Is anyone researching this surname. I am aware of Sir Edwin Lutyens and there are plenty of websites devoted to his work but can find very little about his parents or other ancestors. Charles Augustus Henry was the father of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Charles was born ca 1829. He served in the Army and rose to rank of Captain before leaving the army to become a painter. Among other accompilshments he helped design the lions in Trafalger Square. Noted for his portraits of race horses, Charles married Mary Gallwey and had thirteen children, Edwin being the 10th. This much I have discovered from websites devoted to Sir Edwin Lutyens. Charles had a brother Englebert, also a painter. The 1881 census gives birth place of both as Stall, Reading. A Captain Englebert Lutyens was Orderly Officer at Longwood, St. Helena and a collection of his letters from Feb 1820-Nov 1823 have been published. Longwood was Napoleon Bonaparte's home on St Helena until his death. Was this Englebert the father of Charles and Englebert? As for Louisa I have found a marriage of a Charles Lutyens to Francis Jane FLUDGER at Pangbourne on 26 May 1824. Both Charles and Frances ended their days at Southcote House, Reading and were buried London Road Cemetary, Reading. Is this Charles connected to the other Lutyens and was he the father of: LOUISA FRANCES LUTYENS, born Pangbourne, Berks about 1828. She married John Carter HOLDING at St. Andrew, Clifton on 15 Oct 1851. John was a member of the Kingsclere Holdings family whose roots go back to the early 1600s in Kingsclere. The Holdings lived at Elm Grove, Kingsclere and Beenham Court, Headley (now Cheam Hawtreys School). John and Louisa must have left almost immediately for The Cape of Good Hope, S.A. as their first child was born there in 1853. 20 years later the family are back in the UK and living in Southampton where the last of their 7 known children was born. John and Louisa are recorded in Portsmouth in the 1901 census, he was of independant means and had five un-married daughters in household aged from 30-49. John & Louisa both died in Southsea in the early 1900s and are buried at St. Paul, Ashford Hill (near Kingsclere) next to John's father, the Rev. John Holding who was Vicar of Ashampstead, Berks until his death in 1870. This doesn't seem to be a very common surname in England and isn't even listed in the National Genealogical Survey or Rootsweb Surnames listings. Possibly of German origin and I wonder if Captain Englebert Lutyens was a member of the King's German Legion who fought at Waterloo. -- John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software