Claythorpe Watermill appears to have been either owned or managed by the Couch family, into which Henry Laister and Emma Kezia Laister married.
It appears as if Henry was working there as a Miller. Sometime after marrying Mary Ann he began to work as a porter and then a clerk for the railways. The railway line used to run to Claythorpe until it was closed down around 1961.
Sarah Couch (Mary Ann's mother) continued to run the mill after her husband's death in 1855, retiring some time after 1861 on a annuity. She then lived with her daughter, Elizabeth and her husband George Crow at Aby with Greenfield, just a short walk from Claythorpe.
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