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Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In March 1808 Thomas Crane was born.
In 1840 Thomas Crane (age 31) and Marie Kearsley were married.
1840. Thomas Crane (age 31). Portrait of [his wife] Marie Kearsley.
Marie Kearsley: In 1840 Thomas Crane and she were married. After 15th August 1845 Thomas Crane and Marie Kearsley went to live in Liverpool in the early "forties". He became Secretary and Treasurer of the Liverpool Academy of Art, a post which he resigned on being ordered to Torquay on account of his health, as consumption was feared.
On 15th August 1845 [his son] Walter Crane was born to Thomas Crane (age 37) and [his wife] Marie Kearsley in Liverpool, Lancashire [Map] at Maryland Street, Liverpool [Map]. Her father was a "maltster," a prosperous man in a good position in Chester. Her mother seems to have died early, and her father married a second time. He married 6th September 1871 Mary Frances Andrews and had issue.
After 15th August 1845 Thomas Crane (age 37) and [his wife] Marie Kearsley went to live in Liverpool in the early "forties". He became Secretary and Treasurer of the Liverpool Academy of Art, a post which he resigned on being ordered to Torquay on account of his health, as consumption was feared.
In July 1859 Thomas Crane (age 51) died.