BumbleB - your original post reminded me of a set of comments that were written into Tamworth, St Editha Burials 06 Nov 1838 regarding the burial of 5 females. The first (which I think was written by Blick):
"The foregoing Five Females were suffocated in an accidental fire at the Castle Inn - Nov 2 1838."
.....and the second was an additional note written 34 years later in the back of the same Burial Register by B. Lambert, Vicar on 20 July 1872:
""A monument, an obelisk is erected in the churchyard to these poor girls. It is now somewhat defaced. Mary Ann Smith aged 19, Mary Garner aged 32, Harriet Bonner aged 23, Mary Ann Rooth aged 22, Mary Chatterton aged 18, Harriet Buswell aged 15. This Monument was erected by the inhabitants of Tamworth in commemoration of the melancholy and awful death of 6 female servants, who were hurried from time into eternity by a fire which broke out at the Castle Inn during the night of 2nd November 1838. This information differs from the register by the addition of a victim. Mary Ann Smith aged 19. I heard from Miss Blick that the servant who tended these remains was so affected that she died from the shock, but I find no record of her burial here. Also in the register we have Mary Gardner aged 30 and on the monument Mary Garner aged 32."
I've always thought both comments were interesting bits of information if one of those young women affected happened to be part of a genealogy search.
sami
