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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.
Paternal Family Tree: Darwin
On 18th April 1796 [his father] Robert Darwin (age 29) and [his mother] Susannah Wedgwood (age 31) were married. She brought £25,000 which she had inherited from her father [his grandfather] Josiah Wedgwood who had died the previous year. They has six children.
On 12th February 1809 Charles Darwin was born to Robert Darwin (age 42) and Susannah Wedgwood (age 44).
On 15th July 1817 [his mother] Susannah Wedgwood (age 52) died.
On 24th January 1839 Charles Darwin (age 29) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
On 29th January 1839 Charles Darwin (age 29) and Emma Wedgwood (age 30) were married. They were first cousins.
On 13th November 1848 [his father] Robert Darwin (age 82) died.
In 1859 Charles Darwin (age 49) published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".
1868. Julia Margaret Cameron nee Pattle (age 52). Photograph of Charles Darwin (age 58).
1881. John Collier (age 30). (Copy of) Portrait of Charles Darwin (age 71).
On 19th April 1882 Charles Darwin (age 73) died.
On 2nd October 1896 [his former wife] Emma Wedgwood (age 88) died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Darwin of Elston
GrandFather: Erasmus Darwin
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hill
Father: Robert Darwin
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Howard of Lichfield
GrandMother: Mary aka Polly Howard
GrandFather: Josiah Wedgwood
Mother: Susannah Wedgwood