<We published in the preceding number of our Chess Chronicle, two games, in which the first player, M. Bilguer of Berlin, laboured under the disadvantage of playing without seeing the Chess-board. We now give two games which were played under the same circumstances, by Mr. McDonnell in 1829; his competitor on the occasion being Mr. J-- W--ll, a strong player of the London Chess Club.>

The Bilguer games were specificed as being played simultaneously.

<John Worrell> is confirmed as a member of the London CC by a membership list from c.1850 that appears in Townsend's <Historical notes on some chess players>, p.14, with a footnote stating he'd been a member since 1825.

An extra benefit is that when I tried to access the games from PGN viewer "Olga... (default)" it told me "Due to 'null moves', please update the 'PGN Viewer:'(below) to 'pgn4web', to view this game".

The benefit is now that I've changed my PGN viewer setting to 'pgn4web' I've discovered things happen a little bit quicker there.

<[Marriages] At St John's, Paddington, Mr Junius Augustus Davies, son of the late Captain Davies, to Henrietta Augusta, daughter of Mr John Worrell, of 28, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square.>

From the above-mentioned London CC membership list, 28 Hunter St. is known to be an address of our man. See also: Staunton - Saint-Amant (1843) (kibitz #39)

The marriage record on Ancestry states that <Junius Augustus Davies> is a mariner and the son of <David Nicholas Owen Davies>, said to have been a colonel in the Army. <John Worrell> is simply a Gentleman.

<Henrietta Augusta Dugdale, feminist, daughter of John Worrell and his wife Henrietta, née Austin. Married at 21, she arrived at Melbourne in 1852 with her husband Davies. After his death she married on 5 March 1853 William Dugdale, son of an English clergyman; they had three sons. On 15 June 1903 she married Frederick Johnson. She made her own clothes, grew vegetables, did carpentry and was an excellent chess player besides taking an active role in public affairs.

She stirred many women into positive action to achieve their rights and to gain access to the professions. She was a member of a Victorian group of radical, free-thinking women who believed in temperance, birth control and 'applying the surgeon's knife to rapists'. Although sometimes melodramatic and emotional in her opinions she was forceful and assertive and deserved her place among the founders of Victoria's feminist movement.

by Janice N. Brownfoot, Australian Dictionary of Biography>

<John> and <Ann> have as many as 10 children between 1815 and 1833/4. Although the couple apparently marry (the banns at least were read) in 1815, strangely, they marry again in 1851! Then, <John> is listed as a widower but <Ann> is still a spinster.