Earl Balcarres. She died 1 Dec. 1885, aged 85.
      • 4. Sir Edmund Antrobus, 3rd Bart. DL. JP. Wiltshire. High Sheriff, 1880, MA Cantab, MP East Surrey from 1841-47 and for Wilton 1855-77.  Born 3 Sept. 1818, died 1 April 1899.
        
      • + Marianne Georgiana, daughter of Sir George Dashwood, on 11 Feb. 1847 and had issue including:
        • 5. Edmund Antrobus, 4th Bart.
        • 5. Cosmo Gordon Antrobus the 5th Baronet. The latter died unmarried in 1939 and was succeeded by his cousin Philip Humphrey Antrobus, 6th Bart. who died without issue 1968, succeeded by Geoffrey Edward Antrobus, a grandson of Gibbs Crawford Antrobus.
      • 4. Hugh Lindsay Antrobus, born 1 Jan 1823,
      • 4. Robert Crawford Antrobus, born 21 Mar 1830
      • 4. John Edward Antrobus, born 24 Sept. 1831.
      • 4. Frederick Antrobus, born 4 Aug. 1837.
      • 4. Jane
      • 4. Anne
      • 4. Harriet Coutts
      • 4. Caroline
      • 4. Anna Maria
    • 3. Gibbs Crawford Antrobus of Eaton Hall, Esq. DL, JP. He was born 27 May 1793, High Sheriff of Cheshire 1834. Died 21 May 1861, buried Astbury 28 May, aged 67.
    • + 1st wife of Gibbs Crawford was Jane, 2nd dau. of Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st Bart. Married 25 June 1827. Died 24 Nov. 1829, buried Astbury, 3 Dec. 1829 aged 24.
      • 4. John Coutts Antrobus of Eaton Hall, Esq. DL, JP, High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1868, MA Cambridge, barrister at law, hon. Lt-Col (retired) Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry. Born 23 Nov. 1829, three wives and 11 children.
      • + 1st wife of John, Fanny, dau. of Clement Swettenham of Somerford Booths, Esq. on 29 Sept. 1855. She died 20 Sept. 1863.
      • + 2nd wife of John, Mary Caroline 4th dau. of Geoffrey Joseph Shakerley Esq. on 10 Jan 1865. She died in 11 Sept. 1872. They had a son Geoffrey Edward
        • 5. Geoffrey Edward, born 1867, 6th Bart. He had a son Philip Coutts Antrobus, born in 1908, who became the 7th Baronet.
      • + 3rd wife of John Coutts Antrobus was Mary Egidia, youngest dau. of the late Lieu General the Hon. Sir James Lindsay, KCMG, married 6 Feb. 1875
    • +2nd wife of Gibbs Crawford Antrobus was Charlotte, 2nd dau. of Sir Edward Crofton, Bt. and sister of Edward Lord Crofton. Married 12 Jan 1832, buried Astbury, 7 Oct. 1839, aged 35.
      • 4. Edward Crawford Antrobus, born 28 Feb. 1835, died 1864
      • 4. Charles Antrobus, born 26 Aug. 1836
      • 4. Susan Emily
      • 4. Anna Maria
  • 2. Philip Antrobus, died Lower Cheam, 28 Jan 1816, no issue.
  • 2. Henry Antrobus, died in China, no issue. (a correspondent suggests that from mid 19th century charts this man might have been called Thomas)

A correspondent suggests that Henry, the last entry above in generation 2, may have been called Thomas.  This is based on an item in Debrett, Baronetage of England, 1839, page 383, where Thomas is said to be the seventh child, who died unmarried in Canton.   He is mentiojned in the following paragraph, but the inclusion of the word shadowy may indicate lack of hard evidence.

"Edmund was soon to be joined in London by his younger brothers Philip, Thomas and John, who were all under the care of their uncle, Robert Sanxay.
.... His brother Thomas was a shadowy figure; he was to join Lord Macartney's embassy to China and died there."

The article gives the following background to the family:

"Antrobus Hall and its demesnes was the seat of the family of Antrobus from an early period till the reign of Henry VI, 1460, when it was sold by Henry Antrobus to William Venables, esquire, nephew of Sir William Venables of Bolyn, knight.  This branch of the Venables family resided for several generations at Antrobus Hall and subsequently removed to Wincham.  The Antrobus Estate was purchased in 1808 from Edward Townshend of Chester by Sir Edmund Antrobus, 1st Baronet, who was descended from the Henry Antrobus who alienated the family estates as above."

Sources:

Cheshire Country Houses, by Peter de Figueiredo and Julian Treuhertz, Phillimore, Chichester, 1988.
 East Cheshire Past and Present by J.P. Earwaker, London, 1870.

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