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On 30 November 1016, Edmund died. The location of his death is uncertain though it is generally accepted that it occurred in London, rather than in Oxford where Henry of Huntingdon claimed it to be in his sordid version of events, which included Edmund’s murder by suffering multiple stab wounds whilst on a privy attending a call of nature,[6] Geoffrey Gaimar states a similar occurrence with the weapon being a crossbow, other sources saying Edmund was murdered include the Encomium Emmae Reginae and others, but with a number of other medieval chroniclers not mentioning murder, it is thought Edmund’s cause of death may possibly have been caused by wounds received in battle or by some disease, but it is certainly a possibility that he was murdered.
Edmund was buried near his grandfather Edgar at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, however the abbey was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, any remains of a monument or crypt would have been plundered and the location of his remains is unclear.

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Ethelred of Scotland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethelred (Edelred mac Maíl Coluim or Æþelræd Margotsson) was the son of King Máel Coluim III and his wife Margaret, the third oldest of the latter and the probable sixth oldest of the former. He took his name, almost certainly, from Margaret's great-grandfather King Æþelræd Unræd, or Ethelred the Unready. Ethelred had a multicultural upbringing in the pious household of his Gaelic father and Anglo-Hungarian mother. He had an ecclesiastical career and avoided a political career, perhaps because of some disability, being passed over for the succession. His career probably brought him the prestigious abbacy of Dunkeld, however he died as a cluniac monk in Somerset. He is often thought to have held the office Mormaer of Fife, but this is almost certainly a mistake. The source is a notitia of a grant to the Céli Dé monks of Loch Leven, contained within the Register of the Priory of St Andrews, which says:
Edelradus vir venerandae memoriae filius Malcolmi Regis Scotiae, Abbas de Dunkeldense et insuper Comes de Fyf.[1]
Translated, this is "Ethelred" or "Edelred, man of venerable memory, son of King Máel Coluim of Scotland, Abbot of Dunkeld and also Mormaer of Fife". However, the same notitia records a number of witnesses, among whom are the brothers of Ethelred, David and Alexander; after the last two comes Constantinus Comes de Fyf, i.e. Causantín, the actual Mormaer of Fife. The contradiction has been explained by Bannerman. He argues that the translator of Register of the Priory of St Andrews (a collection of Latin translations of earlier Gaelic documents) had been thrown off by the use of a singular Gaelic verb for a joint grant (i.e. where the verb had two subjects), common in Gaelic charters. As a result, the translator omitted the Mormaer. At any rate, it is clear that Ethelred was never a Mormaer of Fife, since Causantín is attested in other sources.

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Elizabeth died in 1826 and John in 1841 at the great age of 87.

As John Bird was a carpenter it is likely he was the grandson of Edward and Mary Bird, see the Will of 1751where he is said to be of ‘Gaulby by Norton’, these villages are close to Illston.

St Peter, Gaulby Leics
6/1/1826 Elizabeth Bird 56 living at Gaulby
24/10/1841 John Bird 87 living at Gaulby

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From Eric Bird (correspondence 2014-04-25)
William Bird, son of Caleb and Ann, was living in Burton Overy until his death in 1856

1841 Census Reel 2 Burton Overy Leics
William Bird 40yo (b.1801) framework knitter Y

1851 Census HO107/2080 Melton Mowbray Burton Overy schedule 61
William Bird lodger uM 50yo (b.1801) framework knitter b.Kings Norton Leics

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Taken in flank, the royalists faced about and fought manfully to thrust back Warwick's men. But it was but for a short half hour; they were overmatched. The magnates of the king's party, who fought the game out to the end, nearly all were slain or hurt.