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Old 15-01-11, 08:24
ElizabethHerts ElizabethHerts is offline
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Originally Posted by Merry View Post
Regarding Mary Tyler - when I was going through a box of stuff I'd inherited years ago and had looked at many times before, I found a lock of her hair which I'd not come acrss before (In an envelope with her name on it, I think written by her dau, my gg-grandmother). As she died in 1841 I think this is my oldest hairy relic lol She had pretty hair - between strawberry blonde and a light red auburn. You don't find that info on census records unfortunately!!
Merry, do you think the lock of hair could have faded over the years (after death)?

OH's mother, now 94, had red hair, quite auburn. As she got older, rather than going grey it went paler to a strawberry blonde colour.
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