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Offline MeirSoul

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Re: Hall Uttoxeter
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 23 December 21 13:05 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: ciderdrinker on Thursday 23 December 21 11:16 GMT (UK)
Hello
Yes I'm afraid it usually does.Of course it could be the Vicar didn't ask and just filled everything in for them or even a bride who could write not wanting to embarrass the groom who couldn't.
But usually it does mean they are illiterate.

Ciderdrinker

I believe this branch were either gypsies or had gypsy connections which might explain illiteracy back then
Halket- longton Stoke on Trent / Banff Scotland
Cooke - Meir/Longton Stoke on Trent
Emery- Meir/ Longton Stoke-on-Trent
Shaw - Birmingham
Leese - Longton/ Fenton/Stoke-on-Trent
Neild/Nield/Neeld/Neald- Uttoxeter/ Abbots bromley
Hodgkinson/Hodgkins - Uttoxeter/Hanbury/Lichfield/Rugeley/Abbots bromley
Brassington - Uttoxeter
Thorley - Stoke on Trent
Mears -Wetley Rocks/Longton Stoke on Trent
Breeze- Hanley/Longton/Stoke-on-Trent/Staffordshire/Shropshire
Burton - Uttoxeter
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