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Thank you so much, Elliven for your research and posts. I wonder where Mary Innis (snr) may be buried and also husband William Innis? Her daughter Mary Senior nee Innis is buried at Elswick Cemetery. One day if I locate her it would be nice to link them up on Find a Grave. Husband Edward is at St Oswald.
Before covid I went to visit the Half Moon pub in Durham to see where these ancestors lived and worked.
It is a mystery that Edward Senior seems to have come from a wealthy background and was left a lot of money by his parents in their wills. He was once a gentleman farmer before taking on pub work. However, he doesn't appear to have left any will when he died and neither does he appear to have a gravestone. Perhaps all the money was gone by the time Mary became the proprietor of the Half Moon?
I did come across an article once about these Marys being charged for allegedly serving someone at the Half Moon - I think it was on a Sunday morning out of pub hours.
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