Coldridge Conspiracy; the Canns and Beatrix Cresswell's White Rose
Coldridge Conspiracy; the Canns
and Beatrix Cresswell's White Rose
Coldridge Church; Conspiracy; the Canns, Connections and Beatrix Cresswell; Part Two; Outside Coldridge's Circle -
Old map showing 'Coldrudge', 'Afbridge' and 'North Tauton ' Part Two (See Part One - Setting the Scene/s) Through the Gateways ... F ollowing the visit to Coldridge I became distracted, the demands of writing new poems for a new sequence about 'Gateway' ancestors taken over by the more rigorous demands of research - snippets of information and names from the Coldridge mystery also fed into the peopled labyrinths of Devon’s late medieval early Tudor families, from whom I was sampling snippets about women's lives into my new sequence of poems. One of the women was Katherine de Affeton, who by now, following aeons of research, I had reason to believe may well have been one of our Sampson family's gateway many many times great grandmothers - through the lineage of Bartholomew Earland - whose marriage with Nan Cann had enticed me to visit Coldridge in the beginning. (See Post ...
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