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Dorothy (Spencer) Bigsby (1771 - 1799)

Dorothy Bigsby formerly Spencer
Born in Hodsack Priory, Blythe, Nottinghamshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 10 Oct 1793 in Chapel of Austerfield, Bawtry, Yorkshire, Englandmap
Mother of
Died at about age 28 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Dorothy Spencer was the third daughter of Robert Spencer, Esq, and Dorothy née Stovin, of Hodsock Priory, Nottinghamshire. She was born in 1771.

Marriage and family

On 10 October 1793 at the Chapel of Austerfield, by Rev Edward Mason, Junior Minister, she married 1ly her cousin, Robert Bigsby, a solicitor, of St Peter's Church, Nottingham. Witnesses were Henry Heaton and (the bride's sister) Mary Spencer. They had issue one daughter.

Death

She died on 7 February 1799.

Legacy

Her widower remarried to Sophia Bray and had issue one son and one daughter.

Sources

'Recollections of Rev Richard Taylor' and genealogical notebooks, compiled by (his great-grandson) Cranleigh Harper Barton, which form part of the Cranleigh Barton Bequest, Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand (1975).

Registers of the Chapel of Austerfield [1]

The Descendants of Nicholas Spencer, by Sylvia Taylor Robertson (2003).





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