-----Original Message----- From: Brian Berrington [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 August 2001 04:19 PM To: [email protected] com Cc: Lawrence Annable; Gerald Berrington; Reg Berrington; Duncan Berrington Subject: Lavinia Cutts For those interested, here's some further information on the mysterious Lavinia Cutts who, like the Pinxton Lavinia (b.1798), ended her days in Stoke-on-Trent. The Pinxton Lavinia was still unmarried and still alive in 1881. and living in Lichfield Street, Hanley where she had arrived around 1814 to keep house fro her father when he left Pinxton Pottery to work for Wedgwood. "My Lavinia Cutts married my g.g. Grandfather Robert Berrington in Wollaton in 1821 and came to The Potteries in 1826 to be landlady of The Albion Hotel in Hanley. She has now been found, unindexed, in the 1871 census, aged 75 and living with her widowed daughter Emma Lea (nee Berrington) at Emma's grocery and beer shop in Nile Street, Burslem, her husband Robert having died about 1840. The freebmd site gives her death as in the 2nd qtr 1871 which means that she was born in 1796. Her brother William died intestate in Retford earlier in the same year and Lavinia, being his sole living relation, got the lot (or rather the little!) but she died 3 months later. It is almost certain that she was christened in Whitewell like William but in the 71 census she gives her place of birth as Retford which would seem to indicate that that was where she and William were brought up. Has anyone any information on the Cutts family in the Retford area and Wollaton from about 1800 on, and if anyone is researching the Whitewell parish records, would they please keep an eye open for my Lavinia? Brian Berrington