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Louisa Leighton (1807–1833)
Louisa Hope (1834–1854)
Louisa Hope Edwardes (1855–1894)

1807–94

Daughter of Louisa Anne and Francis Knyvett Leighton Sr. Sister of Clare and Francis Knyvett Leighton. Married Henry Hope in 1833. Henry Hope took the additional surname Edwardes about 1854.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1846

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1992/374/5), 1861 (RG9/1862/63/7)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 August 2017

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 August 2017)

Bibliography

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

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