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I'm looking at a public member tree on ancestry which has Anthony Sawrey 1697-1786 on it but doesn't show him marrying or having children. Wondering whether we can find anything in there which we could use to prove whether he is the right Anthony. He is shown as the son of Myles Sawrey 1660-1727 and Margaret Taylor who died 1752, and one of his siblings is shown as Agnes Sawrey 1692-1764, who married a Myles Fleming. The tree shows the Flemings as having three children who died young, with Myles Fleming dying in 1738. So, if this is all correct, Agnes might name siblings, nephews and nieces in her will. Edit - thought I had found a likely will for her but it was wrong! Back to the drawing board...

Wonder whether Margaret left a will; if so then that might name Agatha.
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It might be worth asking the Lancs Record Office if there are any settlement or removal orders for the family.
Since we are talking about Lancashire North of the Sands, it's more likely to be Cumbria records office, presumably the Carlisle office.
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Gee, I put something up here, go to bed and wake to find you've all been working well for me...lol

UJ...it's all the Lakes District area..

The Flemmings/Holmes/Rigge/Sawrey/Kirkby/Sandys/Dixon lot all show up in wills as witnesses and executors.

Just thought of something....but it could take me a little while to search it out.

In one of Agatha and David Kirkby's childrens baptisms, they give Agatha's name as Agnes. In the BT's the bishop has mentioned her name was Agatha and it was her mother in law who was Agnes.
That was Agnes Addison (daughter of Hugh) who married William Kirkby in 1727.

Wordsworth kindly gave me David and Agatha's tree in his autobiography as he wrote his first ballad about Mary Rigge, the lady who had David Kirkby's illegitimate son and then died of a broken heart before he married Agatha.
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UJ...it's all the Lakes District area.
One branch of my family came from that area - several of the villages between Windermere and Morecambe Bay and as far east as Kendal. It's all Cumbria now, but the southern part was in Lancashire until relatively recently.
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Thanks UJ.
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Just got a reply to my email to the records office about Lancs wills.

They are 5 pounds each and I can order up to 5 at a time.

Which 5 do I order????

I will take a look tomorrow and see if I can work out which ones.

I have David Kirkby's, Agatha Kirkby's and Hugh Addison's.
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If you think that the Anthony Sawrey mentioned in the TNA catalogue entry in post #13 is likely to be your Anthony, then George Dixon's will might be worth getting. The date on the catalogue entry is 1753 but the nearest possible burial and will I can see are George Dixon, householder, buried 13 Jul 1741 St Andrew, Coniston, with a will of a George Dixon of Bowmanstead, Furness, 1741. But of course this might be the wrong George Dixon, or two different wrong George Dixons! If only you could get to look at the TNA stuff, but it says it has not been digitised and you would have to request a quote for a copy, and I think they're pretty expensive now. And if he is the George Dixon who died in 1741, his will wouldn't mention Agatha, but of course it could be he died nearer to 1753 and I just didn't find the right burial and will.
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I'm wondering if there are some relevant wills that don't come up in the Lancashire Will Search - for instance, if they come under Carlisle. But I can only see an online index for pre-1750 Carlisle wills (on British Origins) whereas we would really be looking for post-1750 ones.
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Ah, just found the Cumbria Archive Service Catalogue. Will have a look through that:
http://www.archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk...lmView.Catalog
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Cumbria Archives has the "Will and inventory of George Dixon, yeoman, of Albyfield, Cumrew, Cumberland", 1751.
http://www.archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk...2fWI415&pos=10
I don't think this is in the right area, though.
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