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We Ann Nurse and Robert Willis Nurse agree to sell the stock and fixtures book debts etc of the late Robert Nurse in relation to the malting business carried on at Hanham Green and as valued by William Fricks Son and Company on the 10th October 1876 as under and



Robert Francis Nurse my great grandfather was the eldest son of Robert and Ann Nurse. He was well educated, having finished his education at Dr. Nunn's School, a private boarding school in Portland Square, near the center of Bristol, with his younger brother, William Richmond


Robert Nurse, my great-great grandfather - born in 1821, was the youngest child of Robert Nurse and Sally Nurse. Not much is known about his early life but in 1854, at the age of 33 he married Ann Jane Taylor at St. Michael, Two Mile Hill on 30th May, two months after his father Robert died.

In a previous article in this series I described the life of Samuel Nurse and his marriage to Rachel Dolman of Keynsham. Samuel and Rachel had 10 children – two daughters and eight sons. Robert Nurse, my great-great-great-grandfather was one of five boys to survive childhood.

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