Around February 1811 Ellen Turner was born to William Turner of Pott Shrigley.
In 1816 [her future husband] Edward Gibbon Wakefield [aged 19] and Eliza Pattle [aged 16] were married. She died four years later. He, thereafter, lived off her fortune in Paris.
On 14th May 1826 [her future husband] Edward Gibbon Wakefield [aged 29] and his brother William were found guilty of abduction and both were sentenced to three years in prison. Edward's marriage to Ellen Turner [aged 15] was annulled by Act of Parliament.
On 7th March 1827 Ellen Turner [aged 16] was abducted from Margaret Daulby's elite boarding school for girls in Liverpool by, Edward Thevenot, a servant of Edward Gibbon Wakefield [aged 30]. Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Ellen Turner were married at Gretna Green, Dumfrieshire, she believing she was marrying to protect her father from financial ruin. After the marriage they set out for France, another jurisdiction, where he intended they settle as man and wife. He was subsequently arrested, tried and imprisoned.
On 14th January 1828 Thomas Legh [aged 35] and Ellen Turner [aged 16] were married.
1829. Henry Wyatt [aged 34]. Portrait of Ellen Turner [aged 17].
On 20th February 1830 [her daughter] Ellen Jane Legh was born to [her husband] Thomas Legh [aged 37] and Ellen Turner [aged 19]. She married 22nd January 1847 Reverend Brabazon Lowther.
On 17th January 1831 Ellen Turner [aged 19] died from childbirth at Lyme Hall, Cheshire [Map].
On 27th January 1831 Ellen Turner [deceased] was buried at St Oswald's Church, Winwick [Map]. The service was performed by Reverend Thomas Hinde. Monument sculpted by Richard James Wyatt [aged 35].
On 3rd October 1843 [her former husband] Thomas Legh [aged 50] and Maud Lowther were married.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 8th May 1857 [her former husband] Thomas Legh [aged 64] died at Milford Lodge, Lymington. His nephew William John Legh 1st Baron Newton [aged 28] inherited his estates including Lyme Hall, Cheshire [Map].