Eliza ANDERSON. Married, June 2, St Michael’s, Rev Richard BICKELL & Eliza, daughter of late John ANDERSON, esq., of Clifford's, Island of Jamaica. 7.6.1819

Mr Henry BASTABLE, merchant, son of Mr E. Bastable, of Bristol, died Dec 6, at Kingston. Obit 16.2.1822

Mr Richard BOWZER, eldest son of the late F.W. Bowzer of Bristol, died Dec. last. Obit 16.2.1822

John Stockdale BROWN esq., died Clifton, Jul 29, of Sportsman’s Hall, Trelawney, Jamaica, Obit. 2.8.1819

Charles James CLARKE, esq, of Jamaica to Jane, eldest daughter of late Thomas PIERCE, esq., married at Clifton. 1.11.1819

Elizabeth Ann CLARKE, died Jul 16 at Hotwells, in her 21st year, only dau of Josias Clarke, esq., of Jamaica. Obit 25.7.1825

John COXON, aged 18, died April 24 aboard the brig “William” (Captain WELLER), on a passage home from Jamaica which he left in good health on the 18th, son of Joseph Coxon of St James Place, Kingsdown and grandson of Captain Coxon of the “Grosvenor” East Indiaman which was wrecked some years ago off Cape of Good Hope. A young man of first rate talents and sanguine expectations, master of French, German & Spanish, just embarked in employ of Mr ANGUS, merchant of London, dutiful and affectionate child, loss will be long felt by family and friends. Obit 6.6.1825

Letitia Maria GALE. married March 18 at Tewkesbury, Alfred son of Rev Dr ESTLIN of Bristol & L.M. Gale, only dau of late James Gale, esq., senior of Saltspring, St Elizabeth, Jamaica. 21.3.1825

Elizabeth GORDON, died May 15, at Wellington Place, aged 81, Elizabeth, relict of Larchin Gordon, esq., of Jamaica. Obit 23.5.1825

William HAMMONDS, esq., died May 20, Kingston. Obit 1.8.1825

Captain HODDELL, of the ship “John” of Bristol, died Apr 12, at Montego, after a fatal accident when he was thrown out of a chaise. Obit 5.6.1820

William HOPKINS, died Mar 20, at Montego Bay, aged 29, son of Mr Ralph Hopkins of Old Market Street. Obit 14.6.1824

Mr Frederick HOWE, aged 25, died of fever on Dec 28, at Martha Brae, brother of Mr Howe of Dolphin Street. Obit 23.3.1822

Rev D.G. HAGUE & Mrs. HAGUE. died lately at Kingston after a very short missionary labour, Rev D.G. Hague eldest son of Mr Hague of Bristol and a few days afterwards, his wife, to whom he had been married only four months. (Two others from the same church, unnamed, also died at the same time, suggesting an outbreak of fever?) Obit 21.11.1825

Henry JACKSON, died lately at Jamaica of yellow fever, the 3rd son of Mr William Jackson of Upper Easton. Obit 27.3.1820

Herbert Jarrett JAMES, of Jamaica, a daughter born to “his lady”. 17.11.1823.

W. KERBY, died Sep 21, at Kingston, Jamaica. Obit. 4.12.1820

James LEMAN, esq of St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica to Charlotte, only daughter of late John SCOTT, esq, solicitor, Bath, married Walcot. 18.11.1822

Mrs LEWIS, widow of James Lewis, esq., formerly of Jamaica, died at Clifton, Dec 13. Obit 23.12.1822

John LYON. died at the residence of his brother at Kingsdown, 4th son of the late James Lyon, esq. of Jamaica, of an abscess on the lungs. Obit 3.7.1820

John MAIS, senior, esq., at his lodging, Kingsdown Parade, late of Jamaica. Obit 23.8.1819

Jane MONTAGUE,  Oct 1, at Blower Hall, parish of St James, Jamaica, wife of Edward Montague, esq., Her loss sincerely lamented by her affectionate husband and numerous circle of friends. Obit 17.1.1820

Joseph PARROTT, esq., July 29, at Cathay, at an advanced age, a native of Jamaica. Obit 2.8.1819

Elizabeth PENDRILL. married Jun 5 at Bathwick, Rev Geo. Ingram FISHER, rector of Winfrith-Newburgh, Dorset to Elizabeth 2nd dau of John Pendrill of Bath and granddaughter of late William CAMPBELL of New Milns, Jamaica. 13.6.1825

Captain Edward POWELL, died April 8, at Kingston, of the ship “Union” of this port. Obit 5.6.1820

William PRICHARD,  in his 22nd year, 2nd son of Mr Henry Prichard of Queens Parade, died at Spanish Town, Dec 17. Obit 16.2.1822

Abraham ROOM of Bedminster, died Mar 26 at New Peru, St Thomas in the East, Jamaica, three weeks after his return to the island, regretted by all. Obit 11.7.1825

Mr John Morgan THOMAS. died lately, in a passage from Jamaica, aboard the “Ann” (Captain VIBERT) aged 31, eldest son of Mr John Thomas, iron merchant of this City. Obit 7.2.1820

William Couch TUNNICLIFFE. died lately, within six days sail of Jamaica, on the outward voyage, in the 30th year of his age, Second mate aboard the “Ann” (Captain GARDEN). Obit 18.2.1820

Captain WATERS, of ship “Charlotte” of Bristol, died Sep 4 at Port Antonia, Jamaica. Obit 14.11.1825,

Mr Joseph WINE, at Trelawney, Jamaica, aged 39, Mr Joseph Wine, son of Mrs Sarah Wine and brother of Mr John Wine, chemist & druggist, Temple Street. Obit 9.8.1819. (Baptised Temple 1.8.1779,  son of John & Sarah)

And one who didn’t:

Dorothy THORP. On March 15 at Batchelor’s Hall Estate, Hanover, the PROPERTY (my italics) of Philip John MILES, esq., Dorothy Thorp, a black woman, at the advanced age of 103 years. Her children and grandchildren amount to 25 in number, one of whom, a Quadroon, is married to a  respectable tradesman in Scotland. She retained her faculties and her teeth entire to the last and attended to her goods and went to market within a few days of her death. Obit. 3.7.1820

All the above entries are taken from the Bristol Mercury.

Hope Chapel was until recently used as the venue for Sunday night concerts and it was at several of these that I took down the following names from plaques on the walls. After the concerts and other community activities ceased the Chapel was threatened with closure and demolition. I am delighted to say it has been saved and now functions again as a place of worship – Hope Community Church.

http://www.hopechapel.co.uk/

ADAMS, Emma, 1864

“Jan 26, at Rownham Place, Hotwells, aged 20, deeply lamented, Miss Emma Adams, niece of Mr Lanham.” (BM 30.1.1864) Mr Lanham was born 1813 in Bath, a master baker and in 1861 was at Rownham Place with his wife and two daughters, and their nieces Emma and Ann Adams.

ATHERSUCH, E. 1914-18

(Sapper Edward Arthur James Athersuch, Royal Engineers, died 28.3.1918, aged 26, son of Mrs Elizabeth Priscilla Athersuch of 37 Ambra Vale East, Clifton Wood,  Pozieres Memorial - CWGC)

BAKER, Ann, 1798

BERDER, Elizabeth Lamplow, 1804

BISHOP, F.J. 1914-18

(Private, RAMC, 129th Field Ambulance, died 23.7. 1917, aged 21, son of Isaac & Alice Bishop, 4 Albemarle Row, Hotwells, Bard Cottage Cemetery, Belgium. – CWGC)

BUCHAN, Henrietta, 1823

DENFORD, Mary, 1851

“Feb 27 aged 63, Mary C. wife of Captain Denford, Albemarle Row, Clifton, universally regretted. Her loss will be felt amongst the poor to whom she was ever a kind benefactress.” (BM 8.3.1851). Mary Cure Denford died just before the census of 1851. In 1841 she was living at 12 Freeland Place, Clifton with her husband Charles (of independent means) and a young maidservant.

EDMUNDS, A.H. 1914-18

(Private, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry, 6th Bn, died 4.12.1917, Tin Court New British Cemetery, Somme – CWGC);

FOSTER, Henry, 1819

FRIEND, Sarah, 1791

GREGORY, Rev William, 1853

Rev William Gregory became Pastor in 1831 and his labours were “greatly blessed”. (see BM 14.7.1838) His death was announced in Bristol Mercury 19. 2.1853: “Feb 15 at his residence, The Polygon, Clifton, aged 47, the Rev Wm Gregory, for 21 years the faithful Pastor of Hope Chapel.”

GUY, Rev W.H., 1830

“April 1, the Rev William Henry Guy, pastor of Hope Chapel, Clifton, having during a long illness experienced the efficacy and truths of the Gospel he so faithfully preached to his now bereaved and mourning flock.” (BM 6.8.1830)

HARRIS, William, 1885

HOOD, C.E. 1914-18

(Charles Ernest Hood, son of Mr & Mrs J. Hood, 8 Freeland Place, Hotwells, aged 22, Royal Irish Regt, 6th Bn, died 7.6.1917, Ypres, Menin Gate. – CWGC)

HOPE, Charles, 1797

HOPE, Lady Henrietta, 1786

Lady Henrietta Hope gave £2,500 towards the erection of the Chapel but sadly died before it was completed, as did her two colleagues Lady Glenorchy and Lady Maxwell. Henrietta was buried at the Tabernacle in Bristol but her body was exhumed and brought to the Hope and placed in a vault beneath the chapel with a marble memorial erected on the spot. (see Bristol Mercury 14.7.1838)

HOPE, Catherine, 1802

LAWRENCE, Joseph, 1841

“June 14 at Rodney House, Weston-super-mare age 64 after a few days illness, Joseph Lawrence, Esq.” (BM 19.6.1841) 

LUKE, Samuel, 1865

“Oct 28 at Clifton, the Rev Samuel Luke aged 59.” (BM 31.10.1868)

POWELL, Alice, 1797

STEPHENS, T. 1914-18

(Thomas Stephens, A Coy, Glos. Regt, aged 27, died 27.8.1917. son of Henry & Frances Stephens, 270 Hotwells Rd and husband of Lilian Stephens, 13 Carters Buildings, Clifton. Tyne Cot. – CWGC)

WAY, T. 1914-18

(Private Thomas Way, South Staffs Regt. died 10.7.1916, Thiepval Memorial. – CWGC)

WIER, William Hope, 1811

YOUNG, A. 1914-18

(I believe he was either Albert or Arthur, but I cannot say for certain owing to the large numbers of men called “A. Young” on the CWGC lists.)

Notices from Bristol Mercury:

Obituaries

Rev. Joseph H. Browning, died in his 81st year at Wrington, Sept. 30th. One of the earliest students at the Countess of Huntingdon's College at Trevocca. Some time Pastor at Hope Chapel. (8.10.1836)

Marriages at Hope Chapel, 1843-52:

June 6, at Hope Chapel by Rev Wm Gregory, Samuel Backhouse, Esq., of Wells to Margaret dau of E. Fennell, Esq.. (10.6.1843)

June 28, at H.C. by Rev Thomas Winter, Mr W. Liddiatt to Miss M. Price, both of this City. (29.6.1844)

Oct 30, at H.C. Mr Isaac Hemmons of Bristol to Miss Mary Polglase of Bedminster. (16.11.1844)

Dec 27, at H.C. by Rev W. Gregory, Mr John Thorn, mason to Mary Amelia. d.o. Mr David Williams, builder, both of this City (4.1.1845)

Jan 23, by Rev H.I. Roper, Mr Wm Tilley of Bath to Anna Maria, only d.o. Mr S. Bowsey, Rosedale Cottage, Montpelier. (25.1.1845)

Mar 11, by Rev David Thomas, to Rev John Titley of Bath to Elizabeth Mary, widow of the late Henry Samuel Beer of Clifton. (13.3.1847)

Sep 18, Mr J.D. Rock of Islington to Emma, youngest d.o. late Rev John Guard. (2.10.1847)

Mar 9, by Rev Wm Gregory, Mr David Williams senior of Brunswick Place, Hotwells to Mrs Mary Powell of Montague Hill. (17.3.1849)

Feb 25, by Rev Wm Gregory. David Morris, lithographer, Commercial Street, Newport s.o. late Rev T. Morris, Baptist Minister, to Jane, youngest d.o. late Mr Thomas Morgan of Nelson Place, Clifton, (9.3.1850)

Feb 12, by Rev J.T. Beighton, Mr Matthew Dunlop of Wellington Place to Jane, only d.o. Mr Samuel Frost of Cumberland Terrace. (14.2.1852)

Misc:

Declaration by Ann Wall, wife of Thomas Wall, draper, 11 Wellington St., Clifton relating to death of William Hayman, 1815, and his burial at the Hope Chapel. Clifton. (81/PWT/120/1 1837 Plymouth & West Devon Record Office)

Every cloud has one they say. Following the “demo” on 18th August my granddaughter and I went to the meeting at The Pilgrim. En route I met Heidi of Milbanke Close, with her children. She is one of the organisers and I thanked her and promised support to Protect Brislington’s Green Spaces.  At the pub we signed the petitions. Not that petitions do much good from my experience of working for a Member of Parliament.

The Pilgrim has Pillinger connections – the widowed Maria Pillinger (her husband was accidentally killed on Brislington Hill) was landlady there in the middle of the 19th century.

In the pub, I struck up a conversation with a kindred spirit, Jill Jacobs. Much to my surprise, after such a brief acquaintance, Jill thrust a sheaf of old photos into my hand and said she would trust them with me, until we should meet again.  I must have an honest face.

The photos were of the Burt family who lived in Brislington at the turn of the 20th century. I scanned the photos – see below. The family groups, Bob & Agnes Burt and their children were dated 1914 and 1905, making them ideal for census investigation.

In 1911, the family is listed as follows:

Robert Burt, head, married 36, bricklayer, born Bristol

Agnes Burt, wife, 37, born Wellington, Somerset, and their children:

Elsie, 14, scholar, born Taunton, Clifford, 13, scholar, born Taunton, Hilda, 11, scholar, born Taunton, Gladys, 10, scholar, born Bristol and Ivy, 8, born Bristol.

And here’s the surprise. They were living at Nelson’s Glory, Brislington. So what, you may say. Readers of The History of the Pillinger Family, Part 2, will know that Nelson’s Glory, in the 1820s was the abode of Henry Pillinger and his family! Synchronicity, or what?

So there we have Maria, the landlady of the Pilgrim and Henry at Nelson’s Glory, not to forget Julia from Bath in a previous post, I can’t help thinking that they’re all upstairs holding a Pillinger symposium to which they are trying to invite me. Not yet, I earnestly hope.

The following are the photographs of the Burt family:

In 1905: Mother : Agnes Burt. Father: Bob Burt

children from left to right Hilda, Ivy, Elsie, Gladys, Clifford.

 

In September, 1914:

Mother: Agnes Burt; Father Bob Burt and in between, Lena, the latest arrival.

adult children, from left to right: Hilda, Elsie, Cliff, Gladys, Ivy

Gladys Burt in 1922, with unnamed boy friend at Poplar House, School Road,  Brislington.

Bob Burt, 1935 at Poplar House.

Agnes Burt, with “Bob” – a grandson? and John Evans also at Poplar House

Agnes & the family dog, what a shame we don’t know its name.

Robert Burt married Agnes Thorne in 1897 at Wellington and by 1901 they were living at 34 Sandgate Road, Brislington. As a bricklayer, perhaps Bob had a hand in the building of these new houses. It must have been a recent move for as we have seen their children, aged 3, 2 & 1, Elsie, Clifford and Hilda, had all been born in Taunton.

In 1891 Robert, then about 14, was living at Road, Stoke St Mary, Taunton with his elder brother Albert (18) and widowed mother Sarah, aged 44. Though the two boys had been born in Bristol, Sarah’s birthplace was Old Cleeve in Somerset. Robert and Albert were the sons of Sarah’s marriage to Robert Burt and she had a previous son, William Tarr, born 1863.  Robert senior died in 1876, the same year that his son and namesake was born.  In 1881, Sarah, then 36, was living at 14 Kenilworth Terrace, St Philips, and working as a charwoman. Two of her sons were with her, William Tarr, aged 18, (a porter in a printing office who was born at Washford in Somerset) and young Robert, a scholar of five. Brother Albert, aged seven was staying at the time of the census with his paternal grandmother, Mary Ann Burt, aged 60, a widow, who was farming at Thurlbear in Somerset, assisted by her son, Andrew Burt.

In 1871, young William Tarr, aged seven, was a boarder at a house at St Decumans, Highbridge, belonging to a Sarah Sully, aged 68. Among other boarders was a John Burt, a freestone sawyer, born Montacute, but without further research I cannot say whether John Burt and Robert Burt senior were related or if this was simply coincidence.  Meanwhile, Robert, senior, 21, was living on his father’s farm, Netherclay, Thurlbear with six brothers and sisters. His father, Worthy Burt, born about 1823 married Mary Ann Williams at Taunton in 1847. Her father, Robert Williams, an “Ag lab” born 1789 was living with the family in 1871.  I have yet to establish with any certainty the whereabouts of Sarah Burt, formerly Tarr in 1871.  

In order to find more about Agnes Thorne, I would need her marriage certificate to discover her father’s name. So far, census searches have proved inconclusive.

Hardy’s classic novel The Mayor of Casterbridge opens when Michael Henchard, in later years the eponymous mayor, but then a poor hay trusser, sells his wife in the public market with tragic consequences. Though by no means usual, in the absence of divorce, (except for the very rich), such proceedings were far from unique and local papers of the 18th and 19th centuries report a steady stream of these events often in lurid detail.

The “Bristol Mercury” of 17th August 1833 records that a man called James Stradling offered his wife for sale at Lansdown Fair before a large concourse of rowdy spectators. She was brought forth “dashingly attired” and with a halter round her neck covered in silk. Before the sale could be concluded however, Stradling was arrested for causing a disturbance and conveyed to the Bath lock up. The following Monday, he was discharged by the magistrates with a reprimand.

It appears that the happy couple returned to the marital home, where at the very least, relations must have been strained. There seems to have been another attempt at a sale, followed by imprisonment of the husband, but even worse was to follow.

On the 4th October there is a report under the heading “Horrid Attempt at Murder”.

“On Friday, Louisa Stradling gave information at the Guildhall, Bath of a most nefarious premeditated attempt made by her husband, James Stradling, shoe maker of Campden Street in this City to take away her life, the previous night. Our readers may remember that that this man who had about twelve months since sold his wife for five shillings at Lansdown Fair again exhibited her for sale in our public market place.  A warrant was issued against him for a breach of the peace and he was committed to prison for six months. Since that period, the parties have lived together only six weeks.

“On Thursday last, Stradling, with apparent kindness proposed to his wife to take a walk with her along the banks of the canal adding that he intended to catch some eels. She consented and they proceeded to the canal at the back of Sydney Parade when he placed Mrs Stadling between the lock gates and desired her to throw the hook and line into the water while he sought for a worm. After a short while, he returned and the inhuman villain pushed her into the water, a fall of about twelve feet and then ran off, leaving her in this perilous position, no doubt expecting she would soon be a corpse.

In falling however, the woman’s clothes became inflated and she was buoyed up in the water for upwards of ten minutes and her cries attracted the attention of some persons, and a station of the humane society being nearby, a pole and rope were procured to save her from a watery grave. Because of her exhaustion and failure to hang on because of the weight on her wet clothes, one of the persons, a strong swimmer, was let down by a rope which he placed about her waist and was able to extricate her.

“She was conveyed to the White Hart at Widcombe in a senseless state but was shortly restored.

“Stradling was apprehended next day and the above facts sworn, He was fully committed for trial at the next Somerset Assizes.”

And then, at the Assizes…………… reported 11th April 1835:

“James Stradling, indicted for maliciously attempting to drown his wife. According to the prosecutrix, she and her husband had been drinking at a public house and they went to the canal to fish and she fell in. But in her examination before Magistrates she had said that her husband pushed her in. This she now denied and said she knew not what she was talking about at the time, she was so much agitated.

“Mr Justice Patterson told the Jury there was not sufficient evidence to commit the prisoner and ordered his acquittal, at the same time addressing the prisoner, telling him there was no doubt his wife committed wilful perjury in order to save his life.”

(Even in those days, an example of the Police frustrated in their attempts to bring a case in a “domestic”. )

a cartoon of a wife sale

In 1841 at Beaufort Square in Walcot, a James Stradling aged 55 is listed along with an Elizabeth Stradling aged 60. Their names are separated by two men called Targett, as though Mr and Mrs lived in separate parts of the house.

I assume Louisa died and the “inhuman” James took up with Elizabeth (unless they are one and the same woman). So far I can find no death for Louisa and no remarriage for James. (He is not the James Stradling who married Jane Jenkings (sic) at St Michael’s, Bath in 1837 who was a baker and lived in Wellington.)

In 1851, at 4 Skines Place, Walcot, the couple are shown in the more usual way. James,  a cordwinder, (shoemaker) is 67 and his wife, 71. Their granddaughter, Elizabeth Arthur, who had been in the house in 1841,  aged 8 is still with them, but is now young woman of 18.