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Amy Sales (1795–1814)
Amy Lettington (1814–1861)

1795–1861

Draper. Shopkeeper in Down village. Born in Down, daughter of William and Elizabeth Sales. Married Samuel Lettington (linen draper, 1787/8–1834) in Down in 1814.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1606/251/13)

Downe baptism register, marriage register, burial register (kent-opc.org, accessed 2 October 2018)

Downe churchyard memorial inscription (www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsDowne/MIsDowne.htm, accessed 23 February 2016)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 23 February 2016)

Post Office directory of the six home counties 1859

will of Samuel Lettington (The National Archives PROB 11/1837/265)

Bibliography

Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.

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