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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, 11 February 1856, Liverpool Mercury No 2785,
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A singular case of murder has occurred at Beeston, Nottinghamshire. George BURTON, frame work knitter, who had been afflicted with paralysis so as to incapacitate him from walking, was found by his wife lying dead in bed, and one of his sons was lying insensible at the foot of the bed. An old frying pan was on the floor, with some coke cinders in it; these had evidently been burning in the room, but the fire had gone out. It appears that the son had said he would destroy himself; and a coroner’s jury, after careful inquiry into all the circumstances of the case, have come to the conclusion that he procured the coke to burn with that object, and also for the purpose of taking away the life of his father, by suffocation, and that the father was wilfully murdered by the son.
Saturday, 7 February 1857, Jackson’s Oxford Journal No 5415,
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It appears that there was a slight earthquake felt in England on the 26th inst. Mr E.J. LOWE, of the Observatory, Beeston-Notts, writes in a letter dated that day – “A slight shock of earthquake was felt, both here and at Highfield House, yesterday afternoon at 3h 30m. There was a noise like a distant heavy luggage train and a trembling of the ground, producing a peculiar sensation on the soles of the feet. The earthquake pendulum moved from west to east. The pendulum is thirty-three feet in length, and the movement was scarcely the eighth of an inch.” It since appears that a shock was also felt at Lyons the same day.
Tuesday, 8 June 1858, Morning Chronicle No 28538,
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DEATHS – On the 19th ult., on board the Ganges, Bombay, aged 26, Lieutenant Edward WOLLEY, 51st Light Infantry, fourth son of the Rev. John WOLLEY of Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
Thursday, 8 July 1858, Morning Chronicle-London No 28562,
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BIRTHS – On the 3d inst., at the Vicarage, Beeston-Notts, the wife of the Rev. T.J. OLDRINI, of a daughter.
Wednesday, 5 January 1859, Derby Mercury No 3494,
MARRIAGE - At Parliament-street Chapel, Nottingham, on the 28th ult., by the Rev. John HUDSTON of Sheffield, brother to the bride; Mr Joseph DAKIN of Matlock Bath-Derbyshire, to Miss Sarah HUDSTON of Beeston-Notts.
Wednesday, 12 January 1859, Derby Mercury No 3495,
MARRIAGE – On the 25th ult, at Kensington Church, London, by the Rev. S.G. BARROW, Mr John WALKER, grocer, Beeston-Notts, to Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr John MOORE of the same village.
Wednesday, 9 March 1859, Derby Mercury No 3503,
DEATHS : At Beeston on the 28th February, aged 71, Francis Sophia, relict of the late William HURST, Esq., clerk of the peace for the county.
Wednesday, 23 November 1859, Derby Mercury No 3540,
DEATHS – On Sunday last, in the 37th year of his age, John, eldest son of the Rev. John WOLLEY, of Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
Wednesday, 27 June 1860, Derby Mercury No 3571,
MARRIAGE : At Beeston near Nottingham, on the 12th inst., Mr Paul de TEREY, of Esseyg, Hungary, to Mary, daughter of Mr John NORTON of Beeston.
Friday, 28 December 1860, Liverpool Mercury No 4018,
SEVERE WEATHER – From all quarters of the empire we continue to receive startling accounts of the extreme severity of the weather. With very few exceptions, the heavy snowstorms and keen frosts now visiting the country find no parallel, even in the remembrance of that voracious individual, “the oldest inhabitant”. At Beeston near Nottingham the thermometer on Christmas Day, at four feet above the ground, was 8 degrees below zero, and on the grass 13.8 degrees below zero, or 45.8 degrees of frost.
Wednesday, 31 July 1861, London Gazette No 29503,
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED – H. FRETTINGHAM and F. FRETTINGHAM, Beeston-Notts, nurserymen and seedsmen.
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