User:TdCPR

St Mary's on the Hill, Chester, England is a typical provincial English city parish. It does however have a number of interesting individuals who were resident there, and as part of an small study of the parish records I'd like to launch stub pages containing what I know about them. If there is any wisdom about doing this sort of thing, I'd be grateful to receive it. [It is worth noting that the Parish Records were first set in a printed form about 100 years ago and contains short biographies (and pedigrees from the parish records) for many prominent parishioners who played a part on the national stage from Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth periods]

The list of people I propose starting with are: 1. Charlotte Elizabeth Bowen, prolific author of children's stories many of which have been digitised. She was wife of the Rector of St Mary's and daughter of Legh Richmond. 2. Charles Bowen, Rector of St Mary's. 3. Peter Dobson, Salmon Fisherman, the Dobson of "Dobson's Complaint" or Chester Porphyria, a lethal form of porphyria described in the book "Dobsons Complaint". 4. Legh (Leigh) Richmond, Rector of Turvey and a prominent cleric of the age. A friend of Wilberforce, and with him worked and published against slavery. His biography is available digitally. None of these are listed in the British National Biography as far as I know.

In anticipation my thanks - TdCPR.

I note that there is a page already on Legh Richmond. I'm not sure who the author is nor how to suggest extra text and references ... but will work on it ...