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An open antique arithmetic book showing handwritten owner details on the left page and printed publication text on the right.

George Hawkings, Dittington, Great Staughton: First Book of Arithmetic (MoC)

Great Staughton Data

History of Great Staughton

1861

Francis Hawkins, 57, farm labourer, b Great Staughton

Sophia, 52, grocer, b Great Staughton

George, 11, scholar, b Great Staughton

A genealogy on Ancestry linked to this 1861 census entry notes that George was born March 1850, Dittington, Hunts. He married Charlotte Stoneham in 1874 in St Neots and then seems to have worked as a tailor in Buckden.

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