Cast list in hand, I’m going to put the newspaper reports aside for now and see if I can locate any of our players in the records.
Some should be easier to trace than others. Mr Justice Chitty, for example – the judge who presided over my 2x great-aunt Catherine’s case at the Chancery Court – turns out to have his own Wikipedia page. One of the leading lawyers of his day, Joseph William Chitty also played cricket at Marylebone, rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race and was briefly a Whig MP.
The other easy option ought to be the Jewish gentleman appointed Catherine’s guardian in England until the decision was overturned. His surname is Brandon, not that unusual, but one newspaper gives his first name as Jonathan, which possibly is.
Over to the censuses and here he is in
