Please can you assist with this query. Clearing out my deceased mother’s house I found a Book of Common Prayer with a dedication on the flyleaf which reads: ‘Mr E Osborne from J CFHare’. It is undated, unfortunately, but I’ve identified J CFHare as the Revd. John Church Francis Hare (1857-1935), Rector of Bircham Newton, Norfolk, 1894-1923. I’m fairly sure that ‘Mr E Osborne’ is my great-grandfather Edward Jacob Osborne (1851- 1924), who lived at Bircham Newton from 1874 until his death in 1924. The two men were therefore contemporaries, although from very different social backgrounds: John Hare being an Oxfordeducated clergyman, my
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Feb 10, 2023
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