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this shocked my family
great great grand father samuel age 71 went scrumping in a neighboughs orchard got caught so stabbed the owner who died. samuel was then hanged in worcester jail and buried there.
after, my great grand father william travelled a bit and finally settled in birmingham.
they then carried out changes to worcester jail and sams remains were moved to winson green prison........................................................................ just up the road from william and his family spooky or what
zena :-)
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Hi Nichola
sorry i missed your posting . Your Burkitt family sound fascinating too.
I was referred to a book called Arctic Hell-Ship by William Barr The voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855.a really good read with some photos too.
My Joseph has as small mention in there as called as a witness to the captain of an altercation between John Atkinson an ice mate and Lieutenant Phayre Only a small mention and no photo of him which is a shame.
Made the man seem all the more real and not just a name.
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I just attended the funeral of my Sister in law.
My brother was in the RAF police and is a member of the British Legion and his wife was very involved with him in the branch.
The funeral was a quasi formal Legion funeral with two standard bearers on either side of the coffin. The members as is to be expected are not in their first flush of youth. bout halfway through service one of the standard bearers started rocking on his heels then .... plop ..... passed out right to the floor.
He was carted out to a small anteroom (service held at crematorium) and an ambulance called. Service continues ... a Legion friend of both gives eulogy and starts walking down from the platform and then he follows his friend to the floor, but he banged his head badly.
I along with a Legion member (who was a nurse) rushed to his side .... both the minister and I thought he was dead but again he had just passed out. Another one to the anteroom for ambulance attention. The minister (the Legion padre, is a hoot was a sausage stuffer and a cabaret dancer before taking to the cloth) wisely decided to cut service short as she didn't want more casualties.
After service as we all trooped out to parking lot there was a crowd of "street pastors" waiting for the next service for a homeless person. Along with the pastors were, what I assume were friends of the deceased with beer cans, and liquor bottles in hand having a pre funeral service celebration.
All in all a funeral not to be forgotten.
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Finding that my husband's gt grandfather was a world record breaking pianist for continuous piano playing...without a sheet of music and no piece played more than once...his last record that I can find was recorded in 1906...45 hours.
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wow LindaB
thats fantastic. I was a piano teacher and no way would I have a repetoire to fill in that amount of hours/ days :-0
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One of my more distant relatives was a US Naval Lieutenant executed by the Nazis as an OSS Spy in the last days of WW2!
According to published documents, he was part of a group of American Service men on the ‘Dawes Mission’ who were captured behind enemy lines in Slovakia in 1944, taken to Austria and shot. The articles stressed that they were all wearing uniform, and were tortured.
Before the war, he had been an archaeologist, his Doctrinal thesis published after his death was based on Neolithic material of Bulgaria. He also spoke 6 languages.
I vaguely remember listening to a radio play about the events.
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