Text this colour links to Pages. Text this colour links to Family Trees. Text this colour are links that disabled for Guests.
Place the mouse over images to see a larger image. Click on paintings to see the painter's Biography Page.
Mouse over links for a preview. Move the mouse off the painting or link to close the popup.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.
On 27th October 1896 [her father] Christopher Temple Emmet (age 28) and [her mother] Alida Beekman Chanler (age 23) were married.
On 8th September 1897 Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet was born to [her father] Christopher Temple Emmet (age 29) and [her mother] Alida Beekman Chanler (age 24).
May 1899. William Bruce Ellis Ranken (age 18). [her future husband] Edwin Morgan (age 8) and Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (age 1) on an open-air 'veranda' on the stern of their steam yacht.
Edwin Morgan: On 17th May 1890 he was born. In 1920 he and Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet were married. On 18th October 1954 he died.
In 1920 Edwin Morgan (age 29) and Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (age 22) were married.
In 16th February 1921 [her son] [her husband] Edwin Morgan was born to Edwin Morgan (age 30) and Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (age 23). He married (1) 1949 Nancy Marie Whitney.
1933. William Bruce Ellis Ranken (age 51). Portrait of Mrs Edwin D. Morgan i.e. Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (age 35).
On 8th February 1934 Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (age 36) died.
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Morgan, New York, Feb. 8 —(AP.)—Mrs. Elizabeth Emmet Morgan, widow of Edwin Dennison Morgan and a descendant of the first John Jacob Astor, died today in St. Luke's Hospital. She was 36 years old. In addition to her husband, a son of the late Edwin Lennison Morgan, noted yachtsman, she leaves two sons. Edwin Dennison Morgan, 3d, and Temple Emmet Morgan.
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 format.
On 18th October 1954 [her former husband] Edwin Morgan (age 64) died.
Father: Christopher Temple Emmet
GrandFather: John Winthrop Chanler
Mother: Alida Beekman Chanler
Great x 1 Grandfather: Samuel Cutler Ward
GrandMother: Margaret Astor Ward
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Backhouse Astor
Great x 1 Grandmother: Emily Astor