My maternal great grandmother's maiden name was Alice Cade, her father named as Jonathan Cade on her certificate of marriage to William John Fage in 1893. On later censuses, her birthplace is shown as Gamlingay, Cambs, but she married in Sandy, Bedfordshire. So what was the story of her move away from her birthplace? A … Continue reading Alice Cade (1872-1940): Mystery of the censuses
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Lavinia Seaby (1861-1944): Cook to the gentry?
My maternal great-grandmother Lavinia Seaby was born in Dry Drayton, in rural Cambridgeshire, but family tales suggested that before she married Charles Brown, she was a Cook 'to the gentry' in London. Censuses do show that she worked in service, latterly as a Cook, in private houses in fashionable Notting Hill, London. What more could … Continue reading Lavinia Seaby (1861-1944): Cook to the gentry?
My Stocking Roots 