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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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There’s something about Mary…
A few weeks ago I wrote about my Clarke/Bailey family at Hartismere Union Workhouse. In that posting, I mentioned that whilst I had located the Bailey/Clarke family group, the wife (my gtx4 grandmother – Mary Bailey née Clarke) was missing … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Clarke, Crime, Family Tree, Genealogy, Suffolk
Tagged 1841, assault, Black Sheep Sunday, Botesdale, Caroline Clarke, child abuse, children, court, cruelty, disease, Elizabeth Smith, Emma Bailey, flogging, gaol, Guildford Hunt, guilty, hard labour, Hartismere Union, ill-use, ipswich, Ipswich Journal, Ipswich Record Office, jail, John Thornton, jury, Louisa Bailey, malnourished, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, mistreating, neglect, Overseer, physical abuse, prison, punishment, RootsChat.com, Stanton, step-mother, Suffolk, The Cock Inn, Thomas Palfrey, violence, William Bailey, William Clarke
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The Workhouse
It’s unlikely that anyone would have wanted to go to the workhouse unless they’d lost all hope of finding support elsewhere.. but after two illegitimate children (Caroline and Edward Clarke), and an 1838 marriage to widower Mr William Bailey, Mary … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Clarke, Littleport, Suffolk
Tagged Alfred Bailey, Amelia Bailey, Back Hills, Caroline Clarke, Castle Hill, Charles Bailey, Edward Bailey, Edward Clarke, Ellis Bailey, Eye, Fanny Bailey, Francis Bailey, Gressenhall, Hartismere, Hartismere Union, Henry Flowers, Ling House of Industry, Louisa Bailey, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, Mildenhall Road, Philip Bailey, poverty, William Bailey, workhouse
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Can’t see the Woods for the trees
Caroline Clarke, my paternal great, great, great grandmother, had presented me a problem for many years, but 2009 appears to have ended the mystery of who she was and where she came from. After deciding to unravel the mystery of … Continue reading
