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A common tradition was to give firstborn sons the name of the father's father, which clearly affects the apparent frequency of given names.  My grandmother came from a Suffolk family with parallel branches, many of which named the sons Edmund or Brice alternately, causing much genealogical confusion.  I visited the ancestral graveyard, where Edmunds could be seen everywhere, but none of them a direct ancestor of mine as far as I could tell from the dates.

Other connected Suffolk families (Robinson) seemed to name every eldest son John, come what may.  It is an important biblical name, and the Bible was a standard source of inspiration for naming for centuries.  At least the clerics would have known how to spell those names, even if the accompanying surnames were only approximate.

I thought that 100 years ago 'Condition' often meant single, married, widowed, etc ?  Which clearly is not the case here.   Incidentally, the top line in the image reads 'Louis.' - what might that be ?  And two lines read 'Isol.' whose meaning is clear.

In the calico printing trade I think alum might precede mordant in the sequence of processing?

Surely alum is the mordant (a chemical to help bind the dye to the material) ?

You have to make allowances for the up-to-dateness of OS maps - (a) in assuming that a map dated (eg) 1931 shows all buildings which existed then, and (b) world wars caused a large backlog of surveying and cartographic work which took years to catch up with.

The house I live in now was built in 1970 and extended ten years later - the extension has still not appeared on the OS.

Wife and I both developed symptoms 2 days after choral rehearsals, and apparently two others did too.  Covid doesn't seem to be news any more, and I haven't heard of a rash of fatal cases, so it seems recent strains have lost their potency.  As I over-confidently said early in 2021, it's quite like good old flu except for an unlucky few : how it spreads and the number it kills.  In fact a year ago, flu was killing more than Covid was.

One of the pluses of Covid was that it served to remind people how these things spread - many began to be more careful.  Once it became known that spread was by aerial transmission (not contact with door handles etc) masks and distancing were the obvious precautions, but that is only partially effective.