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  • Re: The Curtis-Bennetts

    From JMB99@21:1/5 to Roger Mills on Fri Apr 18 17:18:45 2025
    On 18/04/2025 12:35, Roger Mills wrote:
    After she became a widow in 1936, she settled in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, where she lived until she died in 1972. She is one of several prominent residents of Bourton - none of them related to me -
    who I'm currently researching. I know a fair bit about her, and knew her personally - in my capacity as the youth who delivered her evening
    newspaper. Nevertheless, I have a lot of unanswered questions, and would
    be interested in comparing notes with anyone else who knows anything
    about her.



    Obviously a hardened criminal :-)

    Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 30 March 1940
    Lady Lilian Mary Curtis-Bennett, of Sherborne-street,
    Bourton-on-the-Water, who did not appear, pleaded guilty to permitting
    pigs to stray on the highway.
    P.C. Young stated the facts, and fine of 5s. was imposed.
    The magistrates were Major E. F. B. Witts (chairman), Mrs. M. Kenyon,
    and Mrs. C. J. Macalister.

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  • From JMB99@21:1/5 to Roger Mills on Sat Apr 19 11:26:31 2025
    On 18/04/2025 17:30, Roger Mills wrote:
    Seriously though, I'm hoping that somebody already has a dossier on her rather than having to search Google for random snippets.



    That is not GOOGLE?

    I just had a quick look to satisfy my own curiosity and shared one
    report that I found. Google is more likely to just give me the names of companies in Bourton-on-the-Water that they claim would sell me a floggle-toggle.

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  • From Graeme Wall@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 19 12:53:51 2025
    On 19/04/2025 11:26, JMB99 wrote:
    On 18/04/2025 17:30, Roger Mills wrote:
    Seriously though, I'm hoping that somebody already has a dossier on
    her rather than having to search Google for random snippets.



    That is not GOOGLE?

    I just had a quick look to satisfy my own curiosity and shared one
    report that I found.  Google is more likely to just give me the names of companies in Bourton-on-the-Water that they claim would sell me a floggle-toggle.





    That would be Ebenezer Pertwee & Co presumably.

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    Graeme Wall
    This account not read.

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