Thank you four.
I see your groom Elkhannah Hitchen. and raise you my own grandfather Edmund Humphrey Appleby.
Perhaps he could be the local lawyer - outwardly respectable churchwarden and pillar of the community, but secretly a collector of Victorian pornography - ankle exposures, bare forearms, and ears provocatively framed by wisps of loose hair , , , - may be he even has some corsetry photographs secreted among his dusty legal tomes*
And I definitely need the Duckmanteau family in my epistle , Grouchy - what do you see Father Duckmanteau doing for a living whilst Mother Duckmanteau churns out butter and babies with equal ease? Night soil collector? Beadle? Sagger-maker's bottom knocker? I will be guided by your preferences.
And if anyone feels the urge to contribute to characters, plot, location, or text, you are very welcome,
*these are NOTHING like Greg(g)s bouncing bollox 