Hi: Mary Bore and Samuel Speake were my great, great, great grandparents. Mary was indeed the daughter of John and Elizabeth Bore (also know as Boor or Bone) and was born in Dunnington and christened in Lilleshall in 1814. Mary Bore and Samuel Speake were married in Wistanstow on 25 May 1941. Mary died on 27 November 1897 in Hopesay. There is a grave marker in Hopesay cemetery with an inscription. They had eight children. The Thomas Williams you see in the 1891 census - the Speake's grandson - was descended from a Williams family that is still living in Hopesay in the same house their ancestors were living in in the mid 1800s. Having said all this, I can tell you oodles of information about Samuel Speake's ancestors but nothing at all about Mary Bore's ancestors beyond her parents. Still, if you need any information, please drop me a line. Adrian Winnipeg, Canada At 05:58 AM 5/10/04, you wrote: >SPEAK SPEKE SPEAKE Etc > >Before I realised it wasn't my Mary Bore , Oh well, you win some >...I found Samuel and Mary (Bore)SPEAK > >Free BMD >Marriages Jun 1841 >BORE Mary Church Streetton 18 77 >SPEAKS Samuel Church Stretton 18 77 > >1871 England Census > Shropshire > Hopesay > District 5 >Round Oak >Samuel SPEAK Head 60 Farmer of 25 acres land Acton Scott Salop >Mary SPEAK Wife 58 Bishops Castle Salop >Mary SPEAK daughter 24 Employed at home Hopesay Salop >Henry SPEAK son 16 Scholar Hopesay Salop >Samuel SPEAK grandson 2 Cheltenham Gloscestershire >Elizabeth BOOR Wife's mother 87 Pontesbury Salop > > > >1881 UK Census >Dwelling Round Oak > Census Place Hopesay, Shropshire, England > Family History Library Film 1341631 > Public Records Office Reference RG11 > Piece / Folio 2622 / 50 > Page Number 4 > >Saml. SPEAKE Head M Male 65 Minton Ch Sttn, Shropshire, England. >Farmer 26 Acres Or About >Mary SPEAKE Wife M Female 66 Oakengate, Shropshire, England. Md Nurs >Saml. SPEAKE Grand Son U Male 11 Stroud, Gloucester, England. Scholar > >1891 >1891 England Census > Shropshire > Hopesay > District 5 >Source information: RG12/2088 Registration district: Clun Sub >registration district: Lydbury ED, institution, or vessel: 5 Folio: 41 Page: 7 >Round Oak >Samuel SPEAK Head Married 83 Farmer Salop Acton Scott >Mary SPEAK Wife 78 Salop Wrockandine Wood ? >Thomas WILLIAMS Grandson 14 General labourer Hopesay Salop > >The most likely birth for this Mary I can find is MARY BOORE > Christening: 10 JUL 1814 Lilleshall, Shropshire, England > Father: JOHN BOORE > Mother: ELIZABETH >Parish register transcripts, 1653-1812 Church of England. Parish >Church of Lilleshall. > >Does anyone know any more about This John and Elizabeth Bore as I >might be able to link this lot back in again somewhere after all as >I have several John Bore/Boor/Boore 's of the right sort of age?