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From: Jane Eliza <>
Subject: Re: [LON] SHEPHEARD/SHEPHERD marriage description
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:09:50 +1100
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Thank you, Anne - yes, that helps ... not with any details of my
potential relative, but I'm excited to have another research path open
up for me. I see now that the Old Tower Without is a name, not a
description, as I had thought. I think I know how I'll be spending the
evening! With a bit of luck, I'll find some answers to my next question
before I have to type it up!

kind regards,
Jane

Anne Peat wrote:
> Hello Jane,
>
> No he wasn't a prisoner. He just lived in an area of London near the
> Tower which was free of the jurisdiction of the City of London - the
> 'Liberty' of the tower. See http://tinyurl.com/34yuukv for a map of
> some of the Tower & http://tinyurl.com/2c8so94 for a description.
>
> HTH
> Anne
> On 28 Dec 2010, at 22:02, Jane Eliza wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a marriage entry that I'd like to understand better.
>> This is the entry, as best as I can make out:
>>
>> "Shepherd Shepherd of the Precinct of the Old Tower without in the
>> Liberty of the Tower of London Widower and Mary Mansfield of this parish
>> spinster were married in this church by license"

--
Jane Eliza (nee ARNOLD, ancestors from Sevenoaks, Kent)
Researching around Middlesex/London: EARLES (Shoreditch); SHEPHEARD
(Shoreditch?); FAIRLAM(Shoreditch); COSTE (Threadneedle St); HASLEHURST
(Ealing/Twickenham)

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