Paternal Family Tree: Bootle-Wilbraham
On 7th March 1771 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale.
In 1795 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Westbury.
In 1796 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Newcastle under Lyme.
On 27th October 1801 [his son] Richard Bootle-Wilbraham was born to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale. He married 22nd May 1832 Jessy Brooke, daughter of Richard Brooke 6th Baronet and Harriet Cunliffe Lady Brooke, and had issue.
In 1805 [his daughter] Emma Caroline Bootle-Wilbraham Countess Derby was born to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale. She married 31st May 1825 Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby, son of Edward Smith-Stanley 13th Earl of Derby and Charlotte Margaret Hornby Countess Derby, and had issue.
On 22nd December 1807 [his son] Edward Bootle-Wilbraham was born to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale.
In 1812 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Clitheroe.
In 1818 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was elected MP Dover.
On 31st May 1825 [his son-in-law] Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby [aged 26] and [his daughter] Emma Caroline Bootle-Wilbraham Countess Derby [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Countess Derby. He the son of Edward Smith-Stanley 13th Earl of Derby [aged 50] and Charlotte Margaret Hornby Countess Derby.
On 30th January 1828 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale was created 1st Baron Skelmersdale in Lancashhire.
On 22nd May 1832 [his son] Richard Bootle-Wilbraham [aged 30] and [his daughter-in-law] Jessy Brooke were married.
On 5th May 1844 [his son] Richard Bootle-Wilbraham [aged 42] died of influenza.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
On 3rd April 1853 Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 1st Baron Skelmersdale died. His grandson Edward [aged 15] succeeded 2nd Baron Skelmersdale in Lancashhire.