The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 8)

[Dinkydidy]

Seems she might have been losing her faculties.

Perhaps that's what her family thought when she told them a handsome young man was paying her a lot of attention. 

Didy

[Siamese Girl]

I'll have to see if I can trace this Elizabeth Ireland to see if she was in Notts - although she recieved less in Mary's will than the others - otherwise her relatives were either in London or Derbyshire. Perhaps she just wanted to move back to an area she knew from childhood 

Carole

[Daisy Loo]

Seems she might have been losing her faculties.

Perhaps that's what her family thought when she told them a handsome young man was paying her a lot of attention. 

Didy

[Daisy Loo]

I'll have to see if I can trace this Elizabeth Ireland to see if she was in Notts - although she recieved less in Mary's will than the others - otherwise her relatives were either in London or Derbyshire. Perhaps she just wanted to move back to an area she knew from childhood 

Carole

Perhaps she had good friends there?

[Aniseed]

In this Notes and Queries excerpt that waiteohman posted upthread at http://www.rootschat.com/links/0a4v/  there are lots of mentions of Nottingham in relation to the Bunyan family. I'd think it was quite likely that there was a relative still there in the 1850s.

[Siamese Girl]

In this Notes and Queries excerpt that waiteohman posted upthread at http://www.rootschat.com/links/0a4v/  there are lots of mentions of Nottingham in relation to the Bunyan family. I'd think it was quite likely that there was a relative still there in the 1850s.

But there are no mention of any in her will  I'm also having trouble finding an Eliza/Elizabeth Ireland who might fit. Was she a Bunyan or a Sanigear 

Carole

[Aniseed]

Maybe by then we'd be looking at descendents of the people mentioned in the N&Q article? I haven't followed any of them through, so I don't know what their names might be. Where have you looked for Eliza/Elizabeth Ireland so far? (Unless it's too long a list to enumerate!)

[drykid]

I'm amused by Nat's reference to the clock coming back from the "doctor's" today.  I think he's become quite attached to it after all the struggling over it.

Nice work everyone btw on locating Mrs Skirricker, although I'm still struggling to see how "Sanigear" could end up as "Skirricker" (not disputing the conclusion though.) I know it was suggested previously that the name might have been transcribed wrongly, but it's hard to see how this could cause such a large error.  I guess the "chinese whispers" theory is the best one.

[Ruskie]

Today's entry is hilarious:

"Brought black Dutch clock from the doctor’s in Goodge Street and fixed it in room."

What is going on? 
Last Friday he took the clock to the clockmaker to get fixed. 
Now he's brought it home and fixed it himself!