On 11th November 1850 Catherine Emily Brown was born illegitimately to Ford Madox Brown [aged 29] and Emma Matilda Hill [aged 21].
1851. [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 29]. "Pretty Baa Lambs". Models: the artist's future wife [her mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 21] and their daughter Catherine Emily Brown.
1852 to 1865. [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 30]. Portrait of his daughter Catherine Emily Brown [aged 1].
1853. [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 31]. Portrait of his daughter Catherine Emily Brown [aged 2].
On 5th April 1853 [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 31] and [her mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 23] were married at St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map]. The witnesses were Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 24] and Thomas Seddon [aged 31]. Rector Edward Auriol [aged 48] performed the ceremony.
Edward Auriol: On 27th February 1805 he was born to James Peter Auriol. On 28th September 1829 Edward Auriol and Georgina Morris were married. On 7th January 1842 he was appointed Rector of St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map]. On 10th July 1880 Edward Auriol died.
1854 to 1855. [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 32]. "Waiting: an English Fireside". Models: the artists wife [her mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 24] and daughter Catherine Emily Brown [aged 3].
1857. [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 35]. "Stages of Cruelty". Models: the artists wife [her mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 27] and daughter Catherine Emily Brown [aged 6].
On 11th February 1862 at twenty past seven in the morning Elizabeth Siddal [aged 32] overdosed on laudanum at 14 Chatham Place. Possibly suicide - there may have been a note that said "look after Harry (her invalid brother)" which [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 40] persuaded Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 33] to burn. Shortly after her death Sarah Cox aka Fanny Cornforth [aged 27] moved into the family home to become housekeeper to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
1869. Catherine Emily Brown [aged 18]. "Work".
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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2nd April 1871. Census. 37 Fitzroy Square.
[her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 49]. Head. 49.
[her mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 41]. Wife. 36.
[her half-sister] Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 27]. Daughter. 26.
Catherine Emily Brown [aged 20]. Daughter. 20.
[her brother] Oliver Madox Brown [aged 16]. Son. 16.
Charloote Kirkby. Servant. 29.
Mary Ann Edwards. Servant. 19.
Oliver Madox Brown: In 1855 he was born to Ford Madox Brown and Emma Matilda Hill. In 1874 he died.
After July 1871. Catherine Emily Brown [aged 20]. Portrait of Laura Theresa Epps [aged 19].
On 3rd September 1872 Francis Heuffer [aged 27] and Catherine Emily Brown [aged 21] were married. She the illegitmate daughter of Ford Madox Brown [aged 51] and Emma Matilda Hill [aged 43].
On 17th December 1873 [her son] Ford Madox Ford aka Heuffer was born to Francis Heuffer [aged 28] and Catherine Emily Brown [aged 23]
On 31st March 1874 [her brother-in-law] William Michael Rossetti [aged 44] and [her half-sister] Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 30] were married. She the daughter of [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 52] and Elizabeth Bromley.
1875. Catherine Emily Brown [aged 24]. "A Deep Problem".
In 1877 [her son] Oliver Madox Heuffer was born to Francis Heuffer [aged 31] and Catherine Emily Brown [aged 26]
In 1881 [her daughter] Juliet Catherine Emma Heuffer was born to Francis Heuffer [aged 35] and Catherine Emily Brown [aged 30]
On 9th April 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 53] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Birchington on Sea [Map]. There is a Celtic Cross marking his grave commissioned by his mother Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 81], designed by [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 60] and erected in the presence of his brother [her brother-in-law] William Michael Rossetti [aged 52] and sister Christina Georgina Rossetti [aged 51] as written on the base of the cross.
On 11th October 1890 [her mother] Emma Matilda Hill [aged 61] died.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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5th April 1891. Census. 1 St Edmunds Terrace.
[her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 69]. Head. Widower.
Catherine Heuffer [aged 40]. Daughter. Widow.
[her son] Ford Madox Ford aka Heuffer [aged 17]. Grandson. 17.
Oliver Madox Heuffer [aged 14]. Grandson. 15.
Juliet Catherine Emma Heuffer [aged 10]. Granddaughter. 10.
Charlotte Kindy. Servant. 31.
Margaret Mullin. Servant. 23.
Ford Madox Ford aka Heuffer: On 17th December 1873 he was born to Francis Heuffer and Catherine Emily Brown On 26th June 1939 he died.
Oliver Madox Heuffer: In 1877 he was born to Francis Heuffer and Catherine Emily Brown On 22nd June 1931 he died.
Juliet Catherine Emma Heuffer: In 1881 she was born to Francis Heuffer and Catherine Emily Brown In 1944 she died.
On 6th October 1893 [her father] Ford Madox Brown [aged 72] died. He was buried at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery.
On 12th April 1894 [her half-sister] Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 50] died at Hotel Victoria. Her husband [her brother-in-law] William Michael Rossetti [aged 64] and daughter [her niece] Olivia Madox Rossetti [aged 18] were present.
On 3rd June 1927 Catherine Emily Brown [aged 76] died.
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Brown
GrandFather: Ford Brown
Father: Ford Madox Brown
Great x 1 Grandfather: Unknown Brown
GrandMother: Caroline Madox
GrandFather: Thomas Hill
Mother: Emma Matilda Hill