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On 21st June 1688 [his father] William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire [aged 16] and [his mother] Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire [aged 14] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire [aged 48] and [his grandmother] Mary Butler Duchess Devonshire [aged 42]. They were third cousins.
On 26th September 1698 William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire was born to William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire [aged 26] and Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire [aged 24].
On 18th August 1707 [his grandfather] William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire [aged 67] died. His son [his father] William [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Duke Devonshire, 5th Earl Devonshire, 5th Baron Cavendish Hardwick. [his mother] Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire [aged 33] by marriage Duchess Devonshire.
Around 1710 Godfrey Kneller [aged 63]. Portrait of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 11].
On 27th March 1718 William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 19] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 19] were married. He the son of William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire [aged 46] and Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire [aged 44].
In May 1719 [his daughter] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 20] and [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 20]. She married 5th July 1739 William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough, son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough and Sarah Margetson, and had issue.
On 8th May 1720 [his son] William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 21] and [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 21]. He married before 1748 his fourth cousin once removed Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington, daughter of Richard Boyle 3rd Earl Burlington and Dorothy Savile Countess Burlington, and had issue.
On 28th December 1725 [his mother] Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire [aged 51] died.
In or before 1726 [his daughter] Elizabeth Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 27] and [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 27]. She married 1743 John Ponsonby, son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough and Sarah Margetson, and had issue.
On 7th June 1727 [his daughter] Rachel Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 28] and [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 28]. She married 12th May 1748 Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford, son of Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole and Mary Magdalen Lombard, and had issue.
Around 1729 [his son] Frederick Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 30] and [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 30].
On 4th June 1729 [his father] William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire [aged 57] died. His son William [aged 30] succeeded 3rd Duke Devonshire, 6th Earl Devonshire, 6th Baron Cavendish Hardwick. [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 30] by marriage Duchess Devonshire.
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In 1730 Robert Wilmot 1st Baronet [aged 22] became Private Secretary to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 31].
In 1733 William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 34] was appointed 550th Knight of the Garter by King George II of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 49].
Around 1734 [his son] John Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 35] and [his wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 35].
On 5th July 1739 [his son-in-law] William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough [aged 35] and Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough [aged 20] were married. His younger brother John Ponsonby [aged 26] would marry her younger sister Elizabeth Cavendish [aged 13] four years later. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 40] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 40]. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough [aged 60] and Sarah Margetson.
In 1743 [his son-in-law] John Ponsonby [aged 29] and Elizabeth Cavendish [aged 17] were married. His elder brother William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough [aged 39] had married her elder sister Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough [aged 23] four years before. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 44] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 44]. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough [aged 64] and Sarah Margetson.
Before 1748 William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 27] and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of Richard Boyle 3rd Earl Burlington [aged 53] and Dorothy Savile Countess Burlington [aged 48]. He the son of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 49] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 49]. They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 12th May 1748 [his son-in-law] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford [aged 24] and Rachel Cavendish [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 49] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 49].
Letters of Horace Walpole. 23rd June 1752. Arlington Street. To The Hon H S Conway [aged 31].
By a letter that I received from my Lady Ailesbury [aged 31] two days ago, I flatter myself I shall not have occasion to write to you any more; yet I shall certainly see you with less pleasure than ever, as our meeting is to be attended with a resignation of my little charge [aged 3].316 She is vastly well, and I think you will find her grown fat. I am husband enough to mind her beauty no longer, and perhaps you will say husband enough too, in pretending that my love is converted into friendship; but I shall tell you some stories at Park-place of her understanding that will please you, I trust, as much as they have done me.
My Lady Ailesbury says I must send her news, and the whole history of Mr. Seymour [aged 22] and Lady Di. Egerton [aged 21], and their quarrel, and all that is said on both sides. I can easily tell her all that is said on one side, Mr. Seymour's, who says, the only answer he has ever been able to get from the Duchess or Mr. Lyttelton was, that Di. has her caprices. The reasons she gives, and gave him, were, the badness of his temper and imperiousness of his letters; that he scolded her for the overfondness of her epistles, and was even so unsentimental as to talk of desiring to make her happy, instead of being made so by her. He is gone abroad, in despair, and with an additional circumstance, which would be very uncomfortable to any thing but a true lover; his father refuses to resettle the estate on him, the entail of which was cut off by mutual consent, to make way for the settlements on the marriage.
The Speaker told me t'other day, that he had received a letter from Lord Hyde, which confirms what Mr. Churchill writes me, the distress and poverty of France and the greatness of their divisions. Yet the King's expenses are incredible; Madame de Pompadour [aged 30] is continually busied in finding out new journeys and diversions to keep him from falling into the hands of the clergy. The last party of pleasure she made for him, was a stag-hunting; the stag was a man in a skin and horns, worried by twelve men dressed like bloodhounds! I have read of Basilowitz, a Czar of Muscovy, who improved on such a hunt, and had a man in a bearskin worried by real dogs; a more kingly entertainment!
I shall make out a sad Journal of other news; yet I will be like any gazette, and scrape together all the births, deaths, and marriages in the parish. Lady Hartington [aged 32] and Lady Rachel Walpole [aged 25] are brought to bed of sons; Lord Burlington [aged 58] and Lord Gower [aged 57] have had new attacks of palsies: Lord Falkland [aged 45] is to marry the Southwark Lady Suffolk;317 and Mr. Watson [aged 23], Miss Grace Pelham [aged 17]. Lady Coventry [aged 19] has miscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day. Lady Townshend [aged 44] and Lady Caroline Petersham [aged 30] have had their anniversary quarrel, and the Duchess of Devonshire [aged 53] has had her secular assembly, which she keeps once in fifty years: she was more delightfully vulgar at it than you can imagine; complained of the wet night, and how the men would dirty the rooms with their shoes; called out at supper to the Duke [aged 53], "Good God! my lord, don't cut the ham, nobody will eat any!" and relating her private menage to Mr. Obnir, she said, "When there's only my lord and I, besides a pudding we have always a dish of Yeast!" I am ashamed to send you such nonsense, or to tell you how the good women at Hampton Court are scandalized at Princess Emily's [aged 41] coming to chapel last Sunday in riding-clothes with a dog under her arm; but I am bid to send news: what can we do -,it such a dead time of year? I must conclude, as my Lady Gower did very well t'other day in a letter into the country, "Since the two Misses318 were hanged, and the two Misses319 were married, there is nothing at all talked of." Adieu! My best compliments and my wife's to your two ladies.
Note 315. Now first published.
Note 316. Their daughter, Ann Seymour Conway.
Note 317. Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Suffolk, daughter of Thomas Unwen, Esq. of Southwark.-E.
Note 318. Miss Blandy and Miss Jefferies.
Note 319. The Gunnings. [Maria Gunning Countess Coventry and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll [aged 18]]
On 5th December 1755 William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 57] died. His son William [aged 35] succeeded 4th Duke Devonshire, 7th Earl Devonshire, 7th Baron Cavendish Hardwick.
On 8th May 1777 [his former wife] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 78] died at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire [Map].
[his son] George Augustus Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 
7 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Earl Devonshire 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 2nd Earl Devonshire 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Keighley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Keighley
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Cavendish 3rd Earl Devonshire 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Bruce
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Bruce 1st Lord Kinloss
Great x 2 Grandmother: Christian Bruce Countess Devonshire
Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury 11 x Great Grandson of King John of England
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 
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Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk 
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Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet 
8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stumpe
father: William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Butler 
8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Butler 11th Earl Ormonde 4th Earl Ossory 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
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Great x 1 Grandfather: James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton 
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Great x 3 Grandfather: John Poyntz 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Verney 
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Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poyntz 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Syndeham 10 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sydenham 11 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Grandmother: Mary Butler Duchess Devonshire 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Preston of Whitehill in Midlothian 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
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Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Butler 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
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Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Douglas Howard Baroness Sheffield 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Baron Russell 9 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret St John Countess Bedford 
8 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford 10 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Long Baroness Russel Thornhaugh
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Duke Bedford 9 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Giles Brydges 3rd Baron Chandos 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Braye Baroness Chandos and Knollys 
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Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Clinton 1st Earl Lincoln 
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Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Clinton 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ursula Stourton Baroness Clinton 
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Grandfather: William Russell 9 x Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Kerr 10th of Ferniehirst
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst 6 x Great Grandson of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Ker 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset 
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Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Carr Countess of Bedford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stumpe
mother: Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Wriothesley 1st Earl of Southampton 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Cheney Countess Southampton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu 
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Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Browne Countess Southampton 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Radclyffe 
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Great x 4 Grandfather: George Vernon 
4 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Vernon 5 x Great Grandson of King Henry IV of England
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Devereux 
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Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Hastings 
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Grandmother: Rachel Wriothesley 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry IV of England
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