> You may be surprised to learn that various studies have shown literacy > levels of our ancestors were very close to that of today. I would certainly be surprised for 19th century Cambridgeshire when I read the 1843 Speculum Gregis describing Croydon-cum-Clopton ==John ffitch

Don't tease! What did you discover? I have tried googling and have found out WHAT it is, but nothing further - a couple of links are "Whoops - broken" Jean Wood > Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:16:06 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTT] Ages on Census > > > You may be surprised to learn that various studies have shown literacy > > levels of our ancestors were very close to that of today. > > I would certainly be surprised for 19th century Cambridgeshire when I > read the 1843 Speculum Gregis describing Croydon-cum-Clopton > > ==John ffitch > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message