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Paternal Family Tree: Arkwright
On 11th March 1852 [his father] Major William Arkwright (age 42) and [his mother] Fanny Susan Thornewill (age 19) were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years.
On 21st April 1857 William Arkwright was born to Major William Arkwright (age 47) and Fanny Susan Thornewill (age 24). His father died three weeks later.
On 13th May 1857 [his father] Major William Arkwright (age 47) died. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Sutton Scarsdale [Map].
In 1876 William Arkwright (age 18) suffered a serious hunting accident in 1876 which left him largely paralysed on one side of his body and with a metal plate in his skull.
In 1881 William Arkwright (age 23) converted to Roman Catholicism.
On 8th July 1884 William Arkwright (age 27) and Agnes Mary Somers Cocks were married. There was no issue from the marriage.
In 1890 William Arkwright (age 32) was appointed High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
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The 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. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1902 William Arkwright (age 44) published a guide to the Pointer dog breed of which he was a noted breeder.
On 22nd February 1911 [his mother] Fanny Susan Thornewill (age 78) died. She was buried at St Mary's Church, Sutton Scarsdale [Map].
Fanny Susan Thornewill: In 1833 she was born to Edward Thornewill of Dove Cliff, Staffordshire. On 11th March 1852 Major William Arkwright and she were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years.
On 1st March 1915 Francis Arkwright (age 68) died. Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire [Map] was inherited by his cousin William Arkwright (age 57) who
In 1919 the building firm of Haslam Ltd. bought Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire [Map] from William Arkwright (age 61) and asset-stripped the house; this went as far as removing the roof in 1920. The Adams fireplaces which were inlaid with Blue John were stripped from the house and sent to America to a Philadelphia museum along with the ornate staircases, where they still are today. The roof was stripped of lead, the ornate ceilings which were designed by some of the finest Italian craftsmen were removed to take out the wooden joists and some of the stone was used to build houses in the Somersall and Brampton area, leaving only the shell.
In 1925 William Arkwright (age 67) died.
On 26th September 1940 [his former wife] Agnes Mary Somers Cocks died.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Arkwright
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Arkwright
GrandFather: Captain Robert Arkwright
Father: Major William Arkwright
Great x 1 Grandfather: Stephen George Kemble of Newcastle
GrandMother: Frances Crawford
GrandFather: Edward Thornewill of Dove Cliff, Staffordshire
Mother: Fanny Susan Thornewill