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Denbighshire / Re: Clwyd FHS transcripts of Wrexham
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 15:36 GMT (UK)  »
Double  Wow back.  That is truely amazing.  Now that means your great Great uncle lived at Dudley House and he was obviously a subscriber to this book which is a book called "The complete concordance or the Poems and Songs of Robert burns" and is pretty academic work .  There is a list of about 100 names in the back and libraries etc that obviously subscribed to the work.  Your great great uncle has a sticker in the inside cover that has a coat of arms presumably the Ellis logo I need to look that up with the inscription Forte et Fidele and he has signed it and it was given as a present to a name which is really hard to decipher but my best guess is Catherine Orr or Obb.  So he was quite young when he sent this and I must have been a man of means?  I live in Shropshire where the book obvioulsly has been.  How interesting.  I love stuff like this

Jonathan

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Denbighshire / Re: Clwyd FHS transcripts of Wrexham
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 15:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,  I have read the thread here and hopefully you can all pick my email up.  I have just been given as a present a Robert Burns old second hand book.  It has a incscription in the front sayin it was given as a present by a T Leonard Ellis in 1894 and it also states that he was one of the origianl subscribers to this book which is pretty rare I think.  He has an adress as Dudley House Coatbridge Scotland.  Now this book was in an old bookshop in Shropshire where according to your posts seems to fit and was curious to know if is one of your ancestors. 

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