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On 14th August 1860 [her father] Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 32) and [her mother] Mary Curteis were married.
On 18th October 1863 Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough was born to Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 36) and Mary Curteis.
On 5th August 1886 Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 27) and Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Yarborough. He the son of Charles Anderson-Pelham 3rd Earl Yarborough and Victoria Alexandrina Hare.
On 14th August 1887 [her son] Charles Pelham was born to [her husband] Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 28) and Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 23).
On 24th August 1888 [her father] Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers (age 60) died. Baron Conyers and Baron Darcy of Knayth abeyant between his two daughters Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 24) and [her sister] Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis (age 23).
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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 17th December 1888 [her son] Sackville Pelham 5th Earl of Yarborough was born to [her husband] Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 29) and Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 25).
In 1892 D'Arcy Francis [her husband] Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 32) and Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 28).
On 8th July 1892 Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 28) abeyance terminated 13th Baroness Conyers.
In 1893 [her son] Marcus Herbert Pelham 6th Earl of Yarborough was born to [her husband] Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 33) and Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 29).
In 1903 Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 39) abeyance terminated 7th Baroness Fauconberg after an abeyance of 413 years.
On 31st January 1911 [her son] Charles Pelham (age 23) and [her daughter-in-law] Alexandra Vivian (age 20) were married. She the sister of the wife [Dorothy Maud Vivian (age 31)] of Field Marshal Douglas Haig 1st Earl Haig (age 49). He the son of [her husband] Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 51) and Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 47).
On 30th October 1914 at Zandvoorde during the he First Battle of Ypres.
[her son] Charles Pelham (age 27) [Lord Worsley] was killed in action. His wife, [her daughter-in-law] Alexandra Vivian (age 24), who did not remarry, subsequently purchased the land in the town of Zandvoorde in which he was buried. Following his re-interrment at the Town Cemetery Military Extension at Ypre in 1921, the land became the site of the Household Cavalry Memorial.
Hugh William Grosvenor (age 30) was killed in action.
Gerald Ernest Francis Ward (age 36) was killed in action His body was never recovered and he is commemorated at the Menin Gate.
Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (age 40) was killed in action.
The 1st Life Guard's war diary noted the action at Zandvoorde -[7]
Zandvoorde-Oct 30 6am Heavy bombardment of position opened. At 7.30am position was attacked by large force of infantry. This attack proved successful owing to greatly superior numbers. Regiment retired in good order about 10.00am except C Squadron on the left flank from which only about ten men got back. Remainder of Squadron missing. Also one machine gun put out of action.
Worsley was in command of the Machine Gun section of the Royal Horse Guards defending the area around Zandvoorde to the East of Ypres. They had come under overwhelming pressure and most of the unit had been withdrawn and replaced by 1st Life Guards in which Hugh Grosvenor served. However the MG section, being essential to the defence of the line was retained in the front line along with its crew, led by Lord Worsley. The events concerning the death of both men are discussed in "1914 - The Days of Hope" by Lyn McDonald. Worsley was not the image of the spit and polish of the Household Brigade. He was covered in mud and had not shaved for a week having been subject to continual attacks by the German elite troops ranged against them. He wrote home that his last shave "was all the washing I've had time for in the last ten days". The incoming Life Guards had one Machine Gun inoperative so Worsley's gun was retained as it covered a vital section of the line. His team were tired and hungry having missed out on a meal during the relief by the 1st Life Guards, who had already consumed their own rations whilst moving up to the line and could not help their brothers in arms. However a timely parcel arrived from Worsley's mother containing chocolate which was shared equally amongst the MG team. They remained in position for six days and nights in appalling weather and under attack by overwhelming numbers. Their trench was shallow, and dug on the forward slope before Zandvoorde in full view of the Germans. It was clear to Hugh Grosvenor that the position was exposed and that the Germans were massing for another attack. Grosvenor sent the following message to his HQ "There appears to be a considerable force of the enemy to my front and to my right front. They approach to within about seven hundred yards at night. Our shells have not been near them on this flank". What remained unsaid was that the German artillery certainly had the range of the British trenches and had delivered significant quantities of shellfire, clearly with little reply.
The morning of 30th November dawned as the eighth consecutive day that Worsley's MG team had spent in the line. At 06.00hrs the German barrage started and it was intense. For 90 minutes there was little that the British could do but deal with their battered trenches and their wounded. Worsley's team had to cover their vital Machine Gun with their bodies to protect it from mud and dirt - they well knew that when the shelling stopped they would need it in full working order. When the shelling stopped and the Germans advanced it was over in minutes. An official report confirmed that "the (German) attack proved successful owing to greatly superior numbers" and that the Regiment had "retired in good order". Not all had retired in good order. Hugh Grosvenor and Charles Worsley were occupied in dealing with Germans swarming over their trenches and firing on them at close range and soon it came down to hand to hand fighting. The inevitable conclusion soon came. One man retiring looked back and saw Worsley still standing, firing at the enemy about to overwhelm the trench. There was nobody left alive to tell the tale of the final moments. There were no British wounded. There were no prisoners taken. A cavalry squadron, fighting as dismounted infantry, had simply ceased to exist. By 08.30 news that the 7th Cavalry Brigade had been pushed off the Zandvoorde ridge reached 1st Corps HQ. Perhaps the Commander, General Sir Douglas Haig, took a moment to spare a thought for Worsley who was married to Haig's wife's younger sister.
There was a postscript. The German unit that captured Worsley's trench was the 1st Bavarian Jaeger Regiment and one of its officers found the bodies and on searching them for papers found that Worsley was a Lord. He ordered that any personal effects, including a gold ring should be taken from the body and returned to Worsley's family. Unfortunately the German officer was himself killed a few days later and the effects never found their way back to England. All of the British bodies were buried in a mass grave which remains unfound to this day and all are commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. All but one; Worsley's body was given a separate burial and via neutral Holland the German authorities passed information of its location. After the war it was located and is now buried in Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, just yards from that of another aristocratic Freemason HRH Prince Maurice of Battenberg. The land where Worsley's body was found was purchased by his wife and now is the site of the Household Division Memorial. Lyn McDonalds book includes photos of Worsley and his wife at the quayside before his embarkation to France and also his temporary grave marker.
On 12th November 1921 [her mother] Mary Curteis died.
On 17th November 1926 Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough (age 63) died. Her son [her son] Sackville (age 37) succeeded 14th Baron Conyers, 8th Baron Fauconberg.
On 12th July 1936 [her former husband] Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson 4th Earl Yarborough (age 77) died. His son [her son] Sackville (age 47) succeeded 5th Earl Yarborough, 6th Baron Yarborough.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 27 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Kings Scotland: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 29 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fox
Great x 2 Grandfather: Sackville Fox 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Lane 1st Viscount Lanesborough
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Lane 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Sackville Viscountess Lanesborough 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Lane-Fox 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Sackville Lane-Fox 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Pitt 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Pitt of Stratfield Saye 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Pitt 1st Baron Rivers 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Marcia Lucy Pitt 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Atkins 4th Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Penelope Atkins
Father: Sackville George Lane-Fox 15th Baron Darcy of Knayth 12th Baron Conyers 7 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Osborne 4th Duke Leeds 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Osborne 5th Duke Leeds 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Godolphin 2nd Earl Godolphin 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Godolphin Duchess Leeds 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Churchill 2nd Duchess of Marlborough 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: George William Frederick Osborne 6th Duke Leeds 5 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 3rd Earl Holderness 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Darcy 4th Earl Holderness 3 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frederica Schomberg Countess Holderness and Fitzwalter 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Amelia Darcy 12th Baroness Darcy 9th Baroness Conyers 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
GrandMother: Charlotte Mary Anne Georgiana Osborne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Townshend 3rd Viscount Townsend 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Townshend 1st Marquess Townshend 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Harrison 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Audrey aka Etheldreda Harrison 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Townshend Duchess Leeds 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Montgomery 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Montgomery Marchioness Townshend
Great x 3 Grandmother: Hannah Tomkyns
Marcia Amelia Mary Lane-Fox Countess Yarborough 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Mother: Mary Curteis