Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    OR2337/9
  • Title
    Newspaper Cutting Book kept by Frederica, starts with her marriage to Richard but includes Hereford Times re Banquet celebrating case validating R P Knight's Will 12 Oct 1844
  • Date free text
    1844-1913
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1913
  • Scope and Content
    Plate to R L Orlebar from Wellingborough Guardians March 1863 Ball at Melchbourne January 1867 Marriage of Lord St John 17 June 1868 death of Fanny Stackhouse Acton26 January 1881 Fancy Dress Ball at Turvey House by Rowland Alston, tenant January 1882 Richard Orlebar's protest at conserving Harrold Bridge with primrose coloured bricks and black coping bricks July 1880 Labourers meeting at Podington 'a kinder hearted lady to the poor and the afflicted does not exist than the lady at Hinwick House' only 2 men join Union undated Coming of Age of R R B Orlebar 14 & 15 May 1883 Coming of Age of B O Orlebar Whit Monday 1884 'on both these anniversaries we were living in the little house at Podington.' death and funeral of Hon Edmund Tudor St John, Rector of Bletsoe 4 October 1884 death of C L Higgins 31 January 1885 Conservative meeting at Turvey; Mr Barttelot candidate 1885 Conservative meeting at Podington 25 April 1885 'Radical' meeting at Podington 15 August 1885 Letter re Education of Farm Labourer by Rouse Orlebar undated death of Lord St John 5 November 1887 New Vicar of Podington instituted 19 December 1887 'Cattern Feast', Podington December 1888 Death of Reverend J Penrose Funeral of Captain Robe of Biddenham at Podington 1889 Annual Choir Treat Podington January 1890 Marriage of R R B Orlebar 27 & 28 December 1889 death of Robert Wyldes of Hinwick, Farm Bailiff to Orlebars 1890 Christening of R R B Orlebar's daughter 26 May 1892 opening of Shoe Factory for Podington 9 February 1891 Death of Genesta Orlebar 18 August 1893 Henry St John coming of age 1897 Programme of Tableaux Vivants and Concert, Podington schools 29 and 30 November Harvest Home, Podington 1899 Round the County: Podington 22 September 1899 Letter by Rouse Orlebar relating to proposed alteration to seating of Podington Church 20 September 1894 Obituary Dowager Lady St John 1899 Volunteer Sham Fight at Podington 21 July 1900 Rouse Orlebar speaking on Boer War at Whitworth Road Club (?Wellingborough) Harvest Home, Podington; Rouse Orlebar speaking on Agriculture 1900 Programme of Entertainment on behalf of Bedfordshire Rural Nursing Association and Podington and Wymington Branch at Town Hall Bedford (organised by Mr & Mrs Rouse Orlebar) 21 November 1891 and newspaper report Marriage of George Lawson - Johnston and Hon Laura St John 1902 Death of Sir Charles Isham - mention of the Gnomes 1 April 1903 Agricultural Committee of Tariff Commission of which R R B Orlebar was a member Short Biographies of members 9 March 1904 Cuttings re Rouse Orlebar's retirement as Conservative candidate for Northampton 18 April 1903 Podington celebrations for Empire Day 1908 Death of Maud Orlebar, missionary (d 1910 aged 68) January 1911 (buried 1 Jan 1911 at Bombay cemetery) came to India in 1893 Death of Lord St John (17th Baron) 17 May 1912 Death of Lord St John (16th Baron) 1910 Lychgate at Bletsoe in memory of Beauchamp 17th Baron 4 July 1913 (architect G Ogilvie; Pacey of Sharnbrook erected it) Letter to Times re National Agricultural Union from R R B Orlebar appeals for support 8 January 1895 and a number of cuttings relating to the Rouse Boughtons, Boughton-Knights, Macleods, Waynes, Hoptons etc
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