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Martha Litchfield (1830–1853)
Martha Steele (1853–1864)

1830–64

Daughter of Richard Litchfield and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Buckley; sister of Richard Buckley Litchfield. Married Arthur Loftus Steele (1815/16–93), captain in the East India Company, a widower with one son, in 1853.

Sources

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 October 2022)

Gloucestershire, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1938 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 June 2020)

Ireland, civil registration deaths index, 1864–1958 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 October 2022)

Litchfield 1910, p. 4

Bibliography

Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. 1910. Richard Buckley Litchfield: a memoir written for his friends by his wife. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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