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I is for Irene – The wife that got away

Len’s first wife, Irene, married him during his war service. But she met someone else and they divorced when he returned.
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F is for Femicide

Was the killing of Lisbeth femicide? The media gave the impression that Len was a devoted father who acted under provocation.
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C is for Care of the Children

Len had six children and wanted to keep them together. He had promised to do so to his dying wife. But by his action, the opposite happened.
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B is for Berkshire, Basingstoke, Burnley

Uncle Len, Wife-Killer, lived in many places, but three stand out. Berkshire, Basingstoke and Burnley.
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A is for Ashworth

Introduction to the series “Uncle Len – Wife-Killer, in which Samuel Leonard Thomas Ashworth kills his 3rd wife and then marries my Aunt.
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Maria Joy, 1843-1894
Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a Londoner. He was working as a gardener in Tottenham when they married and Maria had been working in Gray’s Inn as a dressmaker. It was…
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The Pain Clinic
It was snowing, they were late. The cropped, blonde nurse glared at her as her husband fled, keen to escape the clutches of the clinic which radiated an air of military strictness. This was the Pain Clinic. Where everyone is in pain, except – maybe the staff. She knew better than to explain to the…
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Remembering Nellie

Honouring my great-grandmother Nellie Sinclair, nurse.

