The baptismal certificate announces my birth at Earl’s Court, Kensington, on June 14, 1809. It was only in 1820 I learnt from my sister, Mary, that three weeks after birth I was deposited in my father’s footpan to be interred in a garden at the back of the house, not being entitled to a berth in consecrated ground.…
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