Alan & Joyce Hutson on their wedding day 2 June 1945 St Mary’s Church Attleborough. Courtesy Alan Gardiner Alan Hutson married Joyce Gardiner at St Mary’s Church, Attleborough on the 2nd June, 1945. Given that the couple had met before WWII, and Alan had been a prisoner of war during the conflict, I wonder whether…
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‘Mass Emigration’ from Great Ellingham in 1836
Illustration by Christine Fuller Borrowing to Fund the Emigration of the Poor Persons of the Parish One of the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, was the legislation which enabled the rate payers of a parish to set up a fund to pay for the ‘emigration of the poor persons settled in the…