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!Death GRO 2b 17, 2nd Qtr 1880.

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When Elizabeth Siddall returned to Hastings in April 1860 she stayed at 12 East Parade, next door to The Cutter Inn. There is a plaque commemorating the stay of Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal but the present Cutter Inn was rebuilt in 1929 across the demolished sites of numbers 11 and 12.
Although their relationship had been very unsettled Rossetti now offered Elizabeth marriage and wrote to his mother on the 13th April 1860 from 12 East Parade informing her of their plans to marry. The wedding was initially supposed to take place on his birthday, 12th May, but Elizabeth was too ill to make it to the church. They were finally married on Wednesday 23rd May 1860 at St Clement’s Church. The landlady at 12 East Parade was Mary Chatfield (Moncur) and her husband Alfred and daughter Jane witnessed the marriage. Memorials to Rossetti can be found in St Clement’s Church.