I'm working on diaries written by a young girl living in Oxford in the 1820s. She falls for a Cornishman, Jonathan Peters from Philleigh, a graduate of the Queen's College, but both fathers put a stop to any further developments.
I read his obituary in the West Briton for July 1844, when he was 55, saying "He was educated at Oxford and intended for the church, but certain incidents at the outset of life checked the current of his expectations. But always redundant with a fine stream of animal spirits, he bore his disappointments and his long suffering with consistent fortitude and equanimity." This may well explain why the attachment was banned.
I wonder if, by the strangest coincidence, anyone might know of this family or suggest where I might get more information.
With all best wishes,
Marilyn Yurdan