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    Cambridgeshire

    Mar 10, 2020 3 minutes

    You could be in for a treat if your family comes from Croydoncum-Clopton. The is one of the more unusual volumes held by Cambridgeshire Archives. Compiled by a rector in 1843, it includes a house-by-house survey of all of the inhabitants of the village, with notes on age, character, religion, health, employment, literacy and numeracy, alongside details of marriages and baptisms, attendance at nonconformist chapels, and emigration to Canada and Australia. These sit alongside some rather frank character assessments: Ruth Lyons is described as “an abusive woman”, which might explain why her daughter Mary “bears

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