Paternal Family Tree: Bouverie
Maternal Family Tree: Mary Clarke -1739
On 31st January 1724 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone [aged 29] and [his mother] Mary Clarke were married at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].
On 26th February 1725 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor was born to Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone [aged 30] and Mary Clarke.
On 21st November 1736 [his uncle] Edward des Bouverie 2nd Baronet [aged 46] died at Aix in France. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Britford [Map]. His brother [his father] Jacob [aged 42] succeeded 3rd Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London.
On 16th November 1739 [his mother] Mary Clarke died. She was buried at Britford, Wiltshire [Map].
On 21st April 1741 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone [aged 46] and [his step-mother] Elizabeth Marsham Viscountess Fokestone [aged 29] were married at Swanscombe, Kent.
On 29th June 1747 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone [aged 52] was created 1st Viscount Folkestone, 1st Baron Longford. [his step-mother] Elizabeth Marsham Viscountess Fokestone [aged 35] by marriage Viscountess Folkestone.
On 14th January 1748 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 22] and Harriet Pleydell were married.
On 4th March 1750 [his son] Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie 2nd Earl Radnor was born to William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 25] and [his wife] Harriet Pleydell at Westminster [Map]. He married 24th January 1777 Anne Duncombe Countess Radnor, daughter of Anthony Duncombe 1st Baron Feversham and Anne Hales Baroness Feversham Downton, and had issue.
On 5th September 1751 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 26] and Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone [aged 25] were married.
On 30th October 1752 [his son] William Henry Bouverie was born to William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 27] and [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone [aged 27]. He married 16th August 1777 Bridget Douglas, daughter of James Douglas 14th Earl Morton and Bridget Heathcote Countess Morton, and had issue.
On 29th October 1753 [his son] Bartholomew Bouverie was born to William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 28] and [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone [aged 28]. He married 1779 Mary Arundell and had issue.
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 17th February 1761 [his father] Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone [aged 66] died. His son William [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Viscount Folkestone, 2nd Baron Longford, 4th Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London. [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone [aged 35] by marriage Viscountess Folkestone.
Before 17th September 1761 [his brother-in-law] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury [aged 50] and [his sister] Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury [aged 30] were married. She by marriage Countess Shaftesbury. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury and Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury.
On 4th May 1764 [his wife] Rebecca Alleyne Viscountess Folkestone [aged 38] died.
In 1765 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 39] was created 1st Earl Radnor.
On 28th January 1776 William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor [aged 50] died. His son Jacob [aged 25] succeeded 2nd Earl Radnor, 3rd Viscount Folkestone, 3rd Baron Longford, 5th Baronet Bouverie of St Catherine Cree Church in London.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward des Bouverie
Grandfather: William des Bouverie 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Jacob de la Forterie
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne de la Foterie
father: Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Urry of Mill Place, Isle of Wight
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Urry
Grandmother: Anne Urry Lady Bouverie
William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor
Grandfather: Bartholemew Clarke
mother: Mary Clarke