In 1768 Mary Ann Flaxman was born to John Flaxman [aged 42].
In 1782 [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 26] and [her sister-in-law] Anne Denman [aged 22] were married. They lived at Wardour Street Soho [Map].
On 17th July 1793 Richard Aldworth aka Neville aka Griffin [aged 75] died at Billinghbear House. He is buried nearby at Ruscombe with a monument sculpted by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 38].
On 16th August 1800 Admiral Samuel Barrington [aged 69] died. He has a monument sculpted by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 45] at St Andrew's Church, Shrivenham.
In 1803 [her father] John Flaxman [aged 77] died.
On 13th January 1808 Margaret Cunynghame [aged 62] died. She was buried at the Church of St Leonard, Wortley [Map]. Memorial sculpted by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 52].
Margaret Cunynghame: On 13th December 1745 she was born to David Cunynghame 3rd Baronet. On 8th June 1767 James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie and she were married. He the son of John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute and Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute.
On 28th July 1809 Captain Richard Beckett [aged 27] was killed in action at the Battle of Talavera. He has a monument by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 54] at the Minster and Parish Church of Saint Peter-at-Leeds [Map].
In 1810 Mary Ann Flaxman [aged 42] moved into the home of her brother John Flaxman [aged 54] at 7 Buckingham Street Fitzroy Square.
On 10th January 1811 William Saltren [aged 29] died while ice skating on a lake at Thoresby. Church of St Edmund, Holme Pierrepoint [Map]. Sculpted by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 55].
Inscription: "Sacred to the memory of the Reverend William Saltren Rector of Cotgrave, in the county of Nottingham, he was a pious christian, an affectionate son, a sincere friend and a benevolent man: died January 10th 1811, aged 29 years. this monument is erected by his mother Elizabeth Saltren, in testimony of his virtues, and her grateful and affectionate remembrance.
William Saltren: Around 1782 he was born.
On 4th September 1815 Harriet Susan Dashwood [aged 32] died. Memorial in Christchurch Priory [Map] sculpted by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 60].
Harriet Susan Dashwood: In 1783 she was born to Francis Bateman Dashwood. On 17th June 1806 James Edward Harris 2nd Earl Malmesbury and she were married. He the son of James Harris 1st Earl Malmesbury and Harriet Maria Amyand Countess Malmesbury.
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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On 6th February 1817 Sophia Hinde Lady Hesketh [aged 39] died. She was buried at St Mary The Virgin Church, Rufford [Map]. Monument by [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 61].
Sophia Hinde Lady Hesketh: In 1778 she was born. On 1st February 1798 Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh 3rd Baronet and she were married. She by marriage Lady Hesketh of Rufford in Lancashire.
On 7th February 1820 [her sister-in-law] Anne Denman [aged 60] died. Her sister Maria Denman [aged 44] continued to live with Anne's husband [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 64] as did John Flaxman's sister Mary Ann Flaxman [aged 52].
On 7th December 1826 [her brother] John Flaxman [aged 71] died. His sister-in-law Anne Denman and half-sister Mary Ann Flaxman [aged 58] were co-executors of his estate.
On 17th April 1833 Mary Ann Flaxman [aged 65] died.
Cansick's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 2 St Giles' Cemetery, Kings Road. Here rest the mortal remains of [her former sister-in-law] Ann Flaxman, The virtuous and beloved wife of [her brother] John Flaxman, R.A.P.S., Whose soul returned to the Almighty Creator and Blessed Redeemer On the 7th of February, In the year of Our Lord, 1820, And the 60th year of her age. Under the same stone Is interred her husband, John Flaxman, R.A.P.S.1, Whose mortal life Was a constant preparation For a blessed immortality. His angelic spirit returned to the Divine Giver On the 7th of December, 1826, In the 72nd year of his age.
Also in the same vault Are deposited the mortal remains of Mary Ann Flaxman [deceased], Sister of the above John Flaxman, Whose gentle spirit returned to the Divine Giver On the 17th of April, 1833, in the 65th year of her age.
Note 1. Mr. John Flaxman, was born at York, 1755. From boyhood lie displayed a remarkable genius for modelling in clay.
In 1787 he visited Rome, where, during a residence of seven years, he executed his celebrated designs in outline from Homer, Æschylus and Danté.
These were engraved and published, as were some which he made from Hesiod.
Whilst at Rome he also executed the splendid group from Ovid's Metamorphoses entitled "The Fury of Athamas;" consisting of four figures larger than life. For this work he received only £6oo; an amount very much below the cost. It was executed for the Earl of Bristol. In 1794 he returned to England and executed the monument for Lord Mansfield, now in Westminster Abbey. For this he received £2,500. After this he produced a large number of fine works, and was considered the greatest of modem sculptors. His collections of drawings and models he bequeathed to the University of London, to form a Flaxman Gallery.