Rebecca Woodward

South Place (no longer exists)
Knightsbridge
London


England From Matilda Adriana Ayrton (her great-granddaughter's) memoirs written in 1899:

I remember going with my mother and (John, her brother) to see my great-grandmother Nugent, who lived at Knightsbridge in a pretty country house with a garden, on which site several houses have been built in the last six or seven years, two opposite the barracks called, as that house was, "South Place." She was a small person, and used a stick to walk with, stooping much from the hips........ She occupied a room in the house of her step-grand-daughter, Mrs Smee. My next rememberance of her is her old servant Mary, who had lived with her from a girl, coming to Kew and giving my mother the details of her last days ........ My mother was very fond of her; she lived with her, and her daughter called Aunt Peggy (Smee), when she (my mother) was sent from India (Bombay) a little girl of six or seven .... a child marked by small-pox, though otherwise handsome.

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