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    May 31, 2022 2 minutes

    JANETTE GILL can find no trace of her ancestor Thomas McLevie after 1871

    QI am trying to track down my maternal grandfather’s birth father after the 1871 census. My grandfather William Edward McLevie, born on 8 August 1879, was adopted between the censuses of 1881 and 1891 by William Lythgoe, after which he too

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