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    Gothic cottage, White Lion Street

    Still working on it ? Any recent photos ?
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    Gothic cottage, White Lion Street

    Thank you Sir BoD. That's some extensive digging . My quest has been long and exhaustive, over twelve years now. You may uncover numerous posts on various sites and forums around the internet. E and snail mail scattered around the planet,including to the Aussie you mention above. I will go...
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    Gothic cottage, White Lion Street

    It's just the opposite. 90% of people living in the Castle Church district in 1871 where born in Staffordshire. Gothic Cottage and the people in it are a puzzle. It was built on the site of the old Castle Church workhouse around 1840. A new Stafford workhouse was built in 1837 on Marston Road...
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    Gothic cottage, White Lion Street

    In the 1871 census the enumerator listed peoples relationship to the head of the family..ie if they were a visitor they were listed as such. In case any names mean anything to the forum membership this is who was listed in Gothic cottage. William Thompson age 60 Book Keeper born Upwell Norfolk...
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    Gothic cottage, White Lion Street

    In the 1871 English census my grandfather and his brother were living in Gothic Cottage. They were aged six and four years old. How they came to be there is a mystery. The cottage was built on the site of the workhouse for Castlechurch parish in 1840-42 and listed as Grade II by English...
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