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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Paternal Family Tree: Hadfield
Charles Hadfield. Son. 4.
29th May 1884. 1884 Marriage Banns New Mills. [his father] Thomas Hadfield (age 27) and [his mother] Elizabeth Oakes (age 32) were married. He a Farmer. His father, a farmer, [his grandfather] Charles Hadfield deceased. Her father, a Blacksmith, [his grandfather] Robert Oakes (age 66) deceased.
On 25th August 1886 Charles Hadfield was born to [his father] Thomas Hadfield (age 29) and [his mother] Elizabeth Oakes (age 34) at Mellor, Cheshire [Map].
1901. 1901 Census Derbyshire 37 Cobden Edge. Cobden Edge [Map].
[his father] Thomas Hadfield (age 44). Head. 45. Railway Labourer.
[his mother] Elizabeth Oakes (age 49). Wife. 49.
Charles Hadfield (age 14). Son. 14. Calico Printer Works Labourer.
[his brother] William Hadfield. Son. 12.
Before 8th January 1903 [his mother] Elizabeth Oakes (age 51) died. She was living at Cobden Edge [Map]. She was buried on 8th January 1890 at Mellor, Cheshire [Map].
On 30th December 1905 Charles Hadfield (age 19) and Caroline Wood (age 50) were married. The difference in their ages was 31 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
Around 1909 [his son] George Hadfield was born to Charles Hadfield (age 22) and [his wife] Caroline Wood (age 53) at Mellor, Cheshire [Map].
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.
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Before 1911 Charles Hadfield (age 24) and [his wife] Caroline Wood (age 55) had two children who died in infancy. See 1911 Census.
2nd April 1911. 1911 Census Derbyshire New Mills Back Meal Street. 2 Back Meal Street [Map]
Charles Hadfield (age 24). Head. 24. Carter Coal Merchant.
[his wife] Caroline Wood (age 56). Wife. 24.
[his son] George Hadfield (age 2). Son. 2.
In December 1916 [his daughter] Edith Hadfield was born to Charles Hadfield (age 30) at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire [Map]. She married September 1938 Harold Hyde aka Oxley and had issue.
In January 1920 Charles Hadfield (age 33) and Edith Fletcher (age 23) were married.
On 11th October 1937 [his wife] Caroline Wood (age 82) died at 139 Hayfield Road [Map].
In September 1938 [his son-in-law] Harold Hyde aka Oxley (age 25) and [his daughter] Edith Hadfield (age 21) were married at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire [Map].
In January 1959 Charles Hadfield (age 72) died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Hadfield
GrandFather: Charles Hadfield
Father: Thomas Hadfield
GrandFather: Robert Oakes
Mother: Elizabeth Oakes