Saturday, 9 April 2011
THE AMELIA VOSPER FROOD STORY
[Record of Baptism in the parish of St Germans on the 15th August 1827 of an Amelia Vosper FROOD]
In 1841 census Amelia was staying with her grandparents in Cornwall. She was 15 years old.
Amelia married Thomas Vosper - her second cousin, probably in Northampton in 1850
Thomas VOSPER [26080] was born about 1825 and died 4 Qtr 1894 in Hackney Middlesex England.
General Notes: Memoirs of Francis Lovis Vosper, 1912: Thomas was the youngest of the family, he commenced business about 1852 as a farmer, market gardener and shopkeeper at Bohetheric. Some years later he took a tract of land known as "Kelly" in Calstock parish, on a lease of 60 years from Lady Ashburton and disposed of his Bohetheric property to Mr. John Martin whose family still reside there. He was doing well at Kelly, but he ventured into general merchandise, built the Ashburton Hotel and other houses. Then for some time he held the Quays at Cotele and finally went into stock and share brokering. In his early life he was an earnest acceptable local preacher, but he dropped that later on and his life was thence forth anything but a success. He married his second cousin Miss Amelia Frood, she was a clever woman, but so deeply engrossed on church work and social functions as to leave her so little time for domestic affairs. Their married life was far from happy. They had no children and both died in London about 25 years ago.
Thomas married Amelia FROOD [26488] [MRIN: 10118]. Amelia was born about 1827 and died 3 Qtr 1881 in Hackney Middlesex England.
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