Thomas Wells was born in 1775 in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, and was the son of Thomas Wells, a basket maker and Eleanor née Lugsden. When Thomas was 7 years old his father died. As soon...
Charles Wells was born on the 16th August 1842 and was one of the six children of George and Sarah née Hayward Waldron. At the age of fourteen, Charles left the Commercial (Modern) School, and...
Thomas Tokelove Gray was born in 1827 in the village of Wimblington in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. He was the youngest of the three sons of Amy née Tokelove and George Gray.* Their other...
Claude and Richard Stafford were the only sons of Charles Calvert Stafford and his wife Florence, nee Chettle. Charles was a partner in the firm of Messrs. Stafford and Rogers Ltd., auctioneers, valuers and estate...
In 1747 William Kilpin set up his ironmongers shop at 17 High Street, Bedford. His workshop and warehouse were just around the corner in Castle Lane. For the next 180 years, six generations of the...
In the autumn of 1994 there was much debate in the pages of the “Bedfordshire on Sunday” newspaper about whether an unusual burial should be allowed at Foster Hill Road Cemetery. Depending on your point...
Edward Richard Cumberland Wilcox was born on the 3rd October 1830 in Lucknow in Bengal, India. His christening took place on the 14th November 1830 in Benares (also known as Banaras) in West Bengal. He...
The news reached Bedford on Saturday evening the 6th April 1912, of a fatal accident to Mr Frank Howe, and spread deep consternation and grief amidst a very wide circle of relatives and intimate acquaintances,...
The Bedfordshire Times and Independent, Saturday, 26 August, 1882 page 6 reported as follows: ‘An inquest was held at the Ship Inn, St. Cuthbert’s, on Tuesday morning, before Mr. Mark Whyley, Deputy Coroner, on the body...
James William Seamark was born and raised in poverty and denied a higher education. He spent a great part of his life in the service of the public; having served as a Justice of the...