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26/05/2026

William Jones - Part 2
By 1881, William Jones was already well established in Shrewsbury, though the most successful years of his business were still ahead. Having returned from Ohio, he recognised the exceptional malting quality of barley grown around Shrewsbury and began acquiring smaller malt houses.

Alongside business, William and his wife Anne were devoted members of Abbey Foregate Congregational Church, where William served as deacon from 1880. Their home, Sutton Lodge, became known for generous hospitality. William was also a man of formidable routine. For more than fifty years he kept a diary, recording appointments, visitors, correspondence, and the weather in meticulous detail.

William’s first major expansion came in 1888 with the opening of the purpose-built Belle Vue Maltings, designed by Henry Stopes, the leading malting engineer of the age. By 1904 the firm’s premises stretched across Belle Vue, Town Walls, Hill’s Lane, Frankwell, Pontesford, Beeches Lane, Severn Side, the Glen, and the Shropshire Maltings north of the town. A Queensland newspaper that year described Belle Vue as “almost perfect” for scientific malting and said the company’s name was known “throughout the English-speaking world.”

William’s son, Richard Edward Jones was born at Gomer, Cincinnati, Ohio, during the family’s American years. After an education at Tettenhall College, he spent a brief spell back with relatives in Ohio., He represented the next generation of the enterprise and entered the family business in 1880. On 6th October 1885, he married Anne Elizabeth Griffiths of Cincinnati at Hamilton, Ohio.

By 1891 Richard and Anne were living at Radnor House, Belle Vue, with their children George Worthington and Gladys Roberta, and two servants. By 1903 they were living at Oakley Grange, Belle Vue. Their daughter Doris Noel Jones was born in 1894. By 1911, the household employed a cook, parlourmaid and housemaid—clear evidence that the malt trade, when done properly, could be very good indeed.

In 1896, William was appointed Justice of the Peace for Shropshire, respected for practical judgement, fairness and generosity. Then in 1897 came the purchase of the vacant Ditherington Flax Mill, later known as Flaxmill Maltings. Empty for ten years, the vast former flax mill was transformed into a major maltings operation. Windows were blocked to protect the malt floors, kilns and elevator towers added, and later large silos built for storage. Here barley was steeped, germinated, kiln-dried, dressed and bagged for brewers.

In 1903, the firm became William Jones & Son (Malsters) Ltd, with capital of £100,000. In 1904, the company expanded internationally by purchasing Toowoomba Maltings in Queensland, with Vernon Redwood as general manager from 1904–1913. The move was strategic. William Jones & Son had imported large quantities of English malt into Australia, but Federation and import duties made local production necessary. Establishing maltings in Toowoomba protected that trade. Contemporary reports described the company as one of the largest maltsters in the world. Shrewsbury barley had gone global.

Richard entered public life in 1894 as councillor for Belle Vue Ward. He became alderman in 1907, borough magistrate in 1900, and served as Mayor of Shrewsbury three times: 1905, 1919–20, and 1920–21. During his mayoralty he also became a county Justice of the Peace. One of his greatest achievements was chairing the committee behind the Shrewsbury Corporation Bill of 1909, which enabled major improvements including the weir, Castle footbridge, riverside promenades, dredging of the River Severn, cemetery extension and purchase of the Gay Meadow site.. He also chaired the Burial Board, served as Overseer of the Poor, chaired the Employment Committee, served on the County Council, was a trustee of Borough Charities and Commissioner of Income Tax. During the First World War he worked on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Forage Committee and was later awarded the O.B.E. Outside civic life he was president of the Shrewsbury Cymmrodorion Society and involved in local sporting organisations. It is difficult to identify a committee in Shrewsbury on which Richard did not serve!

The family’s later years were marked by loss. Richard and Anne’s son, Major George Worthington Jones, was killed on 10 November 1917 in Flanders.

In 1920 William Jones & Son acquired a former flour mill which they turned into the Castle Maltings

Richard’s wife Anne Elizabeth Jones died in 1923, the same year the company sold Toowoomba Maltings to the Queensland State Wheat Board for roughly a quarter of its original value. A sobering end to the Australian chapter.

William Jones died in November 1923, aged ninety-two. His funeral followed a service at Abbey Foregate Congregational Church, with burial in Shrewsbury General Cemetery.

Richard married Sybil Cureton on 4 September 1926 at the City Temple, London, while living at Oakley Grange. In April 1933, aged seventy-one, he returned to New York aboard the RMS Berengaria—a notable journey back to the country of his birth.

The decades that followed were more difficult. Economic downturns in the brewing industry and a series of poor commercial decisions placed pressure on the company. By the mid-1930s the business was in serious financial difficulty and Richard was facing bankruptcy. Support from Alliance Insurance and determined management by D. R. Tamplin helped rescue the firm and by 1948 the entire output of William Jones & Sons was being sold to Ansells, which ultimately acquired the business.

Richard Edward Jones died in 1948, aged eighty-six, at the Royal Salop Infirmary. Across nearly seventy years, father and son transformed William Jones & Son from a local malting concern into an internationally recognised business with operations extending from Shrewsbury —and, rather unexpectedly, to Queensland too.

25/05/2026

Part 1 - William Jones
Perhaps William Jones and his brother, John Roberts Jones, left their Welsh village of Llanbrynmair with the mixture of hope and apprehension known to every emigrant who has stood on a dockside and wondered whether they were sailing toward fortune—or folly.

They travelled to Scott County in East Tennessee as part of a Welsh emigrant venture led by their uncles, Samuel Roberts—better known as S.R.—and Gruffydd Rhisiart Roberts (aka Richard Roberts), together with another relation, William Bebb. The party had purchased some 100,000 acres of land at half a crown an acre through two New York gentlemen, Mr de C**k and Mr Saxton—names that must initially have sounded reassuringly respectable.

On 5 May 1857 William, his wife Anne, brother John Robert Jones, and Uncle Samuel Roberts boarded the Circassian at Liverpool. The ship sailed the following day carrying nearly 400 emigrants, many of them Welsh. After stopping at Newfoundland enroute, she docked at Portland on 20 May. William and Anne first travelled to Allen County to visit relatives before continuing onward. They arrived at Brynffynnon, Tennessee—its name meaning “hill with a spring” on 21 July 1857.

The reality, alas, did not quite match the brochure. They were deeply disappointed by Brynffynnon. William remained only four months before leaving abruptly on 11 November 1857, with brother John following a month later. The grand Tennessee venture had proved a bitter misjudgement. The New York “gentlemen” were in fact land sharks. The title of the property was disputed, boundaries were poorly surveyed, and the terrain itself was mountainous, remote, and unsuitable for the kind of farming the settlers had imagined.

Writing to his uncle S.R. from Gomer, in March 1858, John Roberts Jones did not trouble himself with diplomacy: “I should be pleased if I had never seen Mr. Bebb … and if I had never heard of Tennessee. It cannot be denied that we have been disappointed in our venture. It would be a blessing if we could sell up and get, each one, his money back. Indeed Mr. Bebb was very wicked, urging us to land in Tennessee without knowing more about it, and the Titles so uncertain.”

His uncles remained at Brynffynnon until 1866 before finally abandoning the settlement and returning almost penniless to Wales. In time the land was reclaimed by forest. William, his wife Anne, and brother John Roberts Jones settled instead in Gomer, Allen County, Ohio, which is north of Cincinnati. —a more established Welsh community populated by families from Llanbrynmair. There they began again. William’s son, Richard Edward Jones, was born in Gomer in 1863.

Yet Tennessee was not the end of their trials. Beyond the hardships of pioneer life—rattlesnakes underfoot, log homes built from scratch, and soap made by hand—the family found themselves living through the upheaval of the American Civil War. Many Welsh settlers supported the Union cause, but loyalty offered little protection from hungry armies moving across the countryside.

One of William’s relatives recorded the losses in painful detail. In July 1863 a cavalry company took twenty-four bundles of wheat for their horses. Four days later they returned for what remained. A month later, when Burnside’s army passed through, all his hay was taken. That winter the consequences became devastating. In January 1864 he wrote: “Our two horses starved to death because Union soldiers had carried away our fodder. Joe died January 15, Dick died January 21.” The losses continued. Wolford’s Kentucky cavalry took corn and fodder; a Michigan regiment arrived soon after, taking forage for fifty-six horses and burning fence rails for firewood. The war, for families such as theirs, was not always fought with rifles—it was fought through emptied barns, ruined harvests, and surviving one season to reach the next.

For William, the strain eventually became too much. After years of disappointment, upheaval, he decided he had had quite enough of America. Around 1868 he returned to Britain with his wife Anne and their young son, Richard Edward—bringing home resilience in abundance, if not necessarily much else.

Back in Shrewsbury, William began again from scratch. He turned to the malting trade. Malting began with barley steeped in large cisterns of water for nearly two days, allowing the grain to absorb moisture and swell. It was then heaped together to warm before being spread across the malthouse floors, where it was turned and raked by hand over several days to encourage even germination and prevent spoilage. From there it was transferred to the kiln, where warm air rose through perforated floors to dry the malt and develop the colour and flavour that brewers prized. The final product—dried malted barley—was sold principally to breweries, where it became the essential foundation of beer and ale.

By 1871 they were living on Claremont Bank with:
William Jones (39, Male) Maltster Employing 2 Men
Anne Jones (41, Female)
Richard E Jones (8, Male) son
Elizabeth Ellis (19, Female) servant

William went on to run maltings at several sites across Shrewsbury, including 13a Hills Lane, the Stew, Beeches Lane, and the Glen in Frankwell. He was very successful and by 1881 the family were living at Sutton Lodge in Betton Street (Belle Vue)
William Jones (48, Male) Maltster Master 4 Men
Anne Jones (51, Female) wife
Richard E Jones (18, Male) son Corn Merchant Clerk
Emma Jones (26, Female) Servant

In time, his son Richard Edward Jones joined the firm, and William Jones & Sons grew into an international malting business with a maltings in Belle Vue, Ditherington, and Toowoomba, Queensland—a long way from Shrewsbury, and an even longer way from the disappointments of Tennessee and Ohio. A remarkable legacy from a man who had once returned home with little more than determination. But more of that in Part Two…....

12/05/2026

The Station Master: Robert Swan McNaught was originally from Dumfries in Scotland. He entered the railway service in 1864 at Birkenhead station working as a porter. By the 1871 census he was promoted to stationmaster of a small station in Ince, Cheshire. He was 26 years old and living with wife Janet and young sons Robert aged 3 and John aged 1. He then moved to be station master of Little Sutton station in Cheshire. By 1881, Robert moved to Woofferton (near Ludlow). He is shown living at the Salway Arms with wife Janet and children Robert, John. Jesse, Margaret and Euphemia. He was then promoted again in 1887 to be stationmaster the larger station of Hereford.

In 1890 Robert became Station Master of Shrewsbury. The McNaughts are shown in the 1901 census living at Enon Cottage. This was the Station Master’s house. It was next to the station just below the Dana (now demolished)
• Robert S Mcnaught (58, Male)
• Janet Mcnaught (59, Female)
• Jessie Mary Mcnaught (27, Female)
• Margaret Ann Mcnaught (25, Female)
• Euphemia Mcnaught (22, Female)
• Florence Edith Mcnaught (19, Female)

The station was jointly owned by 2 rail companies GWR and LNWR . By 1905, Robert was responsible for a joint staff of 160 including 16 clerical staff and 25 signalmen. The station had 114 arrivals and 107 departures every 24 hours. He was regarded as a very capable and organised station master. He successfully oversaw the major station extension project between 1899-1903 and was commended for the fact that the extension was carried out with so little inconvenience to the public, and few injuries/deaths of the workmen. He was one of the first on the scene of the major train crash on the station approach in October 1907 and oversaw the recovery and repair of the station.

Robert held the post of Shrewsbury Station master for seventeen years before retiring in December 1907. Following his retirement, he lived at Clifford Street, Cherry Orchard, Shrewsbury. He died in May 1913 aged 70 and is buried in plot 12 - 1 - B.

02/05/2026

It’s nice to have a story from Victorian times of independent ladies

In 1881 Caroline Williams was 24 years old and living with her widowed father and siblings in Chester and working as a school cleaner. Her father Henry was a joiner. She married artist William Henry Marshall in 1884 in Shrewsbury. William Henry's first wife Annie had died leaving him with a daughter, Beatrice (1878-1964). William painted landscapes. This did not appear to be a lucrative occupation as by 1891 they were living at 1, Holt Street Buildings, Wrexham. This was an area that was subsequently demolished as part of a slum clearance programme. The couple had 4 children: Lionel (1886-1935), Cecil (1887-?), Ellen (1890-1958), and Carrie (1896-1982).

At some time between 1896 and 1899, the family moved to Shrewsbury. Caroline ran Marshall's Temperance Hotel, at No 18 Castle Gates. She also ran the confectionery business next door at number 19. Her husband was an invalid for years before his death and Caroline had to make a living. She took over the Temperance hotel from her Aunt Caroline; a single lady who had run the hotel for many years and the sweet shop next door which was the favoured Tuck shop for the boys from Shrewsbury School.

After the death of her husband William Henry Marshall in 1899, she married John Elford Gulley on 31st March 1901 at the Wesleyan Chapel, St John's Hill. She made sure that her finances were legally separate and that she counted as a financially independent woman.

John Gulley was a flour miller – he had been married before - twice ’ish - . His first wife Rosannah had died giving birth to their daughter Rosannah (who had also died). John had then married his wife’s sister Caroline Mary. The tricky thing is that this was illegal at the time. He had 2 more children with his new wife: Henry and Helen.

So… in March 1901 when John Gulley married Caroline Ellen in Shrewsbury, his other non-legal wife Caroline Mary was alive and well and living in Wrexham with the children!

In the 1901 census John and Caroline Ellen are shown as living at 18, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury with Caroline's children Lionel, Cecil, Ellen, and Carrie, and her step-daughter Beatrice. Caroline's occupation is shown in the census as 'hotel keeper'.

Caroline was involved in a motor accident and had unsuccessfully tried to claim costs for the personal injury she suffered. She had been advised to take legal action by a legal clerk who was staying in her hotel. He was from a London solicitors practice who had said that her case was so clear she would definitely win. The judgement went against her and she was liable for their costs as well as her own. Her claim was only for £60 but the legal bill ended up at £90 This resulted in her filing for bankruptcy in May 1911. The hotel had been in her own family for 40 years. Carline was devastated by this and said if she had known, she would have never risked the action which had resulted in the ruin of her business and broken her health.

Her husband John Elford Gulley died in February 1919. Caroline somehow managed to get out of bankruptcy and continued to run the hotel. She died in July 1925 aged 60.

She passed on the hotel to her daughter Carrie and her step-daughter Beatrice who carried on running it together until Beatrice died in 1964.

27/04/2026

Did you know that Shrewsbury Cemetery has the gravestone of a world renowned malacologist?

James Cosmo Melvill was from a long line of "James Cosmo Melvill's" and used the name Cosmo rather than James. He was born on 1st July 1845 in Hampstead. He started collecting when his Aunt gave him a collection of shells she had gathered in Mauritius. Cosmo then took his Conchology to a whole new level! His obituary said he was "the most prolific describer of South African land snails ever"!

He went into business in the Lancashire cotton industry, first in 1871 with his uncle, Cotton merchant Edward Hardcastle, then in 1887 became director of the Cotton firm of Messrs G. and R. Dewhurst Ltd, of Manchester, Preston and London, East India and China. His business career allowed him to travel, particularly in North America - where he continued to expand his collection of molluscs, shells, and other botanical things.

In 1904 he settled in Shropshire at Meole Hall where he had a special building constructed in the grounds - a herbarium - to house his collection. It was one of the largest collections ever assembled with 786,000 shells, and half the known mollusc species in the world. His prize shell was a "Conus gloriamaris". These were believed to be the rarest shell on earth and maybe even extinct. This made them incredibly valuable (costing more than a nice house to purchase). In the 1960's they actually found that this shell was not so rare and they can be bought today on ebay for around £100!

Cosmo wrote over 20 books - some of which were reprinted several times. He also had at least 11 species named after him including:
Drillia melvillii – a predatory marine snail
Eulima melvillii – a parasitic sea snail
Turbonilla melvillii – a small marine gastropod

He died in November 1929 and is buried with his wife Bertha in a rather "botanical" (aka overgrown) section at the top of Badgers Bank.

26/04/2026

In grave 69 - 15 - E (at the top of Badgers Bank) is the unusually named "True Love Lea". Her name is written inside a heart. True Love was born in Oldbury in 1860. Her father Thomas was a coal miner, and all her siblings had traditional names: John Henry, Catherine, Elizabeth, Thomas, Linda and Selina. She married cabinet maker and shopfitter Henry Lea. For her own children she went for an "M" theme with daughters Maud, Minnie and May.

The Lea family lived at 2 Mona Villas in North Hermitage. Henry had premises at 69 Wyle Cop. He is probably the person that created the beautiful shopfront of this store.

True Love died in July 1921. When Henry died in 1929 his obituary in the Wellington Journal said: "Mr. Lea, who was 68 years of age, was the principal of Messrs. Henry Lea, Shopfitters and Cabinet makers. An outstanding artist and craftsman in woodwork, Mr. Lea carried out many important pieces of beautiful interior panelling, much of which is to be seen at Messrs. Morris's Cafe, Pride Hill."

11/04/2026

Orlando Jack Charles Bridgeman was the son of aristocrats Captain Orlando Henry Bridgeman and his wife, Selina. Their sons followed the popular career stereotype of the British nobility. The eldest son, of course, succeeded to the family title; for the second, third and fourth sons there were careers in the navy, army and church respectively.

Orlando purchased a commission in the 98th Regiment of Foot on July 2,1841. Within six months, Orlando and his regiment were on their way to the war in China. He sent letters home to his sister, Selina, who at the time was travelling the European continent in the manner of the fashionable young lady of her day.

It turns out that Orlando wasn’t really cut out for army life, nor did he find the activities of his fellow officers compatible with his own concepts of recreation: "I am going this afternoon to see the thoughtless part of the garrison play cricket. I call them thoughtless because I conceive it to be perfect madness on the part of any man to play cricket under a vertical sun. For my own part I never join in sports that require such strong exercise, for more reasons than one. In the first place I dislike exerting myself and putting myself into a profuse perspiration when perfectly unnecessary, and in the next place so much exposure to the sun is most likely to bring on fever and ague to a ten times worse degree than I at present have it, and I have no great desire to leave my bones in this horrid place. I am therefore leading a most regular life. I get up at 6 a.m. and walk for two hours before breakfast. I remain in my room all day during the heat of the sun and walk again in the evening, and go to bed early. I live on fish, fruit and curry and drink but little wine. But I smoke a great deal in fact it is necessary in India*. I cannot get on without it. * Hong Kong and China in military parlance of the period were considered extensions of India.

He did not enjoy the rowdy partying that went on in the officers' barracks. "Men of this sort never sit down to a large party without drinking to such an excess that they lose their senses and are put to bed more like beasts than Christians. God forgive me but I hate them all. Give me women's society. Without it we are beasts."
He initially loathed the tea - complaining about the lack of milk "Although in China, I have not tasted one cup of tea half so good as I have in England", but he eventually became fond of China tea and insisted on keeping his own teapot at mess as the other officers didn't brew it quite to his liking.

He also kept an aviary of canaries "My only amusement here is in keeping birds. I have a great many canaries and remarkably fine ones. They sing beautifully and in the daytime I sit in my balcony and read and list to their beautiful singing. They are at times almost too much, for the moment one begins they all strike up and sing and try to see which can make the most variations."

He continued with the 98th Regiment as a lieutenant until sometime in 1845, when he was transferred to the 11th Regiment of Hussars (Prince Albert's Own). Undoubtedly to Orlando's delight, this regiment was stationed in England, first at Newbridge and then at Coventry.

He spent his last year at 11 Berwick Road. He moved there in August 1912. The property was described as a "substantially built residence with a spacious hall, dining room and double drawing room with picturesque gardens overlooking the river Severn". He died there on 4th October 1913.

He is buried in the “Horseshoes” area, a prestigious part of the cemetery in front of the chapel in plot 102-8-F, however by the time of his death aged 90, his only family left were his nieces. They inherited, but his grave has no stone, and cheekily the Vicar of Much Wenlock who is next to him has spread out a little over his plot!

15/03/2026

The Burr Family - Part 2 William Burr.

William was the third child of Thomas and Sarah Burr. His father had established a plumbing business at the bottom of Wyle Cop.
In 1847 brothers Thomas, William and George Burr formed a co-partnership agreement to run the business together. . They expanded the business significantly taking lead ore from the Snailbeach mines, and processing it into lead sheets and pipes

In 1859 William became Mayor of Shrewsbury. He is shown in his portrait in his mayoral robes. In the 1861 census William, aged 45 is living with his brother Thomas, and sisters Jane and Sarah. This family were incredibly close, with the brothers supporting each other and working together in business. William married Julia Matilda on 24th April 1862. The Welsh National Archives have a scrapbook that William made for his wife full of cuttings of his time as mayor. It includes a resolution of thanks of the council of the borough of Shrewsbury to William Burr, mayor, 13 February 1860, for his 'munificent hospitality, and for the good taste, courtesy, and liberality evinced by him on this occasion';

When his term as Mayor ended he was praised " Mr. William Burr, has his upright and impartial conduct, no less than by his munificent liberality, "won golden opinions from all sorts of people."

He died on 15th August 1868. His obituary states that he was a model of perseverance and of upright and straightforward dealing. It states that he was a friend to the poor, supporter of the arts and the horticultural society.

04/03/2026

Miss Marjorie James Bedingfield was Matron of the Royal Salop Infirmary from 1925 until her death aged 52 on 25 February 1939. She served in that office for thirteen years.

She was the youngest daughter of Sydney and Charity Bedingfield of Barry, Glamorgan. Her brother Sydney George Baker Bedingfield died in France in 1916

She began her nursing career at the Bristol Children's Hospital and subsequently undertook her general training at the Middlesex Hospital. She remained there until the outbreak of the First World War.

In 1915 she joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. During the war she nursed in Base Hospitals, served on a Hospital Ship, and was attached to several Casualty Clearing Stations in France. In 1915 she was mentioned in despatches for "conspicuous bravery during the bombardment by the enemy of one of the British clearing stations in France." She was subsequently promoted to the post of Assistant Nursing Sister attached to the Matron-in-Chief's staff, a position she held until her demobilisation in 1919. After the Armistice she also assisted in the demobilisation of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.

Following the war she returned to the Middlesex Hospital as ward sister and later became sister in charge. From that position she was appointed Matron of the Royal Salop Infirmary in August 1925.

As Matron she was responsible for the welfare of the institution and for the supervision of patients and nursing staff. Her daily rounds of the wards were looked forward to, and she was noted for having a word for every patient. She was described as unfailingly cheerful, energetic in her duties, and efficient, with a full understanding of all matters connected with nursing administration. Although not regarded as a rigid disciplinarian, she was said to lead by force of example, and her manner inspired confidence among patients and voluntary workers alike. Her colleagues referred to her affectionately as "Marjorie J."

Her period in office coincided with significant rebuilding and extension works at the Infirmary. She was a brilliant fundraiser organising events such as Pound Day to raise money and donations for the improvements. She significantly raised the profile of the Infirmary: visiting schools to give health talks, organising the V.A.D challenge cup, judging the healthy baby competition, organising raffles, sales of work, opening dances, etc.

She was described as having a "flair for Christmas." She organised an annual Christmas appeal in the newspapers for gifts and food for the hospital. The wards were beautifully decorated under her direction. It was her practice to ensure that every patient in the Infirmary at that season received a personal gift at the foot of their bed on Christmas day - "nightdresses, woollies, cushion covers, table cloths, ties and handkerchiefs"

In February 1939 she visited the Market Drayton Cottage Hospital, then an annexe of the Infirmary, to inspect it prior to its opening for the reception of patients. On returning to Shrewsbury she appeared in her usual health but was taken ill early the following morning. She died at the Infirmary four days later.

Miss Bedingfield was a founder member and treasurer of the Shrewsbury branch of the College of Nursing, a member of the Hospital Matrons' Association, a member of the committee of the Middlesex Hospital Guild, a member of St Barnabas's Guild, and at the time of her death a matron on the staff of the Territorial Forces Association Nursing Reserve.

Her funeral service was held at St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, followed by burial at Shrewsbury Cemetery. Representatives of the Infirmary Board, medical staff, nursing staff, civic authorities, and military nursing organisations were present. Press reports recorded the large attendance with hundreds of people lining the streets to pay their respects.

01/03/2026

In today's Shrewsbury Chronicle 1st March 1912, we find out a little more about the 12th person to be buried in grave 78-6-E (which was featured here on 31st October) - the unknown baby girl who lived for 24 hours and was left on a tradesman's doorstep.

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