XXXIX The Red House

This cottage in fact pre-dated Red House, which was built by Col. Fred Pocklington for his unmarried son Geoffrey and daughter Ethel.

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Jemima Cutter who lived here was the widow of John Cutter, a Semer-born labourer who had died in 1851 aged 55. She was the mother of William Cutter, living across the road in Parsonage Lane, and Elizabeth Claydon at the other end of the village in Cakebridge Lane.

Jemima (1809-1892) was herself from Raydon, and after her husband’s death - and burial in a pauper’s grave - she worked as a laundress.

She died in 1892 aged 83.

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