Thursday, December 29, 2016

Parents Remembering Their Children


The next stained glass memorial in Glasgow Cathedral we're going to look at is a particularly touching one, as it is a memorial by a married couple to three of their deceased children.

The window bears the following legend, which tells you just about everything you need to know:

This window replaces an earlier window
by James and Catherine Hozier, in
memory of their children, Catherine
Haughton, John Wallace, and James
Edmund, 1857, and incorporates the
coat of arms from that window.

The coat of arms is this one:


The blazon of this marshalled coat of arms is: Vair on a chevron gules three bezants, a chief gyronny of eight or and sable [the window makes the chief gyronny sable and or, thus reversing the tinctures] (Hozier), impaling Argent on a fess cotised azure three lozenges argent  (Feilden). The crest is A bloodhound sejant proper, and the motto is Aye ready.

According to An Ordinary of Arms by Sir James Balfour Paul, the Hozier arms were granted in 1824 to "James Hozier, advocate." The listing for Feilden (which is English, not Scottish) in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage indicates that there should be two martlets and a rose, all gules, on the shield, and that the lozenges on the fess should be or rather than argent.

James Hozier was born on 14 November 1791 in Glasgow. He was the son of William Hozier and Jean Campbell. He married Catherine Margaret Feilden on 11 May 1824. He died on 12 January 1878 at age 86.

Catherine Margaret Feilden, was born on 10 March 1803, in Blackburn, Lancashire, the daughter of Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet, and Mary Haughton Jackson. She died 27 April 1870.

The children of James and Catherine Margaret (Feilden) Hozier were:

   William Wallace Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands, b. 24 Feb 1825, d. 30 Jan 1906
   Catherine Haughton Hozier, b. 1826, d. 1831
   Jean Campbell Hozier, b. 23 Aug 1828, d. 20 Mar 1909
   John Wallace Hozier, b. 1830, d. 1833
   John Wallace Hozier, b. 14 Feb 1834, d. 30 Sep 1905
   Colonel Sir Henry Montague Hozier, b. 20 Mar 1838, d. 28 Feb 1907
   Mary Haughton Georgiana Hozier, b. 29 Jul 1840, d. 3 Feb 1933

I did not find a records of James Edmund Hozier, and presume that he died in infancy.

It was not uncommon at the time that, if a child died young, the next child born of the same gender was given the name of the deceased child. Hence the two John Wallace Hoziers above. Indeed, the use of necronyms, as they are called in genealogical circles, were fairly common in New England in America, too. My great great grandfather was married twice; he lost his wife Caroline and young son, Herbert Eugene Warren, while in his early twenties. Later, remarried, he named the only son from that union, and my great grandfather, Herbert Eugene Warren.

All in all, a touching memorial from the parents of three of their children.

2 comments:

  1. Hi... I just noticed your Holier window and think that you may have missed a trick. Henry Montague Hozier married Lady Blanche Hozier (a daughter of David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie). Their child was Clementine Holier, wife of Winston Churchill

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