tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387574938355880450.post1712947344880863245..comments2024-02-18T11:57:22.291+00:00Comments on Echoes Of Our Past: UPDATE of the Past News 2nd November 1901Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474162313074197397noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387574938355880450.post-80490224265073509782013-01-02T19:25:33.038+00:002013-01-02T19:25:33.038+00:00Can't wait to hear the full story and I am sur...Can't wait to hear the full story and I am sure all of the readers will also like an update to. It all sounds very intriguing!<br /><br />I simply found Harry's story as I do a blog each week on a date in the old newspapers and he happened to come to light. I do the NEWS at the weekend then do some simple research to see what else I can actually find out about the people and the incidents. Up to now I have been lucky in that almost each week I have found some great stories of the everday people of Chesterfield. <br /><br />I do this blog as a hobby really, the paid research is obviously in much more depth and researched via the appropriate avenues. I do love to think that everybody had a story, no matter how poor and mundane their lives may have been. It is also nice to learn more about the area and my local history through the people of the past, not just history books about the famous and well known inhabitants.<br /><br />You may already have noticed that I also blog my own family research (which I am very behind on!! - New Years resolution is to spend more time on my own ancestors!) and I am researching the fallen WW1 soldiers of the New Whittington area for the centenary which I have started to write up in another blog. <br /><br />Look forward to your information and do let me know when you set up your own blog.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474162313074197397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387574938355880450.post-81203590182397039012012-12-30T19:35:40.535+00:002012-12-30T19:35:40.535+00:00Hi Louise. I found the Blog very interesting. I am...Hi Louise. I found the Blog very interesting. I am planning on taking my first real foray into blogging early in the New Year to help publicise an area of academic research I am currently working on. Google's Blogger seems to fit my basic needs. I used to be registered as a Record Agent at the Derbyshire Record Office and carried out fee-paid research, but unfortunately no longer have the time to devote to it (and have moved away from the area). I found that researching other peoples' families was just as interesting and rewarding as researching my own.<br /><br />The Bombroffe story is very interesting. Had you carried out research into Harry Bombroffe on behalf of somebody else? Yes, I am related (distantly) to Bombroffe's first wife, Ann Wilson, who originated from Ashover, near Chesterfield. My 2nd great grandmother was Ann's sister. What I found particularly sad when I read Ann's many years worth of case notes was that there was no reference to family, or to family visits. This made me wonder at the time if the family were even aware that she had been committed to the Derby County Asylum. However, one of the local news reports of the bigamy case states that Ann's brother gave evidence at the trial, so the family obviously did know of her fate. So sad to think that she spent approximately 40 years(!) as an inmate of the Asylum.<br /><br />I'll look through my notes over the next week or so and will provide a more thorough post to the Blog. It is interesting to note that Harry Bombroffe's widowed mother later married a man named Simpson. On Bombroffe's death certificate, his name is given as 'Harry Simpson Bombroffe', so perhaps he sometimes used the surname Simpson instead of Bombroffe. Harry's son William later used the name 'William Bombroffe Simpson' (this is what appears on his death certificate, circa 1943). Some of William's sons went one step further and officially removed the Bombroffe surname by Deed Poll (this is reported in the London Gazette).<br /><br />SimonSimon Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449028231209246556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387574938355880450.post-12333570316185284812012-12-30T18:49:33.077+00:002012-12-30T18:49:33.077+00:00Thank you for taking the time to read the blog! :-...Thank you for taking the time to read the blog! :-)Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474162313074197397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387574938355880450.post-8695259095901433422012-12-30T18:48:49.686+00:002012-12-30T18:48:49.686+00:00Thank you Simon for filling us in on the full stor...Thank you Simon for filling us in on the full story. It was a very sad tale for the poor ladies who came along Henry's way. In fairness to Henry I wonder if he was only trying to ensure that he had someone to clean and cook for him. <br /><br />I would be most interested to hear the full story if its not too much of trouble, I find all the people and their lives very interesting - so much I never have time to do much of my own family tree anymore. Was Henry or any of the ladies related to you?<br /><br />LouiseLouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474162313074197397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5387574938355880450.post-13513175226728085182012-12-30T14:40:25.523+00:002012-12-30T14:40:25.523+00:00Whilst carrying out a quick Google search this mor...Whilst carrying out a quick Google search this morning I happened upon your Blog post about the bigamous marriage of Harry Bombroffe. A couple of years ago I carried out a great deal of research into the life of Harry Bombroffe. I first discovered his bigamy when I located his first wife Ann Wilson (whom I believed to be deceased by 1900) listed on the 1911 census as an inmate of Derby County Asylum at Mickleover. I subsequently located the record of Ann's admission (from memory this was 1897), and subsequent case notes, at the Derbyshire Record Office. The documents even contain a photograph of Ann, taken on admission. Sadly Ann remained institutionalised for the rest of her life, most of which was spent at the Derby County Asylum. Shortly before her death in 1939 she was transferred (along with a number of patients) to a hospital close to Hayfield.<br /><br />More recently I have located a number of reports of Harry's marital problems, and subsequent bigamy, via the British Library Newspaper Archive. Following the annulment of his marriage to Emily Dewick (nee Waddingham) he fathered two daughters with a lady named Elizabeth Ann Collins. The daughters took Harry's surname, though he never married Elizabeth and soon left her in the lurch.<br /><br />I have 'chapter and verse' on all of this if it will be of interest to you.<br /><br />Simon JohnsonSimon Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449028231209246556noreply@blogger.com