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Hi Amanda,

Further to the previous queries regarding your research on Sarah Ann Robertshaw:

John William and Mary Ann Robertshaw's mother was Ann (Walker - not absolutely sure about this yet). She died c.1844 and William Robertshaw married Mary Proberts in Q.4 1844, almost immediately, and they had Sarah Ann in 1845 - who you have been researching.

Mary Robertshaw died in 1847 and William Robertshaw married for the third time to Elizabeth Ledley in 1848 - who is my husband's direct ancestor. 

If you have access to Ancestry.co.uk please contact me and I will give you access to my family tree, which has a lot more information about the Robertshaw/Ledley family, especially the Unicorn Tavern/Inn at 204 Deansgate, where Sarah Ann was living in 1851. It might also explain why Sarah Ann called her eldest daughters Elizabeth and Ellen, these names were both Ledley names and Elizabeth Robertshaw would have been the only mother she would have remembered, being only a small child when her own mother died.

William and Elizabeth had one son - Francis, born 1850.

William was the landlord of the Unicorn Tavern until he died in 1854. He never lived at 14 Mary Street. The tenancy passed to Elizabeth on his death and then to her second husband John Hartley, then to John Bradley Ledley, then to William Ledley - and that's my husband's gg grandfather. Hope this isn't too confusing!

Happy hunting.

Regards,

Lynne