Posts Tagged ‘parish registers’

Joseph Coles got married between his hospitalisation in 1817 and the presentation to the Somersetshire Society of a report into his conduct as an apprentice in March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15) that said:

… subsequent to the time when he was in the hospital for the cure of the Venereal disease he had been in the habit of staying out all hours of the night sometimes all night and frequently whole days – that he had formed a connection with and had ultimately married their discharged Servant maid …

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TRURO — Today was spent in the Cornwall Record Office browsing through microfiche after microfiche of parish registers looking for elusive ancestors. A good place to be because the weather was lousy—a grey, misty, wet day. The weather forecast looks better for the next week though; some sun is expected.
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