Ancestors and Descendants of Adams and Mann and Others

  German Zeppelin Air Raids of 9/10 August 1915          Bombed:   E. Yorks, Kent & Suffolk On 9th August, five Zeppelins set out to raid England. The older L 9 targeted the Humber while four newer models, the L 10, L 11, L 12 and L 13, aimed for London. L 13 turned back early with engine problems. L 9, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Odo Loewe, came inland after a couple of encounters with RNAS aircraft. He believed he bombed Hull, but was further west, his bombs dropping on  Goole . Crossing the River Ouse his eight explosive and 13 incendiary bombs fell from east to west. The first deaths were at 2 Sotheron Street – at the junction of Victoria Street - where 65-year-old widow Sarah Acaster, who ran a fish and chip shop, her two grown up daughters, Kezia and Sarah Ann, and a visitor, died in the wreckage of the house. Other bombs, falling on an area between North Street and Aire Street where, within a locality bordered by George Street, O...

  Heroes and Rebels in the Family Tree--A Desperate Gang of Thieves In November 1835, the American writer and humorist, Mark Twain was born in Hannibal, Missouri.  In February 1836, Halley's comet predictably returned to the night skies.  By March 1836, Charles Dickens had just begun publishing his new work as a monthly serial, titled " The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ".  But the turn of the century didn't bring prosperity and hope to the world.  Instead, it was a time of poverty, workhouses, poor sanitary conditions and a lack of good paying jobs.  Crimes of burglary, theft and robbery were rampant.  But England had a solution which would stave off the ordinary criminal.  Instead of death by hanging for many felony crimes, the courts were allowed to sentence criminals to transportation for life to the newly established penal colony in Australia.   New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the Britis...

 49-year-old Elizabeth Sarah Woolterton was a farmer’s widow with ten children who lived at Denton in Suffolk.  She  owed her husband’s aged uncle some money.  The last two times she sent him cake, he had become ill.  Or so he testified.  In July, Elizabeth sent her daughter Amy off with a basket full of cake, pie, and veal to the uncle.  An unsuspecting housekeeper sent the cake home with her son in law for her grandchildren.  A six-year-old boy fell very ill and passed away. The local druggist later testified he had sold Elizabeth arsenic on four separate occasions over the last year, and the surgeon had analyzed the cake and found traces of arsenic.  It did not take long for the facts to implicate Elizabeth. She was tried at the Suffolk Summer Assizes at Bury St. Edmunds, before Sir Vicary Gibbs, on Saturday the 22nd of July 1815.   Elizabeth’s daughter, Amy Woolterton, testified that she and her mother lived at Denton.   On th...