Family Background
Edmund Denniss was the eldest son of Edmund Pinnock Denniss, b. Cape of Good Hope (5th son of Lt.Col. George Hamson Denniss(1758–1821) 43rd Light Infantry, and his 2nd wife Harriet Matilda Pickersgill) and Caroline Bartley(1826–1877), da. of General Sir Robert Bartley(1789–1843). George Hamson Denniss was born in Jamaica, one of 12 children of Digby Denniss (d.1779), of Marley Mount, Salt Ponds, St Catherine's, J.P. for Port Royal, and Sarah Sandys. Digby's father was Johnathan Denniss(1700–1736) (or Dennis) a factor of the South Sea Company, later of Kingston, Jamaica, born in the parish of St. Helens, Bishopsgate, London. The family used a crest of a leopard's head erased proper with the armourials of Dennis of Gloucestershire, 3 leopards faces jessant-de-lys a bend engrailled overall, but differenced by omission of the bend. The family is likely to have descended from Sir Gilbert Denys (d.1422), of Siston, Gloucestershire, probably via Thomas Dennis(d.post 1603) of the City of Gloucester, 2nd. son of Sir Walter Denys(1501–1571) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, whose extensive property holdings in that city (inherited from his wife's uncle Sir Thomas Bell the Elder(1486–1566), thrice mayor of Gloucester) were destroyed during the Civil War.
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