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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week12/52: Sarah Jefferies (nee ADNAMS) 1825-1897

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    Twin sisters? by James Tworow on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/pLBXF   Sarah Jefferies (nee ADNAMS) 1824 - 1897 Ahnentafel Number 39 NB Variations in spelling of Surnames: Adnams, Adanams, Addams, Adams Preamble and context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.   You can join in too here . March is Women’s History Month and this week’s theme is joined together. I am using this exercise to tidy up and check all my files.   Sarah was my 3 rd -great-grandmother on my paternal side of the family tree. The above photo is NOT of Sarah.   It was a photo found on Flickr and the title of the photo accurately sums up the results of my research this week on Sarah and her sister Jane. On the 1841 Census, they are listed as the same age which made me rather excited.   " Ooh! Twins!",  I thought to myself.    1841 Census extract - see what I mean?   But I have not been able to find a birth/bapti