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Offline FAB Fiona

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Re: Illegitimacy? Bigamy? Advice and Help Needed!
« Reply #18 on: Friday 06 March 09 10:26 GMT (UK) »
Only one thought at the moment: could Mary the mother have remarried after Robert's death to someone called Spencer who also died before 1851 and the whole family thought they should be called Spencer?

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Re: Illegitimacy? Bigamy? Advice and Help Needed!
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 26 December 10 18:01 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

I am James Spencer Ashworth's great great grandson. If 'lolaclare' would like to contact me, by sending a private message, I may be able to help or not as the case may be!

thanks

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Re: Illegitimacy? Bigamy? Advice and Help Needed!
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 26 December 10 18:02 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

I am James Spencer Ashworth's great great grandson. If 'lolaclare' would like to contact me, by sending a private message, I may be able to help or not as the case may be!

thanks

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« Reply #21 on: Sunday 26 December 10 18:03 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

I am James Spencer Ashworth's great great grandson. If 'lolaclare' would like to contact me, by sending a private message, I may be able to help or not as the case may be!

thanks


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Re: Illegitimacy? Bigamy? Advice and Help Needed!
« Reply #22 on: Monday 27 December 10 10:37 GMT (UK) »
A look at the wills of the various REv. Spencer might be the key. It was not uncommon in the 19th century for bequests be conditional on the recipient changing their surname to that of the testator in order to inherit.
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« Reply #23 on: Monday 27 December 10 14:27 GMT (UK) »
A Joseph Noble appears on marriage in Great Harwood as chymist, but on the next census he was "labourer at dye works". A John Broadley appeared in his father's will as chemist of Calderbrook and seems to have been in charge of a mill, so perhaps chemist had a wide application as apparently confectioner did, claytonbradley
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Re: Illegitimacy? Bigamy? Advice and Help Needed!
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 06 August 19 20:11 BST (UK) »
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