The Life And Crimes Of Margaret Catchpole

[@EllieGrant1]

It’s good to hear about the life of an ordinary person rather than royalty or the upper classes.

[@cw4608]

Indeed, I have never understood why people get so immersed in the lives of the sickeningly wealthy, whether they be leaders, entertainers, or families of wealthy industrialists. Many of whom likely did some cringy things to get to, and maintain, that status..

[@dennislooker2290]

Her picture still hangs in the pub never to be removed while the pub stands.

[@mauricedavis8261]

AMEN, I was starting to think us common folk didn't exist back then!!!🙏👍😎

[@LisaNH934]

Very interesting! She must have been a very strong woman to endure such hardships. I'm glad her story lives on. Thank you :-)

[@garethifan1034]

Not necessarily 'strong' - just typical of the women of the day. People in general were accustomed to daily hardship and suffering, so were tough by nature. We make poor comparisons between today's and those days..

[@joconnor9256]

Woke up on a very cool morning here in Dubbo Australia to find this informative and fascinating vlog , it’s so obvious that you spend a great deal of time researching your subjects , it is very much appreciated 😀

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@grammiesspirit2667]

It is amazing how much wonderful time, effort, and love for research these great presenters take to deliver, to us, the fascinating presentations and I thank them and am quite envious of their works.

[@valgalloway6914]

The History we're taught in school is always Kings & Queens, Generals & Admirals - never ordinary folk. Even most historical novels follow those same lives. Thank goodness the lives of people like Margaret can still be studied - she's far closer to the lives of my ancestors than any Kings could be. Thank-you.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Couldn't agree more, At my school even when we did cover more common history it was never of anyone local.

[@glengraham7080]

....and equally interesting really. The lives of ordinary people tell you far more about the times than those of royalty or the rich.

[@jeanross7430]

What an amazing woman, she was certainly endowed with much strength and resolution and much courage imo.

[@ImCarolB]

As horrible as transportation was, it was a chance for a new and free life for many, once they had served their sentences. The penal colonies in Australia only began when the American colonies became independent, and many of our settlers in the southeast were former prisoners. After the Revolution, many of the Hessian mercenaries who fought for the British never bothered to go back home.

[@mauricedavis8261]

What a wonderful person Elizabeth was when concerning Margaret, thank you for this slice of history!!!🙏👍😎

[@amandariddell1650]

I too woke this morning in Mullumbimby NSW Australia and was really excited to watch this, well done, love your work. You have a very pleasing tone also. Keep going 👌🏻

[@GrandOldMovies]

She sounds like a remarkable woman - thanks for highlighting her life.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Thanks, nice avatar btw big Lee Marvin fan

[@tw15t3dup5]

Extremely well researched and presented once again. A great tale of adversity under extreme circumstances. Well done.

[@jacksimper5725]

Fascinating piece of history ,thanks.

[@sksksksl]

Wonderful, inspiring story! Thank you for doing all the hard work to bring this to us.

[@bronwynj5194]

Thanks for your clear, slow delivery, makes it easier to take in the info 👏😊

[@mauricedavis8261]

Thank you for a nice piece of history otherwise unknown to me, great episode!!!🙏👍

[@blazefairchild465]

Great research ,thank you for bringing the true story back. I enjoy your channel ,and your presentation.

[@annieseaside]

I am a new, but ardent fan. I especially liked hearing of an ordinary person, a woman and one who was remarkable. I am American. Nearly a 50/50 split on Ancestry DNA of Scottish and British, early colonial settlers. Two of my Scottish ancestors fought England and came to MA as indentured servants. However, after serving 7 years both went on to become significant landowners and held offices settling MA and RI. All land in the UK was spoken for. Australia and America offered endless possibilities if you were a hard worker and had strong health. Had any of them stayed where they were born, they would never have had any shot to climb the ladder of success.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Wow it's great you have been able to find out so much of your family history, always an interesting topic to look into.

[@nicolebrunzel6608]

Thanks for this well narrated video! I find Margaret a very interesting character. I highly recommand reading "Scapegallows" by Carol Birch.

[@jbos5107]

I wonder if she did steal the horse for a man. Then after being caught and the man leaving her to be punished alone put her off men for the rest of her life. She was more fortunate than most with her former mistress remaining her lifelong friend.

[@terryansell6641]

Thank you from New Zealand. A very interesting video

[@nightlurker]

Your channel is a wonderful introduction to my newly adopted county. I recently retired to Ipswich, and it is fantastic to find a channel that retells the stories of the areas and villages I am now exploring, with all the people from history that make it come alive once again. Thank you.

[@vickicatchpole7944]

I found this piece very interesting thank you

[@nicolekatherine3870]

My birthday is the 10th of March. Naturally, I had to listen.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

A very good month to be born in. :)

[@jasontwynn7356]

A nother well done video,as normal for your channel. Thank you very much for your hard work. It always a good day when I see you have a new video out. PS forgot to say I'm from Muskegon Michigan in the USA.

[@davidlong3824]

History is so interesting great story.

[@barbaralamson7450]

Loved it, thank you. 😊

[@markheitz7963]

Yes it's good to hear these stories from history, that otherwise would slip away into obscurity & probably never to be heard again, it's just the mental narration I've never heard ne1 talk in this style,

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I'm glad you the story, Would you care to explain the comment on the narration, always looking for ways to improve.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

To get a Ticket of Leave after only eighteen months as an assigned convict was most impressive.

[@itsjohndell]

Excellent Video. I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath for several years and happened to stumble upon the Pub in Ipswitch with my lady friend for lunch one day. interesting indeed to learn this.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I'm glad you liked it, My father worked at Lakenheath for a time in the 80s, civilian contactor helping build some of the reinforced hangers there I believe.

[@Vic-mv8iz]

Very interesting thank you for putting it on very well read

[@charlesachurch7265]

Thanks for another great presentation xxx thanks

[@lanialost1320]

Thank you for your wonderful narration and research! So glad I was recommended your channel.

[@lizclarke8570]

I have just found this channel. It’s brilliant, Oooo ive loads of catching up to do, i can’t wait.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I hope you enjoy what you find.

[@sharonbland3843]

Hi, I have just come across your channel. I live in Norwich, so I find your videos all the more interesting. I have a lot to catch up on, which I am so looking forward to.

[@bessofhardwick9311]

Really interesting. Thanks for uploading.

[@jean-pierredeclemy7032]

Friends of ours had a sailing vessel named Margaret Catchpole. Obviously someone saw fit to celebrate the life of the lady by naming the boat after her.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

That is great.

[@lovescoffee9780]

Enjoyed immensely

[@jazzerat]

Excellent. Thanks!

[@andreatrewin4722]

GRET CONTENT. MORE PLEASE 💕❤👍👍🎸

[@catherinewilkins2760]

Thanks for another interesting, historic, story.

[@doilysimpkin6972]

I grew up near Nacton. There are still many people with the surname 'Catchpole' in the area.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Interesting, Thanks for letting me know.

[@v8infinity8]

Fascinating, Thank You.

[@PtolemyJones]

I think I would watch a TV show about her life, very interesting.

[@lindatisue733]

Might try HBO Jamestown. It was interesting, they only made one series.

[@johnniethepom7545]

You just have.

[@PtolemyJones]

@@johnniethepom7545 so "pom" is slang for someone who doesn't know the difference between a KZbin video less that 20 minutes long and a TV series? Good to know.

[@johnniethepom7545]

@PtolemyJones you are showing your ignorance now . Google Pom, or do I have to explain ?

[@simonhawker9277]

great job thank you

[@keithwinters3031]

Great and interesting. Good cuppa stuff.

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Excellent video

[@sharonbowers8714]

Great job. ❤️

[@meganlangreck2488]

She seemed like a basically good person with a good work ethic. It would have been an atrocity if she had been executed for horse theft. That is excessive.

[@jackpayne4658]

Margaret sounds a very likeable person - no wonder Elizabeth kept in touch with her.

[@christinesmylie7059]

There is a public house named The Margaret Catchpole in Cliff Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Lovely looking building. Big car park. But they don’t serve food, so I am not sure how they are still open!! It’s right next to Holywells Park which was given to the town by the Cobbold family many years ago. It’s not far from the Waterfront (which would then have been the Docks).

[@torgeirbrandsnes1916]

Great story as always!

[@toekafrank6998]

Thank you.🙏

[@loritracy1385]

Fascinating. Thank you. Are we to assume that any artwork of her (here) is representative unless otherwise labeled? Once again, thank you.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

No most of the pictures are to do with her in this one, I forgot to label sorry.

[@grammiesspirit2667]

@@alittlebitofhistory The visuals are quite remarkable. Unbelievable love for your work shines

[@geoffbell166]

I know of a Whalers grave on the rugged east coast of NZ George Alwright died 1846 aged 36,you have to bush bash to find it but you can read the headstone,a lot of Whalers and Sealers were escaped convicts from Australia,some even sailed the Tasman Sea,as brigands tough desperate men and woman,but it was probably better than England!

[@grammiesspirit2667]

WOW!

[@tonymusic4773]

Fascinating facts.

[@LearnwithJanice]

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸

[@michaelcampin1464]

Maybe a story about the landlord of the White Swan in West Malling who was hung outside his own public house for sheep rustling. He is supposed to haunt the pub to this day

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I will look into it thank you.

[@mrrn100]

Well done Maggie!

[@simonf8902]

Lachlan Macquarie. A great early governor of NSW.

[@dvsdawl]

Interesting that her story is remembered when ..the whole of her offences were stealing a horse, and escaping afterward. Hardly serious crimes.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

such was the nature of the bloody code, it was uncommon but under its rules you could hang for stealing bread.

[@susanmccormick6022]

Like the old west,horse stealing was a serious crime due to the fact so many people relied on them for transport & work of all kinds.If u lost your horse you would be in serious trouble & buying another was too expensive for many people.

[@susanmccormick6022]

@@alittlebitofhistory And taking something worth over a certain amount,I forget what it was.

[@michaelcampin1464]

Pity the subtitles can't get names right it's the Cobbold family as in the later brewery Tolley Cobbold

[@alittlebitofhistory]

They are auto generated sadly I have nothing to do with them.

[@michaelcampin1464]

@@alittlebitofhistory that's a pity as with a lot of videos it detracts from the great content.

[@hamerjohn]

any relation to peter catchpole of New Brighton?

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Not sure I might have a look into it

[@dianebirch1706]

Are you local to Suffolk? Do you give talks to groups? Thanks

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I currently am living in Suffolk but in the process of moving to Norwich due to work. No I have never done a group talk.

[@colinmcewen9530]

theresa pub named after her in ipswich

[@eadweard.]

I suspect you've done a fine job in sifting the wheat from the bollocks.

[@ruthbeamish8849]

If that lady had lived in this era, she would have been at University. Obviously a very clever woman.

[@christinesmylie7059]

Not heard of the Margaret Catchpole Football Club…..don’t think it’s still in existence in 2024.

[@0therun1t21]

2:30-Is that a puppy I hear trying to get a job on YT? How people came to Australia is fascinating to me, thank you.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Not sure what that is tbh, Do have a dog in the house that belongs to one of the people I share with but don't think they were in the room.

[@noelleewen2946]

I'm very curious why she was dismissed from Elizabeth's employ. Do you have any info on that? I'm wondering if there was an affair between Elizabeth and she.. 🤔

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I have been unable to find anything. that is possible but I doubt it, if I had to guess I'd say Elizabeth's husband made a move on her and she rebuffed him, or he didn't like that fact his wife was teaching the "the help" to read and write.

[@noelleewen2946]

@@alittlebitofhistory Thanks for the response! I see. Very interesting story. Thanks!

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

Looks like Mr. Cobbold tried to sleep with her and when she rebuffed him she was fired, his wife must have know of his proclivities and supported the former servant.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I can 100% see that.

[@stevenwebb3634]

Lachlan Macquarie. Not John.

[@eddypaul8959]

I like Margret Catchpole.

[@christinesmylie7059]

Is it a machine reading this story? It’s so stilted and fragmented.

[@robertalpy]

Tou never said what it was that caused her to lose her employment with her mistress elizabeth. If she had stolen from her I doubt elizabeth would have looked after her as she did in later life. Perhaps Elizabeths husband caught an eye for her. That could lead to her having to be dismissed due to no fault of her own and might even explain why she later stole his horse and his wife defended the thief against him. Besides theft i cant think of any other reason except that she may have fallen pregnant but it never suggests she was.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Something like that would be my guess too.

[@rogermarsh9806]

History at this level is so much more interesting than that of Kings and wars particularly if one has a connection to to the area or characters, however tenuous. I was at school with one of the Cobbold brewing family and one of the Adnams brewing family as well. In the biology class they set up an experiment to see who could grow the largest tadpole. John Adnam put tincture of iodine in his water and his tadpole grew to an enormous size before legs appeared. These days I suppose some animal rights pillock would be tearing their hair out.

[@susanmccormick6022]

Why are animal rights people pillocks?All species deserve to b treated with dignity.If the taddie grew so large it doesn't sound like it was being harmed.We had to cut frogs up at school.I hated it though loved science.

[@rogermarsh9806]

@@susanmccormick6022 sorry Susan, I just cannot resist winding people up particularly as some animal rights people think it is OK to harm humans in the name of their cause. I don’t even kill little bugs that come onto the house, they are always carefully put outside unharmed.

[@jeanplunkett5580]

@@rogermarsh9806 In what way do animal rights people harm humans ?

[@rogermarsh9806]

@@jeanplunkett5580 I meant tearing their own hair out in despair.

[@omennemo8844]

Why did she stop working for the Cobolt family.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I was unable to find any info as to why, my guests with me John make a move on her that she rebuffed, or he was unhappy with his wife teaching "the help" to read and write. someone in the comments also put forward the idea of maybe there was more than just friendship between Margret and Elizabeth but sadly we will probably never know.

[@andreatrewin4722]

WOAH !

[@michaelcampin1464]

6 to 2 maybe 3 to 1

[@williambehan80]

The poor always pay .

[@alanthomas8748]

hey man hope ya had a good day 😁

[@irenabevans3411]

Interesting life story pity she lost her position with the Cobalt family, wonder if that was due to the master having a roving eye,, as I think the wife would have helped her more in bettering her life over the years it's a pity her life was so up & down mostly down leading to transportation

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Possibly he did far from uncommon at the time, or might of been he didn't like that his wife was teaching "the help" to read so he got rid of her.

[@irenabevans3411]

@@alittlebitofhistory True young women who were in service, had no protection & were fearful of losing their position without a character reference to gain new. employment, so sexual harassment at work is centuries old & not as some think a modern day curse. As for the wife being generous in teaching her the basics of literacy, many frowned upon people below a certain station in life trying to better themselves, The social structure of social placement being paramount, Thank goodness for the education act which gave all classes the advantage of a basic education even when not taken up fully by the poor, at the time due to the need to earn money for the families survival but became compulsory in later years

[@dvsdawl]

Why would they name a soccer team after a random woman who stole a horse a longgg time ago?

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Due to its location I assume its connected more to the pub than to her as a person

[@juliepiemonte1281]

How about the life and crimes of Margaret Sanger.

[@kozmicre982]

Ipswitch? whatever you do do not flip the Ip switch if you stop there!😂

[@lindadobson9854]

How very interesting.....sad she had no progeny

[@hippopotamus6765]

The book sounds like the new testament. Speciously fictitious content, although perhaps more accidentally.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I don't think there was anything accidental about how he wrote that book.

[@bobmiller7502]

why 6=2?? instead of 3=1?? just a thought,, never STOP loving,xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[@alittlebitofhistory]

6 to 2 was in the sources I found I did think of just saying 3 to 1 but maths has never been my strong point and I was a bit worried that they really meant totally different things or something like that.

[@bobmiller7502]

@@alittlebitofhistory lol TY xxxx

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I wonder why she lost her job?

[@tapsars7911]

She ought to have married ; the botanist if nobody else . Why live alone and without any family ?

[@ShastaOrange]

Maybe she was a lesbian?

[@tapsars7911]

@@ShastaOrange Quite possible . You might be right . Given the era she lived in she must have hidden her lesbian longings and stayed like a typical spinster .

[@moragwilliamson1736]

@@ShastaOrange Or maybe she just wanted to do whatever the hell she wanted.

[@SBecktacular]

That thumbnail- ewww🤢🤮

[@alittlebitofhistory]

I know, terrible like the rest of the channel.

[@odman69]

Interesting, but your, delivery, is a little bit, stilted, and, is quite, irritating, as a, result

[@alittlebitofhistory]

Thank you for the feed back it is something I am working on to improve

[@nevem5010]

Fascinating, thank you!