Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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On 12th August 1899 Harold St George Gray [aged 27] and Florence Harriet Young [aged 24] were married at St Mary's Church, Motcombe. The witnesses were her sister Elizabeth, and the bride and groom's fathers.
On or before 10th February 1901, the date he was baptised at St Mary's Church, Iffley, Lionel St George Gray was born to [his father] Harold St George Gray [aged 29] and [his mother] Florence Harriet Young [aged 25].
1911. Census. [his father] Harold St George Gray [aged 38], [his mother] Florence Harriet Young [aged 35] and Lionel St George Gray [aged 9] at Castle House, Taunton.
Keiller Collection Photos. May 1911. Two figures, thought to be [his father] Harold Gray's [aged 39] wife [his mother] Florence [aged 35] and their son Lionel [aged 10], with two stones of Avebury's Northern Inner Circle.
Avebury North Circle Cove [Map]. 13th May 1911. Photograph by [his father] Harold St George Gray [aged 39] of (presumably) his wife [his mother] Florence [aged 35] and their son Lionel [aged 10].
Keiller Collection Photos. April 1914. A photo of Avebury's bank and ditch. The figures on the bank are thought to be [his father] Harold Gray's [aged 42] wife [his mother] Florence Harriet Young [aged 38] and their son Lionel St George Gray [aged 13].
Archaeologia Volume 84 1935 Section VI. 28th April 1914. Plate XXXI. Fig. 2. The E. and SE. earthworks at Avebury, looking NE. With [his mother] Florence Harriet Young [aged 38] and Lionel St George Gray [aged 13].
In July 1923 Lionel St George Gray [aged 22] died.