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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 306 Send Message	Sylvia	Report	28 May 2006 14:21
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 306 Send Message	I have just spent an hour or two trawling through 1851 images in Berks.(As you do) Looking for those relatives you know Ancestry have deliberately kept hidden from you. In the village of Farringdon I came across a whole bunch of families living in the delightfully named Small Pox Cottages! Not exactly a selling point for estate agents. Sylvia.
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 381 Send Message	Eleanor	Report	28 May 2006 14:35
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 381 Send Message	LOL!
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	28 May 2006 15:08
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	I know that Hitchin's Back Street (now called Queen Street) was a very slummy area at one time and was known as Dead Street after an epidemic of cholera. I like my great-great-grandparents' address: Vestry Cottage, Old Burying Ground, Richmond. Sadly, the cottage (which had 11 occupants in 1891) has gone, but the old burying ground is still there behind the modern Vestry Hall. nell