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Why would the ages on a 1877 Marriage Certificate be so wrong?
I wasn't expecting to find this when I received a marriage certificate in the post today.
The year of marriage is 1877 in the registration district of Exeter.
Mary Ann Vickery, age 22 which make her ...
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Assessing accuracy of profession stated on daughter's baptismal record
While researching my great-grandmother, Celia Anna Gadd (1865-1915), I found a baptismal record dated December 15, 1872, which shows that she and her sisters Ada (b.1863) and Alice (b.1867) were ...
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Did Blanche Adelaide LAPPAGE (b 1872) attend school?
Blanche Adelaide LAPPAGE was born in 1872.
Blanche’s mother died 1874, and her father remarried 1875.
Blanche cannot be found until the 1881 census in a Woolwich workhouse. I have found no record ...
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Adoption records in 1871 based on census info
I have just stumbled over the fact that my Great x 3 Grandmother remarried a Charles Chant.
My Great x 2 Grandfather Henry is listed along with his sister Fanny as step children.
Does this mean ...
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Cause of death on an 1871 British Death certificate
I have a death certificate for a woman who died at the age of 42. The cause of death is listed as "disease of the brain". I am not sure what that could mean. Did they mean meningitis or some type of ...
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