Nearly 50 people from the Badsey area are known to have emigrated to America in the last quarter of the 19th century – and specifically to the Auburn region of Ohio. Shirley Tutton told us the story of Annie Bell (daughter of William Bell, the farm bailiff at Aldington Manor) who emigrated to America in 1885 with her new husband, William Marsh, and his two sisters.
BITTER HARVEST FOR MIDLAND GROWERS
It took just ten minutes to sell all the vegetables in Smithfield Market, Evesham, yesterday: ten minutes to auction the sparse collection of produce plucked with numbed fingers from the snow or hacked laboriously from the unyielding soil.
Meanwhile, the men with frozen fields and frozen incomes, and nothing for the market, anxiously watched the thaw spread across the Vale of Evesham.
The Quaker Burial Register for the Evesham/Alcester area includes the following entry:
“Alice Bowker of Wickhamford buried the third day of the 12th month called February 1696”.
