Mayfair Chronology

Trilogy

Circa 1646
Petyr van Abel born.

 

Circa 1653
Deborah Mayfair born.

 

1660
Suzanne of the May Fair calls up Lasher of Donnelaith.

 

1665
Suzanne burned at the stake for witchcraft; Petyr van Abel takes her twelve-year-old daughter Deborah to Amsterdam; Lasher follows Deborah.

 

1665-1667
Deborah marries Roelant; Rembrant paints her portrait; with Lasher's assistance, Deborah purchases the Mayfair emerald.
Deborah seduces Petyr van Abel and begs him to leave the Talamasca; he refuses, so she marries the Comte de Montcleve and goes to France.

 

Circa 1667
Charlotte Mayfair born to Deborah and Petyr van Abel.

 

1689
Charlotte flees to Saint-Domingue; she and her husband set up Maye Faire plantation.
Deborah burned in Montcleve, France; Lasher causes deaths of the last members of the clan of Donnelaith.
Petyr van Abel goes to Saint-Domingue to visit Charlotte.
Charlotte seduces Petyr and becomes pregnant; Lasher bedevils Petyr until he dies, at age forty-three.

 

1690
Jeanne Louise and Peter born to Charlotte Mayfair.

 

1725
Angelique born to Jeanne Louise (and Peter, possibly).

 

1743
Charlotte dies, at age seventy-six

 

1755
Angelique marries Vincent St. Christophe.

 

1760
Marie Claudette born.

 

1771
Peter and Jeanne Louise die within hours of each other.

 

1789 and after
French revolution kills off Mayfairs in France.
Marie Claudette establishes the Mayfair legacy before fleeing from Saint-Domingue; Haitian Revolutionist occurs; Mayfairs migrate to Louisiana and establish La Victiore plantation at Riverbend.

 

1799
Marguerite born to Marie Claudette.

 

1819
Marguerite marries Tyrone McNamara.

 

1824
Henri Marie Landry, Marie Claudette's husband, dies.

 

1827
Remy born to Marguerite

 

1828
Julien born to Marguerite

 

1829
Tyrone McNamara dies in fire; Marguerite marries Arlington Kerr.
Arlington Kerr disappears.

 

1830
Katherine born to Marguerite

 

1831
Marie Claudette dies.
Lasher turns his attention to Julien, favoring a male witch for the first time.

 

Circa 1843
Fifteen-year-old Julien kills his uncle Augustin.
Augustin's son Tobias takes family away from Riverbend to build Fontevrault.


1857
Katherine and Julien buy property on First Street in the Garden District of New Orleans; hire Darcy Monohan to design and build house there.
Katherine marries Darcy; Julien and Katherine become estranged.
First Comus parade and ball for Mardi Gras.

 

1858
Katherine and Darcy move to First Street.

 

1861
Start of Civil War; New Orleans occupied.
First Mayfair to be buried in Mayfair crypt in Lafayette Cemetery.

 

1871
Darcy Monohan dies of yellow fever; Katherine falls into depression; Julien returns to First Street to care for her; she entices him and he rapes her.

 

1872
Mary Beth born to Katherine and Julien.

 

1875
Julien marries Suzette.

 

1879
Cortland born to Julien and Suzette.

 

1882
Amelia Street house built.

 

1885
Suzette dies.

 

1888-1889
First Street becomes part of the Legacy.
Julien and Mary Beth go on an eighteen-month European tour; Julien goes to Donnelaith to investigate Lasher's origins and the Mayfair family history.
Mary Beth meets a Scotsman, "Lord Mayfair," and becomes pregnant. Julien buys castle at Donnelaith and sets up Julien Mayfair Trust Fund.
Belle born to Mary Beth; Lasher insists Belle is not the proper heir.

 

1891
Marguerite dies at the age of ninety-two.

 

1892
Artist commissioned to paint ruins of Donnelaith castle for First Street.

 

1895
Stuart Townsend born.

 

1896
Mississippi River takes Riverbend; Mayfairs move to New Orleans.

 

1897
Remy dies of consumption.

 

1899
Mary Beth marries Daniel McIntyre.
Carlotta born.
Evelyn born.

 

1900
Lionel born.
Twenty-year-old Richard Llewellyn comes into Julien's employ.

 

1901
Stella born to Mary Beth.

 

1905
Katherine dies, at age seventy-five; no storm mourns her departure.

 

1913
Julien rescues Evelyn from Amelia Street and fathers Laura Lee.

 

1914
Julien dies, at age eighty-six, of a stroke.

 

1921
Antha born to Stella and Cortland.

 

1923
Ellie born.

 

1925
Mary Beth dies, at age fifty-eight, of cancer.
Daniel McIntyre dies.

 

1929
Thirty-five-year-old Stuart Townsend arrives from the Talamasca, meets with Stella, and subsequently disappears; Arthur Langtry from the Talamasca investigates; he sees Lasher and Stuart Townsend's ghost at First Street; Stella begs him to take her away from First Street; Carlotta encourages Lionel to kill Stella, which he does; Langtry dies on his way back to England; Lionel dies, insane; Carlotta takes over raising Antha; First Street house deteriorates.

 

1936
Ryan born to Cortland and Amanda.

 

1938
Antha runs away to New York; marries Sean Lacy and lives in Greenwich Village.

 

1940
Antha becomes pregnant; Sean Lacy dies in car accident; Carlotta brings Antha back to First Street.

 

1941
Deirdre born to Antha.
Antha dies in fall from third-story window at First Street; Carlotta takes over Deirdre's care.
Michael Curry born.

 

1943
Aaron Lightener joins Talamasca.

 

1944
Gifford Mayfair born.

 

1945
Cornell Mayfair investigates First Street and dies of poisoning.

 

1947
Michael Curry sees Lasher at St.Alphonsus church on Christmas Eve.

 

1951
Amanda Grady Mayfair dies.

 

1952
Carlotta poisons Irwin Dandrich.

 

1953
Aaron Lightener begins to reorganize File on Mayfair Witches.

 

1958
Aaron Lightener goes to Texas to meet with Deirdre; he sees Lasher; Deirdre tells him she wants to live a normal life; Aaron meets Cortland; Cortland poisons Aaron, who nearly dies; Talamasca decrees that no one will attempt direct contact with the Mayfairs in the near future.
Cortland brings a pregnant Deirdre home from college.

 

1959
Richard Llewellyn dies.
Cortland dies after falling down stairs; he is eighty.
Rowan is born and taken from Deirdre; Ellie Mayfair adopts her.

 

1960
Belle dies.

 

1964
Five-year-old Rowan telekinetically kills classmate Mary Jane.

 

1974
Rowan telekinetically kills rapist.

 

1976
Deirdre returns from sanitarium to remain in comatose state for next thirteen years.

 

1977
Mona born to Alicia at Amelia Street.

 

1978
Rowan telekinetically kills classmate at Berkeley.

 

1979
Millie dies.

 

1983
Rowan sees Dr Lemle's fetal harvesting at Keplinger Institute.

 

1984
Rowan telekinetically kills Dr. Lemle
Big Pierce dies.

 

1987
Sister Bridget Marie dies.

 

1988
Nancy Mayfair dies.
Rowan telekinetically kills Graham Mayfair.
Ellie Mayfair dies of cancer.

 

1989
Michael Curry nearly drowns in Pacific Ocean; Rowan Mayfair saves him; they fall in love, but Michael goes to New Orleans on a vision-inspired mission.
Aaron Lightner shows Michael File on Mayfair Witches.
Deirdre Mayfair dies, at age forty-eight; Rowan comes to New Orleans.
Rowan inherits the legacy, Mayfair emerald, First Street house, and Lasher.
Ninety-year-old Carlotta Mayfair tricks Rowan into telekinetically killing her.
Rowan marries Michael, renovates First Street house, and becomes pregnant.
Lasher fuses with Rowan's unborn child on Christmas Day and becomes flesh and blood.
Michael Curry tries to kill Lasher; Lasher pushes Michael into pool, where he has heart attack and nearly drowns.
Rowan and Lasher flee to Europe.

 

1990
Mona Mayfair seduces Michael.
Lasher and Rowan go to Donnelaith; Lasher decides to regenerate Taltos species.
Ghost of Julien appears to Michael, to urge him to stop Lasher.
Gifford dies, a victim of Lasher's rape; Lasher kills more Mayfair women in the same way.
Rowan gives birth to the Taltos Emaleth; Mayfairs find Rowan in coma and bring her to First Street.
Mona declared the Legacy designee.
Talamasca Elders excommunicate Aaron Lightner and Yuri Stefano for not obeying orders to leave New Orleans. Aaron defies them and marries Beatrice Mayfair.
Marklin George, Tommy Monohan and Stuart Gordon attempt to bring Lasher to England to mate with the Taltos Tessa; they hire thugs to gather evidence of Lasher's existence and kill whomever they must to cover their tracks.
Lasher comes to First Street to tell his story; Michael kills him, as well as two of the Talamasca agents working for Marklin George; Emaleth arrives and revives Rowan; Rowan kills her, then goes into a period of mute mourning. Lasher and Emaleth are buried under Deirdre's Oak.
Marklin's assassin kills Aaron Lightner, which brings Rowan back to life.
Marklin's assassin attempts to kill Yuri Stefano, but is killed by one of the Little People, Samuel, who then assists Yuri back to London. Samuel calls in his friend Ashlar, an ancient Taltos, to investigate Talamasca corruption.
Rowan and Michael go to London to avenge Aaron's death; they meet Ashlar, who assist them in uncovering Talamasca corruption and killing those responsible, including Stuart Gordon; Yuri returns to Talamasca to punish Marklin George and his accomplice, Tommy Monohan.
Ashlar tells Rowan and Michael his story; Rowan and Michael return to New Orleans.
Mona, pregnant with Michael's child, gives birth to the Taltos Morrigan.
Ashlar and Morrigan join together and go to Donnelaith to regenerate their species.

 

* Recreated from "The Witches Companion" by Katherine Ramsland.