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Mary Langton (1871–1887)
Mary Massingberd (1887–1894)
Mary Montgomery (1894–1950)

1871–1950

Second daughter of Edmund and Emily Caroline Langton. Assumed the name Massingberd following her mother’s inheritance of the Massingberd family estate at Gunby, Lincolnshire, in 1887. Married major-general Hugh Maude de Fellenberg Montgomery in 1894.

Sources

BMD (Birth index)

Burke’s landed gentry s.v. Massingberd

ODNB s.v. Montgomery, Hugh Maude de Fellenberg.

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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