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Sunday finery at the turn of the 20th century. Some of them would have worked in the extensive walled garden and greenhouses, now derelict, to provide produce for the house. Others would have worked on the local tenanted farms and in forestry on the estate.
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Elizabeth married twice afterwards, and the ghost was more probably Elizabeth Maxwell, John's mother.
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