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Jennypeg
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Codnor History
replied on: 2/13/2008 8:19:15 AM

Hi Sue,
I was reading “The Derbyshire Magazine” Feb 2008 and found this about Bess of Hardwick
“At the age of 12 Bess left home to live in the household of her cousins, the Zouch family, at Codnor Castle. There she met and married her first husband Robert Barlow, heir to a neighbouring estate. He was aged just 13, she only 14, and poor Robert was not in good health. The two young people never consummated their marriage and on Christmas Eve 1544, Robert died, making Bess a widow for the first time.”
Jenny

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