Wedding for the ages – Bury and Norwich Post, 31 August 1836: On Friday last, John Scates, carpenter, aged 68, to the widow Childs, both of this town. The bridegroom had been judged too far advanced in his dotage to redeem his “lady love” for...
Deadly reflection – Bury and Norwich Post, 10 March 1847: DIED. On the 14th ult., at St. Christopher’s, aged 36, Charles Thornton Cunningham, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Leeward Islands, eldest son of the Rev. J.W.Cunningham, Vicar of...
Worthy of support – The Ipswich Journal, 20 September 1845: A PATRIARCH.-John Matthews, aged 114, residing in the parish of Llandilo-Talybout, together with his daughter, applied for relief, for the first time, at a meeting of our board of guardians, held...
Nothing new under the sun – The Examiner, July 24, 1858: TURKEY— Fanatical Movements.— The news from Turkey increases in importance, The Paris ‘Pays’ says “It appears by recent letters from Mecca, that during the last...
Frocking tale – Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser, 15 November 1853: Ann Bacon, Sarah Sayles, and Jane Archer, three uninteresting young ladies of Hatfield, were charged with assaulting May Ann Mitchell,...
Triple treat – The Ipswich Journal, 3 September 1836: At Brussels, last week, a barber’s wife, 40 years of age, and who had been married 10 years without having children, gave birth to three bouncing boys, who, with the mother are doing...
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