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From: "Ryan Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Snippet from the TIMES - Fire in Torrington 1850
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:55:04 -0500


further to Fenella's snippet (keep them coming, please!): my immediate
question to myself was who the people were in the neighbouring houses
who had to exit through their windows etc.It is interesting that the
Victorian paper said the two people most affected were Mr Adams and the
absent parson, both of whom were inconvenienced only in their wallets.
I did a search on the 1851 census index. Here is what I found:
John Friendship was the ropemaker (as I suspected, he is from Bideford
and a vague connexion of mine)
his neighbours on one side (mostly elderly and poor) were:
Elizabeth and Mary Marley
Richard and Sarah Passmore
Mary Norman
Mary Rogers and Jane Much, her aunt
Jane and Thomas Lemon
Henry and Elizabeth Passmore
and on the other side (not quite so old or poor):
John and Mary Copp
John and Elizabeth Thoms
Thomas and Ellen Tucker
Thos and Sarah Williams
Letitia Handford
William Cole and family
I hope somebody spots a relative. The main interest for me is that no
doubt my many Torrington (and Monkleigh) relations would have taken part
in the rescue and then talked about it for weeks afterward. Ryan



Lasse der Fantasie freien Lauf!
- Mina Paechter
(in Theresienstadt)

Ryan Taylor
Genealogy Cataloger, Allen County Public LIbrary
Fort Wayne IN


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