Petty Larceny

I am not sure whether it was the mother or the child sentenced to three days locked up! Derbyshire Times and Courier 29th December 1877.

HEADSTONES IN OLD WHITTINGTON CHURCHYARD

I have finally started adding some pictures of gravestones and adding the inscriptions eventually I hope to upload them to one of the commercial sites - Find a Grave etc but for now you can find them here https://oldwhittingtonops.com/gravestones/

The churchyard at Old Whittington is looking really tidy and well kept, the lads doing the tidying up have a made a really good job. Its a lovely place to walk around and look at nature, as well as the gravestones

REPORT ON WHITTINGTON 1874

 I found a report of Whittington in the Derbyshire Times relating to the insanitary conditions in the Whittington area. It doesn't paint a pretty picture of the living conditions in Whittington in 1874. After reading it I understand perhaps why there may have been such a high proportion of infant burials recorded in the St Bartholomews burial register in the 1800's.

My particular favourite is the report on the lodging houses and the sleeping system of the colliers.

The transcript can be read here https://oldwhittingtonops.com/description-of-whittington.../