This story doesn’t have a happy ending. In my last post, introducing the “Chatteris Casbons,” I made brief mention of 13-year old Harry Casbon in the home of his grandmother, Emma Allpress, in 1881.[1] After considerable effort, I found Harry in the 1871 census, also living with his grandmother Emma. The “considerable effort” comes from… Continue reading “Gay Girl,” the Story of Harry and Kate
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Chatteris
CHATTERIS, a parish and market town in the hundred of North Witchford, in the county of Cambridge, 26 miles N.W. of Cambridge, and 7 S. of March. It is a station on the Ely and Peterborough railway, and is situated on the river Ouse. Alwina, wife of Athelstan, and niece of King Edgar, founded a… Continue reading Chatteris