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Mary Wilcox – A Minor Mystery Solved

geneageek — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:50:02 +0000

(continued from previous post: Who was Mary Wilcox?) The first step was to do a ‘blanket search’ for Mary born c1828. There was another Mary Wilcox of a similar age…

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Who Was Mary Wilcox?

geneageek — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 15:50:16 +0000

I first came across Mary Wilcox quite a few years ago. She was recorded on the 1881 census, in the home of Thomas Henry Wheeley, as his cousin. At 53,…

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Forbidden Marriage

geneageek — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:15:44 +0000

While researching some extended family members, I came across an unusual marriage. Ernest Wheeley and Emily Marian Phipps were married in 1923 and their daughter, Cissie was born the…

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Persistent Cruelty

geneageek — Mon, 18 May 2020 10:51:56 +0000

In 1901, Thomas Henry WHEELEY and Ann ROGERS had been married for 23 years and had had 8 children together. They were living on Dalkeith Street in Walsall – a…

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For Eva

geneageek — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:23:21 +0000

Poor little Eva Rogers. Not only did she die at just 3 years of age, but she was buried under the wrong name! To be fair, this error is likely…

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Wheeley Interesting Sequel

geneageek — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:02:11 +0000

I previously wrote about the brief marriage between William Henry Marston and Blanche Emma Wheeley in the post, Wheeley Interesting. I have just discovered that five years after their unhappy…

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