Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Murder of Frances Ruscombe and Mary (Champness) Sweet

On September 28, 1764, Frances Ruscombe and her maid Mary (Champness) Sweet were brutally murdered in Frances's home on Green College in Bristol, England. The murders were described and being barbarous and brutal.

The murder was done during the day while people were passing and repassing the door. The home was within a few yards of the cathedral and during divine service. Even though the area was busy that day there was no clue who brutally murdered the two women. 

It would eventually be demolished in 1860. The house stood what is now part of the Royal Marriot Hotel.

SOURCES:

Twitter @WeirdBristol

Unsolved Murders UK Frances Ruscombe

Unsolved Murders UK Mary Sweet

Bristol History

Family History Directory

Map Your Bristol

The Popular History of Bristol by George Pryce page 569

The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 33 page 537

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