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Hi Chris

I think he was, a good family to marry into the Coutts.

It appears that my Great x 4 Grandad was killed under the wheels of his carriage, and from the newspaper article Sir Francis Burdett said that he would provide for his one remaining son aged 12 (Thomas Bush French), if it hadn't said about it on the burial record that something had happened and mentioned Sir Francis Burdett's name I would have been none the wiser

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Lol Middy, that's the best thing about seeing original registers, you can find all sorts of snippets!.
Was good of the LMA to work in with Ancestry, although mistranscriptions are rife amongst the parishes, but with patience and effort, you can usually get results, although they aren't complete.

Funnily enough, I saw the back of my head again last night, on an old WDYTYA programme, I was there when Patsy Kensit was being filmed lol!.

Chris :)

Lol!! Chris

Very true about patience and effort

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Since Mary Freebody was a widow, to trace her back you'll need her MS=maiden surname.
The obvious first guesses are via:
Witness- James Aylward?Jane Vicholson?
although Nicholson seems more likely than Vicholson.

You will often find the same man/men being the witnesses on the majority of marrs in that year, i.e., a professional witness often the parish clerk or some mate of his. Rellies of the couple often were shy of admitting they couldn't sign their own name. Siblings were often witnesses.

The other obvious choice for Mary's MS is Bush.
(My gran remarried as a widow and 2 of her subsequent kids got her MS as their mid name.)

Hi MGNV

Thanks, I will have a look into - at the moment trying to find information on her children

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