Stories in the Archives – the tragedy of triplets
A very kind person (although no one I know) has transcribed the Births, Burials and Marriages registers of the church of St Bridget’s in Bridgerule (a tiny English farming village in North Devon). They’re all available online. Marvellous. So I was browsing through them the other day, as you do, and a story leaped out…
Bridgerule
Elizabeth Veale, as she was then, was born in 1766 and raised in the English village of Bridgerule, on the border of Cornwall and Devon in England’s southwest. The time I spent in Elizabeth Macarthur’s birthplace was absolutely the highlight of my trip to England. But, as I always seem to find, the place mattered…