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Old 04-11-10, 20:03
Joy Dean
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Merry! That is amazing! Thank you so much. Did your eyes go cross-eyed?! They didn't seem to like punctuation nor paragraphs, did they?!

His first wife's surname was Chopping.

Yes, how strange that Harriet is referred to as Harriet France and not Brooks; she had married in 1830. Perhaps he wasn't keen on his son-in-law?

I am glad to read that it had been read and explained to him!

He omitted two other children - Sarah born 1814 and Maria Louisa born 1818, maybe they had died by the time that he made his will in 1831.

Edited - just found in ancestry that Maria died in 1821, and that Sarah, too, died in 1821.

A little more information for you about him:
From Dictionary of English furniture makers: "France, Robert, Soho, London, carver, gilder and frame maker (1808-35).
Recorded at 9 Crown Street in 1808 and Denmark St 1820-35, no. 16 in 1835.
1841 census Picture frame maker, age 69, Sarah age 62, not born in county, Harriett age 36 and William age 11 - 24 Denmark Street, St Giles in the Fields.
He died 4 December 1842 24 Denmark Street.

Last edited by Joy Dean; 04-11-10 at 20:23.
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