In 1699 Jane Goodwin was born to Reverend George Goodwin [aged 33].
On 20th November 1718 Thomas Ward Consul General Russia and Jane Goodwin [aged 19] were married at Temple Church, London [Map].
At the end of July 1728 [her husband] Thomas Ward Consul General Russia and Jane Goodwin [aged 29] arrived at the court of St Petersburg.
In February 1731 [her husband] Thomas Ward Consul General Russia died suddenly in Russia.
On 23rd November 1731 Claudius Rondeau and Jane Goodwin [aged 32] were married. He the secretary of her former husband who had died seven months previously.
On 5th October 1739 [her husband] Claudius Rondeau died. His wife Jane Goodwin [aged 40] was pregnant at the time of his death.
On 8th May 1740 [her son] Claudia Rondeau was born to [her former husband] Claudius Rondeau and Jane Goodwin [aged 41] posthumously at Canterbury, Kent [Map]. She died three weeks old.
In 1744. Joseph Highmore [aged 51]. Portrait of the Vigor family including Jane Goodwin [aged 45] seated left.
In 1750 [her father] Reverend George Goodwin [aged 84] died.
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 6th September 1783 Jane Goodwin [aged 84] died.