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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 16:01:23 GMT
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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 16:01:58 GMT
Lieut. Charles Noble Stacey, of the 7th Middlesex Regiment, who lately lost his life in action, belonged to one of the best known and most highly esteemed families in North Westmorland. His mother, Mrs. Edward Stacey, was the elder daughter of the late Mr. Christopher Mounsey Wilson, a Manchester manufacturer, and a property owner in Westmorland. The Wilsons were among the leading people in Bampton, and had the best interests of the parish at heart. Unfortunately, towards the end of last century, their country residence, Walmgate Head, was burnt down during an exceptionally hard winter, and it seemed like an irony of fate that, although the house stood near Haweswater, the water was unavailable, as the lake was frozen over, and the only inmate of Walmgate at the time was the caretaker, Mrs. Martindale, who was practically burnt to a cinder. A late uncle of Lieut. Stacey was Mr. C. M. Wilson, a barrister on the Northern Circuit.
(Westmorland Gazette, 22 May 1915)
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