From the evidence of the 1861 census, while Maria was living in Thomas (Pinchin) Street and her young ‘husband’ (they weren’t legally married because her first husband was still alive) was grappling with the local tigresses and their bullies (pimps), her sister Charlotte was living at The Court, Monnington-on-Wye in Herefordshire. Charlotte’s husband was the butler to the Rev Gilbert Lewis, Canon of Worcester Cathedral and a local magistrate, who was resident at the Monnington Rectory.
Exactly where at Monnington Court Charlotte and her children were housed isn’t known, but it would have been a very different environment from Tiger Bay.
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Exactly where at Monnington Court Charlotte and her children were housed isn’t known, but it would have been a very different environment from Tiger Bay.
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