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bedridden for years, through sleeping in a damp bed, and his wife supported him, as a straw bonnet maker at Warminster. She had one son Philip.
Our father's 4th sister's name was Catherine, who married Wm Stone (? a tailor) and lived at Shrewton at the family house. They had one son Joseph, who turned out badly.
Our father was married at the age of 38 on the 14th Feby 1798, at Bishopstrow Church to which village he had migrated a short time previously to this event. Our mother was 28 at the time of marriage & was the daughter of Benjamin & Sarah Browne of Iford near Bath. Her father was a maltster & he had two
