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such residents.

I have dis/uncovered a great deal with their help and there is
more than could be included here, but I am sure there must be
even more - if anyone’s memories have been jogged by this
article or there is anyone tempted to throw away the contents of
that attic/trunk/house, please do get in touch. I have almost no
family or personal correspondence and anything, however small
or insignificant, would be of value.

Biography

The first person (and woman) in my family to go to university
or to become a lawyer, let alone a judge, I am the product of the
second wave of feminism in England. Born of a Yorkshire mining
family who became poor law guardians, I have maternal and
paternal grandmothers descended from Huguenots and Co
Fermanagh, and the Highland Scottish clan Cameron. Happily
therefore, my DNA contains very few English genes - 67%
Irish/Scottish suits me just fine, although sadly I doubt it will get
me a post Brexit Irish passport!

It also helps that I chose to marry an Irishman (from Cobh,
Co Cork). Without him I doubt I would have realised the
significance of Averil’s call date or have managed to get this far.

When I retired in March 2015 after a long career beginning
with family law and child protection and ending with a small
portfolio of judicial posts, I little suspected that life would require
repeated visits to Ireland. Serendipity has led me here, with
plenty of coincidences along the way, and the fact that I lived in
Shropshire for 13 years in a house owned by the Reverend
Digges La Touche is but one.

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