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The White Lady of Balladoole; A Christmas Ghost Story; Balladoole is an estate on the island and the White Lady was an apparition with whose appearance the story is connected

Publication date : 1875

Author or editor: Methodist Recorder

Notes: Article in the Methodist Recorder, Christmas, 1875; On December, 24, 1761, a bad shipwreck occurred at Fleshwick Bay, on the west coast of the island. The vessel was on her way to Liverpool, when the storm burst upon her and drove her near the rocks. All was lost except one, Frederic Wilson, the chief mate on the ship. He was thrown bruised and stunned on the sand. Later after much walking he fell on the snow and on recovering he found himself in a clean, well-built cottage overlooking Poolvash Bay and belonging to a family called Kermode, with two grown-up children called William and Catherine. During Frederic's illness he and Catherine were thrown much together, later they married and set up home in Poolvash Bay etc. In Methodism scrapbook.

Language: English

Physical description: 2 p.; 32cm.; loose cuttings

Item name: newspaper extract

Collection: Library

ID number: M 33339/7

Classification: E.240/1xf(p.10-11)

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