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On or before 28th October 1816 Margaret Calder was born to Joseph Calder of Burnhouse and Elizabeth Waugh. Not known whether Elizabeth Waugh was related to the two Waugh sisters Fanny Waugh and [her half-sister] Marion Edith Waugh who married [her future husband] William Holman Hunt, or their other sister [her half-sister] Alice Gertrude Waugh who married Thomas Woolner.
On 6th May 1829 [her father] George Waugh (age 28) and [her mother] Mary Walker (age 24) were married.
In 1833 Fanny Waugh was born to George Waugh (age 31) and Mary Walker (age 27).
On 6th September 1864 Thomas Woolner (age 38) and [her half-sister] Alice Gertrude Waugh were married. He had previously proposed to her sister Fanny Waugh (age 31). They had two sons and four daughters.
On 28th December 1865 William Holman Hunt (age 38) and Fanny Waugh (age 32) were married at Christ Church Paddington. William Michael Rossetti (age 36), and her brother and sister George and Emily were witnesses. She, Fanny, would die the following year eight days short of their anniversary. He would, ten years later, marry her younger sister Marion Edith Waugh (age 18); an example of Married to Two Siblings.
1866. [her husband] William Holman Hunt (age 38). Portrait of his wife Fanny Waugh (age 33).
On 27th October 1866 [her son] Cyril Hunt was born to [her husband] William Holman Hunt (age 39) and Fanny Waugh (age 33). It is likely that this birth is the one that caused the death of his mother since she and William Holman-Hunt has only been married one year.
In December 1866 Fanny Waugh (age 33) died either from childbirth or from cholera. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence next to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in a tomb sculpted by her husband [her husband] William Holman Hunt (age 39).
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1868. [her former husband] William Holman Hunt (age 40). "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" from the Keats Poem "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" from the Decameron Day Four Story Five. The model his eight months pregnant wife Fanny Waugh who died after the painting was begun. Hunt turned the painting into a memorial to his wife.
Isabella: Decameron Day Four Story Five. Summary. Lisabetta's brothers murder her lover. He appears to her in a dream and shows her where he is buried. She secretly disinters the head and places it in a pot of basil, over which she weeps for a long time every day. In the end her brothers take it away from her, and shortly thereafter she dies of grief.
1868. [her former husband] William Holman Hunt (age 40). "The Birthday". Model his future second wife [her half-sister] Marion Edith Waugh (age 21) on her twenty-first birthday (sister of his deceased first wife Fanny Waugh).
In November 1875 [her former husband] William Holman Hunt (age 48) and [her half-sister] Marion Edith Waugh (age 28) were married at Neuchâtel, Switzerland since marrying your late wife's sister was illegal in England - see 1835 Marriage Act. She his first wife's younger sister contrary to English Law; an example of Married to Two Siblings. His brother-in-law Thomas Woolner (age 49) considered the marriage immoral; they never spoke again.
On 7th September 1910 [her former husband] William Holman Hunt (age 83) died. He was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].