Item MFP/16/1 - Letter received by Caroline Munby

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MFP/16/1

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Letter received by Caroline Munby

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  • 4 September 1835 (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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Letter from Rev. John Bowman, Vicar of Burscough, to Mrs Munby at York informing her that his wife Sophy had given birth to another daughter, Ann Elizizabeth and asking her to be god-mother.
Appended letter from Joseph Munby to his wife Caroline, at Scarborough, informing her that he had seen the Princess (Victoria) ‘a nice interesting looking girl’ and the Duchess a ‘very agreeable motherly looking person’ at the mansion House and Museum. Hopes she and her mother are better.

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