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Paternal Family Tree: Fane
Maternal Family Tree: Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland 1764-1793
On 20th May 1782 [her father] John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland (age 22) and [her mother] Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland (age 17) were married at Gretna Green. She by marriage Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of [her grandfather] John Fane 9th Earl of Westmoreland and [her grandmother] Augusta Bertie.
On 4th March 1785 Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey was born to John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland (age 25) and Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland (age 20).
On 9th November 1793 [her mother] Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland (age 29) died.
In 1800 [her father] John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland (age 40) and [her step-mother] Jane Huck Saunders Countess of Westmoreland (age 17) were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years. He the son of [her grandfather] John Fane 9th Earl of Westmoreland and [her grandmother] Augusta Bertie.
On 23rd May 1804 George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 30) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 19) were married at Berkeley Square, Mayfair. She the daughter of John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland (age 44) and Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland. He the son of George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey (age 68) and Frances Twysden (age 51).
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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 22nd August 1805 [her father-in-law] George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey (age 70) died. His son [her husband] George (age 32) succeeded 5th Earl Jersey, 8th Viscount Grandison, 5th Viscount Villiers, 5th Baron Villiers. Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 20) by marriage Countess Jersey.
On 4th April 1808 [her son] George Child-Villiers 6th Earl Jersey was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 34) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 23).
In 1810 [her son] Augustus John Villiers was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 36) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 24).
On 29th November 1810 Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey (age 42) and [her sister-in-law] Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll (age 35) were divorced by an act of Parliament as a result of his having had an affair with Charlotte Cadogan Marchioness Anglesey (age 29) whose husband Henry Wellesley 1st Baron Cowley (age 37) also sought a divorce.
Around 19th December 1810, three weeks after her divorce, George William Campbell 6th Duke Argyll (age 42) and [her sister-in-law] Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll (age 36) were married at Canongate Kirk. She by marriage Duchess Argyll. She the daughter of [her father-in-law] George Bussy Villiers 4th Earl Jersey and [her mother-in-law] Frances Twysden (age 57). He the son of John Campbell 5th Duke Argyll and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll.
In 1815 [her son] Frederick William Child-Villiers was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 41) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 29).
On 11th October 1819 [her son] Francis John Robert Child-Villiers was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 46) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 34).
In 1822 [her daughter] Sarah Frederica Caroline Child-Villiers was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 48) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 36).
In 1824 [her daughter] Clementina Augusta Wellington Child-Villiers was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 50) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 38).
In 1828 [her daughter] Adela Corisande Maria Child-Villiers was born to [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 54) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 42).
On 20th September 1831 [her son] Augustus John Villiers (age 21) and [her daughter-in-law] Georgiana Elphinstone (age 21) were married. He the son of [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 58) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 46).
On 16th June 1835 [her sister-in-law] Caroline Elizabeth Villiers Duchess Argyll (age 60) died.
On 12th July 1841 [her son] George Child-Villiers 6th Earl Jersey (age 33) and [her daughter-in-law] Julia Peel Countess Jersey were married. He the son of [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 67) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 56).
On 15th December 1841 [her father] John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland (age 82) died. His son [her brother] John (age 57) succeeded 11th Earl of Westmoreland. Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole Countess of Westmoreland (age 48) by marriage Countess of Westmoreland.
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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.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. From Badminton we went on a visit to Lord Forester at Willey Park, Shropshire, where I met Lady Jersey (age 56) and her daughter, [her daughter] Lady Clementina Villiers (age 18).
Lady Jersey was the greatest grande dame in London Society, and her house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair was the centre of the Tory party. She knew all the artistic and literary celebrities of the day, and her popularity was most remarkable. Lady Clementina Villiers was a beautiful and accomplished girl, and everybody loved her. Once when some one said to her [her husband] father (age 68) that "no one was perfect", Lord Jersey replied: "There is one who is perfect - there is Clementina". Many suitors proposed for her, a most persistent one being the Duke d'Ossuna, a grandee of Spain, and an immensely rich man. He must have been deeply in love with the beautiful English girl, for he used to keep many drawings and portraits of Lady Clementina in his palace at Madrid.
"Those whom the gods love die young", and so it was with Clementina Villiers; she was taken ill during a visit to Germany with her mother and only returned to England to die.
Her portraits were in all the "Books of Beauty" of the day, but although they faithfully portray her perfect features, they cannot convey the beauty of colour and changing expression that were her greatest charms.
On 6th or 7th of November 1845 [her son-in-law] Captin Charles Parke Ibbetson (age 27) and [her daughter] Adela Corisande Maria Child-Villiers (age 17) were married at Gretna Green, Dumfrieshire having eloped from Brighton on the 5th of November. She the daughter of [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 72) and Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 60).
8th November 1845. The Lady [her daughter] Adela Villiers (age 17). Brighton, Nov. 5. The name of the gentleman with whom the young lady has fled is pretty well known, and there is very little doubt, from the inquiries that have since been instituted, that she has gone off with [her son-in-law] Captain Ibbetson (age 27), of the 11th Hussars.
East Lodge is situated opposite Upper Rock Gardens, and Captain Ibbetson lodged with his mother for some time at a house in Lower Rock Gardens, and he has been frequently seen looking towards East Lodge, which was about a couple of hundred yards from his abode, with an opera glass to his eye. He left his lodgings about & fortnight ago, and quitted Brighton; but on Wednesday morning he came down by the train and was seen in Brighton. It has been already stated that the young lady left her home about five o'clock in that afternoon. On inquiry we find that she proceeded short distance down St. James's-street, turned down the New Steine, and engaged a fly opposite the Chain-pier, to convey her to the terminus of the London and Brighton Railway. As the fly-man was mounting his box another fly-man asked him if he knew who he had taken up, and on answering in the negative, he was told that it was Lady Adela Viliers, the daughter of the [her husband] Earl of Jersey (age 72). On arriving at the terminus, a gentleman with a moustache handed the lady from the fly, and having paid him his fare, the lady and gentleman went immediately into the office. On inquiry at the railway termious, we ascertained that a lady and gentleman, answering the description of Captain Ibbetson and Lady Adela, came into the office about the time alluded to, and there was one circumstance which induced the clerk to notice the gentleman, 'When he came into the office he held a handkerchief to his mouth, but being attacked with rather a severe cough, the handkerchief was removed, and the clerk saw that he wore a light moustache. We have it from another party, who knew Capt. Ibbetson well, that he saw him in the train seated by a lady who was closely veiled, so that there is very little doubt that Captain Ibbetson is the man under whose protection the young lady has placed herself. Captain Villiers, the brother of the young lady as soon as he became acquainted with the clandestine departure of his sister from her parents, lost no time in going in pursuit of the fugitive, and since his departure, the Earl of Jersey has received letters from him to the effect that he is in the track of the fair runaway, and her companion in flight; but that he has not been able to overtake them. Although the elopement took place on Wednesday evening, very few persons knew anything of it till they saw it in one of the London morning papers on Friday.
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SUNDAY MORNING. We understand that the young lady succeeded in removing a great portion of her wardrobe, but that she left her jewels on the bed. The Earl of Jersey received a letter from his son, Captain Villiers, this morning, informing him that he bad been to Gretna, and had ascertained that his sister and Captain Ibbetson had been married by the old blacksmith. Captain Villiers had returned to London.
We understand that the Earl of Jersey received a letter this morning from the Commander.in-chief, in reply to one which his lordship had sent to the duke, and that his grace spoke highly of the character of Captain Ibbetson.
Captain Ibbetson has leave of absence till the 14th inst., and it is supposed that after the marriage ceremonies were completed he proceeded at once to join his regiment in Ireland.
The character which the Earl and Countess of Jersey have of the partner of their daughter's fight has, so softened the grief into which her sudden m home had thrown them.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey and the Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy intend to take their departure to-morrow for London.
Lady Adela Villers is seventeen years of age, and Captain Ibbetson, we believe, about six or seven and twenty,
The "mystery" attendast upon the departure of this young lady from the temporary residence of her noble parents in Brighton, has been cleared up, and resolves itself into the exceedingly unpleasant fact that her ladyship has eloped with a gallant captain of the 11th Hussars—a gentleman, as we are informed, wholly unknown to the family, and, if report speak truly, a very recent devotee at the shrine of his youthful innamorata.
We believe we are correct in stating that the first clue to a discovery of the nature of the young lady's flight was obtained from an admission made by the female attendant of her ladyship to the following effect: During the temporary absence of the Earl of Jersey from Brighton, a few days since (his lordship having been called to town), Lady Adela expriased a desire to take a walk on the beach before breakiast one morning. In this walk she was accompanied by the female attendant alluded to, and the latter now states that while upon the shingles (beach) her ladyship was addressed by a gentleman of military appearance (whose person she so accurately described as to leave no doubt as to his identity), that words were exchanged between the parties, but that of the nature of the conversation which passed, she (the attendant referred to) is entirely ignorant.
A comparison of the personal appearance of the gentleman referred to with that of an individual who had been more than once observed to pay particular attention to Lady Adela in the walks and drives about Brighton, and who upon one occasion, a few Sundays since, obtained admission into the pew occupied by the Earl of Jersey's family at the parish church, satisfied the officers that it must be the same person, and upon inquiry being made at the lodgings of the gentleman in question, it was ascertained that he had left Brighton on Wednesday evening. More corroboration could scarcely have been required; but the one clue having been obtained, a train of elucidations followed, which, we believe, warrants the announcement that Captain Charles P, Ibbetson, of the 11th Hussars, is the officer under whose protection Lady Adela has fled her home.
Captain Ibbetson, we understand, is the eldest son of Henry Ibbetson, Esq., a proctor of long standing and extensive practice, and is much esteemed both in his regiment and in general society. It appears that Lady Adela or Wednesday afternoon addressed letters to her mother and to both her sisters. The nature of these communications may be readily guessed. — They were left by her ladyship on the drawing-room table for the evening's post. Shortly after leaving the drawing-room, Lady Adela rang the bell and desired her attendant to bring her dressing-case up stairs, which she immediately did. Her ladyship then it seems hastily dressed herself (very plainly), and left the house unobserved, as above stated. The small bundle which the old porter says her ladyship carried, was doubtless the case in question.
Upon reaching the Steine or East Cliff, her ladyship was observed by a "chairman," who knew her person, to enter a fly which was upon the stand near the pier steps. The driver of this fly has been discovered, and he perfectly remembers the circumstance. He states that he drove the lady to the railway station, and that before she alighted from the carriage, a gentleman, answering the description above given, advanced to the window and spoke to her ladyship—. subsequently assisting her to alight and paying him his fare.
At the Euston station, on Wednesday night, at a few minutes before nine o'clock, the hour for the departure of the York train, the parties were observed on the platform, and the gentleman, addressing one of the officials, requested to be accommodated with a coupé for himself and his fair companion, an act of attention which was immediately afforded. We regret exceedingly to learn, that the Earl of Jersey is overwhelmed with grief at the imprudent step his child has taken, The countess (age 60) bears the affair as well as can be expected.
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In 1847 [her son] Augustus John Villiers (age 37) died.
In 1853 [her daughter] Sarah Frederica Caroline Child-Villiers (age 31) died.
In 1858 [her daughter] Clementina Augusta Wellington Child-Villiers (age 34) died.
On 3rd October 1859 [her husband] George Child-Villiers 5th Earl Jersey (age 86) died. His son [her son] George (age 51) succeeded 6th Earl Jersey, 9th Viscount Grandison, 6th Viscount Villiers, 6th Baron Villiers. [her daughter-in-law] Julia Peel Countess Jersey by marriage Countess Jersey.
On 24th October 1859 [her son] George Child-Villiers 6th Earl Jersey (age 51) died. His son [her grandson] Victor (age 14) succeeded 7th Earl Jersey, 10th Viscount Grandison, 7th Viscount Villiers, 7th Baron Villiers.
In 1860 [her daughter] Adela Corisande Maria Child-Villiers (age 32) died.
On 18th May 1862 [her son] Francis John Robert Child-Villiers (age 42) died.
On 26th January 1867 Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey (age 81) died.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Fane 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Fane 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth West Baroness Darcy 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Fane of Brympton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Rushworth
Great x 3 Grandmother: Hannah Rushworth
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Fane 8th Earl of Westmoreland 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Adrian Scrope 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Scrope 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Waller
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Scrope 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hooke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Hooke
GrandFather: John Fane 9th Earl of Westmoreland 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Swymmer
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Swymmer Countess Westmoreland
Father: John Fane 10th Earl of Westmoreland 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Montagu Bertie 2nd Earl Lindsey 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Bertie 3rd Earl Lindsey 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Martha Cockayne Countess Holderness
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Bertie 1st Duke Ancaster and Kesteven 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Wharton 4th Baron Wharton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wharton Countess Lindsey 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wandesford Baroness Wharton
Great x 1 Grandfather: Montagu Bertie 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Farington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Albinia Farington Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven
GrandMother: Augusta Bertie 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Piers
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Piers
Sarah Sophia Fane Countess Jersey 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Child of Headington in Wiltshire
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Child
Great x 1 Grandfather: Samuel Child
GrandFather: Robert Child
Mother: Sarah Anne Child Countess of Westmoreland