Any good pc games set in victorian england? Preferably games that have some action
Im writing a story and want to use steampunk with a Russian background but i also wanna stay true to the lore of steampunk as a whole, what’s your input do you think it can be adapted and used for another culture or is it exclusively for Victorian England?
My great great grandfather was widowed and married his second wife Elizabeth Craven in Manchester in December 1877. This is what I know for sure about her – when they married she was recorded as 29 so born about 1847/48. Her father’s name was Edward. On the 1881 census she was 27 so born about 1854/55. The 1891 census agrees with this date. On the 1901 census she was 43 so born about 1857/58. All the censuses are in Manchester but give her place of birth as Boston, Lincolnshire or just Lincolnshire. On the 1901 census, she was widowed and gave her name as Betsey. I have looked for all births for Betsey/Elizabeth Craven in Lincolnshire for 1844-1860 with a father called Edward and the best fit is Betsey Craven born 1846 in Boston, Lincs, to parents Edward and Mary Ann.
My father has a dna match with 63.5 cM shared over 3 chromosomes, with segments of 18.5cM, 19.7 cM and 25.3 cM. I built up this match’s tree and she has an ancestor Betsey Craven, born 1846 in Boston, Lincs, who married William Brewster in 1868 in Boston. They are on the 1871 census with a child, Eliza Ada Brewster born 1869, and they had another child Florence Fanny Brewster the following year. By 1881 William was married to Harriett with more children as well as Eliza (whose name here is Ada Lexa) and Florence (whose name is transcribed as Hinch). So it seemed that my Elizabeth/Betsey had been married before. But then I found a death record and burial record for Betsy Brewster. The burial was recorded as 29 August 1873 and the death was registered in the Oct-Dec quarter. Her husband William married Harriett Dunnington on 25th December 1873, just four months later!
So I went back to the drawing board and rechecked ‘my’ Elizabeth/Betsey. If she wasn’t the Betsey Craven born 1846, then who was she? I can’t find any other births that fit, so the only alternative is that she was a close relative of the other Betsey but the birth wasn’t registered and she wasn’t on any censuses prior to her marriage. I’ve looked at whether there are any other Edward Cravens in the family but I couldn’t find any.
Does anyone think the death might have been faked? It’s odd that Elizabeth Craven from Boston appeared in Manchester out of the blue with no traceable history, and after her husband died she called herself Betsey. Also when Betsey Brewster died, her husband married pretty quickly almost as though he had someone lined up. Imagine the following scenario – Betsey Brewster commits adultery, William is sh
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Just as the title says. I'm thinking something similar to Twelfth Night.
Read most of a book in 2016-ish about two girls set in a historical (I think Victorian) landscape in England. Don't remember that much but one's mother was a prostitute -- there was a memorable scene where she would always put up a sheet every time she had a customer. The other was a rich girl and fell in love and became pregnant out of wedlock with this boy/man, only for him to reveal that it had been his plan all along to get revenge (?) on her. There was a girl with green eyes on the cover, I think.
