Tag: Swing riots 1830
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Thomas Mallyon – Agricultural labourer
By Christine Swan I have previously written about my familial links with the small village of Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire. My terrifying great grandmother, Martha, who chased her grandchildren around the kitchen with a broom, and called them “varmints”, was my youngest link. Dressed in black, with grey hair scraped back into a bun, she…
Awful Rigours and Wretched Pay 