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Offline Guy Etchells

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Re: Burial of Ancestor in Wakefield
« Reply #9 on: Friday 30 January 09 19:59 GMT (UK) »
There is an 1823 map of Wakefield on my website at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/framland/Wake1823.jpg

It shows the All Saints Burial Ground and the Corpse Road which was used to carry some of the deceased to the burial ground.
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Re: Burial of Ancestor in Wakefield
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 31 January 09 08:26 GMT (UK) »
Jukey, this could be John's Baptism.

March 5th, 1780
John Womersley
Father's Name & Occup: John / Stuff Maker

Chapelry:  Honley
Place:        Almondbury
                 All Hallows

Honely, Yorkshire West Riding

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Granaghan: Crossmolina, County Mayo
Mullens: Kensington, London
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