Read, Margery

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Dates 1741-1742
Location Marlborough, Wiltshire
Vocation Vagrant
Place of Birth Aberdeen
Marriage John
Issue Jane
Place of birth Source Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, G22/1/128

Examined as a vagrant at Marlborough, 26 January 1742. Born in Scotland, where she lived until she married John Read, a soldier and former shoemaker in Aberdeen. He had enlisted about 10 years previously in Lord Cornwallis' regiment, but has gone AWOL and abandoned his wife and daughter. Given vagrant's pass to Aberdeen.