As I often do, I decided to find out a little of Katherine Scragg’s life after her 1887 assault.

I’d already established that in both the 1891 and 1901 censuses she was listed as a school teacher living in Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire.

But then?

Well, the 1911 census for England and Wales shows her still living in Cheslyn Hay, but she is now a school head mistress, and has her 19 year old niece, Annie Aline, living with her.

Unlike in previous censuses, Katherine appears to own her own home rather than lodging with other people

Annie is listed as a student, but of what, the records don’t say.

As would be expected by 1921 Annie was no longer living with Katherine, but Katherine, still a headmistress is obviously doing quite well as she can afford to employ a live in servant cum housekeeper.

And then in 1926, we get into handwaving territory – a marriage between a Katherine Scragg and a Daniel Whitehouse is recorded in Cannock in Staffordshire (Cannock is the district in which Cheslyn Hay is located.)

Unfortunately, the online information available is minimal, to say the least, and without paying for a copy of the marriage certificate, I’m unable to say if it was definitely Katherine’s marriage.

However, there’s some circumstantial evidence to support Katherine marrying late in life.

In 1939, as part of war time emergency regulations the government created a register of everyone living in the United Kingdom as part of the process of issuing identity cards to the civilian population, and in the register for Cannock, there’s a Katherine Whitehouse listed with the same birth date as Katherine Scragg.

She appears to be living on her own, suggesting that her husband had died, and is described as a retired school teacher.

In 1941, the death of Katherine Whitehouse is recorded in Cannock. Again, there is a fee payable for a digital copy of the death certificate to definitively confirm the details, but circumstantial evidence suggests that Katherine Whitehouse is the same person as Katherine Scragg.

I’m pleased to find that despite the trauma of her 1887 assault she appears to have been successful in life and hopefully had a happy few years with her husband, Daniel Whitehouse.