Elizabeth Clarke
, as a twenty-seven-year-old widow of less than six months' standing, married John Cobbold
, a wealthy Ipswich brewer.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Occupation
Margaret Catchpole
MC
began working as a servant when she was thirteen; she had several employers before going to work for the Cobbold family, who lived near St Margaret's Green in Ipswich. Though this household at...
Other Life Event
Margaret Catchpole
MC
helped John Cook
to steal a horse from John Cobbold
; she was arrested, and sent to trial.
This is the date on which the stolen horse was advertised for.
Barber, Richard, and Richard Cobbold. “The Real Margaret Catchpole”. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl, Boydell Press, 1979, p. x - xviii.
xiv
Cobbold, Richard et al. The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. Facsimile of 1847 edition, Boydell Press, 1979.
231
“Margaret Catchpole Papers, 1797-1917; 1801-1870”. State Library of New South Wales: PICMAN Database.
