Charitie Lees De Chenez

DE CHENEY, Charitie Lees (née Smith; also Charitie Lees Bancroft).  b. Bloomfield, Merrion, Dublin, 21 June 1841; d. Oakland, California, USA, 20 January 1923. The daughter of a Church of Ireland rector, Sidney Smith, she lived at home at Aghalurcher, County Fermanagh, and in Tattyreagh, County Tyrone, where her father held the living from 1867 onwards. She married Arthur E. Bancroft, a naval officer, in 1869.. After his death in April 1881 she married Edmund Wollaston Parkinson in November of that year. It was a relationship that ended in disaster. She reassumed the name of Bancroft, which is why in JJ she is annotated under that name (p. 109).  She married for a third time in 1891. Her...