Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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Church of St Hychan Llanychan is in Llanychan.
1254. The Church of St Hychan [Map] is first mentioned in 1254. The dedication is to St Hychan, thought to have been related to Brychan Brycheiniog. The church was extensively restored in 1877-8 by Arthur Baker, architect, of Kensington, at a cost of £700 paid for by John Taber of Clwyd Hall. The vestry was added; the roof restored; the north windows were made uniform with that at south-east, and the porch was rebuilt. The east window is by J Dudley Forsyth.
After 1675. Church of St Hychan Llanychan [Map]. Monuments to the Jones Family.
1935. Church of St Hychan Llanychan [Map]. Monument to Joseph Crosland Graham (age 68) and Marah Bond Robinson, and their son Alan Crosland Graham (age 38). Sculpted by Leonard Stanford Merrifield (age 55).
Marah Bond Robinson: On 10th February 1861 she was born. Around August 1895 Joseph Crosland Graham and she were married. On 3rd July 1927 she died at Clwyd Hall Ruthin.
Alan Crosland Graham: On 2nd August 1896 he was born to Joseph Crosland Graham and Marah Bond Robinson. On 1929 Joseph Crosland Graham and Violet Kathleen Brinkley were married at St Asaph [Map]. His son Alan Crosland Graham and her mother Evelyn Everard Hutton were witnesses, and possibly her sister Maud Agatha Brinkley. Her father was deceased before the 1901 Census. The difference in their ages was 28 years. On 10th May 1964 he died.
After 21st December 1985. Church of St Hychan Llanychan [Map]. Grave of Violet Kathleen Brinkley (deceased), second wife of Joseph Crosland Graham.
Violet Kathleen Brinkley: On 17th February 1895 she was born to Charles Michael Edgeworth Brinkley and Evelyn Everard Hutton at Tongham, Surrey. On 21st December 1985 she died.