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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Residence-Liberty of Newstead
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 16:27:08 +0100


In article <>, "Edward H. Pratt"
<> writes
>When my Grandparents applied for a marriage license in January 1849 he
>gave his address as Liberty of Newstead in the Parish of Papplewick in
>the County of Nottingham, England. He gave his occupation as a butler
>and was a bachelor, she was from the same place. Can anyone please tell
>me what or where Liberty of Newstead was. Thank you.
>
Presumably Newstead Abbey, home of the Byron family. Not the great Lord
Byron, dead in 1824, but his cousin, George Anson Byron, (1789 -1868) a
much more respectable character.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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