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James ALDER

Year Date Place Event Details Source/ref
1753 8th July Besselsleigh, BKS baptised son of James & Elizabeth Original register transcript
1836 July Tubney, BKS   Poor old James Alder, of Tubney, is well known to hundreds of our readers as a player on the bass viol of no contemptable ability; and as an itinerant musician who has ministered many times to their pleasures in their bouyant moments, and whose magic tones have sometimes dispersed a cloud of melancholy from their hearts. Old James too is as much respected as admired: but neither his musical talents, nor his moral integrity, has been able to protect him from the prowling thieves... Jackson's Oxford Journal, 30 July 1836, 2

1838

2nd Quarter Hungerford, BKS death registered   FreeBMD

 

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