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April 12, 2016
Regency Personalities Series-Sir Horatio Mann
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Sir Horatio Mann
2 February 1744 – 2 April 1814
Sir Horatio Mann
Sir Horatio Mann was educated at Charterhouse School, he was MP for Maidstone from 1774 to 1784 and MP for Sandwich from 1790 to 1807. He had a number of influential friends including John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, with whom he shared a kee...
Considering Caroline
The House of the Seven Gables is featuring a new exhibit on its founder, Caroline O. Emmerton (1866-1942) in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of her birth and as the rather mysterious Caroline has long intrigued me I took advantage of a preview invitation to check it out even before the official opening. Despite her fortunate birth into one of Salem’s wealthiest and most philanthropic families, her connections, and her achievements, Caroline is a bit enigmatic, and I was...
April 11, 2016
“I Saw San Francisco When it Was Only a Village”: The Voices of California’s Irish Pioneers
Great post
Irish in the American Civil War
Laurence Macken wasborn in Slane, Co. Meath on 12th May 1828. In 1850 he was a young man just three days shy of his 22nd birthdaywhen he landed in the California Territory, one of the thousands of emigrants and natives alike who had been infected by the gold fever that had spread like wildfire throughout the United States after 1848. The men who left their old lives behind to head West in pursuit of the precious metal would be immortalised as the “49...
Someone call the doctor.
This was a follower request! Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway (1751-1775). What a tragic life! As you may or may not know, the movie “A Royal Affair” (2012) was based on her life, and played by the beautiful Alicia Vikander (who just won an oscar for The Danish Girl). I am embarrassed to say- I have not seen either movie, but hoping to catch up this weekend.
Back to Caroline. Ouch. She is described as being attractive enough for men to loo...
Burglary, French servants and Mrs Elliott’s aunt – a 1778 crime gone terribly wrong
Janet Edmondes was one of the constant presences in the life of the courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott. She was Grace’s maternal aunt and by the late 1770s was on to her third husband, Colonel Thomas Edmondes. Janet is mentioned frequently in our latest book An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott but the following is a little extra information, especially for the readers of our blog and containing some information not fou...
April 10, 2016
Bessie, Mother of the King’s Son
History... the interesting bits!
Effigy of Elizabeth Blount
Elizabeth Blount was born around 1500 in Kinlet in Shropshire, to John Blount of Kinlet and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Hugh Pershall of Knightley. There is some confusion as to whether she was her parent’s first child, but it is likely that she was their eldest daughter. Elizabeth (Bessie) was born at Kinlet Hall, but probably grew up at Bewdley, Worcestershire, where the family had moved to shortly after her birth.
Her f...
Alberta’s Angels — Favourite Cemetery Photograph
My wife, Donna and I were enjoying a summer/vacation drive through the province.
When we located this cemetery, I went looking for a relative I had been told was buried there … 
I didn’t find him, but I did locate these little lambs made of limestone. A lowing lamb was a common symbol used to signify the loss of a child.
The only down side of this picture: the inscriptions face the trees!
April 8, 2016
Lillie Devereux Blake
Lillie Devereux Blake, a 19th century American writer and women’s rights reformer, played an important, though often overlooked, presence in social movements in the United States.
In 1833, Elizabeth Johnson Devereux was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to southerner George Pollock Devereux and northerner Sarah Elizabeth Johnson. Following her father’s death in 1837, her mother moved her two daughters back to her home in New Haven, Connecticut, where the young Lillie attended the Apthorp Scho...
The Nursing Home House
Ghost Stories From A Small Town ~ Coming THIS Halloween ~
The Nursing Home House
As she listened intently it puzzled her. At first.
It’s like that faint awareness that creeps over one as a faucet begins that relentless dripping that finally – in desperation – leads one to throw in the towel and succumb to the expense of an Edmonds plumber.
Plink! Plink! Plink! You wish you could wind back the time to your pre-cognition of awareness.
Unfortunately the resident on...
