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    07/08/2022
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    My Memories of Being a Brownie

    25/07/2022
    Memories of 1st Meldreth (Holy Trinity) Brownies in the 1960s
  • The Coronation of George V and Mary, 1911

    The Coronation of George V and Mary, 1911

    19/06/2022
    22nd June 1911
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  • The Sailor’s Return

    I lived at The Sailor’s Return from 1965 when we moved from London. My parents eventually sold up and moved to Suffolk in the 1980’s. There was a storage room which my father called the Tap Room and he used to say that the house documents did not allow the distilling of alcohol – maybe due to the fact that the sailors Return was an alehouse!

    By Julia Nand nee Terrell (11/07/2022)
  • Thomas Casbon, James Scruby, and the Meldreth-Wayne County, Ohio Connection

    Enjoyed reading this article, especially the details that concern Mary and Rachel Payne who are my relatives. Your mention of the Scruby family with reference to a newspaper article by Abraham Dear was also interesting and I wonder if he ever found James Scruby? I assume he was a relative of his as I know from chancery documents I have that they are all linked.

    By stephen payne (26/06/2022)
  • The Hale Brothers

    If anyone has researched that far back, there was a John Hale of Royston who wrote a will in 1701: probate was granted in May 1704 suggesting he died in the first half of that year (I can supply a copy). The will mentions a brother William Hale, and his wife was Elizabeth: at least one of his descendants married into the Wortham family, who were a significant family in south Cambridgeshire at that time. Royston/Meldreth are not that far apart, there may be a family connection to later Hales.

    By Peter Jackson (19/06/2022)
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