Scarlet fever in Sampford Peverell
Between January 1861 and June 1889, there were 335 burials in the Devon village of Sampford Peverell with the cause of death recorded in the parish register by Reverend George William Rossiter Ireland (with one notable exception, his wife Mary Eliza Ireland, who was buried on 31 August 1870). 300 of these burials were for…
Elizabeth, the Lady Butcher of Westbury-on-Trym
Elizabeth Louisa BEVAN, my great-great-great grandmother, was born in 1843, the eldest of at least eight children of Charles BEVAN and Elizabeth GRIFFIN. Her father was a butcher by trade, working in Stoke Bishop and Westbury-on-Trym. He later took over from her maternal grandfather, John GRIFFIN, as landlord of the Three Stars on Stoke Road.…
Edward MASON and the magazine at Monmouth
In my last post, I told the story of John MASON who lived in the “most haunted house in Monmouth”. Now we go back in time to John’s grandfather Edward MASON, who was mayor of Monmouth during a turbulent period of British history. His story, even though it occurs almost 30 years after the Gunpowder…
My MASON ancestors and their haunted house in Monmouthshire
Around the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, my 9 x great-grandfather, John MASON, lived with his family at Bailey Pit near Monmouth, described by the Great British Ghost Tour website as “reputedly haunted by the ghosts of a cripple and a murdered maid”. This source goes on to describe phenomena including the sound…
Francis Parker BAILEY and his two families
I first encountered Francis BAILEY as a gentleman’s servant on the marriage certificate for his son Henry BAILEY, who married Harriet GARRETT at St. Margaret’s Church in Roath, Cardiff on 17 May 1875. Henry was born in Martock, Somerset, so it stood to reason that my search for Francis should begin there, but his life…
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