Philip and Mary's Ring

My great great grandparents, Philip Woolgar and Mary Cardell, married at St Mary’s Church, Hornsey, Middlesex on 1 May 1841 and set up home in Turnpike Road, Finchley.

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A ring has been passed down in the family since that time. It was handed to me by my ‘Auntie Olive’, who was my mother’s cousin, because I was the eldest girl in my generation. Olive too was the eldest surviving girl but I don’t know who had custody of the ring prior to Olive. Ada Leighton was the eldest of Philip and Mary’s granddaughters, perhaps it was given to her and then handed to Olive after Ada’s death in 1963. It is not mentioned in any family wills.