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BIG QUESTION

I’m stuck on my 5x great grandmother – can you help?

SIÂN SMITH says that she’s “been trying to break through this brick wall for years!”

Q My 5x great grandparents, John Latham and Esther Peace, were married in 1804 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Esther was described as “of this parish”. John died in 1815, and

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