Tag: history

• Elizabeth Passingham – “Umbrella Bet”

  

  by Christine Swan This week, I decided to focus on Isaac Crudgington’s wife, Elizabeth Passingham, as she had featured in at least one of his audacious crimes. The more I read, the more I found, and my sympathies towards Elizabeth changed as I read on. Hers is a story of trying to get by, of…

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  December 5, 2025

  Days past, Family history

  ancestry, Bethnal Green, Books, Family history, genealogy, history, London