Hi my name is Frank Kenward

I am searching my Kenward ancestry but am also researching my home city of Hereford, Herefordshire, England. As a result I am looking into lot's of old local newspapers, at present I am studying the Hereford Journal of 1770 to 1774. Some of the stories I am finding are fascinating, others are just basic information like a marriage or death, but the data may help you find a missing link. The data source is unique, I believe that there are no other copies of the Hereford Journal outside of Hereford if not England.

I would like to share my research with people who share the family names of the characters I uncover and might therefore be related.

I am working on creating a web site to celebrate life present and past in Herefordshire and would appreciate any information you could give me on the subject, or any information on the Kenward family tree. If you believe that you have an ancestor that lived in Hereford mail me the details and I will try and find any info on them, I cannot guarantee that I will be successful but I will try.

E mail kenwardfa@hotmail.com or frank-kenward@about.com

Oh yes what did I find in the Hereford Journal

Hereford Journal 30/8/1770


HAZLITT, who is under sentence of death at Durham for robbing the mail, is respited for a month, until the Judges go off the circuit.

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A regiment of troops is now filling up and compleating in the province of Ulster, in the north of Ireland, in order to be sent off for America with the greatest of expedition.

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Married JOHN FLEMING esq of Winchester to Miss KNIGHTLY, of Horsley, in Northhamptonshire

THOMAS SMITH esq of Newgate Street to Miss SUSANNA JOHNSTON of St Martin's Le Grand.

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Died

Mr MUZERE aged 90, in White Hart Yard, Drury Lane, many years an eminent peace broker, who never trusted any money out at interest but put it into an iron chest in which were found, at his death 9000 (£) in cash.

HENRY SHARP esq Cousellor at Law in his passage from the island of Grenada to England

JOHN CUNNINGHAM esq Inspector General of the Out Ports in Scotland

THOMAS BRAND esq member for Oakhampton; he went to bed in all appearances in good health and the next morning was found dead in his bed.

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Hereford Journal 6/9/1770

Advice is received from Boston that the people there have cut off communication with the people of New York, and consider them no longer as their brethren, but enemies to liberty and their country, and that the Bostonians are determined to abide by their non-importation agreement, which we are assured the rest of the colonies will stand to.

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If I find any more information on this character or his/her relations or name sake I will post it on familysearch.com, if you want me to search for another name or just want a chat, e mail me on the above addresses and I will be happy to reply.