Page Four Beeston in the News 1800--1900 These are transcribed by courtesy Trish Symonds from N,S,W taken from the News paper of that Parish. Monday, 19 May 1851, Daily News-London No 1555, – MARRIAGE – RICKETTS-WOLLEY : May 13 at Beeston-Notts, the Rev. M.H. RICKETTS, M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, only son of M. RICKETTS, Esq., of the Ford, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, to Susan, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. WOLLEY, Vicar of Beeston. Friday, 24 October 1851, Liverpool Mercury No 2339, DEATHS – October 19, at his residence Clinton-street, Nottingham, Mr Henry SANDERS, clerk to the Nottingham board of guardians, and the youngest son of Samuel SANDERS, Esq., solicitor, Beeston-Notts. Thursday, 5 February 1852, Daily News-London No 1780, MORMON FANATICISM – During several successive days a number of men have been engaged in searching the Trent between Nottingham and Beeston for the purpose of finding the body of a young man named William BARNES, recently a resident of the last-named place. BARNES, having latterly distinguished himself as a zealous partisan among the Mormonites, who unhappily are becoming rather numerous in and around the county of Nottinghamshire, had been elevated to the rank of a priest or prophet. On Wednesday night at 10 o’clock, he and two female converts approached the left bank of the Trent, which was unusually high with a fast current, when BARNES was swept away and his body has never been seen since. Many families have been induced to leave this neighbourhood for the Mormon settlement in California. (This is a shortened version of the story in the newspaper.) Saturday, 10 April 1852, Leeds Mercury No 6175, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED – P.J. HYNES and P.B. POPHAM, Beeston-Notts, surgeons. Saturday, 7 May 1853, Morning Chronicle London No 26948, – MARRIAGE – On Ascension Day, at Beeston-Notts, the Rev. William HOPE, M.A., Vicar of St Peter’s-cum-Normanton, Derby, and domestic chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl FERRERS, to Hester, second daughter of the late Rev. John Brown WILLIAMS, Vicar of Llanrissant-Glamorganshire, and domestic chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord MIDDLETON. Wednesday, 7 September 1853, Derby Mercury No 7218, – UNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION – Shareholders in Nottingham and its Vicinity – ELLIOTT, Thomas, Beeston-Notts, Lace Manufacturer FOSTER, Robert, Beeston-Notts, Builder WALKER, William, Beeston-Notts, Farmer WALKER, Elizabeth, Beeston-Notts, Farmer Saturday, 10 June 1854, Morning Chronicle No 27289, – Ecclesiastical Appointment – The Rev John Thomas OLDRINI, M.A., Curate of Breaston Derbyshire, has been presented to the Vicarage of Beeston near Nottingham, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. John WOLLEY, M.A. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. Wednesday, 30 August 1854, Derby Mercury No 3281, – MARRIAGE – On the 23rd inst., at St Mary’s Leicester, by the Rev. John WING, M.A. vicar; William FRACKLETON, Esq., of Liverpool, merchant, to Sarah Annie, youngest daughter of Mr Peter BURTON, of Beeston-Notts, late of Edge Hill Towers, Derbyshire. Friday, 15 September 1854, Hull Packet No 3637, The servant to a farmer at Beeston-Notts was recently found dead at the foot of a stack, 19 feet high, from which she had fallen. She had been killed by a wound from a thatch-peg, which had penetrated about 18 inches into her body. Saturday, 21 April 1855, London Gazette No 27557, INSOLVENT PETITIONERS – Richard Cornelius NUTT, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, butcher. Wednesday, 20 June 1855, Morning Chronicle No 27607, PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED – William LIMB and Edmund FOWLE of Beeston, Nottinghamshire, machine owners. Please take the time to Sign my Guestbook

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