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In
Remembrance of

MARTHA BRIGHTMAN

FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS
A FAITHFUL HOUSEKEEPER TO

RICHARD MITCHELL

WHO DIED DECEMBER 29TH 1879
AGED 52 YEARS


Martha Brightman w was born at Daventry in Northamptonshire about 1827. She was living with Mary Brightman, a pauper aged about 60, in 1841. Mary may have been her mother or grandmother.

Richard Mitchell was a farmer, originally from Cranford in Northamptonshire, but living in Desborough from at least 1851.