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Will Transcriptions / Between the Bollin and the Mersey

Transcriptions of wills with notes and background histories of townships; also the 'Lives' series on the history of each township between 1600-1760

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Altrincham Lives, Part 1 1600-1640

Altrincham people, their politics, religion, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640 by Jill Groves...

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Altrincham Lives, Part 2 1641-1680

Altrincham people, their politics, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills, probate inventories, leases and Altrincham Court Leet records from 1641-1680...

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Altrincham Lives: Part 3, 1681-1720

Altrincham people, their politics, their families, literacy, transport, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries, Altrincham shops, Altrincham’s economy, inns, early market gardeners as shown in wills, probate inventories, leases and Altrincham Court Leet records from 1681-1720...

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Altrincham Lives: Part 4, 1721-1760

ALTRINCHAM LIVES: PART 4, 1721-1760 Altrincham people, their politics, religion, agriculture, housing, food, clothes, weapons and luxuries, transport, Altrincham’s first workhouse, bakeries, privies, lawyers and Altrincham on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution...

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Ashton on Mersey and Sale Wills, 1651-1700

Wills and Inventories from two Cheshire townships, with notes, background history and glossary...

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Ashton on-Mersey and Sale Wills, 1600-1650

Wills and Inventories from two Cheshire townships, with notes, background history and glossary...

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Ashton on-Mersey and Sale Wills, 1701-1760

Wills and Inventories from two Cheshire townships, with notes, background history and glossary...

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Ashton-on-Mersey and Sale Lives: 1600-1760

Ashton-on-Mersey and Sale people, their politics, religion, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories...

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Bowdon Lives 1600-1760

Bowdon people, their agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories...

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Bowdon Wills, 1600-1650

Wills and Inventories of the township of Bowdon townships, with notes, background history and glossary...

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Bowdon Wills, 1600-1760

Revised edition with 19 more wills, inventories and probate documents; Bowdon people, farming, housing, food, dress and luxuries 1600-1760; from a poor Cheshire village just outside a market town to a township on the edge of becoming the preferred residence of wealthy industrialists...

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Bowdon Wills, 1651-1689

Wills and Inventories of the township of Bowdon townships, with notes, background history and glossary...

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Bowdon Wills, 1690-1760

Wills and Inventories of the township of Bowdon townships, with notes, background history and glossary...

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DUNHAM MASSEY LIVES, PART 1 1600-1640 by Jill Groves

Dunham Massey people, their politics, their families, Dunham Massey’s salt industry, Dunham Massey Hall’s mill and its watercourses, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640...

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Dunham Massey Lives: Part 2, 1641-1680

Dunham Massey people, their politics, their families, alehouses, crime and violence, the Dunham Massey poor, agriculture, housing, food, clothes, luxuries, wealth, transport and fuel as shown in wills and probate inventories, and the Dunham Massey Barony Court Leets ...

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Dunham Massey Wills, Part 2, 1641-1680

Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Dunham Massey people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1641-1680...

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Dunham Massey Wills: Part 1, 1600-1640

24 wills, inventories and other probate documents from a North-east Cheshire township, notes to the documents, Dunham Massey people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1600-1640...

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Hale Lives 1600-1760

by Jill Groves. Hale people, their politics, religion, alehouses and leisure, crime and violence, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories...

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Hale Wills, Part 1, 1600-1640

Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1600-1640...

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Hale Wills, Part 2, 1641-1680

Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1641-1680...

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Hale Wills, Part 4, 1721-1760

Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1721-1760...

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Hale Wills: Part3 1681-1720

Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1681-1720...

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Piggins, Husslements and Desperate Debts

By Jill Groves. A social history/analysis of over 500 wills and inventories from North-East Cheshire 1600-1760....

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Timperley Lives, Part 1, 1600-1640

Timperley people, their politics, their families, crime and violence in Timperley, how poor people were treated in Timperley, agriculture in the Mini-Ice Age, convertible husbandry, the importance of the commons, the famine of the 1620s in the North-west, housing, Riddings Hall, food, clothes, luxuries, fuel and transport as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640 and Dunham Masse...

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Timperley Lives, Part 2, 1641-1680 by Jill Groves

Timperley people, Timperley and the English Civil Wars, their families, agriculture, goose husbandry in North-east Cheshire 1600-1760, market gardening, housing, building the new Timperley Hall, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills, probate inventories and other contemporary documents, 1641-1680...

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