May-December (and then some)

The Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties of 11 January 1850 reports that Hannah, the 19-year-old daughter of lace manufacturer Olive [sic!] Moore of Nottingham, died of consumption on the third of the month.

This is sad, tragic, Victorian and in fact the family I am currently researching, being deeply immersed in a transcription of Olive's niece's mid-19th century journal. Ergo here's a link to the Moore family tree, so I can at least tie this post to my own work.

I wanted to finish watching House of Cards last night so saved the British Newspaper Archive page until this morning, then had to re-read the family announcements to remind myself which one I'd come to transcribe. Which is how I came across the following:

MARRIED.

     On the 27^th ult., at Prestbury, Mr. Wm. Lomas, a tough veteran, who has just passed his 86^th birthday, to Miss Mary Heathcote, of Macclesfield, a damsel who has not yet seen nineteen summers. The bridegroom recently obtained a medal for distinguished service in the battle of Corunna. He also fought in the battle of Salamanca, and was under the command of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular war.

I did a very quick search and couldn't find anyone actively researching this Lomas-Heathcote union, but thought I'd put it up here in case it is of use. I did see it was reported in quite a number of other papers as well, so was newsworthy in 1850, perhaps not quite as much as in 2016.