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Jill
05-10-12, 13:19
Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Grace Edmonson/Edmyson
Date and place of birth
c1772 Burnley, Lancashire
Names of parents
John Edmonson
Baptism
13 Sep 1772 Burnley
Details of each of his or her marriages
2nd Jan 1800 at St Peter, Burnley to John Kershaw (the record is on Ancestry and is not as familysearch I has it 15 Dec 1799, Burnley to John Kershaw, though that may be the first day banns were read)
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=2576&iid=4420869_00313&fn=John&ln=Kershaw&st=r&ssrc=pt_t17033206_p1253258498_kpidz0q3d1253258498z 0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid&pid=1223050
No 322 left side 2d from bottom, opinions invited as to witnesses names!
Occupation(s) - if any
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Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on, if applicable.
1841: Back Street, Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire
1851: Front Street, Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire
Date, place and cause of death
12 Nov 1852 Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire (from gravestone)
Date and place of burial
St Nicholas, Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
n/k
Memorial inscription - if any
“Also GRACE KERSHAW Wife of the above/who departed this life the 12th Day of/Novr 1852, Aged 80 Years”. (thanks go to Lara on this forum for photographing it for me)

Link to husband John Kershaw (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=11304&highlight=john+kershaw)


Link to son Joseph Kershaw (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=7828&highlight=joseph+kershaw)

Janet
06-10-12, 06:44
Jill, I think they're both serial witnesses: Tho. Cropsley and Wm Haworth (see the marriage following this one, also the last two on the left-hand page for Cropsley).

Jill
06-10-12, 08:35
Thankyou Janet, I should have spotted that!