Jane (Slater) Fisher (1781 - 1846)

Born 1781 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Wife of James Fisher — married 25 Jul 1795 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, England

Descendants

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Biography

Jane was only 14 years old when she married into the Fisher family. It was a common practice within the Fisher family to enter marriage banns by authority of the Bishop enabling them to exercise a degree of privacy. It was also seen as a "status symbol" being able to afford such things.

Sources

• Information taken from entries in the Parish Registers for the Counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland, England, extracts of wills of family members, family papers, details from assorted transcriptions of graveyard and burial records, held by John M Sutherland-Fisher and family papers available at the Record Office for Cumbria in Carlisle.
• The Diary of William Fisher covering the period 1811-1859 published by the University of Lancaster
• Private papers and family correspondence in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher

• Miles Romney Family Organization; %Ralph B. Romney, 3356 Monte Verde Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah 84109, Nov 1971; Also Archive Records.

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• Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1795
• England & Wales Marriages, 1795
• England Census, 1841

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of 7 Generation GEDCOM Call.ged on 30 January 2011.