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Arnold in the News
1800--1900
These are transcribed by courtesy Trish Symonds from N,S,W taken from the News paper of that Parish
Saturday, 29 August 1778, General Evening Post 6971,
MARRIAGES - A few days ago, at Arnold near Nottingham, the Rev Mr Will BERESFORD to Miss Martha BLAND.
Saturday, 22 April 1780, London Chronicle 3649,
Northampton, April 24 – Wednesday last, about one o’clock, as John HEARSON of Arnold in Nottinghamshire, was riding through the town of Arnold, both himself and horse were struck dead by a flash of lightning.
Monday, 1 May 1780, Gazetteer 698,
Wednesday, the 19th inst, a shocking accident happened at Arnold near Nottingham. As Thomas HEARSON jun of that village was returning from plough on horseback, he and the horse were struck dead in an instant. It is supposed that this melancholy affair was occasioned by a ball of fire which fell in a perpendicular direction. It first seized the left size of the poor man’s head, went down his breast, tore and burnt his breeches very much, then touched the horse’s shoulder, and singed the hair as it passed to the ground. This unfortunate man has left a most disconsolate widow and six small children to survive the loss of a tender husband and a kind, indulgent father.
Thursday, 17 December 1789, Bath Chronicle 1472,
DEATHS - At Arnold near Nottingham, in her 19th year, Miss Elizabeth OAKES, daughter of Dr OAKES.
Tuesday, 5 July 1791, Whitehall Evening Post 6692,
DEATHS – Thursday, in an advanced age, at Arnold near Nottingham, William Coape SHERBROOKE Esq, who had been several years one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for Nottinghamshire, and a verdurer of the Forest of Sherwood.
Monday, 22 September 1806, Morning Chronicle 11653,
BANKRUPTS – John GASKILL of Arnold Notts, broker, September 30 at four, October 1 and November 1 at ten, at the Punch Bowl, Nottingham. Attornies: Mr PERCY, Nottingham, and Messrs MACDONALD and HUNTER, Lincoln’s Inn, London.
Thursday, 22 April 1819, Caledonian Mercury 15231,
BANKRUPTS – J. ROTHWELL, Arnold Nottingham, hosier.
Saturday, 29 October 1825, Ipswich Journal 4568,
BANKRUPTS – Wm TINSLEY, Arnold Notts, blacksmith.
Wednesday, 8 August 1827, Derby Mercury 4961,
Two brothers of the name of KNIGHT, residing on premises of their own, at Arnold near Nottingham, nearly lost their lives on Tuesday evening, the 31st ult, by drinking ginger beer, or pop, out of a bottle which had contained some kind of poison.
Wednesday, 16 January 1828, Derbyshire Epiphany Sessions 4984,
FATAL OCCURRENCE – We have to record a most distressing and fatal occurrence, which took place in the afternoon of Monday se’nnight, in the parish of Arnold, Nottinghamshire. A person who had been in the habit of using a gun, went out into the fields, for the purpose of shooting, and the piece not going off, he began to examine it, when some children, attracted by curiosity, assembled around, and while he was probing the touch-hole, the gun went off, and wounded three of them, one of whom, of the name of CHESTER, we regret to say, died immediately. The accident happened in a field at the back of the toll-house, near the White Hart Inn. A Coroner’s Inquest has since been held on the body, and a verdict returned of Accidental Death.
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