COCOS ISLANDS (State)

 
TITLE:  King (not recognized)
DYNASTY:  Clunies-Ross
LOCATION:  East Indian Ocean POPULATION: 
   
PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE:  John Cecil Clunies-Ross (1944/-)
born 1928, Governor of the Cocos Islands 1947/1978, married and has issue.
    • John Clunies-Ross, born 1957 and has issue.
      • Katherine Clunies-Ross, born c1984.
      • John Douglas Clunies-Ross, born c1985.
      • Nicola Clunies-Ross, born c1986.
      • Aiden James Clunies-Ross, born 1999.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Settlement was established on South Island by John Clunies-Ross on 27th February 1827, in 1886 the Clunies-Ross family declared the islands a kingdom; this title was not recognized by the British or the Australian Governments, it became Australian territory on 23rd November 1955, John Cecil Clunies-Ross relinquished his authority on 1st September 1978. Title holders were...
  • George Cluness, married Elizabeth Ross, and had issue.
    • John Clunies-Ross (qv)
    • Robert Clunies-Ross, born 1790 in Weisdale in the Shetland Islands, married and had issue.
      • Unknown, married and had issue.
        • William John Clunies-Ross, born 1850, married Hannah Elizabeth Tilley and had issue. He died 1914.
          • Allen Clunies-Ross
          • Capt. Egerton Clunies-Ross, born 5th September 1891 in Bathurst, N.S.W., Australia, served in Gallipoli, Egypt, France and East Africa with the A.I.F. 1914/1917 and K.A.R. (King's African Rifles) 1917/1918 holding the rank of Captain. He died 27th September 1918.
          • Robert Clunies-Ross, born 1897, died October 1918.
          • Sir Ian Clunies-Ross, born 22nd February 1899 in Bathurst, NSW, C.M.G., married 6th October 1927, Janet Leslie Carter (later Lady Clunies-Ross), died 1986, and had issue. He died 20th June 1959.
            • Anthony Ian Clunies-Ross, born 9th March 1932, educated at Knox Grammar School, Scotch College, Melbourne, University of Melbourne (BA), and Pembroke College, Cambridge University (MA), married 1961, Morag Fraser McVey, and has issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters.
            • Maj.-Gen. Adrian Clunies-Ross , born 10th October 1933 in Sydney, A.O. [1986], M.B.E. [1971], educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, the Royal Military College, Duntroon and University of QLD (BA), married Julienne Honora Anthony, and has issue, 3 children.

  • John Clunies-Ross 1827/1854, born 1786, married Elizabeth, and had issue. He died 1853 (1854).
    • John George Clunies-Ross (qv)
      • George Clunies-Ross (qv)
      • Andrew Clunies-Ross
      • Charles Clunies-Ross, married and had issue.
        • Sophie Clunies-Ross
        • Eleonor Clunies-Ross, married Simon Oscar Syvertsen, born 1867 in Mandal, Norway, died 1936 in New York, and had issue. She died 1900 in childbirth.
          • Cyril Clunies-Ross Syvertsen, born 1895, died 1942 during a Japanese air raid.
  • John George Clunies-Ross 1854/1872, married and had issue. He died 1872 (1871).
  • George Clunies-Ross 1872/1910, married and  had issue, 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died 7th July 1910 at Ventnor, Isle of Wight aged 68.
    • John Sydney Clunies-Ross (qv)
  • John Sydney Clunies-Ross 1910/1944, born 1880, married, Rose Nash, died after 1944, and had issue, as well as further issue by a local Malay girl. He died 1944.
    • Inin Anne Clunies-Ross
    • John Cecil Clunies-Ross (qv)
    • Elizabeth May Clunies-Ross
    • Charles William Clunies-Ross
  • John Cecil Clunies-Ross (see above) 
 
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