Re: Hartlepool Merryweathers
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In reply to:
Hartlepool Merryweathers
Ruth Smith 4/26/02
please be aware of the following baptisms at st hilda's church in the ancient borough of hartlepool:
on 29 january 1847:
jane
daughter of william merryweather a carter and margaret hawkeswell.
address wells yard.
(she died in the march quarter of 1847).
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on 27 february 1848:
jane
daughter of william merryweather a carter and margaret hawkeswell.
address middlegate.
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in those days it was not unusual for the first born to die and the next or later child to be called by the same name.