Fair Mary of Wallington

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Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington is Child ballad 91.

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Two sisters had once been two of seven but all their sisters had died in childbirth. The older vows never to marry but is married off. She becomes pregnant and sends for her mother when she is in childbed. She dies; in most variants, the baby has to be saved by cutting open her side. In many variants, the youngest sister vows never to marry but her father insists that he will marry her off.

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