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...
Matrimonial miseries – The Ipswich Journal, 3 September 1836: Mary Bird, the woman who on Monday was charged with an assault upon her mother-in-law Mary Mann, attended to prefer a charge of assault against her husband, William Bird, a coal-porter, and in...
Longevity – Bury and Norwich Post, 15 September 1847: There is at present a woman named Mary Benton, living in the village of Elton, near Stockton-on-Tees, who has attained the great age of 107 years, and is at present in possession of most of her...
Speaking of dogs – Newcastle Courant, 13 February 1731: Edinburgh, Jan. 16. Both City and Country having been for several Days past amused with different Accounts of the late Apparition in the Shire of Perth, we have thought proper to publish the...
Jilted curate’s agony – Nottingham Evening Post, 3 July 1925: Unites to his rival the girl who rejected him – M. Arna, a Swiss Protestant curate who had been jilted by his fiancee, was called on in his professional capacity to...
Daniel Aitken died aged 120 – Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 1 May 1847: A man named Daniel Aitken lately died in Wexford, Canada, at the age of 120 years; during his life had contracted seven marriages, and he has left five hundred and seventy...
Speaking of silly – Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 11 March 1848: At the Lancaster assizes, on Monday, a witness was called to verify the signature to a deposition. Being rather tardy in entering the witness-box, Mr Baron Alderson inquired the cause...
Sailor boy, sailor girl – North Devon Journal, 22 July 1841: A female sailor. – A considerable degree of excitement was caused last week in the town of Brixham, by the discovery of a female sailor, on board one of trawl boats, in which capacity...
Serious raid by a bullock – Carlisle Patriot, 19 April 1867: The spirit of mischief seems to have taken possession of the bovine race, as never a market day now passes without an adventure in the streets of Dumfries more or less exciting and dangerous...
Dream of a Spelling Bee – Leicester Chronicle, 22 January 1876: Unknown (1876) Menageries where sleuth-hounds caracole, Where jaguar phalanx and phlegmatic gnu Fright ptarmigan and kestrels, cheek by jowl With peewit and precocious cockatoo. Gaunt...
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