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The Flower family of Cambridgeshire

The Flower family first appear in Wicken in 1715 when my Great x8 Grandfather, William Flower, married his first wife Jane Diss at Wicken parish church in Cambridgeshire. The couple do not appear in the Wicken registers prior to this date and therefore it is unclear as to where they came from.

The only other records in Cambridgeshire that I have found for a potential baptism for William Flower are at Fen Drayton in 1690 - which would make him the son of Thomas and Ann Flower. There is no certainty that this is the correct parents.

William and Jane Flower have six children before Jane dies in 1728, leaving William with children ranging from 12 years down to just 1 year old. Less that 2 years later he remarries to Philippa Thorpe and the couple extend the family with another four children.

The most recent Flower ancestor was Frances Flower, the second 'Frances Flower' of William but the first child with his second wife Philippa. Frances became the second wife of Richard Bayley of Wicken. After they married and bore children, the couple lived into their late 50s-early 60s before dying from 'coll' (as noted in the burial register for Wicken). 'Coll' may have been 'cholera' as there are eight 'coll' victims in 1785-1786 and five of these were in the Bayley family - suggesting a contagious disease, which 'Colick' is not. Both Frances and her husband, her son, daughter-in-law and married daughter all died as a result of 'coll' within the space of five weeks.

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