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- The local vicar, William Mompesson sent his children away to stay in Sheffield although his wife, Elizabeth elected to stay with him and lost her life for her pains. However, it was not just the gentry that abandoned Eyam. One family of tradesmen, the Sheldon’s also left the village.
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Nov 5, 2016 · On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four...
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Their first victim on September 3, 1665, was Vickers himself, followed by the rest of his household. In the first three weeks of the plague’s residency in Eyam, it took the lives of six of its residents. By the end of the year, 42 villagers were dead. Then, inexplicably, it seemed to peter out.
The plague reached Eyam in the summer of 1665 when a London merchant sent flea-infested cloth samples to the local tailor, Alexander Hadfield. Within a week, Hadfield’s assistant, George...
Feb 29, 2024 · In late August of 1665, a package of cloth was shipped from London to an Eyam-based tailor, Alexander Hadfield. Hadfield's assistant, George Viccars unpacked the material and found it to be infested with rat fleas. Shortly thereafter, on September 7th, he became the village's first Black Death casualty.
September 1665 Viccars, George m 7th Cooper, Edward m 22nd Hawksworth, Peter m 23rd Thorpe, Thomas m 26th Syddall, Sarah f 30th Thorpe, Mary f 30th October 1665
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Feb 3, 2020 · In August 1666, Elizabeth Hancock lost six of her children and her husband, all within eight days. People from the neighboring village of Stoney Middleton watched from a nearby hill, unable to help as, alone, she dragged the members of her family beyond the edge of her farm to bury them. The aftermath.
Jul 4, 2024 · Dana Huntley looks at the history of the Derbyshire village of Eyam, whose community sacrificed to stop the plague’s spread. In 1665, the bubonic plague raged across Europe to Great Britain. The terrifying disease’s arrival on English shores was nothing new.
