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Offline Christopher

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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #18 on: Monday 06 October 08 02:45 BST (UK) »
The website of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose, Oxford,
contains tips on tracing College Servants. http://tinyurl.com/3sjuct

Quote from: behindthefrogs on Wednesday 23 January 08 15:34 GMT (UK)
I always associated the term college servant with the "scout" that is a servant allocated to look after a number of individual students or members of the college.

David

There was a good post about "scouts" on RootsWeb in October 2002 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/OXFORDSHIRE/2002-10/1034923006

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Re: College Servants, Oxford
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 08 October 08 13:16 BST (UK) »
Thanks Christopher.

Since I posted my message I have had some success in my search for the Prestons. Joseph was a common room man at Worcester college, he has a portrait there apparently, and he is mentioned in a few books accessible through Google Books
e.g.
http://books.google.com/books?lr=&q=%22joe+preston%22+worcester
http://books.google.com/books?lr=&spell=1&q=%22joseph+preston%22+%22common+room%22

All very interesting :)

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