Anglican clergyman, publisher and convert to Roman Catholicism, Charles Kegan Paul (1828-1902) was born on March 8, 1828, at White Lackington, near Ilminster, Somerset the son of Charles Paul, curate of the parish and his wife Frances Kegan Horne. In 1899 he published his autobiography and it is from this that these memories of his early life in Writhlington are derived.
Memories of Writhlington, Somerset
February 14, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Foxcote, Goldfinch, Knowle, Mattick, Paul, Wellow, Writhlington
Foxcote, Writhlington, and Braysdown Collieries Strike 1864
October 17, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Braysdown, Foxcote, Writhlington
This short account of the strike at Foxcote, Writhlington, and Braysdown Collieries in 1864 was reported in the The Mining and Smelting Magazine edited by Henry Curwen Salmon.
