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Tag Archives: Hawkers
Back From The Dead?
This is the second part of the story of Stephen Willis, the Ramsgate hawker, and his parents, Stephen Willis senior and Ellen (née Foley). In the first part, we followed Stephen senior from his birth in Bishopsbourne near Canterbury in … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories, Surnames
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Tagged census, Hawkers, newspapers, Ramsgate, the national archives, Willis family
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A Waste of Time and Money
I remember thinking, when I was just setting out on my family history research as a naïve fifteen year old, that this genealogy business was quite a simple affair. Once you’d found a record of someone’s birth, you looked for … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, research, Stories
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Tagged Barham, Canterbury, Ellen Foley, Hawkers, Henry Mayhew, Maidstone, Stephen Willis, Willis family
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