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The Poddington Project: Christine DeWinter

A clipping from a scrapbook
This clipping, worn and tattered, appears to have
been taken from the Tewiff newspaper.

June Thirteenth, 1863
  . . . . and local constabulary called upon the DeWinter Estate early this morning. Alys Eleanor DeWinter, aged seven, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory DeWinter of Poddington-on-Slossip, disappeared between the hours of nine o'clock yester-eve, when the cook, Mrs. Forster, checked the girl, and seven o'clock this morning, when her presence was missed at the family breakfast table . . . .

. . . reward of one thousand pounds has been posted by the anxious parents for information leading to their beloved daughter's return . . .

(Robyn Peters)