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Sadie
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Gertrude Thurley-Pupil teacher
Gertrude's childhood home-Haydn Terrace The Peterborough Advertiser, Wednesday March 19, 1902 At the dawn of the twentieth century...
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Sadie
Feb 1, 202215 min read
Captain Herbert Wootton M.B.E. - advocate for Fletton
As new industries were attracted to Fletton, at the turn of the twentieth century, new housing was required for the workers. One man was...
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Sadie
Jan 2, 20228 min read
Sir Arthur Dilley MBE - Conservative Knight
A familiar building on the High Street in Fletton, on the corner with Milton Road, is the Dilley Hall. Many will associate the Dilley...
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Sadie
Sep 30, 20214 min read
The Panter family, Farrows, Canada and the ‘Hesperian’
The family I am exploring this month – the Panters – shows how employment, especially for women attracted families to Fletton. But it...
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Sadie
Aug 26, 20215 min read
Charles Dack Museum curator and folklorist, Kesteven Lunatic Asylum and the Rembrandt connection.
Athough St. Margarets did not witness any of Charles Dack’s vital events; birth, marriage or death, he lived the majority of his life in...
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Sadie
Jun 18, 202110 min read
Building the Local Population Before 1841
There are many sources available which, from 1841 to 1943, allow the researcher to place their ancestors, and the place they lived, in...
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Sadie
May 20, 20214 min read
Murder in Romania
For this month’s blog we go inside St. Margaret’s church and take a look at two memorials which commemorate father and son Henry William...
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Sadie
Apr 20, 20216 min read
Fletton and the Census
I hope that you completed your census return in March! The census is an important document to record your family at a given point in time...
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Sadie
Mar 17, 20214 min read
Welfare Hero of Fletton
Every community throughout the country has unsung female heroes who should be celebrated not just this month but every month. To...
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Sadie
Feb 11, 20212 min read
In the beginning...
there was a small parish, just south of Peterborough, in the north of Huntingdonshire. In 1841 it had a population of 256 and was a rural...
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