Open Evening – Discoveries
Report on Presentations by Members by Bryan Pledger The story my sister told me by Peter Beaven Peter started with “Once upon a time” and said “when my cousins came to see us they used to talk about Budleigh Salterton. His sister had a story about this family that a mother and daughter travelled by coach and stayed overnight. The young lady was in a four poster bed and during the night she left the room and then came back but in the morning found there was a man in her bed so they had to get married. He discovered the birth of Mary Strickland on the LDS Family Search web site which stated she was born in Buddleigh Salterton but baptised in St Michael Paternoster Royal London. Actually she was registered at the Methodist Register Office in Paternoster Row, near St Paul's. In the memoirs of Charles Gardner it talks about the marriage of Grace Lea who stopped the night at Salisbury and…