An odd question!
An ancestor (very distant!) with no title, married a baronet. While her husband was alive she was referred to (in the census records) as 'Lady Fetherstonhaugh'. I have just come across a transcript of her will where she calls herself 'Dame Mary Ann Fetherstonhaugh'. Is there some sort of convention about the address of a widow of a baronet or was she anxious that people should know that she had no title in her own right?
Just curious! Any experts out there?
An ancestor (very distant!) with no title, married a baronet. While her husband was alive she was referred to (in the census records) as 'Lady Fetherstonhaugh'. I have just come across a transcript of her will where she calls herself 'Dame Mary Ann Fetherstonhaugh'. Is there some sort of convention about the address of a widow of a baronet or was she anxious that people should know that she had no title in her own right?
Just curious! Any experts out there?
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