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... JOHN CHURCHILL SIKES . 50 , Agate Road , The Grove , Hammersmith , W. This is a common practice in Lancashire . I can speak of it as usual in and about Ormskirk and Leigh ; also at the Magnificat . E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP . I have known ...
... JOHN CHURCHILL SIKES . 50 , Agate Road , The Grove , Hammersmith , W. This is a common practice in Lancashire . I can speak of it as usual in and about Ormskirk and Leigh ; also at the Magnificat . E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP . I have known ...
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... John " Babbington , Bishop of Worcester , the narrator of Shakspeare's youthful follies , which , he states , had been brought under his own notice at the time they were committed . The supposed narrator was Gervase , not John , Bab ...
... John " Babbington , Bishop of Worcester , the narrator of Shakspeare's youthful follies , which , he states , had been brought under his own notice at the time they were committed . The supposed narrator was Gervase , not John , Bab ...
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... JOHN W. BONE . Didlick ( Dedluck ) is in the parish of Stottesden , Salop . The estates of Didlick , Catherton , Day- house , and others belonged to the family of Mather about the middle of last century . Mary Mather , of Didlick ( born ...
... JOHN W. BONE . Didlick ( Dedluck ) is in the parish of Stottesden , Salop . The estates of Didlick , Catherton , Day- house , and others belonged to the family of Mather about the middle of last century . Mary Mather , of Didlick ( born ...
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... JOHN E. NORCROSS . Brooklyn , U.S. In a foot - note to the article " Nicaragua " in Haydn's ' Dictionary of Dates ... John Knox . I have since discovered that a Masson was a com- missary in Cromwell's army , also that a Peggy Livingston ...
... JOHN E. NORCROSS . Brooklyn , U.S. In a foot - note to the article " Nicaragua " in Haydn's ' Dictionary of Dates ... John Knox . I have since discovered that a Masson was a com- missary in Cromwell's army , also that a Peggy Livingston ...
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... John Gill & Russia Ellerton were marry'd September y * 234 , 1739 . William Bramley and Russia Gill were married Sep- tember ye 14th , 1746 . JOHN TINKLER , M.A. , Vicar of Arkengarth - Dale , near Richmond , Yorks . pass theory . I ...
... John Gill & Russia Ellerton were marry'd September y * 234 , 1739 . William Bramley and Russia Gill were married Sep- tember ye 14th , 1746 . JOHN TINKLER , M.A. , Vicar of Arkengarth - Dale , near Richmond , Yorks . pass theory . I ...
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