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On 16th May 1885 Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston was born to Joseph Monroe Hinds (age 43) in Decatur Alabama.
On 17th January 1853 Alva Erskine Smith was born to Murray Forbes Smith at 201 Government Street.
In 1856 Mary Virginia "Jennie" Smith was born to Murray Forbes Smith at 201 Government Street.
On 2nd July 1909 Arthur Cowell-Stepney 2nd Baronet (age 74) died. He was found dead at Yuma Railway Station. Baronet Cowell Stepney of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire extinct.
After his father died on 16th November 1727 his uncle Richard Annesley 6th Earl Anglesey (age 34) arranged for Arthur Annesley 4th Baron Altham (deceased) to be kidnapped so that he wouldn't inherit his father's titles or estates. In 1737 he would also have inherited the estates of his cousin Arthur Annesley 5th Earl Anglesey (age 47). He was shipped to a plantation in Delaware and sold into indentured servitude.
In May 1952 Minna Field died at Coconut Grove.
In 1888 John Pendleton King (age 88) died in Summerville Chattooga County Georgia.
On 19th October 1838 John Cheney (age 73) died at Greene County Georgia.
On 1st July 1869 Aquila Cheney (age 83) died at Monroe County Georgia.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 28th December 1845 Thomas Benson Cheney (age 57) died at Morgan County Georgia.
In 1879 Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter was born to Levi Zeigler Leiter (age 44) in Chicago.
On 14th March 1880 Hazel Martyn was born to Edward Jenner Martyn at Chicago.
On 26th March 1885 General Anson Stager of Chicago (age 59) died at Chicago.
On 23rd September 1883 Wayman Adams was born in Muncie, Indiana.
On 11th April 1880 Daniel Garber was born at North Manchester, Indiana. He studied art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1899 to 1905.
On 3rd April 1799 John Pendleton King was born in Glasgow, Kentucky.
In 1788 William Edward West was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
On 8th January 1815 Edward "Ned" Pakenham (age 36) was killed at New Orléans during the Battle of New Orléans.
On 29th January 1859 Virginie Amélie Avegno "Madame Gautreau" was born to Anatole Placide Avegno (age 23) at New Orléans.
On 22nd February 1872 Fanny Ward aka Buchanan was born at St Louis, MIssouri.
On 22nd April 1890 Second Lieutenant William Walter Vernon was born to William Frederick Cuthbert Vernon (age 33) and Louisa Frost (age 29) at St Louis, MIssouri.
On 14th July 1910 Edward Hugh Mosley (age 25) died. He was buried at Elko, Nevada [Map]. Memorial at St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove [Map].
Edward Hugh Mosley: On 16th July 1884 he was born to Tonman Mosley 1st Baron Anslow and Hilda Rose Montgomerie Baroness Anslow.
On 17th July 1923 Romaine Pierce Marchioness Milford Haven was born to Vinton Ulric Dahlgren Pierce at Buncombe, North Carolina.
On 17th December 1903 the Wright brothers, Edgar and Orville, completed the first powered flight, piloted by Orville, at Kitty Hawk Dare County North Carolina.
Around 1645 George Carteret 1st Baronet (age 35) became a proprietor of at Province of Carolina North Carolina.
On 27th September 1804 Anna McNeill was born to Charles Daniel McNeill (age 48) and Martha Kingsley at Wilmington.
On 9th January 1821 William Sharon Senator Banker was born at Smithfield Ohio.
On 21st January 1991 Ileana Hohenzollern Sigmaringen Archduchess Austria (age 82) died at Youngstown Ohio.
In August 1741 Alexander Gordon (age 49) sailed for South Carolina as secretary to James Glen, F.S.A., the newly appointed governor of that province.
On 8th November 1748 William Fowle Middleton 1st Baronet was born at Charleston.
In December 1770 Zephaniah Kingsley Senior (age 36) and his family moved to Charleston.
On 5th January 1792 Henry Collins Flagg Jr was born to Henry Collins Flagg (age 50) at St Thomas, Charleston and Rachel Moore (age 35).
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 3rd June 1985 Sidney Montagu 11th Duke of Manchester (age 56) died at Robin Hood Ranch, Tennessee. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Kimbolton [Map]. His brother Angus (age 46) succeeded 12th Duke Manchester, 15th Earl Manchester, 15th Viscount Mandeville, 15th Baron Montagu of Kimbolton.
On 7th April 1959 Wayman Adams (age 75) died. He was buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Travis County.
On 4th December 1917 Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon was born to John "Jock" Bowes-Lyon (age 31) and Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (age 28) at Washington DC.
On 12th December 1940 Philip Kerr 11th Marquess Lothian (age 58) died at Washington DC.
On 2nd June 1886 President Grover Cleveland (age 49) and Frances Clara Folsom (age 21) were married. Being a friend of her fathers he had known her since she was a child. When her father died he had been appointed her guardian. There was a twenty-seven year age gap. The wedding took place in the Blue Room since he was President at the time; the only President to be married at the White House. She, at aged twenty-one, was the youngest First Lady in history. The difference in their ages was 27 years.
On 15th September 1884 Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh (age 33) died in a hunting accident on a shooting expedition in the Big Horn Mountains Wyoming. Monument in Church of the Virgin Mary, Stoneleigh [Map] sculpted by Edwardo Orlandini.
Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh: On 1st September 1851 he was born to William Henry Leigh 2nd Baron Leigh and Caroline Amelia Grosvenor Baroness Leigh.
On 29th April 1935 Jean Margaret Wallop Countess of Carnarvon was born to Oliver Malcolm Wallop (age 29) at Big Horn, Sheridan.