Trove Tuesday: the Hazards of Being female

Trove Tuesday: the Hazards of Being female

by | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog

At the weekend while searching the British Newspaper Archive, I was shocked to discover that my 5X great grandmother Mary Hitchman, aged and infirm, died when she fell into the fireplace in 1809 in Oxfordshire, England. She was horrifically burned as it was some time...