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Laura Yorke JEFFERSON
1841 - 1900 (~ 59 years)
Has 21 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Laura Yorke JEFFERSON Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Jun Q 1841 Montgomery Reg Dist, Montgomeryshire or Shropshire, Wales or England 
- Not named in her father's will so could have been postumous, but was named as daughter of John Jefferson in the will of his great aunt Caroline Gotham in 1848. Since her father died by 22 Jan 1841 can't have been born later than 1841.
This birth registration fits this and the middle name Yorke is further evidence that this is the right birth registration.
GRO ref: JEFFERSON, Laura Yorke q2 1841 Montgomery RD 27 106; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Bythell
Baptised 18 Jun 1841 St. Nicholas’ Church, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales Gender Female Died 3 Oct 1900 Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England - GRO ref: Holmes, Laura Yorke q4 1900 aged 59 Burton RD 6b 271
Actual date and place from probate calendar
Probate 9 Nov 1900 Derby, Derbyshire, England Probate Calendar entry - "Holmes Laura Yorke of Swadlincote Derbyshire (wife of Cecil Herbert Holmes) died 3 October 1900 Probate Derby 9 November to the said Cecil Herbert Holmes bank-cashier Effects £2349 7s. 4d."
Siblings1 brother Patriarch & Matriarch 
William JEFFERSON, d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandfather)
Eleanor Elizabeth BYTHELL, b. Abt 1806, d. Mar Q 1890, Tamworth Reg Dist, Warwickshire Staffordshire or Derbyshire, England (Age ~ 84 years) (Mother) Person ID I300427 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 12 Feb 2014
Father John Yorke JEFFERSON, b. 18 May 1805, d. 15 Jan 1841, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Age 35 years) Mother Eleanor Elizabeth BYTHELL, b. Abt 1806, d. Mar Q 1890, Tamworth Reg Dist, Warwickshire Staffordshire or Derbyshire, England (Age ~ 84 years) Married 10 Sep 1836 St. Nicholas’ Church, Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 18 May 2017)
(found thanks to data transcribed by the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society, also on FMP, FMPs transcription being typically inaccuate)
Shows John Yorke Jefferson, Bachelor married Eleanor Elizabeth Bythell, Spinster, both 'of this Parish', married by Licence, both signed, witnesses E Edye and Thomas Poole Bythell (both also signed)
(John's maternal grandmother was an Edye, and had moved to Montgomeryshire to live after bringing up a family in Devon; perhaps she was returning to her roots and E Edye was some sort of cousin of John's).
Family ID F300137 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Cecil Herbert HOLMES, b. Abt 1865, Sheen, Staffordshire, England , d. 3 Dec 1920, 4, Lewis Road, Sutton, Surrey, England (Age ~ 55 years) Married 13 Feb 1898 Church Gresley, Derbyshire, England - From FamilySearch
Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 Family ID F301414 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Not named in her father's will so could have been postumous, but was named as daughter of John Jefferson in the will of his great aunt Caroline Gotham in 1848. Since her father died by 22 Jan 1841 can't have been born later than 1841.
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Married - 13 Feb 1898 - Church Gresley, Derbyshire, England 
Probate - Probate Calendar entry - 9 Nov 1900 - Derby, Derbyshire, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
