On 14th March 1880 Hazel Martyn was born to Edward Jenner Martyn at Chicago.
In 1889 [her future husband] John Lavery [aged 32] and Kathleen MacDermott were married.
In 1903 Edward Livingston Trudeau Junior and Hazel Martyn [aged 22] were married. He died five months later. They had one daughter, Alice, born 10 October 1904.
In 1909 John Lavery [aged 52] and Hazel Martyn [aged 28] were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years.
In 1912 James Dickinson and [her step-daughter] Eileen Lavery [aged 21] were married. They were divorced before 1920. She the daughter of [her husband] John Lavery [aged 55] and Kathleen MacDermott.
7th July 1917. [her husband] John Lavery [aged 61]. "Daylight raid from my studio window", records the afternoon of 7th July 1917, when twenty-one German biplanes appeared in the skies above London and were engaged by British aircraft. The ensuing combat could be seen from the large window of Lavery’s studio in Cromwell Place, London. The artist’s wife Hazel [aged 37], her head outlined against a blackout curtain, is watching the scene
In 1919 William Francis Forbes-Sempill 10th Baronet 19th Lord Sempill [aged 25] and [her step-daughter] Eileen Lavery [aged 28] were married. She the daughter of [her husband] John Lavery [aged 62] and Kathleen MacDermott.
1920. [her husband] John Lavery [aged 63]. "The Red Hammock". Portrait of the artist's wife Hazel Martyn [aged 39].
1920. [her husband] John Lavery [aged 63]. "The Green Coat". Portrait of Hazel Martyn [aged 39].
1922. [her husband] John Lavery [aged 65]. "Lady Lavery". Portrait of the artist's second wife Hazel Martyn [aged 41].
Around 1924. [her husband] John Lavery [aged 67]. "Hazel in Black and Gold". Portrait of the artist's second wife Hazel Martyn [aged 43].
1929. [her husband] John Lavery [aged 72]. Portrait of the artist's wife Hazel Martyn [aged 48].
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1935 [her step-daughter] Eileen Lavery [aged 44] died.
In 1935 Hazel Martyn [aged 54] died. Her funeral mass took place at the Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge. She was buried with her husband in Putney Vale Cemetery.
On 10th January 1941 [her former husband] John Lavery [aged 84] died.