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January 1, 1814
The fog still continues. It was more dense and oppressive last night than at any time since its commencement on Monday last.
Very few persons ventured out except on pressing business; and no sound was heard out of doors but the voices of the watchman or the noise of some solitary carriage cautiously feeling its way through the gloom.
It extends as far as the Downs, a distance of 70 miles, but how far in other directions has not been ascertained. The wind has in the interval blown uniformly from the north-east.
We understand that there has been nothing like the present fog since the great earthquake at Lisbon about half a century ago. The fog then lasted about eight days.
On Thursday night last, about nine o'clock, a Serjeant belonging to the West Kent Militia, garrisoned in the Tower, owing to the thickness of fog, fell into the river from the wharf, and was unfortunately drowned before assistance, from the extreme darkness, could be of any avail.
Monday night, owing to the thick fog, a post-chaise and four passengers, on its way to Uckfield, was overturned into the water by the roadside at Brixton Wash; the chaise was broken to pieces and the passengers and horses dreadfully cut and bruised.
NOTE:
Will try to find some a bit more cheerful but sometimes if they have names in them someone may be able to claim them one day :-)
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Another Case of Pauper Deportation
The Belfast News-Letter
Tuesday, July 26, 1859
Saturday last, a man and his wife were landed at our quays from Scotland, in charge of a parochial officer; and the circumstances connected to the case render it a peculiarly distressing one and show the evil of the existing laws of settlement existing in the United Kingdom.
The female is a lunatic, who became such after giving birth to a child, which died soon after being born. The husband, as is stated, tried every private means to get her cured but without effect and at length applied to get her into a lunatic asylum.
When brought to one of those institutions, it was there found that she was born in Ireland, and had spent the first four years of her childhood in Mayo.
The Scotch authorities instantly took steps to send her to Ireland, telling the husband that he would readily get her into an asylum in this country.
When they were landed in Belfast-a considerable distance too from Mayo-they applied to Mr. Vance, the relieving officer, who could not send the wife to the workhouse unless the husband accompanied her, which he did not require or wish to do. The poor man was thus left on the streets of Belfast, with his insane wife removed here contrary to his desire.
The woman had been about twenty four years in Scotland, had been but four years of her childhood in Ireland, yet when she lost her reason, she was sent back to this country in the manner just stated.
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Well, fancy that!.
according to Daily News (London, England), Wednesday, January 22, 1851 Pauper children were also deported to Bermuda. Well I do so hope there were none of mine. Somewhere else to look :-(
There were 60 children from the St Pancras board
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A Forsaken Wife and Mother
The Northern Star and National Trades' Journal
Leeds, Saturday, February 1, 1851
On Saturday last Mr. H.M. Wakely held an inquest on the body of Mary Ann Matthews, of number 10, Taylor’s Row, Clerkenwell age sixty one.
Deceased was found by a policeman who broke into her room by orders, dead and stretched out on the sacking of a bedstead. The bed of which had been sold by one of the witnesses.
The poor woman had married a second time about four months previously; her husband had deserted her and her sons had refused her any assistance, and thus she died of starvation.
A witness had heard her a few days ago pray to the Almighty in his mercy to take her from her state of desolation.
A verdict was returned in accordance of the evidence.
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Local Records
March 3 1834
Thomas DRUMMOND of Biddick, County of Durham, Pitman, was declared by a respectable jury at the courthouse Edinburgh, to be lawful male heir to his Grand Uncle John DRUMMOND, only brother to James DRUMMOND, last Earl of Perth Commonly Duke of Perth*.
Mr DRUMMOND afterwards published his case, claiming the title and estates of the earls of Perth and attempted to prosecute his claim before the committee of privileges of the House of Lords, but not being able to raise the necessary funds proved one if not the chief obstacle to his success.
The earldom was likewise claimed by the Duke de Melfort and was eventually obtained by him in 1853
* Scotland
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Northern notes and queries
1906
At Chester-le-Street a very old custom the annual football match between the Up Streeters and Down Streeters was carried out on Shrove Tuesday.
Judging from the news- paper reports there seems very little likelihood of this historic practice dying.
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1744.
September 22.
They write from Heighington, in the County of Durham, that Mary, the Wife of William Dixon of that Place, aged 53, was latly deliver'd of her first Son, after being nigh 20 Years married, to the very great Joy of her Husband, who is now in the 7oth Year of his Age.
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