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Emily (Blanshard) Featherstone (1855 - 1884)

Emily Featherstone formerly Blanshard
Born in Yokefleet, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdommap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 19 Jun 1876 in Laxton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdommap
Died at about age 29 in Eastrington, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdommap [uncertain]
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Biography

This profile is part of the Eastrington, Yorkshire One Place Study.
This profile is part of the Blanchard Name Study.

Emily was born in 1855[1] in Yokefleet, Yorkshire, England, where she lived with her parents, Robert Blanshard and Mary Ann Richardson, in 1861.[2] In 1871 Emily lived with her aunt, Elizabeth Blanshard, in Yokefleet.[3]

In 1876 Emily married Morris Featherstone in Laxton, Yorkshire.[4][5] In 1881 the family lived in Eastrington, Yorkshire. Morris farmed 140 acres, employing two men and one domestic servant.[6]

Emily died in 1884 at the age of 30.[7]

Sources

  1. GRO civil registration birth index entry. Emily Blanshard. Vol 9d p 77. Mar quarter 1855. Registration district Howden. FreeBMD.org.uk
    GRO index search gives mother's maiden name Richardson
  2. "England and Wales Census, 1861," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7T3-9NV : 24 October 2019), Emily Blanshard in household of John Geroge Blanshard, Yokefleet, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 9, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
  3. "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZLT-PFZ : 24 April 2019), Emily Blanshard in entry for Elizabeth Blanshard, 1871.
  4. Laxton. 19 Jun 1876. Morris Featherstone (full age; bachelor; farmer; of Eastrington; father Robert Featherstone, farmer) married Emily Blanchard (full age; spinster; of Yokefleet; father Robert Fotherby Blanchard, farmer). Both signed. Witnesses John Pepper and Ann Featherstone.
    findmypast.co.uk. Yorkshire Marriages Transcription. Accessed 5 Nov 2019
  5. GRO civil registration marriage index entry. Morris Featherstone and Emily Blanshard. Vol 9d p 148. Jun quarter 1876. Registration district Howden. FreeBMD.org.uk
  6. "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27B-SNN4 : 11 December 2017), Morris Featherstone, Eastrington, Yorkshire,Yorkshire East Riding, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 11, Piece/Folio 4737/161, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,775,326.
  7. GRO civil registration death index entry. Emily Featherstone. Vol 9d p 65. Sep quarter 1884. Registration district Howden. Age 30. FreeBMD.org.uk




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