Page Six Basford in the News 1800--1900 These are transcribed by courtesy Trish Symonds from N,S,W taken from the News paper of that Parish. TO SEARCH : CTRL + F SATURDAY, 3 MAY 1862, Daily News 4986, BANKRUPTS – William BARTON, Basford Notts, plumber. May 13 at 11. WEDNESDAY, 8 JULY 1863, Derby Mercury 6849, BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION – Annual Meeting, Thursday 2nd July at Derby – Mr William MALTBY of Basford near Nottingham was elected as a new member. WEDNESDAY, 22 JULY 1863, Derby Mercury 6851, MARRIAGE – On 14th inst, at the parish church Old Basford, Notts, Joseph DEXTER, youngest son of Mr George DEXTER, farmer, Charley, Leicestershire, to Mary, daughter of Mr John SPRAY, lace manufacturer, New Basford, Notts. WEDNESDAY, 2 SEPTEMBER 1863, Derby Mercury 6857, BALLOON ACCIDENT AT BASFORD – We reported the melancholy death of Mr CHAMBERS last week. The inquest was held at the Robin Hood Inn, Arnold, before Mr Coroner SWANN. John MAYFIELD a stockingmaker of Arnold saw the balloon descend from the cloud. It rolled from side to side, and fell rapidly to the field of Mr WILLIAMSON. On looking in the car he found a man apparently dead. They carried him to the Robin Hood public-house. William TURTON gave similar evidence. John BLASDELL, a sergeant of police and Mr PHIPPS one of the jurymen, examined the balloon. Mr C. COBURN, Superintendent of the Midland Institute for the Blind said the deceased was of sound mind and temperate habits, and had helped the blind students; he was 37 years old and left a wife and five children. Verdict – “Deceased James CHAMBERS ascended with his balloon in a voluntary manner by his own free will, and that through intaking gas he became insensible and unable to work the balloon properly, coming into violent collision with the earth which caused his death.” (this is a much shorter version of the newspaper article) WEDNESDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 1863, Derby Mercury 6867, At Old Basford near Nottingham on Wednesday, a man named William MARRIOTT (61) was engaged in removing bricks from an old well. He had got nearly to the bottom and was standing upon a ladder when the sides of the wall fell in upon him and he was completely buried. Upwards of an hour elapsed before he could be found. He was then standing upon the ladder, and dead. WEDNESDAY, 20 JANUARY 1864, Derby Mercury 6878, DEATH OF SIR J.R. GRANT – We have to record the death of Sir James Robert GRANT, C.B., K.H., which occurred at Basford near Nottingham where he has been staying for some time. The deceased was born at Forres in the county of Moray in 1773, and therefore had attained to the patriarchal age of 91. He served as a medical officer of the army throughout the whole of the war, and was chief of that department at Waterloo. He was one of the few who served in the first and last campaigns of the war – namely that of 1793, and that of 1813. In 1814 when Earl BATHURST was at the head of the War Department he was appointed Inspector General of army hospitals. In 1811 he received the Order of St Anne of Russia from the Emperor Alexander in person, for his services to the Russian Army in France under Count Woronsow. WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY 1864, Derby Mercury 6902, MARRIAGE – On 31st ultimo, at Wesley Chapel Nottingham by the Rev. C. HAYDEN – Mr Joseph POYTON of Burton-on-Trent, to Miss Ellen POYTON of New Basford near Nottingham. SATURDAY, 20 AUGUST 1864, Glasgow Herald 7681, ENGLISH BANKRUPTS – J. COUSIE, beerhouse-keeper, S.Basford Notts. SATURDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 1865, Daily News 5868, BANKRUPTS – Charles WOOTTON, Basford Notts, beer retailer, March 29 at 11. WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE 1867, Trewman’s 5273 , DIVORCE COURT – Mr FORTH, a dissenting minister of Basford, appeared in the Divorce Court on Monday asking for a judicial separation. He was a widow with two children when in 1857 he married again. The honeymoon was not over before his wife displayed an ungovernable temper. For eight years they lived together, five children were born. His wife became a termagant – she threw books at his head, ransacked his papers, and burnt his sermons. She seized him by the whiskers and scratched his face. She hurled a candlestick at him. She burnt his oldest child on the nose by fling a baking dish at him. She laid his forehead open with the heel of a boot. She pushed one of the children into the fireplace, and threatened in all sincerity to burn down the house. In reply, Mrs FORTH accused her husband of shameful neglect; that he maltreated her children whilst he was kind to those of his first wife, that he stinted her in food; and that he struck and bruised her. The judge-ordinary granted a judicial separation. (Shortened version of story) Please take the time to Sign my Guestbook

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