Re: John Dorrington, Dissenting Minister, Wells, Som.
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Re: John Dorrington, Dissenting Minister, Wells, Som.
1/21/02
My John Dorrington was born abt 1787 and married Catherine Fesenmeyer in 1808. He died in 1863 in Wells, Somerset.They had at least three children, only one of which I know much about. John Dorrington, junior was tried for fraud in abt 1873 - write ups over several weeks in The Times give much background information but he went under the alias of Fesenmeyer when running a chemist shop in Clapham, London in the 1860s. His fraud involved sending out letters requesting sums of money to support a disabled sister - who turned out to be quite hale and hearty. Many prominent people were duped.
Valerie
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Re: John Dorrington, Dissenting Minister, Wells, Som.
Robert Nelson 9/21/04