Re Tewkesbury

Annette Carson tells me:-

> the bones are pretty certainly not those of George and Isabel. The
> deceased are far too old - the adult male between 40 and 60, the
> female 50 to 70. They are thought to be the remains of Samuel
> Hawling, an 18th century alderman, and his family.
> Acknowledgements to John Ashdown-Hill for this information which
> will be found (with more detail) in his forthcoming book on Richard
> III.


Paul



Richard liveth yet

--- In , Paul Trevor Bale <paul.bale@...> wrote:
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> Annette Carson tells me:-
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> > the bones are pretty certainly not those of George and Isabel. The
> > deceased are far too old - the adult male between 40 and 60, the
> > female 50 to 70. They are thought to be the remains of Samuel
> > Hawling, an 18th century alderman, and his family.
> > Acknowledgements to John Ashdown-Hill for this information which
> > will be found (with more detail) in his forthcoming book on Richard
> > III.
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> Paul

This is a shame. Here is a link to an interesting little article on Tewkesbury/abbey/and bones. It is very old and the writer at the time thought the bones were those of George and Isobel. I wonder what happened to them?? the mine boggles!

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06E1DA153FE533A25753C2A96F9C94649FD7CF
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