Death at Shooter's Hill.

[groom]

Looks like there was another son
Baptism St Mary Walton on the Hill Lancs
Edward James Bury born 5 may 1833 baptized 12 June 1833
Parents Edward and Priscilla Susan

Suz

That would be the other one mentioned in the probate.
William Tarleton Bury died 4 years after his mother in Sheffield - he was a merchant and steel manufacturer.

[bearkat]

His death certificate may provide some answers.

[suzard]

I wondered if he may have been at some school at Shooters Hill but I can't quite tie in what we have found with Henry 7's request
He states the family were from Liverpool - on some census the boys do give their p.o.b. as Liverpool on others Walton on the Hill (which seems to be the correct place)

I can't find the family in Bucks in the 1840's?

Suz

[groom]

He states the family were from Liverpool - on some census the boys do give their p.o.b. as Liverpool on others Walton on the Hill (which seems to be the correct place)


Suz

There is a Walton on the Hill in Liverpool so perhaps they just gave the nearest large place.

[tazzie]

There is a tree on Ancestry.....
It states the following..1838 March chickenpox
                                  1838 June whooping cough
                                  1840 October scarlet fever
                                  29 August 1845 died of typhus after a few days illness
                                  4September 1845 buried with maternal grandparents in family vault.
All dates give the family bible as proof

Tazzie

[bearkat]

That's a brilliant find 

[tazzie]

Hi....

Some info on the school from 1841..

The Classical Academy. First mentioned in 1724 the school flourished over the years and by 1795 had around 140 boys boarding. One ex pupil rated it as the" best private school in England- only Rugby, apart from Eton and Harrow could compare with it". He goes on " half the clergy in the county and almost every  lawyer in Northamptonshire were educated there.
The Academy offered the following in 1810... English, Latin, Greek, French, writing, arithmetic, merchants accounts, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, practical surveying ...for 39 guineas per annum.
Drawing, dancing, music and military exercise on the usual terms.
George was there however when the school was in decline. Reverend Richard Pain who had taken over as headmaster in 1807 closed the Academy in 1844-45 he stayed on at Guise house. He built a wall down the middle of the school and sold off the playground school room and the dormitory to a local builder. All the headmasters during their term of office had purchased land around the village buying large plots. The Pain family still held land in the 1970s


Tazzie

[Henry7]

That's a brilliant find 

Yes, tazzie, it certainly is! 

Very many thanks for your information about the tree, and for your new post about the school!  These will both be an immense help to me.

Many thanks also to PaulineJ, bearcat, suzard and groom for all your replies to my query.


Harry.