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Maria Bedford (1790–1823)
Maria Brandram (1823–1874)

1790/1–1874

Daughter of William and Lydia Bedford of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. Married Francis Holles Brandram (1787–1869), magistrate and landowner, in Batheaston, Bath, in 1823. Mother of Frances Maria Whitmore (née Brandram, 1827–1900) and living with her at Gorringes, Down, 1871. Of Hayes, Kent, on her death in 1874.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/561/197/50), 1871 (RG10/875/41/16)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1875 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 January 2012)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 October 2022)

London Church of England parish registers P69/Jnb/A/001/Ms09021 and P69/Ste2/A/01/Ms8321 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 October 2022)

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