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Cornelia was born at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina on August 22, 1900. [4] She was the daughter, and only child, [5] of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958). [6]
In 1924, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt at All Souls Cathedral in Biltmore Village. Cornelia was the only child of the late George Washington Vanderbilt II and the former Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. [3] The following year, Cornelia's mother married Peter Goelet Gerry, a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, in London. [4]
Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson (15 January 1891 – 14 February 1968) [1] was the aide-de-camp to Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, the Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1918. He served in the offices of the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I from 1918 to 1919, and in the Air Ministry from 1919 to 1922. [2]
William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
On September 6, 1785, [7] at the age of twenty, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant (d. 1825) at the New York City Dutch Church. [8] She was a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston ) Stuyvesant (1738–1818) and a sister of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant . [ 9 ]
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of the Vanderbilt business dynasty.. The progenitor of the Vanderbilt family was Jan Aertszoon or Aertson (1620–1705), a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as an indentured servant to the Van Kouwenhoven family in 1650.
Margaret "Peggy" Livingston (1738–1818), who married Peter Stuyvesant, a great-grandson of Petrus Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam, in 1764. [5] His wife died in 1742. [16] Livingston died on April 25, 1746, in Kingston and was buried at what is known as the Old Dutch Churchyard there. [5]
The Hon. Mrs John Francis Amherst Cecil (née Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt) on 29 April 1924 [424] Princess Viggo of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Countess af Rosenborg (née Eleanor Margaret Green) on 10 June 1924 [425] Barbara Stuart, Countess of Moray (née Barbara Murray) on 21 June 1924 [426]