indeedsir_backup | It's All Relative -- Jeeves (Reply)

A few days ago

foofarah asked me about the Wooster family tree. The good ol' Jaggard and Ring ref. book does have a couple of lists titled "It's All Relative -- Jeeves" and "It's All Relative -- Wooster". I've typed up Jeeves's, his being the shortest list, and I'll type up Bertie's tomorrow.

I think a cousin might have been left out of Jeeves's list of relatives. Didn't he have a jeweler cousin who taught him the difference between real pearls and cultured ones?
Queenie was also left out! Wasn't she Uncle Charlie's daughter, ergo Jeeves's cousin?

It's All Relative -- Jeeves

"I shouldn't be at all surprised if Jeeves's three aunts don't shut him up when he starts talking, remembering that at the age of six the child Jeeves didn't know the difference between the poet Burns and a hole in the ground." (MOJ ch. 15)

In trying to piece together Jeeves's known family, we are hampered to a degree, or rather two degrees. Many of his aunts (who may be only three in total) and at least one of his uncles are unnamed, while we do not usually know whether the relatives in question are derived from the maternal or paternal side of his family.

AUNTS

Annie           generated animosity (RHJ ch. 21)
Emily      interested in psychical research (RFJ ch. 9)
Mrs Pigott   owned a cat in Maiden Eggesford (AAG ch. 14)
Anon 1         paid 5/- to meet a movie actor (MMJ-JHE; COJ-JHE)
Anon 2         read Oliver Wendell Holmes to the infant Jeeves (MOJ ch. 12)
Anon 3         obtained relief from Walkinshaw's ointment (COJ-JTC)
Anon 4         had a complete set of Rosie M. Banks books (TIJ-JEO)
Anon 5         lived expansively in S E London (MMJ-ASL; COJ-ASL)

COUSIN

Egbert         PC in Beckley-on-the-Moor (COJ-RAO)

NEICE

Mabel          Biffy Biffham's fieancee, (whose father would have been Jeeves's brother or brother-in-law)

UNCLES

Charlie    [Silversmith], butler to Esmond Haddock at Deverill Hall (TMS ch. 1; SLJ ch. 1)
Cyril    told stories about Nicholls and Jackson (RHJ ch. 22)
Anon who may have been wild as a youth (COJ-JTC)