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Re: keeling family of potton
« Reply #72 on: Tuesday 14 February 12 07:58 GMT (UK) »
Margaret GATES certainly seemed to know how to make her voice heard and hang the laundry out for generations later to learn of her.

And fortunate we are too that she used the courts and the press to her advantage. Without the newspaper reports it would have been very difficult to have pieced it together.
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell