{"id":764,"date":"2013-02-18T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/close.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=764"},"modified":"2013-02-18T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:38:00","slug":"making-a-fresh-start-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/close.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Making a fresh start down under"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m aiming to include here some stories I’ve come across in the course of my CLOSE one-name study, and to start off, here’s a brief history of John CLOSE of Bourne, Lincolnshire, who made a bad start in life but seems to have done pretty well for himself in the end!  <\/span><\/p>\n

born           1816                <\/span>  <\/span>Bourne, Lincolnshire<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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married      16 Nov 1835     Esther SMITH,  Bourne, Lincs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
married      21 Jul 1848       Sophia SMALL, Camden, NSW<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
died            19 Apr 1873     Bob’s Range, Camden, NSW <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>John Close<\/span>, labourer, of Bourne, Lincolnshire, was tried <\/b><\/span>at the Kesteven Sessions, Bourne, on 3 April 1838, aged 23.<\/span> <\/span>[<\/span>England & Wales Criminal Registers, 1838, County of Lincoln, F559]<\/span> He was accused of three offences: <\/span><\/p>\n