Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (Wilson)

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  See St. Margaret Fish Street Hill. ...

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• Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha (Butt)

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• Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne (Bowles)

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• Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher

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• Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson

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• Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa (Stewart)

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• Praed, Mrs. Rosa Caroline Mackworth ("Mrs. Campbell Praed")

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• Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie (Webster)

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• Walford, Mrs. Lucy Bethia

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• (St.) Margaret prope piscariam, ad Pontem

  See St. Margaret Fish Street Hill. ...

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• Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards)

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• Pasture, Mrs. Henry de la (Bonham)

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• Brodegate, St. Margaret, Fish St. Hill

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• Conduit, St. Margaret, Fish Street Hill

  Beneath the wall of the Church of St. Margaret in Briggestret, 1379 (Riley's Mem. 436). No later me...

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• (St.) Margaret de Froscherche, by London Bridge

  See St. Margaret Fish Street Hill. ...

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• Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere

  (1663 or 1672-1724) Novelist, dramatist, and political writer, dau. of Sir Roger Manley, was decoye...

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