Blog post: the de la Pastures
De la Pasture was E. M. Delafield’s original surname and this blog post gives the history of her father’s family. Minor members of the French aristocracy, most of them left for England after the Revolution, and established themselves in British upper-class society.
EMD’s family background: the de la Pastures
The de la Pastures, EMD’s father’s family, come from a markedly different background to her mothers’ ancestors the Bonhams, although as we shall see they have points in common. The website geneanet.org shows the de la Pasture family tree stretching back into the fourteenth century, all living around the Pas-de-Calais in northwest France. Violet Powell suggests they were also related to the Netherlandish artist Roger van den Weyden, who is better known by the Flemish translation of the de la Past...
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