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Old 09-09-21, 09:23
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In 1835 my 4x gt grandfather, Joshua Webster is questioned re the settlement of his sister, Frances. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...387&pId=371390

In it he gets her dob wrong by 9 years but he names three "husbands". I have found the first marriage to Richard Clements in 1803 at St Andrew Undershaft, London but cannot find the others. Joshua names the "husbands" as Fox (no first name) and Wm Rabnett. Frances is buried in 1832 at St Mary Newington as Frances Rabnott.

So two questions - can anyone find marriages to Mr Fox or Wm Rabnott? I have doubts that there were any! And can anyone tell me why Joshua might have been cross examined about the Settlement of his sister three years after her death?
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