The descendants of
George Flint and Elizabeth (Lee) Flint,
of Holbeach, Lincolnshire

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Chapter 15
John Flint, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

John Flint (1836–1925), of Wisbech. Collection of John Blythe Dobson.	Sophia (Bird) Flint (1835–1886), first wife of John Flint. Collection of John Blythe Dobson.

John Flint, son of George and Mary (Inkley) Flint, of Holbeach, Lincolnshire (see Chapter 3), was b. 17/18 Dec. 1836 at Holbeach,^[1] bapt. there 27 Dec. following in the Primitive Methodist Church on Albert Street, d. (testate) 17 Dec. 1925, aged almost 89 years, at Walsoken, Norfolk, of old age, and was buried beside his first wife in Leverington Road Cemetery, near Wisbech. John Flint was taken by his parents to Wisbech in 1837-38. He received at least an elementary education. He became a butcher by 1851, and later a master butcher. He m. (1) 28 Oct. 1856, in the parish church of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, Sophia Bird, bapt. 9 Aug. 1835 in the parish church of Tilney St. Lawrence, d. 12 March 1886 at Wisbech, of several illnesses,^[2] and buried in Leverington Road Cemetery nearby. She was a daughter of William and Sarah (Harold) Bird, of “Perkins Field,” Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk (previously of Tilney St. Lawrence and of Walpole St. Peter). She, who for some time prior to her marriage had been a servant to a family at Walpole St. Peter, was living at Terrington St. Clement at the time of their marriage in 1856. The witnesses were Robert and Sarah Bird, possibly her siblings.
    John Flint established himself in business in Wisbech at 54 Norfolk Street East by 1861, at 35 Sluice Row by 1871, and at 16 Norfolk Street East by 1876 (and until 1881); his family lived above these shops. In 1861 his wife’s sister, Sarah Bird, was living with them, and his own sister, Sarah (Flint) MacNeil, was living next door to him at 52 Norfolk Street East.
    Some time after the death of his first wife in 1886, John Flint married (2) by 1891, a middle-aged spinster, Sarah Ann Teed, b. between March 1837 and March 1838 at Wisbech, d. s.p. 19 Aug. 1923 at Wisbech, daughter of William Andrew and Sarah Ann (Cory) Teed, of Wisbech.^[3] Sarah Teed, who prior to their marriage had been keeping house for her widowed mother, is said to have been “a very severe lady.” They are found at no. 7 Bridge Street, Wisbech, in the 1891 census, in which John is called a butcher.^[4] At the time, their houshold included a “visitor” Sarah Harrold, who although declared to be single was probably the widow or estranged wife of Simon Harrold, whom we presume to have been a brother of John Flint’s mother-in-law, Sarah (Harold) Bird.^[5]

Another photograph of John Flint (1836–1925), of Wisbech. Collection of John Blythe Dobson.	Sophia (Bird) Flint with her daughter Agnes (standing), and two of her younger daughter, around 1870. The inscription on the reverse identifies the younger daughters as Kate (1865), and Susannah (1866), but may be in error as Mary Elizabeth Flint (1863) was still alive at the time. Collection of John Blythe Dobson.

    Widowed for a second time in 1923, John Flint spent his last years at “Barton Lodge” on the North Brink, Wisbech, the home of his daughter Kate Cook. He died at Walsoken House, Walsoken, Norfolk, the home of his daughter Susannah Miller. According to a letter written by Kate to her sister Mildred, he had a very peaceful end, and his last words were, “Oh, if only I had wings to take me to heaven.”
    Family tradition states that John Flint and his family led lives of strict obedience to the tenets of the Methodist faith. They used no alcohol or tobacco, and the Lord’s Day was observed so strictly that his wife prepared the Sunday meal the day before in the church’s communal kitchen, known as the “parish oven.” The whole of the Sabbath was spent at church. John Flint was certainly a lay preacher, as his father is said to have been.
    His will left his assets in trust, with the income to be paid to his (second) wife during her lifetime, and afterward to his son Harry (who was an epileptic and unable to work); after whose death his estate was to pass equally to his other children except James and John, who had received their shares earlier. In fact his second wife predeceased him, and the funds passed directly to Harry; when Harry died in 1954 and the estate (totalling £1080) was finally divided, only Annie of all John Flint’s children remained.
    Children, all by first wife:

1. George William Flint, b. 27 Aug. 1857 at Wisbech, d. 16 April 1858 at Wisbech, of bronchitis.
2. James MacNeil Flint, b. 11 Jan. 1859 at Wisbech, continued in Chapter 15a.
3. Sarah Agnes (“Aggie”) Flint, b. 18 Jan. 1861 at Wisbech, d. v.p. 16 Dec. 1922, aged over 61 years, possibly at Sunderland, Durham. She was living with her parents in 1871, when she was a student, but had left their home by 1881. She m. 6 Oct. 1885 in the Methodist Free Church, Wisbech, the Rev. Foster Raine, Jr., b. 1851-52 (aged 29 in 1881, 39 in 1891), either at Stanhope, Durham (per the 1861 census), at Edmondbyers, co. Durham (per the 1881 census), or at Lambshield, Northumberland (per the 1891 and 1901 censuses),^[6] d. 1914-18, during the war, in France, son of the late Foster Raine, of Newlands, Northumberland, a cotton miller (per 1861 census) and farmer (per his son Foster’s marriage record), by the latter’s wife Margaret Race.^[7] Prior to their marriage he is listed as a “United Methodist Free Church minister” lodging at 17 Princess Street, Barnsley, Yorkshire.^[8] He was still stationed at Barnsley in March of 1883, about which time he “intimated his intention to remove from the Circuit in August next, when he will have completed three years’s service.^[9] The following September he is reported as having been appointed to Hexham, near Newcastle-on-Tyne,^[10] and in October a farewell party was thrown for him in which the presenter stated: “During the whole of Mr. Raine’s stay in their midst, he had manifested the deepest interest in the welfare of their Church, and had conducted the whole of the anniversary services, as well as getting up concerts, entertainments, and tea meetings for the Church funds. As a Church they had suffered very considerably from commercial depression, and the removal of many of the members to other parts of the country; and had it not been for the special attention and encouragement they had received from Mr. Raine, they would have been compelled to close the chapel.” A detailed account of Raine’s response has been preserved, which reads, in part:

   He was aware that some good sort of people viewed the introduction of any new method in Christian work with doubt and suspicion, and prognosticated that they would eventuate in the enfeeblement of the Church. However, he was willing to have such efforts measured by their results. Christianity was a social as well as a moral elevator, but unfortunately some people got so far up the ladder that they could not see, much less render assistance to those who were floundering about “in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.” The masses, as the poor people are often designated, would not bother to acquire a knowledge of the multiplied systems of theology that existed. Nay, they would not always go to the Bible itself for a code of morals by which to regulate their conduct in their relations with their fellow-men. The only means by which many of the outsiders were likely to be won to the Church is by the consistent walk and conduct of Christians. They could do more to get the attention of the indifferent by translating doctrines of Christianity into actual and practical life than all the preaching put together, and hence all members of the Church should realise their individual responsibility, and seek to avoid neutralising the influence of the preached Gospel by walking consistently and acting on the “square.” The Church as well as the ministry was a little too “starchy,” and should not be ashamed to come down a step or two, or even to “become all things to all men,” in order to “rescue the perishing.” The spirit of “standoffism” was the most potent agent in the service of his Satanic Majesty, the great enemy of Christ.^[11]

   Around 1888 the Raines were living at Prudhoe, Northumberland, where two of their children were born. In 1891 they were living at Dukinfield, Ashton under Lyne, Cheshire; the “sister-in-law Mildred M. Raine,” aged 15, born at Wisbech, who was living with them was actually his wife’s sister, Mildred Flint,^[12] at whose marriage ceremony in 1900 at Birstall, Yorkshire, Foster Raine presided. In the 1901 census they were enumerated at Appleby, Cumberland.^[13] We understand they later lived at Sunderland, Durham. Children:
   1. Bertram Raine, b. in 1887 at Prudhoe, Northumberland,^[14] living Oct. 1954 but d. by 1976. Our informants did not know the name of his wife, but we suspect he was the Bertram Raine who m. in 1914 in the Sunderland, Durham, registration district,^[15] Harriet J. Gray. In any case, he is known to have had the following children:
      1. Dorothy Raine, b. ____, alive in 1977.
      2. Foster Raine, b. ____, alive in Oct. 1954 but d. by 1977. He lived at Marsden, Durham.
   2. Foster Raine, b. in 1886 in the Hexham registration district, Northumberland,^[16] d. there in 1888, aged 1 year.^[17]
   3. Foster Raine (III), b. in 1889 at Prudhoe, Northumberland,^[18] d. 1939-45. He m. in 1915 in the Scilly, Cornwall, registration district,^[19] Ida M. Nance. Only child:
      1. George N. Raine, b. ____, living 1954.
   4. Edith Raine, b. 1890-91 (aged 4 months in 1891, 10 years in 1901) at Stalybridge, Cheshire, d. unmarried after Oct. 1954.
   5. Wilfrid Raine, b. 1892-93 (aged 8 years in 1901) at Lancaster, Lancashire, alive in Oct. 1954 but d. by 1977. The name of his wife is unknown, but he had the following children:
      1. Victor Raine, b. ____.
      2. Kenneth Raine, b. ____.
4. Mary Elizabeth Flint, b. 15 March 1863 at Wisbech, d. 26 Nov. 1875 at Wisbech, of pulmonary emphysema and dropsy. She was a scholar in 1871.
5. Catherine (“Kate”) Flint, b. 1 May 1865 at Wisbech, d. 1932-54. She was still living with her parents in 1881, when she was a dressmaker’s apprentice. She m. 2 July 1888 in the Methodist Free Church, Wisbech, William Henry Cook, J.P., b. 10 Feb. 1861 at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, living 1932, son of John Cook, a farmer, of Walsoken, Norfolk, by his wife Sarah Ann ____. Her husband, who was educated at Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, became a dairyman and fruit farmer. For some time they farmed at Walsoken, where he was chairman of the Walsoken Urban District Council in 1912, a J.P. for the Marshland District of Norfolk, and a Commissioner for Land Taxes. A contemporary memoir mentions his “keen interest in social, political, and also religious matters in connection with the United Methodist Church.” They retired about 1920 to “Barton Lodge,” on the North Brink, Wisbech. Children:
   1. Ethel Cook, b. ca. 1889 at Walsoken, alive in Oct. 1954. She m. in 1908-09,^[20] John Thomas Russell, living 1932. Her husband was originally a grocer. They lived at Wisbech until 1922, then moved to Newton, Cambridgeshire, where he became postmaster. Children:
      1. Kathleen Russell, b. ca. 1909, living 1985. She m. by 1928, Thomas Alfred Morton, living 1985. Her husband is a farmer, and comes from Newton, Cambridgeshire. By 1976 they were living at “The Gables,” High Road, Newton, and they were still there in Jan. 1985. Children:
         1. Janet Morton, b. 1928; m. ____, Henry Sharpe. They were living in 1976 at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
            1. Jane Elizabeth Sharpe, b. ____; m. ____, John Goose. She is a graduate of Durham University.
         2. David Morton, b. perhaps ca. 1932; m. ____, Jennifer Margaret Harrod. He took over his parents’ farm by 1976. His wife was from Walpole St. Peter, Norfolk. No children.
      2. Marjorie Russell, b. ____; m. ____, John Balls. Her husband is a farmer. They were living in 1976 at Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire.
         1. Jennifer Balls, b. ____; unmarried in 1976, when she was working as a school-teacher.
      3. William Neil Russell, b. perhaps ca. 1926. He m. ____, Margaret Martin. He is an accountant, and his wife is from Wisbech. By 1977 they were living at 90 Money Bank, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 2JF, and they were still there in Oct. 1988. No children.
   2. Norah Cook, b. 1891-82 at Walsoken, d. 1955, while undergoing surgery. She m. in 1919 in the Kingston registration district,^[21] Clement (“Clem”) Laud, b. 1884-85 at Wisbech,^[22] living 1932, son of Seth Palgrave Laud, of Wisbech, bootmaker, by his wife Mary A. ____.^[23] Clement Laud is found as a six-year old child in the household of his parents, no. 5, Little Church Street, in 1891. Norah and her husband lived their entire lives at Wisbech, where he owned a shoemaker’s shop.
      1. Raymond William Laud, b. 3 Oct. 1922. He m. ____, Carmen ____. He was an employee of British Railways in 1976. They were living in 1976-77 at no. 8 St. Augustine’s Road, Wisbech, but were no longer there in Jan. 1985. No children.
      2. Margaret Laud, b. 1923; m. ________. Two sons and two daughters.
   3. Olive Cook, b. ____ at Walsoken, alive in Oct. 1954. She m. in 1910,^[24] Horace Kitchen. They owned a bakery at Elm, Cambridgeshire.
      1. Muriel Kitchen, b. ____; m. ____, Maurice Norton.
      2. Ruby Kitchen, b. ____, living 1976; m. ____, Frederick (“Fred”) Belton. They were living in Kent in 1976. They have at least one child, a daughter.
6. Susannah (“Susie”) Flint, b. in April-Nov. 1866 at Wisbech,^[25] d. 24 Jan. 1935 at Walsoken, Norfolk, aged 68 years. She was a student in 1871 and in 1881, when she was still living with her parents. She m. 10 June 1888 in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Wisbech, George Augustus Miller, J.P., b. probably in 1869 (aged 22 in 1891, 31 in 1901) at Walsoken, living 29 Dec. 1925, son of George William Miller, a nurseryman (of “Flower Farm,” Walpole St. Andrew, Norfolk, at the time their marriage, but of 41 Norwich Road, Walsoken in 1891).^[26] Susannah and her husband, a gardener, lived at “Clarkson House,” Wisbech, for a short time after their marriage, then at 42 Norwich Road, Walsoken, where they are found in the 1891 census, which calls George a florist, and shows his father, George W. Miller, nurseryman and auctioneer, as their next-door neighbor.^[27] They were enumerated at Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire, in the 1901 census, in which George is called a “fruit and flower grower.”^[28] According to their daughter Florence, they later lived at Walpole [St. Andrew?], Norfolk, where they farmed and where some of their children were born, before finally taking up residence at “Walsoken House,” Walsoken, Norfolk, of which town George Augustus Miller became a J.P. Children:
   1. Mabel Annie Miller, b. 1888-89 (aged 2 in 1891, 12 in 1901) at Walsoken, d. unmarried after Oct. 1954.
   2. Louisa Miller, b. in January-September 1890 at Walsoken,^[29] d. [s.p.?] after Oct. 1954. She m. H.S. Jeffery.
   3. Augustus Wallace Miller, b. in 1891 at Walsoken,^[30] d. s.p. after Oct. 1954; m. ________.
   4. Reginald George Miller, b. in 1892-93 (aged 8 in 1901) at Walsoken (per 1901 census) or at Walpole (per family information), d. s.p. after Oct. 1954; m. ________.
   5. Dorothea (“Dora”) Edith Miller, b. 1893-94 (aged 7 in 1901) at Walsoken (per 1901 census) or at Walpole (per family information), d. after Oct. 1954. She m. in 1924-25 in the Wisbech registration district,^[31] John Cooper. Only child:
      1. Margaret Cooper, b. ____.
   6. Ernest William Miller, b. after 1900, possibly at Walpole, d. after Oct. 1954. He m. Gladys Mary Lythall. Issue:
      1. George Miller, b. ____.
      2. Sheila Mary Miller, b. ____; m. ____ Wright.
   7. Florence May Miller, b. after 1900 at Walpole, living May 1977. She m. in 1927 in the Wisbech registration district,^[32] Ernest E. Green.
   8. Frank Maxwell Miller, b. after 1900 at Walpole, d. [unmarried?] after Oct. 1954 at Stranraer, Co. Wigtown, Scotland, where he had been living for some years.
7. Mary Jane Flint, b. 29 Aug. 1867, d. by 1871.
8. John (“Jack”) William Flint, b. 23 July 1869 at Wisbech, d. 16 April 1946 at Wisbech, aged 76 years. He was living with his parents in 1881, when he was a student. He was lodging in the household of his maternal aunt, the widow Sarah (Bird) Odom, of no. 4 Odom Street, Wisbech, in 1891, when he was a foreman butcher.^[33] He m. (1) 4 Jan. 1898 in the parish church of St. Augustine, Wisbech, Sarah Barker, b. 1878-79, living June 1898, daughter of Joseph Barker. He m. (2) 12 April 1909 in the parish church of SS Peter and Paul, Wisbech, Emily Pyle, b. 1883-84, living 29 Dec. 1925, daughter of Harry Pyle. He became a butcher at Wisbech. Only child, by first wife:
   1. George William Flint, b. 13 June 1898 at Wisbech, d. 23 Feb. 1942 at Wisbech. He m. 1 Jan. 1923 at St. Augustine’s Church, Wisbech, Evelyn Lucy Batley, b. 1898-99, living March 1977, daughter of Alfred Batley. He had a butcher’s shop at 22 Blackfriars Road, wisbech, which is now (1976) his daughter Pamela’s flower shop. We are pretty sure that George W. Flint and his daughter were the last persons bearing the name Flint ever to be born at Wisbech (as of 1987). Only child:
      1. Pamela Olive Flint, b. 25 Dec. 1930 at Wisbech, living 1985. She m. 11 Aug. 1954 in St. Augustine’s Church, Wisbech, Philip Henry Clarke, b. 1928-29, living 1985, son of Harold Edward Clarke. In 1976 she owned a flower shop, “Pandora,” at 22 Blackfriars Road, Wisbech, which had previously been her father’s butcher shop, and her husband was a laboratory technician at North Cambridgeshire Hospital. They were living in 1976 at “St. Helier,” 14 3^rd Street, Wisbech, and were still there in Jan. 1985. Only child:
         1. Nicholas Clarke, b. 26 Feb. 1959 at Wisbech.
9. Anna (“Annie”) Sophia Flint, b. 12 Dec. 1870 at Wisbech, d. after Oct. 1954, aged at least 83 years. She was living with her parents in 1881, when she was a student. She m. 10 Oct. 1894 in the Methodist Free Church, Wisbech, Joseph Smith, Jr., b. 1870-71 (aged 30 in 1901) at Newcastle, Staffordshire, son of the late Joseph Smith, a dining-room keeper. Her husband is called a railway clerk in their marriage record. They were enumerated at “Glenthorpe,” Rock Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, in the 1901 census, in which Joseph is called a railway agent.^[34] They may have later lived at Sheffield. Annie (Flint) Smith outlived all of her siblings. Children:
   1. Gladys Smith, b. 1895-96 (aged 5 in 1901) at Walsoken, Norfolk, living (1977) at Loughborough, Leicestershire.
   2. Douglas H. Smith, b. 1896-97 (aged 4 in 1901) at Hinton, Gloucestershire.
   3. Ernest Smith, b. after 1900, d. [unmarried?] in Australia.
   4. Molly Smith, b. after 1900; m. ____ Randall. They were living at Southampton, Hampshire, in 1977.
10. Martha Flint (twin), b. 8 March 1872 at Wisbech, d. there the following day of exhaustion.
11. Alice Flint (twin), b. 8 March 1872 at Wisbech, also d. there the following day of exhaustion.
12. Frank Flint, b. 2 Aug. 1873 at Wisbech, d. 1 March 1936 at Wisbech, aged 62 years. He was living with his parents in 1881, when he was a student, and with his father and step-mother in 1891, when he was a butcher. He later had a butcher’s business at Tydd St. Mary, Cambridgeshire. He m. 9 Sept. 1901 in the parish church of St. Augustine, Wisbech, Frances (“Fannie”) Sisson, b. 4 Nov. 1877 at Welney, Norfolk, d. 26 Aug. 1965 at Wisbech, daughter of Leever [?] Sisson. His wife was living in 1881 at 26 Park Street, Walsoken, Norfolk, in the house of Benjamin Thistle (b. 1843-44 at Lynn, Norfolk), a widower, being called his “niece” in the census,^[35] and in 1891 with Elizabeth Thistle (b. 1847-48 at Warboys, Huntingdonshire), a widow, being called her “niece” in the census.^[36] Children:
    1. Reginald Frank Flint, b. 23 Nov. 1902 at Tydd St. Mary, living Feb. 1978. He m. 15 Oct. 1928 at Sutton St. James, near Holbeach, Lincolnshire, Kathleen Beatrice Wroot, b. 21 March 1903.
       1. Derek Frank Flint, b. 10 Aug. 1930 at Tydd St. Mary. He m. 9 Sept. 1961 at London, Carmel Roddy. Children:
          1. Karen Elizabeth Flint, b. 11 Oct. 1962 at London.
          2. Elizabeth Frances Flint, b. 19 Feb. 1966 at Kenton, Middlesex.
       2. Elaine Frances Flint, b. 20 Dec. 1933 at Tydd St. Mary; m. in July 1960 at Tydd St. Mary, Rodney Luscombe-Hill. Only child:
          1. Michael Andrew Luscombe-Hill, b. 10 April 1963 at Wisbech.
       3. Frank Gordon Flint, b. 25 July 1940 at Tydd St. Mary. He m. ____ at London, Lesley McKine. Only child:
          1. Michelle Flint, b. 12 Dec. 1970 at London.
    2. Ralph Gordon Flint, b. 23 Oct. 1909 at Tydd St. Mary; unmarried. He was an accountant until his retirement. In 1977-78 he was living at 22 Blackfriars Road in a flat above the flower shop of his niece, Pamela Clarke, but was no longer there in Jan. 1985.
13. Mildred (“Millie”) Mary Flint, b. 25 Feb. 1876 at Wisbech, d. 26 July 1947 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, of heart failure, aged 71 years, and buried there four days later in Brookside Cemetery.^[37] In 1891, at the age of 15 years, she living with her elder sister, Sarah (Flint) Raine, of Dukinfield, Ashton under Lyne, Cheshire, probably to help with the young Raine children; the census of that year incorrectly records her as Mildred M. Raine.^[38] She m. 16 April 1900 in Mt. Tabour United Methodist Free Church, Birstall, Yorkshire, by her brother-in-law, the Rev. Foster Raine, (Sargeant-Major) John Jarratt Blythe, b. 18 Aug. 1878 at Blackpool, Lancashire, d. 21 Jan. 1942 at Winnipeg, of heart failure, and buried there two days later in the military plot of Brookside Cemetery.^[39] We have cancelled the section in the Flint family history on Mildred Flint and her husband, and request the reader to consult our BLYTHE page for further details.
14. Harry Flint, b. 30 July 1877 at Wisbech, d. unmarried 22 Oct. 1954 at Wisbech. Being an epileptic and unable to work, he was cared for after his mother’s death in 1886 by his sister Susannah. His father’s entire estate was left in trust for Harry’s maintainance, and was not finally settled until after Harry’s death.

George Augustus Miller and Susannah (Flint) Miller with family members in front of Walsoken House, from an undated photo found among the effects of her sister, Mildred Mary (Flint) Blythe. Collection of John Blythe Dobson.

Notes

name    relationship cond. age occupation           birthplace
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John Flint      head    M  54  butcher              Lincs.  Holbeach
Sarah A. Flint  wife    M  56  ----              Lincs.  Tidd St. Giles*
Annie S. Flint  dau.    S  20  milliner             Cambs.  Wisbech
Frank Flint     son     S  14  butcher              Cambs.  Wisbech
Harry Flint     son    --  13  scholar              Cambs.  Wisbech
Sarah Harrold   visitor S  20  living on own means  Norfolk  West Walton
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* [an error for Tydd St. Giles, Cambridgeshire]

name          relat. age [est. b.d.] b. place           occupation
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Foster Raine     head  60  1800-01  Stanhope, Durham    cotton miller
Margret Raine    wife  44  1816-17  Muggleswick, Durham
Thomas Raine     son   11  1849-50  Muggleswick, Durham scholar
Foster Raine     son    9  1851-52  Stanhope, Durham      "
Margret A. Raine dau    9  1851-52  Stanhope, Durham      "
Cuthbart Raine   son    7  1853-54  Stanhope, Durham
Mary Raine       dau    5  1855-56  Stanhope, Durham
William W. Raine son    2  1858-59  Stanhope, Durham

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