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On 25th August 1885 Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster was born.
On 24th August 1907 John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 33) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 21) were married.
On 22nd April 1908 [her daughter] Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller was born to [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 34) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 22).
On 12th February 1910 [her son] Richard Yarde-Buller 4th Baron Churston was born to [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 36) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 24).
n 1916 [her daughter] Denise Margaret Yarde-Buller was born to [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 42) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 30).
On 17th October 1917 [her daughter] Lydia Yarde-Buller Duchess Bedford was born to [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 43) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 32).
In 1918 [her daughter] Primrose Lilian Yarde-Buller Countess Cadogan was born to [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 44) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 32).
On 4th July 1927 [her son-in-law] Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness (age 21) and [her daughter] Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (age 19) were married. They were divorced in 1936. She the daughter of [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 53) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 41).
On 31st October 1928 Theodor Wilhelm "Tito" Wessel (age 39) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 43) were married.
On 19th April 1930 [her husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston (age 56) died. His son [her son] Richard (age 20) succeeded 4th Baron Churston, 6th Baronet Yarde-Buller of Churston in Devon.
In 1934 Theodor Wilhelm "Tito" Wessel (age 45) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 48) were divorced.
On 11th June 1936 [her son-in-law] William Gerald Charles Cadogan 7th Earl Cadogan (age 22) and [her daughter] Primrose Lilian Yarde-Buller Countess Cadogan (age 18) were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 50). He the son of Gerald Oakley Cadogan 6th Earl Cadogan.
Around 1938 Esme Ivo Bligh 9th Earl of Darnley (age 51) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 52) were in a relationship.
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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 1941 [her son-in-law] Robert Grosvenor 5th Baron Ebury (age 26) and [her daughter] Denise Margaret Yarde-Buller (age 25) were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 55).
On 11th March 1946 Edward Fitzgerald 7th Duke Leinster (age 53) and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 60) were married. She by marriage Duchess Leinster. He the son of Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster and Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe Duchess Leinster.
On 13th February 1947 [her son-in-law] John Ian Robert Russell 13th Duke Bedford (age 29) and [her daughter] Lydia Yarde-Buller Duchess Bedford (age 29) were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 61). He the son of Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford (age 58) and Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford.
In 1948 [her former husband] Theodor Wilhelm "Tito" Wessel (age 59) died.
Before 4th September 1960 [her son-in-law] John Ian Robert Russell 13th Duke Bedford (age 43) and [her daughter] Lydia Yarde-Buller Duchess Bedford (age 42) were divorced.
On 20th October 1960 Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 75) died.
On 8th March 1976 [her former husband] Edward Fitzgerald 7th Duke Leinster (age 83) committed suicide by taking an overdose of pentobarbital.