Familiae minorum gentium, Volume 37 |
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1st wife 2nd wife aged Alice April Bagshaw Barlborough Bart Benjamin Brampton brother Burton Catherine Chapel Charles Chester Chesterfield child Church Clarke Clerk coheir cousin Crompton Derb Derby Dorothy Dronfield Eddowes Edmund Edward eldest dau Eliz Elizab Elizabeth Eyam father field Francis Gent George Halifax Hall Hannah heir Henry Heywood Hull husband infant issue James Jane Joseph Joshua July June Lanc Leeds Liverpool living unmar London Manchester March Margaret Martha Mary Mercht Milnes Mower Nathaniel Nicholas Northowram Norton Notts Oates Oliver Heywood Parker pedigree Pegge Peter Philip Pontefract Priestley Ralph Rayner Rebecca Rector Revel Richard Robert Rochdale Rotherham Samuel Sarah Shaw Sheffield sister sole dau Stannington Strelley Susanna Sykes Thomas unmar Vicar Wakefield Wickersley widow wife of John William York young youngest
Popular passages
Page iv - In all his flower and prime. 3 See the vain race of mortals move Like shadows o'er the plain ; They rage and strive, desire and love, But all their noise is vain.
Page iv - God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home.
Page iv - The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their cares and fears, Are carried downward by the flood, And lost in following years.
Page iv - Aiunt, quum sibi sint congesta cibaria : sicut Parvula, nam exemplo est, magni formica laboris Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo, Quem struit haud ignara ac non incauta futuri.
Page iv - I have taken this pains not for the present age, but a future. Many things which were known to our grandsires are lost to us ; and our grandchildren will search in vain for many facts which to us are most familiar.