Originally gardener and steward to the Duke of Northumberland, Charles Manners (1732 -1799) was 'said' to have been an illegitimate son of a Lady Manners, daughter of a Duke of Rutland. He married an Elizabeth and they had another Charles Manners who, in 1792, married Lucy Call (b.1772 d.1862 in St.Petersburg). She was the daughter of James Call of Alnwick, Northumberland and his wife Catherine Anderson. The Call / Calle family once owned Framlingham Castle in Suffolk (see 'The Calls, Gauberts & Stevensons'). Charles Manners the younger was also involved in forestry and landscaping in Alnwick. He became gardener to Peter and Catherine the Great in 1792 in response to their appeal for craftsmen and professionals. He settled in Schusselburg and laid out the Imperial Palace gardens. He and Lucy had a daughter, Lucy Manners, who married JPG.

When the Palace was finally razed to the ground, Messrs. Hubbard & Co of London acquired the island and erected a print and bleach works. Empress Catherine then employed Charles to lay out the grounds around the Torida Palace as the Torida Gardens. This palace became the seat of the Duma under Czar Nicholas 2nd. After the death of Empress Catherine in 1796 Emperor Paul employed Charles and his brother - in - law Martin Miller Call to lay out the Imperial Palace gardens at Tzarskoi Celo. Martin was Lucy's brother in St.Petersburg who became one of the architects and surveyors of the Winter Palace and Tzarskoi Celo Palace near where he is buried with members of the 'Russian family'.

Later Charles moved to Peterhoff, laid out the gardens of that Imperial Palace for Count Scherimetieff and took charge of green - houses and fruit cultivation. After a falling - out with Emperor Paul, Charles moved back to Schusselburg and laid out the Duke's gardens. In1824, he died of a paralytic stroke on the day of the marriage of his two daughters Catherine Philipson and Lucy (JPG's 1st wife). Charles's brother Robert Manners was gardener to Count Scherimetieff in Moscow. After Charles's death, his widow Lucy moved to St. Petersburg to live with her daughter Elizabeth Stevenson and died in 1862.

Charles and Lucy Manners had two sons, Charles (1807) and James (1809 -11) who both died unmarried, and four daughters –

1. Catherine Philipson (1796 – 1862) who married Simon Romanes 1824 (see 'The Calls of Norfolk and Suffolk ' by Simon Romanes)
2. Lucy (12.02.1800 - 1832/4) who in 1824 married John Peter GAUBERT (born 03.03.,chr.07.12.1794, died 17.10 or 27.12.1860, son of George Gaubert, bpt. 16.2.1772 and Sarah Harris, who died c. 1794) in 1824 as his 1st wife. They had George Manners GAUBERT (1825 - 1885) who married his cousin Lucy Stevenson at 3c. below
3. Elizabeth (1802 - 1867) who married Alexander Stevenson in 1832. He was a merchant of St. Petersburg. They had three children –


 a.  John Alexander Stevenson (b. c. 1834), Secretary of the subsequent paper company in Ouglitch. In c.1862 he married Elizabeth Sarah Gaubert (1840 - 1898), the daughter of JPG and Elizabeth Manners
 b. Alex Stevenson (b. 1840) became Secretary after John Alexander died. He married his cousin Elizabeth Sarah GAUBERT (1840 - 1898), the daughter of JPG's second marriage to Elizabeth Manners
 c. Lucy Stevenson who married her cousin George Manners GAUBERT (1825 - 1885), the son of JPG and his 1st wife Lucy Manners.

4. Ann (1804 - 1877) who married David Bell (1793-1848) in 1827

Meanwhile Charles Manners the younger's brother Robert (1771 - 1831) married an Elizabeth Rutherford (1788 - 1824) in c. 1806. They had –

1. Elizabeth (1807 - 1842) who married John Peter GAUBERT as his 2nd wife

2. Robert (1809)

3. James (1811)

4. Anna Maria Sarah (1819 - 1880) who married John Peter GAUBERT as his 3rd wife in 1851

5. Nesticia Cleopatra (1820 - ) who married Robert Bannister, merchant of St.Petersburg, c. 1840 .

They had –    
a. Elizabeth b.1842 who married Grigory Kreukenoffsky in 1862.

they had -

a.Elizabeth ‘ Betsy’ who married Robert G A Gaubert and who had Ann Nancy b. 1888 
b. Susan b.1845 who married Zimmerman and had ‘ Boola ’    
c. Alice b. c. 1850? who married Reverend Basil Popoff


6. Emma Elizabeth b.1822 ?
7. Mary Suzanna b. 1824 ? about whom we know nothing.

Now to John Peter GAUBERT (1794 - 1860). He and George Frederick were the sons of George & Sarah GAUBERT (this George being the son of Peter & Ann (nee Waight / Wright) GAUBERT.

To recap, John Peter's wives were -

1. Lucy Manners (12.02.1800 - 1832/34?) who he married in 1824.
They had -    
a. George Manners GAUBERT who married his cousin Lucy Stevenson    
b. Elizabeth Ann Lucy 'Bessie' (1865 - 1915) who married a Hoeltzer of Uglich in c. 1884.

The Halls note that it is thought they had a further daughter Mary, born c.1867 and alive in 1870 but presumed to have died young. Several family albums have the same photo of her aged c. 3 - 4 yrs.

2. Elizabeth Manners (1807 - 1842), Lucy's cousin, in 1834. She was the daughter of Charles' brother, Robert Manners and Elizabeth Rutherford. JPG and Elizabeth Manners had –

a. John Robert Nicholas (b.1835 committed suicide in 1863) who married, in August 1861 in England, Caroline Emelia W. A. Von Andlan. She died in December 1863. They had a daughter Caroline Amelia ' Lina' or ' Lena ' born 16.03.1863

b. Henry Frederick, born c. 1832, an officer in the Russian army who married a ' Lizzie '

c. Elizabeth Sarah (1840 - 1898) who, in 1862 ?, married her cousin John Alexander Stevenson. 

3.Anna Maria Sarah Manners (1819 -1880) in 1851. She was John's previous wife's sister. In 1987 my father enquired of Senat Der Freien Und Hansestadt Hamburg re JPG.



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They reported that they had found a record of JPG's marriage to Anna Maria Sarah Manners in Wandsbek between 1840;- 1860 (1851?) probably at the Christuskirke. The record shows his birth as 03.03.1794 in the parish of St.Anne's, Westminster as the son of George and Sarah GAUBERT, that he was a widower and that he was living in Hieselbst. She was shown as being born on 31.01.1819, the daughter of Robert Manners and Elizabeth Rutherford, in Moscow, unmarried, and also living in Hieselbst. He and Anna had -

 

A.     Robert Gabriel Albert (b.1851, bp. 4.10.1851,died in Uglich) who married c.1887 his 1st cousin once removed, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Kroukenoffsky (1861 - 1939). They had -
  a.   Ann -' My Cousin Nancy'-(1888-1920) who first married a Russian hotel owner in Yalta who was killed in the Revolution. She then married an army officer who died c. 1927
  b.   an adopted daughter Tatiana ('Tania ') who married John Delamain Crocker in 1943 and they had -
    1. Andrew Gaubert Delamain Crocker
    2 Jocelyn Anthony Delamain Crocker
    3. Roxana Elizabeth Roman Crocker
       
B.    
Peter Alfred Martin (1852 - 1887 unmarried)
C.    
Lucy Alice (1860 in Uglich - 3.11.39 Bath) who married Lawrence Usticke Jeans (1860 - 1939) on 4 Jun 1891. They had -
  1.   Lawrence Hartshorne (1892-1937) who married A.B.C. Hanson in 1917
  2.   Nancy Elizabeth Alice (1893-1991) who married Herbert G. Hall in 1919
  3.   Frank Usticke (1895-1973) who married Phillis Hodges in 1921


Robert Gabriel Albert became Managing Director of the paper company following the death of George Manners GAUBERT in 1885. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Kroukenoffsky was the daughter of Elizabeth, the daughter of Anna Maria Sarah Manners 's sister Nesticia Cleopatra Manners (b. 1820) who had married a Robert Bannister of St.Petersburg. Nesticia also had a Robert, and possibly a Susan Lucy who married a Zimmerman, and an Alice who married a Rev. Basil Popoff (Popov). JPG was the managing director of the paper mill at Oughlich, now Uglich, 125 miles NNE of Moscow on the Volga. He was succeeded by his eldest son George Manners GAUBERT, and on his death, by Robert G. A. GAUBERT the eldest son of JPG's 3rd marriage. John Alexander Stevenson was also a paper - maker in the mill. JPG died in 1860, according to correspondence of his brother George Frederick's descendants, following a heated defence to the Governor General of the province, against the allegation of polluting the water supply of the villagers with toxic waste from his mill. About 1870 his widow Anna Maria came to live in Bushey, Herts.

The Halls also noted the following references by Tania and Nancy -

1.
 during the Revolution, the British colony were sheltered in the British Embassy and looked after by the Ambassador, Sir George Buchanan
2.
 that one day Sir George let Elizabeth (Betsy) Gaubert, "Mother" (nee Kroukenovsky) and HER daughter Nancy (Ann) out to scavenge for food. They found and recovered a newly - born baby girl crying in a heap of corpses
3.
 the infant ( b. 1916/17 ) was subsequently adopted by Robert and Elizabeth who named her 'Tatiana' or 'Tania' for short
4.
 following JPG's death in c. 1860 / 61, Lucy and her two brothers, accompanied by various children from her father's two previous marriages were brought by their mother to the UK in c. 1870 / 71 ( RMG - some of these notes do not accurately accord with the memoirs, of Nancy and Tania, which are reproduced later. The most important contradiction is the incident in which Tania was 'found'. Eric Hall recalls that his mother NEAH had met and spent some time with "my cousin Nancy" in 1926 when she came to stay with Lucy Alice Gaubert, her sister-in-law. Eric lived within 300 yards of Lucy Alice so contact was easy.
5.
 JPG's brother George Frederick 1792 - 1871 was a Baltic Trader and a painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829 -1860. My father recalls seeing some of George's seascapes, owned by the Halls, and that they were of high quality.




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