Ethel Rudkin
Ethel Rudkin (189321 September 1985) was an English writer, historian, archaeologist and folklorist from Lincolnshire. She pioneered the collection of folk material, particularly from Lincolnshire, and her collections are now part of several public institutions, including the North Lincolnshire Museum. Biography Ethel Hutchinson was born in 1893 in Willoughton, Lincolnshire. Her parents were Richard and Ethel Hutchinson; her mother's family were originally from Suffolk. As a young woman she was employed both as a governess and a groom by the same family. In 1917 she married George Rudkin from Folkingham, and according to her obituary in Folklore had "a blissful but tragically brief marriage until his early death in 1918". George had served as a commissioned officer in the Machine Gun Corps during the First World War and died in the influenza epidemic. He was also awarded the Military Cross. The North Lincolnshire Museum holds a handbag containing her wedding flowers and letters from him. After George's death she returned to Willoughton to live and care for her parents. In later life, Lucy Arliss moved in with Rudkin, assisted her on archaeological digs and they lived together for the rest of Arliss' life. In 1972 she and Arliss moved to