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Category Archives: Wicken
William Bailey ‘Died by the visitation of God’
William Bailey died whilst cutting oats in a field in Wicken in 1861. The inquest’s verdict was ‘died by visitation of God’. Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Wicken
Tagged Cambridge Chronicle, cause of death, High Fen, inquest, newspaper report, Wicken, William Bailey
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Book: ‘Soham & Wicken Through Time’
Book Review: “Soham & Wicken Through Time” by Michael Rouse and Anthony Day (ISBN:978-1-84868-667-0), published by Amberley Publishing Plc. Continue reading
Surname Saturday: BISHOP
Bishop is the 201st most common surname in the UK, a fall of almost 30 places from the 1880s. According to John Ayto (Encyclopedia of Surnames), the surname of Bishop originates from a person who was a servant in the … Continue reading
Posted in Bishop, Cambridgeshire, Surname Saturday, Wicken
Tagged Adelaide Bishop, Ann Bowers, Bishop, Fordham, Gerard Kelly, James Simpson Bishop, Soham, Surname Saturday, Twineham, West Sussex
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Wicken Windmill
This weekend is National Mills Weekend in the UK, and so I decided to head off to one of the few working mills left in Cambridgeshire, in a village called Wicken. Wicken was once home to my Bishop family during … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridgeshire, Haddenham, Miller, Occupations, Wicken
Tagged business, corn, engineering, flour, grain, machine, mill, milling, National Mills Weekend, sails, village, windmill, windpower
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A life consumed
The ‘White Plague’, ‘Consumption’, ‘T.B’, Tuberculosis. If you’ve been researching your family tree, you’re bound to have stumbled across some of these phrases as causes of death (i’d only not seen the ‘white plague’ term before, but I’ve seen the … Continue reading
Posted in Bowers, Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Little Downham, Martin, Railwaymen, Wicken
Tagged consumption, disease, health, milk, nutrition, overcrowding, scarlet fever, TB, tuberculosis, ventilation, white plague
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