Category: Days past

• The Gaffes of Canterbury

  

  By Christine Swan In my previous post, I described how Judith du Hamel had travelled from Leiden in the Netherlands to Canterbury as a young woman in the 1660s. This may have been as a result of religious persecution but possibly for economic reasons. When living in Canterbury, she met and married a French silk…

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  November 15, 2024

  Days past, Family history

  ancestry, Bethnal Green, Family history, genealogy, history, London