Auchincloss

Auchincloss
Family name
Pronunciation	/ˈɔkənklɑs/[1]
Meaning	"stone field" (a place-name)
Region of origin	Scotland
Related names	Auchinclose

Auchincloss is a surname of Scottish origin, derived from an area in Ayrshire known as Auchincloich, which is Scottish Gaelic for "field of stones",^[2] from achadh ("field") and clach ("stone").^[3] and a prominent American family.

Notables

Notable people with the surname include:

• Hugh Auchincloss (1915-1998), American Surgeon and Breast Surgery Pioneer
• Hugh D. Auchincloss (1897–1976), American stockbroker and lawyer
• James C. Auchincloss (1885–1976), American businessman and politician
• Lily Auchincloss (1922–2008), American journalist, philanthropist and art collector
• Louis Auchincloss (1917–2010), American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist

Family tree

• John L. Auchincloss (1810–1876), ∞ Elizabeth Buck (1816–1902)^[4]
  • Henry Buck Auchincloss (1836–1926), ∞ Mary Cabell (1837–1903)
    • Margaret Cabell Auchincloss (1861–1935), ∞ Richard Morse Colgate (1854–1919)
    • Henry Stuart Auchincloss (1863–1863)
    • Elizabeth Belden Auchincloss (1869–1876)
    • John Auchincloss (1872–1948), ∞ Grace Eginton (1883–1965)
    • James Cabell Auchincloss (1876–1882)
  • Sarah Ann Auchincloss (1838–1887), ∞ James Coats, 1st Baronet (1834–1913)
    • Stuart Auchincloss Coats, 2nd Baronet (20 March 1868 – 15 July 1959), ∞ 1891 : Jane Muir Greenlees
      • James Stuart Coats, 3rd Baronet (1894–1966)
        • Alastair Francis Stuart Coats, 4th Baronet (1921–2015)
          • Alexander James Coats, 5th Baronet (b. 1951)
  • Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (1847–1892), ∞ Maria LeGrange Sloan (1847–1929)
    • Samuel Sloan Auchincloss (1873–1934), ∞ Annie Agnew
    • Edgar Stirling Auchincloss, Jr. (1874–1910), ∞ Marie Louise Mott (d. 1899), ∞ Catherine Stanford Agnew (1875–1967)
    • Elizabeth Ellen Auchincloss (1877–1904)
    • James Coats Auchincloss (1885–1976), ∞ 1909 : Lee Alexander (d. 1959), ∞ Vera Rogers Brown
      • James Douglas Auchincloss (1913–2000), ∞ 1934 (div) : Eleanor Grant (1914-1992), ∞ 1956 (div 1979) : Lily van Ameringen (1922–1996), ∞ Catherine
        • Kenneth Auchincloss (1937–2003), ∞ Eleanor Johnson
        • David Auchincloss, ∞ 1966 (div) Robin Gorham
        • Gail Auchincloss, ∞ 1959 : Seymour Parker Gilbert III (1933–2015)
          • Seymour Parker Gilbert IV
          • Lynn Gilbert Tudor
          • David Gilbert (b. 1967)
        • Lee Auchincloss, ∞ 1971 : Troland S. Link
        • Alexandra Auchincloss, ∞ 1987 : Paul Karel Herzan
      • Gordon Auchincloss (d. 1998)
    • Gordon Auchincloss (1886–1943)
    • Hugh Auchincloss (1878–1947), ∞ Frances Coverdale Newlands (1878–1960)
    • Reginald LaGrange Auchincloss, Sr. (1891–1984), ∞ Ruth Hunter Cutting (1895–1948)
      • Reginald LaGrange Auchincloss, Jr. (1917–1992), ∞ June Finn, ∞ Frances D'Arcy, ∞ Esther Willcox (1921–2000)
      • Bayard Cutting Auchincloss (1922–2001), ∞ Mary Christy Pratt (1923–1960), ∞ Harriet Ann Murphy (1928–2010)
        • Susan Sloan Auchincloss (1966–1967)
      • Lisa Auchincloss (1924–2006), ∞ George A. Eyer, Jr. (d. 2003)
        • Diana Eyer
        • Lisa Eyer
        • Alexandra Eyer
    • Maria Auchincloss, ∞ Allen M. Look
  • John Winthrop Auchincloss (1853–1938), ∞ Joanna Hone Russell (1856–1930)
    • Joseph Howland Auchincloss (1886–1968), ∞ Priscilla Stanton Dixon (b. 1888)
      • Louis Auchincloss (1917–2010), ∞ 1957: Adele Burden Lawrence (1931–1991)
        • Andrew Auchincloss
        • John Auchincloss
        • Blake Auchincloss
      • Joseph Howland Auchincloss (b. 1921), ∞ Sarah Sedgwick Knapp (b. 1919)
    • Elizabeth Auchincloss, ∞ Percy H. Jennings
  • Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. (1858–1913), ∞ Emma Brewster Jennings (1861–1942)
    • Esther Judson Auchincloss, (div 1929), ∞ Edmund Witherell Nash, ∞ Norman Biltz (1902–1973)
      • John Francis Nash (1921–2008), ∞ Mary Elizabeth Gough (d. 2007)
      • Anita Nash, ∞ 1945 : Arthur Murray Dodge, ∞ Harkins
      • Edmund Witherell Nash, Jr.
      • Sheila Kingman Biltz, ∞ 1952 : William Alexander O'Brien III
      • Esther Auchincloss Biltz, ∞ 1953 : Paul D. Langham
    • Ann Burr Auchincloss
    • Hugh D. Auchincloss (1897–1976), ∞ 1925 (div 1932) : Maya de Chrapovitsky, ∞ 1935 (div. 1941) : Nina S. Gore, ∞ 1942 : Janet Lee Bouvier (1907–1989)
      • Hugh Dudley "Yusha" Auchincloss III (1927–2015)
      • Nina Gore Auchincloss (b. 1937), ∞ 1957 (div 1974) : Newton Steers (1917–1993), ∞ 1974 (div 1998) : Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004)
        • Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963–1995)
        • Ivan Steers
        • Burr Gore Steers (b. 1965), ∞ : Jennifer Bott
      • Thomas Gore Auchincloss (b. 1937)
      • Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985), ∞ 1966 : Lewis Polk Rutherfurd (b. 1944)
        • Lewis Stuyvesant Rutherfurd
        • Andrew Hugh Auchincloss Rutherfurd
        • Alexandra Rutherfurd
      • James Lee Auchincloss (b. 1947)
    • William Stuart Auchincloss (1842–1928), ∞ Martha Tuthill Kent (1841–1923)
      • James Stuart Auchincloss (1872–1922)
      • Jane Kent Auchincloss (1875–1949), ∞ Henry Adams Truslow (1874–1937)
      • William Kent Auchincloss (1877–1960)

See also

• Auchinleck, a name with a similar meaning, but derived from a different word for "stone": leac ("slab").

References

1. The New Oxford American Dictionary (3rd ed.). 2010, 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. Anderson, William (1865). Genealogy and Surnames: With Some Heraldic and Biographical Notices. Ritchie. p. 105.
3. Scottish Geographical Magazine. Royal Scottish Geographical Society. 1922. p. 35.
4. Stiles, Henry R. (May 1, 2009). Families of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut; Consisting of the History of Ancient Withersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families. Heritage Books. ISBN 9780788419843. Retrieved 14 October 2016.