Dear List A mixed bag of subjects, but all related. Shamelessly plugging my blog and website (!), yesterday I posted an item about my x3 great uncle, William Henry SOMERTON, who was proprietor and journalist of the Bristol Mercury newspaper for many years. One son's obituary indicated that the family had/has a vault in Arno's Vale, a cemetery in or near Bristol I believe. Does anyone know of a burial resource/list that may help me to identify if this is true and, if so, where I might find same? Secondly, I wondered if there is a museum, collection or similar relating to the newspaper (I don't mean online!) where I may find out more about the SOMERTON family? For four generations they were involved with one Bristol paper or another but I have failed to find a single drawing, engraving, portrait etc of any of the individuals. Any idea please? Regards Karen Visit the new Ridout family history website and blog at: www.the_ridouts.com

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:35:28 -0000, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> wrote: > I wondered if there is a museum, collection or similar relating to the > newspaper (I don't mean online!) where I may find out more about the > SOMERTON family? For four generations they were involved with one > Bristol paper or another but I have failed to find a single drawing, > engraving, portrait etc of any of the individuals. Any idea please? Hi Karen, I don't know of any illustrations, but there is an advertisement for the Bristol Mercury in Streets Indian & Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1870 in Google Books. If you go to Google Books http://books.google.com/ and put into the search "Somerton""Bristol Mercury" references will come up. You may have already done this, but nothing ventured nothing gained. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com