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Wiltshire / Re: Burial in Devizes
« on: Monday 17 August 20 20:36 BST (UK)  »
   
William F. Greening (Other) Date: 13 Sep 1924
Death certificate. Place of death denotes Devizes Poor Law Institute.
William Francis Greening (born 1860)
(ancestry.co.uk)

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/workhouse-inmate-or-member-of-staff/

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to solve a 150 year old murder
« on: Wednesday 01 June 16 12:04 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for the links, Majm.

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to solve a 150 year old murder
« on: Wednesday 01 June 16 00:10 BST (UK)  »
 Joseph Seer was mentally unstable - a "hopeless lunatic" after being discharged from the army in July 1854.
I still can't get over how the 3 suspects (and there was also a 4th - Sergeant) got away with such a terrible crime with so much evidence against them. RIP Sarah Watts. 

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to solve a 150 year old murder
« on: Tuesday 31 May 16 13:05 BST (UK)  »
Re; Joseph Sear/Seer. I think I read somewhere that at the time of the murder he was in Bombay. So the case against his confession was dropped.
I'm still not sure why a soldier would confess to a murder 10 years later and say he did it for love... Was Sarah romantically involved with him or any man? Perhaps Sear/Seer was wounded and had some kind of PTSD that made him mentally unstable... Hmm.

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