Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Part 8 Postscript

Part 8 Postscript

In 1881 his widow Mary Ann and daughters Alice and Elizabeth were living in a small court-house off Wellington Street in Burton. Mary Ann was reduced to working as a charwoman to support her family.

The family history was that Horace was a captain, so this may have been something he embroidered or exaggerated. His daughter was married some years later. Interestingly her marriage certificate lists the profession of her deceased father Horace as ‘Captain’.


Horace was outlived by his solicitor father Nathan who died two years later aged 81 at St Dunstans in London. He had been living at no.9 Nevills Court (off Fetter Lane) which was near Fleet Street. Nevills court would have been built after the Great Fire of London, and is now sadly no longer there, having been bombed in the war, though Neville Lane is roughly in the same location.

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