Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 8 Dec 1763: Rachel and Mary Bland killed by storm

This morning early as violent a Storm of Wind arose here (which lasted some Hours) as has been known in the Memory of the oldest Man living. Several Houses were untiled, and a Stack of Chimnies in St. Andrew’s Parish thrown down.

At Trumpington, the Gable-End of a House belonging to Mr. Bland , was blown down, the whole of which fell upon a Bed, wherein lay the said Mr. Bland, his Wife and Child, who were all over-whelmed in the Ruins; the Man tried to alarm the Neighbours, but to no Purpose: When it was Day-Light, some People perceiving what had happened, broke open the Door, and found his Wife and Child killed by the Fall, and himself much bruised.