This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Chronological Diary Notes and Notable Deaths and Marriages
The entry lists suicides and deaths including Stephen Skinner Esq and various peers and nobles. It records marriages such as James Preston Viscount Gormanston to Mrs Barnwall and Michael Sayer’s marriage to Mrs Peachey. Also details the Rome death of Pope Benedict XIII, birth and lineage notes, and succession context involving Duke of Gravina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surrey
Stephen Skinner
London
Sylvanus Boylefgon
Bower
Kent
George Barrington
North Carolina
James Preston
Gormanston
Kingdom of Ireland
Barnwall
John Barnwall
Trim- Jeffon
Kingdom
Michael Sayer
County of Hertford
Peachey
John Peachey
The
South-Sea Company
Naples
Ames Fohnston
Marquess of
Annandale
William
Sophia
John Fairholm
Cragie-Hail
Stirling
Batchelor
George Johnston
Charlotte
Ohn van de Bempde
Westminster
Rome
Benet XIII
Peter Francis
Ferdinand Orsini
Orsini
Duke of
Gravina
Salafra
Mure
Fane Della Tolfa
Grumo
Dominick Ursini
Venice
Order of St. Dominick
Bologna
Clement X