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Category Archives: People
Murder, Debt, Riot: Richard Holloway, Redruth Solicitor
The career of a local solicitor laid bare, with an overview of his cases, financial problems, and harrowing family tragedy…
The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales
Part two. Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish and Welsh mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…
The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales
Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…
Paul Rabey and The Foreign Girls’ Protection Society: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Five
A sinister and extraordinary post…Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con-artist and Victorian London’s dark underworld…an unpleasant conclusion to this series…
Paul Rabey and the Bristol Con: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Four
Sham mines in Perranporth, Bristol men with more cash than sense, acts of vengeance, court hearings, valueless shares, forgery, suspect bank accounts, mountains of dirty money and, in the midst of it all, Cornwall’s most infamous con artist!
The Two Paul Rabeys: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Three
Even criminals and rogues have families to turn to…continuing the career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con man…
Paul Rabey and the False Imprisonment: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Two
What happens when you cross Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con man?
They Died With Their Shoes On: The Career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Part One
The first in a five-part series. Paul Rabey was a cunning and malevolent Victorian con-man who made, and lost, a fortune selling fraudulent mining shares to unsuspecting businessmen. In his day, he was notorious…
The Notorious Beatrice Small, Fortune Teller
Beatrice Small made her living telling the fortunes of the gullible folk living in the border country of North Cornwall. Her fanciful tales of spells and hidden fortunes found many willing ears, and she regularly ran foul of the law…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 