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Just found this thread while searching Lydia (found info on this a while ago, but just come back to this line of my tree).  Although according to information the story is a myth, I wonder if it is based on fact as my 5x great grandfather Robert Shears, who was born in Winterslow married a Lydia (born around 1776). Not sure if she actually came from Winterslow - by 1806 they were possibly in Nether Wallop as their daughter was born there, and they were definitely there by the 1841 census (no places of birth on the 1841 census and Lydia wasn't listed on the 1851 census which gives his birthplace as Winterslow).