Fanny Peters was born in 1864 in the small town of Storrington, Sussex. She moved to Bedford in 1890 to take up the parlour maid position to Lady Elizabeth Howard and her husband, Sir Frederick...
Daniel Joseph O’Connell is often remembered as the son of his famous Irish father, also Daniel O’Connell, known as ‘The Liberator’. Such is the pride in the work of his father for Irish rights that...
Rowland was born on 2nd March 1822 in Bedford and was one of the eight children of Joseph Hill and Susanna née Woodward. Susanna and Joseph were married on 26th November 1804 at St. Paul’s...
John Miller, the eldest son of Joseph, a stonemason, and Ann, was born in Woburn in 1790. He was christened at the Old Church of Saint Mary, Woburn, on 12th December 1790. John and his...
John Paviour and his wife Emma had 11 children. This article follows the family of Harry James Paviour, John’s third son, who lived all his life in Bedford and is buried at Foster Hill Road...
How long a person lives for doesn’t necessarily determine their impact on the world: Mozart was considered a genius at the age of five, Greta Thunberg changed the civilised world’s attitude to climate change by...
John Frederick Nutter is best remembered as the driving force, in his role as Chairman of the Management Committee, of the planning and building of Bedford County Hospital (now ‘South Wing’) He also served the...
The Rev. John Robert Turing was born in 1826 in Java. His christening took place on 29 January 1826 at Macao, China. He was the son of John Robert Turing of Rotterdam and Jean Stewart...
Many visitors to the cemetery have long been intrigued by this grave. The town of ‘Maryborough’ and the area ‘Queen’s County’ mentioned on the gravestone do not appear on any modern map of Ireland. The...
Philip Diemer (1836-1910) is best remembered today as a founding member of the Bedford Musical Society (later to become the Bedford Choral Society). His important contributions to the establishment and early years of this Society...