Catherine TALBOT, Abenhall House (General)

by MPGriffiths , Thursday, June 12, 2014, 16:25 (3818 days ago) @ dink999

In previous reply on the 1901 census, Catherine Talbot - Servant aged 22 is working as a General Domestic Servant, born Penkridge

On gvtill Public Members Tree on Ancestry - is a photograph of Abinghall House (looks a fairly recent photo) with these comments

'This is the place that Catherine Talbot worked for the Lady in question and her niece were both spinsters. The niece was at one time a governess so she was well educated. Miss Robinson was a very wealthy woman so I would have thought that it could have been a good position to hold as servant to the household. This is the last census that I can find of Catherine.

Miss Robinson died 23 January 1910 leaving her niece £17,928 15s 6d. Mary Teague made good use of the money no doubt some forty years later she died 19 June 1949. She left £4,861 15s 4d to Bessie Teague Spinster, some 13 years later she died and left £4,008 1s 6d to a solicitor all this so easy to follow but no sign of my great aunt Catherine. The bulk of the money came from John Robinson who left money to both Miss Robinson and Miss Teague. He was a solicitor in Abinghall so the money went full circle'