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Paternal Family Tree: Mitford
In February 1904 [her father] David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale (age 25) and [her mother] Sydney Bowles (age 24) were married.
On 31st March 1920 Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire was born to David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale (age 42) and Sydney Bowles (age 40).
6th February 1929. The Sketch. The marriage of Mr. Bryan Guinness (age 23), son of the Hon. Walter Guinness, to the Hon. [her sister] Diana Mitford (age 18), third daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, was solemnised at St. Margaret's, Westminster [Map]. The lovely nineteen-year-old bride was attended by eleven bridesmaids.
Note. Her sisters [her sister] Nancy (age 24) and [her sister] Unity (age 14) were two of the eleven bridesmaid. Her younger sisters [her sister] Jessica Lucy Mitford (age 11) and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 8) were unwell but threw rice as her car passed.
13th April 1938. The Bystander. Photograph of Deborah Mitford (age 18).
On 19th April 1941 Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (age 21) and Deborah Mitford (age 21) were married. He the son of Edward William Spencer Cavendish 10th Duke Devonshire (age 45) and Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil Duchess Devonshire (age 45).
At the commencement of their honeymoon Deborah ‘stopped the car when starting on her honeymoon and registered at a small Labour Exchange for National Service,' as per The Sketch.
On 26th March 1943 [her daughter] Emma Cavendish was born to [her husband] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (age 23) and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 22)
On 27th April 1944 [her son] Peregrine Cavendish 12th Duke of Devonshire was born to [her husband] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (age 24) and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 24) at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire [Map]. He was educated at Eton College, Exeter College, Oxford, where he read history, and at the Royal Agricultural College (now the Royal Agricultural University), Cirencester.
Before 31st August 1945. William Acton (age 39). Portrait of Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 25).
On 26th November 1950 [her father-in-law] Edward William Spencer Cavendish 10th Duke Devonshire (age 55) died. His son [her husband] Andrew (age 30) succeeded 11th Duke Devonshire, 14th Earl Devonshire, 6th Earl Burlington, 14th Baron Cavendish Hardwick. Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 30) by marriage Duchess Devonshire. On 24th December 1988 [her mother-in-law] Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil Duchess Devonshire (age 55) died. Both the Duke and Duchess were buried in the Cavendish Plot, St Peter's Church, Edensor [Map].
On 17th March 1958 [her father] David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale (age 80) died. His brother [her uncle] Bertram (age 78) succeeded 3rd Baron Redesdale of Redesdale in Northumberland.
In 1963 [her mother] Sydney Bowles (age 83) died.
On 3rd September 1963 [her son-in-law] Tobias Tennant (age 22) and [her daughter] Emma Cavendish (age 20) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (age 43) and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 43).
On 28th June 1967 [her son] Peregrine Cavendish 12th Duke of Devonshire (age 23) and [her daughter-in-law] Amanda Carmen Heywood-Lonsdale Duchess of Devonshire (age 23) were married. He the son of [her husband] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (age 47) and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 47).
On 3rd May 2004 [her husband] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (age 84) died. His son [her son] Peregrine (age 60) succeeded 12th Duke Devonshire, 15th Earl Devonshire, 15th Baron Cavendish Hardwick, 7th Earl Burlington. [her daughter-in-law] Amanda Carmen Heywood-Lonsdale Duchess of Devonshire (age 60) by marriage Duchess Devonshire.
After 3rd May 2004. Cavendish Plot, St Peter's Church, Edensor [Map]. [her former husband] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire (deceased) and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 84).
On 24th September 2014 Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire (age 94) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of Henry IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 29 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Mitford
Great x 3 Grandfather: Colonel William Mitford
Great x 2 Grandfather: Captain Henry Reveley Mitford
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Molloy of Dublin
Great x 3 Grandmother: Fanny Molloy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Pye
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Reveley Mitford
GrandFather: Algernon Freeman-Mitford 1st Baron Redesdale 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ashburnham 1st Earl Ashburnham 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Ashburnham 2nd Earl Ashburnham 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jemima Grey Countess Ashburham 1699-1731 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Ashburnham 3rd Earl Ashburnham 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Crowley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Crowley Countess Ashburham
Great x 1 Grandmother: Georgiana Jemima Ashburnham 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Percy Countess Ashburham 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Burrell
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Lewis
Father: David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale 7 x Great Grand Son of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Ogilvy 10th Earl of Airlie
GrandMother: Clementina Gertrude Helen Ogilvy 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Thomas Stanley 6th Baronet 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stanley 1st Baron Stanley Alderley 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley and 1st Baron Eddisbury 16 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Baker Holroyd 1st Earl Sheffield
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maria Josepha Holroyd Baroness Stanley Alderley
Great x 4 Grandmother: Abigail Way Countess Sheffield
Great x 1 Grandmother: Henrietta Blanche Stanley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Dillon Lee 12th Viscount Dillon 2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Augustus Dillon Lee 13th Viscount Dillon 3 x Great Grand Son of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Phipps 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Dillon Baroness Stanley Alderley and Eddisbury 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Milner Gibson
GrandFather: Thomas Bowles
Great x 1 Grandmother: Susannah Bowles
Mother: Sydney Bowles