Notes from Jessica lempp who is Catherine Fitzgerald Sparrows granddaughter.

Catherine Fitzgerald Sparrow nee Pratt 12 August 1900 - 25 July 1971 . She lived at 1 Rockingham Rd and ran a school in this house during the war . Her Grand father was the first headmaster in Newbury .

Catherine had twins, Jessica's mother Jill Sparrow and uncle John Sparrow, 4th July 1924. There are other relations of Jessica on the far side of the cemetery.

Jessica recalls that Catherine divorced her husband Herbert William Penstone Sparrow when her mother Jill was four

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