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C.F.A. Voysey's immediate family

Parents

Rev. Charles Voysey (born City of London, 18th March 1828; died 1912)
Frances Maria Edlin (baptised Stepney, 14th November 1831; died 1914)
   married at St Margaret's Lowestoft, 10th June 1852

Siblings

  • Frances Annesley
    (born Hessle, 19th June 1853; married John William Brodie Innes, 1879; died 1942)
    Brodie Innes was a barrister and landowner of Milton Brodie near Forres, Scotland. He was a leading member of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and wrote several novels on witchcraft and magic.
  • Daughter
    (still born Hessle, 8th June 1854)
  • Mary Henrietta Annesley
    (born Hessle, 7th September 1855; died 1905)
  • [Charles Francis Annesley, born 28th May 1857]
  • Margaret Annesley
    (born Hessle, 19th September 1858; married Motiram S. Advani in Karachi, 1893)
    Advani was an Inner Temple trained barrister based in Karachi, then in India, who later worked as an income tax officer in Sindh Province.
  • Emily Ellison Annesley
    (born Prospect, St Andrews, Jamaica, 5th February 1860; died Hackney, London, 4th February 1861)
  • Alice Annesley
    (born Great Yarmouth, 9th July 1861; died Great Yarmouth, 5th September 1861)
  • Cicely Annesley
    (born Whitechapel, 24th August 1862; died 1940)
    Lived with her parents. Following their deaths spent the remainder of her life at Cheadle Royal Mental Hospital, Manchester.
  • Arthur Annesley
    (born Healaugh, 31st December 1863)
    Electrical Engineer to the Corporation of the City of London. Retired to France, living at St Isidore near Nice.
  • Herbert Annesley
    (born Healaugh, 7th August 1865; died 3rd February 1921)
    Solicitor (King, Adams, Cotton, Voysey & Macmin), Hon. Solicitor to St John’s Arts Club. A ‘fine pianist and whistler’ (Dulwich College Register).
  • Ellison Annesley
    (born Healaugh, 1867; died 1942)
    Followed his father as a minister in the Theistic Church. By 1921 was working as a Chartered Accountants Clerk in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Spouse

Mary Maria Evans
(born Wolverhampton, 1863; married C.F.A. Voysey at St George Hanover Square, London, 30th July 1885; died Welwyn Garden City, 30th August 1944)

Children

  • Son
    (still born Bedford Park, Chiswick, 2nd October 1886)
  • Sibyl Mary
    (born Bedford Park, 21st March 1888; died 24th April 1888)
  • Charles
    (born Streatham Hill, 24th June 1889; died 1981)
    Followed his father into architecture. Later known as Charles Cowles-Voysey (adopting his wife’s surname).
  • Annesley
    (born St John's Wood, 29th December 1893; died 1971)
    Agricultural Assistant to the Kent Education Committee.
  • Priscilla Mary Annesley
    (born St John's Wood, 5th October 1895; died 1983)
    Studied gardening. Lived with her parents but, following their separation in 1914, lived with her mother (latterly in Welwyn Garden City), moving to a care home upon her death.

Rev Charles Voysey

Photograph of the Rev. Charles Voysey by Elliott & Fry after 1900, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG x23484 under this Creative Commons licence.

 

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Page last amended 21st May 2026