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I can't find anything for Richard Willitts on any census, I have his daughters wedding cert

Elizabeth Willitts 46 spinster residence Shavers End father Richard Willitts tailor
Henry Guest 37 bachelor farmer residence Cinderbank father Henry Guest labourer

His name on the certificate is all I can find, any ideas

nessa

so this lot
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =647981361

Yes, it is that lot again !!!!

Given up on the Jones 's for the moment

nessa

where is she in 1841?

Wasn't Elizabeth Willetts Elizabeth Leopard, here from BCC:-


1841. Southalls Lane Dudley
Richard Jewkes, 65 White Smith
Mary, 55, Not born in County
Sarah, 25,
Elizabeth, 20,
Stephen, 15, whitesmith
Henry Guest, 25, Farmers lab
Henry, 7,
Elizabeth Leopard, 35
All others born in County

1851: Cinder Bank, Dudley, Staffs
Henry Guest 40 Head Farmer of 50 Acres employing 3 Labourers Dudley, Worc
Elizabeth Guest 48 Wife
Emma Guest 7 Dau
Isiah Addleton 13 Serv
Elizabeth Jukes 31 Visitor
Selina Brooks 16 Serv
(all born Dudley, Worc)

What is the Jewkes/Jukes connection Nessa

Linell.

we have a birth certif for Mary emma guest mother Elizabeth Willetts
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =986102481

and then Wm Henry Guest /Leppard looks like born out of wedlock
so takes mothers name Elizabeth Leppard
http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tr ... =121654193

but to be honest I am not sure
Nessa did you ever sort anything else out on Elizabeth Leppard?

I know we couldnt find a marriage

Thank you for your replies, I haven't been able to sort out any more on the Leopard/Leppad/Guest saga, so I thought try working forward from her father Richard, I have read through all the 1841 census for Dudley and Sedgley on Ancestry without finding a single Leopard or Richard Willitts. The connection with the Jukes family as far as my father knows they have always been friends.

Perhaps this needs to go on the backburner for a year or 2.

nessa

Hi Nessa, I have the 1851 Census for the whole of Worcs on disc, no Leppards or Leopards on there either, wonder where Elizabeth got that name from She must have changed her name for some reason, but as to why she chose Leopard Suppose we will never know. I'll have a look on the local Archives Web Sites see if anything comes up there.

Linell.

Do you think maybe she is Elizabeth Willetts and maybe Leopard is her birth name
father Richard Willetts mother something Leopard?

no death is there for her

very odd isnt it

There are a few Leppards on the NA Site:-

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cata ... &image1=GO

Can't find any locally though.

Linell.

moving this to Brickwalls

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