Author Topic: Woodlands/forests owned by the Duke of Manchester  (Read 11318 times)

Offline castlebob

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Re: Duke of Manchester
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 08 January 11 05:25 GMT (UK) »
A distant branch of my family worked in forests apparently owned by the Duke in Hunts. They did so in the 1800s. I have no knowledge of anything else connected to the Duke, other than that extremely tenuous link.
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Re: Duke of Manchester
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 08 January 11 12:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi David,
I expect my family were partly to blame for the servant shortage and probably found more lucrative employment elsewhere, which is why they can now afford to be educated in said `properity`.  ::)

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Reynolds, Woodham, Payne, Wilmott, Hart, Richardson, Packwood, Tandy, Dexter - Bedfordshire.
Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
Lanarkshire, Ross and Cromarty and Kincardineshire.
Garvey- Ireland.

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Re: Duke of Manchester
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 11 January 11 20:31 GMT (UK) »
I think castebob's query has been answered and the topic can be marked as completed.

The other discussion about the Duke of Manchester belongs elsewhere, not here.


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