Family of James Arthur TURNER and Edith Anna GOODSWEN

St. Mary's Home for Girls: "88-90 High Street - No 88 was formerly St. Mary's House, No 90 was formerly the Bishop Clayton Hall. In 1892, the Diocese of Peterborough bought St. Mary's House, previously called Ketton House and named it St. Mary's Home for Girls. Penitent young women between 14 and 18 years were trained in domestic service. The laundry was connected by an underground passage below Hunt's Lane. In 1944 Peterborough Diocese sold all the buildings but the chapel was kept and purchased by the Parochial Church Council of St Mary's and used as a church hall and named after Bishop Clayton who founded the original home. The home operated a laundry in the rear of the premises to help with the girls' re-education, and offset some of the running costs of the institution. It was said that if one of the girls escaped a bell was rung to alert the villagers to help in her recapture." - from an entry in Rootschat.

Edith's daughters Constance and Sybil were brought up by James and Sophia Goodswen (Edith's parents, their grandparents) in Tharston, and her son Cyril by Mrs Amelia Bessie Locke (Sophia's sister, his great aunt) in Long Stratton. It is thought that Edith played no part in bringing up her three children and she never told anyone who their fathers were. - Source: a family recollection.