Ancestors of William John Bacon Bury

Notes


24. Rev John Bacon

John Bury advised that John Bacon's sister Mary Ann married Edward Thornton; and her aunt Elizabeth Bacon married Edward Thornton snr. The Thorntons were cousins of the Wilberforces. These families were part of the Clapham Sect, a group which campaigned for abolition of slavery, founded Sierra Leone etc. See 'The Clapham Sect' by Stephen Tomkins.


25. Mary Baruh Lousada

see a page on her on www.barrow-lousada.org

John Bury found her in the 1911 census at Little Gravels Burghclere