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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Staffordshire => Topic started by: Mart56 on Friday 10 May 24 15:05 BST (UK)
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This lady was left some money by Millicent Mildred Bailey 1780-1843 who was housekeeper to a South Wales landowner. She was hr step-mother. Can anyone decipher the name? If anyone knows anything about Millicent that would help as well. She appears to have had a lot of money for a housekeeper.
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Looks like Mrs Truro to me
Willow x
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Looks like that to me.
LM
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and the only people I can see on the 1841/1851 census are Lord and Lady Truro of Cornwall
Willow x
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She was hr step-mother.
So who was her father? Or was the step mother Millicent?
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Millicent was a spinster so her step-mother Mrs Truro?? or Munro??? must have re-married later. The latter should be on the 1841 census somewhere.
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What makes it more of a muddle is that I have now found that the will was made in 1828. This means that Millicent's step-mother was quite possibly deceased by the time of the 1841 census.
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it does look like Truro, but further down is Thomas Morgan and the possible T is not the same
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I wonder if it is Munro but badly written
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There is a marriage Uttoxeter 1814 of an Esther Bailey, widow, to a John Durose. So maybe it says Duro?
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Thats a good one
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There is a burial of an Esther Durose on 7.5.1846 at St Mary the Virgin Uttoxeter aged 73 so she should be on the 1841 census somewhere
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Possible burial for John 30.9.1841 aged 74
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Ok found them on the 1841
Church Lane, Hanbury - all born in county
John Duroes aged 75 Farmer
Easther Durose aged 65
On the same household
Lewis Bentley aged 30 Farmer
Hannah Bentley aged 25
William Bentley aged 5
976/6/8/8
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Will for Esther is on FindMyPast. but dated 1844. so no mention of Milicent Mildred
Esther's brother is Thomas MOORCROFT
she has a sister Elizabeth MILNER
and a niece Mary Ann CHAFFIELD
Nothing useful in John DUROSE's will either - that I can see. - though quite a few names.
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Esther MOORECROFT married John BAILEY a flax dresser 8 Aug 1807 at Okeover.
John was a widower.
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Lewis Bentley married Hannah Hackett of Malvern Ridware so not a relative to Millicent
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Ok a bit more info here
marriage 8.8.1807 at Okeover Staffordshire John Bailey widow flax dresser aged 21 and over to Esther Moorcroft spinster aged 21 and over
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and maybe Millicents parents
at Ashbourne Derbyshire 3.1.1778 John Bailey bachelor aged 20 flax dresser of Stubwood Rocester to Hannah Wagstaff aged 24 spinster of Ashbourne
John married with the consent of his father Joseph Bailey
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Except the image of a baptism of a Mildred at Rocester 1778 to a John & Hannah Bayley is immediately followed by a burial of a John Bayley.
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if John died just after Millicents birth then Esther cant be her step mother
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The baptism is just for a Mildred. It might not be the right one.
There do seem to be a lot of John Baileys around. It might not be her father.
Step mother might have a broader meaning than we give it now,
We might be completely wrong about Durose.
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From Millicent's will (more than £1000 bequests in 1843) she appears very well off and, as a housekeeper, she would not have earned that sort of money; so she must have inherited something. Three years after her death there is another document repaying a debt owed to her of £2,700. That is something like £ 1/4 million in today's money.