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Re: Colonel James Nicholson
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 27 November 16 18:47 GMT (UK) »
Have had a look at the Hampshire Chronicle, 18 Nov 1811 which confirms the story of Augusta's early death, the death of her brother and the "infant becoming entitled to the whole of its mother's portion".

Her fortune at the time of the elopement was put at 14,000 pounds.


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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 29 November 16 12:13 GMT (UK) »
The Library at the Manx Museum was open today, and I was able to search the microfilms of Parish Registers.

So, I have found the marriage  of Augusta & John, the baptism of John Foster,  and entries in 2 burial registers for Augusta! ;D

Her burial is recorded in Braddan Parish Registers, but says "to St George's Chapel".
St George, in Douglas, was then just a chapelry. It is now a church and parish in it's own right.
Her entry in St George's Register has been transcribed as JILES?! :-\

Anyway, I found Augusta in the MI's, and have her grave number.
Photographing the gravestone will require decent morning sun, as the inscription is badly faded.

Would you believe that I walk by her grave going to the pub every night! ;D
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)