First go at a beginning

"Ridley did not die peacefully, drowning in the sinking hull of the MV Montevideo Maru in company with over one thousand Australians. A United States submarine had inadvertently torpedoed the unmarked ship, loaded with prisoners of war from Rabaul, in July 1942. Ridley lived 47 years set against mundane and momentous events in the 20th century. He left no heirs and passed into memory and a mystery."


Well! that sounds like nothing wonderful but the beginning is always the hardest, then ending properly...........

Lucy Jane Godfrey-Faussett

Lucy was the daughter of Henry Woodcock, of Wigan, Lancashire. There were 7 more children, the youngest in the 1881 census being listed as a daughter of one years age when the family was living in Bolnore House, Cuckfield, Sussex. By then Lucy was married to  Thomas  Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett (1829 –1877). Lucy's birthdate isn't listed anywhere I have yet found but I think she may have been considerably younger than Thomas. They married in 1964 and had one son, Edward Godfrey, in 1866. Thomas' father was the Reverend Godfrey Faussett, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford. The landlord of Ivy House, as well as a number of other land holdings, is listed with the one word "Margaret" in 1905. Lucy is listed as living in Cuckfield, Sussex. Must be a tie-up there somewhere.  By 1920, when Lucy wrote enquiring after Ridley's welfare and location, she would have been in her 70's.  Her family is listed in Burke's Peerage as claiming Plantagenet descent from Isabella Neville , Duchess of Clarence, 1451. On both her father's and her husband's side the families have been in the military, clerics and gaining income from land - minor aristocracy.