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Paternal Family Tree: Cuthbert
On 21st July 1876 Captain James Harold Cuthbert was born to [his father] Sidney Cuthbert (age 25) at Melster, Pietermaritzburg, Natal.
On 9th June 1882 [his father] Sidney Cuthbert (age 31) died.
On 15th February 1902. Lieutenant James Cuthbert (age 25) was discharged from hospital for work duties after recovering from being dangerously ill with enteric fever.
20th March 1902. Lieutenant J.H. Cuthbert (age 25) was now on the S.S. Roslin Castle, which left Cape Town for England as dangerously ill with Enteric Fever.
On 24th September 1903 Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 27) and Anne Dorothy Byng (age 22) were married. She the daughter of Francis Edmund Cecil Byng 5th Earl Strafford (age 68) and Emily Georgina Kerr Countess Strafford (age 56).
On 31st January 1907 [his wife] Anne Dorothy Byng (age 26) was accidentally shot and killed by her husband Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 30) when he slipped whilst out on a pheasaant shoot at their home Beaufront Castle, Hexham [Map].
On 12th October 1908 Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 32) and Kathleen Alice Coppin-Straker Baroness Rayleigh were married.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1910 [his daughter] Vida Cuthbert Baroness Darcy was born to Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 33). She married 1934 Mervyn Horatio Herbert 17th Baron Darcy of Knayth, son of George Herbert 4th Earl Powis and Violet Ida Evelyn Lane-Fox Countess Powis, and had issue.
In 1911 Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Northumberland.
On 27th September 1915 Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 39) was killed in action at the Battle of Loos; his body was never found
After 27th September 1915. The Reverend Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, wrote in the Hexham Parish Magazine "All our deepest sympathies are with [his former wife] Mrs Cuthbert in her time of Trial. All who knew Captain Cuthbert (deceased) knew that he would be heroic in the war wherever heroism was expected. It would be no surprise to us to learn that when last seen he was leading his men with stick in hand. As adjutant of the Irish Guards in England he was beloved by officers and men. Mr [John], Kipling (deceased) and Mr Lawrence Straker were subalterns under him, and Mr [John], Kipling would be with when last seen. When Captain Cuthbert went to France it was with the old colours of South Africa, where he received his D.S.O. It was he, in association with his uncle General Gerald Cuthbert, who had so much to do officially with the laying-up of the colours of the Scots Guards in Hexham Abbey in 1910.... He was a man of alert brain, of lithe activity, of original thought, of strictest honour, and was endowed with the highest sense of duty. He was a gallant gentleman."
After 27th September 1915. St John Lee Church, Hexham [Map]. Monument to Captain James Harold Cuthbert (deceased),
Northern Echo. 4th October 1915. News has reached Hexham that Captain J. Harold Cuthbert (deceased), D.S.O., of Beaufront Castle, is reported as wounded and missing. Captain Cuthbert, who won his D.S.O. in the South African War, was on the reserve of officers, and after the commencement of the war, re-joined the army, and was for some time adjutant to the Irish Guards in London. He, however, was attached to his old regiment-the Scots Guards-when they went out to the Front. Captain Cuthbert is a son-in-law of Mr John C. Straker, of the Leazes, Hexham, and has filled the office of High Sheriff of his county.
Belfast News. 6th October 1915. Captain J. H. Cuthbert (deceased), D.S.O., Beaufrout Castle, Northumberland (wounded and missing), is a son-in-law of the Earl of Strafford through his marriage with the late Lady Dorothy Byng whose sister, Lady Joan Byng, is the widow of Captain Honourable A. E. S. Mulholland, Irish Guards, eldest son of Lord Dunleath, Ballywalter, County Down, who was killed in action last year.
Newcastle Journal. 5th November 1915. Captain Cuthbert was killed at the Battle of Loos, whilst leading the Right Flank Company of which he was in command. He and a few men managed to reach Puits 14, along with a Second Lieutenant Crabbe and half a dozen Grenadiers, later reinforced by a platoon of the 3rd Grenadier Guards under Lieutenant Ayres-Ritchie. But under the intense enfilading fire from Hill 70 and Bois Hugo forest they had to pull back. A general retirement followed. The War Diary... shortly before 5pm the men in and beyond the PUITS commenced to retire, and fell back into and through CHALK PIT WOOD in some confusion. The C.O. and [the] Adjutant went forward through the wood to clear up the situation, and while going through the wood Capt. and [the] Adjutant the Honourable T. Vessey was wounded and carried away.
On 8th July 1920 Robert Strutt 4th Baron Rayleigh (age 44) and [his former wife] Kathleen Alice Coppin-Straker Baroness Rayleigh were married. She by marriage Baroness Rayleigh of Terling Place in Essex.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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In 1980 [his former wife] Kathleen Alice Coppin-Straker Baroness Rayleigh died.
GrandFather: William Cuthbert of Beaufront Castle
Father: Sidney Cuthbert