Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich

1910 - 2011  (100 years)

• Name	Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich  [1]
  Birth	11 Nov 1910	New York City, New York, New York   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	24 Apr 2011	Montecito, Santa Barbara, California   [3]
  Person ID	I71973	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard Aldrich
  Family ID	F33500	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Byron DeMott
  Family ID	F33499	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Christopher Temple Emmett Rand,   b. 14 Feb 1912, New York City, New York, New York d. 26 Sep 1968, Mexico City, Mexico (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	9 Jun 1934	Red Hook, Dutchess, New York   [1, 4]
  	New York Times June 10, 1934 Kingston, N. Y., June 9. - Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Richard Aldrich, of Barrytown and New York City, and Christopher Temple Emmett Rand of Salisbury, Conn., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Blanchard Rand were married today at Christ Church, Red Hook, by the Rev. Paul Huntington, rector. A reception was held at Rokeby, the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich at Barryton. Leila Delano, daughter od Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Delano, was maid of honor, and Rosilla Hornblower, Marian Merrill and Elizabeth Meyer were bridesmaids. Mr. Rand had his brother, William B. Rand Jr., as best man. Ushers were John A. Rand, also a brother; Winthrop Emmett, a cousin; Richard Chandler Aldrich, a brother of the bride; Donald Ryan, S. E. R. Whitman, Peter Merrill and John Jenkins. The bride, a descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, studied at Sorbonne in Paris and was graduated from Vassar College in the class of '33. She is well known as a horsewoman and is a member of the Rumbout Riding and Hunt Club of Dutchess County. Mr. Rand, a descendant of Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot, was graduated from Groton School and is a senior at Yale.
  Divorced	1952  [1, 5]
  Children	1. Living   2. Mary Rand,   b. 24 May 1939, San Francisco, San Francisco, California d. Dec 1985, New York City, New York, New York (Age 46 years)   3. Living   4. Living   5. Living
  Family ID	F33455	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  New York Passenger Lists Ship Bremen, from Southsmpton, England, arrived 23 Aug 1934 _____ New York Times April 28, 2011 DeMOTT--Margaret Aldrich, on April 24, at the age of 100, in Montecito, California. Maddie was the daughter of Richard Aldrich, the eminent New York Times music critic, and Margaret Chanler Aldrich, and sister of the late Richard Chanler Aldrich. Survivors include her sons Christopher Rand, Richard Rand, Peter Rand, her daughter Diana Rand Fairclough, eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She is predeceased by her daughter Mary Rand Johnson. Maddie spent her childhood on West 74th Street in New York City, and at Rokeby, the family farm on the Hudson in Dutchess County. A graduate of Vassar College, pianist and Francophile, she was also an accomplished equestrienne who rode to hounds with the Chatham Hunt, where she met her first husband, Christopher Rand, a Yale undergraduate at the time, who later earned renown as a journalist and New Yorker correspondent. Maddie DeMott was a woman who attracted a great many loving friends and admirers all through her life wherever she made her home, on the West Coast, in San Francisco and Santa Barbara, and abroad, in Paris and Nairobi, Kenya. Maddie was an avid tennis player. For over a decade she was happily married to Byron DeMott, a beloved Santa Barbara tennis pro, with whom Maddie played an active role in the Southern California tennis world of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was a self-styled adventurer. In the years following Byron's premature death in 1963, Maddie traveled to Africa, where she lived and worked for twenty years as the founder of the Flying Doctor's Society, a fundraising arm of the African Medical Research Foundation. She was a woman of sparkling wit and modesty who took delight in the name bestowed upon her by a British television documentary titled "The Angel of Africa." Maddie will be missed by her extended family and all those who knew and worked with her, including the staff of the Casa Dorinda, where she spent the last years of her eventful, adventurous life.

  
  

• Sources

  [S22741] Descendants of Squire Hascall and Elizabeth Chandler/Russell, (compiled by Richard K. Hascall for the Haskell Family Association). [S35344] New York Passenger Lists, Ship Bremen, from Southsmpton, England, arrived 23 Aug 1934. [S37615] Obituary, New York Times, Margaret DeMott, (April 28, 2011). [S27988] Marriage announcement, New York Times, Christopher Temple Emmett Rand and Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich, (June 10, 1934). [S37538] Obituary, New York Times, Christopher Rand, (September 27, 30, 1968).