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Paternal Family Tree: Millais
In 1828 William Henry Millais was born to John William Millais and Emily Mary Evermy (age 38).
In 1860 William Henry Millais (age 32) and Judith Agnes Boothby (age 27) were married.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1861. May 29. Went down to Epsom by rail and walked to the course. Met Woolner (age 35) and a brother sculptor, Burnett, [his brother] John (age 31) and William (age 33) Millais, Mr. Abraham Salomon (age 38) and Mrs. Abraham Salomon and Miss Salomon. Tom Taylor and a lady. When the 18 horses were running for the Derby Stakes and I and Woolner and Burnett were against the ropes on the side the horses took, and we were struck by the thunder and tramping rush of their progress—that was in truth a sublime moment. In the evening adiourned to Cremorne which was densely thronged by men and women in all states of hilarity and inebricty. Met Munro and Ormsby, Poynter, Du Maurier, Millais and Jopling and others.12
Note 12. The annual great Derby Day race at Epsom, won this year by ‘Kettledrum', was an infectiously exciting occasion. William Burnett, architect and landscape painter, whose work was mostly done from 1844-60. William (1828-99) younger brother of John Millais was a landscape painter. Cremorne pleasure gardens to the west of Battersea Bridge were celebrating Derby Day with coloured lamps, dancing, fireworks and larking. Those participating in the fun were John Ormsby (1829-95), traveller, mountain-climber, illustrator, and a regular contributor to Fraser's Magazine, the Saturday Review and other periodicals; George DuMaurier (1834-96) novelist and artist, now employed by Punch, and J. M. Jopling (1831-84) a self-taught artist and friend of Millais.
On 6th April 1862 [his wife] Judith Agnes Boothby (age 29) died.
On 22nd April 1864 [his mother] Emily Mary Evermy (age 75) died.
On 7th June 1866 William Henry Millais (age 38) and Adelaide Jane Fraser were married.
On 28th January 1870 [his father] John William Millais died.
1871 Census. 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington.
[his brother] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 41)
Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais (age 42)
Mary (age 11)
Geoffrey (age 7)
John (age 6)
Sophia (age 3)
Effie (age 13)
William (age 43)
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3rd April 1881. Census. 2 Palace Gate, Kensington.
[his brother] John Everett Millais 1st Baronet (age 51)
Alice Millais
Geoffrey (age 17)
Jean Gray.
William (age 53)
Five servants.
Geoffrey William Millais 4th Baronet: On 18th September 1863 he was born to John Everett Millais 1st Baronet and Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais. On 30th September 1920 John Everett Millais 3rd Baronet died. His uncle Geoffrey succeeded 4th Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex. On 7th November 1941 Geoffrey William Millais 4th Baronet died. His son Ralph succeeded 5th Baronet Millais of Palace Gate in Kensington in Middlesex.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 20th March 1899 William Henry Millais (age 71) died.
On 24th April 1924 [his former wife] Adelaide Jane Fraser died.