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From: "WILLIAM SUDELL/GEN. STUDIE" <>
Subject: Re: CLEGG of Burnley
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 12:36:40 -0600 (CST)


Lloyd,

I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but my records indicate
Richard Clegg, born about 1775 and died unknown, married Mary Veevers on
January 4, 1810 in Padiham, Lancs. I have no record of their children.

Good luck in your research.

Bill

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> >I want help in locating the parents of Elizabeth CLEGG of Burnley who was
> >my great grandmother.
> >
> >It was stated on the Shipping List of the "Golconda" which arrived in
> >Sydney in 1858 that Elizabeth Clegg was from Burnley, Lancs, and had both
> >parents William and Mary living at that time at Burnley. None of her
> >family was on the ship.
> >
> >We have had a professional researcher try and find William and Mary in
> >Burnley without any luck. No mention of them in Burnley in the 1851
> >census. We just can't trace the family at all and so I am going to cast
> >the net widely and compile a list of all the Cleggs of Burnley.
> >
> >Elizabeth's birth date is vague. She was born somewhere between 1830 and
> >1837, the ship's list, her marriage certif and death certif indicating
> >three different dates.
> >
> >It was said that she had two brothers who were killed in the Crimean War.
> >It was also said that Elizabeth paid the fares of two brothers to come out
> >to the Australian goldfields and that they went bush and were never heard
> >of by the family again.
> >
> >I would like to hear of any CLEGGS of Burnley.
> >
> >- Lloyd Gledhill
> > Sydney, Australia
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