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?