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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 January, Febuary and March 1842
(This particular item is taken from the April 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.)
5th January The king of Prussia is paying us a visit soon. ♦ Barclay’s Asthmatic Candy is an effectual preservative from the ill effects of the Fogs and damp air. Available, of course, from the Hereford Journal Office. ♦ Parker NOTT of Nottingham, dentist, has, rather coincidentally, passed over his range of medicines etc. to the above Barclay. He made & sold Tooth Powder, Gum Tincture, Nankeen Dye, and a Cloth Powder for taking grease spots out of clothes. Perhaps he will stick to dentistry now. ♦ A petition has been sent to the House of Lords asking for an amendment to the Act which prohibits the marriage of a man to his deceased wife’s sister, or a woman to her deceased husband’s brother. Apparently, at present, people go abroad to contract such a marriage. ♦ Herefordshire Quarter Sessions. William PAGE was convicted of stealing a ewe sheep, property of Mr Yeomans of Moreton on Lugg. On discovering his loss the latter called Superintendent ADAMS who followed the trail of blood almost to the prisoner’s bed. His shoes fitted footmarks at the scene, and various parts of sheep were found in the house. He got 15 years transportation.
12th January The later-named Opium War in China continues. The British fleet scares the pants of the Chinese in Amoy and then sails up-river for more mayhem. ♦ The Queen is going to open the next Parliament so workmen are busy tidying up the House of Lords. The panelling behind the Peers’ benches will be covered with paper ‘very tastefully painted in imitation of Gothic tracery.’ ♦ Fat animal time – A pig belonging to Mr William BIGGS of Ross Road, Hereford, was 8 feet long, 8 feet in girth, 5 feet 9 inches round the neck, 3 feet 9 inches in height, and weighed 100 stone. (1400 lbs). ♦ A sheep slaughtered in Standish weighed (net) 264 lbs, and the shoulder weighed 43 lbs, four times the normal. The fat was 6 inches thick. ♦ Mr T JONES of Llanishen, Glamorgan, has a goose over 45 years old, ‘having produced to him a flock of over 350.’ ♦ And in Cardigan a house fell into the river, not long after everybody said it would. How satisfying.
19th January The Prince of Wales is to be christened on the 25th. In honour of this event a Tradesmans’ Ball will be held in the old town hall, Hereford, on that day. ♦ Various high-powered meetings are being held to explain the decayed state of the Hereford Cathedral, especially the central tower, and of course to ask for contributions. ♦ Notice of important auction of 4362 timber trees – oak, ash, elm, beech, poplar, walnut and pollards, in the counties of Gloucester, Monmouth & Herefordshire. This is a Court of Chancery order, associated with the name BENGOUGH.
26th January Much Cowarne church was burnt by lightning in January 1840 and is now being rebuilt. The parishioners are asking for contributions as they have only got half of the total cost of £600. ♦ Death at Loodianha, in the East Indies, last November, Lieutenant Edward KYRLE MONEY, of the Hon. East India Company’s Cavalry, aged 31. ♦ ‘Lost on the 16th, a young white and light liver-coloured Pointer dog. Answers to the name of Shot’. I hope not. ♦ Death at Mr HILL’s on the 20th at Castle Green, Hereford, of Susan, wife of James TRULL of Tillington. Their house was burnt down on the 11th, whereupon she ‘resigned herself into the hands of her Maker’. ♦ H.M. ship Fantome has just spent six months of the coast of Angola during which time 33 slave vessels were captured and 3427 negroes liberated.
2nd February Among a list of eight local insolvent debtors is William LAMBERT, late of King Street, Hereford, watchmaker and partner in a coach called the Falcon running from Hereford to Birmingham. ♦ Death on 2nd December in New York of rapid consumption, Thomas, fifth son of Mr William CLARK, late of Ivington, Leominster. ♦ Last Wednesday Herefordshire was hit by a hurricane and several chimneys were blown down. The worst effects were in neighbouring counties and at sea. Off Aberystwyth the steamer Shamrock had to throw 400 pigs overboard. (To save their bacon?) ♦ Long article on the christening of the Prince of Wales. (Albert Edward) Guests included the king of Prussia who later got the Order of the Garter.
9th February The Prince of Wales gets a present from Mr THOMPSON of Hampstead – an ornately carved ebony bedstead with rich purple satin damask hangings. Said to have belonged to Cardinal Wolsey. Just what he had always wanted. ♦ Newton chapel in Clodock has been registered for solemnising marriages. ♦ In the first three quarters of 1841 there were 106,460 voluntary emigrants to Australia and New Zealand. ♦ In China the British have taken Chusan and Ningpo. ♦ Another three children burnt to death – Emma JENNINGS of Bishops Frome, Ann EVANS of Ivington, and Mary Ann LEWIS of St. Margarets. ♦ Hereford City Sessions – Richard LEWIS was indited for the highway robbery of Sarah EDWARDS. He assaulted her at the Gallows Tump and stole her money, 20,000 needles and other articles. Found guilty and transported for life.
16th February Mr B BURNS, an Englishman who lived for many years amongst the natives of New Zealand gave two talks in Birmingham dressed as an authentic New Zealand warrior. He was even ‘painfully tattooed’. ♦ The Mint is calling in all sovereigns to be re-minted to try and prevent ‘plugging’. ♦ Jane MILTON of Bromyard, 37, buried her mother 18 days ago. Now she has been found drowned in her neighbour’s draw-well.
23rd February The Queen has knighted (at a great distance) Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Esquire of Bombay. ♦ Some regiments of the British Army are in Canada but seem to be doing nothing apart from playing in the snow and accidentally shooting each other in the foot. ♦ MPs call for the repeal of the Corn Laws, but it would be another four years before this happened. ♦ Death on the 19th at Bodenham of an aged Mr WENT, blacksmith. Went went. ♦ Mr D L PRICE has invented a combined burglar and fire alarm which fires a pistol and rings a bell. No doubt the pistol shoots the burglar and starts the fire.
2nd March The Queen & Prince Albert are at Brighton pursued by worshipful onlookers. And the king of Prussia has got back to Berlin. ♦ George ADAMS applies for the post of governor of the Hereford County Gaol, having been governor of the City Gaol for six years already. As well as Superintendent of Police. ♦ Contributions for the repair of the cathedral have now passed £11,000.
9th March The Queen etc visit Portsmouth and tour the fleet. The Queen tastes the grog and declares it ‘not strong enough’. ♦ Charles Dickens is being feted in America and the ladies are after locks of his hair. ♦ Marriage on 28th February at the Primitive Methodist chapel, Newton, Clodock, of William, eldest son of Mr James FARR of Tycraddock, Michaelchurch, and Mary, eldest daughter of Mr John GWILLIM of the Bank, Clodock. ♦ At the Guildhall two boys and a girl were hauled up for ringing doorbells and running away – some juvenile habits have a long history.
16th March 8-10,000 troops are being sent to India so that the Governor-General will have enough at his disposal to avenge the losses in Afghanistan and particularly the murder of the British Envoy, Sir William MACNAGHTON. ♦ Death at Bromyard on the 4th of Mary Amazon aged 25, wife of Mr John FOX, saddler. And also at Bromyard on the 1st, Mr Thomas MITCHELL, saddler. ♦ Long and depressing report on the war in Afghanistan and the slaughter of the British troops outside Kabul.
23rd March The London earthquake, long predicted for last week has not happened, although a lot of people fled to Brighton to be on the safe side. ♦ For sale, the Waterloo Hotel & Posting-house, owned by the late John POWELL & occupied by John JACKSON. ♦ ‘Leominster lies on the direct Mail Road from Bristol to Liverpool & in a part of the kingdom not in the least likely to be affected by railways’ I’ve got news for Leominster! ♦ The last few papers have reported fatter & fatter cows, sheep, and pigs, which I will not bore you with. ♦ A new ‘lock-up house’ is to be built at Ledbury. The present one is damp, miserable, and inconvenient. And so it should be.
30th March Now that the jewel house at the Tower of London has been rebuilt after the fire the crown jewels are going back there. ♦ Benjamin WATKINS, 29, went to Cheltenham for his health – and died. ♦ Marriage on 28th at the Countess of Huntingdon’s chapel in Berrington Street, Hereford, of James WILLIAMS of Tillington & Mary Ann EVANS of St Devereux. ♦ Herefordshire Assizes. William GREENAWAY, John LEE, and Charles WILLIS, watermen, charged with breaking into the house of Joseph ANTONIO of Ledbury and stealing bread, bacon & cheese. The fools left the goods in a ditch, came back the next day for them, & were caught. They got twelve months each, the last fortnight solitary.
Contributor: John Harnden, 11 Longworth Road, Tupsley, Hereford HR1 1SP
Last revised: 1st October 2006
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