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This general service whistle was manufactured by Alfred De Courcy and Co., Frankfort Street, Birmingham and belonged to Catherine Mary Parry. Catherine, a spinster was born in 1890 and lived at Carreg Ceiliog Bach, Bethel, Bodorgan, Anglesey. She was one of eleven children with one of her sisters being mother to the bard Tom Parry-Jones. Catherine nursed at a hospital in Cardiff during the First World War. After retiring she returned to live in a croft in North Wales with her widowed sister. She is believed to have died in 1955.
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