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From: Corinne Thompson <>
Subject: Botheras
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 08:57:02 +1100
In-Reply-To: <002c01c55096$dd0efa70$c478c144@rodmanhome>

Hello Sandra,

I know that I have heard this story before ...... if you haven't posted this
information previously, I suggest that you do a search of both CORNISH-GEN-L
and CORNISH-L Archives to find who posted it. As that person may have
additional information.

These appear to be the siblings of Edwin (which fit the marriage that
Margaret gave you):

William, baptised 5th. October 1834, parents William and Catherine BOTHERAS.
Hannah, baptised 19th. March 1837, parents William and Catherine BOTHERAS.
Ellen, baptised 23rd. March 1840, parents William and Catherine BOTHERAS.
John, baptised 5th. February 1843, parents William and Catherine BOTHERAS.

Kindest Regards ...... Corinne in Melbourne, Australia.
OPC for St. Buryan.




> Hi Margaret, Joanne, Corinne-
> The information you all sent was very helpful. The murder conviction involved
> Edwin Botheras shooting and killing William Nichols in Hazelton on March 1,
> 1884. Botheras defense was that he was defending the honor of his niece,
> Beatrice Lugg, who had been taken advantage of by Nichols, a married man.
> Beatrice was 18 in 1864 and had only arrived in America in October 1863 from
> England. I think Beatrice was Edwin Botheras's sister Hannah's daughter. There
> is a Lugg family in Mousehole, Cornwall, that fits the ages of all involved.
> If this is so, then Beatrice's father was Thomas Lugg. When Edwin is in
> Wilkes-Barre on the 1900 census, my grandfather and his sister, Mary E.
> Parkinson are shown as adopted. (I don't think this was the case). Edwin is
> shown as head of household, and living with them is Mary J. Williams, a widow,
> shown as Edwin's cousin. (She was the widow of William Williams, the head of
> household on the 1880 census in Hazelton where Edwin was a boarder.) When
> Both!
> eras gave the information on Lizzie (Elizabeth) Lowe's death cert, he stated
> that her father's name was John Parkinson, however, my grandfather's death
> cert says his mother's name was Elizabeth Bauer. She was supposedly born in
> England in October 1862..(death cert says 1860). My grandfather was
> presumably born in Philadelphia, Pa, however, there is no record of his birth
> there for a three year period searched. I, too, felt that Bauer was not an
> English name, rather German or Prussian. I could find no Bauer's coming from
> England in the areas I checked in Pa. Botheras was spared the gallows just
> three days before his scheduled execution by testimony that the physician
> treating Nichols had inserted a probe 6 inches into the wound in his head, and
> that caused his death, and also by the testimony of his niece. His sentence
> was then changed to life imprisonment. I am awating his prison records from
> State Archives to determine the circumstances which made him a free man by
> 1900.A!
> ny more clues would be most appreciated.
> Sandra Rodman
>

This thread:

• Botheras by Sandra Rodman <>
  • Botheras by Corinne Thompson <>
  • Re: [CON-GEN] Botheras by "Joanne McLean" <>
    • Re: [CON-GEN] Botheras by "Margaret Owens" <>
  • Botheras by Sandra Rodman <>

    • Botheras by Corinne Thompson <>