The Broadoak Riot of 1881 - its causes and effects
General
I was interested to read this as Henry Spencer was the brother of my gt-g'father Albert Jesse Spencer (1868-1929). He, his wife Louisa (known as Maud) and his son, my paternal g'father Albert John (1890-1971) were living with John and Eliza and next door to Samuel at the time of the 1891 census. I cannot believe my grandfather wouldn't have known this story but my father (another Albert Spencer 1921-1991) never mentioned it and I am sure wouldn't have known it and I have never heard of it anywhere else in the family. I suppose there were some things that just had a veil drawn over them....