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Offline Daffern2020

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Re: Need help with a word that comes after 'his wife'
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 08 October 20 22:03 BST (UK) »
I think they are virtually saying that are not from around here!  It is something I have seen on my traveller family.

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Thank you. That's very interesting.

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Re: Need help with a word that comes after 'his wife'
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 08 October 20 22:36 BST (UK) »
Elizabeth daughter of John Johnson & Martha his wife
... was born April 24 & baptised this 30th

Enlarged the words under Elizabeth
NORTON (Kent), KEECH (Dorset), MOOR / MOORE (Kent), HOCKING (Dorset / Somerset), LEVI (City of York), SANDWELL (Kent), CHAFFIN  (Dorset / Somerset), STRONG (Dorset)

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Re: Need help with a word that comes after 'his wife'
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 08 October 20 22:40 BST (UK) »
It might be to put on record that the family had no right of settlement in the parish and if the parents were unable to earn a living they wouldn't be eligible to receive parish relief.
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