Forgive my ignorance but did M Q S ever meet her husband? Bubbles from Robin Hood Country. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Happenings 19 January 19 JANUARY 1544: Birth of Francis II, King of France, son of Catherine de’Medici and husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. 1736: Birth of James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the Steam Engine, who gave his name to a unit of power. 1793: King Louis XVI, King of France, was convicted of treason and beheaded. His wife, Marie Antoinette, followed in October of that year. 1807: Birth of Robert Edward Lee, American general and Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. 1809: Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the American poet and short story writer who pioneered the modern detective story. 1813: Birth of Sir Henry Bessemer, who gave his name to a process for converting cast iron into steel. 1839: Birth of Paul Cézanne, the French painter and pioneer of the Impressionist movement. 1853: The first performance of Verdi’s Il Trovatore in Rome. 1854: The 'Tayleur' bound for Melbourne, lost in a fog off Wirral. All 334 passengers and crew lost. 1857: Mutiny aboard the American 'James L. Bogart' while anchored in the Mersey. 1870: Two New York sisters became the world’s first stockbrokers. Victoria Caffin Woodhall and Tennessee Caffin attracted mainly female customers, but the business collapsed because of their outspoken views on Marxism and racial equality. 1884: Massenet’s opera Manon was first performed in Paris. 1903: In Paris, it was announced that a new bicycle race called the ‘Tour de France’ would be held. 1915: German Zeppelins bombed Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn in the first raid on England, causing casualties. 1920: Birth in Peru of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, secretary-general of the UN from 1982. 1921: Birth of Patricia Highsmith, the American crime fiction writer. 1937: The first play written for British television, The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas, was broadcast by the BBC. The 30-minute play was set in Tottenham Court Road tube station. 1942: The Japanese invaded Burma. 1955: Birth of Simon Rattle, English conductor. 1966: Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India, following her father Jawaharlal Nehru. 1966: Sir Robert Menzies resigned as Australian Premier after 16 years in office. 1969: Jan Pallach, a Czech student, immolated himself in Wenceslas Square in protest against the Russian invasion. On the 25th, he was buried as a martyr. 1971: Postal strike began throughout Britain. 1988: Christopher Nolan, a 22-year-old Irish writer, won the £20,000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his autobiography, Under the Eye of the Clock. Completely paralysed, Nolan used a ‘unicorn’ attachment on his forehead to write the novel at a painfully slow speed. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 11/01/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== Visit List General Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

> Forgive my ignorance but did M Q S ever meet her husband? > Bubbles from Robin Hood Country. to quote from : http://www.marie-stuart.co.uk/ Mary was but a girl of 15 when she married Francis with whom she had been brought up. Francis, a year younger, adored Mary and she bore him a strong sisterly affection. He was a weak and sickly child, and it is unlikely that the marriage was ever consummated. Francis fell ill with an ear infection in November 1560 and was dead by 5th December, just over two and a half years after their union. I seem to remember the second hubby, Darnley, better. Regards Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 11-Jan-02