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Mary (Ma’am) Burton

b. 1772–6 d. 1847

Born Mary Gittins. Married Henry Burton, incumbent of Atcham, Shropshire, in 1795.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/904/1/9/11)

Pallot’s marriage index, 1780–1837 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 June 2017)

Prerogative Court of Canterbury will registers (The National Archives: Public Record Office PROB 11/2055/291)

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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