Ramsey Data
Mike Petty's Ramsey Scrapbook
1666(Feb) Colonel William Cromwell, cousin of the Lord Protector, ordered a bolt of cloth be brought from London to be made into a coat. It was thought that this brought the plague to Ramsey. Colonel Cromwell, the tailor and around 400 died from the plague. (Grim Almanac of Cambridgeshire, N R Storey)
1911
Walter Beeby, groom, was charged with causing four fires on the farm of Mr J I Major at Ramsey. Beeby sentenced to five years’ penal servitude.
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