Terry Webb Tree 2017 » Grace GREEN (1748-1779)

Personal data Grace GREEN 

• She was born in the year 1748 in Richmond, Yorkshire, England.Source 4
• She was baptized on June 10, 1748 in Richmond, Yorkshire, England.Source 2
• Resident:
• England.Source 2
• She died on June 2, 1779 in Hensley, Redmire, York, England, she was 31 years old.Source 4
• A child of Henry GREEN and Sarah GARNETT
• A child of Henry GREEN
• A child of Henry GREEN

Household of Grace GREEN

She is married to John TERRY.

They got married on May 12, 1770 at Richmond, Yorkshire, England, she was 22 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. John TERRY  1771-1844 
2. Ann TERRY  1773-1868
3. Ralph TERRY  1774-1854 
4. Grace TERRY  1777-1861 

Notes about Grace GREEN

Amelia Read (Mitchell nee Wilson) wrote in her journal that the death of Grace Terry caused a great melancholy to her husband and "he lost all interest in his property (extensive Mills) and suffer 'd them to deteriorate, neglected his family, and gave himself up to a life of indifference to everything.... She was a beautiful woman and her early and dreadful death cast a gloom over all the count y, for Mrs Terry was widely known and greatly beloved by all classes.

 

Her death was so sudden and horrible that I have heard those ladies who witnessed it would never visit the count y again. A large party were on a visit to them, and some of them, never having seen the Mills at work, proposed one morning going through them. All set out in jubilant spirits and were going through t he works, when, as they stood near some revolving machinery, a door was opened and a violent gust of wind took Mrs Terry's dress, a strong purple silk, onto a wheel- and before the order could be give n to reverse it, she was a mangled mess scarsely recognisable.

 

My mother said that she had been told that some of the ladies never recovered from the awful shock they received that d ay, and the poor bereaved husband felt that the sunshine was removed out of his life forever.

 

I think there were Cotton or Woollen Mills from what I have heard occasionally about the numbers of people employed and if I remember correctly they were disposed of soon after the dreadful catastrophe. My grandfather and his brothers Ralph and Edwd. were mere children. Grace was taken b y Aunt White while they were disposed of by other relatives, and prepared for there (sic) future positions in life"

 

Amelia Read (Mitchell nee Wilson) wrote in her journal that the d eath of Grace Terry caused a great melancholy to her husband and "he lost all interest in his property (extensive Mills) and suffer'd them to deteriorate, neglected his family, and gave himself up to a life of indifference to everything.... She was a beautiful woman and her early and dreadful death cast a gloom over all the county, for Mrs Terry was widely known and greatly beloved by all classes.

 

Her death was so sudden and horrible that I have heard those ladies who witnessed it would never visit the county again. A large party were on a visit to them, and some of them, nev er having seen the Mills at work, proposed one morning going through them. All set out in jubilant spirits and were going through the works, when, as they stood near some revolving machinery, a door w as opened and a violent gust of wind took Mrs Terry's dress, a strong purple silk, onto a wheel- and before the order could be given to reverse it, she was a mangled mess scarsely recognisable.

 

My mother said that she had been told that some of the ladies never recovered from the awful shock they received that day, and the poor bereaved husband felt that the sunshine was removed out of his life forever.

 

I think there were Cotton or Woollen Mills from what I have heard occasionally about the numbers of people employed and if I remember correctly they were dispos ed of soon after the dreadful catastrophe. My grandfather and his brothers Ralph and Edwd. were mere children. Grace was taken by Aunt White while they were disposed of by other relatives, and prepare d for there (sic) future positions in life"

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