Jenny's Voyager Timeline
Jenny Murray
Significant Moments in Voyager:
1746:
Jamie arrives home badly wounded from Culloden, half-conscious and mostly dead from fever. Jenny asks him about Claire. Jamie tells her that Claire is gone and Jenny is not to speak her name to him again, and she never does (V, chapter 5) Once healed Jamie has to live hidden in a cave and comes down to the house just once a month at night (V, chapter 4)
1749:
Ian and Jenny's third daughter, Caitlin Maisri, is stillborn on December 3rd (V, chapter 5)
1752:
Ian is arrested in September for the fourth time on suspicion of being a Jacobite sympathiser and taken to Inverness. As on the previous occasions, Jenny makes sure that Ian's discharge from the army proving he didn't fight at Culloden, and the deed of sasine showing Young Jamie to be laird of Lallybroch are produced so that the property cannot be confiscated from them. Jenny is heavily pregnant and is responsible for two Lallybroch families whose men were murdered by English soldiers, as well as her own household. (V, chapter 4)
In late November Ian is still in prison and Jenny goes into labour. She sends Fergus to tell Jamie not to come down from his cave as there are English soldiers in the area, but Jamie ignores her. Jenny gives birth to Young Ian and asks for Jamie. Jenny discusses her plans to marry off two of the Lallybroch widows and asks Jamie if he would like to marry Peggy Murray. Jamie gets very angry and tells Jenny that he doesn't intend to marry again and to abandon all thought of matchmaking. Just at that moment English soldiers barge into the house in search of the firearm that they heard Jamie shoot off earlier. As they march up the stairs Jenny tells Jamie to hide in the armoire. Jamie jumps in the armoire, forgetting that he is still holding baby Ian (V, chapter 5)
The soldiers come into the bedroom and on learning that Jenny has just given birth demand to know where the baby is. Jenny tells them the baby died. Young Jamie hears this and flies into a grief-filled rage, shouting at the soldiers that they have killed his brother. The child in question is becoming hungry and Jamie desperately sticks his thumb in Ian's mouth to stop him crying. The English captain doesn't know how to handle Young Jamie's tantrum and takes his men downstairs. Jamie is forced to leave the armoire to give Ian to Jenny before he squawks with hunger. Fortunately the soldiers leave the property but Jamie and Jenny have been badly shaken by how close Jamie was to being discovered and Jamie tells Jenny he will not come back down to the house for a time (V, chapter 5)
1753:
Fergus is brought back to the farmhouse by English soldiers after they have accidentally cut off his hand. Jenny tends to his wound. When Jamie comes down to the house he takes Jenny down to the priest hole and tells her that he cannot bear to live the way he is any longer. Claire told him that after a few years traitors from the Rising would only be imprisoned and not hanged. Based on this knowledge he has decided to give himself up, but he will ask one of the Lallybroch tenants to 'betray' him so that the people of Lallybroch can collect the reward on his head. Jenny is shocked at his plan and tells him to take care that he doesn't get killed when the English take him (V, chapter 6)
1755:
Jenny and Ian receive a carefully coded letter from Jamie in prison, telling them about the seal's treasure and where he has hidden it. Lallybroch has had two years of failed harvests and the Jacobites in exile in France have also been asking for support as they are in danger of starvation. Ian sends word to Jamie, who replies that as the treasure was intended for Prince Charles's supporters, they should use some of it to support those in exile. Ian and Young Jamie go to the seals' cove but do not hire a boat as they don't wish to draw attention to themselves. Young Jamie swims to the island and extracts two gold coins and three of the smaller gemstones. Young Jamie and Ian go to France and with Jared's help change the treasure into cash and distribute it to the Jacobites in exile (V, chapter 38)
1764:
Jamie returns to Lallybroch after his many years away at Ardsmuir and Helwater. He is so lonely and wretched mourning for Claire that Jenny can't bear it (V, chapter 38) Jenny decides that Jamie needs to marry again (V, chapter 37) Jenny learns from Ned Gowan that Laoghaire is widowed and living alone with her two daughters. Jenny invites Laoghaire to Lallybroch for Hogmanay (V, chapter 37)
1765:
Jamie and Laoghaire are married. During the wedding ceremony, Jenny sees Claire's shade standing at Jamie's left hand between him and Laoghaire. Jenny knows this means that Claire will take Jamie back. Jenny has never had any supernatural experience like that before and she is so spooked by it that she has to leave the room in the middle of the vows (V, chapter 38)
1766:
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian arrive at Lallybroch to a tense reunion with Ian and Jenny. Jenny is initially wary of Claire, finding it difficult to believe she has reappeared after so long away, and so unchanged (V, chapter 32)
Ian Snr berates Ian for running away and causing so much worry and sends him out to the gatepost to be whipped. Jamie pleads with Ian Snr not to whip Young Ian, saying that he is no longer a child. Ian Snr says that he has told Ian he will be punished and can't go back on his word, but that Jamie can be the one to administer the whipping. Jamie is shocked and does not want to do it but has no choice. Claire, Jenny & Ian Snr all watch through the window as Jamie goes to join Young Ian. Young Ian is shocked when Jamie comes out to the gatepost and even more surprised and taken aback when Jamie finishes the beating and then orders Ian to whip him in return to punish him for leading him astray. As both Ian and Jamie gingerly rub their bottoms afterwards, Jamie tells Ian that he'd prefer not to have to do that again, and Ian agrees (V, chapter 32)
At some stage after this Jenny sends her daughter Janet to Balriggan to tell Laoghaire that Claire has come back (V, chapter 35) The next morning Laoghaire and her daughters arrive at Lallybroch, and Marsali walks in on Claire and Jamie having sex, with Laoghaire following her into the room shortly afterwards. Laoghaire erupts in anger and Jamie and Claire have a vicious argument followed by violent, noisy sex that the whole household can hear. Jenny is so angered by this that she takes a pail of cold water upstairs and throws it over Jamie and Claire, demanding to know if Jamie is ashamed of himself. He replies that he is and leaves the room (V, chapter 34)
Jenny helps settle Claire and goes to get Claire a new dress to replace her ripped one. After Claire is dressed she tells Jenny she wants to leave and Jenny says, 'I think that's best'. Jamie returns to the house to find Claire has gone. He is absolutely furious and he and Jenny have a huge argument ending in a broken window. Jamie gets on his horse and makes to go after Claire, but Laoghaire reappears, clutches Jamie's leg and weeps and wails. At the end of his tether Jamie throws Laoghaire over his shoulder and carries her into the house to deal with her. While they are both upstairs Laoghaire shoots Jamie (V, chapter 35)
Jamie develops a fever and Young Ian disappears for a couple of days only to return with Claire. Jenny is relieved and angry at his reappearance and not at all happy to see Claire. She tells Ian that he is a cuckoo in the nest and not meant to be her son and sends him to bed. Jenny and Claire call a truce for the sake of Jamie (V, chapter 36)
Jenny avoids Claire and does not speak to her for the next four days. Jenny receives warning from a neighbour that Hobart MacKenzie is on his way and she goes to tell Jamie that he should leave Lallybroch just as Claire arrives in the room. Jamie refuses to leave stating he is not scared of Hobart and Jenny has to accept that. Jenny leaves the room and then goes outside to the barn. Claire sees her through the window and follows her (V, chapter 38)
Claire catches up to Jenny who realises that she can no longer avoid this confrontation. They go to the root cellar for privacy. Claire confronts Jenny about why she made Jamie marry Laoghaire and why she sent word to Laoghaire that Jamie had returned with Claire. Jenny admits that Jamie would not have married Laoghaire if she hadn't forced the issue, but explains to Claire that Jamie was so lonely and wretched when he returned home that she could not bear it (V, chapter 38)
Jenny tells Claire that she sent word to Laoghaire because she was afraid that Claire would take Jamie away from her again, as she had seen Claire's shade at Jamie and Laoghaire's wedding. As long as Jamie was married to Laoghaire he wouldn't go further than Edinburgh and would return home regularly, but if he was married to Claire he would no longer be bound to the Highlands and Jenny may never see him again. Claire explains that she just wants to stay at Lallybroch with Jamie and promises she will take good care of Jamie even if they do have to go elsewhere (V, chapter 38)
Claire and Jenny have cleared the air and now have an understanding of each other's actions when Young Ian bursts into the cellar to announce that Hobart MacKenzie has arrived with a lawyer (V, chapter 38)
Jamie, Claire, Hobart, Ned, Jenny and Ian are present as Ned lays out Laoghaire's case for compensation. Jamie declares that he will continue to support Laoghaire and her daughters, but Jenny insists that that support should stop if Laoghaire remarries. This is agreed to and the final settlement agreed to is that Jamie will pay Laoghaire an initial sum of £500 in compensation for distress, inconvenience and loss of conjugal services. He will then continue to pay Laoghaire £100 per annum until she remarries. In addition Jamie will pay a bride-portion of £300 to each of Laoghaire's two daughters, and he agrees to not take a suit against Laoghaire for attempted murder. Laoghaire agrees to accept this offer in full and final settlement (V, chapter 38)
After Hobart and Ned have left, Jenny asks Jamie where he is going to get the money to pay Laoghaire. Jamie replies that he will have to use some of the seal's treasure, but as he cannot swim because of his gunshot wound he wants to take Young Ian to retrieve it. Jenny automatically says no, being unable to let go of her youngest child. But Ian Snr acknowledges that Young Ian is a capable enough swimmer and Jenny realises they cannot treat Ian as a child forever, but must give him his freedom while he still thinks it is theirs to give. Jenny reluctantly agrees, and Jamie tells her that for Laoghaire's sake he must leave Lallybroch for a while. He proposes going back to France to work for Jared and taking Young Ian with him so he can be schooled in Paris (V, chapter 38)
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Significant Moments in Voyager:
1746:
Jamie arrives home badly wounded from Culloden, half-conscious and mostly dead from fever. Jenny asks him about Claire. Jamie tells her that Claire is gone and Jenny is not to speak her name to him again, and she never does (V, chapter 5) Once healed Jamie has to live hidden in a cave and comes down to the house just once a month at night (V, chapter 4)
1749:
Ian and Jenny's third daughter, Caitlin Maisri, is stillborn on December 3rd (V, chapter 5)
1752:
Ian is arrested in September for the fourth time on suspicion of being a Jacobite sympathiser and taken to Inverness. As on the previous occasions, Jenny makes sure that Ian's discharge from the army proving he didn't fight at Culloden, and the deed of sasine showing Young Jamie to be laird of Lallybroch are produced so that the property cannot be confiscated from them. Jenny is heavily pregnant and is responsible for two Lallybroch families whose men were murdered by English soldiers, as well as her own household. (V, chapter 4)
In late November Ian is still in prison and Jenny goes into labour. She sends Fergus to tell Jamie not to come down from his cave as there are English soldiers in the area, but Jamie ignores her. Jenny gives birth to Young Ian and asks for Jamie. Jenny discusses her plans to marry off two of the Lallybroch widows and asks Jamie if he would like to marry Peggy Murray. Jamie gets very angry and tells Jenny that he doesn't intend to marry again and to abandon all thought of matchmaking. Just at that moment English soldiers barge into the house in search of the firearm that they heard Jamie shoot off earlier. As they march up the stairs Jenny tells Jamie to hide in the armoire. Jamie jumps in the armoire, forgetting that he is still holding baby Ian (V, chapter 5)
The soldiers come into the bedroom and on learning that Jenny has just given birth demand to know where the baby is. Jenny tells them the baby died. Young Jamie hears this and flies into a grief-filled rage, shouting at the soldiers that they have killed his brother. The child in question is becoming hungry and Jamie desperately sticks his thumb in Ian's mouth to stop him crying. The English captain doesn't know how to handle Young Jamie's tantrum and takes his men downstairs. Jamie is forced to leave the armoire to give Ian to Jenny before he squawks with hunger. Fortunately the soldiers leave the property but Jamie and Jenny have been badly shaken by how close Jamie was to being discovered and Jamie tells Jenny he will not come back down to the house for a time (V, chapter 5)
1753:
Fergus is brought back to the farmhouse by English soldiers after they have accidentally cut off his hand. Jenny tends to his wound. When Jamie comes down to the house he takes Jenny down to the priest hole and tells her that he cannot bear to live the way he is any longer. Claire told him that after a few years traitors from the Rising would only be imprisoned and not hanged. Based on this knowledge he has decided to give himself up, but he will ask one of the Lallybroch tenants to 'betray' him so that the people of Lallybroch can collect the reward on his head. Jenny is shocked at his plan and tells him to take care that he doesn't get killed when the English take him (V, chapter 6)
1755:
Jenny and Ian receive a carefully coded letter from Jamie in prison, telling them about the seal's treasure and where he has hidden it. Lallybroch has had two years of failed harvests and the Jacobites in exile in France have also been asking for support as they are in danger of starvation. Ian sends word to Jamie, who replies that as the treasure was intended for Prince Charles's supporters, they should use some of it to support those in exile. Ian and Young Jamie go to the seals' cove but do not hire a boat as they don't wish to draw attention to themselves. Young Jamie swims to the island and extracts two gold coins and three of the smaller gemstones. Young Jamie and Ian go to France and with Jared's help change the treasure into cash and distribute it to the Jacobites in exile (V, chapter 38)
1764:
Jamie returns to Lallybroch after his many years away at Ardsmuir and Helwater. He is so lonely and wretched mourning for Claire that Jenny can't bear it (V, chapter 38) Jenny decides that Jamie needs to marry again (V, chapter 37) Jenny learns from Ned Gowan that Laoghaire is widowed and living alone with her two daughters. Jenny invites Laoghaire to Lallybroch for Hogmanay (V, chapter 37)
1765:
Jamie and Laoghaire are married. During the wedding ceremony, Jenny sees Claire's shade standing at Jamie's left hand between him and Laoghaire. Jenny knows this means that Claire will take Jamie back. Jenny has never had any supernatural experience like that before and she is so spooked by it that she has to leave the room in the middle of the vows (V, chapter 38)
1766:
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian arrive at Lallybroch to a tense reunion with Ian and Jenny. Jenny is initially wary of Claire, finding it difficult to believe she has reappeared after so long away, and so unchanged (V, chapter 32)
Ian Snr berates Ian for running away and causing so much worry and sends him out to the gatepost to be whipped. Jamie pleads with Ian Snr not to whip Young Ian, saying that he is no longer a child. Ian Snr says that he has told Ian he will be punished and can't go back on his word, but that Jamie can be the one to administer the whipping. Jamie is shocked and does not want to do it but has no choice. Claire, Jenny & Ian Snr all watch through the window as Jamie goes to join Young Ian. Young Ian is shocked when Jamie comes out to the gatepost and even more surprised and taken aback when Jamie finishes the beating and then orders Ian to whip him in return to punish him for leading him astray. As both Ian and Jamie gingerly rub their bottoms afterwards, Jamie tells Ian that he'd prefer not to have to do that again, and Ian agrees (V, chapter 32)
At some stage after this Jenny sends her daughter Janet to Balriggan to tell Laoghaire that Claire has come back (V, chapter 35) The next morning Laoghaire and her daughters arrive at Lallybroch, and Marsali walks in on Claire and Jamie having sex, with Laoghaire following her into the room shortly afterwards. Laoghaire erupts in anger and Jamie and Claire have a vicious argument followed by violent, noisy sex that the whole household can hear. Jenny is so angered by this that she takes a pail of cold water upstairs and throws it over Jamie and Claire, demanding to know if Jamie is ashamed of himself. He replies that he is and leaves the room (V, chapter 34)
Jenny helps settle Claire and goes to get Claire a new dress to replace her ripped one. After Claire is dressed she tells Jenny she wants to leave and Jenny says, 'I think that's best'. Jamie returns to the house to find Claire has gone. He is absolutely furious and he and Jenny have a huge argument ending in a broken window. Jamie gets on his horse and makes to go after Claire, but Laoghaire reappears, clutches Jamie's leg and weeps and wails. At the end of his tether Jamie throws Laoghaire over his shoulder and carries her into the house to deal with her. While they are both upstairs Laoghaire shoots Jamie (V, chapter 35)
Jamie develops a fever and Young Ian disappears for a couple of days only to return with Claire. Jenny is relieved and angry at his reappearance and not at all happy to see Claire. She tells Ian that he is a cuckoo in the nest and not meant to be her son and sends him to bed. Jenny and Claire call a truce for the sake of Jamie (V, chapter 36)
Jenny avoids Claire and does not speak to her for the next four days. Jenny receives warning from a neighbour that Hobart MacKenzie is on his way and she goes to tell Jamie that he should leave Lallybroch just as Claire arrives in the room. Jamie refuses to leave stating he is not scared of Hobart and Jenny has to accept that. Jenny leaves the room and then goes outside to the barn. Claire sees her through the window and follows her (V, chapter 38)
Claire catches up to Jenny who realises that she can no longer avoid this confrontation. They go to the root cellar for privacy. Claire confronts Jenny about why she made Jamie marry Laoghaire and why she sent word to Laoghaire that Jamie had returned with Claire. Jenny admits that Jamie would not have married Laoghaire if she hadn't forced the issue, but explains to Claire that Jamie was so lonely and wretched when he returned home that she could not bear it (V, chapter 38)
Jenny tells Claire that she sent word to Laoghaire because she was afraid that Claire would take Jamie away from her again, as she had seen Claire's shade at Jamie and Laoghaire's wedding. As long as Jamie was married to Laoghaire he wouldn't go further than Edinburgh and would return home regularly, but if he was married to Claire he would no longer be bound to the Highlands and Jenny may never see him again. Claire explains that she just wants to stay at Lallybroch with Jamie and promises she will take good care of Jamie even if they do have to go elsewhere (V, chapter 38)
Claire and Jenny have cleared the air and now have an understanding of each other's actions when Young Ian bursts into the cellar to announce that Hobart MacKenzie has arrived with a lawyer (V, chapter 38)
Jamie, Claire, Hobart, Ned, Jenny and Ian are present as Ned lays out Laoghaire's case for compensation. Jamie declares that he will continue to support Laoghaire and her daughters, but Jenny insists that that support should stop if Laoghaire remarries. This is agreed to and the final settlement agreed to is that Jamie will pay Laoghaire an initial sum of £500 in compensation for distress, inconvenience and loss of conjugal services. He will then continue to pay Laoghaire £100 per annum until she remarries. In addition Jamie will pay a bride-portion of £300 to each of Laoghaire's two daughters, and he agrees to not take a suit against Laoghaire for attempted murder. Laoghaire agrees to accept this offer in full and final settlement (V, chapter 38)
After Hobart and Ned have left, Jenny asks Jamie where he is going to get the money to pay Laoghaire. Jamie replies that he will have to use some of the seal's treasure, but as he cannot swim because of his gunshot wound he wants to take Young Ian to retrieve it. Jenny automatically says no, being unable to let go of her youngest child. But Ian Snr acknowledges that Young Ian is a capable enough swimmer and Jenny realises they cannot treat Ian as a child forever, but must give him his freedom while he still thinks it is theirs to give. Jenny reluctantly agrees, and Jamie tells her that for Laoghaire's sake he must leave Lallybroch for a while. He proposes going back to France to work for Jared and taking Young Ian with him so he can be schooled in Paris (V, chapter 38)
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