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« on: Wednesday 03 August 22 14:26 BST (UK) »
The Mary Spooner Will is quite enlightening. She leaves a sum of £500 to her great-niece Ellen Fell. She also leaves a sum of £4000 to her nephew Thomas Tasker, son of Richard & Ellen Tasker. We’ve previously picked up Thomas Tasker, the grocer, in the census returns from Rotherham.
Richard Tasker married Ellen Raw on 19th May 1800 in Whitby. Ellen is therefore Mary Spooner’s sister. Mary and Ellen had a brother William, watch and clockmaker, who lived in Whitby and this may account for Richard & Ellen’s marriage taking place there. I’ve found a baptism record for a Thomas Tasker, son of Richard & Ellen Tasker, 4th December 1810 in Masbrough, Yorkshire (a district of Rotherham which doesn’t seem to exist as such any more).
I suspect this Richard Tasker may have been the son of Richard Tasker, brother of John Tasker (1738-1816), the architect. John Tasker was the grandfather of Countess Helen Tasker….godmother of Ellen Willmott.
Regards,
Chris