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…
Category Archives: People
Sister Helen and Saint Barnabas
Sister Helen Phillipps-Treby was Head Nurse and General Manager of St Barnabas Hospital, Saltash, from 1896 to 1951. The span of her career covered some momentous changes in nursing and society, and the way nursing was viewed by this rapidly changing society. The story of Sister Helen is also the story of the early years of St Barnabas Hospital…
War and Emigration: The Family Tree
My own early forays into genealogical research…legends are debunked, myths shattered, and tragedy is uncovered…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 