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Who was in Edingley Cricket Club in 1920?
This might be tricky. For starters, it looks like the club is no longer extant. Local club Farnsfield's homepage reports their "recent acquisition of the Edingley Cricket Pitch".
The Edingley club ...
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Who raised two orphaned children in 1765?
There was no formal system of adoption in England in the eighteenth century. In fact, it was not until the Adoption of Infants Act of 1926 that there was any centralised register for adoptions. Prior ...
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Who was in Edingley Cricket Club in 1920?
This is not a comprehensive list, but here are some ideas to start with.
The principle for researching an organization is the same as what you do for a person: start with what you know, and work ...
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Interpreting the year a 16th century will was written?
I responded earlier, but now am able to view this on a tablet and can actually enlarge the image on a brighter screen so that I can "see" rather than squint at the text. I revise my earlier thoughts. ...
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Interpreting the year a 16th century will was written?
This is quite unclear text, but I'm going to have a proper go at this.
Here's the image again:
As @PolyGeo commented, after "year of our lorde god one thousande" appears to be "five hundrete". That ...
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Interpreting the year a 16th century will was written?
Looking back at this again, I agree with the other answers insofar as the text reads: "one thousande five hundreth foure Schore and ___". That is, 1 thousand, 5 hundred, 4 score (80), and...
As to ...
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Who raised two orphaned children in 1765?
Assuming that you have names and baptism dates for the two children you could look for their names recorded as niece/nephew/granddaughter/grandson in any available wills of candidate aunts/uncles/...
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Locating records of a man employed by Rufford Abbey for 70 years?
A recent cataloguing project by the Friends of Nottinghamshire Archives (FONA) has been done on previously unrecorded Savile Estate Papers. (June 2022) It may be useful to ask the Archive when these ...
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