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Mary Kettle
1809 - Bef 1871 (~ 61 years)-
Name Mary Kettle [1] Christened 26 Feb 1809 Gillingham, Dorset, England Gender Female Died Bef 1871 [2] Person ID I7882 So Many Generations Last Modified 21 Feb 2021
Family William Weeks, b. 1808, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England , d. 5 Jul 1885, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England (Age 77 years) Married 7 Nov 1831 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England [3] Children 1. Ellen Weeks, b. 1839, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England , d. 1843, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England (Age 4 years) [natural] 2. John Weeks, b. 1841, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England , d. Aft 1901, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England (Age > 61 years) [natural] 3. Diana Weeks, b. 29 May 1843, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England , d. 29 May 1843, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England (Age 0 years) [natural] 4. Benjamin Weeks, b. 1845, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England , d. 5 May 1847, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England (Age 2 years) [natural] Last Modified 21 Feb 2021 Family ID F2425 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Of the four children of William and Mary, only one, John, survivedchildhood. In the 1841 census two children are listed. Ellen twoyears and John one month. In the 1851 census William and Mary werestill in Handley. Living with them was Molly Kettle aged 78 years bornBerwick St.John. Mary's mother no doubt. Next door, were George Weeksand wife Sarah, (nee Thick). This George was the son of Thomas Weeksand Mary, (nee Dibben). William and George were probably cousins oruncle and nephew but the actual link has not been established as yet.Also at the same address was George, aged 24, son of George and Sarah(Thick) and a John aged only 9 years who was the son of William andMary,nee Kettle. Jeannie Hodkinson (nee Weeks, born Dorset) who is adescendant of John Snr.'s brother,George, (the George who marriedElizabeth Bennett), found William in the 1871 census, widowed by then,aged 63 years, living with his married son John, born 1842, anddaughter in law, Charlotte, born 1846. (Charlotte was born atCranborne). Also listed there were grandchildren William,three years,Dorcas, one year and Mary nine months. (Note: Dorcas obviously nearerto two years.)
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