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   JMB99 to Roger Mills   
   Re: The Curtis-Bennetts   
   18 Apr 25 17:18:45   
   
   From: mb@nospam.net   
      
   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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