Catherine Prentice

Catherine Prentice was buried in the graveyard at Woodford-by-Thrapston, near Kettering, in 1865. Otherwise known as ‘Kitty’, she was a servant and a nurse to the Reverend G.A.F. Watson who brought her to Northamptonshire, after living in India.

The gravestone reads ""Kitty" After years of faithful & loving service in India and England fell asleep in Christ XXVII May 1865. Not merely a servant but above a servant a sister beloved"

The parish register of May 1865 records the burial of "Catherine Prentice, African Nurse to Rev GAF Watson Chaplin HMIS aged about 30".