Paternal Line : Richards Hill and Tate Ancestors
Most of this websites focuses on my Leatherland ancestors. But I am also very interested in my other other ancestral lines. Here is a summary of my research into my paternal lines : the Richards, Hill and Tate families.
My father Douglas Richards (1926-1979) was born and brought up in Bulwell, a suburb of Nottingham. He attended High Pavement School, Nottingham. In the mid to late 1930s he moved to Staveley, Derbyshire, and he went to Netherthorpe Grammar School, Staveley. He studied bookkeeping at Chesterfield Technical College. He served as a Corporal in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1948 as a radar fitter. He joined the accounts department of Sheepbridge Engineering in Chesterfield. Sheepbridge Engineering was a manufacturer of mining equipment, aircraft and car components, machinery and castings.
In 1961 to 1974 he was appointed as Labour Party Finance Officer in Transport House, Smith Square, Westminster. He met my mother who was working there and they married in 1961. I was born in 1962, my sister in 1967. Unfortunately the marriage broke down in 1968 when he had an affair. He left home and my parents eventually divorced.
My paternal grandfather Albert Edward Richards worked on the railways all his life. He was tragically killed in an accident on the railway in December 1961 before I was born so I never knew him.
My paternal grandmother Edna May Hill has an interesting family history which was quite hard to trace. Edna died when I was three years old so I have no memory of her.
Let's go back to the distant origins of my Richards ancestors . . .
The Richards of Bulwell
Ridgard / Ridgards/ Ridguard
My Richards ancestors lived in the Nottingham suburb of Bulwell for over one hundred years. Before that they lived in the Derbyshire villages of Hartington and later Wirksworth.
Although Richards is often considered to be a name of Welsh origins, I have found no links to Wales, although there may be very distant links. Richards is a patronymic surname which means that it originates from a forename : Richard’s son > Richardson > Richards). However, before my ancestors moved to Bulwell, the surname was not usually Richards. The earliest ancestors I have traced had the surnames Ridgard or Ridgards or Ridguard. These rare versions of the surname seem to be a particular Derbyshire variant.
It is common to see surname variations especially before the nineteenth century. Spellings were not fixed because most people rarely needed to write their own name, and many people were illiterate or could only read or write a few words. If you say Ridgards out loud it sounds similar to Richards. The fact that it changed to Richards suggests that it was probably pronounced as “Ridge Yards” rather than “Rid Guards”. The link between the surnames is illustrated by a marriage register from Derby in 1817 where the groom’s surname was written as "William Ridguards or Richards". He was unable to sign but made a mark and the name written was Ridguards.
Both Richards and Ridgard(s) appear in the parish register of Wirksworth in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, so it is not clear which was the original surname. One website suggests that Ridgard is a Saxon name which originated from the village of Rudyard in Staffordshire, but I am sceptical about this.
John Ridgyard (1711-1791)
John was possibly baptised in Granby, Nottinghamshire, son of William Ridyards & his wife in 1711. Granby is a small village in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire. He married Elizabeth Stanley in Hartington, Derbyshire in 1731. She died six years later. The following year he remarried Mary Robinson who was a housekeeper. He had two children from first marriage, and nine children from his second marriage. All were batpised in Hartington but nearly all of the baptism say that the parents were of Biggin(g) Moor, a small rather farming village two miles south east of Hartington. There are two possible burials both in Hartington in 1791 and 1796. The 1791 is probably the right one, it described him as John Ridgard of Biggin Moor. Death duty indexes suggests he left a will although I have not yet located a copy.
Isaac Ridguard (1733-1813)
Isaac was baptised in Hartington in 1733 to parents John and Elizabeth Ridgyard. Hartington is a village in the centre of the White Peak area of the Derbyshire Peak District, lying on the River Dove which is on the Staffs border. Formerly known for cheese-making and the mining of ironstone, limestone and lead, the village is now popular with tourists.
Wirksworth is twelve miles south west of Hartington, and the first evidence of his presence in Wirksworth is Isaac Ridgard witnessing two marriages there in 1763. Isaac himself married Hannah Mason in 1764. The marriage register helpfully says he was a butcher. He signed the register.
Isaac Ridgard, butcher, appears in Apprenticeship Indenture Duty records in 1784 Peter Spencer was his apprentice. These records were kept by the Board of Stamps, a government office which received money in payment of the tax on apprentices' indentures (legal agreements). The Universal British Directory of 1791 included Isaac Richards, victualler of the White Hart, Wirksworth. The town had five butchers listed, so perhaps he had changed profession. Isaac Ridgards of Wirksworth was buried there in 1813 aged 80.
John Richards / Ridguards (1769-1831)
Isaac's son John was baptised as John Ridguard in 1769 in Wirksworth. He married Phebe Hanson there in 1791. The marriage register still spelt his surname as Ridguard. Both John and Phebeh signed the register.
John and Phebe had nine children all baptised in Wirksworth between 1793 and 1808. Six of them were baptised as Richards, two as Ridguards, and one as Ridgards, so the spelling of the surname was still flexible.
There is evidence that John Richards also became a butcher in Wirksworth. An index to Derbyshire Quarter Sessions records includes a John Richards of Wirksworth, butcher, being convicted of assault and obstruction of the highway in 1784, for which he was fined five shillings.
Land Tax Redemption records in 1798 show a John Ridgard as occupier of Cotton Mill Number 4. The proprietor was Philip Gell who owned many properties in the area. Philip Eyre Gell senior, of Hopton Hall near Wirksworth, was a wealthy lead-mining aristocrat, whose family's fortune was founded on the local lead industry. In 1777 textile entrepreneur Richard Arkwright leased a corn mill from Gell and converted it to spinning cotton, using his water frame. This was the first cotton mill in the world to use a steam engine. [Gell senior died in 1795 so it must be his son also Philip Gell who was the 1798 property owner].
William Richards (1829-1910)
By now the surname had stabilised as Richards. William was baptised in 1829. In 1851 he was a lodger at Red Lion Yard in Hucknall Torkard, working as a framework knitter. There were fourteen people in this household. The Red Lion is a large mid 18th century pub which originally it had a row of terraced cottages in the yard at the rear.
William married Jane Straw in Bulwell in 1853. Four years later the birth certificate of a daughter Jane shows William was a coal miner in Staveley, Derbyshire. This was where a later descendant moved to one hundred and twenty years later ! His son James' birth certificate (1860) said he was a silk glove maker - he was back in Bulwell now.
By 1861 he was a stocking framework knitter, in Coventry Lane, Bulwell, with his wife but in his parents' household. In 1871 William and Jane were in Greashams Row, Bulwell. William was now a general labourer. Two of his children were working at young ages Jane (age 14 factory girl) and James (age 10 basket maker). There were five younger children too.
William later worked on the railways. A son's birth certificate (1873) said he was a platelayer and a daughter's birth certificate (1879) a railway worker. In 1881 and 1891 the family lived at Honey Place, Bulwell. The 1891 census shows that William worked for the Midland Railway.
In 1901 the family lived in Hempshill Lane, Bulwell. William was a labourer at a station. There were several stations in Bulwell, but Bulwell Market (which is the surviving Bulwell station) was the Midland Railway station so he was probably working there. I noticed from the census that the house next door house had thirteen occupants : husband wife and eleven children ! These were small Victorian terraces. William died in 1910.
James Richards (1860-1951)
As we have seen above, ten year old James was already working as a basket maker in 1871. Ten years later he was a brick yard labourer. James married Mary Roome in 1889 in Bulwell.
In 1891 James and Mary lived in Coventry Road, Bulwell, he remained a brickyard labourer. By 1899 a son's birth certificate showed him living in Hempshill Lane. He remained there in 1901 and 1911. The latter said that he was a brick setter. Three of his children were working : Gertrude (19 pattern girl in a lace warehouse) Annie May (18 tacker, bleaching company) Lily (14 also a tacker at a bleaching company). James and Mary had nine living children. There were ten persons living in a house with five rooms.
The 1921 census was the first to name employers. James was still in Hemphill Lane, Bulwell, a brick setter with Bulwell Brick Company in Kett Street. Daughter Lily Richards was a hosiery tacker at Weldon & Wilkinson Ltd, Hosiery Dyers & Cleaners of Basford ; son James William Richards was a grocer’s assistant with Bulwell Industrial Provident Society ; daughter Harriett was a pinafore machinist at Atkins & Co, pinafore manufacturers in Radford.
Information the Bulwell Brick Company can be found here :
https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/11/nottingham-brickworks-part-3-bulwell.html
The 1939 Register says that James was now a retired brick setter. He died in 1951 aged ninety.
Albert Edward Richards (1903-1961)
Albert was my paternal grandpa although sadly I never knew him as he died before I was born. In 1919 he joined the Great Central Railway at the age of sixteen. In 1921 he was living in Sheffield where he worked as a carriage cleaner for the Great Central Railway based at Sheffield Victoria station. He was a boarder in a house in Sheffield.
In 1924 Albert married Edna May Hill at the Christians Meeting House in Coventry Road, Bulwell. He was a railway porter of 7 Railway Cottages, Holmwood, Heath. He was probably working at Heath station, Holmwood, which is south of Staveley and mainly dealt with coal traffic.
The Railway Cottages were Great Central Railway terraces, there are still four blocks of two former GCR houses called Railway Cottages next to site of the former station. Heath station was in the village of Holmewood, although it was named after the neighbouring village of Heath. The next station was Staveley Central. The station was just before the Great Central Chesterfield Loop which ran between Staveley Central and Heath Junction (just north of Heath station) on the Great Central Main Line.
His son Douglas's birth certificate said that he was a railway number taker. Electoral Registers show Albert and Edna in Mersey Street, Bulwell between in 1929/30 then in Primrose Street, Carlton (1931)
The family moved to Staveley, Derbyshire probably in 1939. The Great Central had become part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. LNER Staff Inspection Returns of Staff Employed at Staveley Town Station in October 1939 include :
Albert Edward Richards - Goods shunter - weekly wages £3 and five shillings, joined 30 Jun 1919 - occupying a house belonging to the company at rent of 8 s 10d a week.
The railways were very labour intensive at this time. The 1939 Staff Returns show one station master, one traffic clerk, three yard inspectors, one relief signalman, three signalmen at Staveley Town South station box. Plus three signalmen at Staveley Town North station box, three signalmen at Staveley Town South junction signal box, three signalmen at Staveley Town North Junction box, two grade 2 porters, one goods porter, one signal lampman, one station lamphand, twenty two goods staff, six Goods Yard staff, six Class 1 goods shunters, seven class 3 goods shunters, and two class 4 goods shunters.
The 1939 Register shows Albert living at 25 Wharf Lane, Staveley. There were many railway workers in Wharf Lane, which next to a railway line to Staveley Town station and goods yard.
In 1947 his daughter Margaret married Stanley Meakin. Their daughter Pat was born in 1954.
Albert Richards died in December 1961 in a tragic accident when he knocked down by a train walking to the goods depot in poor weather. By then he was a goods yard inspector.
Albert Edward Richards (1903 - 1961)
Hill and Tate Ancestors
Edna May Hill (1902-1966)
Edna Hill was my paternal grandmother. She died when I was three years old and I have no memory of her. Edna was born in 1902 at Breedons Buildings, Bobbers Mill, Nottingham. Her parents were James Hill, a groom, and Fanny Hill formerly Tate.
The family were living in Bloom Square, Ilkeston Road, Radford, in 1911. Her father was now a bricklayers labourer, her mother Fanny Hill was - according to the census - born in London. Edna ). Edna had an older brother William. The house had three rooms.
My first cousin Pat Twigg was told by her mother that Edna was fostered at some point during her childhood probably with an aunt. There was another aunt called Sarah. Pat's mother (my aunt) was told not to ask about her Edna's family but they believed that her father was an alcoholic. My mother also mentioned Edna being brought up by foster parents Gertrude (possibly an aunt) and Sid. I have not found evidence of these arrangements in the records, although I have no reason to disbelieve them.
In the 1921 census Edna was living in Deptford Street, Bulwell. She was nineteen years old and the niece of the head of household. She was a yarn preparer, employed by James Dexter & Co, Yarn Bleachers & Preparers in Old Basford, Nottingham. The head of household was William Holt. Her aunt Elizabeth Holt had been born in Bilborough.
Although Edna was in Bulwell in 1921, her father and brother were living in Bobbers Mill with her grandmother Ruby Hill. I did not find her mother anywhere.
In 1924 Edna Hill married Albert Richards in Bulwell. The marriage certificate said her father James Hill was a coal carter. The witnesses seem to be on the Richards side,
By 1939 Edna and Albert had moved to Wharf Lane, Staveley. In 1949 her father died. My mother told me that Edna worked at the Trebor factory in Chesterfield. But my cousin Pat Twigg told me she worked in a small lollipop factory in Staveley. Just before Christmas 1961 Albert died in a terrible railway accident as explained earlier. In 1964 her brother Thomas William Hill died.
Edna Richards died in 1966 following a heart attack, she was sixty four.
James Hill (1877-1949)
Edna's father, James Hill, was born in Bobbers Mill in 1877, the son of a carter. In 189 James was a farm labourer in Radford. He married Fanny Tate at Nottingham Register Office in 1897. Son Thomas was born two years later.
In 1901 they were living in Berridge Road, Nottingham. James and Fanny were boarders. James was a dairy man’s labourer. The head of household was Joseph Parker, a dairy man, and probably James' employer. The next year Edan was born.
In the 1911 census, the family were at Bloom Square, Ilkeston Rd, Radford. James was a bricklayers labourer. He would have been eligible for WW1 service although no record of this has been found yet.
James was living with his widowed mother Ruby Hill at Nut Yard, Chapel St, Bobbers Mill, in 1921. According to the census he was still married but Fanny was not there. Both James and his son Thomas were carters for John Goode coal merchants of Bobbers Mill.
The 1939 Register shows James in Whitemoor Avenue, Nottingham. He was still a coal carter and still shown as married but Fanny was not there. Two other people were living at the address, both elderly and seemingly unrelated to each other or to James. James died of heart disease in 1949. Fanny was not the informant.
The Fanny Tate Mystery Solved
For many years I had been searching for the origins of Edna Hill's mother Fanny Tate. She was the only one of my eight great grandparents whose life was mainly a mystery. The mystery was finally solved thanks to contact with a family tree holder on the Ancestry website, a clue from my cousin, a DNA match, plus some further sleuthing.
Fanny Tate first appeared in the records when she married Edna's father, James Hill, in 1897 at Nottingham Register Office. On the marriage certificate she gave her name as Fanny Tate, her age as 20, and her father as William Tate, a deceased cordwainer [shoemaker]. She next appeared in the birth certificates of her son Thomas William and her daughter Edna Hill (1899 and 1902) both of which gave her maiden name as Tate.
The 1901 census showed her with her husband in Nottingham, age 23, born in the Nottingham suburb of Hyson Green. But in the 1911 census her age was 35 but her birth place was now given as London. Fanny signed the 1911 census form so you would perhaps expect this information to be accurate.
After 1911, Fanny seemed to disappear from the records. I couldn't find her anywhere in the 1921 census despite extensive searches. Her husband James Hill was living with his mother and son in 1921, and the census said that he was still married.
In the 1939 Register I found James Hill who continued to give his marital status as was married, but there was no trace of Fanny anywhere.
The usual way of tracing an ancestor's origins back from their marriage certificate is to use their name, age and location to examine censuses / birth registration / baptism records, to find out when and where they were born, their parentage, and their siblings.
Complication
In Fanny’s case there was a complication because family members had told me that she and/or her husband had alcohol problems, and that her daughter Edna had been raised by relatives, possibly an aunt. (In the 1921 census, Edna was living with an aunt and uncle, and her brother with his father and paternal grandmother which gave credibility to this). In addition Edna’s Aunt Sarah was said to have played a significant role in her early life, although it was not clear who Aunt Sarah was.
I spent many years searching for Fanny in the 1881 and 1891 censuses without any success. I also spent ages searching for her father, again without success. Her origins seemed shrouded in mystery.
As for what happened to Fanny after 1911, there is a Fanny Hill marriage in Nottingham in late 1911, but this would have been been bigamous and it seemed unlikely as Fanny and James were together in that year's census. An electoral register for Nottingham in 1924 had a Fanny Hill with three other male Hills, but I couldn't link any their names to her so this may be a different family. In the 1921 census and later electoral registers there is a Fanny Hill living in Heanor, Derbyshire, who was (coincidentally) also married to a James Hill, but I am confident that this a completely different family.
Fanny's Death
I now suspect that Fanny Hill died in 1935. I obtained a death certificate for a Fanny Hill who died of heart disease aged fifty six. She was living at Woolpack Lane, Nottingham, but described as the widow of James Hill general labourer. I have good evidence that her husband was in fact still alive, but perhaps the informant – who does not appear to be a relative - did not know this if the couple were estranged or separated.
Ancestry Public Trees
The Ancestry site allows you to search for ancestors on members’ family trees, where these trees have been made public. I am often sceptical about other members’ trees, as they sometimes contains errors or guesses and may not be reliable.
I had been searching for Fanny born around 1876 without inputting a surname when I chanced upon the family tree of a man who lives in Wrexham. At around the same time my cousin told me that the Fox surname was possibly linked to Fanny’s family in some way. The tree I had found included a Fanny Fox, born in 1878 in Liverpool. I almost ruled this out because the 1901/11 censuses had said that Fanny was either born in Nottingham or London, and I had no reason to link her to Liverpool. But the Fox link was intriguing especially because my cousin had given me a clue that the Fox surname wassomehow linked to Fanny’s family.
I then noticed that I had a DNA match with the holder of this family tree. It was only a distant match (fourth cousin) but this did suggest that we were connected in some way. The DNA match meant that it was likely that we shared a relative in common. It also told me that it could not identify our common relative, quite possibly because my Ancestry tree did not include anything about Fanny’s origins because I did not know them. The other intriguing feature of the DNA match’s family tree was that this Fanny Fox had a sister called Sarah. Could this be the 'Aunt Sarah' my cousin had mentioned ?
Further Research
I decided to do some research on Fanny Fox. I could not find a birth certificate under that surname, but when I searched using the year and the first name only, I suddenly found the birth registration of a Fanny Tait. Hurrah !! This must surely be her.
The birth certificate said that Fanny Tait was born at the end of April 1878 in West Derby, Liverpool. Her father was George Tait, occupation shoemaker, her mother Hannah Tait formerly Stevenson. Although the father’s forename differed from Fanny’s marriage certificate, his occupation matched. But why did she have the surname Fox in the Ancestry members tree ?
Eureka Moment
Looking at that tree, and doing some further research I looked again at the 1881 and 1891 censuses. I then found Fanny Fox in Liverpool in 1881 and in Bilborough, Nottingham in 1891. This was another euteka moment as my cousin had told me that Aunt Sarah lived in Bilborough !
In the 1881 census Fanny Fox (age 3, born Liverpool) was living in the household of her “father” Robert William Fox, a bootmaker born in Rotherham. Although this bore no relation to the birth certificate, her mother was Hannah Fox (age 27, born Nottinghamshire), and Fanny had a two month old brother Herbert Fox. In 1891 Fanny Fox was thirteen, the head of household was her mother Hannah Fox and Fanny had five younger siblings. The family were living in Bilborough but the birthplaces of siblings were varied, including Liverpool, London and Nottingham. (Perhaps this accounted for Fanny's statement that she was born in London in the 1911 census ?)
Robert William Fox Marriage
The next step was to find the marriage of Robert William Fox - supposedly Fanny’s father according to the census - and Hannah. I found their marriage certificate which showed they married in a Liverpool church on 31 March 1879. Robert was a cordwainer, his bride was Hannah Tait age 24. Hannah was a widow whose father was Francis Stephenson, a miner. So this was another Tait link suggesting that Fanny’s father George Tait had died. (The difference in spelling of the Tate / Tait surname is immaterial as surname spellings were fluid before the 20th century).
I was now making progress. A further crucial step came when I noticed that, when Fanny Tate married James Hill in 1897 one of the witnesses was Herbert Fox. Yippee !! This was a direct Fox link and I had seen that name before as Fanny Fox had a step brother called Herbert who surely must be the person who witnessed her marriage.
The next step was to find out more about the Fox family and how they linked to the Taits.
George Tait's Death
If Fanny’s mother had been widowed, I needed to find the death certificate of her father George Tait. I quickly discovered a death certificate for George Tait who died on 7 Feb 1879 at Liverpool Workhouse. George was a 43 year old shoemaker, the cause of death phthisis (tuberculosis), the informant a workhouse official. I then noticed the timing of Hannah Tait’s remarriage to Robert William Fox which was just six weeks after her first husband’s death. Speedy indeed, although perhaps accounted for by the fact that her daughter Fanny was less than a year old. Perhaps I wondered Robert was a work colleague of her husband so she may have already been acquainted with him.
Robert and Hannah Fox's Deaths
My next discovery was that Robert and Hannah Fox both died in 1896/97. Robert died aged 40 of cardiac failure at 2 Chapel Street, Bobbers Mill, Nottingham in 1896. Hannah died of cancer aged 43 in July 1897 at New Basford Workhouse. Deaths in workhouses – we have seen two already – were common because they usually had infirmaries and poor people who were ill often ended their days in a workhouse.
Another Breakthrough
Then another breakthrough. I had seen this address 2 Chapel Street before, it was both Fanny Tait and James Hill's home address when they married in August 1897 - only two weeks after her mother’s death (the timing might be significant perhaps her mum was not keen on the marriage ?) This address was another piece of evidence which linked Fanny Tate to the Fox family.
Further research showed that George Tait had been admitted to Liverpool Workhouse in the summer of 1878. By this time I had made contact with the owner of the Ancestry family tree where I had discovered Fanny Fox / Tate, although it remained a mystery why Fanny had used Tate as her maiden name when she married James Hill and why she named her father as William rather than George.
But thinking further, I realised that strictly speaking Fanny’s birthname was indeed Tate, although she had been brought up by the Fox family, Robert William Fox actually being stepfather. Her actual father, George Tait, had died when she was an infant, so she may well have forgotten or perhaps not even known his forename.
Further Revelation about Fanny's Father
When messaging the owner of the Ancestry tree – who was welcoming and interested in my findings – I had a further revelation. The tree owner was a descendant of one of Robert and Hannah Fox’s children, but if Fanny’s father was George Tait, how did the DNA match arise ?
Fanny had no biological link to the Fox family. Unless . . her real biological father was not in fact George Tait but Robert Fox, who became her stepfather when he married her widowed mother. The explanation seems to be that Robert Fox was in fact Fanny’s biological father. He must have had a relationship with Hannah Tait while Hannah was married to George, perhaps while George was in the workhouse suffering with TB.
I concluded by carrying out further research on the families. Hannah Stevenson’s first marriage to George Tait was at Nottingham Register Office in 1874. George was a 38 year old bachelor and cordwainer, whose father’s occupation was lapidary [jewellery making]. Hannah was a 22 year old spinster, her father Francis Stevenson a collier.
Despite calling himself a bachelor when he married Hannah, there is evidence that George possibly had a previous relationship with an Eliza Smith, although there is no evidence of a marriage. George has possibly been found in the 1871 census in Sheffield living with Eliza. The census says that he was born in Lambeth, London, an interesting twist - did Fanny know this and is this why she gave London as her birthplace in the 1911 census ?. George, who was a shoemaker, was living with his Nottingham born “wife” Eliza and three young children. Eliza sadly died a few days after giving birth to another child (who didn’t survive). I don’t yet know what became of the other children.
Hannah Stevenson, who married firstly George Tait and then Robert William Fox, was the daughter of Francis and Fanny Stevenson. She had five children with Robert Fox. One of them Sarah Fox must be the Aunt Sarah who helped bring up her niece Edna Hill. Sarah had a son, Sidney, out of wedlock, and my cousin Pat remembers meeting Sid being Aunt Sarah's son. In the 1911 census Sarah Fox was living in Deptford Street, Bulwell, Nottingham. She was a cotton finisher working at a bleach yard. The head of household was her uncle William Holt, an above ground colliery labourer.
William Holt had married Hannah Stevenson’s older sister Elizabeth in 1875. The Holts lived at Deptford Street, Bulwell, in every census between 1881 and 1921. In the 1921 census his household included his great niece Edna Hill (daughter of Fanny Hill) who was working as a yarn preparer. Three years later Edna Hill married Albert Richards.
Lessons Learnt
This saga shows that you need to be flexible when searching for ancestors. I had no reason to associate Fanny with Liverpool, but it turns out she was born there, although she probably spent most of her life in the Nottingham area. Clues from relatives can be vital - it was my cousin’s clue about the Fox family which helped me to finally find Fanny. DNA can also be helpful, the fact that I had a DNA match with a descendant of the Fox family enabled me to make the breakthrough in unmasking Fanny Fox as Fanny Tate, and also suggested that – although the official records show George Tait as her father – she was actually probably the daughter of Robert Fox.
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