The Chilmans of Merton
This is an account of the fairly colourful life of the family of my great-grandmothers, two of six sisters living in Merton in what was then a village. Their father ended up in prison and their grandmother had five illegitimate children.
Click below to read the article © Peter Maggs 2021 and Merton Historical Society; photograph of the cottages at Church Row by kind permission of David Haunton.
This is an account of the fairly colourful life of the family of my great-grandmothers, two of six sisters living in Merton in what was then a village. Their father ended up in prison and their grandmother had five illegitimate children.
Click below to read the article © Peter Maggs 2021 and Merton Historical Society; photograph of the cottages at Church Row by kind permission of David Haunton.
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