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Francis Mostyn Owen

1815–91

Army officer. Son of William Mostyn Owen Sr of Woodhouse. Attended Shrewsbury School, 1829–31. Captain, 1845.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 30 August 2017)

Shrewsbury School register.

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.

Shrewsbury School register: Shrewsbury School register. 1734–1908. Edited by J. E. Auden. Oswestry: Woodall, Minshall, Thomas and Co., Caxton Press. 1909.

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