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« on: Tuesday 15 October 19 17:24 BST (UK) »
I’m trying to find the family of these two going back, especially their births/baptisms and whether they are siblings. I have Hannah’s marriage to John Stevens and her family from there. I don’t have anything for William except for censuses and his daughter Matilda, her marriage and family afterwards. William was buried in 1869 but doesn’t appear to have left a will. There is an 1837 marriage for a William Butt, widower, in Derby, but ruled it out as that one is a stockinger, not a farmer
I can’t find any Sandiacre records online, in addition to the two baptisms, I’m looking for William’s marriage and whether Matilda had any siblings.
Does anyone know where I can go from here?
The family is distantly related to Robert Posnett Smith AKA Robert Postnett Stevens, well-known local cricketer and his uncle Joseph Stevens, whose will of over £100,000 in 1885 appears to require Robert to change his surname to benefit