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  • John Doe and Jane Brand
    All Saints Church, Little Canfield, Essex John Doe  (b. ~1730 in Great Canfield) and  Jane Brand (b. ~1732 in Little Canfield), a pair of m...
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    St Peter's Church, Exton cc-by-sa/2.0  - ©  John Lord  -  geograph.org.uk/p/3608275 Joseph How (b. 1781 in Dulverton, Somerset ) marrie...
  • Con Colleano and Winifred Constance Stanley Trevail
    Winifred Constance Stanley Trevail and Con Colleano Cornelius Sullivan (b. 26 Dec 1899 in Lismore, New South Wales ), Theatrical, son of Co...
  • Silvanus Trevail Architect and Mayor of Truro
    Truro : Lemon Street cc-by-sa/2.0  - ©  Lewis Clarke  -  geograph.org.uk/p/4611928 Silvanus Trevail , architect (1851–1903) The phrase, ...
  • Benjamin Searle Sparrow Masters & Sage Boulton Ayres
    St Mary's Churchyard Gardens, Rotherhithe cc-by-sa/2.0  - ©  Robin Stott  -  geograph.org.uk/p/7794520 Benjamin Searle Sparrow Masters ...
  • Captain William Layman RN and Elizabeth Perry
    Photo  ©  Nigel Brown  ( cc-by-sa/2.0 ) HMS Victory, June 1987 Photo available for reuse under this  Creative Commons licence . William Laym...
  • Thomas Tooze and Jane Burton
    Pound Hill, Holcombe Rogus cc-by-sa/2.0  - ©  Derek Harper  -  geograph.org.uk/p/2508490 Thomas Tooze (b. 1776), listed as Jnr, son of  Tho...

 

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