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 | | When I searched the register at Ecton, I found an account of their birth, marriages, and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that parish at any time preceding. |
 | | My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business longer, when he went to live with his son John, a dyer at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, with whom my father served an apprenticeship. |
 | | His eldest son Thomas lived in the house at Ecton, and left it with the land to his only child, a daughter, who, with her husband, one Fisher, of Wellingborough, sold it to Mr. |
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