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Shropshire Lookup Requests / Elizabeth Grant, servant, maybe around Market Drayton, 1866
« on: Monday 23 February 15 01:44 GMT (UK)  »
My 2x Great Grandmother Elizabeth Grant was born in Leicester on 27th January 1847, and had a baby, christened Robert Smith Grant, on Cheshire Street in Market Drayton in November 1866. She was unmarried, and after the birth she returned to her family in the village of Great Glen, Leicestershire. The family lore says that she was a servant in a big house in Shropshire. Meanwhile, her mother Judith was married to railway navvy John Wood and was living in Chelmarsh, near Bridgwater in April 1861.

I'd love to find out if and where Elizabeth Grant was a servant in Shropshire, in the mid 1860s. Anybody have any good ideas?

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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Looking for Esther Blount, circa 1777, possibly Great Glen or close by
« on: Monday 23 February 15 01:22 GMT (UK)  »
My 4x Great Grandmother Esther (Easter/Hester) Blount married Robert Grant in the village of Great Glen, Leicestershire on 2nd November 1798. She was buried on 11th March 1861 apparently aged 82. I believe she was born between 1776 and 1779, and the later Census entries say she was born in Great Glen. There are Blounts and Blunts in Great Glen, and in the adjacent village of Burton Overy too, going back to the sixteenth century, but I can't find any information about an Esther's birth. The only one I have found is an Esther Blount born 18th August 1777 in Nottingham, but that looks unlikely because noone else seemed to marry people from so far away. Can anyone help me with a search of some local parishes? I'd be incredibly grateful???

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