coheir
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
Hickes' daughter and coheir married Lord Noel, ancestor of the Earls of Gainsborough, and it was held by the Gainsboroughs until 1707.
From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
Charlotte, dau. and coheir of Sir Peter Warren, K.G., and dying in 1799, was succeeded by his son, Montague, fifth and present Earl of Abingdon, born in 1784, m.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
The Duke of Portland, representing Margaret Pelham, the Duke's eldest coheir; 3.
From Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
His second wife was Anne daughter and coheir of Sir John Broughton of Toddington, in the county of Bedford, knt., by whom he had an only son Henry, who became his heir.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
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