A Little Local Mystery. bizarre little local story of Victorian times which has concerned me for a long time now, has recently reappeared in my searchings but I am still to discover a true and full picture of the events of the time. The little I do know is very tiny indeed, thus frustrating, so I pass my evidence on in the hope that somebody out there might wish to put me out of my misery. My personal knowledge of the event commences on a day when I was searching the Redmile Parish burial records register and came across the following three entries which were dated August 19th 1853: Elizabeth Healy 22 years Sarah Healy 10 years Rebecca Frances Healy 14years At the bottom of that page was annotated the disquieting footnote: ‘The remains of these, my children, were brought from Scalford for re-burial at Redmile. (Signed) Rev. Healy’ - Aug 19 th 1853. All I have been able to discover of the matter was th
Memories of Days Long Gone.