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Smith continued as a farmer of 50 acres (200,000 m) with one employee, living with his wife Sarah, a brother, John, eight years his junior, and a domestic servant. In 1885 he changed his name to Robert
Posnett Stevens and in 1891 was Lord of the Manor of
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361:Lancashire
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76:1 May 1899
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371:. In the
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