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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Lancashire

    Jul 28, 2020 4 minutes

    We caught up with the team at Lancashire Archives in mid-June, when, despite the lockdown, staff were still helping the family history community with all sorts of remote research. Indeed archivist Keri Nicholson had just been dealing with someone struggling to confirm a possible baptism match for the name Stephenson from the late 1700s.

    She managed to prove a connection thanks to a quick search in the archive’s quarter-session court records, which include a removal order from 1801 for one Edward Stephenson, a ropemaker, his wife Mary and their five children from Skerton to Sutton, three miles north of Hull.

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