Alice Fletcher Forest Of Dean (General)

by Arrowhead , Saturday, May 12, 2018, 11:31 (2396 days ago) @ Ianbevanjones

Hi Ian, I'm not sure whether you are still active on this but I have quite an extensive tree on the Fletchers if you'd like to compare notes. Sarah Davis the wife of Eli Fletcher was a gypsy queen and buried in Parkend. She was a very well respected medicine woman/healer as well as a hawker. Her death was widely reported in several newspapers, but mainly for the bogus claim that she died at the age of 100 where in reality she was about 78. Many of the articles give a fascinating account of her funeral and of her body 'lying in state'. I have researched mainly from the angle of Harry Fletcher (grandson of Sarah and Eli). All of his children are now deceased (the last one a few years ago), but many of his grandchildren still live in the Forest. He and his brother Austin (their father's namesake) married two welsh women Blodwyn Davies (a war widow) and Austin married her niece, Ruth Harris.