Dear Listers, Some may recall that I wrote a week or so back about the GADSBYs of Godmanchester. Well, I went to Huntingdon Library today and found a newspaper report of the funeral of 'old' John Topham GADSBY. As the report contains so many names, I thought I would post my transcript of it. Yours, etc. Geoffrey Woollard in Cambridgeshire. Newspaper Cutting (Huntingdonshire County Guardian) 4/1/1890: 'Godmanchester. Funeral of Mr Alderman GADSBY. - The remains of Mr Alderman GADSBY were interred in the burying ground attached to the Particular Baptist Chapel, on Saturday afternoon last, in the presence of a large assemblage of friends, and the general public. The cortege, headed by the Mayor (Mr T.B. FORDHAM), and the majority of the Corporation, the male Sunday school teachers accompanied by Mr F. DEIGHTON, who has been appointed Superintendent of the school in the room of the deceased, arrived at the Chapel about 3.30, where a funeral service was conducted by the Rev. T. OLDFIELD, minister of the denomination. The coffin, which was of polished oak, with brass plate and furniture, the lid of which bore three splendid white floral wreaths, was deposited in a vault, where the bodies of the first wife, and a son of deceased, had previously been buried. The brass plate of the coffin was as follows: "John Topham GADSBY, born 1st August, 1821, died 25th December, 1889." The relatives who attended the funeral were Mrs GADSBY, widow of deceased, Mr W. GADSBY, only surviving son, Mr WOLLEY, Mrs W. RAMPLEY, Mr PARRY, Mr J. BROWN and Mrs HEYWARD. The members of the Corporation present were the Mayor, Mr Alderman BEART, Councillors BAXTER, BIRD, COLE, HOWSON, LOOKER, MARGETTS, REEVE, and SMITH; Mr Gerald HUNNYBUN, Town Clerk, also accompanied. The other members were unable to be present either through illness or absence from home. Among the numerous friends and acquaintances who assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased we noticed Mr George THACKRAY (Mayor of Huntingdon), Mr P.E. TILLARD, Mr B. PRIOR, Mr W. BRAWN, senr., Mr W. BRAWN, junr., Mr J. BRAWN, Mr BROMHEAD, Mr NEWTON (Buckworth), Mr STURTON (Cambridge), Mr WILSON (Somersham), Mr T. SEWARD, Mr A. MARKHAM, Mr T. ASHTON, Mr E. CRAWLEY, Mr E. DEXTER, &c., present at the interment. The funeral arrangements were most satisfactorily carried out by Messrs. BIRD brothers, Messrs. BAXTER & Son, and Mr F. MARKHAM, who were the undertakers.'