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Downton abbey family tree11/24/2023 ![]() Hugh and Susan moved to India while he was been posted there, then settled in London after their time abroad ended and their divorce could be finalized. Hugh and Susan have three children: James - the present Earl of Newtonmore who does not live at Duneagle - Annabelle - who is married - and the youngest, Rose - who resided at Downton Abbey with Robert and his family from September 1921 to 1924. Hugh henceforth went by the nickname Shrimpie. ![]() Hugh has two elder sisters, Lady Agatha, who is alive and came to Duneagle in 1920 to look after her niece, and Lady Louisa, whose whereabouts and status are unknown when they were children, they played a nursery game where they were sea creatures in which Louisa was a lobster, Agatha a shark, and Hugh a shrimp. Their union was not a love match, but one of duty. He was unhappily married to Susan MacClare, first cousin to Robert Crawley, the present Earl of Grantham. Hugh is the head of the family, and worked at the Foreign Office. They are also connected to the Aldridge family through Rose's marriage to Atticus Aldridge. ![]() The MacClares are related to the Crawley family through Susan, whose aunt is Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham. However, their courtesy title, Earl of Newtonmore, is Scottish, having been gained by the grandmother of Hugh MacClare (the present Marquess), who was Countess of Newtonmore in her own right being the "chiefly heiress of that strand of the MacClares and they took her name". The family's title, Marquess of Flintshire, is Welsh.
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