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Where: St James's Church Briercliffe
When: 16/11/1867
Groom: John Leaver, 20, bachelor, mason of Haggate
Bride: Martha Hargreaves, 17, spinster, weaver of Rake Head, Burnley Lane
Groom's father: Lawrence Emmett, mason
Bride's father: Christopher Hargreaves, tackler
Witnesses: Henry Hargreaves, Ann Watson

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Maureen
If you can't fight, wear a big 'at

Maureen, I wonder if this Emmot has anything to do with the family above?

1919 – LEAVER Mary otherwise Emmott Mary of 4 Queen street, Harle Syke near Burnley, spinster died 3 March 1919. Probate London 23 April to John Thornton, taper. Effects £1,445 3s. 3d.

It looks like she was born Briercliffe 1844. I wondered whether her mother was Leaver and she (Mary) was born before the marraige. But I haven't found the marriage at all. Maybe I need to track it from another angle and find her birth.

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Maureen
If you can't fight, wear a big 'at

Well there were two Mary Emmots born in the Burnley area in the same year, but both registered as Emmott, so my last theory goes out the window. I wonder whether she just lived with a Leaver and was known by his name? That would have to have been between the last census and her death and I would have thought that a bit unusual in view of her age.
Wonder whether the will would throw up any clues?

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Maureen
If you can't fight, wear a big 'at