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living at that time. He had lived with this lady several years but could not marry her until his wife died. By a quirk of
English law, at that time, a child born out of wedlock was considered nobody's child. In law she was nothing to do with George England and could marry whom she pleased. There was no case to answer and therefore a verdict of not guilty was returned.
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England building Robert Fairlie's remarkable double-engine for the Ffestiniog Railway seven years later. Fairlie's Little Wonder was delivered to the FR in the summer of 1869 and George England retired. In September 1869 Robert Fairlie joined with George England's son
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This accusation would, if proved, have resulted in a prison sentence. Under cross-examination by
Sergeant Ballantyne (who appeared for Fairlie), George England was forced to admit that he had run away with his present wife, who was the mother of the young lady in question, and that he had a wife
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with their children, Robert, John, Lily and Jessie (their other son, Frank, was at
Charterhouse School as a boarder at the time of the 1881 Census) and Robert's mother in law, Sarah England. Robert Francis Fairlie died in London on 31 July 1885 and is buried at
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England junior died within a few months. Locomotive production ceased at the end of 1870 but the Fairlie Engine & Rolling Stock Co. continued as an office for design and for the licensing of Fairlie locomotive manufacture.
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four-coupled tank locomotives. A series of tests, for which detailed performance records survive, were held between 18 September 1869 and 8 July 1870.
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