Category: Miles
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TWERTON: PORK, ALE and CAVALRY
A story from the 20th September 1835 newspaper, The Bath Chronicle, reported a burial with military honours at Twerton commencing at 5 o’clock: “it is calculated upwards of 7,000 spectators were present.” The funeral, for Mr. Daniel Miles, of the Bath Troop of North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, started from the George Inn…
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ALICE HOATSON
Alice Hoatson born about March 1859 in Halifax, Yorkshire England and died in December 1944 at Edmonton, Middlesex England. Alice was a niece of the Reverend George Hoatson, Vicki’s 2nd Great Grandfather, making her Vicki’s 1st cousin 3 X removed. Alice, the sixth child of Joseph Cockin Hoatson and Ruth Smith was…
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THE CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
John Laurence Hendrickson. Vicki’s 3rd great Grandfather. Born on Nevis, British West Indies about 1808 and died in Stawell, Victoria on 1st April 1879. Between us we have a good smattering of convicts, religious ministers, rogues, soldiers, saints, fossickers, horsemen and pioneers. We are continually in awe and amazed at the resilience…
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