Berkshire Family Historian
March 2000

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The illustration on the cover is Gin Lane: Hogarth's picture of depravity and poverty.

See article on 'Bastardy in Berkshire'

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Vol 23 No 3 - March 2000

Editor - John Gurnett

Features . . .

Bastardy in Berkshire by Lisa Spurrier

Berkshire Electoral Registers 1889-1892/3 by Talbot K Green

Berkshire machine breakers - Captain Swing and the 1830 riots by Jill Chambers

Using Software to Analyse Surname Distribution by Andrew Young

Q & A with Jean

• Two photographs (Alma Crump)

• St Vitus Dance (Pat Cobb)

• Sources for tracing children of Henry ROBINSON & Sarah LEE (Helen Booth)

• Forename Limborough & variations (Walter Townsend)

Letters to the Editor:

• The X-files

• Movers and Stayers

Help Wanted:

• about Charles Benwell

• about the Home Guard

• about Lovegrove and Wait families

National Burial Index - contains update information which is included in article on the Berkshire Burial Index

updated 1st May 2001