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Old Family Secrets Revealed!
« on: Friday 20 May 05 15:48 BST (UK) »
I really enjoyed this article in today's "Guardian" It's regarding the 1861 census on line but what is really amusing is the story of the Isaac Norris Hunt...the gossip prone enumerator of Stow on the Wold! He had everybody in the town pegged!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1488265,00.html

Cheers,
Indi

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Re: Old Family Secrets Revealed!
« Reply #1 on: Friday 20 May 05 17:03 BST (UK) »
I read that too Indi, made me laugh ;D Haven't yet popped along to Stow on Wold to view Isaac's work for myself, must do that.  ;) Jan
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: Old Family Secrets Revealed!
« Reply #2 on: Friday 20 May 05 17:16 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that Indi,

Sure made me smile :) To be honest, I think it was no bad thing that Mr Hunt was so dilligent in his work,what a wealth of information (scandalous or otherwise) he must have recorded about the lives of the people of Stow on Wold.

I wish that some of the enumerators that visited my families had been so thorough ;D

Regards,Mick ;)
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