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My ancestor George Bracher was born in Salisbury in Aug 1794 and died in nearby Alderbury on 4th June 1871. For many years I was not able to find where he was buried but have just found a recently added record on FamilySearch that tells me he was buried in Aldbourne six days later on 10th June.

My question is - where in Aldbourne? And then, of course, why there - more than 40 miles from where he died? I am unaware of any family connection to the place.

FamilySearch indicates the burial record is in "England, Wiltshire, Church Records, 1518-1990" database, Bishop's Transcripts.

I see that there is a graveyard at St Michael’s Church of England and close by is a small graveyard from the “New Zoar Baptist Chapel” which was demolished some time after 1931 but its burial ground survives.  There was also a Primitive Methodist chapel  in West Street and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Lottage Road but I don’t know if either had a burial ground.

Any help or suggestions to find George's resting place would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks, and best wishes from DownUnder

Ian Bracher

Thanks everyone for taking the time to respond to my query.

Colin - Good to have the GENUKI link.  I will contact the Wincanton Baptist Church. Maybe they can help re the Bracher graves. I see on Google streetview that the Baptist school is near the top of Mill St and further down is another church like building.  Unfortunately the image is distorted but I can  read "chapel school" on the front gable.  Maybe that is the Independent Chapel?

Alan - I think there is little doubt that George Bracher in the Marketplace is our George and that house and shop were in the same building.  Do you have any record of John Howes? He was also a shopkeeper (draper I think) and became George's father-in-law. 

As for the newspapers, I have spent many many hours trawling the BNA. There is a great deal about George as the years roll on, but not much for his time in Wincanton.

Maddy - Yes I have the ads for apprentices.  Francis Stokes is interesting - his main business was in Salisbury where he was importing tea and coffee - still there I am told. George stayed in touch with the Stokes family all his life.

Once again thanks for taking the time to respond.

Hello all,

I am looking for a birth date for a girl Lucy Jane BRACHER - parents George and Elizabeth (nee HOWES).  Lucy died aged 9 and I have her burial details that she was buried Feb 4 1837 at St Marys Sherborne. This would give a calculated birth year of 1828. Most important is the hope that a birth record will confirm her parents as George and Elizabeth.

Thanks.

Hello all,

I have found that the children of one of my ancestors were baptised at the Methodist Chapel in Sherborne.  Caryl Parsons transcription on opcdorset.org gives the child's name, the parents name, the wife's parents name, then "of Sherborne", and the date of birth.
 
I assume that "of Sherborne" refers to the parents and their child and not the wife's parents.  And would the family have been living in the town or could they have just been visiting friends?   
Any thoughts?

Ian

Hello all,

I have some watercolour pictures painted around Nottingham by John Frederick Fryer in 1872. There is a church on the skyline of two paintings which I think may be St Mary's. Is anyone able to confirm or correct this?

And it would be great if some one familiar with Nottingham could suggest where JFF would have been when he painted them.  If it helps the 1871 census has him living at 9 Park street, occupation Lithographic artist, aged 18yrs.