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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New Jersey is in United States of America.
Around 1645 George Carteret 1st Baronet (age 35) renamed New Netherlands to New Jersey.
In August 1939 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (age 48) and Kathleen Woodward (age 27) moved to America. They lived at Franklin Lakes New Jersey.
On 4th May 1978 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (age 87) died at Franklin Lakes New Jersey.
On 30th December 1783 Hamilton Douglas (age 20) died of exposure while commanding the barge of Assistance being caught in a snowstorm while looking for deserters and wrecked at Sandy Hook, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
On 8th December 1758 General Thomas Gage (age 39) and Margaret Kemble (age 24) were married at her father's plantation Mount Kemble Plantation, New Jersey. They had eleven children.
On 6th January 1718 William Gage 2nd Viscount Gage was born to Thomas Gage 1st Viscount Gage (age 17) and Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall Viscountess Gage in New Brunswick New Jersey.
On 10th March 1719 General Thomas Gage was born to Thomas Gage 1st Viscount Gage (age 18) and Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall Viscountess Gage in New Brunswick New Jersey. He married 8th December 1758 Margaret Kemble.
In 1734 Margaret Kemble was born to Peter Kemble at New Brunswick New Jersey. She married 8th December 1758 General Thomas Gage, son of Thomas Gage 1st Viscount Gage and Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall Viscountess Gage.
On 8th May 1821 William Henry Vanderbilt was born to Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt (age 26) and Sophia Johnson at New Brunswick New Jersey. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.12%. He married 1841 Maria Louisa Kissam and had issue.
On 19th April 1700 Timothy Shelley was born to John Shelley (age 34) and Helen Bysshe (age 33) in Newark, New Jersey. He married 1728 Johanna Plume and had issue.
On 21st June 1731 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet was born to Timothy Shelley (age 31) and Johanna Plume (age 27) in Newark, New Jersey. He married (1) 30th June 1752 Mary Catherine Michell and had issue (2) 17th August 1769 Elizabeth Jane Perry 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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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792–1822), English poet, was born on the 4th of August 1792 was born at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex. He was the eldest child of Timothy Shelley (1753–1844) (age 38), M.P. for Shoreham, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Pilfold, of Effingham, Surrey. His father was the son and heir of Sir Bysshe Shelley (age 61), Bart. (d. 1815), whose baronetcy (1806) was a reward from the Whig party for political services. Sir Bysshe's father Timothy had emigrated to America, and he himself had been born in Newark, New Jersey; but he came back to England, and did well for himself by marrying successively two heiresses, the first, the mother of Timothy, being Mary Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Theobald Michell of Horsham. He was a handsome man of enterprising and remarkable character, accumulated a vast fortune, built Castle Goring, and lived in sullen and penurious retirement in his closing years. None of his talent seems to have descended to his son Timothy, who, except for being of a rather oddly self-assertive character, was indistinguishable from the ordinary run of commonplace country squires. The mother of the poet is described as beautiful, and a woman of good abilities, but not with any literary turn; she was an agreeable letter-writer. The branch of the Shelley family to which the poet Percy Bysshe belonged traces its pedigree to Henry Shelley, of Worminghurst, Sussex, who died in 1623. These Worminghurst or Castle Goring Shelleys are of the same stock as the Michelgrove Shelleys, who trace up to Sir William Shelley, judge of the common pleas under Henry VII., thence to a member of parliament in 1415, and to the reign of Edward I., or even to the epoch of the Norman Conquest. The Worminghurst branch was a family of credit, but not of special distinction, until its fortunes culminated under the above-named Sir Bysshe.
In 1697 Elizabeth Carteret (age 43) died at Somerset New Jersey.
In December 1682 Philip Carteret (age 43) died at Elizabethtown, Essex County West Jersey New Jersey.