John Palmer was born on 15 Oct. 1782, son of William Palmer, a small farmer in the parish of Charmouth, Dorset, and was bred a low churchman. In 1806 he came to London to seek employment, chanced to attend the services at the Roman Catholic Chapel in Warwick Street, Regent Street, read ‘The Garden of the Soul’ and was converted to Roman Catholicism.
John (Bernard) Palmer (1782-1852)
March 5, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Charmouth, Lulworth, Palmer, Weld
Grace (Coombs) Strange (1750-1811)
August 22, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Buckland, Coombs, Genealogy, Hodges, Nutt, Palmer, Strange
Grace Coombs was baptised on April 17, 1750 at Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England the daughter of Robert Coombs and Martha Nutt. On May 25, 1772 at Cerne Abbas, Grace married John Strange. The couple had 7 known children. At the time Grace wrote her will on June 7,1811 she was a widow. The following is a transcript of that will, plus a codicil proved at London on October 15, 1811.
