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HEREFORDIENSIS
160 Years Ago - Abstracts from the Hereford Journal
Herefordiensis is the name of the Society's Journal, which has been published quarterly for over twenty-five years now. It is free to Members and includes helpful articles, members interests, and a query and help section. Articles submitted for publication by members are always welcome. The Journal Editor is Brian Passey, 70 Kimberley Road, Penylan, Cardiff, CF23 5DL (email: bcp@supanet.com). Back numbers of Journals can be obtained from Mr D Jones, 28 Treherne Close, Lugwardine, Hereford, HR1 4AF. Most Journals are available, price £1.00 per issue plus 37p postage.)
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The following is a brief extract of an ongoing feature in the Herefordshire Family History Society Journal by John Harnden, entitled:
160 Years Ago - from the Hereford Journal of October, November and December 1841
(This particular item is taken from the January 2002 issue, back numbers of Journals can be obtained from Mr D Jones, 28 Treherne Close, Lugwardine, Hereford, HR1 4AF. Most Journals are available, price £1.00 per issue plus 37p postage.)
6th October Insolvent debtors to be heard on the 26th in Hereford - Richard ELLEMAN, late of Little Walton near Leominster, stone mason, previously of New Street Gate, Leominster, formerly of Hinton near Hereford., and then of Marden, stone mason & shopkeeper. Also Thomas Clerk MATHER, late of Hereford, unemployed, but formerly Guard of the Hereford & London Champion Stage coach. ♦ Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Herefordshire and Gloucester Canal Navigation. ♦ 300 men are at present engaged on the cutting and tunnel at Ashperton. Negotiations were proceeding for the purchase of land between Canon Frome and Hereford. ♦ Death on 14th September of Ann, aged 66, wife of James FULLER, blacksmith, of Hereford, from a broken leg. She leaves 16 children & 13 grandchildren. Not forgetting one husband.
13th October Miss Pike’s Powders for Epilectic, Hysteric, and all other kinds of fits. Made in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. ♦ Long list (two columns) of all those in the City of Hereford who voted for an MP recently. Arranged alphabetically in parishes together with their trade or occupation. Even includes labourers. ♦ Death of Dr FRANCIA, Dictator of Paraguay, aged 83. Not mourned at all. ♦ Death on 5th June at ‘Pinang, Province Wellesley, East Indies’ (i.e. Penang, Malaysia) of John Symonds HARDMAN, aged 21, only son of Mr John Symonds HARDMAN of Hereford. Described in the Pinang Gazette as a Professor of Music. ♦ British troops are poised to seize Canton and end the war when they receive an order from her Majesty’s Plenipotentiary to desist. He is arranging a ransom instead. Much caustic editorial comment.
20th October Tenders invited for running a mail coach with four horses between Cheltenham and Aberystwyth via Hereford. ♦ Forthcoming auction of a property in Broad Street, Ross, near the market place. Described as a substantially-built dwelling house, shop, candle-making house, warehouses, stables, and garden, property of Mr James JAMES, grocer, tallow chandler and porter merchant. ♦ Drowned at Odau in Russia, John George COOK, second son of Mr William COOK, late of Stoke Prior, and of Baker Street, Pentonville, London. ♦ Giraffe dies in Carlisle after dislocating its neck.
27th October Valuable freehold estate of 910 acres for sale, including Puddleston Court and the manors of Puddlestone and the Whyle. ♦ Her Majesty’s accouchement is now expected daily. ♦ Messrs RAWLE & FISHER of Bristol have just made an umbrella 21 feet in diameter, destined for one of the African kings. Perhaps he plays golf. ♦ The Rev G A SELWYN of Eton has been appointed the first Bishop of New Zealand. The paper says he is going ‘ to plant a Protestant Church in a barbarous land.’
3rd November Amusing case of an Englishman in France who hired a complete omnibus to take him and his dog to Paris. The conductor did not believe his story, collected 16 more passengers and tried to get them on the bus. Repelled by virtually non-French-speaking aristo & his dog. Gendarmes called in, passengers let on bus, aristo and dog go bananas. Hauled into court and has to pay a fine. Bad show! ♦ Great fire in the Tower of London leading to the destruction of the Grand Storehouse and Small Armoury. With the aid of crowbars the crown jewels were removed from the Jewel Tower as a precaution. ♦ The committee of the Hereford & Gloucester Canal inspect the area in Hereford chosen for the terminus. This is a meadow behind the Red Coat Hospital gardens [Coningsby Hospital].
10th November Gory description of the capture of a Brazilian slave trader, the Firme, with several slave agents on board. The Colonial and Land Commissioners strongly recommend the formation of permanent settlements on the Falkland Islands, ‘ the key to the Pacific.’ ♦ Death on 3rd November at Sellack of Mary MAYOS aged 108. ♦ A quantity of new clothing was stolen from the house of John VAUGHAN of Bun’s Lane, Yazor. He told Mr ADAMS, Superintendent of Police in Hereford, who wrote to Mr ENOCH, the police officer in Abergavenny, with the result that James HUGHES was caught with all the clothing on him. How do they do it? ♦ A fascinating list taking up two columns of the treasures that were destroyed in the recent Tower of London fire.
Unfortunately the papers for the 17th and 24th November are missing.
1st December Daniel EVANS’s Cheap Mart in Bye Street, Hereford, has hundreds of cheap cloaks of all sorts and sizes at 5s 6d each. Printed dresses at 6d each, umbrellas at 1s each, and loads more. ♦ There are hungry burglars about. One broke into the house of Rev J EVANS of Aylestone Hill, Hereford (via the larder window) and took away a quantity of beef, mutton, etc. On the way he ate an apple tart in the back kitchen. Some others broke into the house of Mr MILLS of Scut Mill Road, Hereford (via the larder window, of course) and removed bottles of rum and brandy, bread, butter, etc. ♦ Death on 20th November at the Cottage, Shucknell, of Betty, aged 76, youngest daughter of the late Mr Thomas NEWTON of Clarton, and widow of the late Mr G CAMPBELL, Half Moon Street, London. ♦ Under ‘Miscellanea’ we learn that there are 2,487,213 slaves in the United States of America.
8th December The missing papers obviously contained the news that Queen Victoria had had a son. They are now wondering what he, the Prince of Wales, will be named. The Queen is known to favour Albert, the paper favours Edward, and future events show that he will bear both names and become Edward VII. Far better than Albert I. ♦ Tenders are invited for the parish church of Pembridge to be repewed and repaired. The word ‘repewed’ was at first thought to be a misprint, but no, it is to get new pews. ♦ Kington Union are asking for tenders to supply various meats to the workhouse. Described as Beds and Stickings, Mutton, and Suet. ♦ Balls are being held in all the major towns to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Wales. ♦ And Christmas is coming – 30 turkeys were stolen at Willey near Presteigne.
15th December Printed text of letters sent to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent (the Queen’s mother) from Tenbury, New Radnor, and Herefordshire, on the birth of the Prince of Wales. ♦ Less fuss is made of Mrs R RAGGE of Eastwick, Surrey, who has just given birth to her 24th child in 24 years. ♦ Death at Simpheropal in Crim Tartary [sic] of Thomas BETHAM Esq, second son of the late Rev William BETHAM of Stoke Lacy. ♦ The Hereford branch of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews holds its annual meeting. There is no report of any progress. ♦ Utterly incomprehensible description of recent improvements to the inkwell, involving male screws, female screws, sliding bars and India rubber diaphragms. This is the age of assorted inventions – a few papers ago saw the invention of the ‘pedomotive’ by a Hereford gentleman . No doubt we shall not hear of it again.
22nd December Barclay’s Asthmatic Candy is an effectual preservative from the ill effects of Fogs and Damp air. Or try Barclay’s Original Ointment for The Itch – relief within one hour. Both available from the Hereford Journal Office in Broad Street who now probably stock more pills and ointments than any chemist! ♦ A new coach, the Prince of Wales, is now running on a new route from Ross to Hay. ♦ Passengers leaving Paddington at 6a.m. can now reach Hay by 7p.m. Such is progress! ♦ I hope that no reader is a descendant of Reuben HEATH, convicted of indecently and obscenely exposing his person in the street in Ledbury. ♦ James FRYER of Doncaster has bequeathed his body and a glass coffin to his cousin, who works in Guys Hospital, so that he can see if his body decomposes quicker than in a lead coffin. Some people have nothing better to do!
29th December Rather oddly, a Millenium Conference was held in a New York tabernacle earlier this month. This was concerned with a multitude of prophecies which in total forecast the re-establishment of the Jews in their homeland some time between 1843 and 1868. They were not too far out. ♦ Coal has been found at Port Jackson, New Zealand. ♦ There have been the usual fatal accidents on the railways, and at a recent inquest the jury’s verdict was "accidental death in all cases, and a deodand of £1000 on the engine, tender, and carriages." ♦ There has been quite a batch of deaths of local excise officers or their relations in these three months, the latest being the death in Leominster, aged 61, of Sarah, wife of Mr Edward THOMAS, officer of excise. Probably just a coincidence. ♦ And as a postscript to the year, a customs duty of 5s per ton has been placed on bird guano.
Contributor: John Harnden, 11 Longworth Road, Tupsley, Hereford HR1 1SP
Last revised: 2nd October 2006
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