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Jeanette Jerome

Female 1854 - 1921  (67 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 19 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Jeanette Jerome  [1
    Birth 9 Jan 1854  New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Prominent People socialite 
    Death 26 Jun 1921  Mells Manor Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Bladon Churchyard At Blenheim Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 3 Siblings 
    Person ID I39724  Geneagraphie
    Links To This person is also Jennie Churchill at Wikipedia 
    Last Modified 25 Nov 2001 

    Father Leonard Walter Jerome,   b. 3 Nov 1817, Pompey, Onondaga, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1891, Brighton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Clarissa Hall,   b. 1825   d. 1895, Turnbridge Wells Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 1849 
    Family ID F32159  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill,   b. 13 Feb 1849, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1895, Bladon, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 15 Apr 1874  British Embassy, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,   b. 30 Nov 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1965, Bladon, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)
    +2. Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill, D.S.O.,   b. Nov 1880   d. 23 Feb 1947 (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F16882  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 2 Maj. George Frederick Cornwallis-West,   b. 14 Nov 1874   d. 1 Apr 1951 (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 28 Jul 1900  St. Paul's Cathedral, Knightsbridge, Westminster, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Divorce Apr 1914 
    Family ID F16890  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2016 

    Family 3 Montagu Phippen Porch,   b. 1878   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1 Jun 1918  [1
    Family ID F16891  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 4 King Edward von Sachsen-Coburg, VII,   b. 9 Nov 1841, Buckingham Palace, Saint James Park, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 1910, Buckingham Palace, Saint James Park, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Family ID F385778  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jan 2023 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 9 Jan 1854 - New York, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 Apr 1874 - British Embassy, Paris, Île-de-France, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 Jul 1900 - St. Paul's Cathedral, Knightsbridge, Westminster, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • She was one of the leading beauties in a society of beauties. Professional beauties they were called, such women as Lillie Langtry. "the jersey Lily," whom to see the crowds mounted the seats in Hyde Park. Today, I suppose, they would serve as pin-up girls and their statistics would be known to millions. In their own generation the reticences were still preserved and what was not measured won the more devoted admiration. To beauty Lady Randolph added charm, and distinction. She fascinated her son who wrote of her, "My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood's life. She shone for me like an evening star. I loved her dearly but at a distance. She always seemed to me a fairy princess."
      To supplement his own tribute, Winston quoted the description given of Lady Randolph by Lord D'Abernon. A diplomat of the old school who served as Ambassador to Berlin, D'Abernon had known everybody worth knowing and the outstanding personages he portrayed in his recollections so vividly that they spring to life from his pages. Of Lady Randolph he wrote:
      "I have the clearest recollection of seeing her for the first time. It was at the Vice-Regal Lodge at Dublin. She stood on one side to the left of the entrance. The Viceroy was on a dais at the further end of the room surrounded by a brilliant staff, but eyes were not turned on him or on his consort, but on a dark, lithe figure, standing somewhat apart and appearing to be of another texture to those around her, radiant, translucent, intense. A diamond star in her hair, her favourite ornament - its lustre dimmed by the flashing glory of her eyes. More of the panther than of the woman in her look, but with a cultivated intelligence unknown to the jungle. Her courage not less great than that of her husband- fit mother for the descendants of the great Duke."
      She was descended through five generations of Americans, men and women who played their part with the pioneers. They sprang from a Huguenot ancestor who, leaving France to avoid persecution, found freedom for himself and fortune for his descendants. One of these, Leonard Jerome, Jennie's father, was a gentleman of force, ability and character.
      Lady Randolph outlived her husband by a quarter of a century.

  • Sources 
    1. [S14] Brian Tompsett, University of Hull Royal Database (England), (copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 , , Repository: WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk).

    2. [S106] Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, (Henry Holt & Company, New York ,).



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