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Author: Pilgrim, Edward Trapp

Biography:

PILGRIM, Edward Trapp (1759-1849: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 10 June 1759 at St. Olave’s, Hart Street, City of London, the son of James Pilgrim (1723-1813) and his wife Mary Memphus (1725-1804), who had married in the same church the previous year. Nothing is known of his education and he probably went into the family business of thread lace manufacture at an early age. He contributed a number of poems to the European Magazine and the Morning Post prior to the publication of his first work, Poetical Trifles (1785). He married Dorothy Mitchell (1762-1845) on 21 Sept. 1786, at St. Antholin, City of London. They had at least twelve children. In 1795 he was recorded as a Thread Laceman at 9 Budge Row, Cannon Street, City of London. Around 1797 they moved to Woburn, Bedfordshire, where several children were born. They moved to Exeter, Devon, around 1816 when he sold his house in George Street, Woburn. In 1830 he was recorded at Sydney Place, Alphington Road, Exeter, and in the 1841 Census at Magdalen Rd, Exeter, living with his wife Dorothy and two unmarried daughters, Caroline and Emma. In Exeter he issued a third edition of Hymns (1837) “printed by the children belonging to the West of England Institution for the Deaf and Dumb” and presumably for their benefit. His wife died in 1845 and was buried at Woburn. He died, aged 90, on 10 Sept. 1849 at his house in Magdalen Road, Exeter, and was buried on 17 Sept. next to his wife at St. Mary’s, Woburn. In addition to the works listed here, he published Free Thoughts on the Bath Missionary Society (1818) and a further intervention on the subject, A Brief Defence of the Archdeacon of Bath (1818). (ancestry.co.uk 24 Oct. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 24 Oct. 2022;  Bath Chronicle 5 Oct. 1786; GM Oct. 1786, 906; London Directory [1795], 109; Northampton Mercury 31 Aug. 1816 and 19 Apr. 1845; LES 12 Sept. 1849) AA

 

Books written (3):

2nd edn. London/ Bedford: B. and R. Crosby and Co./ J. Webb, 1813