1858-1941 Wills: Items of Interest (Announce)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Friday, October 08, 2010, 05:38 (5193 days ago) @ admin

Glenn & Lynne Robertson have extracted a number of "Items of Interest" while Indexing the beneficiaries of some of the 1858-1941 Wills.

Here is an example:
Taken from the 1864 Will of WICKENDEN William, Reverend Clerk B.A. (Will Number 00537)

William Wickenden was a poet and writer. The son of a farmer, he was born at Etloe, near Blakeney. His talents attracted the favourable notice of Dr. Jenner, Dr. Baron and the Rev. Dr. Fosbroke, and was sent to St. John's College, Cambridge. Works include "Poems and Tales, an autobiographical sketch of his early life and "The Bard of the Forest," published in 1851, being "affectionately inscribed to the memory of that great benefactor of the human race Edward Jenner, M.D.," and introduced by a preface written by the Rev. Dr. H. Stebbing.

Yor can view more Items of Interest

1858-1941 Wills: Items of Interest
http://www.forest-of-dean.net//wills/interests/items.html