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Where is "Perthall"?
Benjamin West, Jr. was the son of Benjamin West, the artist.
"Perthall" is likely a misreading of "Pershall," an estate and family in Staffordshire that is well-documented. The ...
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At what age did girls leave home in 1880s England?
The Education Act of 1880 was the first to make education compulsory for English and Welsh children, but only between the ages of five and ten, and even then many parents did not send them to school ...
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Finding source of father's first name on 1713 Staffordshire baptism from FamilySearch index?
It's always worth double-checking to see whether the online image comes from the original register or the Bishop's Transcripts.
I've certainly sometimes found that the transcriptions on sites like ...
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If widow remarries, do English records ca 1820 show maiden name?
So far as I remember in my data, it's always her current name prior to the marriage about to take place. NB I haven't constructed a query to check this out but that's how it seems to go. I definitely ...
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If widow remarries, do English records ca 1820 show maiden name?
I'd agree with @AdrianB38's answer: in my experience, the current name tends to be used. It's certainly possible that a woman might revert to her maiden name after being widowed, but I don't recall ...
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Dating entry in Collections for a history of Staffordshire
The obvious answer is that that 20th May, 13 E. IV is a regnal date - specifically it refers to the 20th May in the 13th year of the reign of Edward IV.
The complication is that Edward IV reigned from ...
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If widow remarries, do English records ca 1820 show maiden name?
I have two of these and both their marriage certificates show the married with the surname of their husband BUT they have previously .... showing their maiden name.
So, for example Georgina Squelch ...
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Verifying facts and relationships given in 16th century visitations?
Elias Ashmole was an antiquarian and collector (among other things), whose wide-ranging interests included heraldry and genealogy. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was founded to manage his collection, ...
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Where is "Perthall"?
The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 73, Issue 2 (1803) suggests that Perthall is/was near Stafford in Staffordshire:
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Monumental Inscriptions - Churchyard of St Mary & St Chad in Brewood, Staffordshire
For a big-picture approach to this question, see Determining what records are available for a particular locale?
This is a general procedure for finding Staffordshire records. New record collections ...
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Grandmother as spinster? (Staffordshire, 1736)
By law an illegitimate child could not inherit from the father. If a father wanted to provide for his natural child he had to make a gift in his lifetime or include the child in his will. In either ...
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If widow remarries, do English records ca 1820 show maiden name?
No, it would not list the Maiden name of the woman. From 1837 onwards it would be likely to list the name, trade or profession of the father of both parties on the marriage certificate. However that ...
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