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King Cholera in Bristol, 1832

Bristol was still reeling from the aftermath of the Reform Riots of 1831 with the condemned rioters in gaol awaiting their tragic fate, when a new peril appeared over the horizon: the Cholera Morbus,...
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The Budgetts of Kingswood Hill

“The Budgetts”, originally written about forty years ago, was my first attempt at the story of a family and therefore I call it part of my “Juvenilia”. It arose out of a conversation with...
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The Fray Family

Find me a scientist was a challenge issued by my late brother Colin Pillinger.  At Christmas I would send him a story about our numerous ancestors but the nearest approximation to science I came...
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Mary Dafter and her great trouble

Thomas Dafter, yeoman of “Wollen” (ie Oldland) Glos, yeoman, took out a marriage licence on 8 Nov 1684 to marry Mary Pollen, of St Augustine, Bristol, with the wedding to be at the bride’s...
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The Bristol Magdalens

Mary Magdalen (Maudlin) is traditionally, though unproven, the New Testament’s “fallen woman”, who Jesus saved through her repentance, but it was probably by accident rather than design that Bristol’s Female Penitentiary was situated at...
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Some distressed Bristol Seamen and their dependents, 1758

Jonathon Bisp of Winterbourne, c1754, who appears in my Kingswood Index (elsewhere on this site) was apparently also nown as “Bliss”.  In 1996, Mrs Walsh, a descendant of the Bisp Family, sent me a...
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KILLED IN A COALPIT: Lives of the Kingswood Colliers

Though the main theme of this hardback book concerns the accidents, fatal (and otherwise) which befell the coalminers who worked in the historic Kingswood (South Gloucestershire) Coalfield it is hoped that through these tragic...
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Some Commonwealth marriages 1653-1660

During the English Civil War and Commonwealth period between 1653 – 1660, births, marriages and deaths were poorly kept and those recorded by civil officers, confusingly called Parish Registers, in place of the dispossessed...
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‘Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother’ – A Family History.

Pem, tell me about when you were a little girl..….” This was me, as soon as I learned to talk. So, take one excessively inquisitive child, who wanted to know everything about everything; ‘a...
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From Little Acorns Great Oaks Grow: The Pillinger Family of Kingswood

I was born a Pillinger. This is the story of my Father’s family. Click the links below to download: From Little Acorns Great Oaks Grow part 1 From Little Acorns Great Oaks Grow part...
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