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Name:
Abraham Lees
 Relationship to Lucy Ellen Bridge
Birth:
1 MAY 1737 Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England
Father:
Jonathan Lees
Mother:
Mary Mallalieu
Married:
Sarah Shaw 9 MAY 1765 Saddleworth
Children:
Anne Lees
Born: 9 MAY 1765 Knarbarn, Saddleworth
Died: 7 AUG 1845
Mary Lees
Born: 1767 Thurston Clough, Saddleworth, Yorkshire
Died: 1797
Betty Lees
Born: 1769 Knarbarn, Saddleworth
Linfit Lees
Born: 17 DEC 1776 Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England
Died: 1842
Death:
3 JUN 1814 Knarr Barn, Saddleworth, Yorkshire aged 77
Remarks:
Details of Will:
Abraham Lees of Knarr Barn, yeoman (infra will under £40) proved 30 July 1814

Executor: Linfit Lees (son), James Greaves of Austerlands, cotton manufacturer

Signed as Abram Lees: 9 February 1814

Witnessses: John Wood, Abram Wood, J (or T) Brearley

Property was occupied by John Wood, with a cottage occupied by Mary Lawton, widow
Fields named included: The Thurston, Spoutfield, Upperhouse Meadow, The Topfield and The Bent - also Four Acre Field, described as being near to Hilltop
Daughter Ann, named as the wife of John Greaves
Daughter Betty, wife of John Lees of Manchester
Daughters Esther and Sally (appeared to be unmarried)

(Information from Jim Bradley via Ancestry https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/57317722/person/222287187284/hints )


Knarr Barn close up:
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