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  • Name John FROST 
    Birth 25 May 1784  Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Birth Bef 3 Jul 1785  Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 3 Jul 1785  St. Woolos, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Name John FROST the Chartist 
    Will 12 Apr 1874  Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 27 Jul 1877  Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 27 Jul 1877  Holy Trinity Chruchyard, Horfield in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Probate 9 Jan 1878  Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (1) http://dustydocs.com.au/link/197/40733/158220/burials-1702-1861-1854-1896-1854-1905-local-history-genealogy-parish-of-st-woolos-newport-south-wales.html:

      Name: FROST, John
      Bapt. Date: 03-07-1785
      Register: St Woolos Parish Baptisms 1769-1802
      Entry No.: 339
      A [Abode shown]
      F [Father's name shown]
      M [Mother's name shown] . . .

      [This John FROST (the Chartist) was the second son of John and Sarah FROST named John. The first son named John died and was buried on 23 December 1784 (Source: St Woolos Parish Burial Registers). Thus John Frost the Chartist was born after 23 December 1784, and the often quoted birth year of 1784 for him is wrong.]

      (2) Williams, David, John Frost: A Study in Chartism, Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press Board, 1939, pp. 9-10:

      . . . Newport [, Monmouthshire,] at the end of the eighteenth century, [was] a small market-town, scarcely more than a village, and entirely under squire rule, and here it was in all probability that the future Chartist, John Frost, was born on 25 May 1784. Very little can be ascertained about his family, and the unwary is liable to be trapped by the presence at this time in the little town of several persons bearing his name. Even during the trial for treason there were in Newport two John Frosts, both Chartists. Further, there were Frosts in Newport who were not related to him at all. He himself states that his family had been settled there for nearly a century. It is certain that his grandfather was 'old John Frost, the cordwainer', and that his parents were John and Sarah Frost, of the Royal Oak Inn in Thomas Street. During his infancy or very early childhood his father died, and soon afterwards his mother married again, remaining, however, the tenant of the Royal Oak, which was now the property of her son. She was destined very soon to lose her second husband, but she consoled herself with a third, William Roberts, who, again, joined her at the Royal Oak. She lived to witness her son's difficulties, his condemnation to death and transportation for life, and died only five years before his return, when she had reached the age of ninety-two.

      After his father's death the boy was brought up by his grandparents. Even in his own old age he had vivid recollections of the 'stem old man', his grandfather, and of his kindly grandmother behind the ample folds of whose skirts he often used to hide.

      (3) "John Frost (Chartist)," from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

      John Frost (25 May 1784 - 27 July 1877) was a prominent leader of the British Chartist movement in the Newport Rising.

      Early life

      John Frost was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, where his father, also named John, kept the "Royal Oak Inn", in Thomas Street (a blue plaque honouring Frost's birthplace is located on the side of the old Post Office in the High Street, marking the approximate street location). John was mainly brought up as an orphan by his grandfather, a bootmaker. He was apprenticed to a woollen draper in Bristol and was later a shopman in London. Frost's political affiliations were greatly influenced by Thomas Paine and William Cobbett. John and Sarah Frost worshipped at Hope Baptist Chapel, situated behind the present day Commercial Street and Skinner Street and their eight children were all baptised there.

      Frost's mother Sarah died early in his childhood and he was brought up by his grandparents. He was apprenticed as a bootmaker to his grandfather and left home at the age of sixteen to become a draper's apprentice and tailor, first in Cardiff, then Bristol and later London. He returned to Newport in 1806 to start his own business, which became prosperous. He married a widow Mary Geach in 1812 and over the course of eleven years they had eight children. He was held in great esteem and affection for his appealing character and was commended for being "studious, quiet and obedient."

      Political career

      In 1821, Frost became embroiled in a dispute with a Newport solicitor, Thomas Prothero, who was also Town Clerk, over his uncle's will. In a letter Frost accused Prothero of being responsible for the former's exclusion from the will. Prothero sued for libel and Frost was ordered to pay £1,000. Frost then accused Prothero of malpractice. Again, Prothero sued for libel and again won. In February 1823, Frost was imprisoned for six months and told in no uncertain terms that further accusations against Prothero would lead to a longer sentence.

      After his release Frost turned his anger against Prothero's friends and business partners, notably Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar House and Park, a major Newport and south Wales landowner and industrialist. In a pamphlet of 1830, he accused Morgan of mistreating his many tenants and advocated electoral reform as a means of bringing Morgan and others like him to account. An appreciation both of Frost's literary skill and his mounting exasperation can be gained easily from a consideration of his early letters, to Sir Charles Morgan himself amongst many others. In the early 1830s Frost increasingly became a champion of universal suffrage.

      Establishing himself as a prominent Chartist, he was elected in 1835 as a town councillor for Newport and appointed as a magistrate. He also became an Improvement Commissioner and Poor Law Guardian and the following year became Mayor of Newport. His aggressive behaviour and election as a delegate to the Chartist Convention in 1838, however, further alienated his old enemies. He was duly forced to stand down as mayor the following year and the Home Secretary also revoked his appointment as magistrate.

      Letter to Lord John Russell

      Because of his continuing role within the Chartist Movement, Home Secretary Russell dismissed Frost from his position as Justice of the Peace. In response, while at a Chartist Convention in Pontypool, Frost responded to Russell in a straightforward letter, containing the contemporary Chartist songs of Wales, which gave expression to the feelings and determination of the Welsh coal miners:

      ["] Uphold those bold Comrades, who suffer for you,
      Who nobly stand foremost, demanding your due,
      Away with the timid - 'tis treason to fear -
      To surrender or falter, when danger is near,
      For now that our leaders disdain to betray
      'Tis base to desert them, or succour delay

      ["] 'Tis time that the victims of labour and care
      Should for reap what is labour's fair share
      'Tis time that these voice in the councils be heard
      The rather than pay for the law of the sword;
      All power is ours, with a will of our own
      We conquer, united - divided we groan.

      ["] Come hail brothers, hail the shrill sound of the horn
      For ages deep wrongs have been hopelessly borne
      Despair shall no longer our spirits dismay
      Nor wither the arms when upraised for the fray;
      The conflict for freedom is gathering nigh:
      We live to secure it, or gloriously die.["]

      Nonetheless, while the desire amongst the Welsh to rebel was ever stronger, Frost himself still wished to postpone the date of an uprising. By the end of October, the Welsh Chartists were holding daily meetings in Monmouthshire in an attempt to force an armed rebellion. Records suggest that ultimately, finding himself unable to postpone the date of an organised uprising any longer and still doubting its success, Frost burst into tears. A thirty-member conference ultimately fixed the date for 3 November.

      The Newport Rising

      On 3-4 November 1839 John Frost, together with William Jones and Zephaniah Williams, led a Chartist march on the Westgate Inn in Newport. The rationale for the set piece confrontation remains opaque, although it may have its origins in Frost's ambivalence towards the more violent attitudes of some of the Chartists, and the personal animus he bore towards some of the Newport establishment who were ensconced in the hotel along with 60 armed soldiers. The Chartist movement in south east Wales was chaotic in this period, after the arrest of Henry Vincent, a leading agitator, who was imprisoned nearby in Monmouth gaol and the feelings of the workers were running extremely high, too high for Frost to reason with and control. One of his contemporaries, William Price described Frost's stance at the time of the Newport Rising as being akin to "putting a sword in my hand and a rope around my neck."

      The march, which had been gathering momentum over the course of the whole weekend as Frost and his associates led the protestors down from the valley towns above Newport, numbered some 3,000 when it entered the town. According to the plan, three columns from three directions were to march upon Newport and take the town before dawn. The contingent starting from Blackwood was commanded by Frost, the detachment coming from Nantyglo by Williams and the main body of Pontypool by Jones. The three columns were to meet at Risca, but this did not come to pass; owing to a storm raging in the night, all of them arrived late, and the worst trouble was that the delay gave the Newport authorities ample time to get wind of what was afoot and make ready to confront the coming armed Chartists. Special constables were sworn in hastily, the known Chartists of Newport were arrested and shut up in the Westgate Hotel where the mayor held 30 soldiers in reserve. The Chartist troops led by Frost, proceeding to the hotel at 9:30 am and demanding the surrender of the Chartist prisoners, advanced to the door. When the soldiers posted in the hotel started firing, ten to fifteen Chartists died instantly, about 50 were wounded. The bloody event was over in 20 minutes. The Chartists miners were in a very bad strategic position, and the firing took them by surprise. When they withdrew, they met the contingent of Williams and outside the town, the column of Jones. The times estimated that the strength of the Chartists army at 8,000 and Gammage at 20,000.

      Overall the battle of the Westgate lasted only about 25 minutes, but at its close some 22 people lay dead or dying and upwards of 50 had been injured. An eyewitness report spoke of one man, wounded with gunshot, lying on the ground, pleading for help until he died an hour later.

      Reprisal by the local council

      The reprisal by the local council followed immediately. The three commanders and 150 Chartists were arrested in a short time. The rumour spread that the Chartists insurgents intended to take Cardiff on 5 November. The Cardiff magistrates were seized with panic: in addition to mobilising the special constables they built up serious military defences and the crew of an American vessel lying at anchor in the port were also brought to the aid of the authorities. After Newport, however the Welsh Valleys were wrapped in quiet, and even the English manufacturing districts were paralysed for a short while.

      Trial and sentencing

      A reward of £100 was offered for Frost's capture and he was arrested by solicitor and clerk Thomas Jones Phillips and charged with high treason. Early in 1840, along with Jones and Williams, was tried at Monmouth's Shire Hall. All three were found guilty and became the last men in Britain to be sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The Chartists stood up as one man for the Newport leaders under sentences of death. O'Connor, O'Brien, Harney Taylor and other Chartists leaders free on bail rose to speak on their behalf. O'Connor offered one week's income of the Northern Star for a Frost fund and retained one of the best lawyers of the time, Sir Frederick Pollock as defence counsel. Following a huge public outcry, however, these sentences were discussed by the Cabinet and on 1 February the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, announced that the executions would be commuted to transportation for life.

      On reaching Van Diemen's Land (modern Tasmania), Frost was immediately sentenced to two years' hard labour for making a disparaging remark about Lord John Russell, the Colonial Secretary. Frost was indentured to a local storekeeper, spent three years working as a clerk, before becoming a school teacher for eight years when he was granted his ticket of leave.

      Chartists in Britain continued to campaign for the release of Frost. Thomas Duncombe pleaded Frost's case in the House of Commons but his attempt to secure a pardon in 1846 was unsuccessful. Duncombe refused to be defeated and in 1854 he persuaded the Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen, to grant Frost a pardon on the condition that he never returned to Britain. Rather than stay in Australia Frost immediately left for the United States, with his daughter, Catherine, who had joined him in Tasmania, and toured the country, organised by William Prowting Roberts, lecturing on the unfairness of the British system of government.

      Later life

      In 1856, when the residency condition was lifted, Frost was given an unconditional pardon and he straightaway sailed for Bristol. He retired to Stapleton, near the city, but continued to publish articles advocating reform until his death there, aged 93, in 1877.

      Frost was buried in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund, Horfield, Bristol in accordance with his will. In the 1980s Richard Frame found Frost's lost grave site and organised for a new headstone to be created and erected on the site, with the aid of a grant from Newport council. The new headstone was unveiled by Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.

      A plaque has been added to the wall of The Mynde in Caerleon reading:

      ["] In the last quarter of the twentieth century we have taken the Right to Vote for granted. This was not always so, and in 1839 after the failure of petitioning the Government of the day, the men of Britain and South Wales sought to change the system through marches and demonstration - this was known as the Chartist Uprising. John Jenkins the owner of Mynde House and Master of the Ponthir Tin Plate Works, concerned for his property, constructed the Mynde Wall in order to keep marauding demonstrators out. The wall in front of you is what remains of his efforts.["]

      John Frost Square, in Newport city centre, was named in his honour. A 1978 mural of the Newport Rising by Kenneth Budd in the square was demolished in 2013. A trust is to be set up to commission a new memorial with £50,000 of funding provided by Newport City Council. A planning application was approved on 3 Apr 2019 to set up a quarter-scale replica of the Newport Rising mural in Rogerstone, three miles from the city centre. Kenneth Budd's son Oliver has been commissioned to make it using the original drawings from 1978. In 1991, three statues by Christopher Kelly commemorating the Chartist Newport Rising entitled Union, Prudence, Energy were installed outside the Westgate Hotel in Newport.

      (4) Chartist Lives: John Frost <http://richardjohnbr.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/chartist-lives-john-frost>:

      Frost was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 25th May 1784, the son of John Frost and his wife, Sarah, landlady of the Royal Oak public house in Mill Street, Newport. His father died when John was very young and his mother remarried twice. Aged about sixteen, Frost was apprenticed to a tailor in Cardiff. In 1804, he was an assistant woollen draper in Bristol and the following year he worked in London as a merchant tailor. There he joined radical circles and sharpened his political education by reading Paine and Cobbett. On his return to Newport about 1806, he continued his business as a tailor and draper. On 24th October 1812, Frost married Mary Geach (née Morgan), widow of a timber dealer, with whom he had eight children between 1815 and 1826.

      Frost published thirteen public letters on issues of Newport municipal politics during 1821-2. In 1823, he suffered six months' imprisonment for libel, as part of a twenty-year vendetta with solicitor Thomas Prothero. Frost took an active part in the struggle for reform in Newport. He helped organise a branch of the Political Union of the Working Classes in November 1831 and his A Christmas Box for Sir Charles Morgan (1831) attacked agrarian distress and advocated a widened franchise, triennial parliaments, and vote by ballot. The following year, he savaged the Reform Act in A Letter to the Reformers. In 1835, Frost was elected a member of the town council of Newport and appointed a magistrate for the borough. In 1836, he was elected mayor, but he was defeated in 1837 owing to his opposition to church rates.

      On 30th October 1838, Frost appeared in public in support of William Edward's Newport Working Men's Association and soon after was elected to the 1839 Chartist convention as delegate for Monmouthshire. This activity led to his removal from the commission of the peace by the home secretary, Lord John Russell, on 21st March 1839. Consequently, Frost's popularity among the Chartists increased and he became a national leader. Throughout the spring and summer, Frost acted to damp down angry and restless local Chartist groups. However, following a wave of convictions for sedition, he appeared to shift his position. On 14th September the convention, weakened in numbers by resignation and arrests, was dissolved on the casting vote of Frost as chairman. Confusion surrounds his movements and intentions over the next six weeks but it is certain that he was present when plans were laid for a rising centred on Newport.

      On 4th November, Frost led a large body of armed working men, chiefly miners, into Newport. Two other groups led by William Jones, a watch-maker from Pontypool, and Zephaniah Williams, a beershop keeper from Nant-y-glo arrived late or never came. Frost and his three thousand followers attacked the Westgate Hotel, where, under the direction of Thomas Phillips, the mayor of Newport, thirty-two soldiers of the 45th regiment and a number of special constables had been posted to guard existing Chartist prisoners. The relatively ill-armed and undisciplined Chartists were easily repulsed and suffered twenty fatalities with many injuries. Frost was captured the same evening, and was tried before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Baron Parke, and Justice Williams at a special assize that was opened at Monmouth on 10th December 1839. He was defended by Sir Frederick Pollock and Fitzroy Kelly, but after a lengthy trial was found guilty of levying war against the queen. On 16th January 1840, Frost, Williams, and Jones were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Appeals against the sentences by several MPs and prominent public figures and large-scale national radical protest came to nothing. However, following legal review, it was agreed by the government on 1st February 1840 that the sentences be commuted to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land.

      Several efforts were made, especially by Thomas Slingsby Duncombe in the House of Commons, to procure the release of Frost and his associates. In March 1854, Duncombe succeeded in obtaining a pardon, conditional on Frost's never returning to British territory. He went to America (reaching California in May 1855), lectured on his experiences, and published A Letter to the People of the United States Showing the Effects of Aristocratic Rule (1855). After receiving a free pardon in May 1856 as a result of the general pardon granted after the successful conclusion of the Crimean War, he returned to Britain on 12th July. He was welcomed in Newport and London but never regained his status as a radical leader. On 31st August, he delivered two lectures at Padiham on the "Horrors of convict life" that were later printed. The following year, he published A letter to the people of Great Britain and Ireland on transportation, showing the effects of irresponsible power on the physical and moral conditions of convicts. Although it appears that it was his intention to write a series of letters on this subject, no more were published.

      Frost moved to Stapleton, near Bristol, where he lived for many years in comparative retirement, pursuing an interest in spiritualism. He died there on 29th July 1877. The march on Newport in November 1839 for which Frost is remembered has been variously interpreted as a peaceful demonstration or as part of a national conspiracy to overthrow the government. There is strong evidence of a high degree of planning, confounded by a series of last-minute changes of plan and an ultimate divergence between intentions and execution. The Newport rising was indeed part of a wider plan of insurrection and was in fact the last on the British mainland.

      (5) Australian Convict Transportation Registers - Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868 [database online], Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007:

      Name: John Frost
      Vessel: Mandarin
      Convicted Date: 10 Dec 1839
      Voyage Date: 24 Feb 1840
      Colony: Van Dieman's Land
      Piece: HO 11/12
      Place of Conviction: Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales

      (6) Rudé, G., "Frost, John (1784-1877)," in Australian Dictionary of Biography <https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/frost-john-2071>:

      John Frost (1784-1877), Chartist, was born on 25 May 1784 at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of John and Sarah Frost, of the Royal Oak Inn. He was educated probably at Bristol, and acquired an excellent command of English. After assisting a woollen draper in Bristol and a merchant tailor in London, he returned to Newport about 1806 to take over a draper's and tailor's shop. In October 1812 he married Mary Geach, a widow, by whom he had two sons and five daughters. He became a radical and from 1816 advocated reduced taxation and a programme of parliamentary reform that anticipated the Six Points of the People's Charter. As champion of the burgesses of Newport, he came into conflict with Thomas Prothero, the influential town clerk, and spent six months in the Cold Bath Fields' prison in London for libel. With the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835, he became a member of Newport's first town council and a justice of the peace, and mayor of the town a year later. He attended the first Chartist convention in London in February 1839 and was chairman of the session which, on 14 September in Birmingham, decided to dissolve the convention after the first national petition had been rejected and most of the leaders had been arrested for sedition. Frost decided to appeal to physical force and led a body of working men, chiefly miners, trained in the Monmouthshire hills, in an armed attack on Newport on the night of 4 November. The ill-armed band were easily repulsed, and Frost and his partners, Zephaniah Williams of Blaina, and William Jones, a watchmaker of Pontypool, were arrested, tried by a special commission at Monmouth, found guilty of levying war against the Queen, and sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. On 11 February 1840 the sentence was commuted to transportation for life.

      Several efforts were made in the House of Commons to procure their release, but Frost, Williams and Jones sailed together in the Mandarin and reached Hobart Town on 30 June 1840. In accordance with practice the three Chartists were given the privileges of political prisoners: they were allowed to keep their own clothes and, instead of being put on road work, were sent direct to Tasman Peninsula, where Frost became a clerk in the commandant's office at Port Arthur, Williams a superintendent in the coal-mines, and Jones an overseer blacksmith in the boys' penitentiary at Point Puer. Frost's employment as a clerk ended in 1841 and he was transferred to Brown's River, possibly for displeasing Lord John Russell by an indiscreet letter to England, but of this there is no official record. While at Brown's River, he was sentenced to three days solitary confinement for insolence to the superintendent; although recommended to be removed to Port Arthur and 'employed at labour in the same manner as other convicts', he was sent instead to Impression Bay on Tasman Peninsula, where he became a schoolmaster and was commended for being 'studious, quiet and obedient'. On 17 November 1843 his probation term ended and he was sent to New Town to work for W. Carter and later for Rev. W. Jarrett. In May 1846 he was sent to work for W. Chester at Bothwell and received his ticket-of-leave next November. On 27 June 1854 after teaching in various places in Tasmania, he received a conditional pardon and six months later sailed for America with his daughter Catherine, who had recently joined him in exile. At New York in May 1856 he received news of his free pardon. He arrived in England on 12 July and on 31 August gave lectures at Padiham on his experiences. These were printed as Horrors of Convict Life (London, 1856) and A Letter to the People of Great Britain and Ireland on Transportation (London, 1857). He went to live with his family at Stapleton, near Bristol, and as old age crept on abandoned politics for spiritualism. He died at Stapleton at 27 July 1877.

      (7) A household headed by John FROST is listed in the 1861 census of Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England.

      John is listed in the 1861 census as a "proprietor of houses" who was then 75 years of age; therefore, according to the 1861 census, he was born in about 1786. According to the 1861 census, he was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales and was a widower.

      Listed with John is his daughter, Elizabeth, who was then 45 years of age; therefore, according to the 1861 census, she was born in about 1816. According to the 1861 census, she was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.

      Also listed with John is his daughter, Ann, who was then 34 years of age; therefore, according to the 1861 census, she was born in about 1827. According to the 1861 census, she was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.

      Also listed with John is his granddaughter, Fanny M. FRY, who was then 18 years of age; therefore, according to the 1861 census, she was born in about 1843. According to the 1861 census, she was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.

      Also listed with John is an apparently unrelated servant.

      (8) A household headed by John FROST is listed in the 1871 census of Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England.

      John is listed in the 1871 census as a land owner who was then 85 years of age; therefore, according to the 1871 census, he was born in about 1786. According to the 1871 census, he was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales and was a widower.

      Listed with John is his daughter, Ann, who was then 46 years of age; therefore, according to the 1871 census, she was born in about 1825. According to the 1871 census, she was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.

      Also listed with John is his granddaughter, Fanny FRY, who was then 27 years of age; therefore, according to the 1871 census, she was born in about 1844. According to the 1871 census, she was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.

      Also listed with John is an apparently unrelated servant.

      (9) John Frost's Will <http://www.newportpast.com/nfs/strands/frost/will.htm>:

      John Frost of Stapleton, Glos late of Newport, Mon 1874.

      Anne Frost - sole executrix - John H Clarke - Commissioner

      This is the last will and testament of me John Frost of Stapleton in the County of Gloucester. I give the whole of my real and personal estate and effects of whatever nature and kind soever to my daughter Ann Frost in trust for the following purposes. The property which I am now possesses of consists of a lease of the house in High Street Newport occupied by Mrs Tadd. The Royal Oak which was formerly a freehold estate but is now sold to the tenant Mr Watkin Jones on the following conditions for the sum of fifteen hundred pounds: Three hundred pounds to be paid on hand which sum I have received: Twelve hundred pounds to remain on the premises for which I have a mortgage on the premises, interest to be paid on the sum at the rate of 4½ per cent, now the debt to be reduced by the payment by Mr Jones to me of one hundred a year, the interest to be diminished as the payments are made, but Mr Jones has not fulfilled this part of the contract, I have received from him the sum of £50 only. This property to be divided between my daughter Catherine Frost now in Tasmania, Ellen Davies my daughter and Anne Frost my daughter now living with me at Stapleton in equal parts. I direct that my books be sold and the proceeds divided between my daughters Catherine, Ellen and Anne in equal portions, the household furniture I give to my daughter Anne for her sole and separate use without any reservations. I again say this is my last will and testament and I appoint my daughter Anne as my executrix solely. I desire that my funeral be a public one and that I be buried by the side of my wife and son in Horfield Churchyard. I give to my grand daughter Fanny my ring which formerly belonged to her mother, my daughter Anne knows what my intentions are respecting my friend Mr Charles Groves.

      Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator John Frost who in his presence and at his request have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto this 12th day of April 1874. /s/ John Frost

      Witnesses James Street; William Thomas;

      Proved at Bristol the ninth day of January 1878 by the oath of Anne Frost, spinster, (daughter of the deceased) the sole executrix to whom administration was granted.

      The testator John Frost was late of Stapleton in the County of Glouster, Gentleman and died the twenty seventh day of July at Stapleton aforesaid.

      Under £1500

      Robert Graham, Solicitor, Newport, Mon.

      Certified to be an examined copy

      (10) www.findagrave.com:

      John Frost
      Birth: 25 May 1784, Monmouthshire, Wales
      Death: 27 Jul 1877 (aged 93), Stapleton, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England
      Burial: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Horfield, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England
      Plot: Burial: 3 Aug 1877

      Prominent leader of the British Chartist movement in the Newport Rising. . . .

      Created by: mcpjm
      Added: 12 Oct 2019
      Find a Grave Memorial: 203781968
    Person ID I23621  Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
    Last Modified 29 Nov 2022 

    Father John FROST,   b. Bef 17 Jun 1751, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 12 Apr 1787, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 35 years) 
    Mother Sarah WATERS,   b. Bef 10 May 1761, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 8 May 1851, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 89 years) 
    Marriage 25 Aug 1782  St. Woolos, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F10431  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary MORGAN,   b. Abt 1782, Caram, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1857, Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Marriage 24 Oct 1812  Bettws Newydd, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John FROST,   b. Bef 4 Nov 1813, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Elizabeth FROST,   b. Bef 9 Apr 1815, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Sarah FROST,   b. Bef 16 Feb 1817, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Catharine FROST,   b. Bef 20 Dec 1818, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Ellen FROST,   b. Bef 17 Dec 1820, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Henry Hunt FROST,   b. Bef 3 Nov 1822, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. James FROST,   b. Bef 12 Dec 1824, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Anne FROST,   b. Bef 8 Aug 1826, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F10429  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

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    1. Details: Details: Citation Text: (1) https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records: County: Monmouthshire Place: Newport Church name: St Woolos Register type: Parish Register Marriage date: 25 Aug 1782 Groom forename: John Groom surname: FROST Groom parish: St Woolas [sic] Newport Bride forename: Sarah Bride surname: WATERS Bride parish: St Woolas [sic] Newport Notes: Banns Transcribed by: Glen Jenkins File line number: 623.