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Great, Great Grandmother
My great, great grandmother, Catharine Ann Bunce, was born on 8th September 1850 in Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, just four years short of one century before my birth.
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A Farmworker’s Cottage
Catharine was born in a farmworker's cottage, much the same as the one in the picture. In the mid nineteenth century, such cottages often looked very pretty, from the outside. Quite often thatched, and with roses or wisteria trailing round the doors and windows.
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Farming Life in 1850
In 1850, Chalgrove village was very much a farming community situated in the southern part of the county of Oxfordshire, about 10 miles southeast of Oxford itself.
