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Considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being (blessed be God) in tolerably good health of body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding I **Robert Nurse** of Hanham Green in the hamlet of Hanham within the parish of Bitton in the County of Glouceter do make ordain and publish this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following


Abstract of the title of Mr Thomas Wall and wife to a messuage, garden, orchard and Malthouse at Hanham in the parish of Bitton in the county of Gloucestershire





Robert Francis Nurse my great grandfather was the eldest son of Robert and Ann Nurse. He was well educated, having finished his education at Dr. Nunn's School, a private boarding school in Portland Square, near the center of Bristol, with his younger brother, William Richmond


Robert Nurse, my great-great grandfather - born in 1821, was the youngest child of Robert Nurse and Sally Nurse. Not much is known about his early life but in 1854, at the age of 33 he married Ann Jane Taylor at St. Michael, Two Mile Hill on 30th May, two months after his father Robert died.

In a previous article in this series I described the life of Samuel Nurse and his marriage to Rachel Dolman of Keynsham. Samuel and Rachel had 10 children – two daughters and eight sons. Robert Nurse, my great-great-great-grandfather was one of five boys to survive childhood.

Robert Nurse, my 5th great-grandfather, was born in 1709 in Long Ashton, and moved to Compton Dando sometime in the early 1730s. He was either already married when he moved to Compton Dando or he was married soon after he arrived.

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