On 2nd April 1836 [her father] Charles Dickens [aged 24] and [her mother] Catherine Dickens nee Hogarth [aged 20] were married.
On 29th October 1839 Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens was born to Charles Dickens [aged 27] and Catherine Dickens nee Hogarth [aged 24].
1853. [her future husband] Charles Allston Collins [aged 24]. Portrait of (probably) Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 13], the artist's wife.
1860. John Everett Millais 1st Baronet [aged 30]. "The Black Brunswickers". Model Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 20]. On the wall of the room is an engraving of a painting by J L David (1748-1825), which depicts Napoleon crossing the Alps. It serves as a reminder of Waterloo. The Black Brunswickers suffered severe losses at the battle of Quatre Bras at Waterloo in 1815. In the collection of the Lady Lever Art Gallery [Map].
In 1860 Charles Allston Collins [aged 31] and Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 20] were married.
1870. [her future husband] Charles Edward Perugini [aged 30]. "Greensleeves". Model the artist's future wife Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 30].
On 9th June 1870 [her father] Charles Dickens [aged 58] died.
On 9th April 1873 [her husband] Charles Allston Collins [aged 45] died of cancer. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery, Kensington.
After 1874. [her future husband] Charles Edward Perugini [aged 34]. Portrait of Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 34], the artist's wife.
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 4th June 1874 Charles Edward Perugini [aged 34] and Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 34] were married at St. Paul's Church in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge. The guests included Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens, Francis Jeffrey Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens and Sir John Everett Millais [aged 44]. They had married earlier, 1st September 1839, at a registry office, with witnesses, and strangers, Henry Thomas Mitcham and Ernest Edward Earle.
On 22nd November 1879 [her mother] Catherine Dickens nee Hogarth [aged 64] died.
1881. John Everett Millais 1st Baronet [aged 51]. Portrait of Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 41].
On 22nd December 1918 [her husband] Charles Edward Perugini [aged 79] died.
On 9th May 1929 Catherine "Kate" Perugini nee Dickens [aged 89] died.