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Dear Tony.
I hope this gets to you. Emma Anne Finucane (who I take to be the illegitimate daughter of George IV) married Horace Chatham Churchill in 1838. He came from a long line of illegitimate Churchills descended from general Charles Churchill (brother of the 1st Duke of Marlborough). I do not know how many children Horace and Emma had but since most of the Churchill clobber ended up in the possession of my ancestors I suspect that their daughter, Louisa Anne Churchill (1919-1905) may have been their only surviving issue. She married (in 1838) Field Marshal Sir John Michel of Dewlish (1804-1886) (see DNB). This family can be traced under "Michel of Dewlish" in old editions of Burke's Landed Gentry. The field marshal and his wife had 5 children but only one of them, Louisa Augusta Michel (1855-1900) has surviving issue. She married a Brigader Charles Edward Beckett (1849-1925) and had only one child, Juanita Beckett (1888-1962) who married my great-grandfather Eric, 19th Viscount Dillon. The Dillons had two children, Michael, in whose offspring the Viscountancy of Dillon resides, and my grandmother Pamela Dillon (1915-1992) who married Arthur, 6th earl of Onslow. My mother Teresa Onslow was their daughter. She married Auberon Waugh (son of Evelyn) and they had among other children me. My mother was told by her cousin Rachel de Montmorency (born 1873 - the last surviving descendent of Field Marshall Mitchel's 2nd daughter) that her grandmother (Louisa Anne Churchill) had told her that her mother, Emma Finucane, was the King's daughter by Anne O'Brien/Finucane.
I assume you have seen the passage from Percy Anecdotes (1820):
"A captain Finucane, of the Gloucestershire Militia, died at Brighton, in the autumn of 1800. The troops stationed there attended his funeral, and nothing could be more mournfully impressive than the procession to his grave. The chief mourner walked with a charming boy in each hand, the one seven, the other eight years old, sons of the deceased. Fortunately for these infants, and the disconsolate mother, the Prince of Wales happened to be a spectator of the touching scene. His highness felt like a man for their bereavement, and like a prince he endeavoured to assuage its bitterness, by adopting the boys as his own."
I hope this is interesting to you, sincerely Alexander Waugh
PS no - I have no further information on the brothers but would be interested is you have any AW
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