Susan E Gay (
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Short biography
Gay was the daughter of William Gay and his wife, Charlotte Grace Elizabeth Gay, née Pedersen. She authored a book on the history of Falmouth.
Full biography
She was a chronicler of Falmouth and friend of the Fox family, who provided her with some of the illustrations and material for her book. She also wrote on Theosophy and was interviewed by Walter Evans-Wentz concerning folktales heard from her home at Crill, near Falmouth. The information from these interviews which was later published in his 1911 book, The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries.
Works in our collections
Author
Old Falmouth (1903)
Date of birth
12 January 1895
Place of birth
Oswestry, Shropshire
Date of death
17 January 1918
Place of death
Budock, Cornwall
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