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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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In March 1808 Thomas Crane was born.
In 1840 Thomas Crane (age 31) and Marie Kearsley were married.
1840. Thomas Crane (age 31). Portrait of [his wife] Marie Kearsley.
Marie Kearsley: In 1840 Thomas Crane and she were married. After 15th August 1845 Thomas Crane and Marie Kearsley went to live in Liverpool in the early "forties". He became Secretary and Treasurer of the Liverpool Academy of Art, a post which he resigned on being ordered to Torquay on account of his health, as consumption was feared.
On 15th August 1845 [his son] Walter Crane was born to Thomas Crane (age 37) and [his wife] Marie Kearsley in Liverpool, Lancashire [Map] at Maryland Street, Liverpool [Map]. Her father was a "maltster," a prosperous man in a good position in Chester. His mother seems to have died early, and her father married a second time. He married 6th September 1871 Mary Frances Andrews and had issue.
After 15th August 1845 Thomas Crane (age 37) and [his wife] Marie Kearsley went to live in Liverpool in the early "forties". He became Secretary and Treasurer of the Liverpool Academy of Art, a post which he resigned on being ordered to Torquay on account of his health, as consumption was feared.
1846. Thomas Crane (age 37). Portrait of his son [his son] Walter Crane.
In July 1859 Thomas Crane (age 51) died.