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Charles Smith lies in the graveyard of St John the Baptist church in North Baddesley. It wasn’t often a poor man had a gravestone in those days, let alone two side by side. In the early 1800’s country gentlemen and wealthy merchants controlled society. As Justices of the Peace in the local courts they ruled the common people. It was a time of unrest in the countryside. Perhaps the most famous case is of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six farm workers from Dorset. In 1834, they were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers and transported to Australia.

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