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LD

LD Report 2 Mar 2008 23:23

SS, that's the website I was looking at.

Harpstrings

Harpstrings Report 2 Mar 2008 23:22

Tut! slaps head and rolls eyes heavenward - sorry SS - its obviously well past me bedtime.lol.

Tina xx

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:21

BRB...gonna get my meds and a drink... just so you don't think I abandoned yous.

Harpstrings

Harpstrings Report 2 Mar 2008 23:21

have just googled a whole website of the family

http://www.roffesoft.co.uk/woodroffes/

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:21

fascinating.

LD

LD Report 2 Mar 2008 23:20

Whether the title was bestowed in affection or ridicule we shall probably never know. "Sir Billy's" will runs to thirty three pages, plus six codicils. It contains detailed instructions for the maintenance and education of his grandchildren and the threat T[91] that if his son, John Thomas Fox, married Frances Singlehurst he would lose his rights and legacy. (It appears that he heeded the warning and died unmarried.) But the main purpose of the will was to leave a large number of annuities in perpetuity charged on the estate.

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:17

Tina, it was LD not me :-) I suspect that's where tomorrow's challenge is based lol

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:16

The company doing the website is Roffesoft and is a small company based in notts... wonder if that's Wood'Roffe' software?!?!

Harpstrings

Harpstrings Report 2 Mar 2008 23:15

SS why asking if I knew Vict. Cres. Ashton Court?
tina x

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:14

Is anyone keeping a tree for these guys? lmao

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:14

really LD... fascinating. They obviously havent done much research considering how much we've just expanded on what they have lol

Harpstrings

Harpstrings Report 2 Mar 2008 23:13

that would be posthumastly or something lol (after death) !! pmsl

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:13

Willy's death:
Name: William Woodroffe
Year of Registration: 1843
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Loughborough
County: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
Volume: 15
Page: 84

LD

LD Report 2 Mar 2008 23:13

Summer, I noticed in their website that one of the wives of the Woodroffes was the person that invented the Lace Making machine.

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:12

LMAO LD, An earl? has he had a promotion? lol.

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:11

1851 looks like the Ann on 41 is Sam's mum.

Name: Ann Woodruff
Age: 47
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1804
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Hickling, Nottinghamshire, England
Civil Parish: Costock
County/Island: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Street address: (none given)
Occupation: Annuitant - Gentlewoman
Condition as to marriage: Widow
Disability:
Registration district: Loughborough
Sub-registration district: Leake
ED, institution, or vessel: 7
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 19
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary Brewin 15
Ann Woodruff 47
Annie Woodruff 18
John Woodruff 25

LD

LD Report 2 Mar 2008 23:09

I think we should make Samuel Bagnall William Decheaux Quinton Wild Woodroffe the Earl of GR !

Harpstrings

Harpstrings Report 2 Mar 2008 23:07

He not on the 1861 either.
t. x

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:07

So, it would seem that William snr croaked and William Jnr took over the farm even though he was living at the Inn.

~Summer Scribe~

~Summer Scribe~ Report 2 Mar 2008 23:05

Can't see william on 1851 Assume he croaked.