Richard Spurrett descended from two generations of itinerant travellers, and in his younger years covered a lot of ground across the Lambourne downs and through to London. He was born in Woodstock in Oxfordshire. His mother died in childbirth in 1790 in Putney, when he was just nine years old. He married and had a… Continue reading Understanding 19th Century Surveyors in Bampton
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Tracing Ancestral Migration: A Personal Journey
Migration is such an emotive and contentious topic these days, but for millennia people have moved in search of work, or better opportunities for their families, and to evade persecution. Over the last 500 years, my family did the same: moving to find work in the industrial north of England after the enclosure of agricultural… Continue reading Tracing Ancestral Migration: A Personal Journey
SPURRETT Family History 