HARVEY’S BARK PILLS

Advertisements for HARVEY’S BARK PILLS are to be found in many of the British newspapers from 1834 until the late 1840s:


So who was the Harvey of ‘HARVEY’S BARK PILLS’?

Charles Harvey was born in Aldburgh in January 1813:

In October 1839, Charles Harvey married Harriet Newdick:

The 1841 census shows Charles and Harriet living in Bury St Edmunds:

November 1841, Charles Harvey is made insolvent:

The 1851 census shows Charles Harvey in Toweth but not with Harriet [where is she?]:

The Bury and Suffolk Herald of 8 September 1847, gives this sad explanation:

In July 1852, Charles Harvey, widower, and his small children, emigrate to Australia.

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