Item MFP/12/3 - Mrs. J. Pontey (his grandmother) at Kirkheaton to Joseph Munby at Monk Bar, York

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MFP/12/3

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Mrs. J. Pontey (his grandmother) at Kirkheaton to Joseph Munby at Monk Bar, York

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  • 17 August 1820 (Creation)

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(c1800 - present)

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Joseph Munby, solicitor, was the son of Joseph Munby and Jane Pearson. He was born in 1804.. In 1827, he married Caroline Eleanor Forth . They had seven children:

  • Arthur Munby b. c1829
  • John Forth. Munby b. c1832
  • George Frederick Woodhouse Munby b. c 1834
  • Frederick J. Munby b. c1838
  • Joseph Munby b. c1840
  • Caroline Munby b. c1844
  • Edward C. Munby b c1846

Frederick Munby and his wife, Elizabeth, had two children:
-Beatrice b. c1867
-John Cecil bc1876

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Hopes he arrived home safely as she worries about accidents. Asks what each lot of his property was sold for, - likely to be less than value, ‘but we must learn patience by these things.

Note by F.J.M, ‘My father was just 16 at this date. His mother had been dead a few months and his father had been dead more than 4 years. He was articled in his late Father’s office with a prospect of a partnership to which he never succeeded, though his father’s banking account shows a turnover of about £80,000 per annum. He determined to live down his difficulties and he made a practice for himself in his native town.

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