Philip Morse and Susanna Webster (General)

by m p griffiths , Thursday, December 29, 2011, 16:44 (4709 days ago) @ jerigby

This is rather a concidence!

A David ADAMS is writing an autobiography of my Rev W S WICKENDEN, and I haven't heard from him for a couple of months.

Today I've received an email and I quote

I've been rather caught up in another project, researching another local poet Richard MORSE for a book to be published soon. Ironically and confusing both WICKENDEN and MORSE were known as The Bard of the Forest, but even more bizarrely these two have suddenly become intertwined.

I have come across a magazine article that claims Richard MORSE 1811-75 was the Uncle of author " the Rev Chas WICKENDEN. If the writer means the Rev William WICKENDEN (which I think he does, since he goes on describe him as one who wrote about the Crimea) then this relationship is unlikely) WICKENDEN being born some 14 years before MORSE). But another source tells me that Richard MORSE's Uncle Philip MORSE (a) in his will dated 1854, left to his wife Susannah amongst his farming implements a "drawing likeness of the Rev. William WICKENDEN' and (b) at Philips' wedding in 1837 one of the witnesses is an Alice WICKENDEN

I note that among The Rustic's Lay's subscribers were Miss MORSE of Nass, Mr MORSE of Etloe, Mr MORSE of Awre, Mr MORSE of Newnham and Mr MORSE of Guershill-House, so the Ref obviously knew some MORSES

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The Rustic Lay's and other poems was published in 1817