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Tracing relatives of Oswald Mosley?

I am trying to trace family links to the historical character Oswald Mosley. This is a genuine request for family history. It would appear that due to his politcal beliefs, traces of the name and family are eluding me.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is from Wikki and gives names that may help your search: 'Mosley was the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet, and his wife, Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote. Mosley's family were Anglo-Irish but his branch were prosperous landowners in Staffordshire. He was born in Rolleston Hall, near Burton-on-Trent. When his parents separated, he was brought up by his mother and his paternal grandfather, Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet. Within the family and among intimate friends, he was always called 'Tom'. He lived at Apedale Manor for numerous years, near to Newcastle-under-Lyme. His grandfather was the son of Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Catherine Wood, whose son Tonman Mosley was the 1st Lord Anslow, and grandson of Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, the son of Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Bayley, and grandson of Nicholas Mosley and his wife Elizabeth Parker. The 1st Baronets Mosley also had a daughter, Frances Mary Mosley, who married George Smith, being the parents of Oswald Smith, married to Henrietta Hodgson and father to Frances Dora Smith, wife of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the grandparents of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. In 1920, he married Cynthia Curzon (known as 'Cimmie'), second daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and Lord Curzon's first wife, the American mercantile heiress, the former Mary Victoria Leiter. He had three children by Cynthia, including Nicholas Mosley, who wrote a biography of his father. Cynthia died of peritonitis in 1933, which left Mosley free to marry his then current mistress Diana Guinness, n㩥 Mitford, (one of the celebrated Mitford sisters). They married in secret in 1936, in the home of Nazi chief Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was one of the guests. By Diana Mitford, he had two sons, including Max Mosley, who is president of the FIA.' He also wrote an autobiography called: 'My Life'. If you could find that in your local library, or buy a copy through Amazon, you may get help from that.