Morris, Mary

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Dates c.1720s-1740
Location Marlborough, Wiltshire; London; Devon; Bristol; Wales
Vocation Vagrant
Place of Birth Dundee
Marriage Mark
Issue
Place of birth Source Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Marlborough Borough Council: Vagrants' Passes and Removal Orders, G22/1/128

Examined as a vagrant at Marlborough, 23 September 1740. Born in Dundee, but at the age of seven was taken to London with her father, and subsequently moved with her mother to Devon, where she lived with her grandmother for more than two years. Then lived nine or ten years in Bristol before moving to south Wales and marrying Mark Morris, a solider, now apparently posted overseas. Includes as vagrant's pass to Dundee.