Hi all,
By pure chance, I found out about the murder of John Payne/Pain, of Billington, Beds, in 1817. He was murdered by a Daniel Munn (who had previously murdered his wife and a local shopkeeper) outside the Red Lion pub in Dagnall (across the border in Bucks).
Read about it here from Page 9 onwards:
http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/images/stories/Image/pdf/origins/vol17_03.pdfIt seems very likely that John Payne is actually an ancestor of my wife's, but I haven't been able to find out any more about the unfortunate victim other than where he lived. Billington is a very small village so there can't be that many John Paynes, though.
James Pain/Payne, 1804-1871, was my wife's 4xgreat grandfather. You can see him in the 1841 census, living with his wife Ann at "Littel Billington" (sic) and 5 children here:
http://www.leighton-linslade.com/census/1841/billington.htmlHis baptism, in Billington, is on the IGI on 23/09/1804, with parents John Pain and Elizabeth. John Pain was baptised in Billington on 28/05/1780, to parents John Pain and Ann. John Pain Senior was christened in Leighton Buzzard in 1754. No-one else called John Pain appears in the IGI for Billington.
There is also a John Pain in Billington in 1841, aged 60, but married to a Mary, aged 50. This is possibly James Pain's father, but remarried - unless it is a different, unrelated John Pain.
So either the victim was James's father, James's grandfather, or someone else? Does anyone have access to any burial information, etc. that could find out the age, and even better, the widow, of the victim?
Thanks!