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    1. Re: [BDF] caprelite labourer
    2. Eve McLaughlin
    3. In message <003b01c66c66$8e6cb230$e2290652@your447023ae6b>, "sue.hills" <sue.hills1@ntlworld.com> writes >I am researching my mothers family: >Plummers from Luton and Harpenden >Dears from Shillington c 1800 onwards >Warrens from Luton >I have a census entry stating that someone was a Caprelite Labourer. >Could anyone tell me what that means. Coprolite - manure which was dug out of pits in heathy areas and sold to farmers for dressing their fields. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

    04/30/2006 12:53:35