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We now know what happened to Henry's friend Ephraim Wootton
thanks to Sheila Moore in Cornwall, UK - a member of the Wootton
family.
Ephraim was baptised in Bow
Brickhill in 1826, married Elizabeth Busby in 1853 and had four
children: Alfred, Mary, Lucy. They lived in Wolverton where he
was a machinist at the railway factory.
But Ephraim's end
was not happy. His death certificate states that when he
was 72 years old with the occupation of
"Mechanic" he committed suicide "by Cutting
Throat - Temporary Insanity." Read a newspaper
report of the inquest here.
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