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MRS ELIZABETH MURRIN

 

The newspaper cutting on the left from the now defunct Mid Devon Times was kindly given to the Kingsteignton History Society by Cilla Murrin and relates to her great grandmother who reached the age of 100 in 1948.

She was born at Princetown in 1848 and moved to Newton Abbot in 1868. It was when she obtained a post with the Rev Comyns (curate at St Michael's ) and moved to live with the family that she met her husband Charles Henry Murrin whom she married on 12th April 1877.

Her recollections in 1948 of bygone Kingsteignton are indeed fascinating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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