2.--Died Mrs. Sarah Bickersteth, widow of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth,
rector of Watton, Herts. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas
Bignold, of Norwich, and sister of Sir Samuel Bignold. Born on October
3rd, 1788, she married, on May 5th, 1812, Mr. Edward Bickersteth, who was
then a solicitor practising in Norwich. Two years afterwards, at the
call of the Rev. Josiah Pratt, he gave up a lucrative business for the
laborious post of co-secretary in the Church Missionary House, and
visited the missions on the West Coast of Africa. Four fourteen years
Mrs. Bickersteth shared all his toils, until 1830, when he was presented
to the living of Watton, by Mr. Abel Smith, M.P. He died in February,
1850, and Mrs. Bickersteth, for the last nine years of her life, divided
her time among her children. She spent the last month with her son, the
incumbent of Christ church, Hampstead.
15.--The church of Framingham Pigot, built through the munificence of Mr.
G. H. Christie, at a cost exceeding 5,000 pounds, was consecrated by the
Bishop of Norwich.