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Staffordshire / Re: UTOXETER LADY MENTIONED IN WILL
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 12:13 BST (UK)  »
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.

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Staffordshire / Re: UTOXETER LADY MENTIONED IN WILL
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 08:54 BST (UK)  »
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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Staffordshire / Re: UTOXETER LADY MENTIONED IN WILL
« on: Friday 10 May 24 16:56 BST (UK)  »
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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Staffordshire / UTOXETER LADY MENTIONED IN WILL
« on: Friday 10 May 24 15:05 BST (UK)  »
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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Northamptonshire / Re: WHITWORTH family of Earls Barton
« on: Thursday 23 November 23 12:04 GMT (UK)  »
Dos anyone know if this is the same WHITWORTH family of Northampton who invested in coal in South Wales in Victorian times?

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Glamorganshire / Re: RECORDS FOR SAILORS
« on: Friday 01 September 23 15:59 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, yes.  Their father Richard was steward to Lord Kensington in London and then moved to South Wales, settling eventually in Saundersfoot.

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Glamorganshire / Records for sailors
« on: Friday 01 September 23 13:42 BST (UK)  »
My great-grandmother's brothers were in the merchant navy.  William was born 1831 Laugharne and George 1834 Llandawke.  I lost track of them both after 1851 but recently found William getting married to a Maria Davis (she was then a widow named Chewings) in Cardiff in 1856.  William, George and Maria are not to be found (at least by me) on the 1861 or subsequent censuses.  I can't find them on local sailing records or emigration data.  Deaths at sea is one I haven't checked.  Is there such  a record?  Any ideas welcome.

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Staffordshire / Re: MARRIAGE AT KINVER
« on: Wednesday 19 July 23 14:09 BST (UK)  »
Very interesting.  Thank you.  I didn't know about Esther who, it would appear, was christened in 1805 in Norwich.  A bit far away!  Plenty of digging for me to do there.

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Staffordshire / MARRIAGE AT KINVER
« on: Tuesday 18 July 23 15:38 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have access to the marriage at St. Peter's, Kinver on 26th August 1822 between William Collins and Lydia Linnecar.  I'm wondering if there are any more clues on the original record.

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