Hannah Bettinson: proprietor of the Sherborne Mercury newspaper 1746-1749
On 26 April 1736, Hannah Baugh of the parish of St James Westminster was married by licence at St Luke’s Chelsea to printer and widower William Bettinson. In 1737, William Bettinson and George Price (whose name disappears from the record after June 1737) moved to Sherborne and established a printing house (now Bute House) in … Read more