LUXURIANT CROPS OF CORN ETC
On the PARSONAGE FARM, BADSEY, near EVESHAM
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION
BY MR AGG
On Friday, the 24th day of July 1846 by direction of Messrs Chas and Wm Knight (who are quitting the above Farm)
COMMITMENTS TO THE COUNTY GAOL – By J F Iddins, Esq
Joseph Knight, charged with stealing a sheep skin, the property of Joseph Gibbs, also a sheep skin, the property of Joseph Jones, each of Badsey.
A further article appeared in The Worcester Journal of Thursday 10 April 1845:
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A BADSEY MAN
LITTLETON MARKET GARDENER’S SUICIDE – Worried about price of Asparagus
An enquiry was held at the Evesham Police Station on Friday evening by the District Coroner (Mr H Basil Harrison) into the circumstances surrounding the death of Edwin Knight (43), a market gardener, of Council Houses, Middle Littleton.
Knight, who had 15 acres of land, had worried about his work and the crops. The poor prices realised for asparagus recently were said to have caused him considerable worry, as he had five acres of asparagus ready for cutting.
DEATH OF BADSEY OCTOGENARIAN – The Late Mr Edwin Knight
Market gardeners in particular will learn with deep regret of the death of one of their oldest colleagues in the district, in the parson of Mr Edwin Knight, of the Silk Mills, Badsey, who passed away, after a short illness, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
ACCIDENT VICTIMS – Bulletins from Evesham Hospital
Inquiry at Evesham Hospital this morning revealed that Eunice Nora Knight, the 10-year-old daughter of Mr & Mrs I Knight of 5 Synehurst Crescent, Badsey, near Evesham, who, with a friend, was knocked down by a motor-car on Saturday, is making good progress.
The girl and her friend, Nancy Joan Merriman (10), daughter of Mr & Mrs W Merriman of 4 Synehurst Crescent, Badsey, were injured when they were knocked down by a car belonging to Mr F H J Lock of School House, Honeybourne.
In the 1924 Electoral Roll for Wickhamford, Joseph Green is listed as living with Basil Griffin’s family at “34 Wickhamford”, which is now 6 Manor Road. At the 1921 census, he was a farm labourer working on Longdon Hill, employed by fruit grower, M.G.
Helga Marie Louise Wilhelmine Braasch was born during the Great War, on 9th July 1917 in Malente-Gremsuhen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was the daughter of Heinrich Himrich Wilhelm Braasch and his wife, Harriet née Bluhme. This couple divorced in 1920, in Hamburg, and she then remarried. Her second husband was George Hans Louis Petersen. This couple lived in Peru and the British Overseas Consular records show that Helga Braasch married Ernest R Davis there during the period 1936-1940 (no precise date is given in the records).
