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Look up "The Reading Mercury" & "Windsor & Eton Press" 1856 & 1866 Please
« on: Saturday 12 November 16 00:28 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help with these articles please, would be most appreciated. 

1856= 9 Feb Mr. George Batcheldor, 
also 1856 26 Apr  "Windsor & Eton Press"
1866= 28 Jul, 4 Aug and 11 Aug Mr. Thomas Batcheldor. 

There may be others that I did not find.


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Lanarkshire=Robertson-Ross-Russell-Neilson.
Staffordshire= Harrison-Jackson-Round
London=Poswillo-Hyams-Karby-Dossett-Baram-Detloff-Hyman
Gibralter=Poswillo
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Re: Look up "The Reading Mercury" & "Windsor & Eton Press" 1856 & 1866 Please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 12 November 16 10:10 GMT (UK) »
Reading Mercury 9 Feb 1856

Deaths

On the 31st ult (ie Jan) Mr George Batcheldor of the Crispin Inn, Winkfield, aged 53

Windsor & Eton Press 26 April 1856 

Maidenhead, Petty Sessions

Mr P Dunn jnr of Windsor applied on behalf of the executors of the late Mr George Batcheldor of the Crispin Inn, Winkfield, to have the license of the above house transferred to the widow, which was granted.

Reading Mercury 28 July 1866

The office of Registrar of Eton College has become vacant by the death of Mr Thomas Batcheldor. By Mr Batcheldor's death the Dean and Canons of Windsor have lost a most efficient chapter clerk. Mr Batcheldor was an alderman of Windsor and one of the most active members of the corporation. He was seventy years of age.

London Evening Standard 27 July 1856

Deaths

Batcheldor - on Tuesday morning last suddenly at the Cloisters Windsor Castle, Thomas Batcheldor Esq chapter clerk to the Dean and Canons of Windsor and registrar of Eton Cleege, aged 70.

Reading Mercury 11 Aug 1866

Windsor & Eton

Town Council Election.—Mr. Edward Pearl will be elected without opposition, to the vacancy created by Mr. Thomas Batcheldor.
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Re: Look up "The Reading Mercury" & "Windsor & Eton Press" 1856 & 1866 Please
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 12 November 16 22:58 GMT (UK) »
dawnsh,
Thank you very much for the articles, another missing piece filled in.
ShaunJ,
No, hadn't seen any photos, but from then to now is a huge change. Have saved that link and will have a longer look when I have more time tomorrow.
Cheers
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Lanarkshire=Robertson-Ross-Russell-Neilson.
Staffordshire= Harrison-Jackson-Round
London=Poswillo-Hyams-Karby-Dossett-Baram-Detloff-Hyman
Gibralter=Poswillo
Dorset= Attwooll-Read-Northover
Australia=Karby-Meyer