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Northamptonshire on 23 March 1782, the son of John Conworth and Ann

Fletcher.

David Manners wrote:

My ancestor Francis Job Chambers (1855-1937) was given his middle name after

his godfather, Job Conworth, attorney and landowner of 10 Carolgate, East

Retford, Notts., and

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Ulley Hall

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, near Rotherham. The Chambers, a wealthy

family of architects, lived on Crouch Hill, in north London. It is this Job

Conworth

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s father who is commemorated on the corkscrew. The Conworths are

recorded in C19th family diaries coming down to visit my ancestors in London

and even sending boxes of peaches from Retford as gifts.