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Aug 25, 2020
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TRACING YOUR POOR ANCESTORS
A GUIDE FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS
Stuart A Raymond
Pen & Sword, 208 pages, £14.99
Writing about the records of a group as amorphous as ‘the poor’ is a challenging undertaking but Stuart Raymond has had a good crack at it, producing a wide-ranging volume that aims to place historical sources in their original context.
So, who were ‘the poor’? The most obvious category, poor by definition, were those receiving poor relief from the parish or, after
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