Paternal Family Tree: Stewart
Maternal Family Tree: Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans -1822
On 4th March 1799 [his father] William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans [aged 32] and [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Aubrey Beauclerk 5th Duke St Albans [aged 58] and [his grandmother] Catherine Ponsonby Duchess St Albans.
On 24th March 1801 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans was born to William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans [aged 34] and Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
Around 1816 Thomas Coutts [aged 80] and [his future wife] Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans [aged 38] were married. The difference in their ages was 42 years.
On 19th February 1816 Louisa Grace Manners Duchess St Albans [aged 39] died. The same day her son Aubrey Beauclerk 7th Duke St Albans died. His uncle [his father] William [aged 49] succeeded 8th Duke St Albans, 8th Earl Burford, 8th Baron Heddington, 5th Baron Vere of Hanworth in Middlesex. [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans by marriage Duchess St Albans. Both at the home of her sister Laura Manners Countess Stair and her husband John Dalrymple 7th Earl of Stair [aged 31] at Portman Square Marylebone.
On 17th January 1822 [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans died.
On 24th February 1822 Thomas Coutts [aged 86] died and left his fortune, including his interest in Coutts Bank, to his wife Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans [aged 44].
On 14th July 1825 [his brother-in-law] Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl Essex [aged 22] and [his sister] Caroline Janetta Beauclerk Countess Essex [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. She the daughter of [his father] William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans [aged 58] and [his mother] Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans. They were fourth cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 17th July 1825 [his father] William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans [aged 58] died. His son William [aged 24] succeeded 9th Duke St Albans, 9th Earl Burford, 9th Baron Heddington, 6th Baron Vere of Hanworth in Middlesex.
On 16th June 1827 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans [aged 26] and Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans [aged 49] were married. She by marriage Duchess St Albans. The difference in their ages was 23 years; she, unusually, being older than him. He the son of William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans and Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans.
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.'
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On 6th August 1837 [his wife] Harriet Mellon Duchess St Albans [aged 59] died. Her step-grand-daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [aged 23] inherited the Coutts fortune of around £1.8 million (equivalent to £170,000,000 in 2021).
On 29th May 1839 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans [aged 38] and Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans [aged 21] were married at Church of St Mary the Virgin Harby, Leicestershire. She by marriage Duchess St Albans. William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans donated a new clock, a bible, a prayer book, and £30 with the rector to be invested for the poor. He the son of William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans and Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans.
On 15th April 1840 [his son] William Amelius Aubrey Beauclerk 10th Duke St Albans was born to William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans [aged 39] and [his wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans [aged 22]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. He married (1) 20th June 1867 his fourth cousin Sybil Mary Grey Duchess St Albans and had issue (2) 3rd January 1874 Grace Bernal Duchess St Albans and had issue.
On 10th December 1842 [his daughter] Diana Beauclerk was born to William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans [aged 41] and [his wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans [aged 24]. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. After mamma's death I kept house for papa at 8 Upper Grosvenor Street. My brothers were rarely at home. William [aged 17] was educated at Eton [Map], and when he was sixteen years old the Duke of Wellington [aged 73] gave him a commission in the Grenadier Guards. Later he went through the Crimean War, and he retired from the Army in 1883, on account of ill-health, with the rank of Lieutenant-General.
Algernon [aged 16] entered the Navy in 1840 as a midshipman, and the same year took part in the operations on the coast of Syria. After the battle of Acre he received the Turkish medal and clasps: his promotion was rapid, and as Admiral, his flagship, the Shah, engaged the Huascar, which he forced to surrender to the Peruvian authorities.
Now that I was so much alone I occasionally found time hang heavy on my hands, and I welcomed any excitement as a break in the monotony, for of course our period of mourning prevented us entertaining or accepting invitations. One day my maid told me about a fortune-teller who had a wonderful gift for predicting the future. I was very much interested, and made up my mind to consult the oracle. My maid attempted to dissuade me, saying that the woman lived in Bridge Street, Westminster, which was not at all a nice neighbourhood. I have always had my own way and, disguised in a borrowed cloak, bonnet and thick veil, and accompanied by my protesting servant, I started off to Bridge Street late one November afternoon.
It was dusk when we reached Westminster and found Bridge Street, badly lighted and evil-smelling. We knocked at the door, stated whom we wished to see, and we were ushered through a dark passage into a dirty room reeking of tobacco.
The fortune-teller was a wrinkled old woman who was smoking a short clay pipe with evident enjoyment. When I told her what I had come for, she produced a greasy pack of cards, and after I had "crossed her pahn" she commenced to tell my future.
"Ah!" said she at last, and she looked curiously, "my pretty young lady, fate holds a great deal in store for you. You will not marry for several years, but when you do it will be to a widower - a man in a high position. You will suffer much unkindness before you experience real happiness, you will obtain much and lose much, you will marry again after your husband's death, and you will live to a great age".
I was quite impressed by my "fortune", but I was a little disappointed, for like most girls I had my day-dreams of a young husband, and the prospect of a widower was thus rather depressing.
Strangely enough, the prediction came true, for Lord Cardigan [aged 45] was a widower, and nearly all the men who proposed to me were widowers! I was asked in marriage by Lord Sherborne [aged 38], a widower with ten children; by the Duke of Leeds [aged 40], who was a widower with eleven children, and by Christopher Maunsell Talbot [aged 39], once Father of the House of Commons, also a widower with four children. Prince Soltykoff, the Duke of St. Albans [aged 41], Harry Howard, and Disraeli [aged 38] were other widowers who proposed to me, so I suppose I must have had some unaccountable fascination for bereaved husbands.
In 1849 [his daughter] Charlotte Beauclerk was born to William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans [aged 47] and [his wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans [aged 31]. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 27th May 1849 William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans [aged 48] died. His son William [aged 9] succeeded 10th Duke St Albans, 10th Earl Burford, 10th Baron Heddington, 7th Baron Vere of Hanworth in Middlesex.
On 2nd December 1893 [his former wife] Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins Duchess St Albans [aged 75] died in St Leonards On Sea.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 3 Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 3 Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings France: Great x 5 Grand Son of Henry IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 10 Grand Son of John II King Aragon
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland 
son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England 
daughter of Henry IV King France
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke St Albans son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Nell Gwyn
Great x 1 Grandfather: Vere Beauclerk 1st Baron de Vere Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert de Vere 19th Earl of Oxford 
8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Aubrey de Vere 20th Earl of Oxford 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Van Hemmema Countess of Oxford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Diana Vere Duchess St Albans 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Kirke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Diana Kirke Countess of Oxford
Grandfather: Aubrey Beauclerk 5th Duke St Albans Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Chambers
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Chambers Baroness Spencer 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Berkeley 1st Earl Berkeley 
7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Berkeley 2nd Earl Berkeley 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Massingberd Couness Berkeley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Berkeley 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden 
21 x Great Grandson of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Noel Countess Berkeley 22 x Great Granddaughter of Hugh I King of the Franks
Great x 4 Grandmother: Hester Wotton Viscountess Campden 
father: William Beauclerk 8th Duke St Albans 2 x Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ponsonby 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Ponsonby 1st Viscount Duncannon 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Folliot 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Randle Moore
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Moore
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough 12 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Archbishop James Margetson
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Margetson
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Bonnett
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sarah Margetson 13 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Caulfeild 1st Viscount Charlemont 11 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Caulfeild Baroness Carpenter 12 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sarah Moore Viscountess Charlemont
Grandmother: Catherine Ponsonby Duchess St Albans 12 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire 
9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Butler Duchess Devonshire 
10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Russell 
9 x Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Rachel Wriothesley 
8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Hoskins
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Hoskins of Oxted
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hale
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Hale
William Beauclerk 9th Duke St Albans 3 x Great Grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Grandfather: John Nelthorpe of Little Grimsby Hall in Lincolnshire
mother: Maria Janetta Nelthorpe Duchess St Albans