Bailey, Mary

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Joseph & Mary Godwin's eldest daughter Mary or Mary Ann. for baptism see Godwin, Joseph.
St Dunstan & All Saints Stepney 17.9.1798 John Bailey bachelor of this parish and of Ratcliff hamlet married Mary Ann Godwin spinster of same parish and hamlet by banns, witness John Godwin. Diary entry 17.9.1798 Mrs Bailey married
Mary Bailey was referred to in Ann Godwin's letters (Abinger c.4 f96-7 & c.5 f41 & c.5 f97). She appeared in the diary in addition to the Miss M G and Mary G entries from before her marriage, as M Bailey on 25.7.1799, 25.10.1799, 1.1.1800, 24.9.1802, 2.3.1804, 10.3.1804, 7.5.1804, and 1.12.1809 and as Mrs Bailey on 6.11.1801 and 17.11.1808. At John Godwin's funeral 22.12.1805 Bailey may have meant her, or her husband as she may have been included in '3 children'. 3.6.1809 could have been her or her husband or one of the other Baileys Godwin met (see Bailey)