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Mary Ellen Palmer (1829–1857)
Mary Ellen Peel (1857–1863)

1829–63

Daughter of Sir William Henry Roger Palmer, Baronet, and his wife Eleanor. Married Archibald Peel, JP in Denbighshire and friend of Thomas Woolner, in 1857.

Sources

County families 1880

England, Cheshire bishop's transcripts, 1576–1933 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 October 2022)

Westminster Church of England parish registers STG/PR/7/46 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 October 2022)

Woolner 1917, facing p. 126.

Bibliography

County families: The county families of the United Kingdom; or, royal manual of the titled & untitled aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland. By Edward Walford. London: Robert Hardwicke; Chatto & Windus. 1860–93. Walford’s county families of the United Kingdom or royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Chatto & Windus; Spottiswoode & Co. 1894–1920.

Woolner, Amy. 1917. Thomas Woolner, R.A., sculptor and poet: his life in letters. London: Chapman and Hall.

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