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Biography of Clara Burdett 1806-1899

Paternal Family Tree: Burdett

In 1793 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 22) and [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett were married. She brought £25,000 to the marriage.

In 1806 Clara Burdett was born to Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 35) and Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett.

On 13th January 1844 [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett died.

On 23rd January 1844 [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 73) died ten days after the death of his wife [her mother] Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett; he had refused food after she had died. His son [her brother] Robert (age 47) succeeded 6th Baronet Burdett of Bramcote in Warwickshire.

On 28th April 1850 Reverend James Drummond Money (age 45) and Clara Burdett (age 44) were married.

On 18th September 1852 [her son] Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer was born to [her husband] Reverend James Drummond Money (age 47) and Clara Burdett (age 46).

In 20th April 1875 [her husband] Reverend James Drummond Money (age 69) died.

On 12th February 1881 William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Baron Burdett-Coutts (age 30) and [her sister] Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 66) were married. He by marriage Baron Burdett-Coutts of Highgate and Brookfield in Middlesex. There were no children from the marriage. Because of her husband's American birth a clause in her step-grandmother's will forbidding her heir to marry a foreign national was invoked and Burdett-Coutts forfeited three-fifths of her income to her sister Clara Burdett (age 75). The difference in their ages was 36 years; she, unusually, being older than him.

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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 22nd December 1899 Clara Burdett (age 93) died.

On 30th December 1906 [her sister] Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (age 92) died. Her estate was inherited by [her son] Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer (age 54), son of her sister Clara Burdett, who adopted the name Coutts.

In 1913 [her son] Francis Money-Coutts 5th Baron Latymer (age 60) abeyance terminated 5th Baron Latimer of Snape. He was descended from John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape via Lucy Neville, Frances Cornwallis, Elizabeth Withipoll, William Withipoll, Elizabeth Withipoll, Frances Devereux, Frances Devereux, Robert Burdett 4th Baronet, [her grandfather] Francis Burdett, [her father] Francis Burdett 5th Baronet and Clara Burdett.

Royal Ancestors of Clara Burdett 1806-1899

Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Clara Burdett 1806-1899

Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Burdett 2nd Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 3rd Baronet

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Walter

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Aston 1st Baronet

Great x 3 Grandmother: Magdalen Aston 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Willoughby Lady Aston 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Burdett 4th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tracy 3rd Viscount Tracy 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Tracy 4th Viscount Tracy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leigh Viscountess Tracy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tracy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Leicester Devereux 6th Viscount Hereford 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Devereux 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Francis Burdett 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Sedley 2nd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Savile

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Sedley 1st Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sedley Lady Burdett 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Father: Francis Burdett 5th Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire

GrandMother: Eleanor Jones

Clara Burdett 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Thomas Coutts

Mother: Sophia Coutts Lady Burdett

GrandMother: Susannah Starkey