----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [B&D] John HORWOOD hanged 1821 Bristol New Gaol >C Rihan wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:23 PM >> Subject: [B&D] John HORWOOD hanged 1821 Bristol New Gaol >> >> >> 4) Were descendants of the girl murdered by John Horwood traced and asked >> for their views? >> >> Were there any? > > Quite possible there are some given this quote: > > <quote> > Understandably, after this terrifying incident [vitriol thrown over > her] she became extremely nervous and when she saw him hanging about > her home a few weeks later she ran indoors and her family chased him > off. Defeated by the sheer weight of numbers, Horwood fled > </quote> > > It sounds as though she had some of brothers. I was thinking that it didn't sound as though she had a chance to get married. You are right that she could have had brothers and sisters who had decendants. Neither surname is familiar to me, but the families may have moved away. I can't see John Horwood and Eliza Balsum on my Bristol and Avon CDs This http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/3240914647/ says John was the youngest of 10 children and his father an ex-seaman and his mother was Orkney born. That's miles from Hanham.I wonder how they met. Caroline