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My 4x Great Grandmother MARY LAW: SORTED THANX!

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greyghost

greyghost Report 6 Jun 2018 19:43

Preston Herald 11 Feb 1865
Deaths

Line above her entry says on Wednesday last aged 27 xdied and then

on the same day Mary Law aged 49 Blackpool

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 11 February 1865

LAW - February 8th aged 49 years, Mary wife of John Henry Law Esq. of this city and only daughter of the late Miles Clayton Esq.

greyghost

greyghost Report 6 Jun 2018 19:35

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro

Name: Age at Death (in years): Order:
LAW, MARY 49 Order
GRO Reference: 1865 M Quarter in FYLDE Volume 08E Page 450

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 6 Jun 2018 19:31

Her death is on freebmd

Fylde is the registration district for Blackpool

It will also be on Lancsbmd website

Nicola'S

Nicola'S Report 6 Jun 2018 19:23

Mary Clayton married John Henry Law, Solicitor in 1837 in Preston, Lancs. They had three daughters: Mary Clayton Law, Edith Elizabeth Law and Beatrice Law. This Law family lived in some considerable style in Manchester. Poor Edith died in childbirth with her third child leaving her husband, the Rector of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, with three very young children. We know all there is to know about her and the other two daughters and their descendants and that also goes for John Henry Law - so PLEASE don't waste your precious time on them!

Mary Law, nee Clayton died 8th February 1865 and is buried at Chorlton-cum-Hardy by, as it happens, her son in law. The burial record states that she actually died in BLACKPOOL, which is curious [no jokes please about big dippers ………… - my husband has already made them!], and I cannot find the record of her death so that I can order the Death Certificate. Can anyone see it, please?

Also, it looks as though there is an obituary for her in the British Newspaper Archive on the LDS site but I can't access it.

I would be so grateful for help with this, please.

Many thanks.